| Show I ne Model T By ERNIE FORD Chronicle Editor-in-Chief Now that the year is drawing to a people are getting spring fever and using it an excuse to sit back and reflect upon the past nine months and what's gone BECAUSE the fever is contagious and spreads we'd like to sit back and talk for a while about the eternal problems of a much-abused and much-misunderstood organ of student government the Now neither the paper nor editor have ever held the reputation of being exactly kind to our in it's been quite the f But most of our cri- have been f spot that is they've talked about the PeA things the Senate d i d wrong o r m on one particular S ivr Ford u The problem of goes deeper than wasting time discussing parties or voting the on It gets right down to the very heart of the Senate itself its makeup and the main portion of the is made up of class representatives five each from the four In Residence married students and other organizations have their own personal THERE are several things wrong with this perhaps a minor is that the present arrangement gives active students more representatives than non-active Any affiliated on-campus working for the Chronicle and a Union committee has many Residence Union Program Council and five class An off-campus bookworm must be satisfied with class and AMS and most vital to student is the problem especially class have in contacting their THE missionary program and the influx of transfer students have made the University something less than class Few students care whether colleagues are or It just doesn't seem to The first problems which is posed by representation is relatively easy eliminate all representatives but those elected by the at The second is a bit more but even it might be solved by exploring a method of representation where every student is affected in the academic Senators could be elected according to And numbers of senators to come from the different areas pre-education and letters and could be determined by numbers of students enrolling in each PERHAPS the problem of constituent contact might be helped because most students are better acquainted with students of common major than with students of common There's even a possibility that a setup similar to this would increase interest in class THE pre-med and med students would suddenly find themselves with a real voice in student It might follow that with this representation they would turn out to the polls and show interest in our sadly-supported student Of such a program must be carefully studied and It would necessitate a complete change in student government thinking and at least a partial change in the But it's an idea that might be worth a simply for the reason that it could create a major tidal wave of interest in student And if there's anything that student government on this campus needs or ever has its some real support and interest shown by the electorate of the |
