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Show ThE DAily Utah WEDNESDAY, APRIL JUNK RON CLE 27. 1088 K UNIVf KSIIY OF HI AH VOL 97, NO. If you want it, they might have it See page 8 11 Other Board aimed at curbing apathy '',WI1 m m Editor's Note: In the second part of a series, the Chronicle examines the organization and function of the four remaining ASUU boards, including Student Services, Programs and Activities, Ombudsman and the Other Board. two-pa- rt By Dar ren Tucker Chronicle campus editor The Student Services, Programs and Activities and Ombudsman and the Other boards affect students more directly than any other ASUU organizations-an- d they also receive more money than other boards combined. These boards are responsible for such things as the ASUU courtesy phones, concerts held on campus and offering answers to students' legal questions. The Other Board is a new board aimed at ending student apathy, said Mike Kaly, ASUU president. "The Other Board is basically to eliminate student activities and motivaapathy. It's kind of like low-cotors to get students involved," Kaly said. The board has no formal organization at all. It's composed of about 30 students. It has proposed activities such as a lecture by a porn star, a paper airplane competition and an observatory activity. Kaly said it also will be involved with the student's garden and refurbishing the ampitheatre. Kaly said although the board has no formal structure, it will be able to do a lot. "I think it can accomplish more without a rigid structure," he said. 'It really does kind of represent the Who Cares? attitude and has that feeling." The more traditional boards are working toward spending students' money more efficiently. The Student Services, Programs and Activities and Ombudsman boards received $148,750 in student funds from the ASUU Assembly last year. In contrast, the Finance Board, Academic Affairs, Public Relations and Public Affairs received only st $55,850. One way the boards hope to achieve their goals is organizing in untraditional ways. For instance, instead of the chair and vice chair specified in the ASUU Redbook, the Programs and Activities Yuri Bugoslavski and Board will have two . co-chai- rs, Sandi Terry. Bugoslavski said the two will split the chair's responsibilities. He believes they will perform their duties more effectively because of it. He said they will each fulfill their responsibilities separately from each other, including dividing the budget. He said the major questions facing the board will be decided by all members of the board, not just by Terry and him. see "boards" on page five WIWH!i'lIJJ J,J f j ( U':gP I Chronicle photo by Steven C Wilson Italians Emidio Novi, Cataldo Nicosia and Giorgio Rinaldi are studying the U.S. Constitution because of the balance of power integral to the document. They hope to use this knowledge to strengthen the Italian Constitution. Italy is stable, U. speaker says 3-m- an By team hopes to study U.S. political system Sharon Deckert Rinaldi said many Americans assume the Italian system is unstable because of numerous changes in the Chronicle staff writer Two journalists and a professor from Italy who hope to modify their country's constitution are touring the United States to observe what they call "an efficient constitutional model." Emidia Novi and Giorgio Rinaldi, both journalists, and Cataldo Nicosia, a political science professor at the University Begli Studi in Catania, Italy, spoke at the Hinckley Institute of Politics Tuesday. The three men, who chose to use interpreters, discussed 'Political and Economic Conditions in Italy." Nicosia said although the political systems of the United States and Italy are both essentially democratic, they differ philosophically and institutionally. The Italian system has no substantial differences between the legislative and executive branches so the executive branch depends upon the trust of the legislative branch, he said. Nicosia said the group hopes constitutional changes can give the government a better balance of powers between the executive and legislative branches. They all agreed Americans tend to view Italy's political structure as more unstable than it is. Nicosia said he view more prevalent has found this "pseudo-instabilitbecause Western in the states, perhaps they are farther from Washington, D.C.'s political center. y" country's government. But they said the system receives its stability from "strong political parties and not the weak government." "In the last 40 years Italy has had 40 governments," Rinaldi said. "But the political class in Italy has a very long life." Novi said political power was maintained by the leading party, Christian Democrats, forming coalitions with the Socialists, Communists or various small parties. And although the coalitions change frequently, Rinaldi said the long-terexistence of parties has led to stability because people belonging to the parties remain in positions of power. m For example, the government has changed many times during his career, but Giulio Andreotti has been an important figure in Italy since 1947, Rinaldi said. In the present government he is the Minister of Foreign Affairs. Italy also has "a system of patronage" where offices are distributed among the parties proportionate to their representation in government, he said. The offices governed by this system include positions in the banking system. For instance, "If there were 10 openings in banks, five of them may be given to the Christian Democrats, two or three of them to the Socialists and the others to the smaller parties," he said. Speakers clash on Nicaragua II. mmm. MM Debate includes attack on Contras, Sandinistas ByLoriBona Chronicle assistant news editor Two political activists clashed over the U.S. involvement in Nicaragua Tuesday during a poorly attended debate at the University of Utah. Both E.K. Hunt, U. economics chair and Eric Jorgensen, National Young Republicans chair, were predebate. The debate was part of pared for a U. International Week. However, when less than 12 people showed up, moderator Ed Epstein, political science associate professor, decided an informal debate would be more appropriate. Hunt began the debate by stating there is no justification for a U.S. policy that promotes "torture, death, mutifull-fledg- ed i , 'If tf lation, violation of international law and criminal Jl Chronicle photo by Steven MIIMIIMIIMI11 C. Wilson E.K Hunt, chair of the University of Utah economics department, said the Contras are not a revolutionary U.S. govgroup, but a mercenary army created by the destruction. and ernment for torture, death behavior of every sort." "The United States has, for at least a hundred years, considered this hemisphere to be its exclusive domain," he said. "We have invaded Latin America 17 to 18 times in the last eight or nine years, we've militarily occupied of a century." Nicaragua for one-thir- d The United States is not "protecting democracy from dictatorships" when it invades small countries and supports tyrannical leaders, Hunt said. "The issue is not communism, democracy or totalitariidentification with the anism. The issue is right-win- g powerful and wealthy, versus governments that identify with the peasants and workers," he said. "Whenever we have right-win- g dictatorships that supand the local indigenous, American corporations port elite that's to wealthy democracy usregardless of how killed or tortured." many are slaughtered, Jorgensen, however, said it's the United States' responsibility to uphold human rights and make war against every form of tyranny. Hunt said the United States created the Contras as a mercenary army to uphold democracy. "We took the bloodiest, working tyrants, put them in charge of our mercenary army and what have they done?" 'They have killed so many people that if you were to see "Nicaragua" on page four Non-prof- it Org. U.S. Postage Paid Permit No. 1529 Salt Lake City, UT |