University Daily Kansan Wednesday, April 16, 1958
SARGE A CANDIDATE?—KU's favorite dog-about-campus went along with the gag when a Vox party banner was pinned on him at Tuesday's convocation. However, political observers on both sides of the fence predicted that Sarge, to retain his popularity, was still strictly nonpartisan. (Daily Kansan photo)
One Last Word
Most of what can be said for John Downing and Carol Plumb as candidates has been said on this page during the past couple of days. In the news columns, each presidential candidate and party has had an opportunity to express its platform and outline programs which it will try to put in next year.
Today, no one goes with you into the election booth and no one will look over your shoulder. After you get within 50 feet of the poll you are the boss; you are the one who makes the decision. No one will know how you vote unless you tell them.
The strength of the Student Council rests on the voter's shoulders alone. It is the voter who "puts them in" and it is the voter who can pull them right back out again.
We ask that you read the political news in the following copies of The Daily Kansan and then draw your own conclusions;
Tuesday, April 15.
Monday, April 14
Monday April 14
Friday. April 11.
Thursday, April 10.
Thursday, April 10
Wednesday, March 26
Friday, February 28.
You will find, after a thorough study of each story about student government, that Downing and Miss Plumb will carry a clean slate into the elections today.
We have criticized other candidates and past student councils because they have not shown us accomplishments to warrant praise. We, like you, look for persons who can take a student government job and produce worthwhile results.
We will be the first to criticize Downing, Miss Plumb and a Council under Vox control if they betray the confidence of the electorate.
However, we have the utmost confidence in Downing and Miss Plumb, and believe we will be able to retain this confidence throughout their terms in office.
The Editors.
Quotes From The News
AUGUSTA, Ga.—President Eisenhower, calling on Congress to approve quickly his plan to extend unemployment compensation benefits to idle workers:
"All of us in government have a special responsibility to act to alleviate the hardships which are being suffered through no fault of their own by these workers and their families."
WASHINGTON — Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, predicted Congressmen who have been talking to farmers at home will find they are opposed to the recently vetoed bill to freeze farm price supports at 1957 levels;
Dailu Hansan
"I think farmers feel as many others that what agriculture needs is a little more of a thaw and less of a freeze."
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NEWS DEPARTMENT
Dick Brown Managing Editor
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
Del Haley Editorial Editor
Hall Hall Martin Leroy
Zimmerman Associate Director
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
Ted Winkler Business Manager
BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
What Do You Think?
For the past two days, the editors of The Daily Kansan have been hammering away at one theme: the All Student Council needs to be cleaned out and restaffed with competent personnel.
For this purpose, The Daily Kansan chooses John Downing and Carol Plumb, write-in candidates for president and vice-president of the student body, and Vox Populi's slate of candidates for ASC representative slots.
We think the Downing-Plumb ticket represents what's best in the current crop of candidates. From their candidates and their platform, we think Vox party is capable of a far better performance than the record of AGI.
We may wake up in the cold gray dawn tomorrow and realize that we were dead wrong. You, the voter, may make other choices. There is
something, after all, to be said for every candidate.
But it's a cinch that committee representation on the Council needs to be more evenly apportioned.
That rule which requires the student body president to have had ASC experience is hogwash, and should be disposed of as such.
There is no question so important that Council meetings must be closed to the student public.
With these things in mind, we hope you'll join with us in tossing out the present ASC crew.
If you don't like Council committee membership "packing"; if you or a friend would like a crack at the job of student body president without being required to serve on the ASC; if you would like to be admitted to every Council meeting—then you have a case against the present administration.
It's time for a cleanup in the ASC. We hope you'll join with us in getting the job done.
The Editors
Three Suggestions
Here are three things The Daily Kansan feels a good student government should accomplish that the local administration has failed to do this year:
1. Effectively protect the students' rights against the encroachment of the University administration.
An alert student council would have been up in arms when the idea for the high-priced parking lot east of the Union came up. With parking space at 50c a car, not many students can afford to park in their own Union's parking lot.
An alert Council would have protested vigorously when the University sold student seating at the basketball doubleheader in January. That was a regularly scheduled home game and as such, should have been covered by student ID cards. But our Council didn't say boo.
2. Prevent staffs of student publications from becoming entrenched in one house.
Although the Council's publications committee selects the editor and business manager of the K-Book, Student Directory, Jayhawker, Squat, and University Calendar, these publications have a nasty habit of obtaining editors from the same house, year after year.
If the top jobs in these publications were more evenly distributed, more students might take an interest in working on them.
3. Every student on the campus should know when applications are needed for Council committees. The committee members should then be chosen on their merits.
If this is done, the "packing" which now prevails in committees would cease to exist. In the past, some students simply didn't know when vacancies were available on these committees.
The Editors
How To Mark Write-In
To vote for a write-in candidate:
If you choose to vote for a write-in candidate in today's election, you should be extra careful as to how you mark your ballot.
1. Write the candidate's name in the space provided on the ballot. Spell the name correctly. Opinions of election judges vary, but the ballot with an incorrectly spelled name stands a good chance of being thrown
out or counted under a separate tallv.
2. Mark a 1 beside the name just as you would for a name printed on the ballot. Names written on ballots, but which do not have a 1 marked beside them will be tossed out.
POLITICIANS IN A ROW—Looking over their audience at yesterday's convocation are from left, Joel Sterrett. Topeka senior; Jim Schultz. Salina
senior; Jim Austin, Topeka sophomore, and Dave Wilson, Leawood junior. All made speeches at the convocation.
Twice a day the world's highest tides funnel into Nova Scotia's minas Basin, the eastern branch of the Bay of Fundy. The waters may rise 53 feet.
The home of John Harvard's mother at Stratford-on-Avon in England was presented to Harvard University in 1909 as a rendezvous for American visitors.
The National Geographic Society- Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, called the most extensive map ever conceived by the mind of man, charts three-quarters of the heavens.