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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 3, 1957
Poetic Justice
Justice sometimes takes a strange turn.
Illegal ballots marked for Party of Greek Organizations candidates were thrown out. A move by the same party's student body president candidate to block the Fraser polling place didn't work.
Net result: Bob Billings is the president-elect of the student body representing the Allied Greek-Independent Party, and AGI virtually controls the All Student Council. POGO was able to elect only six members to that body. AGI representatives number 18!
Whether or not the ballot box stuffing was a party move or merely some poor child's hopes to bolster his election chances is insignificant. What is important is that it did happen.
And it's happened for at least the last four general elections. Fortunately each time the ASC Elections Committee was able to detect illegalities and thwart the possibility of a faulty election.
Some higher-ups of POGO have been moaning that their party is on the rocks. Who can they blame? We cannot sympathize with anyone who must resort to extra-legal methods to insure the election of favored candidates. It appears that the party would do well to revamp its organization.
The only major sore spot resulting from the election comes from the lack of representation of the Council by living groups and schools which failed to muster the required 75 votes .
For example, the School of Journalism cast 38 votes. This is 36 per cent of the total school enrollment. By comparison, the total percentage of votes cast in the election is approximately 31 per cent. In other words, the School of Journalism polled a higher percentage of votes than were cast generally in the election, and yet is not entitled to a representative on the council.
It is generally conceded that the minimum 75- vote ruling is unfair. A change has been promised so that all schools and living groups may be represented.
We suggest that the candidate who polled the most votes from those groups which failed to muster 75 total votes be allowed to sit in on Council meetings the remainder of this year and until the system is changed next year.
However, the change will not come about until next fall. This means that some groups will not be represented on the Council the remainder of this year.
This would enable them to keep up with Council activity so that, if they were elected under the changed system, they would not go into the Council cold.
A final word of praise to Tom Griffith and his Elections Committee for a job well done.
Our good friend Elrod, after a careful study, has arrived at some ways to improve the faculty at this noble institution.
"I hearken back to my primary grade days," said Elrod. "I found that the pedagogues in dear old Robert LaFollette No. 1 were understanding, trustworthy, loyal — you know, like that."
—Jerry Dawson
..Ad Booki..
"What do you propose then, our good friend Elrod?" we queried.
"Voila! Also, eureka and gadzooks!
But what about subject matter?"
"Classroom discipline is of cardinal importance," he quoth. "Therefore, I suggest that all faculty members be enlisted in the Marine Corps Reserve and be given extensive training at Parris Island. A few night marches would throw them into the spirit of maintaining classroom austerity."
"Too often an instructor will not devote full class time to lecture, but instead will allow what is vulgarly known as "student discussion." To eliminate this, all lectures should be
recorded on tape,
thus allowing no
one to interrupt
and question the
instructor's infallible
logic."
"Gadzooks! Al-so, eureka and voila! But what about students who walk out in the middle of a lecture?"
"Chairs fitted with leg icons
Dawson
would solve that problem."
"What should be the criteria for hiring faculty members?"
"The Schick test would be the first measure. All Ph. D's would be asked, What cigarette do you smoke, doctor?" No faculty member with less than $600 in the bank would be given a job. The Federal Government assumes, that this is all that is necessary for subsistence, and the minimum would be necessary in order to tide the new man over the lean years."
"What would cause the 'lean' years?"
"What part should the instructor's intelligence and past education play in the decision whether or not he should be hired."
"For one thing, a rection against intellect. In the vernacular, an anti-egghead revolt."
"Tradition rules in this case. Intelligence and past education would be overlooked."
We were rather dismayed by Elrod's forthright disposition. However, he later disclosed in an aside that he was being facetious — also, ioking and ocular.
"I hate publicity of any kind," quoth Elrod, dumping a box of Oxydol into the Chi Omega fountain.
Ad booki. Jerry Dawson
(Editor's note: Emphasis on the Dark Continent is highlighted by the visit to the campus this week of American Universities Field Staff expert Charles F. Gallagher. Following is an editorial on the situation in Tunisia.)
Tunisia; Important Nation
Tunisia, a French protectorate since 1881 until it received its independence early last year, is the North African country nearest Europe. It is a wedge-shaped land of 48,000 square miles—about the size of New York State with important Mediterranean ports.
On its borders are Algeria to the west and Libya to the east and south. Tunisia is the synthesis of the racial problems that agitate all North Africa, where there are 18 million Arabs, 1,500,000 French and 500,000 Jews. In Tunisia live 3 million Arabs, Berbers and Jews and 250,000 Europeans, mostly French.
Middle Eastern influences have been strong in Tunisia, and it is more oriental than western in its national reactions and point of view. Although the populaton is predominantly an agricultural one, Tunisia is considered the most highly developed country in the North African complex. Although small in comparison with its immediate neighbors, Tunisia's problems bear directly on all the rest of Africa and on the Middle East. Also because of its location and resources, what happens in Tunisia has become increasingly important for the rest of the world.
Strategic considerations alone make obligatory the development and maintenance of peace in North Africa and the continued orientation of the area toward Europe and the West. North Africa is important for the defense of Europe and the Middle East; Tunisia is one of the North African outposts of the U. S. defense system.
Tunisia's standard of living, which was very low in 1881, is now higher than in any other North African or Middle Eastern country. Tunisia has more railways, roads, automobiles, tourists and telephone facilities than any of its neighbors, including Eeyvut.
As a result of allied operations in North Africa in World War II, Tunisia became a focal point in the world. While the United States and her allies attempted to weld the Mediterranean countries, particularly the North African countries, into a mutual defense system, Moscow supported insurgent nationalist groups such as Tunisia's Neo-Destour. Just at the time when fanatical nationalism had become a state of things shunned by nations attempting to promote their mutual security, a well-organized group of Tunisians demanded their complete independence.
Under the Franco-Tunisian Conventions of June 1955. Tunisia received full internal autonomy and was free to establish the political
and administrative institutions of her choice, provided she respected the person and the dynasty of the bey, which France continued to guarantee. The bey is the head of the state. Jurisdictionally, all powers emanate from him and are exercised in his name.
Under Article 5. Tunisia "grants to all those living in her territory the enjoyment of the rights and guarantees of the individual set forth in the universal declaration of human rights."
In accordance with the conventions, a close cooperation, necessitated by political and strategic imperatives, is maintained between France and Tunisia in matters of defense and foreign affairs.
She pledges herself "to ensure to foreign nationals the free exercise of their cultural, religious, economic, professional or social activities" and also "to guarantee, in accordance with her traditions, complete equality among her own nationals, whatever their ethnic origin or their religious faith."
When You're In Doubt, Try It Out—Kansan Classified Section.
The Tunisian government is a ministerial government in the hands of one political party, the New Constitution, and is dominated by the Premier. Tunisia has had a ministerial government for many years, although always under strict French control.
Since the granting of independence early this year, Tunisians have voted for a constitutional assembly whose task is to draft the basic law of the land and prepare the way for representative government.
—Marilyn Mermis
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