R/V(3E FOUR
University Employs
Two-Party System
All-University and class officers at the University are chosen by students in their
classes from candidates selected by the two campus political parties.
Early in the semester the State and Lion Parties begin organizing for the fall semester
campaign when freshman and sophomore class officers are elected. Three clique meet
ings are held where students interested in joining the parties may attend.
At the first clique meeting,!
clique officers elected last spring
are introduced, and the party’s
plans for the coming elections are
discussed.
Students are given the oppor
tunity to indicate a desire to work
on one of the many committees
that are an integral part of ah
election campaign. While such
committees as the platform com
mittee are limited in size, other
committees need many students
to post posters and distribute cop
ies of the party platform once
campaigning officially begins.
Week-long Campaigns
The length of the campaigns
is limited—usually to the week
before election—by the All-Uni
versity elections committee, a
group nominated by the All-Uni
versity president with the ap
proval of All-University Cabinet.
Banners, campaign talks in
dormitories and fraternities, pos
ters, door-to-door visits by candi
dates, all are a part of the cam
paign that comes to the Univer
sity each semester.
While the committees are busy
at their behind-the-scenes work,
the candidates are busy too. Can
didates are selected by a majority
vote at the final clique meeting.
They then begin their tours of
fraternities, dining halls, and
dormitories at noon, supper and
during the evening. Candidates
are instrumental in the adoption
of the party’s platform—the writ
tea program of the party it wishes
to see adopted if its candidates
ase elected to office.
Other Campaigning
While the candidates are busy
meeting the electors, other party
personnel are downtown placing
posters in store windows, distrib
uting campaign literature, and
aiding the candidates in every
possible way.
When election day dawns, ac
tive campaigning comes to a halt,
ha the fall, elections are limited
to one day, but in the spring,
elections for All-University, sen
ior, and junior class officers, and
Athletic Association officers, take
two days.
With the end of the election
campaign, political interest slack-
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ens until the next election time
draws near. However, the princi
pal party officers, the clique
chairman—the nominal head of
the party organization—and the
class clique chairmen, chief as
sistants to the clique chairmen,
are busy laying a foundation for
the next campaign.
Committee Oversees Campaign
The elections committee is also
busy. This committee, whose duty
it is to see that campaigns are
conducted on a high plane, studies
the rules governing the campaign,
and makes recommendations to
All-Universty Cabinet for im
provement of the campaign.
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The committee also sees that
it has enough members to man
the polls at election time. Ernest
Famous, seventh semester pre
law major, is chairman of the
committee this year.
At the past two student en
campments at Mont Alto, recom
mendations have been made for
more effective work by the elec
tions committee In the political
campaigns. Among these recom
mendations has been a decentral
ized voting procedure whereby
students may vote in Waring
Hall, Old Main, the Temporary
Union Building, or in the Nittany
dormitory area.
Confession
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Ray beat her with the pistol until
she fell to the ground. He found
the letter and then fled to Dallas,
Tex., with $3OO given to- him by
the. head of .the dope ring.
Tale Is Fiction
But yesterday, Ray admitted
that all the characters in his tale
were fictitious.
“I just hope people will try as
hard to clear me of the Cordell
case, because I know less about it
than I do about the! Pennsylvania
case,” Ray said.
Ray’s “confession” was not the
first one in 'the case. According
to Centre County District Attor
ney John R. Miller three or four
others had confessed to the kill
ing. For this reason, officials
adopted a “wait and see” attitude
to the news of the confession'.
Neither Miller nor --borough
Chief of Police John R. • Juba
could be reached for comment
yesterday.
FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 17. 1954
Customs—
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and the recreation rooms of A
Level McKee and Hamilton halls
between 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. on Fri
days, 2 p.m. and 1 a.m. Saturdays,
and 2 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. Sundays.
The dating code applies only to
weekends.
First and second semester wo
men will be allowed to attend reg
istered and chaperoned fraternity
events. Dating in the West 'Dorm
lounges must also be chaperoned.
Violations of customs will be
tried by Freshman Customs Boaird.
Violations must be reported by
upperclassmen in the form of a
written and signed charge.
Bankers Attend School
More than 250 bankers attended
the summer. school sponsored at
the University by the Pennsyl
vania Bankers Association. The
program, conducted by faculty
members', and ' guest speakers,
opened Aug. 22 and continued
through Aug. 27.
Bldg.
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