The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 49, Ed. 1, Friday, April 9, 1982 Page: 2 of 16
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Tjvo of the four candidqtesi for Students'
Association president "were omitted 'from a
page-one story in Tuesday's Optimist.
Statements from all of the candidates were
printed on pages A-4 and A-5 of that issue so
we do not think the error had any. bearing on
the results of the election Still the Optimist
apologizes to Kern Lewis and jDeWayne Hall
for this oversight. To compound our error the
headline over this story stated that nine
candidates were campaigning for SA offices
although actually only seven were running.
GOo Optimist
f is. - Doug Mendenhall
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Voting by the label
In February when the Student Senate dis-
cussed the possible rechartering of men's soc-
ial club Phi Delta Psi which had been dis-
banded for disciplinary reasons Larry Nelson
spoke against the recharter. The Students'
Association director of spiritual life based his
opinion on what he perceived as problems with
the spirituality of social clubs at ACU.
This week Nelson lost in his bid for the SA
presidency.
We fear these two incidents may be con-
nected. On the first day of voting Nelson emerged as
the front runner. But during Wednesday's
runoff election a message travelled along the
campus grapevine to the ears of many social
club members. It said "Larry Nelson hates
clubs. Vote for Rob Sellers." Contrary to most
years more students voted in the runoff than
in the first day of voting. Nelson lost by a
sizable margin;
Our heartiest congratulations go to Sellers
and we don't wish to rain on his victory. He
won in an honest election and deserves the
support of everyone on campus nextyear.
But anyone who voted x against Nelson
because the label Vanti-club" was hung
around his neck did him an injustice. Look
back at what was said in February by West
Soward the spokesman for Phi Delta Psi who
talked to Nelson about his viewpoint. "I un-
derstand his position and I respect it" Soward
said. He also stated that Nelson had made
some good points about social clubs that were
taken in the wrong way.
Soward did something that not many people
bother to do. He took the time to find out why
someone had an opinion different from his
own. Some of the students who voted Wednes-
day against Nelson need to find out for
themselves that he does not hate clubs.
Nelson has done a good job this year as
director of spiritual life and we hope to see
him serve the SA in some capacity next year
without the handicap of having a number of
students believe that he despises social clubs.
the pessimist
Doug Mendenhall
A semester has gone by soquickly. Just last
November it was Sadie Hawkins Week and I '
was supposed to be going on a date with a
certain young thing who won the "Why I'd
Rather Have a Date With Doug Mendenhall
Than Practice Flipping Peanuts in the Air and
Catching Them in My Teeth Contest."
Now here it is Sadie Hawkins Week again
and I still haven't had that date I guess last
fall's contest winner is still flipping peanuts in
the air. After her provocative entry "I offer
you an evening in paradise bring champagne.
RSVP B.A. Box 7683" I was looking for-
ward to something special that never mater-
ialized. t .
I can only surmise that like champagne the
winner was more fizz than substance.
She did pass me in the hall once and insisted
that she'd tried to find me the night before to
offer a good backrub but that's all that ever
came out of the Date-a-Doug contest.
Next time I do something like that remind
me to choose the winner myself not leave it up
to the panel of female judges I trusted last
November.
The week wasn't a total loss though. I was
treated on Sunday afternoon to a scrumptious
meal at Gardski's Loft and an arm-in-arm
tour of the Abilene Zoo. Just when a romantic
mood was stealing over me we had to watch
the giraffes troll their slug-like tongues across
the cement for peanuts. But other than that it
was an enjoyable Sadie date.
Another young lady didn't bother with the
contest. Instead she took the more direct ap-
proach of coming to the Optimist office at mid-
night with a basket from which she laid a love-
ly table complete with place mats napkin
rings a glowing candle and enough peanut-
butter crackers to feed the Wildcat defensive
line.
(Not to break your train of thought but have
you noticed the strange way in which peanuts
keep popping up throughout this column? It
doesn't mean anything really. )
So how come no Sadie date contest this
spring? Sorry to disappoint all of you lonely
ladies lounging night after night in the dorm
parlors but the girl I've been dating since last
fall pretty.well fills my social calendar.
Come now you say surely she wouldn't
mind an innocent contest that has as its sole
aim perking up the lives of the few women who
are to bashful to ask for a date with Mr. Right
Joe College or Willy Wildcat? Maybe she
would maybe she wouldn't.
But as Confucius and the National
Association of Quail Hunters say "A bird in
the hand is worth two in the bush." Or in this
case a chick already holding my hand is
worth the 15 or 20 who might enter a contest in
hopes of a single date with me.
Besides I have to wonder about the par-
ticipants in last semester's contest. It's
nothing personal but can a lady who would
enter something like that especially after
seeing the mug that runs each issue above this
column be very different from the women
who were married by mail in the 19th century
to dirt-poor farmers a thousand miles away?
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