Show u 0 STUDENT LEADERS ARE AWAKE Of late there has been much complaint that the University has very few student leaders and that such as she has are in a state of somnolence The Chronicle fails to see this lack of leadership Whenever the occasion has arisen when leadership leadership leadership leader leader- ship was needed some one has stepped in to assume assume assume as as- sume the burden The plan of holding football rallies ralles on the campus initiated just before the team left for Denver was accomplished largely by bythe bythe bythe the efforts of one student At present a committee commit commit- tee of students is working on student government government government govern govern- ment and as soon as the football season has passed and the attention of the Student Body can be gained this committee will report The executive executive executive exec exec- board is working hard to establish a student body headquarters and the outlook outlook for success is very promising As for the seven forty-seven other unoccupied quarters quarters quarters where student leadership is needed we are unable to discover them Some of the opportunities ties mentioned by our correspondent cannot be utilized without a good deal of money and that money must come from the legislature If the complainants feel that they have any influence with the legislature let them use it If this is isan isan isan an opportunity for student leadership then new leaders are certainly necessary for none of those who are doing the work of the student body at present feel equal to the task of coercing the legislative body into giving us money with which to accomplish every scheme that might arise We Ve fear that many members of our community are prone to load all the work of the student body on a few willing shoulders and then to sit back and complain Tom Lawson fashion because results are not immediately forthcoming Some of these r reforms forms improvements call call them what you will will cannot cannot be accomplished in a day The entire entire entire en en- tire community must be aroused to their necessity necessity necessity sity and be willing to support them before they can become established fact In the case of student student student stu stu- dent government especially is this true It has been dinned into our ears repeatedly that the initiative for this reform must come from the students students stu stu- dents and by this is meant not four or five leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers but the great majority of the student body Are the students as a whole ready to accept and support this system of University government If not all the leadership in the world cannot make it a success Such leaders as we have are trying to build for the future as well as the present They are working for the most substantial good of the University If any students are dissatisfied with the progress of events it behooves them not to sit down and grieve but to actively assist the promotion promotion promotion promo promo- tion of improvements by agitating among the students students students stu stu- dents and by supporting the efforts of the lead lead- ers n |