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University Daily Kansan Thursday, Sept. 25, 1958
An Election Proposal
Some unofficial consideration is being given to a change in the voting system for campus elections. The proposed system would set up voting via IBM machine, with punch cards for ballots.
If the mechanical problems can be worked out, we think the plan is good.
The voting tradition at KU involves ballot stuffing, wilful errors in vote-counting, and every sort of chicanery. KU elections are the annual game for some campus politicos, who try their best to rig elections in their favor without being caught. Most of the frauds have been successful. IBM voting should stop most of the irregularities, and would certainly insure an accurate count of the ballots
The disadvantages of the system are these:
1. The voters would have to register. This might cut down the number of votes cast.
2. Elections would take two days instead of one, since there would be only one voting booth
3. There would probably be more void ballots, due to confusion about the proper method of marking ballots.
4. The present system of preferential voting might have to be revised or discarded. This is a small loss, but would involve work in revising the system.
In favor of the change are these points:
1. Elections would be honest. IBM cards are very hard to counterfeit.
2. The count would be accurate, with no chance of accidental or intentional errors.
3. Less time would be required by election workers. Last year, election police, poll workers, and the Elections Committee were working full blast all through election day, and the counters worked until well after 2 a.m.
Perhaps the system could be tried for the freshman elections before a full-scale election is committed to it.
It may be old-fashioned, but we think honesty is more important than convenience. The IBM is worth a try. —Al Jones
Sex Symbols
A head-shrinker recently said that automobiles are sex symbols. There was a day when women were considered sex symbols. Remember the infamous magazines that promoted this feeling? But now it's cars. Can you imagine the candy-store wolves going into ecstasy at the sight of a sex symbol potently zooming by with her top down, gaily decorated in red and her tail fins provocatively vibrating?
If this is the case, then something has caused man's allegiance to be transferred from pliable flesh to curvy fenders. That something must be Woman herself.
In some ways Woman is similar to the auto. Just like a car, dolls have to go into the shop for servicing every now and then—Of course, an
excitedly talking doll has always sounded as if she had dual exhausts.
On the other hand, some good must be found in Woman. Some make fine wives—No one has ever complained of being run over by a woman, unless she was driving a sex symbol—Most of them look better in bathing suits than any automobile, any day—Women have a lower initial cost, but the upkeep is higher.
It is a tragedy that some think the girls have lost their sex symbolism to machines. Whether or not this is true is still a moot point, so we won't begin to believe it until we note the substitute of automobiles for women as objects of evening affection.
—John Husar
(Editors' note: Nobody likes to work in a vacuum, so we welcome letters to the editor. In the future, however, letters must be signed with the writer's name, home town, and class. Non-students should give their addresses.)
... Letters ...
Editor:
The point is simple and in keeping with the democratic way of life: No man should be forced, practically at gunpoint, to join a union as a prerequisite for a job. That's
I enjoyed the cleverness of the letter writer who does not like the right to work amendment. But cuteness and wisecracks do not refute the argument for the amendment.
Communistic. The amendment gives the worker the freedom of choice. It's as simple as that.
Listen to the argument against the amendment closely, and the more you hear the more you realize that there is a basic deficiency in the thinking of its promoters—probably put there by some New Dealing, leftist influence.
This pernicious influence has been around us for many years, and its tailings are still visible. But close up, they can be seen for what they are—worthless trash of no use to anyone.
So much for those who oppose the right to work.
Charles S. Ellignson
LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS By Dick Bibler
"I UNDERSTAND THEY CALL YOU'HOT LIPS."
Short Ones
Those two New York millionaires have this disadvantage in running for governor—if the winner gets caught with his hand in the till, it's going to be awfully hard to claim he was trying to provide for the wife and kids.
In atomic Los Alamos, they used a bow and arrow to string wires over a canyon. You'd think they could at least disguise the bow as a ray gun.
A Kansas man is slapped and fined $25 for trying to kiss a neighbor's wife. If he had waited until the church bazaar season, he might have got off for about a buck.
The Ford Foundation says women with children under six can't hold down a fulltime job and tend her children. Any woman will tell before the tower realized it wasn't job.
Atomic power will be as cheap as other types by 1970, a scientist says. And we haven't even figured out electricity yet.
Edgar Eisenhower shot a 67 on the golf course the other day. Do you suppose we elected the wrong one?
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