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Show political fumbling and interference from within. There is no such thing as apathy if students are willing to learn. STUDENT GOVERNMENT IS REPRESENTATIVE. Governing bodies, especially elected ones, tend to be rife with politicians. Our student government is certainly a political body, complete and replete with its own cronyism, bureaucratic lassitude, deal-making, bumbling substructures and electoral line. Since campus elections are determined almost exclusively by votes from Greek houses and the government is allowed to function only because of its fairly close similarity to administrative policy, there is a certain type of line and personality that practically assures election. This is not always the case, but it is in the majority of instances. We have a relatively common governmental ambience at the U of U,-that of the "New Liberal" establishment; so that our student government does represent something, even if somewhat ordinary and something less than controversial. Again, this is something of a limited definition, but let us call the "New Liberal" bunch proponents of a Student Government overview. A liberal attitude would not exist if most students really paid much attention to ASUU-in such a case, it would be much more conservative and community-dominated. What is this liberal view? If one has his nose rubbed in the baser aspects of society long enough he will eventually call for change, if for no other reason than saving his olfactory tissues. A horror of poverty, disease, overpopulation, war and discrimination combines with a conviction that some sort of If one has his nose rubbed in the baser aspects of society long enough he will eventually call for change, if for no other reason than saving his olfactory tissues. change is necessary; and what better place to determine the nature and extent of those necessary changes than the repository and dispensary of human learnedness, the modern 20 university. Here one can learn about problems, their causes and how to solve or combat them. Here one can learn the way to live, the way to Be, and put it into effect. By using his own native intellectual powers, a person can learn to appreciate the world and change it for the better without destroying or upsetting the good things that exist from the past. The function of a university is to strip away the old prejudices, expose the rotten core areas, drill them out and fill in the cavity with the gold of knowledge. The structure of society has flaws that weaken it but these can be fixed, new parts can be fitted in until the whole mechanism is a single smooth function. The function of a university is to strip away the old prejudices, expose the rotten core areas, drill them out and fill in the cavity with the gold of knowledge. The challenge, the greatness of the task is awesome, but towering obstacles have often been surmounted in the course of human history, and there is no reason to believe this set impossibly tall. Higher education is the launching quay for the great deeds of the future and it is good to have a part in it, no matter how small. Those ignorant people who stand in the way or divide up the efforts must be channeled into bywaters and shown the error of their ways so that they too can benefit from the combined magnificence of new and old. Education must be turned to specific ends, and students, the citizens of the future, must have a say in what is taught so that they can deal in the problems they perceive. Imagine a university, a vast composite structure where thousands of students become involved in the issues of the times, dig in and learn the facts inherent in the concrete issues. Apathy exists due to a lack of direction in education, the lack of real goals and a sense of futility in the face of the future. Worthwhile goals and worthwhile futures have their roots in the present and are being fostered at the university now by those concerned enough to involve themselves. Fight Apathy! Make Education a Living Thing! WHAT IT WAS WE FOUND IN THE UNLIT UNDERGROUND. Western civilization is aimed on downward in a power dive to destruction and the Sandbox Set is talking about fooling |