Show I LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Wrong Choice Dear In Thursday's paper an editorial was written urging students to In the Executive Council pledged itself to streamlining student One of the results of this policy was the incorporation of the class officers into the AT THAT a group of students calling themselves by the ridiculous name of Students For Good Government opposed the Class Officer The objections articulated by this subversive little group predicted present It was argued that making the class officers senators would only increase the problem of making that body responsible and useful to student It was argued that the lack of class identification and support precluded wide interest in class IT SEEMS there was merit to their and that our decision to place class officers in the while the prestige of the class has failed to have any real effect on student The class officers were also placed in responsible positions on student-faculty The effect of linking student-faculty committees and the Senate through class officers has not proved Little Senate action directly or indirectly can be attributed to this I THE class officer candidate campaigns primarily on a high school level appealing to group prejudice and failing to articulate issues of any The forums' attempt to sound out class presidents on the discrimination question met with no Apparently the all-round guy doesn't have opinions on such controversial Class elections are a The facts of campus life reveal that this parasitic innovation should be taken out of student and some reasonable and working form of representation I REALIZE THAT to appease some quarters of the we must allow class officers to And 1 belive that within a limited area class funds and events there is a valid need for some kind of But why place them within the framework of student It is here that they are least and as a result repugnant to student In the lack of participation in class elections is no Distasteful as it I'm afraid that we made the wrong choice in approving the class officer It is also probable that this pernicious little enterprise will continue to subvert efforts toward student government which is built upon student support and not a guardian ROBERT S. CLARK |