t 5, 1961 THE MICHIGAN DAILY :~ 5, 1961 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Students To Fred (Ted). Riecker Musket; Michigras, subcommit- tee chairman; Member, Student Activities Bldg. Administrative Board; Committee chairman, Junior Interfraternity Council; Manager, Student Book Ex- change; Chairman, IFC Frater- nity Relations Committee. There are a number of areas in which Student Government Coun- cil should improve its present function. These are all areas inI 1* which I would support action if elected to SOC., 1) Greater contact between the individual SGC member and the: people or groups involved in SGC action should take place. Certain- ly greater contact between SGC members and' fraternities during the discussions about member- ship selection could have created better cooperation between the two. As it was, many fraternities calendar. This year round opera- tion is coming up soon and it will be necessary for SGC to play an important role in seeing that ac- tivities are not excluded from the program. 4) SGC should make a better effort to establish channels for student grievances to be heard. If{ Elect Ken McEldowney Elected member, SGC; Nation- al Affairs vice.chairman, Mich- igan Region, USNSA; Chairman, Voice political party; Associate ' City Editor, Michigan Daily; Residence hall government; Young Democrats club; Sailing Club; Political Issues club. The central issue in this elec- tion, as in the past, is the role the student is to play in the Uni- versity. The role should have as its foundation the recognition that I the student is not a subservient being-one subject to the whims of the administration, but an ad- ult with clearly defined responsi- bilities and rights. The student must be willing to investigate and make recommen- dations that will allow him to achieve and maintain such a role. The following are my recommen- dations:, 1) Students should work direct- ly and through their elected rep- resentatives to insure that the Office of Student Affairs study Committee recognizes the role that the student should play in the University. To further this goal the study committee should recommend that paternalism be sharply curtailed, formulate a stu- dent bill of rights and recommend. revisions of the judiciary proced- ure. 2) Students should insure that the lecture committee recommend drastic revision of the Regents'I bylaw restricting speakers on cam- pus. Such a bylaw should only contain two provisions-one, for- bidding speakers from directly in- citing action against our form of government and two, placing the I responsibility for the conduct of f Members did not know exactly what was thepofe offStude nt s happening and there was a lack in the Office of Student Affairs of cooperation between the frat- had been voiced earlier the prob- ternities and SGC. SGC members lems would not be as great as they must take the initiative to explain are today. and discuss SGC actions with stu- Expand Facilities dents and groups involved in 5) SGC should expand its re- them. search facilities so that source Administrative Operations material is readily available to 2) A second area where SGC SGC members and students on needs to function is in investiga- past SGC and University action. tion of administrative operations 6Y The present parking situa- which affect students. The current tion on campus should be investi- study committee on the Office of gated by SGC and reports pub- Student Affairs is just' one area lished. of investigation which should be. 7) SGC should attempt to re- carefully looked into. The area vive the old lecture series which of academic counseling should be brought a number of great per- investigated. Many students com- sonalities to the campus.. ing to the University are not be- These are important areas in ing given the right amount of which SGC should increase its counseling. Academic counseling present functioning. SGC can doE ,ls very important to a student's a lot to correct campus problems education and the present setup and help students. As the official should be investigated as to its voice of the students at the Uni- effectiveness. , versity it is the job of SGC to be 3) SGC must work closely with; sure to voice to the University the University in making plans/ and the outside world the stu- for the integration of campus ac- dents' opinion on the University's tivities into the new full year educational system. the speaker with the sponsoring student organization. 3) Students should work to sharply curtail non-academic evaluations. The maturity of the student should not be insulted by secret evaluations, judgments as to personal appearance, social habits, and courtesy such as take place, for example, within the residence hall system. 4) Students should have a di- rect role in the determining of curricula and in formation of oth- er policy that directly concerns him. 5) A judicial structure must be set up which will clearly define actions for which the student will be held responsible. Such vague and unfair charges as 'conduct unbecoming a student' should be eliminated. A student judiciary must be established for. both men and women that will guarantee impartial, fair hearings without direct or indirect interference by members of the administration. To achieve such goals it is necessary for each student to work for their ratification both as an individual and by supporting candidates for Student Govern- ment Council with similar aims. Lindy Limburg Dormitory house council; Sor- ority house council; Freshman Rendezvous counseling. Government is as good and as re- sponsible as those who are gov- erned require it to be. You, the students, elect your student gov- ernment council and henceforth abide by its decisions in all mat- ters over which it has jurisdiction. If the council is radical or con- servative in nature, this nature is your responsibility. If this body is a cautious or impetuous body, if it is tolerant or demanding, you have given its members the power to be so... and if your beliefs are not representative. then you are asking for trouble! I have heard the opinion ex- pressed by many of you that SGC's actions are not truly representa- tive of the attitudes of the student body. If this is true, now is the time to correct this. I believe that SGC is well rec- ognized as one of the most .auton- omous student councils in our na- tion. SGC is active. not only on campus as an organizing and law- making body, but also as the rep- resentative of student philosophy in off-campus issues. Their actions and opinions in off-campus affairs are construed as those of the majority of our student body, but I question whether the attitudes represented on the council are as heterogen- eous as the diverse attitudes on this campus. I believe that SGC should be representative of its constituents and answerable to them. It should' be bound to report its decisions, delineated by votes cast and cri- teriafor decision, in all open and i - i ___. _. _. ...err..,. , Sharon! Jeffrey' Co-Chairman, Political Issues Club; Chairman, University Af- fairs Committee, Voice political party; Scholarship chairman, Stockwell Hall; Elections chair- man, Voice; Congregationalist and Disciples Guild; Challenge; NAACP; Folklore Society. SGC can justify its 'existence on a university campus only if it is willing and able to be a full participant in the educational process. The Council must be concerned with the process of education at the University and all issues re- lating to the improvement of the student situation. It must create a student concern for local andt national social and political con- cerns, and mobilize and express student opinion on these issues.< Refuse Responsibility . Unlike most other nations, thek young people of this country arek seldom heard in places of decis- ion making. American studentsg have consistently refused to ac-e cept responsibility for their na-t tion's destiny and direction. They have, by their lack of- concern, abdicated their rightful position. The student population must re-f assert its concern and competencet to deal with important currentX social and political issues. Below are issues for which I will work if elected:c 1) Membership selection - At time limit should be instituted toY insure organizations' complianceI with the regents' by-law and stu-I dent government regulations. 2) International students - We have brought to our shores stu-z dents from many lands. We havec consistently given them a jaun-' diced view of the American ideal in action by refusing to extendc even the most cursory concern andl hospitality. A serious attemptl must be made to integrate the foreign student into the American w University student community without him losing his cultural heritage. Fraternities and sorori- ties, housing units, clubs, organi- zations, and, above all, individual Joseph D. Feldmant Active in disarmament and peace groups; Member, Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union; Fel. low, American Mathematical So- ciety, London Mathematical So- ciety, Society mathematique de France, Society mathematique Suisse, Society Mathematique Belgique; Film Producer; Mem- ber, Museum of Modern Art; Member, Harvard Cooperative Society. This is a time of flux, a time-of change; an hour for reform in the life of the Universty. It is a criti- cal time, one demanding action, requiring force, personality, flexi- bility, versatility, and above all, in- tellectual independence in campus politics.. I ask that you judge me, judge my candidacy, honestly, by the soundness of my ideas and outlook on campus politics and not by ad- herence to one or 20 of the var- ious -blocs and factions. Judge me by my belief that the Student Government Council has a great and growing role in the af-, fairs of this University, that it has much work to do, that there are hordes of great and minor wrorggs, injustices and simple nuisances to be conquered. Examine Statements Examine my opinions. Examine the statements of all the current candidates. It is by these words that they mus$ succeed or fail. And it is by virtue of approval of the student body that the next Council will sit empowered to dis- cuss questions of significance to the University. One point is of utmost impor- tance-like all governments, SGC must set a clear definition to the extent and limits of its powers. It can only hurt itself by overstep- ping its mandate, by pretending to an authority it does not possess. SGC is not chosen as a forum, a -r .. . .. 71' students must extend their friend- ship and concern to these stu- dents. 3) Student rights - I favor a Students' Bill of Rights and a Grievance Committee to which students who feel their rights have been violated could petition. The bill of rights should clearly de- scribe a philosophy of education and educational practices consist- ent with the aim of providing in- dividual excellence-in a democrat- ic society. Full Citizens Students must be considered as full citizens and participants in the educational community. Their particular status and age should in no way abrogate their rights. Students must begin to show con- cern for the form and content of their own education, in the class- room and in the community. A Bill of Rights should include a de- lineation- of "conduct unbecoming a student." 4) Civil rights - I have just returned from a trip to Atlanta, Georgia and Jackson, Mississippi. I believe it is essential that Uni- versity students express their con- cern for the situation of their fel- low students and citizens in the South. Student action on this is- sue is critical and within the gen- eral responsibilities of students and SGC as outlined above. The student cannot abstract himself from the national community. He must retain his responsibility as a citizen. SEVEN SEATS: Candidates, 'Set, To, Vie for Posts, Of the 13 candidates running in the Student Government Council election, seven will be elected in the Tuesday and Wednesday bal- loting. The six candidates elected first will serve one year terms and the seventh will be a Council member for one semester. The Council Plan calls for 11 regularly elected members and seven ex-officios who may not hold office but otherwise have full privileges on SGC. The ex-officio members are the presidents of the Michigan Union, the Women's League, Panhellenic Association, Assembly Association, Interfraternity Council, Inter- Quadrangle Council and the edi- tor of The Daily. The elected members are chos- en by campus vote, six in the fall and five in the spring for full year terms. When a vacancy occurs a new member is appoint- ed by means of petition and in- terview until the next election. The extra vacancy being filled in this election is theremaining semester in the term of Roger Seasonwein, Grad, who was elect- ed to the Council for a full year term last spring and resigned this September. Leaving - the Council will be Ar- thur Rosenbaum, '62, and James Yost, '63, whose terms have ex- pired and who are not running for re-election. Two other seats to be filled were occupied by Philip Power and Mary Wheeler, '65L, who resign- ed from the Council in September along with Seasonwein. Miss Wheeler and Seasonwein left the Council because of pres- sure of graduate work. Power is not on campus this semester. The candidates were required to file a petition signed by 250 Uni- versity students along with a statement of candidacy prior to SGC Shows Progress Through the Yea STUDENT LEGISLATURE-Forerunner to Student Government Council, the Student Legislature was a much larger body than SGC. It comprised members from ,all parts of the campus, but did not have the same powers as SGC. THE QUONSET HUT-Student Government Council headquarters wasn't always in the Student Activities Bldg. Once upon a time it was located in one of the quonset huts that still stand on the corner of East University and North University Streets. Later, when the SAB was completed, SGC's base of operations was shifted to its present location. - Awaiting Results :.,.:.; :. ; .