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Student seeks to establish
mock democratic convention
By Brooks Dareff
Of the Emerjld
College life sometimes mirrors
reality — at least in politics.
And if the Political Science Stu
dent Union has its way. University
students will stage a mock na
tional democratic convention next
May.
If all goes according to plan,
PSSU will pack 1,200 student
delegates into McArthur Court
May 11-13, where they’ll decide on
convention rules, a party plat
form, and presidential and vice
presidential candidates.
PSSU hopes to attract some
democratic presidential can
didates to the convention, since
some should be in-state for the
Oregon primary on May 15.
"The chances of getting a Jesse
Jackson or a George McGovern
are better than a Fritz Mondale or
John Glenn," says convention
organizer Tom Birkland, a political
science senior and a PSSU
member.
If they get any of the above,
they'll have at least equalled the
convention organizers of 1980,
who netted then-candidate
George Bush's son as a speaker.
Next year's convention is the
brainchild of Birkland, who is also
a member of SUAB and the
University ACLU.
By all appearances, it will take as
political an animal as Birkland to
organize an event as massive as a
national convention — even a
mock one.
“If the framework planning isn't
done by the end of the quarter,”
he says "It probably won't fly."
That planning includes setting
up a delegation chair course for
the Winter quarter, securing Mac
Court and, since PSSU didn't in
clude the convention in their
budget for this school year, fun
ding the whole shebang.
The course — still not approved
— will be taught by both profes
sional campaign managers and
University professors from
disciplines such as political
science and journalism.
Worth three credits, the course
will be open to approximately 65
people who will lead 1,200
delegates representing the 50
states, Latin America, Puerto Rico,
Guam and Americans abroad. The
larger states will have co-chairs,
Birkland says. PSSU is soliciting
participants from a variety of
disciplines and will start conduc
ting a kind of pre-registration for
the course Thursday in the EMU
lobby.
PSSU hopes to have the “up
wards of $1,000“ rental fee for us
ing Mac Court waived, and
Birkland is disappointed that he
has had no indications that it will
be. "We don't think they should
derive a profit from a student
event," he says.
Funding for the convention will
come from private donations, a
delegate fee for the 16-page
booklet, booklet advertising and a
booth fee to real campaigns who
Birkland anticipates will try to
recruit the mock delegates.
"People take these things very
seriously," he says.
"In 1980 some supporters for
various candidates were offering
to take people out for beers at
Taylor's."
Participants in the convention
will receive one credit. For more
information call the PSSU at
686-4890.
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sure they want to get invoved."
After Higgins talks with applicants, she sends re
quests for letters of reference and when those come
back, the matching process begins.
Higgins chooses four children she thinks would
be compatible for each student. From then on the
selection is all in the hands of the big brother or
sister, who observe the children and read teacher
evaluations about them.
The process, which takes about three weeks,
guarantees that each applicant is sincere about ac
quiring a little sister or brother. Students must com
mit themselves for at least three terms and plan on
spending at least three hours a week with their littles.
Big brothers needn't be matched up with little
brothers, though. Because there is a shortage of big
brothers and a surplus of big sisters, little brothers
may get big sisters, Higgins says. “For every big
brother we can get four little brothers, and for every
little sister we can get four big sisters."
The program's success is difficult to measure,
Higgins and Givi say. “You can never really tell how a
child has been affected, until years later when he's
able to assess it for himself," Higgins says.
“I guess I measure the success by the number of
times a child will walk into my office, beaming with
joy, and tell me all about a day spent with his or her
big brother or sister, " Givi says.
But perhaps the best way to measure success,
Higgins says, is "little" by "little."
For more information, call Higgins at 686-4432.
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