Evening star., 1937-10-03
ELECTION At c. v.
TO Be THIS WEEK
Students Will Go to Pons
Thursday and Fridaym
Union Ballot.

George Washington UNIVERSITY e'N
dents will go to the polls iHuas
and FRIDAY to register their political
oninions in the third annual campus
v,d. election of the George Washing
ton Union.
The union is a student legislative
Forum, composed of 100 delegates rep
r.s.nting three parties-Right, Gen.
tsr and Left-whose platforms con-
form in general to the principles held
bv similarly designated groups in
actual legislative bodies.
The parties select their own dele
yates to the union, student voters
casting their ballots, not for indi-
Vdual candidates for election, but
for Right, Center or Left party, &C.
cording to their choice. Each party
seats the number of delegates to which
the size of the vote secured in the
general election entities it under a
plan of proportional representation.
Last years union election resulted in
the seating of 48 Center party dele
gates. 80 Left party delegates and %
Right party delegates.
Voting Machines to Be Used.
AS in previous years. voting ma
chimes will be used to record the bal
fots. Three of these machines will
be installed at polling places in the
university buildings. Every student
u the university is entitled to vote
n the union election.
Last week each party held a con-
Pention to determine its platform and
- select its candidate for the presi-
6ency of the union. The party which
obtains the largest vote in the general
Section seats its candidate as presi-
onnt OF the union. Last years union
president was Robert Doolan of the
Center party.
Tomorrow night at BIS in Stockton
Hall a tri-party union debate, open to
al students, will be held. Speakers
representing Right, Center and Left
will discuss the stand of their re-
spective parties on the question of the
relationship of government to indus
try. Wednesday afternoon a union
rally will take place in the university
yard. President Cloyd H. Marvin is
scheduled to address the assembly and
each of the presidential candidates
will appear That night, in a last
minute appeal to the voters. union
representatives will speak over the
air on a specially arranged radio pro-
gram. Voting will begin the following
morning.
Model for Union.
Modelled along the lines of the
famous Oxford and Cambridge Union
Societies, The George Washington
University Union had its inception ir
the growing interest of university stu.
dents in public affairs. 1t was set
up by the students to afford opportun.
1ty Tor practice in parliamentary pro-
eeoure, and as a medium for repre-
sentlng their fundamental views
through discussion and enactment of a
legislative program touching national
and international problems.
Since formation of the George
washington Union a similar student
unicameral legislature, patterned after
the George Washington group. has
been formed at the University of Vir-
ginia and others are projected else
where. The union here has enlisted
the interest of educators and other
persons who believe in the forum as a
means of fostering intelligent political
discussion.
Prof. Alan T. Deibert, adviser to
students from foreign countries, will
hold = tea Wednesday afternoon from
4 TO s at International House
IN honor Of foreign students who are
new to the university this year. He
will be assisted by the officers and
members Of the International Students
Society. These teas will be held the
f1rst Wednesday of each month during
the year. The International Students
Society plans program which will in
clude reception, several dances, and
. number of international night" en-
tertainments, featuring the music,
dancing and costumes of the members
native lands.