Show x ays u Right Time To Act A Political Crusade Now The very future of such organizations as the Young Republicans and Young Democrats lies with the activities of these groups on the campuses of the universities and colleges throughout the After it is the students in these colleges and universities that are the new They are the ones that should have a new and interested outlook on the nations future and they should have an interest in the nation's A basic principle of the organizations of Young Republicans and Democrats involves the areas of political activity that will help an individual to understand and become an integral part of his political All this leads us to somewhat of an assumption that the University and college is the place to start the political action will interest the upcoming This normally would mean speakers on campus and meetings designed to interest the This would normally mean a dom to exchange ideas on a campus level in a campus This is interpreted to mean just these things on many but it is not interpreted in this way on the University of Utah political action on the campus is denied the University of Utah students by an outdated Regents' No off campus speaker may meet with a University group and discuss political No University of Utah facility can be used to house a political The only exception to this rule was made when all political candidates running for the same office could arrange to appear on the This entire problem of political action on the U of U campus came into the open during the national election in The campus facilities were denied to a group of students who wanted to hear a national The denial was made because the Regents felt it would be too late in the campaign to allow the use of the buildings for such meetings and claimed that the taxpayers would feel that the Regents were biased in their thinking by allowing the one party to be represented and not the The University student the was branded as rabble-rouser because staff members openly petitioned for a change in policy and an acceptance of political action on the some individual Regents were contacted and it was learned that they actually favored a change in policy and an opening of the campus to politics during election Most of them agreed that the University was a place where political action should be It was attitude that prompted the Regents to ask the A. Ray to review the policy and recommend some President has not yet made any moves to this end and it would seem he does not have any immediate plans to do No student leaders have been invited to extend their No political party reaction has been The president has made no moves in this Certainly there is some time before the next political but unless there is action now there will be no The president and the Regents must consider the problem They must look beyond their own prejudices and think of the vast experience that is denied the students on the Professors in many University departments have all been in favor of a change but have feared voicing their concern over the It seems that if a change is going to be it must come from those the students and the young political groups that will most 1 |