Word: slating
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming back from its second place defeat of last week, the Varsity cross country squad will journey to Franklin Park this afternoon to meet Rhode Island State and Connecticut on the 4.25 mile course. Coach Jaakko Mikkola is sending in a full slate of 13 Varsity entries and eight Freshmen. This will be the first intercollegiate workout for the Yardlings, some of whom ran close competition to the Varsity harriers in the University handicap two weeks...
...cursory comparison of the list of winners and the original slate of nominations shows a marked parallel between position on the ballot and success in the election, a parallel that dramatizes student apathy toward the Council, and at the same time exposes the weakness of the Council in managing all the interlocking ramifications which go into the administration of a democratic election...
...Personal loyalty can keep a man in office despite the most sweeping landslides, as in the case of the venerable Frederick W. Cook, Republican, who has been Secretary of State perennially since 1921. Or loyalty can propel a man into office when nearly every other name on the party slate is snowed under. Exactly that happened in 1936, when young Henry Cabot Lodge steamrollered one James M. Curley in the Senatorial race while the New Deal was winning 46 states and almost every other Commonwealth office on the ballot...
...should become aware of the amazingly small share of democratic control he is allowed to exercise over this Council, of the pitifully small voice he actually has in this supposedly representative body. He should realize that each Council, through a complicated procedural device, may control the selection of a slate from which 60 percent of the succeeding Council is chosen. And he should know that this 60 percent will arbitrarily select the remaining members of the new Council, in the manner of many exclusive organizations that make no pretense of representation and do not label themselves a "Student Council...
...Germany's Russian zone, voters were nominally electing a slate of municipal officials. Actually, they were voting for or against the spread of Communist influence through the Russian-sponsored SED (Sozialistische Einheitspartei Deutschlands-Socialist Unity Party of Germany) and deepening domination by the Russian occupiers...