UNION NOMINATIONS

No one has ever doubted the ability of the men nominated for the vice-presidency and secretaryship of the Union. But the nominations for places on the governing and library boards have occasionally been unsatisfactory because they were not as representative as they might have been of the men who use the Union regularly. The fact that one man has been nominated for a place on the library board this year who is not a member is an indication of this. The clause in the constitution permitting additional nominations to be made on petition of fifty members fails to help matters much, because the securing of fifty signatures is almost a prohibitive task. Nomination by petition should be made easier. Otherwise there is bound to be a feeling of dissatisfaction in the Union, and this will defeat its primary purpose.