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Tuesday, November 7, 1972
University Daily Kansan
Kansas Election Winners, Analysts To Observe Youth Voting Trends
Hy DON JEFFERSON Kansan Staff Writer
When the polls close today and the votes are tabulated, political observers and future local candidates will be taking a hard line. This has been displayed by University of Kansas students.
Today's election, the first major election since the enfranchisement of persons 18 to 21 years of age, is expected to answer the question whether college students, one of the largest minorities in
Lawrence, will tend to base their decisions upon the qualification party affiliations or membership of the board.
Earl A. Nehring, associate professor of political science, said Monday that although he would have to see the results of today's election, he hoped students would base their decisions on the qualifications of the candidates.
"I think there is considerable interest in the issues and the candidates down to the city level."
Citizen Agency Seeks Volunteers in Union
A driver sponsored by ACTION, a citizen service agency, is being held this week in the lobby of the Kansas Union to introduce students to the volunteer opportunities of the Peace Corps and VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America).
Alcaraz was a volunteer in Paraguay for three years, but the service period is usually two year. She extended her stay to complete some work, and in that time, she found that it was difficult to measure what she had accomplished.
Peace Corps volunteers work internationally in underdeveloped countries, helping to build schools and lawrence senior and campus representative for the Peace Corps. She said that in the Peace Crops individuals helped other groups to help themselves and to improve what they had.
She described her work as a "24-hour job" which consisted of teaching home economics, child care, and English, among other subjects affiliated with the Ministry of Education. She said she became very close to the natives of the small village in which she worked.
Nancy Cook, a recruiter for ACTION from the Kansas City area, said that seniors and graduate students or anyone skilled in a particular field were preferred by ACTION. Married couples also are welcome to apply for the volunteer work, she said.
after that the interest drops off considerably."
VISTA volunteers work for one year in the
IN THE LESS important offices, he said, KU students have shown, relative to the public at large, a normal lack of interest. In such cases, factors other than the student's background such as their age or party affiliation, would probably decide the vote, he said.
United States on poverty projects designed to improve the living conditions of low-income Americans. Cook was a VISTA volunteer in Ames, Iowa, where her services included working with emotionally disturbed children.
Peace Corps and VISTA volunteers receive a living allowance, vacation pay, medical expenses and a readjustment allowance of $75 for each month of service.
This readjustment allowance is banked in the United States until the volunteer returns and then be receives a check for that amount.
The living allowance is based on the salaries of the people with whom the volunteer works. It is easier to communicate with people when the volunteer is living on the same economic level, Alcaraz said.
"I would suspect that there might be an upset in Lawrence due to the younger vote," he said. "Age might be an advantage to a candidate."
Cook said there had been a good response to the ACTION drive.
However, Nefring said he doubted the importance of age in this particular election, except in the case of the race for governor. He said that Dave Cave and 86-year-old George Hearn
"It's simply a race between a younger dynamic man and a man who has been on the job for a long time."
IF A VOTER had doubts about the qualifications of the candidates for a particular office, Nehring said, the vote more should be cast along party preferences.
Several local candidates who are running against opponents with a sizeable difference in age tend to agree with Nehring's analysis.
Michael G. Glover, 25, who is running against 65-year-old Winston B. Harwood for state representative from the 44th district, said Monday that he felt his youth gave him a slight advantage but that he doubted its importance in the outcome of the election.
Harwood said that he felt the older voters in Lawrence tended to be Republicans and the younger people tended to be Democrats. The voters who were confident of the older peoples' vote.
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