The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1963-09-20

share of mileage measure. We all felt with
the cartoonist, but there was the public
image, what other people would think of us.
THE LAST DECADE
During the last decade, despite wealth
of goodwill and personal friendship. think
there has been great need for more construc-
tive relationships between students and adj
ministration and between students and faculty.
as well as between faculty and administration
If anyone doubts that the student life has
been filled with a great deal of bafflement
and even sullen temper, he should read the
letters, the news stories and the editorials in
tn KAIMIN. This temper should not be ex-
planned away as just part of the disruption
the war brought to all levels of our national
life. The war may have had it's influence. at
least in this way, that many students are
much more mature and want to be treated
as adults Unsympathetic as | am with their
thinking and their outside subsidization, I
believe the the activity of the Young Ameri-
cans for Freedom, bears witness to the more
serious political temper on campus.
In 1866, President Mcfarland became
aroused over some aspects of student drink
ing. He appeared before the Rotary Club one
noon to announce set of rules for the con-
troll of student drinking. Then he came be-
fore the faculty at four O'Clock to tell them
of the rules he had devised.
The rules themselves and the wide publicity
they were given filled the students with anger
and dismay Gary Jystad, the very able presi-
dent of the student body, went to work to
save the bad situation He appointed Ken
Leuthold to head a committee of students to
find some way the students could clear them
selves of the stigma they felt they had suf-
fered and some way they could take more
positive hand in keeping the campus life a
thing to be proud Of This large committee
worked patiently and effectively for many
weeks
The story, far too long to tell here, of
how their efforts in the end have not come
to anything like what they tried for does
not at all diminish my point that university
students anxious and able to play
much more significant part than they now
play in making the campus good society.
THE REAL POINT
IF l were trying only to make the point
that Montana students are gifted with COM
mon sense, generosity and loyalty to the Uni
versity, l would need tell of innumerable
activities they engage in to promote student
welfare and the interest of the University;
programs like the Friends of the Library,
Red Cross Drives, visits to old peoples homes
advertising trips the state to promote
interest in the University, and on and on. But
this is hardly my point though sometimes
think many people in the state don't under
stand that point very we'll and indulge in the
notion that the University is kind of high
class playground
My point is that students, often the very
best of our students, are set back in essential
defeat in their efforts to get hand in the
shaping and idealizing the University. Let
me offer only another instance or two.
Several years ago, number of students,
Tom Mongar and Dick Gilluly among them,
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agitation for more rational athletic pro-
gram, to reduce the cost of subsidized athletes
to the student body by putting more emphasis
On sport for the sake of the fun in it. They
made deep impact the campus and some
impact ON quarters beyond the campus. Many
faculty members sympathized with their point