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

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

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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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' ligw.-ff 'A 1 :,g . Nr. S i at 1 '.N.u v ' . ii! The proceeds from Spartacade go to Campus Chest, the only uni- versity organization that exists for money raising purposes. This group corresponds to the civic oriented Community Chest. 28 For those students who were unaware that Michigan State had a student government, fall term should have erased all doubts. Thanks to the Michigan State News, All-University Student Government gained nation-wide publicity. Head- lines such as Love Rocks the Boat and crys of 'ggestapo tacticsi' appeared in newspapers across the country, as Student Congress tried, through Resolution 12, to find a solution to the canoe rental problem. In further action, Congress, as an experiment, voted to join the United States National Student Association. It was hoped that many benefits would result from belong- ing to such a national association. An evaluation of this association was to be made prior to the April deadline of the trial period, when Congress was to vote whether or not to continue membership. It was unfortunate that Resolution 12, designed to save the canoe rental service, so overshadowed other pro- grams and services of Student Government. Of these programs and services, the student insurance program oliered students the greatest direct benefits. At the close of winter term registration 6,100 students had purchased policies and many had collected claims.