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Show nr Meoss meelriinigs setf Monday meetings in voting dis- enough or as an nh- sc f meetings in voting dis-' dis-' -ris throughout the state will be Iday between 7:30 and 9 p.m., ; , representatives of Parricipa-j Parricipa-j ,70 say they are looking forfait) for-fait) to a large student turnout. Every student can attend h i s .firfiborhood mass meeting ei-$ ei-$ as a participant if he's old enough or as an observer if he's not, said Suzanne Dean, Participation Partici-pation '70 chairman. To Direct Campaigns During the meetings, chairmen, vice chairmen, secretaries and other officers will be elected. These officials will direct their party's campaign effort in the voting district. Among responsibilities of district dis-trict officers will be taking a canvas can-vas of the district to determine party preferences of district residents. resi-dents. The officers then attempt to turn out their party's voters on election day. Most important, each district mass meeting will elect one or more delegates to the county and state conventions. Delegates will nominate candidates for county commission, state legislature, the Congress and Senate. Eliminate from Contention In many cases, only two candidates can-didates have filed for a particular 1 office. Still, an 80 percent delegate dele-gate vote for one of the candidates candi-dates could eliminate the other from contention. Delegates also have the opportunity oppor-tunity to influence party platforms plat-forms and policies. "This Is whore we hope Partici-(Continued Partici-(Continued on Pare. 4) Mass meetings scheduled (Continued from Page 1) pation '70 will have an impact," explained Miss Dean. "During 1968, many students became delegates dele-gates because they were eager to support Eugene McCarthy. When he failed to win the Utah have used a bank oi ten telephones tele-phones to call over 5,000 students and administer a quick, two minute min-ute survey intended to reveal the student's political preferences and degree of interest. The project made use of special computerized lists which located each student, according to his address, in his own home voting district. Miss Dean said over that from the 5,000 called, 200 were sent letters urging them to run as delegates. dele-gates. Each of the persons sent letters was supplied with the names of other students in t h e voting district. He was urged to get his fellow students to support him at the mass meeting. According to Priority Districts were telephoned according ac-cording to established priorities, Miss Dean said. However much time was spent assisting the numerous nu-merous students who expressed a definite desire to run for a position po-sition and asked for help from Participation '70. If a student was not called, it was probably because we determined determ-ined it would be difficult for any student to win a delegate position in his district, Miss Dean said. She emphasized, however, the importance of all students attending attend-ing their mass meetings, whether they were directly contacted or not. delegation to the national Democratic Dem-ocratic convention, the students dropped out and refused to continue con-tinue supporting their party. Let Students Decide "That's not the way effective politics works," she added. "We look at the Participation '70 effort eff-ort as being issue-oriented. Our goal is to give students an opportunity op-portunity to express their views ! , and we're leaving it up to students stu-dents to decide, in caucuses, according ac-cording to traditional democratic procedures, what these views will be." Miss Dean said before the school year ends, efforts will be made to extend the University effort state-wide. "We hope to identify all student stu-dent delegates who have been elected in districts throughout the state. The student caucuses a t both state conventions will be state-wide student caucuses." Television Instructions Monday's mass meetings will get underway at 7:30 p.m. with television instructions over KUED. The program will feature John I Klas, state Democratic chairman and Fred Wright, Republican chairman. At 8 p.m. nominations for positions po-sitions will be open, and between about 8:30 and 9 p.m. voting will take pace by secret ballot. Sunday both state chairmen were predicting a somewhat light turnout, since there are few intra-party contests in major state races. Chance for Students However, Miss Dean said the expected light turnout by adults offers an excellent chance for students. "And there are some important legislative races," she said. Participation '70, a project aimed at encouraging students to attend mass meetings and run for delegates dele-gates began three weeks ago. Teams of students headquartered headquarter-ed in Einar Nielsen Fieldhouse |