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Show WillardsBay The ASUU Frat By WILLARD MORRIS The upcoming ASUU elections are again bringing the antagonism and spirit of competition to this campus. Every year about this time many student critics voice opinions on the current student government. They claim our government gov-ernment is unrepresentative, ineffective, inef-fective, and acts as a rubber stamp for the administration. The first symptoms of opposition appear with a blatant attack on the Greek system. Anti-Greek critics claim that the Greek members of the Executive Council don't rpnrp. for the remodeling of the building. This does not seem like a rubber stamp act since the Executive Council was trying to bring the best possible facilities to the students. The recommendation to build a better Union was left to the student government. The Executive Council this year has done the best job of any Executive Ex-ecutive Council in the past several years. They have reached out in public affairs to broaden the image of the University. The new programs pro-grams operating at this University are serving as models for other institutions. Throughout their efforts ef-forts they have eached strived to serve the entire studentbody as well as possible. In the upcoming campaign we should try to learn about each candidate can-didate and his ideas for improvements improve-ments of the government and the University. We should see through the bitter cries of those critics who do not criticize to improve the system but only to cause trouble and discredit those who are successful. Let each of us try to elect people who will improve the University-people University-people who will represent us as well as our current officers have leaders who will serve the University Uni-versity and produce programs which will benefit all the students. sent the entire studentbody. They claim the Greeks use their power to persue their own goals and leave the interests of the independent students unguarded. This claim is untrue. I attend the meetings of the Executive Council as a representative of the Chronicle. All 17 members of the council, including those who are Greek, are interested in representing represent-ing the entire University. The Greek members have an attitude that they shall serve the student-body student-body as a whole, with the Greek community as a part of the whole. The fever of the battle increases when critics claim that ASUU has done nothing. They say that the Executive Council has made only a few feeble tries to implement any constructive programs. That the programs the council has started start-ed are not followed through is a major cry of the crtics. Those who decry the Executive Council as being ineffective and do-nothings must not have looked into the admirable record of this year's council. They missed the new ways that public relations are being used to promote the University. Uni-versity. They didn't see the speakers speak-ers and entertainers that ASUU brought to the campus. Challenge Week and the tremendous new Mock Conventions and Course Eval-ation Eval-ation programs have not been impressed im-pressed upon the critics. The new programs are ambitious, and this is one of the few campuses where programs such as these are in operation. op-eration. Many critics say the ASUU government gov-ernment is a rubber stamp for the administration. They gave the possible pos-sible one dollar increase in tuition as an example of a rubber stamp action by the Executive Council. In a meeting discussing the ad-lition ad-lition to the student Union it was Drought up that the funds which had Deen appropriated might not be ;nough to build the addition. Ex-?cutive Ex-?cutive Council members could :hoose between cutting the size md quality of the addition or rais-ng rais-ng the student building fee to pay |