Apathy
to ecstasy
By William Kogut
01th» EimmU
For University students, Primary ’82 emotions
ranged from apathy to ecstasy.
"A pretty dismal sight.” That’s how Mabel
Palmer, one of the five election clerks on duty at the
campus polling place, Eugene Precinct 213,
described a row of empty voting booths Tuesday
afternoon.
The tennis courts were resounding with slams
and serves, eating tables in the EMU were alive with
conversation, but the campus precinct, adjacent to
the post office, was dead.
Only 49 students had cast ballots by 3:30 pm.
One clerk was slumped over, taking a rest. Others
discussed recipes.
“Do you put nuts in your banana bread?” asked
one clerk.
In the 1980 Presidential primary, more than 700
students voted, said clerk Belle Kraal, adding that
students forget they must re-register whenever they
move.
“They have to re-register even if they just move
across the hall,” she said.
Told she would have to travel over to Harris Hall
to re-register and then return to campus in order to
cast her ballot, a student gave up in dismay
"I can’t do that,” she said as she stalked away
from Precinct 213.
“That’s the way it always is,” claimed another
student voter, Ted Kapnick, who is also Democratic
Precinct Committeeperson.’The main problem is
that the student population is so transient. Most of
them will be gone in a year or two years They don’t
care.”
“If the students don’t care they will deserve what
Photo by Bob Bokor
Campus pollsters had little to do as only 49 students had voted by 3:30 p.m. In the 1980 elections, 700
students turned out to vote during the primaries.
they get. and I will laugh, said Alan Contreras,
campus campaign coordinator for City Council
candidate Susan Sowards
Contreras, also an ASUO vice president, was
speaking at 10 p.m. in Sowards' election night
headquarters, Old Town Pizza. Tables were covered
with drained beer glasses and computer printouts
that showed Sowards far behind her opponent, Dick
Hansen.
Contreras estimated student turnout at 10
percent In the 1978 off-year election student turnout
was 35 percent, he said
Yet, all was not apathy or disappointment for
students this primary Law student Mary Oberst saw
her tireless efforts pay off
At 6:45 a m Oberst was out on the corner of
30th and Hilyard sporting a Kulongoski billboard
"I was Betty Billboard," Oberst joked at
Kulongoski s victory ceieDration in tne Hiaywrignts
Rooms of the Hilton ‘Women in Volkswagens were
very receptive (to the billboard.) Men in large cars
were not.”
At midday, Oberst changed roles to "Wanda
Walker," helping Kulongoski work the 5th Street
Market Later she was "Fannie Phoner,” helping to
get out the vote
"Now I'm Pauline Party," she said in the Hilton,
where candles lit 18 round tables, two big screen
televisions flashed results which triggered applause
that drowned out a three-piece band
When Kulongoski delivered his midnight
acceptance speech, his supporters strained forward
and filled the rooms with their cheers The scene was
a stark contrast to the memory of empty precinct 213
And Oberst, applauding Kulongoski. became her
final character for the day — Vicky Victory
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