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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1940)
Oregon® Emerald The Orei'on Daily Emerald, official publication of the University of Oregon, published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, holidays, and final examination periods. Subscription rates: $1.26 per term and $3.00 per year. Entered as lecond-class matter at the postoffice, Eugene, Ore. 420 Madison Ave., New York—Chicago—Boston—Los Angeles—San Francisco—Portland and Seattle. Represented for national advertising by NATIONAL ADVERTISING SERVICE, INC., college publishers’ representative. BUD JERMAIN, Editor Lyle Nelson, Managing Editor GEORGE LUOMA, Manager Jim Frost, Advertising Manager Helen Angell, News Editor George Pasero, Co-sports Editor Elbert Hawkins, Co-sports Editor UPPER NEWS STAFF Betty Jane Thompson, Chief Night Editor Jimmie Leonard, Assistant Managing Editor Hal Olney, Assistant Managing Editor Ralph Woodall, Cartoonist Marge Finnegan, Women’s Editor Ken Christianson, Assistant Sports Edited Jean Crites, Tuesday Mgr. Fred May, Wednesday Mgr. Majeanne Glover, Thursday Mgr. Betty Mae Lind, Jay Stott, Friday Mgrs UPPER BUSINESS STAFF “Stew” Hayward, Saturday Manager Mary Ellen Smith, Nat. Adv. Mgr. Lynn Johnson, Merchandising Mgr. Rhea Anderson, Special Acct’s. Mgr. Doug Parker, Classified Dept. Mgr. Kathleen Brady, Promotion Ted Kenyon, Photography Bill Ralston, Layouts If It Works It Was Worth It ‘Y'EAR after year, although student govern ment is a relatively impotent tiling and its heads constitutionally likewise, the spring always produces a more or less heated series of political campaigns, punctuated by the usual non-indicative elections and the usual party outbursts. In many of these campaigns the Emerald, the best-organized voice on the campus, has taken active and decisive part. As recently as last year this was true. This year, however, the Emerald, in the interest of deflating student politics down to their proper level, and to forestall some of the customary post-election hard feelings, went through the campaign resolved not only to relegate politics to their proper level but also to take no active part in the campaign. Both side s received equal treatment, the cold shoulder. Student politics at the University have in recent years never gotten to the point of vege table fights and“T*w;sonal contact common at other schools. The battle was undercover, and took place before election. Last year the cam paign was particularly hot, and it took a long time cooling off after the election. * # # rJ>IllS year’s score in the fight to keep out of politics is highly significant, in view of the original high resolve. There has not been nearly the amount of public mudslinging of past years, but apparently the other aspects are none too savory. The box score: 1. One freshman election—protested, on the ground that handbills stuffed by un-' authorized parties into the Emerald unduly influenced the election, the protest reserved until the elections were all counted, although the handbills came out in early morning. The Emerald accused by both sides. 2. One sophomore election — protested, also after the votes were counted, on the ground that the ballot box was stuffed, this influence arising from the failure of the name and check lists to balance against each other. Slipshod methods at the polls. Same interests in second protest. Emerald bedeviled by both sides for help. 3. The payoff: four candidates for four positions on the executive committee, a man euver which makes an election merely a mat ter of placing the order of the candidates on the committee. * * * in all, it would seem that the year has not been one to be proud of in politics. In fact it looks like a banner year for sharp practices and questionable results. The contribution of the Emerald itself re mains to be seen in the aftermath of the final election today. If the hard feelings of last year are still apparent, then the job was too big for one year to do. Already, however, gratifying results are apparent in the orderly conduct of the student body race, in the mutual respect among the leading candidates, who have optimistically indicated the war will be settled by the elec tion with no hangover. This smoother sailing will pay dividends to the ASUO in tlie long run. If it succeeds in accomplishing no morA than this little bit the Emerald has gained the only justification it needed for doing what it is ethically bound to do anyway, as long as the Emerald is the only campus newspaper, which means simply to work for equity and a square deal for everyone. Preferential Voting Made Simple—? The proportional representation system of choosing members for the executive committee is no stranger to campus voters, having been in effect since 1937, but it is nevertheless open to repeated explanation with the approach of each annual election, although the job should be simple this year with only four candidates for four spots. The elemental part of the system is the theory of choices. Nominations are for positions on the executive committee, and nothing else. But when it comes to voting, the candidate who amasses the greater number of first choices will emerge head man. Each voter will be given a ballot listing the names of all the candidates, with a blank square beside each one. In these squares the voter will place numbers indicating the order of his prefer ence for the different candidates, putting down as many choices in 1-2-3-4 order as he wishes. This simply means he is not compelled to place all four. The voting itself is simple, but the tabulation of results is anything but simple. Since 1939 every election tabulation has been pi'esided over by Ed Robbins, who, however, left his position as gradu ate assistant in economics to work at Stanford this year. Robbins will probably be missed. Tabulators sort all ballots into piles, according to first choices indicated. Then the ballots will be counted and the candidate credited with the num ber of first choices he has received. The “quota” is figured out immediately upon the closing of the polls. The quota is the least number of votes by which a candidate can be elected, and is achieved by dividing the total num ber of votes cast by a number one greater than the total number of offices to be filled and adding one to the resulting quotient. Thus if there are 1500 votes cast and there are four offices to fill, the vote will be obtained by dividing 1500 by five and adding one, giving 301. After the ballots have been sorted, if the num ber of first choices received by any candidate exceeds or is equal to the quota, he will be declared elected. Should the already-placed candidate receive votes in excess of the quota the surplus will not be wasted. From his pile a number of votes equivalent to the surplus will be drawn, and the second choice indicated on these ballots credited to the account of candidates not yet placed. If the addition of these votes to any candidate’s total raises the figure to the quota, he will be declared placed, and so on. The system, rating by first, second, third, and fourth choices, while it is extremely complicated, is about the fairest sampling of voting preference which could be devised, for first choices alone do not govern, but seconds and thirds and all the way down the line. Preferential voting is required by the ASTJO constitution, which specifies in Article III, section II, clase 2: “Candidates shall be elected in accord ance with the preferential system of election.” Ninety Students t font min'd horn fO'ii one s Charles Delzell, J. Alan Kins?, Leone LaDuke, J. Benson Mates, Clinton E. Paine, Ray Sehriek, I • » : I t i * and Margery Williams, from Portland. Walter Krause and Alice R. 'Mueller, Canby; Willard Hamble ton. Enterprise; Robin Drews, Ar min Gropp, Louise Hering, Ger ald Morville, and Nicholas Ria sanovsky, Eugene; Lila Mae Furchner, Grants Pass; Aida Brun, Klamath Falls; Emile Chan, Marshfield; Avis Klemme, Monmouth; Richard Mathiot, Os wego; Merlin Nelson, Salem, and Keith Rinehart, The Dalles, J$ehind the g BALL With JACK BRYANT Just three more weeks of spring term. Jupe is running out of rain. "The editors are running out of news, and to top it all off, somebody ran out on the law schools queen. Never being a queen, most of us wouldn’t know what to do, but leave it to Kroop nick, he got somebody else’s girl. Come to think of it, Annette Turn could have literally run out on the queen, except for the little detail that she was supposed to have turned her ankle in the afternoon. Along with everyone else, the mob has been wondering just why Matt Pavalunas has always been so happy. Now it can be told. Matt went to Raymond (not far from Clatskanie) last weekend to see his girl who has been his girl all along. Her name ? Carolyn Taylor. Jim Fisher, another Beta, went along to see how his pin looks on Betty Minkler. Alpha Chi O’s tiny, but dom inating Bi lie ChristiansoJi, has a dream boy who bought a dream car for a dreamy girl. To break up this dream, Billie promises a nightmare to the fellow who re veals her coming marriage in June. THAT’S NO DREAM! Prom Oregon’s biggest time is Junior Weekend. For the students the Prom takes the foremost position in the weekend. This year a big ger and better prom is planned with Bob Mitchell and his orches tra. A realistic Blue Danube will form the center of the decora tions. Bring your swim suits, the last one has a dirty neck. (This space has been bought by the “Better Junior Weekend” com mittee. The editors neither affirm ■- - - - - nor deny any of the statements.) The reader the editors prize more than any other is a very good friend, Bill Hayward. Just how far this friendship extends as mutual is up to Bill. Down on the track the other day he threat ened in no backward manner that if his name appeared in this col umn, to watch out, because there was nothing that he liked better than “to hear the sound of warm gurgling blood.” WELL, BILL, IT’S YOUR FUNERAL! One of the year’s bestus pin planting took place over the weekend. Johnny Leovitch hung his Phi Delt pin on Janet Gore sky. John slipped when he picked the schools to attend, (OAC) but he has lots of friends here. . . . AIRCONSCIOUS Thomas Fish burne, Delt, has his pin planted in Portland’s Martha Washington while he escapades in the DG house. TAKE YOUR PLANE, TOM. . . . Gordy Olcott got poison oak, and of all places to get it, in his room. . . . Glamor Burns, (Beverly) now sports a car, which she parks, jaywalks, and dammed near gets run over. . . . Didya notice the ad staff on the women’s edition ? There are things that even a woman can’t do. ... It looks as if we are going to get stuck on our campus lunch eon again this year. . . . While Gerry Young, Beta at Washing ton, was visiting Pat Heastand here, they had a wreck, and Pat ended up in the infirmary with a pair of black eyes. . . . P. S. Gerry left his pin. . . . MORE PINS get planted a3 Walt Wood pins Fran ces Sowell to make her a Phi (Plmsr ■■ tn page seven) Swing & Sway the Arrow Way NO STUFFED SHIRT—this! 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