University Daily Kansan Monday. April 14, 1958
Don't Ruin A Ballot
How To Vote
Every year, the ballot counters of KU haul in all the ballot boxes after spring elections and work far into the night counting and recounting the votes.
In their work, a great many votes are thrown out because they are defaced, mismarked, or otherwise voided. The greatest single reason is that students simply don't know how to fill out the ballots properly.
According to the ASC constitution, this is the way to vote:
When you go to the poll, you show your student identification card to the first poll worker. He checks the picture against the person, class standing, and passes the ID card to the second worker. The second worker determines your school and living districts, and worker three punches your districts on the ballots.
You receive a ballot for your class officer candidates, and three others—a white one for presidential and vice-presidential candidates, a blue one for All Student Council living districts, and a pink one for ASC school districts.
On the pink and blue ballots, you VOTE ONLY FOR CANDIDATES IN YOUR OWN DISTRICTS. You use numbers, not crosses, marking your first choice for a position with number 1, the second choice 2, and so on. You may mark as many candidates from your districts as you wish, regardless of the number of candidates to be elected, but you must mark each one from the same district with a different number.
If you mess up a ballot, return it to the pollworkers and get another one.
When you have finished marking the ballots, return them to the fourth pollworker, who returns your ID card. He should clip the exposed number from the corners of the ballots and deposit them in the ballot box. NO POLLWORKERS ARE PERMITTED TO OPEN YOUR BALLOT OR ATTEMPT TO SEE HOW IT HAS BEEN MARKED.
Paint For The Public, Benton Advises Artists
American artists must produce pictures which the public will know and understand if native art is to become a part of our culture. Thomas Hart Benton, Humanities lecturer, said Saturday night in Fraser Theater.
Mr. Benton, a Kansas City, Mo., artist and the last of the three original regionalist painters of the late 1920's and early 1930's, recalled the era which gave rise to regionalism.
After the lecture the crowd of about 700 went to the Museum of Art for the opening of a five-week exhibition of Mr. Benton's work.
In explaining regionalism the Neosho, Mo., native said art must go beyond "mere geometric patterns" and show the three dimensional world that is known as well as seen. The "movement toward pure abstraction" and the "denial of the original pattern" has no meaning for the public, he said.
The original regionalists were Mr. Benton and the late John Steuart Curry and Grant Woods.
"The regionalist move started when the artist ceased to be hired by the public in the 1900's. At that time he made some explorations which might not have been made otherwise. One of these was the movement toward regionalism, he said."
"We created a furor in the 1930s," he said. We believed in painting reality and we believed that reality is what one experiences at the moment. A group of pure art advocates in New York thought art was retrograding with our 'illustrations and showmanship.' Once you went in for illustration in various forms you were not an artist then."
Despite the storms in the mid 30's the regionalists captured the magazines and papers in the country and dominated the United States up until the start of World War II, he recalled.
"The regionalist controversy put the artists in the spotlight and brought publicity to the group. We found people who could exploit the publicity and make money for themselves and for us, so we became successful." he said.
"However." Benton said, "there are various forms of realism. You can never pin down art."
He said regionalism could not be confined to a Missouri scene or a New York street.
"Art cannot ever be fully separated from what goes on in the world."
Surveying recent trends in art. Benton said there may be a return to regionalism, but it would be impossible to predict.
"After the war came this new concept beyond natural boudaries," he said. "Now this abstract art has captured the world."
Mr. Benton, whose paintings are here on loan from collectors and museums all over the world, works with more than a brush and canvas. First he makes clay models then he sketches the models and finally transfers the sketches to a canvas.
Downing, Plumb Seek Student Offices
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ent, we will give a greater number of students the opportunity to be represented by student body officers
"Because our ideas of better student government were consistent with those of Vox, we feel that our working with the All Student Council, if elected, will enable the students to have real representation with a division of powers between the Council and ourselves, working together in harmony.
"We do not have an obligation to political machines."
dent. After much careful thought and consideration, it seems to be the best thing to do, as I feel the independents, who compose a large majority of the students, should be represented in the executive branch of their own student government.
Miss Plumb—"It was a great surprise to me to be asked to run as a write-in candidate for vice-presi-
"I have worked closely with the ASC this year and have seen some things accomplished, but see a great need for much improvement."
(Related editorials, Page 2.)
The poet Chaucer, called the daisy "ee of the daie." In Ben Jonson's time the flower was called "Day's Eye" and later became known as "daisy."
The former president of the KU Young Democrats, Jack Sullivan, Lawrence senior, was elected Saturday as chairman of the Collegiate Council of Young Democrats of Kansas.
KU Democrat Gets New Job
About seven students from KU attended the Council meeting in Topeka, which was held in conjunction with the Jefferson-Jackson Day events held there. Three other officers from other schools in the state were also elected.
Sullivan was also appointed as a member of the State Executive Committee of Young Democrats of Kansas.
Hippopotamuses rarely attack people, but enraged bull hippos have been known to lift boats out of water and bite or slash holes in the bulls, the National Geographic Magazine says.
Was He A Frat Man?
A coed was reluctant about accepting a blind date with a Lawrence boy whom her roommate had described as "a rugged blond-haired individual."
"But why don't you go out with him if he's supposed to be such a terrific guy?" the coed asked her roommate.
"I'd love to go out with Hoover, but he's too short for me," the match-maker said. "I feel so sorry for him because he has been hanging around the house all day."
The coed was skeptical about the date proposition, but she finally decided to meet the boy for a coke date.
The next day Hoover arrived for the date. Hoover wasn't bad looking even though he was short and needed his blond curly locks shorn. But the coed decided to decline the date because blond curly-haired Hoover was a COLLIE DOG.
To Speak To Chicago Alumni
To Speak To Chicago Atum...
Charles Leone, associate professor of zoology, will address the Chicago KU alumni at their annual banquet May 7. Prof. Leone is also a member of the KU Athletic Board.
Butter made from the milk of zebus is usually unsalted.
Rock Chalk Applications Due
Applications are being received in the Kansas Union KU-Y office for producer and business manager for the 1959 Rock Chalk Revue. Deadline for the applications is Tuesday, April 22. Interviews with applicants will be held 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday April 23 in the Union.
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(the trophies, we mean)
3rd
3rd Daily Kansan Photo Contest Closes April 25
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