
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, November 28, 1993                   TAG: 9311250081
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-2   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
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REPORTING STAFF URGED TO JOIN THE '90S

What exactly does Brian Kelley mean to suggest by his references to "one man, one vote" in his article in the Current on Nov. 19 on electing members of the Montgomery County School Board? Perhaps it's that only males may vote? Or that only the votes of males will be counted? Or that only males are eligible to run for seats . . . ?

Although the initial reapportionment decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court did use the misleading phrase "one man, one vote," those opinions were written in the early 1960s. Thirty years later - in both academic literature and legal circles - a far more descriptive phrase is used instead: one person, one vote.

Perhaps Mr. Kelley and the rest of the very homogeneous "political" reporting staff of the Roanoke Times & World-News could join the rest of us here in the 1990s.\ Karen Hult Blacksburg

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