Faye Withdraws, Disillusioned By Evils Of Politics

"I no longer wish to be senior class marshal," Faye Levine '65 announced yesterday. "The whole business is just getting too sordid."

Miss Levine snatched her bonnet from the ring amid pained protests from her loyal supporters. One of them, John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, said in Washington last night that he was "very disappointed" that her votes were not counted and urged her to "pursue her candidacy to the fullest extent of the law."

But Miss Levine insisted. "I will withdraw before I become entangled further in the grubby-handed machinery of undergraduate pomposity," she observed.

Machine Politics

Although her campaign is at an end, Miss Levine said she has no plans to dismantle her write-in political machine.

"I urge all my supporters to write freely on their ballots--my name, their own name, their opinions of the HCUA poems..." she said.

The HCUA refused to count Miss Levine's votes in Monday's semifinal election, but unofficial poll-watchers reported that she received more than enough support to quality for the run-off.

Miss Levine said she had learned to love public attention. "After being badgered by reporters for a while, its hard to live without them," she said.

Victory for Absurdity

In her statement yesterday, Miss Levine claimed a moral as well as an electoral victory. "My campaign was, among other things, an attempt to demonstrate the absurdity of the HCUA," she said. "But it appears that the HCUA is quite capable of demonstrating its own absurdity."

Miss Levine said her withdrawal was only a "tactical maneuver" in the "struggle for fraternity between the sexes."

"The great victories are still ahead of us," she concluded.