Show Senate t tation A bill proposed in the Senate referred to a committee yesterday brings lip an interesting possibility for a change in the basis of Senate The proposal was the representation be based on colleges rather than and that class officers then be The question is where students feel the strongest identity with their classes or with the colleges in which they are It is true thai many college careers on this campus are temporarily interrupted and that many students do not retain their identity with the class they start out It is probably true that students feel a stronger identity with their fields of especially in the smaller If the Senate committee finds through study that are no real obstacles to prevent giving this form of representation a we urge that they submit it to the student body for n vote in the ere is no m en t ion in the proposed bill of the many appointed senators who now represent various groups which are supported by University A change might be in order While student government cannot be compared to the national government in terms of final it could become more like it in At the present many students have only one representative in the while others who belong to organizations which appoint senators are represented several The appointed senators represent special interest and on the national scene such groups may deal with Congress only through Although groups such as the may have a great deal of wealth or they are not given representation in the Representation in Congress has only two and they are bases which include the whole or areas of residence are the only into which we can divide our campus and include every If the Senate decides to propose a change on the basis of they should see that students are equally represented and that special interest groups are required to work through less direct |