Stassen Dominates Kent State College Youth Straw Poll
Harold E. Stassen led a Kent State straw poll with 325 of 812 votes, far ahead of Dewey 100 Truman 89 Eisenhower 80 Taft 44 Vandenburg 64 and Wallace 61. GOP 285 votes, Democrats 257, Independents 175. cross-party support notable and crackpot votes noted.
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Harold E. Stassen
United States
Stassen
Thomas E. Dewey
New York
Republican Party
Harry Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert Taft
Vandenburg
Wallace
Kent State University
GOP
Democratic Party
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Taft
Eisenhower
Dewey
Joe Stalin
J. Edgar Hoover
Tom Davey
Ray Hyser
Neal Manning
Bob White
Blackie Wheatley
Sam Keener
Bill Pfahl
Daily Stater
Elections Committee
Varsity Magazine
Campus mail box idea to unite student organizations
The piece notes that campus clubs fade after officer changes as contact is lost. It proposes a university wide organization mail box with pigeon holes for each Student Council chartered group. It also questions the status of the K-Vets now named University Veterans after the 1945 change.
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University Veterans
Weekly Ramblings on Colleges By Al Weekley
A Canton's Public Opinion editorial mocks college classroom logic and Purdue jokes. The writer criticizes modern universities for focusing on buildings and rules over student development and honesty. He reflects on postwar growth and urges ESU and others to reassess their educational direction.
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al Weekley
Canton
Bob Hope
Purdue University
Hope
Colonna
America
ESU
Socrates
Aristotle
Kent Statek newspaper staff and publication notes
A partial staff list including Jack Gulshen and others is shown. The Kent Statek is published daily Tuesday through Friday during the school year and on Tuesdays and Fridays in summer sessions. It notes suspension during vacations and lists a 1927 newspaper entry date and post office designation in Kent, Ohio.
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Jack Gulshen
George Scriven
Bob Zimmerman
Bernie Suhayda
Kenny Haina
Jim Smith
Arthur Garner
Bill Kalaher
Phil Starr
Elsie Idian
Gerad George Boveington
Louis Sordian
Gerd Beeman
Sylvester Nemes
Bob Mike McCabe
Tom Jakimedes
Jean Bookman
Bob Stuart
Pete Dohoda
Charles Wiland
Priscilla Thompson
Cynthia Poe
Phil Hartman
Jerry Mekler
Marion Glawe
Jim Root
Time Changes Snafu's KSU Suitcase Students
Several score of the university's suitcase students arrive in Kent Monday morning about the same time they left Cleveland or Youngstown. Cleveland and Youngstown and many towns jumped to daylight saving time while Kent did not. The May 4 primary will decide Akron's stance. Many cities refuse the change including Bucyrus Warren Canton Defiance Findlay Medina and Forti. Confusion will persist until late September.
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Bob West
University
Kent
Cleveland
Youngstown
Akron
Bucyrus
Warren
Canton
Defiance
Findlay
Medina
Fostoria
Salineville
Ashland
Bedford
Chardon
East Liverpool
Elyria
Leetonia
Norwalk
Oberlin
Sandusky
Bulova
Bohemian Life Is Farce in Greenwich Spinach Debate
An implausible polemic contrasts bohemian culture with Greenwich society, mocking college artists for pretentious erudition, opining that true artistry is stunted by fraternalism and material pursuit, while noting the flirtation with radical causes ends with graduation's dollars.
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Greenwich
Mail Bag criticizes lack of interest in student government
A Stater editor letter laments pre election rally apathy at the university. Citing low attendance and few candidates present, the writer argues interest in student government is minimal and offers no solution beyond student engagement.
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Stater
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Bios Wales
St., Kent
Ohio
Robert J. Casey
Angeline Scourcos
Managin
George
Snafu
KSU
Poneme
the Stater
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