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Administration of yesterday's balloting for approval or disapproval of NSA was both inefficient and imprudent. No ballots were distributed in Eliot and Leverett Houses. The Union ballot supply was insufficient. And the ballot itself, consisting of one-and-one-half pages of propaganda followed by one-and-one-half lines of actual ballot, could be classified as a manifesto with a sign-on-the-dotted-line addenda. Both the bungled supply and the blatant propaganda have undoubtedly and unfortunately lowered the number of students approving affiliation with NSA. The bungling was merely, if unexcusably, administrative inefficiency. But the propaganda...
...combination ballot and tract was printed under the supposition that, despite room-to-room distribution of flyers and several articles on the news pages of the Crimson, a large number of students would come face to face with the ballot unenlightened as to the nature and objectives of NSA. This supposition was undoubtedly correct, and some sort of explanation was undoubtedly necessary if the results of the vote were to mean anything. But the method utilized by the Council to clarify NSA was--let us say the word--stupid...
Oddly enough, the Council's original plan for distribution of the ballots would have precipitated no objections. Two pieces of paper would have been handed to each student. One was to be a ballot--under the aegis of the Council--with nothing on it but a simple choice of approving or rejecting affiliation with NSA. The other was to be publicity--signed by the University's NSA delegates--outlining the purposes and advantages of NSA. What actually confronted students was a combination of the two, both under the auspices of the Council, and both phrased in such...
Protests were registered by some voters over what was termed a "onesided" ballot...
Stripped of the party roll calls and political scaffolding that greet each election, this November 4th approaches as a disorganized but crucial ballot for Cambridge's city government and school system. The elections to decide the future City Council and School Board have been campaigned on the basis of individual preference rather than party affiliation. With each candidate, excepting those men endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association, conducting his own campaign, there has been no concerted effort to overcome voter inertia or crystallize important issues for the benefit of the electorate. The race for ballots seems to be diffused towards...