Lathers, W alt man and McDo win SLC prim ary

Notre Dame women students chose Maureen Lathers, Diane McDonnell, and Janet W altman as fina l candidates fo r a seat on the Student L ife Council in a p rim ary election held yesterday in Badin and Walsh halls. A petition making this seat tem porary also received support in Badin and Walsh last night. This petition w ill come before the SLC at its next meeting. Lathers, Badin hall sophomore, headed the lis t of six candidates w ith 53 votes. McDonnell, a Walsh jun io r, received 44, and Waltman, a Badin jun io r, had 36 votes. Candy Kelly, K ris Anhut and Debbie Dell sp lit the rem aining 15 votes. Less than half of the 329 women students at Notre Dame voted according to election results tabulated by a student government election committee. “ Meet the Candidates” discussion has been organized by the three winners at 11 p.m. tonight in the food sales lounge of Badin hall. Each of the candidates w ill present her election goals and answer questions of women students, p rio r to the fina l election on Thurs­ day. “ A fte r over a hundred years of wholly male thinking, I th ink i t ’s necessary to have a woman’s voice in student government,” commented McDonnell. She fe lt that the female SLC seat would be necessary fo r one year “ un til the coeducation is more complete.” Lathers agreed that the women student SLC seat should be tem porary. “ The seat was created to allow woman students representation and to allow them to work w ith faculty and adm inistration, and i t shouldn’t be regarded as a token seat,” she stressed. Th ird candidate Janet W altman was unavailable fo r comment.