University Daily Kansan Tuesday, March 31. 1964
Mouse Named Write-in Candidate For Student Body President
By Jackie Helstrom
(Assistant Managing Editor)
A new candidate has entered the race for student body president. Mickey Mouse.
Mickey Mouse has little chance of getting elected, however, since none of his votes will be counted, Charles R. King Jr., Kansas City sophomore and elections chairman, said.
WHEN ASKED what would be done with the ballots, King said. "They will be voided."
A group of 13 KU men are conducting a poster campaign for Mickey Mouse as a third candidate for the office in an effort to give students, who feel campus politics serves no useful purpose, a chance to express themselves.
"We feel that the politics at KU serves no real purpose other than the egos of the candidates and that they become defunct between elections," said J. Warren Hildrith, Leawood sophomore, who is a member of the group.
HE SAID he and his friends had felt this way for a long time, but had done nothing about it until the other day when they saw large "Vote Mickey Mouse" painted on the sidewalks.
He said the Mickey Mouse pro-
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THE POSTERS make the protest essentially like those of groups like the Civil Rights Co-ordinating Council when they picket. Hildith said
But he felt that if students would follow up this protest and back the write-in campaign, it would give the group an actual method of polling student opinion.
Hildrith said the posters they have been distributing to further the campaign are more than a protest against campus politics. Mickey Mouse supporters want students actually to
Franklyn Nelick, associate professor of English, will give the lecture at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, in Myers Hall.
motors hoped this write-in campaign would force students to think of expressing their feelings rather than which of the two candidates they would vote for in spite of a feeling that it was "mickey-mouse."
write in Mickey Mouse on their ballots.
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