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Show Committee approves new campus speaker policy By Joey Lytle Staff Writer The Committee on Student Affairs Tuesday approved speaker policy for Associated Students of the University of Utah (ASUU) and Union committees. Under the new policy a recognized student organization or an individual student with the written endorsement of nine other students may ask a member of the University community to appear before any University audience without obtaining the approval of the committee. The committee's policy, in the Guidelines to Implement Speaker Policy, states, "Although the committee does not intend to act as a censoring body, it will assume its responsibility for approval with regard to the time, place and format of a speaker not of the University of Utah community." In other action, committee member Bill Groot felt that the procedure of presenting organization's constitution to Student Affairs was unnecessary. But the majority of the committee decided they were to gain a fuller understanding of the organization's purpose and as a permanent record of that organization to be filed in the Student Activities Center. k Kenall Ogilvie, who presented the recognition statement for the Folk Dance, said the constitutions were a good idea. They helped clarify the goals and purposes to both Student Affairs and the committee itself, he said. The Folk Dance group was recognized. The committee also planned a work session to go over the Policy Handbook so Student Affairs members could better serve the students. For the work session, Ernest Bebb, Union director, suggested that the committee consider changing the policy of recognition of organizations to recognition and identification. In recognizing a committee, he said, an organization would be entitled to use the University name, facilities, advertising, listing in organization roster and possibly the Utonian. He said identification would only entitle them to use University facilities and advertising. |