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DECEMBER, 1958
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From Mary Sullivan
Student Government
Zooming down a highway, through life,
or through another school year you some
times find that you must get out of the
stream of traffic, pull over to the side and
take a look at the ol’ roadmap ... Our
Student Government Association has a good
roadmap. Let’s take a look at it.
“This organization shall have its govern
ment based on the principles of our Chris
tian faith as they find expression in every
day living ... It is the objective of our
student government to help each student
discover a working faith in her personal
life and to contribute to the development
of others . . . Each member of the student
body shall consider the sustaining of our
standards a matter of personal honor and
responsibility.”
This constitution was revised in 1956-’57
to give it a positive form. Cabinet does
not feel that student government consists
of our setting down a long list of rules
with definite penalties for offenders. If
this were the case we would be nothing
but a “police force”. Neither do we like
to see people purposely break rules say
ing they do not mind taking the penalty.
When this happens something is wrong—
mainly that we are missing the purpose of
student government or self-government.
Self government means that you accept
responsibility. To help you do this cab
inet provided for hall court meeting where
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Are You Too Well
Rounded?
How many times have you heard this
statement during the past few months:
“I just don’t have time to do everything
I’m supposed to do!” How many times
have you yourself made a similar state
ment? And why is there not enough time
to do everything that is supposed to be
done?
If a poll were to be taken of the student
body, perhaps every four out of five quest
ioned would have to admit to the fact that
they were guilty of too crowded a schedule.
It is no narrow assumption that the extra
curricular activities of this campus have
grown out of proportion to the curricular
concerns of the students. The time has
come to do something about it in an ob
jective manner. There is a place for the
extra-curricular, but not the dominant place
it has.
We have come to live in an academic
society, not a playpen. Montreal is an
institution of higher learning. Our pri
mary purpose in being here is to stu y-
It is all well and good to increase our
dramatic abilities or our athletic
but not at the risk of impairing our e u
cation in our major fields.
Club meetings can be interesting and lu
formative affairs, but not if they interfere
with tomorrow’s classes. A trip to As e
ville is fine, but not if it means neglecting
to do parallel reading assignments. T is
is not to say that college life should ®
a cut and dried experience of all wer
and no play;; but, after all, our main rea
son in being here is to prepare ourselves
for the future. Grades do count for some
thing more in the “outside world” than
the ego inflation of a pat on the bac
Most of us want to be fit for our chosen
vocation when we graduate. Are we ta
ing full advantage of the opportunities of
fered us to do this?
There has been no limit put on the num
ber of activities in which we may Pur'
ticipate. That is part of our responsibility-
We must learn how to make choices. No clu
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