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Show 'Resident' Joins Chronicle The majority of people on .this campus seem to belong to a collection collec-tion of "separate but equal" minorities min-orities that can wield a great deal of power in and of themselves, but seldom do they have any unison of purpose for that power. The Residence Halls Association is an organization that represents 1400 students, a larger collective number num-ber than any other single organization. organ-ization. The dorm students can no longer keep their opinions and ideas to themselves, they don't want to remain out of communica tion with the rest of the campus. As a means of bringing about both ends, the RHA newspaper "The Resident" has been made a weekly part of the Daily Utah Chronicle. Although the idea is still in an experimental stage, it is hoped that some reaction to the merging of the two publications will be aroused among University students. Too many people have the false notion that the dorms are merely places to store the out-of-state students stu-dents until they've graduated and gone. They are, instead, places where large groups of people are thrown together day after day on a personal level, causing fierce friendships or hatreds alike, that are symptoms of an ever present restlessness. It is a restlessness which breeds commonly shared experiences ex-periences in both work and recreation; recrea-tion; such as being the largest voting block in the mock political conventions soon to be held, or loading a dozen guys from the floor into on old Oldsmobile to go into town and see "The Graduate." The dorms comprise a miniature kaliedoscopic world, a mass of individual, in-dividual, distinctly different colors and shapes that all fit into one complex picture. That picture is constantly changing: a stomp in the Carlson Hall Cafeteria, a meeting meet-ing of Republican delegates to the mock conventions in Ballif Lounge, a full fledged Bridge tournament that goes on late at night in Austin Hall, "International Week" which was instigated by the American and foreign students in International Internation-al House and wound up involving hundreds of people the ever- growing list of activities and functions func-tions in Residence Halls goes on and on. The RHA breathes with just as strong a breath as any other student stu-dent organization on campus, and now it has a University-wide voice in the Chronicle. That voice should be the first step in a two way communication com-munication among all students, on campus and off. |