Show Your Neighbors' Ideas THE OPINION FORUM By Chronicle Readers WHY HAVE A ASKS STUDENT Editor For the last three weeks the Chronicle has been harping on the subject of the reinstatement of the Its columnists frequently and loosely use the term as if every individual was personally interested in seeing the Humbug It seems to me that this is vastly misrepresentative for two That the majority of the student body doesn't give a about whether a or That there really are students numbered among who can see no justification for a Humbug ever petitions have been signed by of but remember the time the entire senior class was hoaxed by the freshmen when they signed petitions declaring that they were the lowest of Nobody reads a petition before Another thing pick up an old issue of the Humbug and glancing through notice small credit lines and you will see that a large portion of the jokes and miscellaneous material has been borrowed from the humor magazines of other schools namely the Yale Record and the Harvard This material is sophisticated and applicable to other campuses but never matched by the local And the gossip has already been used two weeks before by downtown of there are a few clever cartoons and sometimes good articles by the local staff but these are usually the work of the editor arid one or two friends or a handful of students at the It seems from this that the university does not harbor enough native talent to merit the To above may be at all university Aren't they handled by a few that is but with the others there seems to be an earnest attempt to be The Humbug has always been and I would presume would continue to be a sorority and fraternity handbook not that the Greeks but these groups are at the most a small of university life and should be viewed as There is no personal animosity intended by this it was unfortunate that the magazine's personnel had been Without the editor-elect could have put out just as good or perhaps better magazine than but maybe there had to be a stopping A |