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Show 86TH YEAR; NUMBER 36 Tory Adair of tJie Lift Party is MONDAY MARCH 2, 1992 SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY• CEDAR CITY, UTAH running for SUUSA pruident. Togttlttr's Sandy Lord is running for SUUSA prt.Sident. Placement, day-care are key in SUUSA race ife's presidential candidate Tory Adair says he and his party, if elected, already have several projects under way that can be implemented spring quarter. Life's SUUSA senate hopefuls, he said, have already chosen senate projects and Adair said he has been working on building and strengthening the employment internship programs in every department on campus. Adair said during a recent accrcdidation evaluation of the business department, the biggest weakness cited was the lack of internships for students. He added that he plans to form a committee of students and faculty from every department on campus to contact businesses and work toward improving internship opportunities and placement for all students. A second project planned relating to placement is a summer job day that will bring businesses to-campus who want to hire students just for the summer. Adair said he also has the approval to put together a committee of faculty and students to analyze any on-campu s jobs that become available to determine if those jobs can be filled by students instead of fu U-time staff. L Additionally, Adair said he has been working with SUU President Gerald R . Sherratt to extend weekend Library hours, and the new hours will be effective spring quarter. "These are not new ideas," Adair said. ''They just need some footwork to be fully implemented." Of his personal project to improve internship availability, he said he has been collecting information from students that have served internships that will help prospective interns avoid some common pitfalls. Adair said he will work to gather student input and take those opinions to university officials and the Board of Trustees. "There' s a lot of influence a student body president can have with the Board of Trustees," he said. Adair said there are opportunities for the SUUSA president to delay a vote of the Trustees in order to gather student opinion and, if necessary, he will exercise that option. " Most of the student concerns will come through the senate or Student Access Meetings as far as voicing opinions-that' s why it's important for (CONTINUED ON PAGE 6) o Sandy Lord, Together's SUUSA presidential candidate in Wednesday's General Election, the key word is diversity. " I want to be able to represent everybody. That's my whole thing. People can come in from any walk of life." H er goal, she said, is to give every student a chance to be involved and have input into what happens on campus. "Even if you are not in a group," she said, a student should have the opportunity to change things and make suggestions to improve the university. " I am not included in any club or organization, so I can appeal to more students ." Also, " I want to help people if I could. [As president] I would be able to help more people in that position. I'd give them positions on campus where they develop and grow." Lord, an advocate of student involvement, said she would work to increase the number of student government positions available . Lord said she wants SUUSA clubs and organizations to have subcommittees so more people can be involved. She said she wants the senators to be more involved, also. She T said they should each sign a contract that says they will go to at least three activities per week to be supportive, whether it be Black Awareness Weck or club dances. Another involvement idea includes being open to ideas. Besides having an open door policy to hear student suggestions, Lord said she would like to have a soap box on campus for 'ltudcnts to voice their opinions. Although a student may not be swayed to another's opinion, she said, he will still be exp:osed to that opinion, and be more educated because of it. "We arc so sheltered here. You need to see other people's views. " As part ot Lord's party platform, she plans to implement a child-care program, and is currently looking into two options for this. The first includes a co-op plan that would work among the non-traditional students. Parents would alternate times caring for the children, so that students involved would both babysit and have their children babysat. The second option includes working with the Utah Shakespearean Festival . (CONTINU ED ON PAGE 6) |