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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1931
VOTE
AWAKE AND AWAY Goodbye Machine
The Oread-Kayhawk coalition does not feel that it has been unfair or malicious in the present political campaign. Our followers will realize we have been on the offensive from the very genesis of our existence.
We have had to be for we are a new organization, a unity of men who have striven against overwhelming odds to uproot and expose for the first time, a regime that we have felt to be detrimental to student interests.
In all these instances the Pachacamac Fraternity Machine has refused to answer. It has shrouded itself in a cloak of injured innocence and called us "mudslingers."
We have asked Pachacamac to defend certain shady actions they have made during the past school year. We have enquired of them an explanation for their evident inefficiencies. We have exposed many cases wherein they have failed to give equal representation, have failed miserably in their pledge to serve each and every student on the campus equally, regardless of his wealth, his social position, his personality,—in short, regardless of his exterior merits.
Gentlemen, if the utterance of truthful accusation is "slinging mud," then the Oread-Kayhawk coalition pleads guilty to the charge.
The Oread-Kayhawk coalition has announced its platform and it has offered to you the candidates who will administer the tenets contained within the platform. The organizations have operated from the outset in the interest of the non-fraternity man and that policy is to be continued—solely because the difficulties of the non-fraternity men are paramount on the campus and we as non-fraternity men naturally champion the cause.
Vindicticism has not been our policy. Truth, honesty, and sound reasoning have been the only bases upon which we have built our battle for right and efficient government.
VOTE
Non Fraternity Men Vote Your Ticket!
It is your ticket — It stands for equal representation — Non-fraternity candidates selected by non-fraternity men—Candidates free to act as officers without answer to a machine's leaders.
You want better rooming house conditions. You can acquire them by electing non-fraternity men who have the same problems at heart. You need a center for your recreation hours as the Memorial Union should offer. The Oread-Kayhawk coalition promises to secure a greater use of the Union building for the non-fraternity men.
You are the one who elects men to spend the funds necessary for student purposes. Money spent for student purpose should embrace things of general benefit rather than for golf courses on which no one plays. You are the men who often need employment to carry you over financial pinches. A student exerts a great deal of responsibility and partial self-supporting students. Maximum wages can be secured and labor conditions bettered than dogged and efficient management.
The Owl Society, Y. M. C. A. and other organizations are politically controlled, and it is up to you to elect candidates who will make it possible for non-fraternity men to secure a just and fair chance to obtain membership in these bodies.
We pledge ourselves to carry out our platform to the letter as well as to complete the unfulfilled platform of the Pachacamac administration of last year.
Equal Representation
Oread-Kyawkah has promised the students of Kansas a ticket composed of fraternity and non-fraternity men in equal proportions. We offer for consideration tomorrow 19 members of fraternities and 17 men who are not affiliated with our organization maintaining a fraternity house.
These men were not chosen upon a basis of fraternal affiliations, but upon their potential worth to the University and to its students. The choice was made by representative fraternity and non-fraternity members. A constitution should be founded upon the concept and full representation of the governed.
We are at the crossroads where one fork leads to a machine monarchy with its power vested in a few fraternity men and the other points to a democracy under the banner of which non-fraternity men and fraternity members will fight for honest student government.
We as students have the right to govern ourself. We will do it, or will we, through our own lethality and lack of interest, continue to allow a few to control the many?
The keynote of a democracy is government by all the governed, which at K. A. were equal representation, upon union, rights, machine that we feel as Spain does about a monarchy.
A Pachacamac Lie
Pachacamac says "We give equal representation, our present ticket is composed of 19 non-fraternity men and 17 fraternity men."
THE COLD FACTS WILL BETRAY THIS FALSEHOOD The following is a list of 25 men on the Pachacamac ticket and their fraternity connections:
1. David Newcomer             –Sigma Nu
2. Chair Wood                 –Theta Tau
3. Horace Santry              –Phi Gamma Deta
4. Robert Sangster            –Phi Delta Theta
5. Eugene Manning            –Theta Tau
6. Charles Omer               –Kappa Tau Kappa
7. Robert Heifman            –Alpha Kappa Pai
8. Stanley Tiedl             –Phi Delta Phi
9. Elmer Anderson            –Phi Mu Alpha
10. John Metcalfe             –Phi Chi
11. Greever Allen             –Sigma Phi Epsilon
12. Curt Skaggs             –Delta Upsilon
13. Stanley Humphreys        –Phi Beta Pi
14. Philip McKnight          –Sigma Lambda
15. Helford                –Sigma Chi
16. Fred Nordstrom           –Sigma Nu
17. Newman Jeffrey          –Phi Delta Theta
18. Eugene Coombs            –Delta Tau Delta
19. Robert Hitchock         –Alpha Tau Omega
20. Olen Roark              –Kappa Sigma
21. John Ragli               –Kappa Gamma Delta
22. Willard Howard          –Sigma Phi Upsilon
23. Conrad Miller           –Sigma Chi
24. Kenneth Slocum           –Kappa Sigma
25. Lee Page                –Delta Upsilon
The above list of fraternities have Greek letters and maintain fraternity houses.
Non-fraternity men you have only 12 men on the Pachacamac machine ticket. Your vote for Oread-Kayhawk is a vote to down this machine.
MAMMOTH RALLY
We announce to all men students a rally which will be preceded by an automobile parade to start from 14th and Tennessee at 7:30 tonight. The parade will end on the Acacia lawn where at 8:15 the crowd will be entertained by music and speakers. Issues of this campaign will be presented and faced, particularly from the non-fraternity man's standpoint. YOU ARE INVITED.
Qualifications
Do the so called "personal qualifications" mean anything when the men that boast them are merely in a fattierty machine which will, as they have in the past, continue the polling of qualification and are thus constitusion of qualified non-fatternity men. Men have you examined the qualifications of the candidates of the Pachacamac Machine? As an example of the "so called 18 qualifications" for men who want to enter into the profession have been given to him by virtue of Pachacamac's apportive or plum-passing practices.
This is not an isolated example, you may analyze the qualifications of all their other candidates in the same manner and realize a similar result. Do This Before You Vote.
On the contrary Oread-Kayhawk candidates have been chosen not because they belong to a Pachacamac fraternity and can list 14 machine appointments after their names, but because they are men who are personally capable, men who believe in honesty and fair play, and men who will fight to the end for the principles for which they believe in honesty and fair play, have had the initiative and sincerity to fight for an awakening to abolish machine rule is alone a qualification with which participation in the Campus Chest Drive or membership in the Christmas Tree committee cannot be compared.
It Depends on You
Do you know that the election tomorrow will depend on the non-fraternity vote?
The non-fraternity men in the University compose nearly 50% of the student body. Tomorrow, for the first time in five years they may make their voice heard in student government. Are you going to be there in retrospect or are you going to strike a blow for Hill democracy?
Realize your rights. Understand your opportunities. Fight for yourselves, and in so doing, for Oread-Kayhawk. We want your allegiance only so long as we prove worthy of it.
Do you know that a three-way split of non-
consecutive genomes may hope of Pachasimae
for a genetic election?
If you fail to cast your vote, whatever he choice of men, you are giving up your rights as a student of Kansas University. If you fail to vote for the Oread-Kayhawk ticket you are refusing the first chance in five years. The man has had to vote in his own interests.
This is a campaign of issues; therefore study the platforms and consider, in the light of available information, the sincerity with which they are offered.
Make K. U, government your government,
inad above all, VOTE!
For President, Men's Student Council RUSSELL STROBEL (K)
For Vice-President, Men's Student Council BURTON LYMAN (O)
Council Representatives
College
Two Your Term
Ford Harbaugh (O)
One Year Term
Howard Wingart (O)
Reed Crites (O)
M Lynn Butcher (K)
M Robert Dill (K)
Robert Dill (K)
Gordon Cannon (K)
School of Business
Morris Smith (O)
Pharmacy
Lester Smith (B)
Athletic Kaild
Earl (Axel) Foy (O)
Two Years at Large
George Bond (O)
Education
Vigil Crow (J)
John Frei (O)
Tony Resnick (O)
Fine Arts School
Hareid Johnson (K)
School of Medicine
Vernon Minick (K)
Graduate School
R. C. Keowan (O)
School of Education
Samuel Berg (O)
Student Directory Manager
Alfredo Bustedman (K)
For Secretary, Men's Student Council MAURICE McMANUS (K)
For Treasurer, Men's Student Council PHIL COOK (O)
Class Officers
SENIOR
President
Fred Fleming (O)
Treasurer
Kenneth Crumrine (K)
Instrument Manager
Kenneth Forney (K)
JUNIOR
President
Josephogler (K)
Miller Nichols (O)
Intramural Manager
Alfred White (K)
Drew Harnett (O)
Charles Sawyer (K)
SOPHOMORE
President
Robert Gribble (B)
Charles Everhart (O)
Intramural Manager
Richard Porter (O)
James Hughes (O)
Charles Dotts (O)
BEAT THE MACHINE