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From: lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.college
Subject: Re: The Monarchists Have Won!
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Date: Tue, 26-Nov-85 00:15:40 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 26 00:15:40 1985
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I remember the Monarchist Party from when I was a weedhopper at the U. of
Maryland.  They ran the only minority candidate during (I believe) my
junior year.  At the presidential debates people kept asking him
why he dressed like a viking warlord when he was, in fact, black.
Something about historical accuracy... I believe he had some story about
black Irishmen or something...

The Monarchist party really only had one serious plank
and that was a system whereby the student activities fees would partly be
distributed on the basis of number people who checked-off on a form
which clubs and organizations that they thought should get their money.
(The Monarchists called this the "Chekhov System" but its the same thing.)
Thus each check mark that a person puts down is worth a certain amount
of money.  The system was partially tried one year.  The forms were given
out and collected but the Student Gov. decided not to give out any money.
Never the less, the results of the tally were interesting.  Most clubs
didn't even have a tiny fraction of the 30K students as their members but
many people checked-off clubs that they weren't members of.  For
example, the Science Fiction Club was in line to get their budget
quadrupled by this procedure.  Presumably, all the SF reader gave them
a check.  A bad part of this whole procedure was that some clubs
started advertising for votes.  The Comic Book Club was particularly
bad.



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