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Radcliffe will experiment with more liberal parietal hours during the Spring Term, Mary I. Bunting, President of Radcliffe, announced yesterday. Each 'Cliffe dorm may decide, by vote, to hold "open-open house" on Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m. Guests will be registered on arrival and must be accompanied by...
Nothing in the Constitution forbids the use of unpledged electors or prevents an individual elector from exercising his personal judgment in voting. In fact, such individual discretion was clearly the intention of the framers, for whatever that is worth. But, as the electoral system has evolved toward universal suffrage, the...
Of course, none of this stuff about universal suffrage applies too rigorously to the South. Yet the Southern electorate, such as it is, in every state but two chose electors pledged to one or the other of the major Presidential candidates. In Mississippi, a Barnett slate of unpledged electors defeated...
Ross Barnett and his boys are not most people's idea of what the framers had in mind when they conceived of Presidential electors making a free, conscientious choice. And, as the electoral system currently works, when Southern dissidents present unpledged electors rather than a specific third candidate they ask...
The people of the other Southern states, on the other hand, have also made their choice, and Governor Barnett and his allies had better learn to live with that. The voters of Georgia, Louisiana and Texas (the three states where the Barnett efforts have been concentrated) selected electors pledged publicly...