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Show TACTICAL ERROR Seasoned, professional politicians politici-ans could well get a few tips on how NOT to run their campaigns by visiting the University of Utah campus this week, where class elections are getting under way The "dark horse" system which recently evolved at the University Universi-ty consists of entering a candidate for three or four offices, when the University constitution forbids for-bids a student to run for more than one major office, so that withdrawals at the last hour pop up thick and fast. But there's method in this madness, and the one candidate which the group planned to support sup-port is left relatively unopposed after the smoke has cleared away; right in line for that much-sought "X." I The plan of entering a student for more than one job originated with a Greek-letter social group. The fraternity's idea was to wait until the withdrawal deadline, and take their favorite son from all but the most promising office. The plan worked beautifully until everal other fraternities followed fol-lowed suit, only to get so inextricably inex-tricably complicated that a general gen-eral council of campus "Greeks" instead of the elected officers, seems the only logical way out. And even then, there is a chence of several scalpings before the inter-tribal mess is thoroughly arbitrated. Rife between social units is growing daily and if the "open wound" of primary elections does not heal within a week of final ballot-casting, it is probable that the quiet unaffiliated students (non-fraternity group) who never make much fuss over elections, will steal the show and several offices in the bargain. Campus big-time tyro politicos have begun to catch on to the disturbing fact that they have out-maneuvered not only their opponents but also their candidates, candi-dates, so that the whole scheme will fall through The poor honest hon-est candidate who thinks he can handle a job and accordingly throws his only hat in the ring is very likely to come out with the coveted school office. I nasmuch as the high-pressure political group is as unpopular at the University of Utah as it is everything else in the world, students not ooncerned in the fiasco may now sit back and have a quiet chuckle while waiting wait-ing for induction into office of non-fraternity men. |
