Asian Bloc Dominates International Club Ballot
In the last seven semesters, the presidency of the International Club has been captured only once by a student from Europe or America ... and this semester is no exception.
However, this year there is one minor complication.
AGAIN IN TOMORROW'S election, the candidates from the Asian countries will dominate the club's ballot even though their bloc makes up only one-third of the organization's 400 members. The rest of the
Students Riot; Police Intervene
Two Asian students are competing for the office of president.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — (UPI) Demonstrations involving an estimated 3,500 students brought out police reinforcements early today at three universities in New England.
The most serious disturbance was at the Brown University campus here where 100 police wearing riot helmets and wielding nightsticks used police dogs to herd students back to dormitories after pany raids and a noisy march through the city.
The other disturbances involved 1,500 students at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., and 1,000 undergraduates at Yale University in New Haven, Conn. A police lieutenant called the uprising a riot.
The Brown demonstration lasted more than five hours, during which police reported several fist fights and broken auto windshields from students hurling rocks, beer cans and bottles.
At Yale, the Elis students started their demonstration on the campus and marched on Helen Hadley Hall, a residence for graduate women students.
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The Yaleys, chanting "we want sex," were greeted with several articles of lingerie, but they did not enter the dormitory.
Altogether eight students representing four countries have entered in the running for tomorrow's elections. They are as follows:
members are from Europe and America.
Rab Nawzat Malik, Karachi, Pakistan graduate student and Engin Artemel, Istanbul, Turkey, senior president; Milan Louapal, Protecovac, Czechoslovakia, graduate student; Ali Hassan, Hyderabad, India, freshman and Breon Mitchell, Salina junior, vice-president; Janice Peavley, Wichita freshman and Kay Consolver, Wichita junior, secretary; Nelda Hill, Houston, Texas, sophomore, social chairman; and Ramesh Gandhi, Bombay, India, junior, treasurer.
Commenting on the Asian domination in the election, Ernst Hilgert, graduate student from Simmerm, Germany, said "I have noticed that Europeans and Americans don't have as much interest as Asians and Africans to run for an office in the International Club, otherwise. I believe they would have an equal chance in the election."
A GRADUATE STUDENT from Plymouth, England, David Griffiths, said he didn't think the election is based on a bloc basis, but is based on individual qualifications and merits.
IAN MACDONALD, Johannesburg, South Africa, graduate student, agreed. "The members should look at what the candidate has done for the club and whether he is qualified for the office or not," he said.
Some members, though, pointed to group similarities as an explanation for the Asian domination.
Abdul Barek, Kabul, Afghanistan. junior, said there is a tendency toward nationalistic feeling.
University Daily Kansan
A SENIOR FROM Ashanti, Ghana,
Augustine Kyei, said, "the past
experience in presidency shows there
is a tendency toward bloe voting."
"This is not a democratic process of elections," Kovit Yeam-OT, Thailand graduate student, said, however. "The electorate doesn't elect the capable man — he elects the bloc, not the man." he said.
The outgoing president of the International Club, Sami Afify of Egypt, said club members from both Europe and America approached him last semester and asked him to run for the presidency. He said he in turn asked several Europeans to run in the elections for next semester, but there was no response or interest.
"If there is any nationalistic feeling," Affy said, "there wouldn't be two candidates from the same bloc running against each other."
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