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Show Today's Practical Pofe Any Room For Idealism? By ALICE EAST There were days when I first entered Political Science that I thof things in politics were really as they seemed to be. Laws were made the Legislature and not in committee. Preseidents were always right. T: Constitution protected everyone from self-incrimination and illegal seat and seizure. I even had a sprinkling of Mormon philosophy that allot me to believe that the Constitution was divinely inspired. Slowly, as made the inevitable progression from Poli. Sci. 10 to 11, to 145, and u ward in the department I began to lose any resemblence to an idet In fact, it amazed me to see some of my best loved professors still :: sessed with idealism. To point to a day in history and say that this is the day I ceased' be an idealist and began to regress to a view that government was a c:: tinual "anything goes," power struggle is impossible I must say that; experiences with the campus politics had a great effect, but they are' entirely to blame for the current trend away from Camelot. The Roots Of It All Perhaps the culmination of small things led to the final renuncia I do know that the last straw came as I sat in the Huddle Jiaving f ; with one of the candidates for office in November and one of hisa: handed me a list of speeches the opposition would be giving during campaign. Actually it was a list of places where the opposition ; be speaking. They were Utopia, Camelot and Shangrila. As series it seems now, we all laughed. hmfAe the comment at the time that it was sad that the opPJ not ,fe 3 realist in the Pmary, and I received a reproaching ; not whether you win or lose but how you play the game" look ft : cTdTJn-. WaS the final breakmg Pot. It was then that ; cided that it 1S whether you win or lose that counts because no o . yo!!?e office" kind f Campaign yu had a year frm Worth the Price? the candid prdictinZ and bad poll results in the world will not me that 1 Cnters a race t0 win at all cost. As my friend Till ? tw aymvthe Huddle "X y not win, but everyone's gonna Lm ?ustT; YeS' Plitics is dirty- but then all struggles for po Send tStr "r diFty is n reason t0 that 14 iS ' man'sndJ0hat ? ' 1 SGe that the taste for politics that ge Je Sur years for t Wm giVe Up a lucrative laW TtSeV for ZmZ t. he Pe0ple of a state is wrong. I can't see tliat the 1 he fht 'fth rt,deVelped is wro"g- But when I'm alone to th I've had t h St fr PWer made men in power do, and he S wS5a?h?S ? g?t What little power 1 mav have had' 1 wsh that I hadn't returned from Camelot |
