Show Student responsibility Dear Class elections are Another farce is but another sad the recollection that class candidates were elected to class offices with total votes numbering in some cases less than Throughout the coming years this farce will continue unless we as do something about So let's examine the conditions that exist at election First of all a piece of red tape is issued from offices manned by directors and connoisseurs of campus binding and g the individual student to such an extent that he fears any medium by which he can publicize his candidate for class Such restrictive practice destroys the chance for promulgation of the candidate's qualifications for Consequently the who is as rare at the polls as a puppet at a marionette fails to express his choice in the ballot As a sad class election time becomes only a ridiculous perfunctory But the blame for this set-up cannot be entirely traced to a It's my contention that we as students are likewise at Too many of us have indifferent attitudes about student We tend to use the as leaning thinking that they will assume student government responsibility whether it has any immediate effect on our lives or And so what has happened as a result of our During the past years student government has been vicariously influenced by a select number of administrators who are not This group has out of the enough authority to control student affairs At the present students are beginning to think of themselves as juveniles being watched by probation Should mature thinking men be treated as In the way of a solution I would like to suggest for your consideration a resolution in which the student be given an opportunity to exercise his rights as a mature human The student has for too long lived under the watchful shadow of the who has used his power of seniority and position to govern and confine campus discouraging in part campus political in Certain gentlemen have invaded too frequently the private province of student government and before the election rules can be revised and be given a thorough bath the student must come into his own free from dominating rulers who are other than The strings which bind and gag him must be Farcical restraints should be cast aside and practical advancements Let's get together and support our new officers with the firm hope that they will not became puppets to anyone and that the school's constitution will work for and not against the students who desire freedom along the channels of progressive Let's have a students administration in which democratic elections can be maintained LYMAN |