Graduate Elections

To the Editors of the CRIMSON:

Last Wednesday's Graduate Student Council elections can but seem a farce to the average graduate student.

What can be the advantage of balloting when there is neither contact nor much mutual interest between electorate and candidates, except that outwardly the precious requirement of democratic procedure has been fulfilled?

Who knows what platform Bray, Philip James, is running on? What tuition rate will McLoughlin, William G., Jr., fight for? What is the stand Shackford, Charles R., take son final examination for graduate students?

I do not believe that nobody cares. Statistics show that college graduate form one of the most ballot-minded groups of the population. Personally, I was greatly disappointed to have to admit that I ought not to vote because of the fact that of the twenty-four candidates only one was known to me.

If only one or two of the candidates had taken the initiative to engage in some campaigning they would not only have ensured their own election (it would seem that they were not particulary ambitious in that respect), but they would also have stirred up some badly needed interest in the election as such.

As it is, there does not seem to be much chance that the activities of the Graduate Student Council will rise from the oblivion which has been their lot in the past. J. Peter Prins 1G