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Amid the 53,200 fans at Columbia Saturday there was a small delegation which made themselves well known by cheering loudly everytime the "Go KU" sign went up.
Party presidents speak
Politicos recall vote totals
By BETSY WRIGHT
Less than 4,000 students voted in last week's All Student Council (ASC) elections, but campus politicians feel the voter alone is not to blame.
Don Chubb, Topeka junior and University Party (UP) president, felt that the election failures lay greatly within the parties themselves.
"I honestly think that KUPA (Kansas University Progressive Alliance) is one of the prime factors in making this election the mess it is," Chubb said.
Chubb said the Hare System of voting was another drawback of this election.
"THEIR CLAIMS initiated all these independent candidates and brought student interest to the failings of student government, rather than pointing out the good it has done. The students lost interest and support, so they didn't vote." Chubb said.
The Hare System involves the numbering of candidates in order of preference, rather than a straight vote for one candidate. The person with the highest total number of points, rather than
the most first-place votes, wins. Thus, as in this fall's election, a candidate can lose, even though he has been chosen as first by the greatest number of voters.
"UP won a plurality, but I still don't feel the vote totals were indicative of real student feelings towards these people," Chubb said. "I think the average student doesn't realize the faults of the Hare system and what it can do to mutilate the actual vote of the student.
The Hare system has got to go," Chubb said. "One of the first acts of UP legislation will be to abolish the Hare system."
KEN NORTH, Shawnee Mission freshman and Vox Populi (VOX) president, said: "I think the low turnout is indicative of the low amount of interest developed in this election. If it had been a campaign where platforms and issues had been the primary interest of the voters, the turnout would have been different."
North, however, found no fault with the Hare System.
"The real need in these elections is to compensate for the gray areas. With the preferential
system you have the chance to say not just who will win, but can rank all candidates in relationship to each other." North said.
"I'm open for suggestions," North said, "but we've had this system for 20 years. I think we should retain it until people can come up with a better one."
AL MARTIN, Shawnee Mission sophomore and Student Body President, said: "I doubt if any single factor was responsible for the low voter turnout. To a certain extent the campaign was more negative than usual. There was also not enough publicity of issues and candidates.
"The Hare Method has got to go," Martin said. "UP will definitely work on this soon, and we hope to have the election procedure changed by spring elections."
Martin proposed a different system which could be used in coming elections.
"I think the districts should be broken down more," he said. "Each large one's dorm, for instance, could become one district. I also think we should go to a straight vote for candidates."
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HOW DOES Wilcox answer the Minuteneman charges?
"As usual, the Minutemen don't know what the hell they're talking about," he says.
"I haven't been a KU student for nearly two years," Wilcox continues, "and when I was a student, I always took a full load."
"My income was derived from the Kansas Free Press, my wife's student loans and my own contracting business," he adds.
Wilcox says he never lived in the Chancellor's basement, either.
THE FIREARMS law violation case has not been the only contact Wilcox has had with the Minutemen, however.
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Last spring, Wilcox became acquainted with Jerry Brooks, a supposed Minuteman security officer, who defected from the organization.
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Brooks, a federal witness in the firearms trial last week, told Wilcox that a woman student member of the KU Students for a Democratic Society was actually an "infiltrator" for the Minutemen.
The woman later denied the charge.
Next week, Wilcox will be interviewed for a similar story to appear in the New York Post.
Last summer, a reporter for Ramparts, a liberal Catholic magazine, spent nearly a week with Wilcox researching Minuteman activities in Kansas and at KU for a story that will appear in the January issue of the magazine.
Wilcox retaliated, offering Carlyle $100 if he produced one card-carrying Communist on the campus.
Because of his intimate knowledge of the Minuteman organization, Wilcox is constantly sought by newsmen.
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No one has yet claimed the reward.
But on April 27, two men identified as Minutemen pulled up in front of Wilcox's residence on New York street. According to the Free Press editor, they were attempting to harass him.
"Neither Carlyle nor anybody else has produced a Communist yet," says Wilcox.
NOT ALL NEWSMEN have been friendly to the red-haired, bearded Free Press editor, though.
Almost a year ago, Bert C. Carlyle, publisher of the Topeka Pictoral-Times, stated that less than one per cent of the KU student body were Communists.
WILCOX, a friend and Lawrence police chased the men out of town.
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Monday, November 21, 1966
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