However, students do not have a totally representative voice on the State College Borough Council, which makes decisions about our community. Having no voice means it is extremely difficult for students to be involved in the community's decisions.

That all could change this November.

A student organization, called the Keg Party, has formed to elect students to borough council this year.

The Keg Party, which wants to stop the crackdown on drinking and elect students to local government positions, plans to run four students for borough council seats.

Seeing an organized effort to elect students to borough council seats is a positive step in truly making our voices heard to the rest of State College. Perhaps having a student organization with the sole purpose to have students elected to borough council will increase student-voter turnout in November.

However, the actual name and limited goals of the party take away from its potential as a success.

It may be difficult to be taken seriously with such a name and only a few goals. Indeed, as it stands right now, this party will need more than the student vote to be elected, and using a frivolous name for the party is not going to endear the organization to non-student residents.

The party can be taken seriously and supported by students if it addresses a variety of student-focused issues on its platform. Not only do party members need to look at such issues, they need to analyze them and try to understand why the borough council made, or wants to make, decisions on these issues. A small sampling of these issues are as follows: