POLITICAL PAST-III
Vox, UP Evolve
By Irvana Keagy
The new "rebel" party, Allied Greeks and Independents (AGI) offered both organized and unorganized living groups an escape from the Pachacamac machine.
Greek Pachacamac supporters soon became defused into AGI alliances and in the mid 50's Pachacamac was driven underground.
AGI WAS NOT to remain long without opposition. In 1956 the enterprising fraternities and sororites on the west side of the campus formed a short lived Party of Greek Organizations (POGO).
Politics had evolved into a battle between Greek houses to the east of campus on Tennessee and Louisiana streets and the Greek
Both parties had independent supporters, but AGI carried the majority of the independent vote. POGO left the scene without ever tasting victory.
houses to the west on Emery and Oxford roads.
In the 1957 election, the first separate student body president was elected. Prior to that, the student body president also served as chairman of the All Student Council. The chairman of the council became an appointed duty.
Robert Billings, present director of Aids and Awards, ran on the AGI ticket, and was elected. The next year, POGO mustered its forces and changed its name to Vox Populi. The revamped party with its Latin name, "Voice
of the People," slowly gained support.
The spring elections of 1958 looked like a pushover for the AGI party. Vox failed to find a presidential candidate by registration deadline. A few days before election an industrious junior, John Downing, chose a freshman girl as a running mate and counterbalanced AGI as a write-in candidate.
AGI ACCUSED Vox of secretly supporting Downing, and was somewhat annoyed but not worried. They were arrogantly certain of victory.
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Downing won the election, Later he turned his support to Vox Populi. His victory and allegiance with Vox squashed the overconfident AGI party, and sent Vox on a winning trend that would not be broken until 1964.
Nature's hazards are coming under attack from the Lawrence Soroptimist Club.
The civic organization presented a pilot study to the Lawrence Traffic Commission Monday pointing out nearly 60 blind intersections caused by bushes, trees, and mounds of earth.
"CARS PARKED NEAR KU can also create blind spots," said Mrs. Edwin O. Stene, chairman of the project. She said that two of the worst danger spots are located at the two intersections of Louisiana Street and Edgehill Drive, south of the chancellor's back driveway, and at 16th and Louisiana. With 22 intersections obstructed by bushes and 22 landslope problems, the eight intersections blocked by cars should be easiest to correct if drivers will obey the signs.
Another common blind spot results when a property owner plants bushes or trees near the edge of his property. An example of this is just off campus, where a bush and fire hydrant block the view as one drives east on University Drive and turns onto West Campus Road. This intersection has been the site for at least two accidents in the last three weeks.
Additional blind corners are plentiful in the older parts of the city east of the campus where there are problems of sloping topography, parking too close to curbs, and overgrown bushes and trees.
"THE SOROPTIMISTS consider this a continuing project and will work until we get the situation corrected," said Mrs. Stene.
Each intersection will be considered at the Traffic Commission meeting, March 7, according to Virgil Holdridge, city engineer and liaison to the commission. Work will then begin on painting curbs and other corrective measures, weather permitting, he said.
AGI screamed for a review of polling practices and accused the Daily Kansan of unfair coverage. But all the noise they made went unheard and AGI died a loud, obnoxious death.
IN 1960 University Party (UP) organized and won the majority of Council seats in the fall elections. UP was still the underdog and did not see victory again until spring of 1964. Bob Stewart, a Vancouver, B.C., Canada, junior, was elected president of the student body.
Except for the fall of 1960, Vox dominated KU politics. In the spring of 1960 the unopposed Vox candidates won every seat on the All Student Council.
UP could not wait for an official announcement of the election returns, and as soon as Stewart's victory was certain, about 3 a.m., they staged a honking motorcade which wound through the living districts of KU.
UP'S VICTORY did not repeat itself in the 1965 elections. Vox's Leo Schrey and Bill Robinson coalition took the majority of votes.
In the 1965 fall election, UP held its own against Vox Populi, which indicates that the University Party will not die an easy death. It doesn't give up. Neither, time has shown, does Vox.
Daily Kansan Thursday, February 10, 1966
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