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Council Mandate

So the Council's present mandate,
though sweeping, has some underpinnings.
Students may, for example,
soon the enough of its motions on grape
pickers, General Electric strikes, and
letters to Spiro Agnew that the "extraneous
motions" will become the real issue
the conservatives have been trying for a
year to make of it.

But for now it appears Bud Ogle has a
good bargaining position when he meets
with the Board in February, for it has
been proven that he is "representative."
The students have shown they want the
type of leaders the Council has offered,
and in so doing they have closed the
hypothesized "gap" between the Council
and its constituents.

Bruce Wine, founder of the VPP, said
more than a year ago that he hoped the
student political system would soon
re-orient itself along liberal-conservative
lines rather than fraternity-independent
lines. In a year that prediction has been
borne out, and for the first time the
students have given an incumbent Council
a clear charge for "more of the same."