Show Volume 71 Number 60 Utah State University Logan Utah Friday March 29 1974 12 pages Pub HoarcS presents constitutional change chairman of the USU Publications Board presented the ASUSU Executive Council with a proposed Constitutional amendment that would take the responsibility of funding Student Life away from the student government Doug Anderson After over one hour of and debate ASUSU President Rex Lund assigned ell Borrowman to turn the prcosal into a resolution to be discussed further at the Council’s next Wednesday session Anderson’s proposal called for inclusion of the proposed constitutional amendment in the April general election ballot The proposal asks for separate funding allocated directly from student fees to the Publications Board for the operation of student publications including Student Life If the proposal is made into an amendment and the amendment is passed by the students it would take the funding responsibility discussion ‘ for student publications away from the Executive Council The proposal raised considerable opposition from the student government officers with Norm Zurn student relations vice president and J Clarke Fowers activities vice president' questioning the role of the editor and criticising the editorial policy of the student newspaper The proposal tentatively calls for the Publications Board to receive four percent of student fees for the operations and publication of the student newspaper and other periodicals This would amount to about $27000 a year Anderson said He emphasized that this is just a “ballpark figure” Anderson said that at present there is no one group that has publishing control over Student He Life said that the Publications Board should be designated as the official publisher and have control and liability of the paper SAND AND GRAVEL pit? No this is a common in © Filing deadline Apr 3 if Ld the ’partially paved' UC parking lot m or executive offices Filing for the ASUSU executive offices has begun with several students getting into the race since Monday As of 3 pm Wednesday Mike Morgan and Scott Wilcox had filed for the office of President Bill Gentry and Kent Lewis for Executive Vice President Craig Anderson and Jeannie Haglund for Bruce Activities V P Donnachie and Steve Stoddard for cultural vp Shanna Keyes for Student Relations VP Dar Krambule for Volunteers VP Wayne Dennis for Business Senator and Ted Perry for Science senator Filing deadline has been extended to Wednesday April 3 at 12 noon with a meeting for all candidates to be held the following day Applications can be obtained from the Activites Center and should be turned in after being signed by the Dean of Students Constitution amended to give secretary vote by Lois Walters senior writer When studentbody elections are held this spring students will also be given a chance to vote on a Constitutional Amendment The proposed amendment will give the Executive Secretary the right to vote in Executive Council give the secretary voting privileges was passed by the Executive Council last spring but until now no action has been taken on it As the constitution now reads “the Executive Secretary shall member of the be a Council” The Executive proposed amendment will delete ” the word This year the Executive A resolution non-votin- g “non-voting- Cl to Secretary Marty Hibbard is the only female on the council Because she hasn’t been allowed to vote there has been no representation of women The resolution passed last spring states that “whereas there is a current movement across the nation toward more women representation in policy making bodies and whereas the “has proven in the past secretary that she ‘has the ability to perform her assigned duties as well as take an active part in legislative discussion” an amendment should be made It also states that the secretary is an elected office and should have the same benefits rights and responsibilities as other elected officials The student parking lot east of the UC is to be resurfaced but the work probably won’t begin until after spring quarter says Val Peterson director of the physical plant “We realize it is a problem” Peterson says especially with the dust now But the lot will have to be dug up and £Ngew base and surface put down and we can’t block off the area until school is out Peterson says If the situation becomes intolerable something will have to be done Peterson says but that would require closing the lot for a week or so “The funds Peterson says problem are available” so that is no The work will be done by a “lay down machine” but the crew that would operas it doesn’t start working until the weather gets warmer Peterson says Peterson says that the pavement broke up because of the freezing conditions last winter Another cause was that the pavement wasn’t suited for the heavy traffic it gets now It was meant for a parking lot not a roadway he says amended oriions of election Duties of the Election C Aggie Bowl for display of posters The ASUSU Executive Senate passed a bill Wednesday ommittee was changed to read: during the final week of the amending portions of the ASUSU “The Election Committee shall Campaign The amendelection by-laprint at the expense of the ments included candidate Election Committee a Student “Each final candidate inqualifications duties of the Life Special Elections insert of cluding Senatorial candidates the Final candidates The insert will be provided a table area for election committee and camshould include photos outlines or display of and paign publicity posters submitted by The bill President Rex Lund changed Section II Candidates to: “All candidates including write-in- s shall qualify according to Article platforms and qualifications of the candidate and his position Under section III Campaign rules the following was added: “Final candidates for Executive IV Section II of the ASUSU Council positions will Ire provided Constitution and shall adhere to a window in the basement of the all University Center in front of the by-law- s” distribution of handout materials according to Section III Article A-- 8 “Window and table areas will be under assignment and supervision of the election committee” |