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THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, APR. 13, 1976
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Candidate loses, students win
Editor:
Many people have said I would
have won vice-president of student
services if I had used signs and post
ers. This may or may not be the case
but I feel an explanation is necessaiy
to clear up why I did not use them.
First, I did not feel that polluting
the campus any further than neces
sary was warranted. Also, signs talk
at you and don’t get yoyr views. Last
and most important, I was out to
prove you could run for an executive
office without spending money.
I ran with the idea of listening to
students and serving them in any
way I could. I campaigned by talking
with students so that I could bring
out their views. I feel it was not I who
lost, but the students who won.
Greg Ball
Ball received 2,096 votes in last
week’s Student Government elec
tions. Incumbent Troie Pruitt won
with 2,598 votes.
Editor
Did majority
want revision?
Editor:
Your editorial in the Battalion,
April 6, 1976, with the accompany
ing ballot really struck home. My
experience on Saturday morning was
one that I hate to admit but I simply
did not see the proposition on the
ballot. It was after I voted on the
school board and bond issue when I
wondered where the referendum
was. I went back to an empty city
voting booth to flip the page and find
that I had overlooked the referen
dum. I was too embarrassed to say
anything to the election judges. My
ballot was already in the box, thus,
the damage beyond repair so I
quietly walked out thinking, “You’re
sure stupid to do something like that
but mayme the issue will fail and it
won’t really matter anyway.”
Now, the justification for this ac
tion —
If it had been only a city election, I
might have been more conscious of
needing to vote on the referendum.
As it was, I voted on the candidates
and was intrigued by the idea of
going to another election booth in
the same room. The ballot should
have had an instruction on the bot
tom for us “thick-headed Dutch
men.” If it said, “You’re not through
yet” or “Be sure to turn the page or
even “More” at the bottom of the
candidate page, I probably would
have read it and completed my task.
Here is one salvation for the day.
After reading the ballot again, I may
have voted wrong if I had cast my
vote. It sure would have been easy to
misread the ballot. When I’m in the
voting booth and using the punch
card, I’m so conscious of possible
error that my thinking is somewhat
blurred. Any wording that could be
misinterpreted probably will be
under such conditions.
Review bores
Editor:
I am extremely disappointed with
John Vanore’s article “Good Kottke
Bores” (Battalion, Apr. 7). I person
ally feel Kottke’s performance was
tremendous and anything but “re
petition ad nauseum.”
Of course Kottke’s flowing
rhythms sound different than rock’
n’rollers Hendrix, Clapton and Gal
lagher, who are masters of their own
particular style. About the only simi
larity to their form and Kottke’s own
distinct sound is that they all require
quick fingers and a thorough blend of
artist and instrument.
And tell your moron reporter, Va-
nore, that Kottke doesn’t need a
back-up — because he is a band in
himself.
Brian J. Bauml
PEANUTS?] HECK No!...DELEGATES."
Che Battalion
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April cruel for candidates
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If a ward system is deemed neces
sary, I would prefer a 3-3 system or
some other combination and would
have voted against the proposition if
I had seen it on the ballot.
David C. Ruesink
On the day after the Wisconsin
and New York primaries, the press
contingents covering the three sur
viving Democratic presidential can
didates limped, bedraggled and
weary as the contenders themselves,
into Philadelphia. The evening bill
of fare offered nothing more reviving
than the spectacle of Daniel Patrick
Moyniham introducing Henry M.
Jackson to the kickoff dinner of the
Pennsylvania primary campaign.
Moynihan is a man whose imagi
nation knows no bounds. Early on,
he surveyed on audience dotted with
Mayor Frank Rizzo’s pals and the girl
friends of certain powerful labor
leaders and said, “Some of you may
have read the recent issue of the
New Republic and noticed the arti
cle by my colleague, Adam
Ulam . . . .”
The same second sight that dis
cerned a set of New Republic
readers in that roomful of beer dis
tributors and broads allowed
Moynihan to describe his candidate
as “the one man standing alive,
strong and winning” after the ordeals
of New York and Wisconsin.
When Jackson stood up, however,
it was clear that he was as battered as
everyone else by the ravages of the
first week in April, which lost no
time in proving its claim to being the
crudest month. His face was as wan
as those of the watching reporters,
most of whom had been up all night
the night before, trying to correct
their stories on the Wisconsin re
sults.
Poor Morris Udall had been the
main victim of the voters caprice
and the network computers, suffer
ing the agony of losing a race he had
confidently claimed to have won on
what seemed to be good evidence.
But if Udall was the most obvious
target of April cruelty, his fate was
only marginally worse than that of
the supposed victors — Jackson and
Jimmy Carter. The real lesson of
New York and Wisconsin, for win
ners and losers alike, is that there
will be no easy path to the nomina
tion, and any prize that may await
them will be hard-won.
For Carter, the narrow, near-
miraculous victory over Udall in
Wisconsin had to be balanced
against the third-place finish in New
York and the disappointing results of
the Virginia caucuses, which were
held three days earlier. Carter has
now finished last among the remain
ing active candidates in two of the
three industrial states in which he
has competed. He was fourth in
Massachusetts and third in New
York, achieving his only victory in
Illinois, where George Wallace was
the only campaigning opponent.
The pressure now grows for him to
demonstrate his vote-getting ability
in those states like Pennsylvania,
Michigan and California where
Democrats must win a presidential
election. And at the same time, ri
vals Jackson and Udall have shown
an increasing ability to focus voters
attention on the ambiguities in Car
ter’s positions and his deviations
from accepted Democratic economic
doctrine.
But Jackson can hardly gloat
not when he failed to win a majority
of the New York delegates, let alone
the landslide he had incautiously
predicted at one time.
Even President Ford, while
sweeping all 45 delegates in Wiscon
sin and seeing a friendly delegation
win in New York, had little reason
for exultation. The fact is that chal
lenger Ronald Reagan won 45 per
cent of the vote without setting foot
in Wisconsin in the two weeks before
the election.
The Republican Party fori
has represented a positional
national defense and stain
communism, and Reaganis
ing a service by testing Mr
commitment to those coi
The Democratic Party
more decades has been
cerned with working men
men, the minorities andtl«|
Udall and Jackson, in their
ways, are providing a service J
ing Carter’s willingness to
those traditions.
By the end of April—ad
we will know a lot more
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RON GODBEY
WILL BE ON CAMPUS
April 15, 1976
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This indicates that nearly half the
basic Republican constituency -
even in a state with a moderate tradi
tion — really is looking for an alter
native to the incumbent. Mr. Ford,
too, must know by now that he will
have to fight Reagan further before
the victory is his.
But what is hard on the candidates
may be good for the voters. We are
learning more each week about the
ideas and the abilities of those who
seek to lead the nation. Issues are
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Mr. Ford are ones they ought to be
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