i We Get Letters from Our Readers I Responsibility Dear new class officer amendment poses new challenges and duties for the upcoming class IN ADDITION to their traditional officers as a be responsible for representing their constituents in the This is only the first step in what could end up giving the class officers a real role in student government fo first this doesn't even begin to solve the problem of having student government an active voice in our administration or of making student government meaningful to the student body as a We have been too concerned in our recent years with making changes in our student government which involve only those who are in government class office election But now something should be done to make more available to the student body some of the cultural and academic facilities that are outlined in our FREE TEXT books for home study courses and a proposed teacher evaluation are not out of line for the new class It is my firm in running for junior class that we in student are on the of new It is my desire to serve the student community better through a broadening and extension of class officer LEE CASE Who's Dear There is a basic error in the editorial carelessly kneaded about professional Gamal parting comments where treatment of foreign students is equated with the eventual fate of IN THE opening paragraphs of this the University of Utah and the United States of America were placed on the same level with respect to treatment of how students treat a foreign student coming to the U. of U. to learn of our country's culture and way of life becomes no different from how the United States government treats foreigners in their own While such a gross misunderstanding may have been expressed the gross exaggeration of this idea blown on to readers in the editorial is of division by whereby any two statements can be proven JUST WHO or rather Gamal He was certainly a critic of student But who He was a critic of student who In private life at Ballif Hall he was a critic of our educational But what student But was Gamal really a A person who only audits the courses can hardly attain the attitudes of a full-time WE FIND it hard to take the opinions of our visitors from the as those coming from a person primarily engaged at a when the Chronicle took statements and blew them up beyond any believable they had no knowledge of his place in our campus in student government consisted of a voting seat in the The Chronicle's picture of utter desolation and gloom based on unquestioned statements are both unrealistic and r. neil Mcpherson john dannenberg john those who haven't bothered to find is student body president of the University of Cairo and a member of the national legislature of the United Arab While the statements may or may not be the Chronicle is concerned that such an influential person would carry such attitudes back to his Hats Off Dear In the past few weeks there has been nothing but criticism leveled against the foreign student community and the American students' efforts to rectify problems in this At the risk of sounding overly might we say something FRIDAY night the Students from Aboard committee conjunction with the League of Arab Students at the University of put on an International Food which was a great attended by foreign American and downtown A most delicious Egyptian meal and an all-Arab program marked the highlights of this CONGRATULATIONS and thanks are in order to our Arab students who and cleaned in were gracious Also be congratulated were those vitally interested people from the American student community who supported this May it be noted that had there been space enough tickets could have been More of such events are planned for next We feel that last Friday's program was an indication of the sincere interest which will be shown in the area of foreign student programs in the EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Experience Dear Because the Election Committee has discouraged issue campaigns in the class the support Karen Rosenbaum for Senior Personnel Coordinator on the basis of her experience in the Senate and the Personnel JUDY HANSEN MARCELLUS MARTHA HALE MIKE STEVENS Don Panic Dear Is our attitude toward the foreign students on our campus really as bad as Gamal and the Chronicle editorial in his parting remarks to I think FOREIGN STUDENTS come here primarily to They also observe the American college way of Should they be treated as honored guests at all Can one really get a true picture of how a family lives if he is treated by that family at all times to the best to the extravagantly done guest to the guest and to the meals prepared just the way he would have them at Wouldn't one get a distorted We do honor our foreign and we honor them in our best We make them equal to Are they really discriminated Can't they vote in our Aren't they treated equally in WHY SHOULD the foreign students feel as a group If they perhaps they should be the ones to change When in Rome As for criticism of our student he should have after a. year that we feel well enough represented by our state and federal senators and WE DO not feel that our student governments should have any voice in the running of our Students quite often are more wrong than when they graduate and get settled in if that is they gain a sounder judgment of ideas are interesting and certainly deserve much but let's not and conclude at once that they are sound or that they are valuable as good LESTER