(This is the last of three editorial on the re-organization of the Student Council, which is to take place this term. Tuesday's article traced the development of the Council from an appointed Dean's Advisory group to an elected body which has two functions. Yesterday's editorial showed why the present Council subordinates its original advising function to a multitude of social service activities. This conclusion will show what the Council's proper functions are and how it should be organized to fulfill them.)

When the old appointed Student Council was abolished in favor of an elected representative body, the President of the retiring Council wrote that "the future alone will show whether greater concern with daily problems will hinder work an questions of long-term policy." It has Since 1916, this elected Council has been unable to do a thorough job of investigating and evaluating important matters of University policy toward the Students. Those who reorganize the Council this term must find the type of democratic group which can best fulfill Council potentialities.

The first problem is what the Council should do. Originally, it merely advised the Dean on the students' view of important matters. Then it took on the work of a social service bureau. Actually there is a definite need for both kinds of service. Critical investigation of existing University policies, summarized in reports in the administration, can have a beneficial effect on the present vitality and the future development of the College. A group which is permanently responsible to the students for the handling of certain immediate needs is also valuable. Such jobs as running of elections can not be entrusted to any free-will charity groups, and it is improvident to hope that there will be some organization to handle each problem as it arises.

The second problem is how to organize a Council to fulfill both these functions. The founders of the present Council tried to do this by having an elected body and giving it the authority to appoint three extra members. The recent Council Self-Evaluation Report recommends that more appointed members be allowed the Council. But, in practice, the Council has appointed just as many men for social service work as for long-range projects.

The solution is to have two separate groups. An elected Student Council would be responsible for essential services. This elected body would then appoint a completely separate Dean's Advisory Board, which would be charged only with constant evaluation of University policy toward the students, and investigation of important problems of student College relations.

This system of appointment would avoid the chance of the "packed house" which might occur if the Dean were picking his own student advisors, and also evades the possibility of a "closed corporation" of mutual friends such as occurred in pre-war years when the Council chose many of its own members. This appointed advisory board would not be a representative group, but it does not need to be. For it would merely investigate student opinion; it would not purport to represent all students on any matter of University policy.