Show Alum Executive Secretary Blasts Idea of Class Officer Abolishment Give Officials Says Cracroft The proposal abolish class officer positions was branded Monday as in best interest of the by two off deals of the school's alumni REACTION TO John Bennion's suggestion that the positions be eliminated came swiftly from Paul Cracroft and Frank executive secretary and field of the University of Utah Alumni answer to Bennion's proposal to streamline student government lies not in abolishing traditional offices but In making the offices more the two alumni chiefs agree with him that some class officers are but it is manifestly unfair to paint them all with the same The called for class officers to be given of such as regular formal meetings with the Executive seats in the Student membership on the Homecoming committee and other committees in which individual classes need They suggested a return to special class editions of the class class floats in the Homecoming class directories and other is not a new and McKean Bennion's proposal seems to go further than some in the past by calling for a Constitutional One may well be in At the present each class is represented in the Senate by four Senators and the class streamlining is and we agree that it might well why not eliminate the newer senatorial election and let the four class officers 1 all serve as This would eliminate a net of one Sena tor per which is it would eliminate extra election which is arid it would give 16 students who have demonstrated their leadership the right to have voice in student government which their classmates have voted to course of position abolishment is much like shooting the dog to kill the The directors emphasized that most students think of college in terms of their four-year as-association with the But the out that on page Alums from page many students attend the University only still acquiring alumnus status which remains with them for HAVE no other meaningful way to reach these former students but by the class they Cracroft and McKean said that both Bennion and the Chronicle's editorial had presented excellent arguments for abolishment from a strictly student but that identity doesn't really begin to play its most important role until at least five years after THAT time on through the rest of a former student's his class plays an increasingly vital role in his relationship to the transcending even major department and social they Both hoped that out of the Bennion proposal would come a serious and profitable re-evaluation of class purpose and but urged that any be re-directed or They indicated that they had written Bennion and expected to appear at the 3 open |