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Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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U N I V E R S I T Y OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE POLITICS .1. r . i•:K<• K attemptiiij at the su ge ion ol the editor tli presenl art id on the above I, _'lily ],,,-. tinent topic, the autl >r feels that local ditions so far as they relate to our undergraduate politic are not at all characterized by any particular crying vices, but on the contrary that our j litica! affairs are usually conducted with a considers lede gree of real dignity and sobriety. It will be the purpose of this paper to merely consider certain general phases of the subject, to point out some minor evils in our political methods and customs, and su gest some possible remedies. That college politics are essentially and fundamentally very similar to politics generally, is apparent to anyone who has \ devoted any serious thou J i t to the matter. The college community is to a large degree an accurate counterpart of a corporate community in the outside world. While its members are perhaps guided more largely by the higher academic ideals of scholarship and culture, anent the ideal of citizenship, which is more modern and not so inherent in the original and abiding intention of the college, the two communities are on the game plane. In casting his vote in the academic community the college student is usually influenced by motives Very much akin to those which affect the citizen in exercising his elective franchise in the outside world. In the minature world of the college, the political problems which arise and the methods b\ which thev are solved are the same as those which arise and are 136
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