Pasadena Chronicle, January 07, 1938

PASADENA CHRONICLE VoLXXIX Pasadena Junior College, January 7, 1938 No. 15 Ballyhoo and Brains By A1 Gutzmer Almost no trick of the cam¬ paign imagination has been over¬ looked for today’s election. With today’s, the second election ever put under the new campaign pub¬ licity policies, voting is made the easiest and fairest possible. Further to help the voter, the Chronicle prints on this page of the election edition a complete sample ballot, an exact copy of the ones you will find at all polling places throughout the day. Take the Chronicle ballot to the assembly this morning. As candidates are introduced, take down notes as to your preferences, especially if you are not familiar with candidates in classes or activities. Just remem¬ ber the ones you elect represent you in the school’s activities. REPRESENTATIVE The election board has been hand picked as a representative group of students representing honorary, service, non-restrictive and restric¬ tive organizations as well as rep¬ resentatives from the AWS, AMS, ASB and academic groups. This in itself makes for a democratic elec¬ tion and will leave no room for complaint by those who may have had cause in the past to charge the election board with being preju¬ diced or biased. The only restric¬ tion to be placed on today’s actual voting is that the voter must pres¬ ent his student body card. BUILDINGS ADMINISTRATION N MIN’S LOCKERS Lirt SCIENCES О РНГ-31СЛГ SCICNCt-S P DINING HALL Q BAND R BOILER HOUSE S ROTC CLUBHOUSE M MEN’S GYMNASIUM U OBSERVATORY TORESTRY BLEEKER HOUSE BLEACHERS HUNTER HOUSE TE.CHNOLOGY STUDENT UNION Г w women’s gymnasium Numbers in margin on above map designate voting polls. RECORD PREDICTED This will no doubt be the biggest primary election ever to be held on the campus. We predict a, record- smashing vote. Twenty-seven can¬ didates for elective offices have placed their names on the ballot, indicating a genuine desire to serve their school in the execution of a student body office. There are still some of the back- woods yokels and junior high school minded children who think that the only reason a student would run for an office was to satis¬ fy an unmitigated ego out of all proportion to the candidate’s true personality. That is simply judging others by themselves. That atti¬ tude went out with the tents. REASONS LISTED Let’s put down the reasons why you would want to run for an of¬ fice. Of course there is personal prestige, but that is a result more than anything else. First, to live a, complete life, the student must be active, and politics offers one of the best ways. Second, one likes to feel that he is contributing something of his own to the school. Last, and most important, the only way to be remembered around any place is to do something worthwhile. It is not the boy or girl who comes to school and goes home — simply that — who is remembered tomorrow, or even known today. It is the student of¬ ficer or active politician who is known to everybody in school; it is he who will be remembered and talked about tomorrow. None are finished politicians, but they all try. It is the trying that counts. But not everyone can even try. What you can do is take your part in the best way you can. Vote. DIRECTIONS: — Indicate in space below: sex and class, then vote. If female vote for President of Associated Students, Chief Justice, AWS Officers, and Class President. If male, substitute AMS Officers. FAIL¬ URE TO FOLLOW DIRECTIONS WILL DISQUALIFY BALLOT. MALE . FEMALE . SENIOR : _ JUNIOR . SOPHOMORE . PRESIDENT OF A. W. S. SENIOR CLASS ASSOC. STUDENTS PRESIDENT PRESIDENT Dick Bagnard Bob Coates Earl Schroeder CHIEF JUSTICE Wilbur Jacobs Peter Prouse Rachel Williams A. M. S. PRESIDENT Kenneth Dauble Herbert MacDonald VICE-PRESIDENT Jack Marr SECRETARY Rodman Garren | I Jeannette Eastman Betty Moshisky FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Jean Ford SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT Roberta Oglesby Mabel Prouty Phyllis Wilson L Alberta Anderson Max Caplan Mary Gartz Elizabeth Moody Jack Page Mildred Schmertz Henry Shatford JUNIOR CLASS PRESIDENT TREASURER Barbara Lombard Evelyn Bradford SOPHOMORE CLASS PRESIDENT Sample ballot to be used at compul¬ sory assemblies. Robert McLean Charles Shannon Preparations For Record-Breaking Vote Completed With hopes for a new record in percentage of students voting, Bob Coates, chief justice, announced that the primary elections for stu¬ dent body officers will be held to¬ day, January 7. “Legal campaigning for offices boosted the vote in the last pri¬ maries, held last May, to 65 per cent of the student body, with legal campaigning, compulsory assem¬ blies and a more efficient system for the handling of the elections, we hope far to outstrip all past records in PJC voting,” said Chief Justice Coates. Nine voting booths, placed at convenient points on the campus, designated on the map to the left of this story, will be established, and will be easily spotted by the brightly-colored umbrellas shading the booths. Voting will start at 8 a. m. and continue throughout the school day until 3 p. m. All students will thereby be given an ample chance to cast their votes. ONE BALLOT USED One ballot, replacing the usual six, will be used for all the voting, each of the different groups of can¬ didates being in a different color of print. Voting directions will ap¬ pear at the top of the ballots, mak¬ ing chances for mistakes in voting very slight. Campaign funds for the candi¬ dates are available from the stu¬ dent body funds, and poster and handbill campaigning is available for all candidates. Speeches may also be made by candidates or their managers, so long as they keep outside of a radius of 100 feet around the polls on election day. WILL BE EDUCATIONAL “Every effort has been made to make this election much like the elections that students will meet in later life, and it is hoped that this feature will prove educational as well as vote-provoking,” added Coates. Election day assemblies will be held during the regular Friday as¬ sembly period. The men will meet in the auditorium and be presided over by Hank Swafford, secretary of activities, while the women will meet in the the men’s gym with Student Body President Bob Staple- ton in charge. Bob Coates, in charge of the election, will intro¬ duce the candidates, but only those running for office of student body president will speak because of the unusually large number of candi¬ dates. There will also be a short balk by a prominent civic leader, Swafford announced. COMPULSORY MEET Today’s assembly will be compul¬ sory for all students, with a closed campus prevailing and attendance will be checked by Spartans and Lancers. Special entertainment will be offered by two champion fencers from the Los Angeles Athletic club. Election candidates are listed in a sample ballot appearing else- wnere on this page.