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From: greg@harvard.UUCP (Greg)
Newsgroups: net.college
Subject: Re: Re: Turnout in Student Elections
Message-ID: <752@harvard.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 12:19:02 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  3 12:19:02 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 04:15:48 EST
References: <193@bu-cs.UUCP> <990@milano.UUCP> <12104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <497@umich.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@harvard.UUCP (Greg)
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In article <497@umich.UUCP> gt@umich.UUCP (Gus Teschke) writes:
>In <12104@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> cuccia@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU (Nick 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?

Yeah, Gus is right.  I've had it with all this democracy s*!t anyway.  We
must have a dictatorship of right-thinking people!  Everyone else is just
too apathetic...
-- 
gregregreg