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Show The Thunderbird Monday, May 14, 1984 Page 3 Decker named dean Speaker Lopez advocates intimacy The Dean of Arts and Letters Hal Campbell will be resigning from the position to devote more time to teaching and Rod Decker has been chosen as his successor. Im pleased with it, said Decker, who learned of the new appointment while at a softball game Friday where several members of Institutional Council and President Sherratt informed him of the news. I was not assured of the position. There were several very qualified people for them to choose from, he said. Wayne Hinton will succeed Decker as chair of the department of behavioral and social sciences. Survival and conservation for todays world were discussed by author Barry Lopez, guest lecturer at Thursdays Convocation program. The first law of conservation, said Lopez, is to notice everything about where you are.. .but its a lesson thats sometimes lost to us. Lopez drew parallels between todays society and the story of a group of English explorers who perished in the Artie while searching for the northwest passage. They died because they did not know where he they were. ..their arrogance was extraordinary, said, explaining that the explorers ignored the connection between a land and its people. They condescended to the eskimos, didnt learn the language, ... and hence perished for their lack of knowledge. I come back to the story so often because, of course, the parallels to us are so strong, he said. Club allocations continue by Ethel Lyman Senate funds are still temporarily obsolete according to Senate Treasurer Kent Hugh. Basically were still broke; there have been no substantial changes in our funds, he said. Despite the lack of capital, Senate allocations are still being made noted Steve Wright, Senate president. He said, Its called planning and organization. When we get the money, well set it up in separate club accounts. In order to withdraw the money, the clubs and organizations will have to fill out check requistions and purchase orders and have them signed by the right people. This leaves us a nice paper trail so we have control over our money and it will also improve our audit system. Senators approved a bill to allocate $812 to the SUSC Communications Club to subsidize the clubs activities for the 1984-8- 5 school year. This is $500 less than the amount initially requested, due to amendments by the Senate. The allocation will be used to facilitate reactivation of the club, and to g supplement the clubs own activities and monetary resources, said Michele Harrison, Communications Club president. A portion of the initial request would fund-raisin- have subsidized a club float in next years Homecoming parade. Senator Bill Honeck said, I dont feel we should sponsor every float for every club. Itll give SUSC a good front to have expensive floats, but the money should come from each club fund. Club has The SUSC Inter-Tribsubmitted a request for $1000 from the Senate for the coming years budget. This bill was tabled to allow for further scrutiny by a Senate investigation committee. The Music Arts Association is forming a board of directors and is seeking a student representative. It has asked the Senate to submit names of students who would be interested in the position on the board of directors. The representative will serve as a link between the college and the association by attending meetings and informing students on campus about current activities. A committee which will present a Student Academic Achievement Award is currently seeking $200 from the Senate. The bill will be posted for a week. Peter Emerson, committee chairman, indicated those students interested will have to meet basic criterion for the award, which will be given at the Academic Awards Convocation May 14. al According to Lopez, the ignorance exhibited by the English explorers is still around today. Nothing has changed, he said. A group of men still sit in Washington and know nothing about the country. ...but theyre making decisions that affect you and I. One of the things Lopez said is learned by living the American West is putting up with pronouncements and observations of people who dont know what theyre talking about. One of the lessons Lopez advocates is to travel and pay attention to the differences between cultures and peoples. The reason for traveling anywhere is so that you understand your home, in he said. With this understanding comes great strength, the author professes. You learn to think well in the forms youve grown up with. You become not only comfortable but strong. Barton: Student body better' SUSC is not only fielding more students, but administrators say the school is getting much better ones too. Admissions Director Mark Barton, presenting spring quarter enrollment figures, told the Institutional Council Friday that better scholarships from the college are paying off. By offering the same type of scholarships as Utahs bigger colleges, were getting Sterling Scholars from the Wasatch front applying. ..and weve never had that, Barton said. SUSC this year is giving out nine Presidential Scholarships, which pay $1,250 a year for four years, and that kind of offer is enticing more applicants. What youre seeing is a changing student body, added President Gerald Sherratt. Not only are our scholarship applications up, but the grade point average of the students applying is increasing. Some of SUSCs best students are transfers, Barton noted. The majority come from Dixie Junior College, but BYU contributes the second highest number. All of these students coming in are raising the level of performance at the college, said Sherratt. One of the reasons is we are as aggressive in students as we recruiting athletes. are in recruiting enrollment figures Spring quarter e show a total of 2,028 a figure equivalent students averaged out on 15 credits per student. But a headcount shows 2148 students. SUSCs senior class is now the largest of all, almost double the junior class, but Vice President for Student Services Sterling Church says thats because many juniors moved up at Registrar Barbara Young reports 605 seniors, 327 juniors, 367 sophomores and 585 freshmen are enrolled this spring. And while the FTE figures are based on a average, 181 students are parrying 20 credits or more, including one person with 34 credits. About 26 percent of the students are years old, but 31 percent are 25 or older, including 36 males and 72 females over 39. Many of them are married and working. y y full-tim- mid-yea- 21-2- 2 The al student Schriock Now that they have a good idea how students feel about cafeteria food, student leaders have suggested a few areas for improvement. Members of the Executive Council met with administrators Thursday in a follow-u- p to the recent in which most interviewees survey of cafeteria-user- s thought the food could be better. This was not an end to just create publicity, said Mitch Connell, who prepared the survey. We hope to see this as a beginning to explore new avenues between students and food services. This survey has put some pressure on student government to do something about it, agreed ASSUSC President Scott Price. Among the ideas Connell outlined were to appoint a student along with the Director of Food Services to the college Food Committee, and to allow students to call meetings at least once a month. Food service could also conduct surveys to find out the most popular foods, he said. Paul Southwick, vice president for financial affairs, said theres one Catch-22- . A favorite dish served too often becomes an unfavorite dish, he said. Its called the boredom syndrome. I guess if I were down there eating everyday, added y Academic Vice President Steve Wright, Id get nit-pick- about Students do get bored, commented Connell, and thats the whole thing: youve got to change their it. perceptions. If they perceive theres c problem, then theres a problem. Where some students complained about foreign objects in food, Jones noted that hairnet rules are again being enforced. And to increase the variety, Jones said various clubs on campus, like an international club, could occasionally prepare a dinner. We have some plans to physically change, he continued. We want to speed up the serving line by moving some of the things out. In the same meeting, Clubs and Organizations President John Banks updated plans to organize fraternities on campus. After hearing a presentation from the Sigma Nu executive director. Banks said, I personally feel Sigma is becoming a very heavily recruited student, Barton' said. Males slightly outnumber females, 1,095 to 1,058. Improvements pondered for food services by Ralph r. Nu is the type of fraternity we want to invite to colonize on our campus. Executive Director Maurice Littlefield recently outlined Sigma Nus policies, and he advised student leaders not to bring on more than two or three fraternities and sororities in their plans to establish a Greek system. "We have 180 chapters, Littlefield told them, so we dont really need new chapters at this time. But he added that, here on this campus, where you dont have a fraternity tradition, you have a model opportunity to create the very best. Each new chapter of Sigma Nu, which is one of the largest fraternities in the country, normally takes three or four semesters to earn a charter. Dont think you ought to hurry that process, he advised. "It would not hurt my feelings if you took two years to get that charter. Banks said Thursday that hed like something ready by fall. member of Sigma Nu, President Sherratt, long-tim- e noted that until the organization is chartered, the school has the opportunity to back out, and the fraternity has the opportunity to back out. |