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From: gt@umich.UUCP (Gus Teschke)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Re: Turnout in Student Elections
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 11:15:31 EST
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In <12104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>  cuccia@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Nick "Coosh" Cuccia)
writes:

>One proposal that often comes up in senate here is to put ballot boxes
>in each of the dorm units, a proposal that routinely gets stomped on
>by the "progressive" majority of the senate; in fact, the last time it
>came up, one of the SSC (Student Solidarity Coalition, the old "far left"
>political party, now known as Cal-SERVE) said that "Dorm students are 
>not progressive enough".

>Me thinks that SSC/Cal-SERVE is a little scared of more students voting..

Scared of what?  Of unintentionally tapping the great apathetic student
id, that with a sudden explosion of righteous fire sweeps away all
these schemeing leftists and their superfluous drivel about human
rights and Central American and South Africa, and installs a great and
good student government that gets back to the REAL issues of when to
hold the prom and should the yearbook be in color or black and white?
And where do we post the minutes?

(ahem)  Have you ever considered how hard it is to get students to run polls
when they aren't being paid, when very little is at stake, and when
running a poll is incredibly dull?  Remember, the people running for
office can't run the polls; that's a conflict of interest.  And if the
pollers are being paid, who can afford to put a polling station in
every dorm?  Every building would be fairer to the students living
off-campus.

What a image:  student government receives X dollars from the student
body to spend on holding elections so that it can form a new government
that will receive more money to hold subsequent elections to form a new
government....
	
						Gus Teschke
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