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This time the Student Council's hastily-contrived inverse filibuster technique succeeded. After threatening to hold frequent meetings until it could obtain a quorum--and after calling a fifteen-minute recess at the first of these meetings to place a few judicious telephone calls to absentees--the Council came through.
Strangely, interest in the Student Council is declining at the same time that its activities are expanding. Although no Council in recent years has undertaken a program of the proportions of Twentieth Century Week--although no recent Council has worked so intensively in NSA--there were only five contested races in this fall's election to that body.
In fact, it has been the more openly political organizations that have recently provoked student interest; and it may be that students who were originally attracted to the Council have come to feel that these other groups provide a better outlet for their enthusiasm. If this is true the Council may find itself in an increasingly difficult situation.
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