Friday. April 18, 1958 Universitr Daily Kansan
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Political Parties Flourish Since 1912
The April 16th elections were a renewal of the political struggle that has been waged at KU ever since 1912.
A history of KU politics is mainly a history of Pachacamac, which lasted 42 years as a campus party. The present parties bear a faint heritage from Pach, but are too new to be compared with it.
The president of Vox Populi, Jim Austin, Topeka sophomore, defined the purpose of campus politics as to make "an All Student Council that operates efficiently within its budget and is of some benefit to all the students."
The Allied Greek-Independent president, Joel Sterrett, Tokea senior, said. "The ideal purpose is to have an opportunity to control things primarily student in nature -extracurricular rather than scholastic."
Pachacamac retired from the political scene in 1954, when a split in the party gave birth to two new groups, AGI and the Party of Greek Organizations (POGO).
Political Parties Flourish
Political Parties Flourish From 1912 to 1954, campus political parties flourished like weeds, with strange initials and stranger names, but clouding them all was the shadow cast by Pachacamac.
Among the parties that challenged Pach's power in those years were Black Mask, Oread, Kayhawk, PSGL, WSGA and coalitions between groups to break the stranglehold Pach had on student government.
Some of the less serious parties that contended were Dollars and Cents and the Smiling Bill Milander club. Dollars and Cents campaigned in 1922 with a three-piece jazz band
and free peanuts and Eskimo pies
Pach won anyway.
Pach nearly always won, in fact. In one stretch, from 1926 to 1942, Pach won 20 of 25 elections. The five it lost were to newly organized parties, but Pach never lost twice to the same group.
Black Mask opposed Pach from 1917 to 1928, then dissolved into the "Independent coalition." The coalition won its first election, then lost four straight and disappeared in 1931.
Two Grants Again Given
The Phillips Petroleum Company of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, has awarded the University two graduate fellowships, each worth $2500.
One grant will support a fellowship in geological engineering, and the other a fellowship in chemical engineering.
The geological engineering grant will go to a graduate student who received his undergraduate degree in geological engineering, and will cover tuition, necessary equipment, and a stipend to the student.
George W. Swift, Lawrence graduate student, present holder of a Phillips fellowship, will continue to be the recipient in chemical engineering.
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The coalition was replaced by three new parties: Oread, Kayhawks, and the KU Progressives. Oread and Kayhawk united to swing the 1931 election, and Pach re-formed its lines to sweep the next three.
Vandals Throw Eggs, Paint
Vandals Till Owens Faint In 1934, The Daily Kansan reported "vandals using eggs and brown paint to spread 'terrorism' turned the MSC (Men's Student Council) election Kansas Citivit today as they attacked the strongholds of the Oread-Kayhawk party." In spite of the indignation Oread-Kayhawk tried to arouse, they followed Black Mask and the Independent
coalition into oblivion after losing the 1934 campaign.
In 1935 a new challenger appeared, the Progressive Student Government League. It won the election, but lost six of the next seven, sharing power with Pach on the seventh.
Another device Pach used in this period was sending pledges to the polls during class breaks and noon hour, with the pledges only breaking ranks for a party voter.
more important, and the MSC became the All Student Council.
The opposition often protested Pach tactics and brought up cases of ballot stuffing, but the MSC always ruled "insufficient evidence." During World War II the position of women in campus politics became
Pach Meets Final Defeat
After the war, Pach took up where it left off, winning five in a row before the "First Actually Constructive Ticket Society" (FACTS) won in 1951. Pach never really recovered from this defeat although they won a slim majority in 1952.
AGI and POGO, besides FACTS, split Fach and it went out of existence in 1954. POGO disbanded in 1957 after some ballot stuffing was discovered.
Vox Populi was formed last fall to take over the role of opposition party.
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