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Show (. !THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2001 PAGE) UNIVERSITY JOURNAL CAMPUS NEWS Byla\Ns section passed, \Viii be amended • SU USA ASSEMBLY AND SENATE: The Assembly ~llocates $5{)0 to the CHANGE Club for a movie fundraiser; the Senate approves a section of the Assembly's bylaws. BY MARY HAMMON JOURNAL TAFF WRITER - The As mbly allocated 500 to the CHA GE club for a movie fund-raiser in its meeting Tuesday night. CHA GE is rai iog money to end members to Africa thi spring. rodents will help build a school in Kenya. Last year, the dub sent seven members and hope to send at least that many tbi year. Arts and Entertainmei:rt Delegate Gag Hansen said the purpose of th embly i to "h lp clubs help themselve " and that the sembly hould fund the bill "Passing bills for fund-raisers tretches the budget further, " be aid. Franchesca Van Buren, omlticulturaJ d legate, said the bill was a worthy ca e , "There is no better u e of [As embly fundsJ ," h aid . Th club originally intend d t ·bare the c t f the Halloween cult clas ic Rocky Horror Picture how with the rodent Activitie Board, but bowing ti.me conflicted. Problem with cheduling aro e during the meeting. The Assembly passed th bill with an estimated amount of what anoth r Halloween movie would co t. The club plan to ·how the movie th w ek of Ballowe n. Toe As embly cabled a bill for the Asian Club for its lndian Culture tudy Week for on week p nding further inve tigation on the exact date of the event. Elite Achievers, a newly chartered club, was placed in the Acad mic Development cat, gory. UUSA enate approved a section of bylaw concerning th Club and Organization embly at it meeting Tue day night. Th ction provid guideline for defming a dub. If the enate feel tudent fit better within Club and Organization , it will ask applicants co approach the As embly for funding. · The enate may provide supplemental funds to any dub·or group already fund d by th Assembly. HS en. Derric Maxfield said the bylaw were not p rfect yet and will likely be amended later. "1 feel it is important to have working bylaws, but this ection will probably continue to be am oded through th year," he aid. Th enate also p ed a bill allocating $625 to the ollege of Science for its focus week. Focus days will take place Oct. 30Nov: 1 and wiU indude a gue t peaker and Meet Your Profi sor dinner. H S en . Amy Hughes ·aid the week 's activitk are creative and well planned. The enate allocated 400 for an administrative account for Marilyn Hodson, UUSA academic vice pr sident. The money will be used for maU expendimres incurred in operation uch as telephone bills and copie at th ln tructional M dia Center. The amount is down from I t year' $2,400 in the ame account. Hodson said funds needed for larger exp nditur should be p d as eparate bills. "The main purpose of the bilJ is to better use student fees and to be clear where the money is used ," she said. "The previous enate et aside a lot of money that was not clearly allocated." The Senate will review the account monthly. Franchesca Van Buren (top), Assembly multicultural delegate and Marilyn Hodson, SUUSA Science 'Focus Days' run through next week BY CATHERINE CHAN JOURNAL TAFF WRITER ollege of cieoce focus day might focu on rodent from th College of Science, but all UU ·tudent .are welcome co attend Focu W ek activities, whjcb start O t. 30 and run through Nov. 1. Colby Day, College of cience enator, aid the purpo e of Focus Week is to provide tudents with a relaxed armo phere, improve their ability to be effective as students and help senators learn of tudeots' needs. The first activity of Focus Week i a "Meet your enator Table" Oct. 30 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. enators will set up table in the ci ace Center and Day also said participant can get Gen ral Cla room ~ - - - - - - - - - - - - - ~ information about Building. club in th ollege Day said this Colby Day, College of of cience and activity will give Science senator, said the doughnut at chis se nators an activity. enators opportunity to go purpose of Focus Week is will hav a out and talk with to provide students with ·uggestion box that students about their they hope will concern. enator a 'relaxed atmosphere, improve will also get . improve their ability to communication feedback from between tudents rodents about what be eff ective as students and senators. they would like to and help senators learn The second see happen in the .,. students' needs. activity is a peech 0 College of Science 'J oo time and what senators management by can work on. Gregory Powell, assistant professor of City office candidates talk po~itics with SUUans (continued from page 1) present location would be good for retail when the hakespearean center aero the treet i finished. Hansen aid either location w uld be uitable but 6 million is needed to upport the building of a new library. All candidate favor the new library and feel that the community hould rally behind the Library bond. Th pan J also discussed what the city council could do to be more helpful to the community. Green said the city council must be considerate of the public in order co unify the council and community. He said that if the p ublic is more involved with the decisions made by the council, people will be more aware of projects and propo als and better abL to addres i ues and concerns. "If the public understands the proce , they will be more active in th community," herratt aid. "Comrounlty involvement is critical," Vickers · 'd . "There n eds to be a r presentation of th public." Brinkemoff add.res ed the i ue of affordable housing for students and the general population. He said th re must be housing and entertainment closer to campus fo r smdents who do not own a vehicle. Brinkerhoff, SUU superintendent of buildings, also emphasized the need to imp rove campus parking lots. management. It will be cc. 31 from 2 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in room 11 of the ienc enter. "[Powell) is an amazing and exciting ·peaker," Day said. "He i a dynamic and very entertaining person." Day aid tudenc enrolled in science classes struggJe with time management because cience classes are often difficult. In his ·pe ch, Powell will teach students good techniques and principles of time management. A free Dutch over dinn r i the final activity for the College of cience Focus Week. It will cake place Nov. 1 from 5 p .m. to 7 p .m. on the lawn of (continued on page 4) GAME SHOW STARS... Kelly Jensen (right), a sophomore communicatlon ,maJor from Bountiful, Utah, and Adam AhQuin, a sophomore physical education major from Hurricane, Utah, participate In a game show, part of a class project In AssJstant Professor of Communication Brian Heuett's Interpersonal communication class. Heuett started using game shows to Introduce students to text book chapters in a fun way. |