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Show Hinckley Political' Room :h )edicared As 'Convivial' but now we should educate the people about the practical problems prob-lems of becoming involved in politics." He called the Hinckley Hinck-ley Institute for Practical Politics Poli-tics a "pacesetting program". Dr. J. D. Williams, Institute Director, presented Bertram Willis, Wil-lis, Young Republicans President, Presi-dent, and Scott Robertson, Young-Democrats Young-Democrats President, with keys to locked filing drawers for their groups' use. He also invited other campus political organizations to use similar private drawers. In describing the Room, Dr. Williams paid special attention to the fifty photographs of University Uni-versity political science graduates gradu-ates on the west wall, to assure students that "political science can lead to practical careers." lfo p.Tie traditional "smoke-filled ,e e n" of politics became a Uni-n Uni-n ncpsity reality Thursday as the t asickley Caucus Room was for-a for-a .lly dedicated to be a place of mvivial atmosphere" with ilitical purpose." he frgjonated by Robert H. Hinck-cars Hinck-cars ant a ruV of his friends, and Id up tinne alumni of the Political Sci-'donf(x,'e Sci-'donf(x,'e Department, the $10,000 the fjRom is equipped with an eat-itz, eat-itz, th(r a snack bar and a case liat then unusual political displays. A got intinpaign button collection dat-ba.ck dat-ba.ck to President Lincoln's " tidn was displayed for the ming. Robert H. Hinckley, Jr., speak-lre speak-lre liviij for his father, presented the m to President Fletcher by the "bpng that it was "terrifically ir "littbortant that citizens become ?mselves0lved in politics." To become hool anoived, he said, "is the most stions. )ortant function of a free so-studenlty so-studenlty and a free man." vV6rc ori ' ... 'Politics is no longer a dirty U!-d," explained Dr. Fletcher, accepting the Room. "In the ng in tfct, both religion and politics not bee'e frowned on in any social to attenpussion. We are still restrict- a particiirom teaching religion by law, |