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Show V Machines Aren't Worth Kicking used the other 361 days? Certainly there must be a few interested students stu-dents who could make suggestions to the Executive Council. I knew a few students that would suggest, if I mentioned it, that the Student Survey Committee pole students on what to do with the machines. They could use the voting machines' write in slots for suggestions. Granted the suggestions would have to be short but the committee might get use to using them and the voting machines. I knew if there was just one suggestion sug-gestion made, sooner or later student stu-dent government might decide to use the machines to find how students stu-dents feel about campus issues. Now I realize that saying students should be involved in ' ernment is much di. finding ways to get ,, I Dt h There aren't enough? K student government to S body in one, but by V one to suggest that the ?!K chines be used to researp-feelings, researp-feelings, there may be a students to feel they hav ?:- 1 pated in decisions. Par; i You may ask your i doesn't this star iL '. gestions?" Quite honesth terest in student goveW;' really pretty shallow. ?? everybody started kicking?. : machines I'd be forced to constitution and I'm just n By SCOTT ROBERTSON So far those voting machines we paid $800 for have cost me and you $200 a day to use. The elections committee used them two days for primary elections and two days for the finals and since then they have not been used for anything except dust collectors. Something should be done to better bet-ter utilize these mechanical power removers, I thought, so I went over and kicked one to see if it made me feel any better. It did. In fact, I kicked it again and it made me feel so good. I know that if kicking a voting machine made me feel better there must be at least seven other people on campus who might find voting machine kicking a great sport. There might be enough people to form an ASUU Voting Machine Kicking Team. I kicked the machine ma-chine again to see if there was still enough satisfaction to warrant the writing of a Voting Machine Kicking Team Constitution. The feeling just wasn't there. I'd just as soon get my kicks outside the Establishment. The problem still remained however. how-ever. How can the machines be |