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Show 2 9, September 972 -- THE DIME SUN - Page 7 EDITORIALS EDITOR THE FROM About The Dress Student Senate up shortly, I to get down the nitty gritty of the first jraJI,r ,ssue of the year. A lot of over j.jd feeling has cropped up standards. I have j,e new dress the BeUions coming led that it's time pretty bad feelings about some helped write the and 1 constitution, studentbody eel that its basic precepts have teen prostituted by a small individuals claiming to of aoup represent the majority of the on tins campus. There students that can be done u nothing about what happened two weeks before the majority of the students arrived here. A faculty Mr. Robert Slack, has member, as the consbeen appointed I myself. n titutional advisor. something that you, the students of this college can Octdo about it, though. On ober 5, Student Senate elections will take place. Take an active part in these elections. Vote for the senator who will best represent your interests, tilth one senator to every 75 students your vote will mean There is something. In senators order to give potential and voters an idea of studentbody feels about standards, I drew up a short survey on the subject and polled students during registration. I polled mostly freshmen, because I didn't know any of them. felt this was the fairest way to do it so that I wouldn't be accused of taking a biased poll. A few people will accuse me of that any way. All I can say is that I was objective, did my best, and hope you trust me. Anyway, here are the results how the ihe dress 1 of that survey: Do you feel that the standards passed by Student Executive Council m the best interests of thess ne tl a tl studentbody? Yes 40 No 57 Undecided . 3 Do you feel be more should Yes the standan strict? 96 Undecided 0 Do you feel the standan should be less strict? . 2 78 22 N' Undecided 4 . . Q Would you accept the dre standards if the restrictions c ue jeans for women, ha ength and lev frayed or or men code' 88 9 Undecided . 3 This survey should be of some help in giving you, the future senators, a rough idea of how your constitutents feel about the dress standards. A parting word to future senators: Don't let any legislation pass by you without deon it thoroughly. liberating People who try to rush bills through will most likely have a devious reason for doing it. Dress Standards Clarified There seems to be doubt in some people's minds about the new dress standards for our campus this year. In hopes to clear misunderstandings and arrive at a general standard, we have provided the following explanations. EXPLANATION: The new standards say girls will not be allowed to wear blue jeans. What are blue jeans? Good question. This was not put in the standard to discriminate against the color blue, or the material of denim. The spirit behind this rule is to stop an increasing downhill trend in some girls buying and wearing boy's cut jeans, and wearing them until they have lost color and are patched and generally get that "grubby "look. Theemphasis is on neatness and girls are asked not to buy and wear boys cut jeans on campus. EXPLANATION: Boys are to not wear frayed or patched levis. Some students have had a question on this item also. Just because you have a small a pair of levis rip or patch on doesn't mean you can't wear them. Again the emphasis is on neatness, and in an effort to. do away with the trend of raggedy, super faded jeans, this item was included in the standards. Levis should not be frayed at the bottoms. multi-patche- d 4 No Yes No patch were stricken from tl EXPLANATION: Hair length for boys. Hair should be kept neat and trimmed. Styled hair is okay. Just don't let it grow over your shirt collar. The purindipose here is to allow camour still but keep viduality neat pus and students looking clean. and EXPLANATION: The dress in the Union Building and the snack bar and game rooms will relaxed and a more casual be TO Letters to the Editor. Standards uh I LETTERS INTERPRETATION OF THE LEGAL PROCEDURES EDITOR OF EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Alumnus Speaks Out 1 maintain the highest respect and friendship for the Associated Studentbody President of Dixie College as a man and as chief executive officer of the student-body- . He is an exemplar, defender, and proselyter to and of those beliefs that he declares allegiance. The fall quarter of last year, six persons were called upon to write a new constitution for the governing of the student-bod- y and to protect and guarantee their rights as students. The members of that particular commission were: Wayne McArthur, Ed studentbody president; Rich Bench, parliamentarian, Gilmore, then editorial manager and now editor of the Dixie Sun, Holly Schmidt, a leading femimne on campus, George Paice, candidate for the studentbody presidency in the last election; and myself. of the comThe purpose mission was to create a document that would clarify the existence activist of vague legal points inherent in the old constitution, and to give the studentbody a more democratic voice in the actions of their government. Executive The Student dress will be permitted here. Still shoes and shuts should be worn, especially in the snack bar in accordance with state health laws. Also dress at activities will be less strict and within modess limits will be up to the individual. However, a Council, decreeing that a certain set of standards would prevail in regards to grooming and dress on campus, overturned ihe purposes that the constitution was written for and passed by 91 of the students voting. The Student GUEST EDITORIAL Executive Council inter- preted their function contrary to then constitutional role in the government. It is the Student Senate that legislates under Article 111 section I, Cl: " concerning the student constitution, campus issues, dorms, etc." It is the senate's perogntive alone lo so act. The President (Article III Section II, Cl II), "shall originate bills to be presented to the Student Senate." Clearly, the Executive Council acted in an unconstitutional manner. In doing so, the Executive Council action underlines the necessity of a Student Senate to represent die students. This opinion is not a demand for a relaxation of decency and dignity in grooming and dress standards of dre college community, but a voice for the enfranchisement of die student's feelings on this and other matters Melvin C. Johnson Utah State University dance in the library would have library standards and a dance in the gym could be more in casual. These explanations have been cleared and approved by the Deanof Studentsand die student body president. The chief executive ot any constitutional form of government is inherently, because ol die nalure of the ollice lie r occupies, the chief of that government. No court or legitimate constitutional lawyer, to my recollection, has ever ruled or claimed that legislative enactment or approval is required before any and all executive policy can be carried out. Were it not so, the principle of separation of powers would be transformed into a tyranny ol die legislature. Were it not so, the president and the entire executive branch would become mere errand boys lor the lawmaking body. If all decisions made by the executive branch required legislative approval would the executive branch really be necpolicy-make- 11 essary? die Dixie College senate had to approve all actum taken at every executive council meeting or by every officer or the cxccutne committee of would the executive branch, branch really be necessary' Could not the legislative branch both make die decisions by legislative enactment and also provide for the implementation of these decisions, also by legislative enactment' forms In all constitutional of government, executive decisions remain valid and equal to legislative enactment unless and until the judicial branch ol that government rules that the action taken by the executive branch has clearly violated the expressed and enumerated intent of the constitution. The present Dixie College constitution, in my opinion, neither grants nor prohibits the executive branch of the student government from making decisions affecting the standards that will be enforced during that particular administration. Since the time of Andrew Jackson, American courts have been inpolicy-makin- The Dixie Sun is Published Dixie College with the By the associated students of All letters exceptions of vacation and examination periods. limited to to the Editor and other signed matenal will be 300 words and must be submitted by 10 00 am. Monday for each weeks publications. The views expressed here are not necessarily those of the administration or of the student government. Cilmore Hcaton Editor 101553 News Editor Reporters Features Editor . 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