| Show John With an approaching- deadline on Friday's Christmas edition not to mention final exams editorial brevity today seems an appropriate It is encouraging that John Bennion has recommend ed to the Student Senate that the National Student proposal be placed on a student He made a valid observation when he mat-v ter how the Senate views the it should submit it to a student If it students may undermine the whole Senate Dick Paul's rebuttal is that the Student Senate is on the and that submitting it what he the uninformed members of the would be impractical and Efficiency is not an issue Paul seems to have the entire The issue boils down to two fundamental Do University students have definite intelligent opinions on controversial political and educational and if do they want them expressed at a National Student We have serious doubts that the Senate can speak with unchallenged authority in answering these as Bennion pointed if the student answer to either question is then students may may be inclined to the whole If they ignored on the we would be entirely justified to the by if nothing On such an important it would indeed be risky for the Senate to commit students to representation without a definite mandate in the form of a referendum After the in voting- for the Constitution established the Senate to represent them on campus Why shouldn't they be given the same voice on the question of electing people to represent them on national and political |
