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Editorial Opinion
Replacing Vote Docking
Evelyi,ody c , ,rLf#iaols about vote docking, but nobody
does anything af)out 0..---mainly because no better system
teems to have been prty•usif..!d.
To see why it's no good, perhaps we should take a look
at just what is to be accomplished. There are certain rules
governing campus elections which are defined by the
All-University Cabinet Elections Code. The Elections
Committee, besides formulating these rules, has the re
sponsibility of enforcing them. To accomplish this execu
tive chore, the Elections Committee must have a set of
sanctions it can apply in case of a breach of the rules.
The basic sanction available now—and which has been
In use for years—is vote docking. Under this system. a
candidate for office found guilty of breaking the Elections
Code is docked a prescribed number of votes. If no one
candidate in the party ticket can be proven guilty, then
all the candidates can be docked.
In the very nature of the system rest its two faults
The first of these faults is its dowbtful effectiveness.
Vote docking is always done before the vote is counted;
consequently, there is no way of knowing if a reduction
of a number of votes will actually penalize a candidate or
candidates. A decision of Elections Committee may dock
25, 50, 100 or any number of votes, whereas a candidate
may have won by 26, 51 or 101, and thus would not be
penalized at all.
Its other fault, of course. is, that by docking votes Elec
tions Committee is denying the right to vote to a number
of students equal to the number of votes docked.
We suggest for consideration an alternative sanction—
one which will be both more effective and more just—
and ask for the demise of vote docking.
A set of sanctions exists now for breaches of other rules.
These sanctions are recommended by the judicial groups
on campus and applied by the dean of men or women.
They range from simple office probation to expulsion, and
they are used in such instances as drinking in the dorm
itary, destructive action and cheating.
Is cheating fellow students in an election less of a crime
than cheating fellow students in an examination? We think
not.
We suggest, then, that these same sanctions be used to
enforce the Elections Code, and in much the same way as
they are applied now—through a judicial body.
Who should try elections cases and apply the sanctions
then? Probably not the existing judicial groups, since
the problem of jurisdiction is a tough one, and they can
not be expected to know the Elections Code well enough.
One answer would be that Cabinet appoint a special
judicial committee to handle elections cases. This, how
ever, would end up as a do-nothing committee because of
the infrequency of such cases.
Two possibilities are left: Elections Committee and that
dormant concept. Supreme Court.
For Elections Committee to act in a judicial capacity
goes against the philosophy of separation of powers, since
in setting up the Code the committee acts in a legislative
capacity
As for Supreme Court, who knows if the judicial in
vestigating committee appointed by All-University Presi
dent Robert Steele will ever get around to that problem?
Of all the possibilities mentioned, Elections Committee
seems to present the least objection. but maybe a better
group could be decided upon.
We believe this suggested plan to be far more fair and
effective than vote docking arid hope that Elections Com
mittee and Cabinet will give it thorough consideration
and studs.
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Mideast Policy
Must Consider
Nasser's Plan
By WILLIAM L• RYAN
AP Foreign News Analyst
Federation of Iraq and Jordan
probably means that eventually
—and possibly before too long—
Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt
will be the master of 40 million
Arabs in the Middle East.
American policy, if it is to get
anywhere at all in the area, must
soon make up its mind to live
with this probability and plan
for it.
Nasser is well aware of the po
tentialities in the current situa
tion- His undisputed mastery over
Syria, Iraq, Jordan, Yeman and
Egypt depends upon the with
drawal of Iraq from the Baghdad
Pact, and that seems to be in the
cards. If and when Iraq withdraws
from the American-supported al
liance, a full reconciliation be
tween Iraq and Egypt can only
be a matter of lime.
The fewer of Middle East Arab
nationalism forced in a brief pe
riod of a few weeks events which
many had said would take years
to develop. There are two federa
tions in the Arab East now.
One is the Iraqi-Jordan merger
which, though a loose federation,
tends to appease the nationalist
appetite for Arab brotherhood.
The other aims at being a firm
union under a single government
—the United Arab Republic of
Egypt and Syria. The latter forced
the former into being in rapid
time.
But the Iraqi-Jordan federation
will be plunged into chaos unless
it offers additional appeasement
to the nationalist appetite. The
nationalists far- outnumber their
opponents in the Arab East.
Arab nationalism is expeded to
push more and more toward Nas.
ser's embrace.
This is not necessarily bad.
There are some hopeful aspects
to it. For one thing, there is hope
that some Arab stability will re
sult. In the turbulent Middle East,
that would be all to the good.
If American policy attempts to
counter and fight this nationalism
now, it will generate more explo
sions in the Arab East.
There is nothing inherently bad
in Arab nationalism. It is a force.
at any rate, which cannot be
stopped• The best American pol
icy can hope for is that it will
channel itself into constructive
paths.
The United States could assist
such a process. It could make a
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Little Man on Campus by Dick Bibler
"rid like some of you to think of this term paper due
Friday as a 'Do-it-Yourself project."
Washington Beat
Schwartz Keeps
Reporters Busy
By Arthur Edson
WASHINGTON ,Feb. 14 (?P)—This sort of thing could
go on forever.
After an inquisitor has been asking a lot of questions,
fire him and toss him into the witness chair.
That's what happened in Congress yesterday, only as
usual it wasn't that easy.
Bernard Schwartz, fired Mon
day as chief counsel for the
House Legislative Oversight
subcommittee, was hauled back
to testify before his former
employers. Committee mem
bers wanted to know what he
knew about an alleged payoff
involving the Federal Com
munications Commission.
Well, it looks simple enough.
You know the room number,
Jack. Drop around and let's
have the lowdown. But that's
not the way things work out in
Washington.
Schwartz was served with a
subpeona, asking him to appear
at the committee hearing room,
on the third floor of the new
House office building. But in
terest increased so much that
the hearing was switched to
the much larger Ways and
Means Committee room, on the
main floor.
So Schwartz had been or
dered to show up at a room
where the hearing would not
be held. What to do? Cool
heads reached a decision. Let
the committee meet briefly up
stairs, and then move the whole
show to the main arena.
Reporters scurried upstairs
to the nonhearing hearing
room. No congressmen. tio
Schwartz.
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sleep?" Schwartz: "Better than
I've been getting."
Chairman Oren Harris, Dem
ocrat of El Dorado, Ark., came
by and settled the whole knot
ty problem. "We're meeting
downstairs, boys," he said.
Harris got an unexpected
laugh right at the start. He
asked Schwartz to swear that
the truth he was about to tell
was the whole truth, etc. Real
izing his error, Harris had an
other go at it. "Do you swear
that the evidence," etc. It didn't
matter, though. Schwartz said
yes to both.
Now we came to the files.
Schwartz said he had some
committee files at home, work
ing on them. When he was
booted out, he toted the files--
packed in a suitcase and a cou- ple of paper boxes —to Sen.
Wayne Morse (D.-Ore.) for
safekeeping.
Morse now has returned the
files, but presumably has had
a peek at them.
"He would have had to work
hard and fast and long," Harris
said, "to have, gone over all
those files."
"I believe," Schwartz said,
"that he's known as a diligent
senator."
Certainly Morse would have
had to work faster than the
committee. For although the
files theoretically are loaded
with goodies, the committee
first had to identify each by
number.
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