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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 19, 1957
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(Editor's note: the following editorial was written by Eric McCrossen, editor of the New Mexico Lobo, and appeared in the April 4 edition of that publication.)
'ASC-itis' Epidemic—
The voting procedure, simply stated, is this: Each student will show his activity card or admittance slip from the personnel office at the registration desk where he will be handed a ballot. The ballot will have a column for each candidate of the three parties and a yes-no space and listing of the student budget. Presidential and vice presidential candidates will be listed separately at the top of the ballot. Each voter will choose one presidential candidate and
During the first semester of this year, members of the Pro University party, who commanded a majority on the student council at the time could have proposed a constitutional amendment which would have given us a popular vote rather than the absurd system which we now use. Members of PUP said they did not propose such an amendment because they were interested in maintaining Council unity and did not want the council split along party lines on other issues. Their thoughts were perhaps admirable, but were not good politics. A party in power should not worry too much about a split with the opposition. PUP had a chance to attempt to change the voting procedure, but did not. Does their party deserve another chance?
Problems Elsewhere, Too
Since we are stuck with it and the student body election is April 10, an explanation of the preferential system of voting is needed. The system, which has been used at UNM for about four years, should be abolished.
one vice presidential candidate. The candidates need not be from the same party.
Each student council candidate will be listed under his particular party label. Voters will select no more than 13 of the council candidates, ranking his choices one through 13, with the numeral one being first choice, numeral two second choice and so forth. The 13 candidates which the voter selects need not be from the same party, but not more than 13 council candidates may be voted for by any voter.
The presidential and vice presidential candidate are listed twice on the ballot, once as council candidates and at the top of the ballot for their respective positions as heads of student government.
Although the Council is limited to 13 members by the student body constitution, the present system could conceivably elect 13 council members in addition to a student body president and a vice president if the presidential and vice presidential candidates did not receive as high a number of points as 13 other council candidates. Thus far, this possibility has not occurred and the student body president and vice president have sat as council members in addition to their other duties.
Since the Associated Party is apparently determined to keep the present voting system and since the Pro University party is apparently unwilling to take a chance in attempting to change the system, the Whig party may offer the best solution—abolish the present student government structure and start over again.
Apparently the University of Kansas is not the only campus afflicted with "ASC-itis." The University of New Mexico at Albuquerque obviously has a fine mess student council-wise. So says the New Mexico Lobo, official publication of UNM.
The University of New Mexico Lobo
Student Government
A Campus Third Party?
Not only is the Lobo displeased with the present system of voting and advocates a new system, but it also strongly suggests abolishing the present student government structure and turning over a whole new leaf.
Out at the University of New Mexico some students became disgusted with mediocrity in student government and formed a new third party to effect reforms.
To bring it down to brass tacks: is an organization functioning efficiently when on several occasions only a few of its members are present at important meetings? Is an organization in which a good percentage of its members are not really interested in student government, but who are preoccupied with small politics, qualified to govern a student body?
Is an organization which is composed of members who lack a basic knowledge of the administrative problems of student government capable of doing an efficient job?
Although the University of New Mexico's student council history is not as impressive as that of the University of Kansas' (and council-wise UNM has been called a "babe in the woods") perhaps a third party with some spirit, and with the sole purpose of effecting reform, would be a good idea.
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There are two kinds of men who never succeed in the world: those who cannot take orders and those who can do nothing else.
-Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Ahother 1776?offering in Cyprus," said Aneurin Bevan. Labor party leader.
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There's a quiet little war going on on an island in the Mediterranean. It is a war by a people who seek to govern themselves. They have about the same ideals, that another people had in 1776. They have their own George Washington and their own patriots and Tories.
Cyprus' 'Quiet War'
This time it is an England which has been left haggard after two world wars. It is an England which is seeing colonies and vast power slip into the past. It is an England which has been made somewhat irrational by hard, cold facts.
They also have one very important thing in common with the American colonists—there is an England involved.
The populace of Cyprus, the great majority of which are Greek and belong to the Greek Orthodox Church, wish to be united with Greece.
Negotiations between the archbishop of Cyprus Makarios III, and Field Marshal Sir John Harding, governor of Cyprus, broke down in March 1956, shortly before the archbishop was arrested and exiled to the Seychelles Islands. He has since been freed.
On the question of the British need of Cyprus as a base the Earl of Listowel commented, "after all the United States has no colonies, but she has bases in many independent countries."
Negotiations broke down on three points; composition of the elected assembly, internal security and amnesty.
"The amnesties we have arranged in Malaya and Kenya are more generous than those which we are
It is true that Cyprus has been torn by violence and guerrilla warfare since the breakdown of negotiation with Britain. Mr. Bevan, however, had this to say about terrorism on the island: "the fact is that unless the people of Cyprus can be brought to believe that their grievances will be remedied there is nothing left for them but to try to remedy their grievances by actions of their own."
Commenting on the exiling of the archbishop, Francis Noel-Baker said in the House of Commons, "I have been saddened by the attacks and allegations made about the archbishop, none of which would have stood up in a court of law."
Kenneth Robinson, a member of the Labor Party, said in the House of Commons, "It is no use the Prime Minister pleading the Turks in aid.
"I do not remember anybody in any place at any time reproving the Catholic hierarchy for not taking active steps to protest against any of the acts committed throughout the whole of our Irish troubles," said Clement Davies, a British Liberal Party leader.
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