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Show THE SIGNPOST Tuesday, July 2,1991 Position of prestige 2 Shane Stewart etected president of student body presidents By Joyce Zabriskie Staff writer of The Signpost "Really excited" is how ASYVSU Student Body President Shane Stewart described his recent election as president of the Utah Council of College Presidents (UCCP) and the Utah Students Association. He said he was looking forward to working with some really great people and representing Weber State's student body for the 1991-92 school year. The student body presidents from all of Utah's state colleges and universities constitute the UCCP. This year the student body president from Brigham Young University will also be included in the council. The Utah Students Association represents all students attending state colleges and universities. "The council actually insures that student concerns in the state are addressed," Stewart said. "It is a good forum for all schools to coordinate our efforts together." Stewart said the council really gives 'The council actually insures that student concerns in the state are addressed," -Shane Stewart, ASWSU President student body presidents much needed support and opportunity to help each other. Because of his position, Stewart will spearhead organized lobbying efforts before the state legislature and the Board of Regents.Stewart said that instead of each college trying to represent themselves on various issues, it is easier to meet as a council and discuss any differences between colleges and work those differences out. "It is important when presenting an issue on state level, for instance, to stand as a united body on one distinct issue instead of several fragmented, unorganized ones. It is much easier to sit down together and work our differences out before presenting any issue to the student senates, Board of Regents or the legislature," Stewart said. "Recently, the College of Eastern Utah was having problems within their student governments," Stewart said. "The campus is actually two campuses with two student body presidents. As a council, we were able to meet with these presidents and offer support and suggestions on how to solve these problems and get their student governments back on track. It really was a neat opportunity." Last year, when the council addressed the issue of Utah Valley Community College's desire to become a four-year institute, Stewart said the council felt the move was a little premature with Weber State College and Southern Utah State College changing to university status. "I think it will happen, but sometime in the future," he said. Stewart said he was excited about serv ing as student body president for the coming school year and is looking forward to the challenges that will face the ASWSU Senate when they meet in the fall. "I think it is a good opportunity to be elected as president. We have a lot of great people who, I think, will present a great team," he said. Stewart said he wanted to follow through with fund raising efforts begun by Doug Peterson, to raise capital for the Stewart Library. "We have raised $30,000 of the needed $39,000 for the library and would like to see that amount collected this year," he said. Stewart said that the ASWSU has about two years to finish collecting the money before they can approach the legislature for matching funds. He was pleased by the way people have responded to the situation and have worked hard to generate the needed capital. Stewart said there were other minor issues to bring up to the senate when they come back in the fall. "I think it's going to be a great year," he said . VILNIUS (continued from page 1) computer screens, etc. She thought all of Utah was going to be skyscrapers and high-rise tenement houses. She was very impressed to see all of the individual houses where people live and don't have to share with other families. "I didn't think I was in America. I didn't expect to find mountains and such beauty," she said. But that's not an unusual impression, said Adele Smith, who has been giving Juodiene an intensive, whirl-wind, week-long tour of the campus and community. Many people in the United States think of Lithuania as a war-torn gray country i with apartment buildings rising out of the ashes of World War II. But in truth, it looks more like the rolling hills of rural Michigan, she said. Smith explained that the Soviets are taking over communications facilities in order to inhibit free speech. That was apparent last January 13, when the Soviets first arrived in Lithuania. They immediately occupied communication systems, which were promptly surrounded by thousands of residents who protested the take-over. The Soviets were not able to cut communications. Lithuanian's simply used fax machines and other methods to tell the world what was happening. That may have saved a Soviet takeover of the Lithuanian parliament, Smith said. Because the people were able to stop the Soviets in Vilnius, they probably saved Kaunas and VMU, which probably would have been the Soviet's target, she said. In May, Smith accompanied her husband Robert, WSU vice president for academic affairs, and four Weber State students to VMU to help fine-tune the fledgling university there. For example, former Signpost Editor Necia Palmer helped VMU set up a student newspaper, P1NKTAS AUKSTAS (The Fifth Floor). The newspaper's first edition featured a story that illustrated another example of Soviet harassment, Juodiene said. The newspaper published a picture of a telegram sent to the university from Moscow, warning students and faculty that they had to move out of the building the university occupies because it is owned by the Communist state. WSU is only one element that is having an influence on VMU. The rector andvice-rector of the university are from : California, where Juodiene : will be studying. California has a largeLithuanian-American community. PRESIDENTS (continued from page 1) students, there were frequent disagreements concerning the presidential rankings. Of Richard M. Nixon, Johnny Tan said he "cannot agree with near failure (the ranking usually given to Nixon by scholars)." After researching, Tan decideduponahighabove-average ranking for Nixon - in light of Nixon's successes outside of the Watergate scandal. Though most were in agreement on his merit, the class assigned Nixon an average ranking in light of his lack of integrity demonstrated in Watergate.Students occupied much of the class time presenting oral reports on each of the presidents as Sadler offered insights into the various administrations of the presidents. 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