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BARBARA HART, Oakland Calif., was disqualified as a Homecoming Queen candidate at an elections committee hearing Wednesday night. Elaine Peterson, Portland, Ore., another candidate, was reprimanded by the committee for a violation.

Ken Young, elections chairman, said the decision in Miss Hart’s case was reached when the committee decided she had left her campaign posters on campus more than three hours after deadline. She was reprimanded last Saturday in a committee hearing for committing the same violation during primary campaigning.

THREE WITNESSES reported seeing the posters on campus at 3:45 p.m. Deadline for removal was noon. Miss Hart told the committee that she could not arrange for a car to transport her material off campus.

Another point in the decision was 20 lapel cards bearing a small photograph of Miss Hart. Election committee rules limit each candidate to three photographs.

MISS PETERSON was reprimanded for using engraved and printed photographs on campaign posters. The committee held that she had utilized a service not available to all candidates in getting the posters printed by an aquaintance at a price within her budget.

She told the committee she has been advised by candidates who used printed photograph-posters in last years elections. During last year’s general studentbody elections a ruling making this type posters legal was issued by Dr. Henry L. Isaksen, student coordinator. Miss Peterson said that she used the posters in belief that they were still legal.

Copyright Brigham Young University 9 Nov 2005