"And it's a good way to publicize issues to the whole campus," Cho adds.

"I think it's great; the more people that can be active, the better. I guess greater membership would enable them to mobilize better for demonstrations," says Raza treasurer Faustino G. Ramos '96.

But Ramos says motivating people to political activism won't be easy.

"I think being politically active takes a lot of energy from me," Ramos says. "Right now I don't feel a calling to join the MSA. I'd help them out in publicity. If a situation were to come out which would get my blood stirring, then I'd go out and do something. It's not something that arises for me naturally."

G. Brent McGuire '95, president of the conservative publication Peninsula, says having a political agenda would detract from a minority group's primary role as a support locus for students.

"To hear that the MSA is more politically active would only sadden me," he says. "As long as its agenda involves the sort of whiny demands the made last year, then the organization still deserves censure."

McGuire adds: "The structure of the MSA membership is irrelevant as long as the MSA's political agenda continues to be perniciously contrary to the goals of a quality liberal education.