Michigan State University - Red Cedar Log Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Even with a reduced budget Spartan Spirit Director Wayne Reganall was still able to obtain professional en- tertainment for pep rallies. The annual Spartan Revue featured the Four Freshmen and was attended by an estimated crowd of 10.000 students. lntellectual opportunity was given a shot in the arm by Academic Benefits, under the direction of Burtram Green. Politics 1958 brought both state and national political figures to the campus spring and fall terms. An effort to bring Soviet Ambassador Mikhail Menshikov to the campus was blocked by State Department restrictions on Russian Visitors. This action resulted in Student Congress passing a resolution requesting the State De- partment to lift its ban on the university, on the grounds that the ban acted as a barrier to educational understand- ing of international issues. Another executive branch bureau affected by federal government restriction was Campus Chest. The sale of balloons at home football games was cancelled due to gov- ernment restriction on helium. This restriction not only eliminated a source of revenue, but kept funds invested in 5,000 balloons from being used for other purposes. 26

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Polio shots sponsored by AUSC offer health protection to students. Ms 'iw X s 35 V 2 I .y C9 49 Communication and thereby sup- port of the activities of Spartan Round Table and Student Government would be severely limited without the third basic element of Student Voice, the student press, which in addition to di- rect reporting, performs many adjunct services. These range from the State News editorial to the Spartan inter- view, and serve not only to inform, but to provoke thought on a broad variety of subjects. Publications also serve as a medium for other segments of Student Voice, which, though perhaps non-civic, are at least as important. Without this book itself, for instance, and the other Wolverines published over the past 50- odd years, there might be no such de- tailed record of each distinct year at MSU, and without student magazines, much of the writing done both by and for MSU people might not be pub- lished. The organized avenues of Student Voice at MSU are invaluable to the university, not only for what they al- low to be said, but for the discipline they exact in the saying. As such, they are instruments of learning com- parable to the classroom itself. Coffee, planning, cigarettes and controversy and 1 new Spartan is born. mfg- gig! 5 -l

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Student Governlnent The perennial evidence of spring term elections, campaign posters around the Union urge students to vote. 27