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Show The Thunderbird Monday, May 7, 1984 Votes build lobby power by Lisa Page 3 Any Utah resident is eligible to register to vote in the November Laird SUSC Voter registration, which is drive in all part of a universities and colleges to strengthen student lobbying power, continues until Wednesday in front of the Library and Student Center. The idea of voter registration came from the Utah Council of Student Body Presidents. ASSUSC President Scott Price said the council would like to compile the statistics of the drive and analyze the lobbying force that students could have in the Utah Legislature. Price felt that SUSC could have a big elections, said Kim Kelly, registration state-wid- e influence in local elections this November. The SUSC drive is designed to take the mystique out of voting and to show students just how easy it is to vote, explained Price. It is important to register in times of a gubernatorial election, he said. The presidential shift of education to the states gives them a big burden. Price maintains SUSC students should be concerned with the electoral process because they can decide who makes policy in this state. College students can be the largest force in the state of Utah. Education is highly prized in Utah and students should have a voice in politics, said Price. . Were giving them everything on a silver platter to make registration as easy as possible. Its a real simple form to fill out, said Kelly. They (the students) dont have to put out any effort. All they have to do is sign their names. Its not hard. Its free, easy and painless. Why, heck, they dont even have to spend the 20 cents well do it, Kelly said. Kelly added that students may even be participating in the making of a president this November. Kelly said the students wouldnt necessarily register for Iron County, but for their home districts in Utah. The ASSUSC would mail registration materials to those districts. Price said that about 90 percent of the SUSC student body consists of Utah residents, so registration turnout should be high. To qualify as a resident for voting purposes, a person must have lived in Utah at least 30 days before elections and maintain continual residence. Out of state students may register in their home state or for Utah, but not for ASSUSC is sponsoring a voter registration drive to increase student lobying power in the Utah legislature. both. Council, Senate left with shoestring budget by Ralph Schriock The ASSUSC Senate and Executive Council can finish out the year on their present budget, but theyll have to stay on a shoestring. Financial Coordinator Jon Christy Thursday outlined to student leaders the finances left behind by the old Executive Council; and he emphasized that all remaining spring quarter activities must pay for themselves. We can do as much as we want as long as it has a dollar for dollar return, Christy said. Christy estimates the Executive Council will end the fiscal year with only $398 after all projected allocations are taken care of. The council should have $3,748 to organize events that can pay for themselves through gate receipts, he said. The money spent fall and winter by the old council J Author to discuss and by the new council this quarter comes to $42,395, about $10,000 less than all the revenues brought in so far. About $3,500 has been spent on convocations, and more than $8,000 on social affairs. The biggest chunk, $14,250, covered ASSUSC administration costs, which included the purchase of a new sound system, homecoming and other events. The school lost a bit more than $2,000 from the Air Supply concert and had to swallow another $2,000 loss from the cancelled Ronnie Milsap concert. The Executive Council will spend about $3,500 for the Awards Night and $1,200 to pay up telephone bills, Christy said. Meanwhile, the ASSUSC Senate this year has spent or allocated $19,440 out of a budgeted revenue of $20,875 for the year, of which over $1,000 went to all of the following: intramurals, the Thunderettes, and nature in Thursday's Convo Barry Lopez, author of the nonfiction work Of Wolves and Men, will speak about Natural History: Fiction and Nonfiction this weeks Convocation as lecturer. Barry Lopez is one of our great living American authors, says Convocations Coordinator Lana Johnson. He is intensely interested in nature, and this interest is reflected in his fine writings. Lopez has authored several collections of short fiction narratives, including River Notes: The Dance of Herons and Winter Count, which received the Distinguished Recognition Award from the Friends of American Writers in 1981. In 1979 he won the John Burroughs Medal for distinguished natural history writing, the Christopher Medal for humanitarian writing, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers award for excellence in nonfiction. Of Wolves and Men received an American Book Award nomination in 1980, Lopez also contributes numerous essays, articles and short stories to many anthologies and periodicals. uw mm miwm the Communications, PBL, and Circle K clubs. Christy advised senators to be more careful next year in allocations and not to give out money where it isnt . budgeted. Some of you are going to have ruffled feathers, Associate Vice President for Student Services Betty Kingsford added, in support, of Christys budgeting. He is interested in a sound fiscal policy. ..and he comes down hard. Because of a coming $5 increase in student fees next year, the Executive Council next year will have $55,839 in projected revenues, almost $10,000 more than this year. Almost $50,000 of that will come from the fees and $12,000 from gate receipts. The stuc.ent Senate next year should also see about a $10,000 revenue increase to give it about $30,000 to use. Moorty gives insight to Gandhi by Lanai Greenhalgh action, Those fortunate enough to have seen the motion picture Gandhi, or who have read the many books and documents on Mahatma Gandhi, will understand why he was said to be a great soul. Gandhi is one of the greatest characters of all time, Convocations faculty lecturer S.S. Moorty explained Thursday. He was a model of He led a model life and against all manner of prejudice. Mahatma Gandhi and the American Imagination was the theme of the lecture, and Moorty recited an overview of Gandhis life and triumphs as known through his work. He was a man of action, of soft words, of celibacy and Moorty said, He wished all mankind to show noLility in the face of violence. Moorty added that people of the world should not give up hope that some day, all people might live as Gandhi did. Moorty, associate professor of English, has spent much time researching the Indian philosophers influence in the West. Gandhi was a man of self-contr- non-violenc- e, he said. and truth is He believed that God is truth God, and that the kingdom of God is within you. Moorty believes that the life led by Gandhi is proof that selfless and forgiving people exist in todays world. What one calls passive resistance is, in truth, strict discipline, Moorty said. Gandhi spent much of his life in prison, Moorty said, and considered it not confinement, but the ultimate solitude. Gandhi believed that the real road to happiness is going to prison in the interest of humanity, he said. It is better to be right than law abiding. Moorty said Gandhi sought to eliminate discrimination in the world, and did it by putting himself in the middle of the suffering, violence, and prejudice. It is everyones duty to resist a tyrannical government, Moorty said. Gandhi described himself as a saint turned politician because of the need of the hour. He d seeker after truth, Moorty was a said. I have sought to live my life under some the same guidelines. single-minde- -- |