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Show No More Voles To Silence Senator Five National Student Association delegates on campus walked out of Senate Tuesday defeated by a 12 to 10 vote (six abstentions). Members of NSA were seeking one vote per member of the delegation instead of their present status in Senate of one vote for the entire delegation. In other words, NSA holds one-fifth a vote in Senate. NSA wants five votes. And NSA has good reason for wanting five votes. In the first place, they have been elected by the studentbody (those that voted, that is) whereas class officers, each of which has a vote, were elected only by the members of the class (those that voted, that is). Also, executive secretaries of the various student-faculty committees each have one vote and these committees are selected by a board rather than elected by the studentbody or even a sizeable group within the studentbody (those that would vote, that is). However, the fact remains that NSA has only one real delegated function, that of attending the National NSA convention each summer representing the University. Univers-ity. It is, we assume, on this premise that the bid for more voting power was defeated by the Senate. Another fact remains apparent also. In spite of the fact that NSA has only the convention and attendance in Senate as its responsibility, NSA does a lot as an organization on campus, more so, it can be said, that do a lot of members of Senate that have several delegated responsibilities. As a senator each member of NSA has a voice, the opportunity op-portunity to speak, (a lot of Senators vote but never open their mouths-still others don't even vote, just abstain). Each member of NSA has a place on a Senate committee. He goes through all the formalities of being a full-fledged Senator, Sen-ator, except that he can't vote. Doesn't it follow that if a group of class officers be treated the same? And what about the Student-Faculty committees com-mittees votes? The problem points to one obvious need as far as Senate in concerned. The complete organization of Senate needs to be revised, reapportioned if you will. Senate needs a little soul searching to decide from where its valuable votes really real-ly should come. NSA should be given five votes if every other member of Senate has a vote, but at the same time further responsibility, responsibil-ity, or "official responsibility" to warrant one vote per member. mem-ber. It's not that NSA doesn't do anything but go to conventions, con-ventions, it just doesn't do so "officially" as occasionally do the class officers, etc. The cry today is for equality, Take a deep breath, Senators, Sen-ators, roll up your sleeves and take an honest look at yourselves your-selves as an organization. Is the voting system in Senate really set up to give equal organizations equal voting power? The furor Tuesday over NSA indicates that there obviously obvious-ly needs to be a change, a movement towards more true representation a movement to recognize power where it is. |