Show Student Life Monthly Review Page 7 Cover story e events or organize a dancing event which was usually held in the Dansante (presently Mode O’Day) downtown Even the early student life coverage of the news generally went like for ball must be ordered” or “Coeds to buy dance tickets” Election’s participation was also another indication of a well-don- this--“Su- by Sondhi Limthongkul When Desmond Anderson the present mayor of Logan was elected to be the then-Uta- h State non-serio- attitude Body President it was the major turning point of student government Long before Desmond Anderson even knew anything about government the USAC student officers election was rather low key and in a different student in the news by headlining--“Gaw- d help us!! Johnson President” Apparently Johnson didn’t have to spend any money in advertising his candidacy all candidates’ propagandas were being done through Student Life There were no platforms no issues being perspective than where it is now Student elections in the past that is a few decades back were totally based on each candidate’s personality rather than their ability and performance issues and solutions Of course students in those days did not play the same kind of roles as they do now Student’s representatives in the Faculty Senate or a student voice in the athletic program were unheard of Students in those days were being viewed in a very y were to take traditional care of their own matters and leave the decision making to the administration Whatever was good for the administrators must also be good for students only names were presented and students exercised their votes through recognition printed Accordingly belonging to the fraternity was a must if one desired to run for office It may not even by an exaggeration to suggest that prior to the 1950’s Greeks dominated the student government completely It was Desmond Anderson who broke that Greeks fraternal ring way--the- the student body president’s chair Swede Larsen the present high school student relation officer was the last Greek from Pi Kappa Alpha before Anderson in 1947 broke that tradition In fact during Swede Larsen’s time as student body president every member of that student council was from Pi Kappa Swede Larsen’s election was one of the most unique situations where there were two primaries This was due to the ambiguity of the USAC constitution which stated that any student who has an ID could vote and it was not until the official found out that one student had been using different IDs and voted for nine consecutive times 8 Of course the year of was the year where World War II veterans started to return home and entered college There was definitely a generation gap between the world war vets and the younger generation But according to Swede both got along quite well around ac- major tivities of students government (a spring were dances clean up) and athletic events Back then almost everyone knew everyone USAC was a rather small institution where election issues weren’t concerned with how student government’s concerned with the economic conditions during the depression period or how the bookstore should be taken care of for the students’ benefit but rather how well known that candidate was and thus able to arouse the crowd before the athletic in the A-d- ay pep-rall- y 1947-194- Sondhi Limthongkul a native was the first of Thailand ran for foreign student who the office of Student Body President in 1971 A veteran of Student Life Sondhi was the Review skipper of the Monthly conThis is his last written tribution to USU A constant critic of events and peoples he for is leaving USU this quarter in this good after six years it' UJ 1 I i 1'A illl' u us government participation Any turn out of over 20 percent was considered to be highly successful Lloyd Johnson was elected to be student body president with less than 400 votes In 1934 Student Life announced Agricultural College Student Unsurprisingly it U 1 h t IJI t 1 14 l44W I |