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Show he tfoumkrfaird THE STUDENT NEWS AND VIEWS OF SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE CEDAR CITY, UTAH New constitution approved by Kevin Zollinger wide margin Wednesday a fact that pleased student leaders. Only a few people voted against the changes. "The Senate shall have the power to establish to submit to the ASSUSC. If you think that sentence is confusing, you are of the not alone. John Rex, Constitutional Revision Committee, said, Whoever wrote that obviously knew what it meant, but we dont. Language like this, and a lack of consistency, finally led to a revision of the constitution this year. The students last week voted to accept the new constitution by a whopping 147 to 11 majority. The major complaint of the revision committee was that the constitution had been amended so many times since it had been written in 1973 that it looked like a patchwork quilt. There was no real problem with it, but it couldnt grow with the school and it could not deal with some of the problems of the future. Director of Student Activities Brad Bennett said, The revision is much like overhauling your car; you dont really notice the change until there is a problem. The revision was not the first project finished by the new administration, but it was the first started. Last years administration also formed a revision committee, but no work was really done. Committee Mike Mauger said that the difference was probably that this years administration made constitution revision a campaign promise, and last years administration did not. The new constitution is much like the old one with a few modifications. The first modification is the addition of the office of the attorney general. The attorney general will take some of the responsibilities and power of the academics vice president. The attorney general will also establish an ombudsman service and represent the school to the Utah Lobby Association. Another modification is the method of succession. In the old constitution, the academics vice president could act indefinately for the president if the president was sick or out of town. This was in addition to acting as president of the senate. The new constitution avoids this problem when it specifies that after two weeks the senate president protem becomes the senate president. The revision also made changes in the judiciary branch of goverment. Where before the president appointed all of the justices, now the president appoints three and the executive council appoints two. The senate must still approve all appointments, and appointments are still for three years or until graduation. The revision also added readability to the document. Rex again specifies, One of our goals when we rewrote the constitution was to make sure that any student could read it, not just someone with a legal background. One of the most important things added to the constitution was the ability to grow and change with the school. The old constitution was written in 1973 for 1973. The revision is written with the future in mind, student officers said. I give it a life right around 1,000 years. I really feel that we have eliminated anything that would make this a temporary type constitution, Rex said. He also stated that for example, we never state the number of senators or number in the executive council. When the school expands, the constitution will also expand. Sorokun: liberal press provides misinformation to public Soviet defector allies himself with Accuracy in Media in his help fight biased news homeland to by Monica Moe Soviet Union its understood that the government controls the press and mass When Soviet defector Andrey media are publishing what the Soviets Sorokun toured the Southern Utah want, and they want to misinform. Sorokun told the audience that in campus Thursday and Friday his visit partially sponsored by Accuracy In America the mass media is not going to Media (AIM) he said he joined the be inclined to misinform the public. He AIM team because I liked their purpose said that American mass media informs because they are basically trying to the public exactly the way the Soviets combat liberal press and misinformation do. that is being brought to (the) American The American' government public. underestimates the Soviet threat in mass I think American mass media media because its easier to answer the contributes a lot to this American electorate when you are not misinformation, Sorokun said. In the emphasizing it too much, said Sorokun. coverage If they had revealed the real scale of the Soviet intentions toward America, they would have to answer more rigorously to the American' public because the public would have demanded they do more with the situation. Sorokun also spoke of some of the major issues between the United States and the Soviet Union. On the topic of nuclear war he told of the Soviet governments influence on the Russian peoples ideologies. The Soviet people dont want nuclear war, but they think its legal and adopted justified for the Soviet Union to have nuclear weapons because the government explains it to them that its a necessity, and if it were not for the nuclear weapons, the defense program would have never had peaceful skies above their heads for 40 years, said Sorokun. In Russia there is no such notion as nuclear disarmament or nuclear freeze, its basically the western idea and western way of thinking, said Sorokun. I know that quite a number of (continued on page 7) |
