POLITICAL OFFICIOUSNESS.

Discussion of important political affairs by undergraduates is well worth while, but taking a straw ballot which will effect absolutely nothing upon a question which cannot possibly become an issue is a waste of time. It is very laudable for the Political Club to be so ambitious to stir up some question of general interest, but it must have forgotten its sense of propriety in presuming to call the present administration of the United States to account. The recasting of the question makes it only slightly less offensive, and does not remove one of the most serious objections to advertising such an instance of bad taste. There are plenty of useful fields to which the Political Club might profitably turn its attention without running the risk of having the University credited with the ill-considered officiousness of a small group. The best thing that the Political Club can do now is to drop the whole idea of having a straw ballot.