President speaks out
New party is not realistic
By ERIC MORGENTHALER UDK Editorial Editor
Student Body President Al Martin, Shawnee Mission junior, said last night that the Kansas University Progressive Alliance (KUPA) is not approaching campus political problems in a realistic manner.
"THE WHOLE premise they are working on," he said, "is that the two political parties cannot work together; but Vox's Jim Prager and I have been working together for a week and a half trying to solve the same problems they were trying to solve tonight."
"I concur wholeheartedly with the goals of this group," Martin said. "But I don't believe they are taking the right approach to the problem.
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Martin said he and Prager, Fullerton, Calif., senior and chairman of the All Student Council (ASC), have outlined changes in the university's election system and have been testing their ideas on various students, administrators and campus groups.
(Martin is a member of University Party.)
AMONG THE IDEs Martin said he and Prager have been working with are elimination of the Hare system of preferential balloting for campus elections, redistricting of ASC living group seats, imposing tighter financial controls on campaign spending and elimination of some class officers.
ASC fills nine seats
In an organizational meeting last night, nine representatives were appointed to fill vacancies on the All Student Council (ASC).
"This idea might be good for a while," he said. "But when its founders leave, I can't see how it will turn into anything but just another political party.
"If we all realize the problems of student government," Martin said, "Then we should start where we are and build—not seek simple solutions.
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political parties to campaign excessively should be cured by constitutional amendments, guaranteeing the type of government the students of KU deserve. A new political party to cure the evils of political parties does not make a great deal of sense," he said.
MARTIN SAID he doubts that the founding ideals of KUPA will be carried on after the new party's founders are gone.
Vox Populi appointed five persons: fraternities—Doug Irmen, Shawnee Mission sophomore, replaces Doug Stoddard; men's large halls—Phil Fredrichs, Mission junior, replaces Dave Grim; women's large halls—Jeanie Blair, Overland Park sophomore, replaces Mary Dunlap; men's small halls—Chuck Loveland, Riley sophomore, and Grey Gleason, Wichita sophomore, replace Jim Prager and Jim Klumpp.
"The council as it is can work together—we're proving that now," Martin said. "There are a lot of creative and intelligent people on the ASC. We can and should use the present council framework for solving our problems."
THE UNIVERSITY Party appointed: women's large halls—Susie Moorhead, Atchison junior, replaces Jan Gates, and Barb Renz, River Forest, Ill., junior, replaces Sandy Molina; men's large halls—Tom McCrackin, Kirkwood, Mo., senior, replaces Gene Johannesen, and unmarried-unorganized—Bill Radford, Kansas City, Kan., senior, replaces Bill Reese.
Kay Orth, El Dorado senior, introduced an amendment to the constitution concerned with the redistricting of the council seats.
Robert Billings, Director of Aids and Awards, and Bob Stewart, Vancouver, British Columbia, graduate student, were introduced as the new advisors to the ASC.
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A SPECIAL MEETING was called for 7 p.m., Oct. 4, to take action on the amendment.
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"I accepted the opportunity, realizing the critical nature and timing of it. My hope and the hope of the entire alliance is that you, too, will look into our purposes and programs, think positively about the role of student government and support the Alliance in its drive for significance in student government at KU."
"THIS SEMESTER, however, things changed quite a bit. A group called the Kansas University Progressive Alliance asked me to work with them as president.
"Every so often a person is presented with the rare opportunity to do something really significant, and significance in student government, is, indeed, rare. That opportunity was presented to me, as it is to the ASC and to you the voting public at large.
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