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UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY, LEXINGTON

Vol. LXI, No. 120

'Focus On The Future7'
UK Professors Speak Before Small Audience
By

HAZEL

good example of future politics. "We used
modern political technology to overcome
the deficiency of being outside the political
system in Kentucky."
He explained that they obtained data on
the voters of the sixth district, their chardistribuacteristics, and the

R. COLOSIMO
And

DON ECER JR.
Kernel Staff Writers

sparse and disappointed crowd of 40
attended the first lecture of "Focus on the
Future."
Dr. Cene Mason, political science, did
not appear as scheduled. Dr. Fred Vetter
was substituted and spoke on "Politics in the
Future," the same topic Mason was to speak
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socio-econom- ic

tion.

Computer Useful
a great means of choosing constituency to be assured a certain type of
vote," he said.

"It's

on.

Focus was to be a trial for next year's
lecture series, but the lack of attendance
may hinder the program. Last year Focus
was a financial failure, causing the Student
Center Board to fund Focus '70.
Vetter was the campaign manager for
Mason in his bid for the congressional seat
in the sixth district. Mason afterwards withdrew his candidacy.
No Substitute
Vetter tried to explain that he could not
adequately fill Mason's role. "It's like substituting a pimp for a whore," he said. "It's
all right if you know what you are doing."
Vetter indicated that the way he and
Mason were running the campaign was a

The political scientist elaborated on the
usefulness of the computer. He said that it
compiled their data and even printed personalized letters which gave the appearance

"The politics of the future for America
will remain the same except for the elaboration of its technology," he said.
Social stress, life in the ghetto, and the
increasing economy were all related in brief

fashion by Vetter.
He termed the "middle-clas- s
paradise"
as a myth rather than a reality. "Today
a
nothing can guarantee the middle-clas- s
secure place in society," explained Vetter.

Risk All
According to him, political youth and the
black can look for solutions, but there is
nothing for the individual to solve.
"He can carve out a view of his own, but
not from the traditional world-vieof reality," he said.
Vetter ended his lecture on a quote from
Thomas Jefferson, "All authority belongs to
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of typewritten letters.
After depending upon the electronic media
for "maximizing" voters, Vetter said that
the formation of alliances and coalitions
causes "the candidates of righteousness to the people."
In the brief question and answer period,
come down to bare earth."
he was asked about radical movements among
New Priority
youth.
He spoke in an air of dissatisfaction as
"We must learn what it is to risk all," he
he emphasized that the environmental crisis said. "Authority to the people is to produce
was taking priority over civil rights
good revolutionaries."
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Club. There will be two shows Saturday, April 11 in Memorial
Han at 2 p.m. and at 8 p.m. The cost for the first show will be
$.50 in advance and $.75 at the door. The second show will cost
$1.00 in advance and $1.50 at the door.
Kernel Photo By Dick Ware

Class Hears Hooded Speaker

Student Describes 'Gay Life'

ELAINE ROBERTS
Kernel Staff Writer
How does it feel to live in a
straight world if you're not?
What are the slings and arrows
of outrageous fortune suffered by
the homosexual when he tries to
swing in Lexington?
By

A puzzled student asked why,
if male homosexuals prefer men,
they are interested in men who
look like women. The man in the
hood answered, "The socialization process in the gay world
helps you to appreciate a good

drag."
Turning to the board, the
to tell it like it is to Dr. Alfred guest pressed the hood close to
Mirande's sociology classes Fri- his face so he could see out of
day afternoon. The classes are small eye holes and chalked up
the following list:
studying sexual deviance.
white
Wearing a
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Bright Criticizes
Campaign 'Fuss'
By DAHLIA
Kernel Staff

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"butch" tried

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Dress Like Women
pillow case over his head to conceal his identity, the guest speak"High Drags" ("They dress
er began by saying, "I was gonna like women, wear gobs of makeup
have two drag queens here with and bouffant w igs and could turn
me today, but one was afraid he'd on any man in this room").
"Low Drags" or "Queens"
be recognized and Tippy just
hasn't made it. I hope she'll be ("Typical homosexual stereohere."
types with thin voices, limp
"Tippy is a 'high drag wrists and their own hair").
"Extreme Butch" (Truck drivqueen,' " he said, "and it is
dangerous for her because worn-e- n ers, leather and denim queens
impersonators are prosecuted and cycle gangs").
"Quacks" ("We have in the
in Lexington."

gay world people who like to
enjoy sex in wild ways").
After witnessing his blackboard expertise, it was no surprise to learn that the speaker
plans to be a teacher.
"I'm 21," he said, "I'm a
senior at UK majoring in edu- Please Turn To Page 3

Vetter
Dr. Fred Vetter spoke on "Politics in the Future" in Monday's
FOCUS program. Vetter replaced
Dr. Cene Mason who did not
appear as scheduled.

HAYS

Writer

Despite his confidence that
his campaign for SG president
has been a personal success,
Steve Bright made a rather
harsh summary of the SG campaign in general in his final
speech Monday night in Blazer
Hall.
"The SG campaign as it now
stands is nothing more than a
glorified homecoming contest,"
Bright said. "It has left me
drained physically, mentally,
and financially."
lie added that he hoped future candidates would have a
much easier campaign a situation he feels will result when
"the platforms of the candidates
become more meaningful than
the campaign posters."
Bright proposed the election
of SG representatives on a "college or departmental basis" as
a substitution for the present
"popularity contest."
Later in his speech, Bright
called the campaign strategy of
this week's election "an insult
to the intelligence of college

students."

Blight's running mate, vice
presidential candidate Skip
also cited issues as "the
most significant part of the SG
election," and devoted the ma
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jor part of his speech to pointing
out the "differences" between
the
platform and
those of the other candidates.
Among the proposals which
he said are unique to his and
Bright's platform are:
A guaranteed
complete
schedule for every student upon
Bright-Altho-

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An extension of the pass-fa- il
system to all general study

requirements.
A central dormitory

govern-

ment which would deal with
"problems unique to the dorms."
Academic review and reform by the "students themselves."
A revision of the UK bookstore which would make it "exclusively a book agency."
The creation of a General
Student Assembly to handle any
issues raised by interested students wishing to take action on
a

particular matter.

A major emphasis on
demic matters.

aca-

AlthofT's
talk,
Following
Bright spoke confidently alout
his chaice of being elected.

"Our opponent (Jennings)
can win on a small election only," he said. Bright himself predicted victory on a turnout of
4,000 or more voters.

Conservation Problems Attacked
"Actually the Audulnm Society is a very militant organization," said John L. Franson, central mid-werepresentative for
the National Audulon Society.
Fransoa spoke to the Environmental Awareness Society Monday night about what the National Audul)on Society is trying
to do to meet conservation problems.
Fransoa commented that the
group's interest has expanded
to all environmental problems

through various organizations. It
is one of the largest subscription based organizations in the
United States.
"We take issues in the legislative arena, we work with organizations like the Corps of
Engineers or the Forest Service,
and we become involved with
things like the Bed Biver Gorge,"
he continued.

The Audulon Society also has
educational programs in schools

and Community Development of
Nature Centers in metropolitan
areas. The "nature centers" are
"green islands" within the city.

According to Franson, their purpose is to show children in the
Ghettos the significance of a natural ecological environment.
The Audulion Society also
manages several "sanctuaries" to
protect endangered species and
preserve unusual areas like the
salt marshes and the Big Cypress
Swamps in Florida.

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"The Beatles are dead! Long live the Heatlcs!"
Putting his feet up on a desk and munching a piece of chocolate cake, John Lennon appeared to refer to the group in the
past tense as if they had already expired.
In many ways The Beatles of old have. The Beatles of 1970
are something vastly different.
It's more than seven years now since Bealtlemania burst on
an unsuspecting world.
Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Bingo Starr
helped start a youth revolution.
For four years they were hardly ever out of each other's sight.
They worked, traveled, played, and lived together.
The Beatles of today are married men, all approaching 30. They
are bound together economically, but they haven't staged a live
concert together for more than two years and Bingo has said they

never will again.
Now the only time the whole group can be seen is at a rare
closed-door- s
meeting at Apple, their business organization, or at
an occasional recording session.
"It's like an era is over," Lennon said in an interview.
He is the only Beatle who goes daily to the $1.2 million Apple
offices in London's Savile Bow. But his activities there are mainly
ventures he pursues
peace campaigns and the various avant-gard- e
with his Japanese-bowife, Yoko. The two are inseparable.
Lennon, now 20, has hit more headlines than the other three
Beatles put together in recent months.
An exhibition of lithographs by Lennon showing him and Yoko
making love was raided by Scotland Yard detectives at a London
art gallery in January.
And he even managed to shock some of London's way-ou- t
set with a
film called "Self Portrait," which is in fact
a prolonged study of his own sexual organs.
"It was a gag, a cartoon," said Lennon.
He says that almost everything he does is geared to putting
across the message of world peace.
Yoko's influence on Lennon is obvious.
"She has opened me up. She's encouraged me to do things,"
Lennon said. "I feel younger, fresher, more excited by life. As a
Beatle I'd got a bit stodgy; a bit too fat and successful."
Lennon and Yoko had their hair cut short during a visit to
Denmark in January. They are donating the fallen locks to raise
funds for a Negro welfare center in London.
The other three Beatles still sport long hair and beards. They
appear to show little interest in Lennon' s obsession with the peace
cause.
The Beatles money-makinmachine seems to roll on endlessly, however. Boyalties on records alone totalled $2.4 million last
year.
Although the press is sometimes hostile, the fans mainly in the
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age group are as loyal as ever and a live Beatles concert
would be a sellout, no matter how big the hall or stadium.
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awards of the Academy of Motion
Picture Arts and Sciences tonight.
Can the traditional,
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for best picture honors are "Anne
of the Thousand Days," a costume drama produced by the
veteran filmmaker Hal B. Wallis,
and "Midnight Cowboy," a
account of Manhattan
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honors are "Hello Dolly,"
"Butch Cassidy and the Sunbest-pictur-

dance Kid," and "Z".

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John Wayne, the
Los Angeles Music Center.
The confrontation of old and
symbol of the Hollynew is evident in most of the wood establishment, has his best
major races. The top contenders shot at the Oscar with his crusty
portrayal in "True Grit." He is
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Also in the race for best actor
are two Britishers Peter O'Toole
of "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" and
Richard Burton of "Anne of the
Thousand Days."
conTwo of the
tenders hark back to Holly wood's
Golden Era: Henry Fonda's militant daughter, Jane, who was
nominated for "They Shoot
Horses, Don't They?", and Judy
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Carl and s daughter, Liza
for "The Sterile Cuckoo."
The pair of
stars are competing with three

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Reviewers have given high praise to this same
Edward Bear: audiences have, too. Music
critic Ritchie Yorke called Edward Bear
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it seems likely that Bearings the new album
will be a huge success . . . First there was the
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Only the ballot counters of
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winners will be. If the 3,100
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cation and minoring in sociology and I've been working with
Dr. Mirande quite some time."
Asked why he became a homosexual, the speaker said, "I like
male sex better than female sex."
He added, "Funny thing, no
one ever asks heterosexuals why
they are heterosexual."
"I was hustling the first
time," he said. "I was picked
up on the streets of Cincinnati
and I got money for it. But the
third time I was picked up by my
first lover and he 'brought me
out.' For four years now I've
been part of the gay world. For
four years I've been out."
Are there many homosexuals
in the UK community?
Every Fourth Person
"There are about 80 that I
know of," the hooded guest said,
and he laughed. "If you were in
that last class about every fourth
person in there was sitting next
to one. I knew a lot of the boys
in there."
Remarking that "Lexington is
full of closet cases," the speaker
said it is because "businessmen
can't come out, and everyone
starts as a closet case."
Does he lead a full social
life?
"I've been out every night
for the past three weeks," he
replied, "although not all gay,
not all downtown bar."

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"I have an awful lot at stake

date occasionally," he said,
"but I have no sex with women
now."
"I associate with a group of
so I

queens from a local high school,"
he said.
The gay life is "a hard life"
according to the speaker.

"I'm against bringing people

out. There's a lot of heartbreak."
Did he meet the high school
students while student teaching?
"No. I met one downtown one
night. At a downtown bar. And
it's one reason I'm not student
teaching at that school. I have
no sex with any of my children

at all.
the
straight."

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Asked about his background,
he replied he is a Methodist
and that his parents know about
his homosexuality
and "both
have accepted the situation."

"My brothers do not know,"

he said.

The hooded guest said he did
not plan to marry but "I love
kids, so I plan to be a teacher."
"I have a straight roommate.
He knows about me. We get
along fine."
Responding to a student question asking why homosexual
males find men more exciting
than women, Dr. Mirande said

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Freedom Movement
a movement
now for freedom for homosexuals almost as great as the colored
movement. 'Let the homosexual
be free' signs are going up all
over New York."
"I wasn't cut out for the gay
world," he said next. "They
change partners rapidly. I've had
three or four lovers in the last
two years. I want a guy in a
marriage-typ- e
relationship for a
long time."
He went on, "There are few
lasting relationships in the gay
world and so it is hard. There is

The guest speaker replied,
"With homosexuals there are no
barriers when you first meet.
Everybody knows it's going to
be sex and no one cares where
you put your hand. In the gay
life you have sex first and then
get to know each other."
Mentioning a boat trip he
took downriver from Cincinnati
with "over 600 homosexuals
aboard and a few straights," he
said that "one straight teacher
experienced the grooviest vibrations she'd felt in a long time."

"We homosexuals

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Does he have a military deferment because of his homosexuality?
He laughed. "The army has
me classified bisexual and militarily fit. The service is very gay,
you know. It would be unusual
to be in 'Nam and not encounter
a gay situation."
"I wanted to help," he said,
"I wanted to help in your education. And if any of you can
point me out on campus now
and make fun of me, it won't
matter because I'm a senior and
I'll be leaving in four weeks."

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accept

everybody," he said. "We just
ask to be let alone."
Claiming that atlJetes are
prime targets and that "after
relationall, lasting
ships are what fraternities are
all about," he said that if you
boy-to-b-

"put one lonely boy in one gay
situation he'll never be the same
again."
But, according to the hooded

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it could be because "men are
less inhibited with each other."
"Because of their childhood
socialization they are not as sexually puritan," Mirande said.
"They can do the sexually gratifying things nice middle-clas- s
women don't do."

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The Kentucky Babes, who left Lexington Friday to compete in the
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First Regional Drill Meet in Ohio, have returned with the
trophy in regimental competition. Pershing Rifles returned
from the competition with a second-plac- e
trophy in the batallion.
Kentucky Babes and Pershing Rifles also drilled in national competition in March at the Illinois National Meet. The armed Les
Sabres platoon became the first coed team in the history of the
meet to receive the showmanship award for audience appeal.

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University of Michigan alumni in the IJlue Grass area will
have an opportunity to hear Dr.
Robbin Fleming, president of
that institution, at a 7:30 p.m.
dinner meeting Friday at the
Hospitality Motor Inn.
Dr. Fleming will talk about
the student strike and demonstrations that have paralyzed the
school during the past two
weeks.
The Regents of the University
of Michigan last week granted

the demands, but black students
and sympathizers
numbering
more than 2,000 continued their
strike for other demands and
forced the closing of many

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Take Time To Vote
If attendance at the various campaign programs is any indication,
the voter turnout for Student Government elections

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handwriting on the wall.
The winners will be selected by the
same minority that choselast year's
prganization, with no candidate receiving anything like a clear mandate.
The Student Board of Elections,
with the approval of Student Government, has given us an extra day
in which to cast our ballots for the
candidates of our choice. By doing
so, many of the trite, old excuses
for not voting were removed. A poor
showing at the polls this election
will only point to the real pervading reason for
student apathy.
on

A student body which refuses to
respond to the organization which
attempts to represent it only lends
validity to the argument of those
who would destroy the institution.
As interest in Student Government
has dwindled with the passing

Kernels
"If we

were to wake up some morning
and find that everyone was the same
race, creed and color, we would find
some other causes for prejudice by noon."
SEN. GEORGE AIKEN

years, it has become increasingly
more difficult to refute the tenets
of those who would take a more
active involvement in Student Affairs. The death of Student Government, which seems more imminent
than many wish to believe, would
leave the door open for a far less
compromising replacement.

The careless attitude exhibited
by the student masses has ultimately led to annual election of
careless candidates by a misin-

formed minority. Tragically, it
seems that even the usual minority
is decreasing with each election.
It is indeed hard for Student
Government to accomplish anything meaningful for students if
it works without the support of
the general student body.
Student Government has done
everything in its power to allow
'students the opportunity to meet
the candidates, study the issues
and vote conveniently. It is not
too late for you to lend your voice
to those who proclaim increased
student rights. The cycle of poor
Student Government is neverend-in- g
as long as weak candidates
conappeal to a
stituency.
Vote while it still counts.
devil-may-ca- re

By SUSAN RICHARDS
An Open Letter to the Undergraduate

Students:

Last month I got a letter saying I was
being fired. I am being fired so that the
English Department can, with the money
they have been paying me to teach under-

graduates, "attract qualified graduate students." I have a letter from Stephen
Manning, the Chairman of the English
Department, saying so. I am grateful
to him for putting in writing the unwritten
but pervasive policy of the University as
a whole: the policy of pretending that
the undergraduate student does not exist.
And I am happy to have been fired.
I will miss teaching. But there are other
things I want to do, which I have not
done in the past because I could not free
myself of a stupid and uncontrollable
sense of responsibility to my students.
Now the University has forever freed
me of that responsibility.
And then I don't belong here. I have
never served on a committee, for one thing,
and I prefer the company of students, by
and large, to that of my colleagues. I eat
down in the Grille instead of up in the
Faculty Club. (Do students know about
the Faculty Club, I wonder, that special
little cafeteria just above the Student
Center Cafeteria, where faculty members
pay more for the same food that's served
downstairs, so they won't have to eat
with the students?) And I have the archaic
idea that education is a student and a
teacher looking each other in the eye and
talking about what the student knows
and what he needs to know.
This is not what education is to the
Faculty or the Administration. The people
in the Administration tell me they can't
be concerned with individual students:
"You have to look at the big picture."
In the big picture there is no such thing
as an undergraduate student; there is
only the Undergraduate Student Body, a
vast, grey, vaguely annoying blur.
I am convinced that if my colleagues
could confuse the Legislature somehow,
they would get rid of all the undergraduates altogether, and go right on sending
each other memos, discussing agendas,
publishing reports, and writing scholarly
articles which even their fellow scholars
don't pretend to have read. (Shine the
white light of scholarship in another
cobwebby corner.) That is what they
do now, but without the students they
could do it better. The undergraduates
get in the way of the system, which is
the real business of the University, not
only for the Administration but even for
like the Director of
faculty-adnunistrato- rs

Freshman Composition, who told me recently that he would get rid of someone he
knew to be a good teacher if that teacher
refusal to conform to his system of teaching G)mposition. Then there are the faculty members themselves, who point out
the Administration as the villains; we're
on your side, they say. But they are the
ones who teach the classes in which you
are bored and ignored and condescended
to. They are the ones who talk at you
but don't know your names. They are all
looking at the big picture.
So I think you might look at the big
picture, too. If you do, you will see that
the University is depriving you of a quality education in the name of the system.
Good undergraduate teaching does happen
here, but only in isolated instances, and
in spite of the University, not because of
it. (New instructors are told by department heads, in these words, "Don't waste
time talking to your students; get your
dissertation published.") The Administration will tell you that it does so care about
undergraduate teaching, and that it has
made a study or published a pamphlet
which says so; but the Dean tells the
young instructors that the p am pi Jet is
"for public consumption," and that they
will never get ahead here simply by teaching well. Sophomore courses which have
been held to thirty students will go up
next year to sixty students to free money
for the graduate program.
You say: "But what can be done?"
I don't know. I do know that whatever
can be done, undergraduate students are
the ones to do it, because you are the
only ones who suffer under the system.
Why should the faculty members do anything when they are now well paid to
do nothing? Simply by following the
meaningless round of committees and
publisliing and politicking, a faculty member can create the aura of prestige which
makes his mere presence in the classroom
enough, and makes it not only unnecessary but in bad taste for him to try to
teach the students anything. The Administration knows nothing about education,
thinking it can be accomplished by appointing committees and ombudsmen, by
extending further the system of the University, not understanding that it is the
system itself that is corrupt, and that the
University itself no longer serves any useful
function.

That is the problem, but it is your
problem, not mine. I'm not an undergraduate here, and when this semester is over
I won't be teaching undergraduates here
either.

Kernel Forum: the readers write
Quotes Item
The following publication may be relevant to the discussion of the policy of
"publish or perish." It appears on the
bulletin board of the Department of Psychology under the heading of "Items from
the February 26 Faculty Meeting of Interest to Graduate Students":
"Dr. Baker reported on a notefromthe
Dean which made it clear that a faculty
member's publication list would be the
major basis upon which raises and promotions would be made."
F. A. PATTIE
Department of Psychology

Nothing New
We have now once again come to that
time of year when politicking is again in
fashion, when certain members of the
student body seek upward status mobility i.e., run for student government and
when perhaps as many as 25 per cent of
those that remain somehow see it as advantageous to select among those running, all of which is deplorable because
of the way things are handled.
One large segment of the campus annually admonishes its respective members (in strong terms) to vote or else the
percentage would be halved. So the fact
that these people vote is beneficial in
that there is at least a 20 per cent turn
out, yet it is the slate of candidates for
them to vote for that causes their voting.
What I am trying to say is that, in the
past, not only this segment, but others
too, have in exercising their vote been

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indiscriminate in that selection. The fact
that four parties are running causes this
fact to possess much saliency.
The importance of the presidential
election perhaps overshadows the assembly candidates' scramble for seats.
However, I do not wish to become
in that tangle of political controversy. The presidential campaign will
have its influences. What needs to be
understood is that the assembly race is
important in itself. Much more important
than for a person voting to simply vote
indiscriminately for a slate of candidates
rather than for the individuals who are
the candidates. Much more than for
someone simply not to vote.
The mediocrity around here

or perhaps anything at all. The only significant thing I even attempted to say
was that out of every group of candidates
there are those who will do the things
that are needed to be done and those
that don't seem to. What this seems to
imply is that the candidates must be individually reckoned, not lumped together
into political categories. George Washington once cautioned against forming
political parties.

I have taken the time to say this because I feel it needs to be said. It might
induce people