49 VOTE

Recently an.e1ection was held to elect two students to the University Senate. Approximately 180 students voted. ‘The majority of thesé students did not know at least two of the three Candidates on the ballot (students were to select two‘of the three

were cast. Another minor point to add to this is very few students are

aware Of What the senate within a system which does once the eleCtion day has consists of i.e. who not recognize uou as a passed,no more is heard forms it, What it's person. Well surprisell from all those wonder-

power is,xwhere and when meetings are held,open or closed meetings, etc.

The senate affects the means by which we are presently ed ucating ourselves, and will be making decisions in

the future which will determine the general direction of this University. If you are a senior you may be syying: "I don't

really giVe a shit, I won't candidates) and yet the votesanyway." freshman you probably

are not aware of the fact that you are no longer

At this institution. enough effort, you can

actually participate

in the decision making process that will make .or break the quality of the degree that you are working

you ask? ol' courSe. (Back to the dictionary)

THE CADRE, OCTOBER‘29, 1974, PAGE 7

Why our good Student Union of (Union did I say?)

towards obtaining. If you are a sophmore or junior, hopefully you are learning how to think for yourselves and no more need be said.

Yeah! Elections are a drag and there is usually

If you are a

ELEcﬂoNs'. um 6:065

A DAMN

a very good reason why they are so,because

ful people elected to all those wonderful positions by all of us wonderful students. An example

given

Election Results

The election results are in with a voting turn- out of 28.7% of the student body. The three winners were Faith Sove with 203 votes,’ Ronald MacDonald with 193 votes, and John Costello with 183 votes. Thats a pre— tty good turn out for eight ficticious characters run- ning for a non—existant co— mmittee. we only had 43% vot ing for 1ast»years Student

.;Union selections {and' ar‘mere‘ ‘ 12 . 8% for. :the ‘ Renate-elec— tions two weeks ago.\

The idea of running a fake election, originated with a small group of stud—

lotters cont. from pg. 6

Dear Editor; .

Would you please give me space in your next issue. After reading the last issue, October 22, 1974, I have come up with a very distasteful and ill feeling towards those who have.a hard time to appre- ciate what is happening. U understand that people who are not directly involved in.an organization (Student Union) can find it easy to criticize it and those involved. I agree with some to the complaints and disagree with others.

If those who take the time

to criticize can again take the same amount to draw up alternatives for their comp- laints then we all would be

a Step ahead. Instead all you Can do is bitch.

I'm not saying there is any- thing wrong with you voicing your opinion, but are you just Wasting space or keeping your jaw muscles from getting in— active. As for the freshmen,

I feel I know how they feel, for at one time I was in the Same situation but I'm willing to help solve the problem.

We the student union do not have the-anewggggﬁt'the more

'"What happens if a partiCular ’ professor is never available

,Well, Senate says that the

.approach the head of the dep-

what you are voting for and following up to make sure

ents who were concerned ab— out the poor turn—out for el— ections, and dubious about the before and after thought

in casting a ballot. Q fake election was seen as being is also a responlibility to

one of the most advantageS' Take known diacrediblity to ways to dramatize the poor vot J .r

ing habits of students. (at least we ran an election—— the faculty gave away all the positions for Senate to accli— mation, because of lack of interest). ‘ ,

It was not done with the intention of mading students seem foolish, but more as a plea for students to take their Vote more seriously, which means knowing who and

If the election were held again .tomorrow, would you vote for the

Easter Bunny or for #** ******?

ises and responsibilities.It

Which brings us to yester- .day's election. elected three out of a pOSSF ible eight non—existent students to a non—existent Stidemt—Faculty Evaluation Committee.

409 studenm

Think.

the public. Some thought they were brilliant to figure it

your elected officeals follow»; out, but Who was leC down. through on their campaign pron1We sincerely appreciate the people who thought and pro

tested.

may wonder what it is, well 'position on the council I did the union is not only social not Swear to anybody or sign but look at the academic side, anything that would -ommit me. of its involvement. There are' I felt that something was issues that affect all of us wrong and wanted to contrib- that have been processed th— ute to acquiring a solution. rough'the student union via Since then I will admit that senate representatives; studen I may have been lacking in participation on committees, participation but also there or directly to the department has only been once that a

or person. Example may be, student approached me to find

is representation on council, outside of the executive and these people carry a bigger opinion than just the exec— utive. They are the same as you and perhaps if you don't know them then take the time to find out for they have the

for advice of conSultation." student should be certain and artment and if he will not

assist or make improvement then go to the Dean of the

'faculty. I am only one of thesame capacity at the council

elite as some people put it but I am also in the same boat as you when it comes to the final outcome. I don't'. ‘don't want to pull a snow job. have the same opinion as otherThe only difference is that student representatives and 7they don't have a special cork vice versa. I agree there arejner in Memorial but they share areas that information is hardthe same problems and criti- to acquire and I can see how ciSm as the executive may get. you may wonder what good is a So why not get off your ass student union to you but are and find out what it is really you encompassing all the activall about instead of sitting ities they get involved in or back bitching and not doing do you just get_awakened whenanything constructive.

meetings as the executive. I assume they have the same

Dear Editor,

I was amazed to read in last weeks CADRE the article titled S.U. Elitists aren't great — but students are worse. I feel that the executive is doing a gOOd job and ask them to hang in there in spite of this malicious attack.

an answer. As you can see there The question I asked myself

though was, where was this person with the patronizing 'attitude last spring during the student union elections?

I then decided that there were two possible answers. (1) The author did not run for any poSition. In this case, he

or she just specializes in criticizing and is all talk -

con— no action. (2) This person did cerns as you do so you see they run for some position and must

still be annoyed about being defeated. Many of us wonder

if the CADRE should accept Such vindicative, malicious and abusive articles from per- sons who do not have the intest- inal fortitude to sign their names.

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