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Bigger Than a Riot;
SGC Hopefuls Consult Poli Sci Majors,
By 3 4 ARDEE "#' elections are this week aren't ners consisting of candy bars and
A T15E LEAVES fade from the they?" black coffee to more housing
trees and again as they reap- Bigger than a riot, but smaller groups to hurried conferences with
than a revolution is the impact of election experts who are usually
pear, a curious rit curs on the Student Government Council elec- roommates, fiancees, and Poli Sci
University of Michigan campus. tions on the campus. The impact majors.
Some believe it to be a sacrifice to on the candidate more closely re- Between speeches, the bleary-
the great and powerful gd sembles that of the wrecking eyed individuals plan strategy-
THINK, deity of bureaucracy, rews on the Romance Language usually humbug, eat nourishing
Building. food-usually hamburgers, and
Some consider it an athletic con- While the "powers that be" sit keep smiling-usually half-heart-
test resembling the Apache endur- quietly in their rooms discussing edly.
ance trials, The more realistic, or the relative merits of sin, the can-
less imaginative, among us simply didates scurry from "organized" BEFORE the first three days of
sigh or groan or exclaim, "SGC housing units to disorganized din- campaigning have passed, the
-- _candidates realize thatrunning
for alderman from a district of
24,000 is not the work of a mo-
ment, or a few hundred moments.
As an SGC candidate, the former
student faces some problems that
no other candidates in any other
elections have to face, a fortun-
ate thing for the preservation of
the state and prevention of an-
x archy.
First, the term "run" for office
is hardly applicable to an S GC
C fbelection,
Everywhere in the United States,
a candidate runs for office; in
Britain, he stands for election; but
at the Athens of the Midwest, he
wide selection of les for office. After a day on
Chooe frm a idesele tio of a bicycle, the candidate begins to
st les and prices. Also many orig- feel the British have the right'
idea.
inals for the man of distinction. Mastery of the villainous bike,
while it is not usually used as cri-
teria for voter support, is an
As n added enjoymen-Somple achievementin which a candidate
AS 0n G de enjyme t-$O ple can well take pride.,
It would be worth a Master's
Wolverine Blend NO. 118 Degree to find out how the candi-
Jo Hardee, a junior in the
Monday thru Friday 'ti 9- Saturday 'ti 5 literary college, knows where-
of she speaks. Miss Hardee
has been a candidate for Stu-
P EVE C -N ER dent Go vern mente Council
twice and has served on sev-
eral of that group's commit-
118 Eost Huron - Opposite County Bidg. - Ph. NO 3-6236 tees
dates solve an interesting space- ery amateur politician has shud-
time relationship problem which dered at the thought of both sit-
a sprawling campus and fifty to uations. The more professional
sixty speaking engagements pre- politicos have learned either stick
sent. to the same viewpoint, or learn
WHEN A FUTURE "leader of better geography.
men" discovers that he is to
speak at seven fraternities, at 7 FEuININE candidates have, on-
p.m., all of which are more than ly occasionally, the interesting
seven blocks apart, he begins to quandry of having nothing to say.
feel that seven is not his lucky This is especially prevalent toward
number.
Then, there Is the problem of
the uninitiated into the Greek
letter system. One candidate re- "' "
versed two names and made a sur-
prise visit to a fraternity on Hill '
Street while a disappointed femin-
ine audience went to dinner with-
out the benefit of his inspiring ___
words.f L .. .T
Far worse than the problem of
arriving at a house while there 4;O N F E 'Nf , >
is still someone around to listen, ".
let alone to pay attention, is thetk ;f
question of what to say.
Many is the golden-voiced ora-
tor who smilingly chews off his
foot and is working on his knee-
cap when he realizes that the
group is grimacing instead of
smiling back at him. No cases
have been reported lately of can-
didates who thought they -were
at one house and suited their
viewpoints to that group, only to
discover that their geography and _-""
their politics were equally poor,
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