The Student Council welcomes
this opportunity to offer its services
to you as a representative legislative
body which works to forward
effectively your ideas to the
administration and to bring them to
full fruition. Our offer of service,
however, is one which must be
reciprocated by you.
As you are certainly aware from
your previous educational
experiences, student government
can be as apathetic or as effectively
vocal as the student body wants it
to be and as they are willing to
make it. As new students you have
inherited a particular debt for the
service of an established student
governing system. Your payment
must be the careful evaluation of
your rights as students and as
people and your total commitment
to the exercise of those rights.
Self-government is the finest
assurance of individual rights. Your
participation in and visible
endorsement of Student Council
activities is a necessity if students
are to show themselves capable of
handling their own affairs. The
22-man Council represents and is
elected from all schools of the
University, but it is the duty of the
students of each school to insist
upon their rights of student
government. With your support, the
Student Council can continue to
represent effectively the ideas of
the student body and to accomplish
their goals.
Thomas Jefferson dedicated this
University to "the illimitable
freedom of the human spirit," but
he was aware, as are we, that such
freedom could never be possible
without responsible
self-government. We offer our
service and ask your support to
demonstrate that student
responsibility.
Martin F. Evans
President,
Student Council
