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Friday, October 30, 1942 . DAILY NEBRASKAN Student Council Judiciary Committee Interorets Rules Governing Elections i Edjotr's Note: These are the rules governing student election proceedings. They were formulated toy the judiciary committee of the Student Council and will be rigidly enforced in the coming fall cam paign. The judiciary commitee agrees on the following definitions and Interpretations of Article IV of the rules of student elections: Article IV. No vote shall be solicited at the polls or in the building in which lection is being held during elec tion day. No money shall be spent in behalf of any candidate. No printed, mimeographed, typed, or otherwise published material in behalf of any candidate shall be permitted except the impartial announcements of the candidates appearing in the press. Any can didate violating these rules either in person or thru his supporters ehall thereby become ineligible. "No vote shall be solicited" shall mean: No person eligible to vote for any candidate shall be in fluenced in any way at the polls or in the building in which the election is being held by means or the spoken or written word or any other means, to cast his or her vote for any particular candidate; nor shall any such person be in fluenced in any means to vote at all. Place of Election. "At the polls or within the building in which the election is being held" shall mean: Any place within said building or within one hundred feet from any part of the building. Exception: Any regu larly assigned offices on the third floor of the Union for Intrfra- ternity and Barb Council. The phrase "at the polls" shall mean: At the place or p laces, where passing out of ballots to voters, marking of ballots by voters, and placing of ballots in the ballot boxes is taking place. "During the election day" shall mean: Shall be exchanged at any time from 12 midnight of the day preceding the election to the time that the polls are officially closed. "No money" shall mean: No cash, checks, mail orders, drafts, Stamps, credit or any other ar ticle of value. "Shall be spent" shall mean: Shall be exchanged, traded or given away in any manner. Backing Candidates. "In behalf of any candidate" shall mean: No money shall be spent which would in any way in fluence the results of the elec tion, or in any way influence a voter to cast his vote for any par ticular candidate or candidates, whose name or names appear on the ballots. The term "candidate" shall include both persons whose names appear on the ballots, and also the political parties with which they may be affiliated. This definition of candidates shall be followed wherever the term ap pears in this article. A person whose name is to appear on the ballot shall be considered a can didate from the day of his filing for office. "No printed, mimeographed, typed, or otherwise published ma terial" shall mean: No handbills, posters, papers, newspaper or any other type of materials or adver tising on which appears any writ ings, typing, printing, cartoons, drawings, photographs, or any other type of pictorial representa tion of thought, which material is to any voter by any means what ever or is posted in any place ex cept the inside of a private home, boarding house, rooming house, fraternity house, or sorority house except the official posters of the elections committee of the Student Council. Any such material posted in the university residence halls for women except official publicity of the elections committee shall be corsidered "published material." Publicity. "Impartial announcements" shall mean: A list of all candidates for all offices to be filled by the elec tions, in which list the candidates names must all appear correctly spelled, in the same kind of type, in the same color and shade of ink with no extra markings of any sort beneath, over, or beside any particular names which markings does ont appear in the same way by all the names in the list. Such lists may contain the political affiliations of all can didates but no other information about them. Official posters by the elections committee of the Student Council shall be con sidered impartial announcements. "The press" shall mean: Any publication which has the ap proval of the University of Ne braska publication board. In all ,cases the editors of the publica tions shall be held directly re sponsible for what appears in the publication. Breaking Rules. "Violating these rules" shall mean: Iu any way causing the rules of this article to be broken or infracted. "Either in person or thru his supporters" shall mean: Either by a personal action or by the action of any one of his supporters or by any member of the political faction with which he is affiliated, no matter whether or not he knows such action will be taken, is being taken, or has been taken. In considering the definition of the term "candidate" the penalty of violation of a rule shall apply only to the individual with whom the violation is concerned. If the violation is conncerncd with a political party, then the penalty shall apply to all nominees af filiated with that party. Ignorance No Excuse. Ignorance of this article and its interpretations shall not be con sidered a valid excuse for the vio lation of the rules of this article either by an individual, a group of individuals, or a political fac tion. Regular news items appearing in the press (defined above) and concerning any candidate shall not be considered as violations of this article unless they contain edi torial comment about the candi date or unless they are not impartial. Eighty percent of the men in the new freshman class of the Univer sity of Michigan's college of litera ture, science and the arts have been enrolled in mathematics or physics course, or both. Kosmet Klub Sets Time For Tryouts Fraternities Show Skits For Revue Tuesday Nite, Date Is Still Tentative Setting Tuesday evening as skit tryout night, Kosmet Klub Presi dent Max Laughlin started things rolling in anticipation of the Klub"s annual fall revue. Since Panhel ruled sororities out of the show, interest has been growing steadily along fraternity row. Twelve fraternities filed skits and from all indications this year's show will top all others from the humor angle. All tryouts will be held promptly at time specified in order that th' whole list of fraternities can b judged in one night and the deci sion of skits for the revue b-a made. Beginning at 7:30 p.m. the try outs will last until 11:30, with 20 minutes being allowed to each of r the 12 groups. Announcement of skits accepted for the show Willi be made in the Nov. 5 issue of the Daily. Laughlin emphasized that all Kosmet Klub actives must be at the office promptly at 7:20. The schedule: Phi Kappa Pse 7:30 Sigma Phi Epsilon 7:50 Sigma Nu 8:10 Sigma Alpha Epsilon 8:30 Sigma Chi 8:50 Sigma Alpha Mu 9:10 Beta Theta Pi 9 30 Alpha Tau Omega 9:50 Phi Gamma Delta 10:10 Alpha Sigma Phi 10:30 Delta Upsilon 10:50 Kappa Sigma 11:10 Date for the show has not been set officially pending administra tive action. For Your Coking Rendesvous "on Campus" BUCK'S COFFEE SHOP 1131 R Street M. L. Sperling Control . . . 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