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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 1950
The Editors Report -
HAS PACHACAMAC GOT
A Trojan Horse?
ye ED
Some rather odd things happened last night when the election judges counted the votes for All_Student council president and representatives. Some were amusing and some astounding.
Balloting was extremely light, only a few more than 2,300 students voted. Evidently most students felt there was little use in voting. And as usual the belief that one man's vote means little was dead wrong.
Let's take a look at the facts. As was expected the Pachacamac-N.O.W. candidate for A.S.C. president, Melvin Clingan, polled the majority of votes—1.323 to be exact. Yet the nonpartisan candidate Wilma Shore came up with an unexpected 922. Percentage-wise, this means that Clingan polled a bare majority and Shore a strong minority—58 per cent to 32 per cent. Shore, with no organized machine backing her, received only 400 votes less than the Pachacamac hand-picked candidate.
And to further hamstring the party Pachacamac, the constitutional proposition to remove organizational representatives was defeated 1.300-910. While the organizational representatives have no political say-so in the council, they do have a good bit to do with bringing up topics their organizations believe should be brought before the A.S.C. for action."
Something also went wrong with the Pachacamac-N.O.W. machine in the voting of council representatives. Out of the 16 voted on this spring, five independent non-partisan candidates swept into office.
There are the facts. Isolated they mean little. But if you examine them all together, they seem to indicate one of two things. Either the Pachacamac political machine is beginning to creak around the edges or there was an organized revolt within the Pachacamac-N.O.W. junta. Or maybe both happened at once.
We're only second-guessing, but here's how we size up what happened. There are about 1,650 Greeks. The members of the N.O.W., the women's Greek political association, number about 325. And strangely enough, this is just two less than the number of Greeks who must have voted against Clingan. We say "must have voted" because members of organized houses either vote or pay a fine.
The tragic thing that happened here is not that a party candidate did not receive the solid backing of his party but that the members who voted against him did so in vain.
Had the Independent party not thrown in the sponge last year, had they held on to a little hope and kept their chins up off the ground, there is a strong likelihood they could have carried the A.S.C. presidency and many more of the representatives this year. But the Independents were faint-hearted. They gave up too easily.
Far more tragic is the fact that only 27 per cent of the more than 8,500 students enrolled in the University voted for representation in their student council. One fellow was so despondent that he decided Rodney Nipnap ought to have the presidency. Another voted for himself "because he needed the money."
This is the tragic thing that we see that happened in the A.S.C. election. Seventy-three per cent of the students were either so disinterested or so disheartened that they didn't bother to express themselves at all. Yet this same 73 per cent never hesitate to criticize the A.S.C. They wouldn't be caught dead voting in an A.S.C. election yet they never miss an opportunity to run the council down.
We wish we had a pat answer to offer you on what to do about the political situation here on the campus. We're sorry but we don't. If we did have one, we'd offer it to the country at large. For the very thing that is happening here is happening everywhere.
Because democracy is a tedious process, it has become unfashionable. Yet we're more inclined to favor the freedom of long-drawn-out argumentation to the speed of a police state.
THE MET'S MR. BING
Is A Progressive Man
ye Ed
Rudolph Bing, the Metropolitan's new and progressive manager, says he will be glad to engage qualified Negro artists for the opera next season. This is a radical departure for the Met. No Negro performer has ever before appeared in a Metropolitan opera.
Yet we think Mr. Bing's decision is a sound one. We don't know what particular Negro artists he has in mind, but there are several quite capable and talented ones available. Evidently, the Met's new manager is an intelligent man. He recognizes that a man's color has nothing to do with the color of his ability and talent.
We'd like to see Mr. Bing make a resounding success of his new policy. So we'd like to take this opportunity to ask you for suggestions on what Negro performers you think Mr. Bing ought to engage. We'll forward your suggestions on to him.
The job situation for engineers seems to be in fair shape. We overheard one aeronautical engineer telling another he had a job, top secret of course, working on flying saucers. He's going to design cups to match.
By Bibler
一 眼间皆是花影 船底如海 舟声千重 船上千重
TODAY'S MAIL First Come, First...?
Sir:
This is my first letter to the University Daily Kansan, but my experience in voting this morning has prompted me to write.
At the time the polls were scheduled to open, at 7:30 Wednesday morning, there was not a poll judge in sight of any of the polls in the basement of Strong. About fifteen minutes later, the ballot boxes arrived. About ten minutes later the key arrived to unlock the box and after a slow and inefficient handling by TWO JUDGES, I was happy to see my ballot go into the box at 8:05 a.m.
This same difficulty was experienced by many others, such as ones who found it necessary to go on field trips without being able to vote at the time announced. I think those in charge of election did a poor job.
Dean Robertson Business junior
Ed. Note: Mr. Robertson's letter points up the futility of arriving early at the polls for voting. The All Student Council should look thoroughly into the question of when and how the polls should be operated.
One alternative to the present voting arrangement might be to give students a half day off, say the morning of election day. This would give students a better chance to get down to their precinct without having to worry about making a class on time.
Seattle, Wash. — (U.P.) — Special trains scheduled by the Milwaukee Railroad to take skiers to a nearby winter sports area were cancelled three week ends in a row. It wasn't because of lack of snow. Railroad officials announced that 142 inches of snow had covered tracks, making train movements impossible.
Some arrangement should be made for students going on field trips and out of town laboratories. Students should not be kept from voting because they must attend class. If no other way can be found, students going out of town should be allowed to vote by "absentee" ballot. This privilege is extended in elections elsewhere.
Excessive Snows Stop Trains
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2016/11/28 13:14:25
Little Man On Campus
"I'm afraid I can't talk very long tonite. Flossy, we've got a new kinda phone booth in th' house!"
'Small Things'
LEST WE FORGET
by Keith Leslie
Augustana college men students, feel they were slighted by coeds during the recent women's week activities. They are retaliating with an "avoid women" routine.
Until Saturday, the men will obey the following rules: 1. No dating. 2. No shaving. 3. No talking with coeds after 7 p.m. 4. No fraternization in the library. 5. All women's dormitories are off limits to men.
A Texan near Fort Worth reports having seen flying bananas and a flying saucer. Now we're looking for somebody in Dallas to come out and say he saw a flying cream and sugar bowl.
Ed. Note: If they had asked us, we could've told it won't work.
LEAVE IT TO TEXAS
GRADUATION BLUES:
Haven't been able to study much lately. Must be the weather. Might be I'm just tired of school . . . no, I've been tired of school for at least four years.
by Todd Seymour
Work Or Vacation?
Could be it's a combination of worries about what I'm going to do come June. Shall I get a job if I can, or take a vacation for a few weeks? I really need a vacation—at least I'd like to take one. Might be a long time before I'll get another. Understand most companies don't like to have their employees take too much time off for vacations.
Oh well, I guess I'd better get into the swing of job hunting. Hear jobs are a little rough to get nowadays. Might be they won't want me to come to work till the middle of June or so. That wouldn't be too bad. I need a little time off. . . .
But just where am I going to get a job? Understand they need officers in the army, could try that. It seems that I wore OD's a little while ago. Don't know if I ought to try that again so soon or not. It's possible that I might have to put them on again soon anyhow. Can't think of anything I'd rather not do, seems as if wars are so futile. Guess you just can't convince some people of that though. . . say, the army does get 30 days off a year. . . hmm. . .
Wonder if they're hiring any ditch-diggers now? I suppose after four years of college I could qualify for that kind of job. Might be able to get in on the big money in that racket. They gets lots of time off too . . . strikes and things. I could get my vacation that way for sure. Wonder if I should make application down at the union office. Only trouble is I don't have enough money to pay the union dues. Suppose I'd better think of something else.
Just don't know what to do but I do need a vacation. Wouldn't mind taking one right now. Guess the best thing to do is quit worrying about it all for a little while. Don't exactly know how to get it off my mind. They say that sleep is a pretty good way to get away from it all Oh well, I didn't need to study for that quiz tomorrow anyway. Ho, hum...mmm.
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