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Show Monday, April 22, 1991 Mews THE SIGNPOST V-.: - JIM SAWDEYmf SIGNPOST Breezing through homework NOT EVERYONE SCHEDULED for the Undergraduate Social Science Conference Thursday showed up with their booth. Miller Atogi found the wind and the rain pleasant company while he took advantage of the vacancies to do his homework. Committee recommends a complete constitutional change Students will be asked to ratify new constitution this week By Annette Tittensor Staff writer of The Signpost At a recent public meeting Student Government Coordinator Michael McCleve discussed major revisions proposed for the ASWSU Constitution which would cause significant changes in student government processes and power. The proposed constitution gives more power to members of student government. McCleve said the current constitution seems more like a charter. "A constitution is a self-empowering document, and a charter is a document that empowers someone over you," McCleve said. An ad hoc senate constitution committee, of which McCleve was a member, studied the old constitution and drafted the new constitution after several months of studying the U.S. Constitution and the constitutions of other colleges and universities nationwide. McCleve said the current ASWSU Constitution is missing information, lacks focus and allows no real option for changes. The current document cannot be changed or amended unless a ballot referendum receives 7,500 votes out of 13,000 students. Students will be asked to ratify the constitution by ballot this week. Copies of the new constitution can be picked up at all department offices, the reserve library, the games desk at Wildcat Lanes, the information desk or the student activity office. "We can't even get 7,500 students to vote, let alone get that many to agree to a change in the constitution," he said. The new constitution prescribed by McCleve would clarify many unclear procedures. "The current constitution and charter says that the senate has power to impeach, the president has power to veto, and it says that students can petition the supreme court to do something ... anything they want. But the problem is that it doesn't say how!" he said. In November of 1990, the new and improved constitution was drafted. The student senate has been studying it up to the present, and passed it with a three-fourths majority vote on April 14. The document will be ratified by two thirds of the student vote. "One fundamental change there is that we need is a two-third majority vote, but only of the votes received, so if we don't have 7,000 students voting, that's O.K.," McCleve said. Another meeting concerning the issue will be held next Tuesday at 10:30 In UB Ballroom C. Call Michael McCleve at 626-6379 for more details. Friend of Weber State passes away By Brent Mark Staff writer of The Sgnpost Ira Huggins, an Ogden attorney who was a life-long supporter of Weber State, died April 17. During the Depression era, Huggins sponsored legislation that opposed the abolition of two-year schools, said WSU Development " 1 1 P m mm f . - '' f " 1 i t LDS Institute Devotional Michael Ballam Doctor of Music from Indiana University. Currently teaching music theory and history at USU. Popular LDS Education Week lecturer. An outstanding vocalist who has performed in some of the nation's major conert halls. Tuesday, April 23 Institute Chapel 10:30 a.m. Everyone Welcome Warning: Avoid parking on streets north of the Institute posted "no parking." Officer Don Spainhower. Since then, Huggins was involved with Weber and helped develop it, Spainhower added. In a letter Huggins wrote to Weber in 1969, he said, "I'm very proud of Weber State College and very much concerned that it continues to grow and flourish." Huggins served on the Board of Trustees for nine years. The Board of Trustees, currently the Institutional Council, looked at budgets, hiring of new personnel, curriculum changes, reviewed sabbaticals and new buildings and projects on campus. Huggins was also a member of the Board of Regents for eight years. The Board of Regents serves as the governing body for all higher academic institutions in Utah. "He was a strong voice for Weber State," Spainhower said. During the 1980s, Huggins and his wife, Leona Ashcraft Huggins, set up a $10,000 scholarship endowment on campus. He was awarded a Crystal Crest Award in 1988. Weber recognized Huggins' contributions to higher education in 1969 with an honorary doctorate degree and an honorary master's degree in 1977. 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