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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)
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