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'Dirty Politics'

With everyone else engaging in
dirty politics around here, I am
interested how the Cavalier Daily
came to stoop to that level last
Wednesday, in the guise of a
humorous caption to the Letters
section of the editorial page.

The caption ("JP Running on
Shaky Platform") sounds like
something taken from the V.P.P.
flyer circulated the night before.
Certainly it was (1) unrelated
humorously or logically to any
letter in the newspaper that day;
(2) was not labelled an editorial
comment; (3) was not elaborated
upon or qualified in any way to
moderate its impact or to allow
rebuttal; and (4) was timed
suspiciously at best. It is the work
of a member of the newspaper
staff, not a letter-writer.

This sort of political
partisanship by the Cavalier Daily
on the first day of voting requires
an explanation, else impartial
reporting in the University's only
daily newspaper is put in question.
Perhaps one of your little midnight
gremlins scampering about the
composition room left the caption
behind him by mistake; but in that
case, you could arrange for him to
own up to it.

BFD Write-In

In Darkness of certain events
over the past few days in the
E-school we feel compelled to make
a few statements.

Our purpose in running was to
show that the E-school political
scene is totally meaningless. We did
not intend to get elected nor did we
intend to invalidate the election.
Our announced purpose was to run
as write-in candidates. For the mere
hell of it we also typed up elections
petitions and got the required 25
names (most of which knew we
were ineligible).

Then for added thrills we
submitted it to the S.C. office and
refused to pay the five dollar
candidate's fee. But this didn't stop
S.C., they put our names on the
ballot anyway - unknown to us
until election day. Then when the
shit hit the fan they decided to
declare the election null and void
because our names were on the
ballot - Catch-22.

But that fiasco notwithstanding
I think we made our point,
whatever that was. If the make-up
election were not held and no
"representatives" sent to S.C. the
only disappointed people would be
the candidates (sorry fellas) and the
3 political societies who spent over
a hundred dollars each (our bill was
$3.50, eat your hearts out!). It all
leads to the question of "So what?"
and of course the answer for that is
b.f.d.

As a final request of a now
defunct party we ask all toolies to
vote B.F.D. as write-ins if you too
feel that E-school politics are a
farce. Remember, if elected, we
cannot serve.