The Stetson Reporter

mmm msmrn ftjje tetsfon "Florida's Oldest College Newspaper" 70th YEAR STETSON UNIVERSITY, DELAND, FLORIDA FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1957 Next Season's Fo President chedule Cancelled; 'roin Contracts RHODES RESIGNS SPECIAL ELECTION IS CALLED The resignation of the Student Government President was accepted at last week's SGA assembly. Vice President Carolyn Anderson assumed temporary con7 trol of the Association upon the ' resignation and closed the meeting. Not without event, the meeting was sparked by, an announcement by Zeke Hepler, chairman of the Rules and Procedures Committee, " that a special election for the presidency would have to be held 14 days after the resignation became effective. T. K. Hedrick questioned the legality of the motion and the vote which accepted the motion. The president made a motion that his resignation be accepted t , while he was holding the gavel and in control of the meeting, \ parlimentary procedure does not permit this type of motion to be recognized. After the affirmative vote was called for no request for negative votes was asked. Hedrick's protests was _{i laughed down by several people who mistook his motion for atten- . <, tion seeking. Hepler, Rules Chairman, stated that his committee had not been notified of the proposed motion 'and so had not been able to rule before the meeting on the neces- i sary elections. Rhodes commented bitterly on the ruling and denied attempts from the floor by Hedrick and others to instigate an investigation into the legal- i. ity of the proceedings. Reaction among the members of the President's Cabinet were o bitter and of a single vein. The consensus seemed to be that Hepler was aiming a blow at the Vice President. *>''' When contacted by this paper Hepler stated that ho. had no grudge against the Vice President and would probably support her '* *in a special election but that the Constitution now in force must be — obeyed and that no simple majority of a quorum could override lt. "I have nothing to gain by demanding a special election" he said. "It only makes work for "the committee and myself and if another president were elected *'I would probably lose my post.' 3 Positions on the rules committee "are by appointment of the pres- ;■■ ident. Sources on the campus indicate that there will be a special election and that several persons ^are planning to run for the office of SGA Fresident. CANTERBURY CLUB TO GET $20,000 HOME Officers of the Stetson Canterbury Club look over plans for the new Canterbury Club House at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church. ..The Building which will cost approximately $20,000 is being built through the joint work of St. Barnabas Parish and the Episcopal ' Diocese of South Florida. From left, viewing the plans are; Candy and Bob Plato, the Reverend Canon William Hargeayes, Executive Secretary of the Diocese, Carol Webb, Reverend Lawson, Rod Dugliss, Mary Ann Coslow, and Garrett Spitzer. GIRL SCOUTS RECEIVE $250 ONLY i GAMES UNDER CONTRACT; "NOT END OF GAME" SAYS EDMUNDS Stetson University will ask to be relieved of contracts for the only three games on its 1957 schedule, Dr. Edmunds said in St. Petersburg Wednesday following a meeting at the Stetson Law Center of the University's Committee on Administration. "This does not mean that we have given up football," Dr. Edmunds hastened to explain. "It only means that we have been unable to arrange a schedule for this fall with teams who are willing to play the unsubsidized football that our Faculty Athletic Committee has decided that we must pi ay. "We hope that a schedule can be arranged for 1958 and that the Hatters, who pioneered intercollegiate athletics in Florida with a football game in 1901, can now pioneer with unsubsidized football which so many educators believe is best for small colleges universities." Dr. Edmunds placed before the Committee on Administration the report of ' the Faculty Athletic Committee which urged that Stetson play unsubsidized teams. He (Continued" on page two) Joe Huckleberry, Chairman of the Green Feather Drive, presents a Stoudenmire, Chairman of the West Volusia Girl Scouts of America, is at left. check for $250 to Truett SGA President Joe Rhodes Ground Broken For New Library Ground was broken in St. Petersburg Wednesday for the $500,000 Dana Law Library at the Stetson Law Center by the New York philanthropist for 1 whom it was named. 1 The ceremonies followed midyear commencement exercises at which the principal donor, Charles , Anderson Dana, spoke and later i received from Dr. J. Ollie Ed- . munds, President of the Univer- i sity, the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. " I Weather conditions which i grounded planes in New York delayed the ceremonies and guests i for the occasion had ample opportunity to inspect the College of Law buildings and see the architect's sketch of the proposed addition. The commencement program got underway with Dr. C. W. Bolton, of Avon Park, giving the invocation. Di\ Bolton is President of the Stetson Board of Trustees. Dr. Earl Edington, of St. Petersburg, also a Trustee, gave the devotional reading. Degrees of Bachelor of Law went to John J. DiVito, Gilman M. Hammond, Ervin Eugene Hay- good, Robert C. House, George Woodrow Jones, Lester Scott Kaf- er, Arthur G. Leonhardt, Jr., John S. Matthews, Max I. Ossin- (Continucd on page two)