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Campaigning might be hazardous . . .
Dennis Bosley, Dighton senior, has found being $13\frac{1}{2}$ feet in the air a novel method for campaigning for the campus elections. "The campaign has turned into a circus, anyway," Bosley said. Bosley learned to walk on stilts five years ago and describes the sport as "real good exercise."
Number of grass fires becomes local problem
Grass fires in Lawrence are becoming a serious problem for the city's fire department.
Fritz Sanders, the city's fire chief, said there had been a good number of grass fires reported in the past few weeks, and the conditions for a fire to get out of hand were good.
"We'd just as soon they didn't burn, but if they have to burn,
people should stay there and watch the fire until the last flame is out," said Sanders.
The grass is very dry right now and if the wind is extremely strong, these two conditions are capable of turning a harmless grass fire into a house fire.
KU had 788 foreign students from 86 nations in its spring semester enrollment of 17,800 according to a KU News Bureau release.
When the student election ballots are finally collected Wednesday night, a small group of people at the Computation Center in Summerfield Hall will begin feeding the ballots to a computerized sorter. After the ballots are counted, the sorter will reveal the victors of this spring's elections.
India led in the number of students with 97, followed by Nationalist China with 72, Iran with 70, Thailand with 54, Venezuela with 45, Hong Kong and the Philippines with 29, Korea with 28, Japan with 26 and Colombia and Germany with 19.
KU students represent 86 countries
Mrs. Nancy Dale, production control manager of the computation center said, "Once the ballots are collected and brought to our office, we will run the ballots through a 'mark-sense' device which detects the marks of the sensitized voting pencils. The machine then punches the ballots where voters have so indicated and the ballots are then placed into the sorter and counted."
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Canada had 18 students attending KU, Peru and Saudi Arabia had 15, Libya had 14, Mexico had 13, Great Britain, Israel, Nigeria and Turkey had 10, and 65 other nations had nine or fewer.
Student election results to be figured by computer
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Computerized counting of ballots is not new to the University of Kansas political system. According to Mrs. Dale, the sorter system was first used in October, 1963.
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"When it was first set up," she said, "the election committee used a different method of counting. The computer program would count the votes itself and a report was attached that evaluated the program."
Fink award nominees due
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Nominations for four outstanding teacher awards, the H. Bernard Fink award and three others provided by the Standard Oil of Indiana Foundation, are due April I in the Office of the Dean of Faculties. Each award carries a stipend of $1,000.
Nominations can be made by any student, faculty member, school or department by submitting a letter of nomination to the Dean of Faculties. Winners of the awards will be announced during commencement weekend.
Late Wednesday night after the ballots are taken to the center ballots from the dean cards will be separated, Mrs. Dale said. The dean cards are a safeguard device to assure counters the voter is a student.
"The ballots are then separated by ballot number," she said, "and taken in numerical sequence. They are then put into the mark-sensing device, one at a time."
While that is being done, Mrs. Dale said others sort the dean cards and stack them by student numbers.
"This is done as a double-check," she said, "in case a student should try to vote twice."
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