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Show 'Opportunity for growth' Resident halls form constitution sake of committees. Who gives a damn about them if they're not even relevant?" Provide growth According to Schuster, the ultimate goal of governmental revamping is to provide the opportunity op-portunity for growth both academic and social in the residence hall environment. "After all, if a residence hall doesn't give you the environment for learning and growth, what good is it? You can live downtown for cheaper." this constitution and out of 1200 students, 779 voted on the measure. That's a phenomenal turnout." The final vote was 94.6 percent in favor of ratification and 5.4 percent Against. "Perhaps the negative votes can be attributed to the vice of vagueness," said Schuster. "We deliberately made the constitution very general so that it could adapt to unforeseeable situations." Effective system "We had a very effective grassroots grass-roots system," said Schuster. "In February we held a dinner for those who were interested in student government (At that time their number was about 25). "We decided that the only way to prove to everybody that it was the students not the staff in back of this thing was to expose a handful of them to the idea, hope they get psyched and hope . they spread it." The posters were printed and one was displayed on each floor. Sometimes a single word "Why?" would be written over it. No one knows how it caught on, but it did. Elections coming Under the new RHSA government, govern-ment, almost anyone who wants to participate can do so. Elections are being held this Thursday for president, vice-presidents and delegates. Each hall will send a vice-president to the House of Delegates and each floor will send one delegate. Frances Mielach, a candidate for president on what could conceivably be called the "General Funds" platform, says that "the committees are so structured that if you want to be on one, you can." These committees will have an active role in the residence hall community. Schuster said, "Lots of governments govern-ments have committees for the Some of the orange posters in the residence halls are topped by elephants. Others have girls outfitted out-fitted (slightly) on the bottom in the stars and stripes. "Why is this so important to you?" blare letters from one. Another has only "$14,000." But that's only the large print. Further scrutiny will reveal that these posters also incorporate the text of the new Residence Halls Student Association (RHSA) Constitution. Make halls visible "The main thing we're trying to do with this constitutioh is to make the residence halls 'visible,' " says Schuster. "We're trying to change the halls from a group of isolationist floors to a community made up of everyone together." The basic reason for the adoption of the new constitution is that the residence halls need a way to reallocate the funds collected from each student as fees at the beginning of each year. "The residents used to pay floor funds, which would be used for floor parties, and there it ended. There were hardly ever any gatherings between floors, let alone between halls," says Schuster. The new constitution will permit the students to be in complete control of the allocation of their funds, and it is expected that they will change the allocation to general funds, thereby promoting activities of the residence halls as a single community. com-munity. Interest in self-government That the students are interested in active self-government is beyond doubt. "It's almost impossible to believe that so many people are so psyched about student government," govern-ment," Schuster said. "But we know that they are. Last Thursday, we had a vote on the ratification of |