All About Nobody in Particular

The Women's Vice-President, Leslie Jacobs, has been 'elected unopposed' to the position of student representative on the University Council which fell vacant following Bill Logan's resignation. One is irresistibly reminded of Marshall McLuhan's description, right in the middle of all that disgusting press adulation and little step for Man, big step for Mankind crap, of the three American astronauts involved in the first moon landing: they were, he said, "absolute nobodies".

Denis Phelps, the other student representative on the Council, ends his term of office in a few weeks. When the SRC comes to replace him, let them have an election or let us do without representation until such time as there is sufficient interest in the position to make an election necessary. And let's have some candidates with intelligence, imagination, drive and the desire to put these faculties to work for students. If we get one of these qualities, in however slight a degree, we'll be making progress.