Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Collette A. Creppel '82, another representative, added that the poor turnout might reflect a feeling of freshmen that "they've got the world's weight on their shoulders," and therefore want to just settle into their work before getting involved...
Offered such a host of plans and proposals, a certain number of voters will respond by not responding. "People are going to vote with their feet by not going to the polls," asserts Caddell, who anticipates an alltime low turnout. Others will focus all their attention on a single issue. Former President Gerald Ford, for one, worries that single-issue interest groups ? for and against abortion or gun-control or environmental regulations, etc.? will increasingly determine election outcomes. He told TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate that such groups pose "dangerous ramifications for the two-party system." Business...
Heather A. Pavlik '80, secretary of RUS, said she believes the transition from a fall to spring election calendar was the main reason for the low turnout of candidates. With no elected legislature to help out, RUS's five-woman executive board had to organize and publicize the entire election...
Floyd Wilson, director of intramural athletics, said the turnout in the interhouse race exceeded that of any previous meet by about 75 people. In contrast, only 11 freshmen showed up to compete...
...also happens to be a club sport here as well as at most other eastern American colleges, so despite the lwrge turnout it gets no university funding and cannot be sure from one season to the next if it will have a field to play...