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Show Interns Work For Parties Students Mount Political Bandwagon regional or national headquarters long distance almost every day. But in Salt Lake I was personally in charge of the organization," Cannon remarked. Operated Sepz ;ately New Majority operated separate-, ly the regular adult-oriented Utah Citizens for Rockefeller. "It was just a matter of grassroots grass-roots politics," Cannon said. "You wear badges, wear big buttons, pass out bumper stickers and collect col-lect signatures urging Rockefeller's nomination," he said. "You don't sway delegates by what the New Majority does, and this is one of the disadvantages," he added. Cannon and Israel, were both graduated from the University last June, and will go into the military. Crocket and Hansen plan to continue con-tinue their studies this fall. ss .-TV 1 By SUZANNE DEAN Chronicle Copy Editor Student power is not a cliche in politics, and University students Kay Israel, Gary Hansen, Steve Crockett and James Cannon are proving it. Each is involved full-time in different dif-ferent phase of this election year's politics. Internship Program Israel, a Democrat, and Hansen, a Republican, both work at their parties' headquarters as paid polit-k polit-k ical interns. They are participating in a program sponsored by the Hinkley Institute of Political Science Sci-ence Department. The department shares the cost of the students' salaries with the political parties. Crockett and Cannon have different differ-ent roles: Crocket works as campaign cam-paign assistant for gubernatorial candidate LaMar Rawlings, and Cannon directs a youth group, the New Majority for Rockefeller. - Play The Game How do you play the political game? "You just start .guessing," Crock-I Crock-I ett said. "You try to figure out I ' the strong points of your candidate the things that will sit well with the people. You bring those out and squelch and less favorable things. Crockett said his candidate, La-Mar La-Mar Rawlings, needs funds and exposure. "This resignation rumble is the I best thing that could have happened hap-pened to us," he said. Bring Out Issue "Of course, we're going to bring out the idle state funds issue. Buehner can't say much about that because there are idle state funds in Beehive State Bank." (Buehner, Rawlings' primary opponent, is president of Beehive Bank.) "Oh," he added, "we've got something cooked up. It's top sec ret, but you just wait I can't tell you. I wish I could, but that's politics." Israel says until primaries are over he has "to walk a tightrope of neutrality." Completing File "Right now, I'm completing an election reference file on the candidates, can-didates, keeping my boss Wally Sandack informed, (which isn't difficult dif-ficult because there is very little he doesn't know already) and trying try-ing to come up with all kinds of office witticisms." Israel is acting as office manager man-ager at Democratic headquarters. . "I give my honest opinion to the candidates and workers, and just try to help everyone in any way I can," he said. Since the Republicans are not facing an uncertain primary contest, con-test, Hansen's activities are different dif-ferent than Israel's. Sits On Central Committee Besides, as chairman of College Republicans, Hansen sits on the state central committee of his party. "Because I'm on the central commitee there are more doors open to me," he said. "I helped organize the state convention and sat on the state platform and elections elec-tions committees." "Right now I'm involved in issues is-sues research. We don't necessarily necessar-ily try to create an issue, but we look for problems that the people are already concerned about and try to blame them on the present administration." Of course, personalites are very important, and we try to use issues that are tied to the candidates' personalties. Campaigning Finished For Cannon, political campaigning campaign-ing is temporarily finished. Cannon Can-non headed "New Majority for Rockefeller" which, now that the Republican national convention is underway, has closed down its activities ac-tivities in Utah. The Utah branch of New Majority, Major-ity, explained Cannon, was directly responsible to the organization's national na-tional headquarters. "Ti:e , clonal director visited a . eoMy'.--i of tyries and I talked to Steve Crockett, University student, confers with La-Mar La-Mar Rawlings, candidate for the Republican gubernatorial gub-ernatorial nomination, on campaign strategy. Crock ett says when it comes to politics, there's only one way to proceed: "You just start guessing." Photo by E. George Goebel |