Victoria's Attitude

We have found, among the members of the student body up here at Victoria so little evidence of a real apreciation of what Student representation on the College Council may mean, that we consider it necessary to devote more space and attention to the subject as a whole than our last week's editorial permitted.

Such a thing as a University Consciousness, by which we mean an understanding of the things implicit in the institution of a University, and further, the individual responsibilities attaching has never been a marked characteristic of Victoria.

This curious apathy, or is it carlessness, with which students have almost invariably treated their political life is something difficult to explain, or account for; difficult to analyse and prescribe for.

Take, for example, the recent election for the EDxecutive. The general indifference which it received was deplorable, although the Annual General Meeting relatively less important, received more emphasis.

It is ridiculous that, Students, having the right as they have, to run their own affairs to a certain extent, should chose to ignore their responsibilities and yet express indignation, subsequently, when affaire take a course which does not meet with their approval.

The failure of the procession is a case in point.

The wrong things receive the emphasis.

Much more interest is taken in the continually dishertening fate of the senior football team, than in the hopeful outlook provided by the imminence of student representation.

It is in the hope that students will develop a more appropriate interest in the subject, that the following article has been prepared:—