(The Editor, "Spike").

—Not once nor twice in this College's story has the plea for student representation on the Victoria College Council been voiced in your worthy pages. But not once has adequate reason for non-representation been given us. Usually the urgent plea has been ignored. Enough! Let us shriek our cause continually; let us advocate through your worthy medium and even if need be through the less worthy medium of that precocious infant "Smad."

Now, what do we want? We desire to be directly represented on the College Council. We want a delegate there as OUR delegate, as the voice of the current student body. We are tired of "go-betweens" and occasional contacts—we want a permanent official seat on the august body. School teachers, city council, education board, graduates, government—all have their duly elected or nominated representative. Nothing is more just. But the student—the raison d'etre of the college—is totally unrepresented. To say that the college exists for the student is only to repeat a trite platitude. A man can be a student without attending a college, but a college without students is inconceivable. And yet our students have no direct, active voice in the government of the college! An amazing anomaly which could be easily rectified.

I feel that the Council itself, with the broad view it usually takes of student problems, could well support this contention by initiating legislation to provide for an additional member to be added to the Council such member to be elected by the undergraduates of the college. If the Council does not feel this is a just plea let it be so good as to publish its valued criticism and considered opinion on the subject. With a monthly as well as an annual publication in the college I trust no delay will occur in an opportunity being presented to the undergraduate to review the Council's considerations.