YDs vote age cut
In a move which KU Collegiate Young Democrat (CYD) president Mike Dickeson said he hopes will "get the hacks from party machines out of the convention," members attending the National Young Democrats Convention in Las Vegas last weekend knocked ten years off the upper age limit for membership in the club.
The ruling, which will become effective with next year's convention, will restrict membership to those between the ages of 18 and 30.
Dickeson, Atchison senior, said the change represented an attempt to make future conventions more "open" in less-aged, less-moneyed YD members will have more of a chance to win offices in the organization.
The man Dickeson named as originator of the ten-year lop is 34-year-old Paul Pendergast of Topeka, one of the leading contenders for the YD national presidency. He lost the race to 29-year-old David Sternoff of Bellevue, Wash., on the 10th ballot, after almost 12 hours of voting.
Pendergast's suggestion, said Dickeson, was to lower the age limit to 35 at this convention and then to 32 next year. Other members were more enthusiastic for an immediate ten-year change.
Delegations from Georgia and New York were refused seats, Dickeson said, when they proved unable to produce proper credentials.
Fully one-third of the votes in the election, Dickson charged, represented "hard-core machine groups from the East," but the
Prof fills journal job
Norman Yetman, assistant professor of American Studies and sociology at KU, has been elected to the newly-created position of associate editor of the Midcontinent American Studies Journal.
rest, he said, were "basically pretty liberal."
Stuart Levine, professor of American studies at KU, is editor of the quarterly journal.
After a suggestion on reform of the United States draft lottery, a resolution was passed favoring the abolition of the draft in total.
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Other measures gave approval to immediate U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, the regulation of marijuana in a manner similar to liquor and cigarettes and support of General Electric and Coors strikers. Dickeson said while some of the measures might be considered "unfeasible," they were passed because "a lot of pressure a little to the left could force the issue."
A half-hour halt in the balloting was called so delegates could participate in a silent stand in conjunction with the December war moratorium.
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