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Show Wednesday, January 24, 1990 THE SIGNPOST 5 WSC student senator sets the record straight To the editor: Jan. 23, 1990 On Human Liberty. Student government has been criticized this year for being negative and doing nothing. Perhaps a review is in order. In one of the first meetings we had as a senate, we reviewed the proposed ASWSC budget. I objected to the $13,000 being spent on a three day leadership retreat at Sweetwater Resort at Bear Lake. I was successively told, "You don't have to look at this, just pass it; senators need to know their place; are you trying to undo everything we've done in the last five years?" The real crime appeared to be my proposal that we hold leadership in Ogden, for less than $6,000. This would give working students a chance to attend at least some functions. So 101 students went to Bear Lake for three days. The three day party consisted of 13 12 hours of workshops. A top administrator spoke up and indicated he met his wife at one of these retreats. The administration's response to this abuse of student fees is to hide next years' leadership money in the Union Building budget. The next big issue was the composition of the Student Fee Allocation Committee. Eight students sit on the committee to represent 13,000 students. I was prohibited from sitting on the committee because I was not objective (three of the four on the committee that screened applicants for the SFAC, chose themselves.) An" 'at-large' student was finally chosen to sit on this committee. So, six traditional and two non-traditional students comprise the committee. (This is an objective, fair, representative, cross-section of our student population that has input into the use, or abuse of student fees.) Do you want to guess how much money will go to parties this year? Treg Julanders' resolution to enfranchise students on bonding issues brought an additional chorus' of dissension. It was defeated. My resolution to permit students to hear and vote on the student services building issue met with acrimony. It only barely passed the Senate but was vetoed by the President, "to permit time to organize the forums properly." So, the quarter ended and the administrations' student representatives, with their controllers, met in committee without the benefit of an opposition (remembering these are those most concerned with objectivity). Then, at student fees expense, they published and mailed 13,000 flyers presenting one side of the issue. Has the opposing side presented a flyer? Yes! Why haven't the students seen it? The administration and their student representatives refused to print 5,000 copies, not 13,000, but 5,000. They wanted to censor our flyer. We didn't censor theirs. The Legislative building committee was on campus and appropriate students met with them to discuss the SSB. Not one opponent on the building was there to present the much desired "objectivity." So what has happened? Whenever a voice is raised for SFAC, constraint in party expenditures, freedom of speech, the enfranchisement of the distribution of student money on their behalf, or "objectivity" were DJs praised for efforts Spanish programming To the editor: January 23, 1990 I have been a listener of the KWCR Spanish program for almost a year, not only for its variety of music, but also for the effort that the Spanish DJ's put into making this Latin program one of the best in Utah. It made me mad to learn that the Spanish program was not going to be transmitted on Saturday anymore, since that is the only day I can listen to it. Sunday I have to go to church. It is a fact that the hispanic community is the largest minority group in Weber county and there are almost 300 hispanic students at Weber State. It is also the purpose of any university or college to serve the community on and off campus. As a member of the hispanic community, I felt that I was being served by Weber State College and I was really proud of being a student at this college. After I received this bad news, I felt sorry for the KWCR staff because instead of trying to make the radio station better, they are taking a step backward. I want to ask them why they are cutting back a program that so far has been a total success. It doesn't make any sense, does it? I hope the KWCR staff reconsiders their decision and the Spanish program continues next Saturday. Thank you, Carlos Cordero, WSC student heard, that voice was out shouted, out voted, and not surprisingly, called radical. If it's radical to believe in the dignity, self actualization, and self-determination of this studentbody, I'm radical. If it's radical to object to forcing a divorced mother with three children to pay for someone else's party (I was told, by a single young man who has all the advantages, that if she's too busy to come, that's her fault), I'm a radical. If it's radical to protest the suppression of freedom of speech, I'm a radical. But I will never back down on the issue of human liberty. Come join me. Daniel L. Cooper Education Senator i i i i i FROM OUR TACO BAR IN THE GALLERY I i i i i i i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 i i i i i i i i 1 1 1 1 i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i i BUILD YOUR OWN i i i r i l i i i i i i i i i i i i i l i i i i i i r 1 l l l l i i i t i l l l i i l l l l MONDAY THRU FRIDAY! 10:15 A.M. -1:45 P.M. fH BIRTHDAY ( AA v y PARTY !! Y J JANUARY 27, tpW j i ft 8pm -12am I j I ' O V BUILDING . AA O O f VcOST: $5 1 ( AA O o " v perPerson 'AA' o COME AS YOU ARE OR YOUR FAVORITE STAR |