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Show iveber state n Volume 30, Number 44 Weber State College, Ogden, Utah 84403 Tuesday, April 20, 1971 D s, 1 ft Wesley Ode relates computers to society Wesley H. Odell of the IBM Corporation will be the featured guest at the convocation on April 22. Mr. Odell is the Systems Engineering Manager for the IBM Corporation which is based in Salem Oregon. "Computers Their Cause and Effect in Our Society," will be the subject of discussion in the lecture which will also deal with new advances and products in data processing. Mr. Odell is a graduate from the University of Utah where he received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. He later received his M.B.A. in Finance from Stanford University Graduate School. Mr. Odell has been with the IBM Corporation since 1962 where he became Systems Engineering Manager in 1970. The convocation will be held in the WSC Fine Arts Center auditorium and will begin at 11:00 a.m. Nominations named The results of the nomination assembly are as follows. This list is complete as of Wednesday, April 14, 1971. Arts Letters and Science Senator Kevin Wheelwright Mike Grow Business Senator Rex Stevens Education Senator Noel Blonquist Technology Senator Mike Waggoner AMS Pres. Paul Lindquist VP Greg Lambros Sec AWS Pres. Roxanne Peterson Betty Robinson VP Ella Jean Saunders Sec Callen Buttars Senior class Pres. Glen Curtis VP Bob Breckner Sec. Louona Harline Junior Class Pres. Bob Hillier Dave Broadbent VP Bruce Shepherd Bob Tegeder Sec. Sherrie Martin Rita Jones Sophomore Class Pres. George Dixon VP Tony Berendse Sec. Proposal to give advisors sen. vote A proposed amendment to WSC's constitution which would give the vote to the student Senate's three advisors must now await the formation of a faculty-student committee to study it. The amendment, introduced by the Senate and passed by that body last December 2, would give the voting privilege to the Dean of Students, the Coordinator of Student Government, and a faculty member appointed by the Academic Council. Those advisory positions are now held by Dean Alan J. Dayley, Curtis Smout, and Ralph Telford, respectively, and they serve now on the Senate with voice but without vote. In order for an amendment to become part of the constitution, it must pass through the following channels: First, it is approved by a majority of the Senate. Second, the president of the college appoints a committee of three faculty members to confer with three senators. The senators are appointed by the ASWSC President. After agreement by at least four members of this committee on the proposal's merits, it is returned to the Senate, where it must be approved by two thirds of that body. The text of the amendment is then published in the school newspaper. Finally, the proposal is voted on by the studentbody in a special election, and the majority opinion decides the amendment's fate. The amendment now under consideration has been passed by the Senate, and as of this writing, the necessary six-member committee has not been appointed.Dean of Students Alan Dayley, in a memo to President Miller and ASWSC President Fran Wikstrom dated March 8, requested that this committee be formed so that a decision on this proposal might be reached. Dayley said he was in favor of the amendment's passage and pointed out that the Dean of Students and Coordinator of Student Government have had voting rights on the Executive Cabinet since Weber's constitution was adopted in 1967. This would seem to set a precedent for the passage of the amendment now under consideration.Opposition to the proposal would probably be based on a desire to keep the Senate in the hands of the students and fear of giving the advisors the deciding votes on closely contested issues. Dean Dayley said that while "if an issue is close, one or two votes could be deciding," he didn't anticipate that the three advisors would form a voting bloc. "Influence can be there with or without a vote," he added. Foreign students share vvcefi Weber State College will be the scene for the second yearly International Week sponsored by the foreign students on campus. Mr. Thao Phoui, a student from the Kingdom of Laos, stated in comments about the event, that the primary purpose of International Week is to, "promote International Brotherhood and understanding between all peoples." He also stated that it is the intention of the sponsors of International Week to, let students and all interested, experience cultures of the various nations represented on campus. All students and anyone interested in International cultures are invited to attend. Exhibits of international customs and wares will be displayed in the Union Ball Room from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily. Mr. Phoui stated that the, "world is a campus." This analogy will manifest itself during International Week, with nine countries of the world, each displaying individual academic prowess in the arts of cooking and entertainment. The countries of Japan, Pakistan, China, Kuwait, Kingdom of Laos, Chile, Uraguay, India and Ecuador will be serving their native food, at the International Banquet and talent show, featured at the end of International week's experience. The talent exhibition will include native dancing from nine countries, of interest to many will be the kick boxing of Thailand. Guest speaker at the banquet will be the international figure of Dr. Daryl Chase, former president of Utah State University. The banquet will be Sat. April 24 at 6:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased from the main foyer of the union building and from any foreign student on campus. Protest poetry under discussion "Poems of Protest and Prophecy" will be on the agenda at Weber State when the controversial John Beecher appears in the Fine Arts Center auditorium. John Beecher, the great-great-nephew of abolitionist Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe was brought up in Birmingham, Alabama and writes of urgent social realities such as racial injustice, war, exploitation of man by man, and civil liberties. It has been said of him, "When a flinty edge of anger harshens his fine baritone voice as he reads his poems, John Beecher is not acting. He has been there, and has seen it all." Beecher administered New Deal programs in the South for eight years and also served as regional examiner for President Roosevelt's original Fair Employment Practice Committee in the South, New York, and New England. During World War II, Beecher served aboard the racially integrated Liberty ship Booker T. Washington, and about this experience wrote a book, "All Brave Sailors." Beecher has been printing on his private press, his protest poems and the poems of others, which have won wide recognition. Beecher will speak at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21. I. M 't ' JOHN t - n, , ' W BEECHER |