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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 10, 1967
Vox death follows 9-year history; apathy, opposition cited as causes
By Ted Bell Kansan Staff Reporter
"Vox Populi, a fledgling political party a little over a year ago, hit pay dirt yesterday by winning 20 of 26 seats on the All-Student Council and landing the student body president and vice president positions."
The above excerpt from the Daily Kansan is dated April 16, 1959.
"Apathy Kills Vox Populi. Party Leaders Call It Quits. Vox Populi is dead."
That clipping includes the headline and lead sentence from a copy of the Kansan printed this November 7.
Party history is rocky
The history of Vox Populi during those nine years reads very much like that of any campus political party that ever died—founded by concerned students with all the early enthusiasm and drive, the years of spirited contention paying off with a period of domination of student politics, the rise of an opposition party, apathy ending with big election losses, and finally extinction.
Vox was founded in the fall of 1958 by six fraternities and a spattering of former members of dying parties.
With Jim Austin as the party's first president, the organization surprised everyone that April by placing its candidate for student body president, John Downing, in office on a write-in ballot. In its first year the party also picked up 17 All-Student Council (ASC) seats.
Opposition is born
It looked as though Vox would be sitting on top of the Hill for a long time.
But in 1960 the University Party (UP) was born. That November, following UP's four-seat victory in an election with 16 available seats on the ASC, headlines were announcing that the University now had two political parties again.
That spring, Vox had no opposition, and Daily Kansan editors were crying for an opposition party.
There was none. And there was none for the next four years until 1964 when UP put Robert Stewart into the president's seat.
The next year, 1965, Vox split victories with UP, and Vox candidate Leo Schrey won the top ASC position.
According to Tom Stanion, Pratt senior and former president of Vox, it was at this time the older members of the party began to retire from campus politics in order to turn to the business of graduation. Their exit left a large gap in the party which relatively inexperienced members were forced to fill.
UP's Al Martin was elected president the next spring.
Apathy sets in
Bill Kissel, Overland Park junior and president of Vox at its demise this fall, agrees that it was at this time organization began to falter.
Registrar's son to receive Bronze Cross
A 1967 KU graduate will be awarded the highest honor a U.S. ROTC student can receive Tuesday, Nov. 14.
Lt. Alan Hitt is one of 14 ROTC students in the United States to receive the Bronze Cross of the Legion of Valor.
Hitt is the son of James K. Hitt, KU registrar.
The award will be presented in ceremonies in front of Allen Field House.
"The inner core of the leadership tried to direct the party from within, and I guess they had to—but it began to cause apathy among the lower members," Kissel said. "Then we hit a point where there wasn't enough experience and tight machinery to compete with the opposition. We just couldn't run a slate this year."
So Vox Populi is no longer in existence. What now for its former leaders and members?
Kissel says that their first goal
is to decide what the ASC's purpose it. He said Vox's platform last year against Al Martin, Shawnee Mission senior, was a step in the right direction of redefining student government at KU, but it was defeated by the voters—who represented only 20 per cent of the student body.
Kissel emphasized that there are no plans for a revision of the party. No matter what happens after issues are settled in anybody's minds, Vox is dead, he said.
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