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Page four/Carolina JournaVOctober 24, 197^ Student Legislators fired up in heated debates By Bill Peschel Five vetoes, budgets and rejection of a presidential nominee highlighted last Tues day’s meeting of the Student Legislature. In a debate carried over from the previous meeting, the legislature refused approval of Stu dent Body President Larry Springs’ nominee for the vacant humanities seat. The Ways and Means Com mittee beforehand had denied recommendation of ex-legislator Mike Kemp citing his at titude, being out of order in session and his unex cused absences. The debate following was heated, prompting the chairman to call several persons out of order. Ward Simmons, stu dent body government treasurer, was called out of order for -asking Kemp if he is bringing a suit against Ways and Means for not approving him. At one point, Carol Nunnally, in defense of Ways and Means, said Kemp never assigned himself to a committee last year, a violation of the by-laws. This promp ted Jamie MacDonald to admit last year she was not assigned to one either. Another debate followed as to the extent of Ways and Means responsibility for orien ting new legislators. Feelings ran high on both sides of the issue, with one legislator com menting, “If you ap prove Kemp over (David, chairperson of Ways and Means) Cur rie, you are showing a lack of faith in not one but five persons.” Tom Chumley, head of Elections Committee, said if the legislature turned down Kemp, “you’re turning away so meone who could be a great addition to the legislature.” The final vote was 7-5-4. Voting no or abstaining on the motion was Kevin Ashley, Kay Cloniger, Priscilla Davis, Chip Ferguson, Clay Fit zgerald, Joel Gilland, Mark Matheson, Nun nally and Donna Tracey. The session began with Springs’ vetoes of five motions passed previously by the legislature. One motion vetoed had separated the Student Financial Service’s budget from the executive budget and was approved. Spr ings claimed this move was illegal saying the budget was previously sent back to Finance Committee. Through the motion, the legislature was, in ef fect, bypassing commit tee approval. Later, a motion introduced by Clay Fitzgerald over rode the veto (12-3-1). The president vetoed legislative approval of Barbara Bland as assis tant attorney general, saying, by law, his ap proval was not given, “but I am sure approval can be granted.” Bland’s responsibility was to col lect bad debts for the Student Financial Ser vice (SFS). A motion in troduced by Ferguson to overrride the veto fail ed (9-3-3). His veto of Bland's ap proval prompted a brief exchange between Spr ings and Attorney General Billie Stickell. While the legislature was debating the over ride motion, Stickell ask ed Springs out loud, “Want to give your ap proval now?” Springs replied, “I told you we’ll be meeting tomorrow to discuss it." Springs also vetoed' about $2,000 allocated by the legislature for of fice renovations saying, “everyone has been talk ing about how tight money is and yet you give $2,000 on office renovations.” The mo tion limiting the presi dent and chairman of the legislature to five minutes in their reports before the legislature was also vetoed by the president. In other business, a motion granting the Bowling Club a secon dary charter was granted after a motion temporarily suspending a part of the Chartering Act was approved by the legislature. The section suspended would have required a one week wait before the motion would have been voted on. Cathy Ballard, business administration representative, was removed from her seat in a 14-0-2 vote by the legislature. The Rules Committee recommend ed she be removed because she had more unexcused absences from meetings than was permissable. The budgets for the following clubs were ap ¬ proved: Circle K, Treasurer’s and Elec tions Copmmittee por tion of the executive budget, Association of Biology Graduate Students and Holshouser Hall. A mo tion by Renee Gaddy to accept the student body president’s budget was ruled out of order by the chairperson of the legislature. UNCC four years behind By Luann Whitley In 1974 a five year plan was devised for the growth of UNCC. The plan was put into effect for the years 1975-76 through 1979-80. The five year plan was a state requirement therefore all 16 univer sities in the system entered individual growth plans. Ed Ayers, director of the Physical Plant, ex plained UNCC in effect uses the plan on the basis of student need rather than a time schedule. Roughly UNCC is about four years behind according to the plan. When the new classroom/office building is finished we will be closer to the original plan for expan sion in 1978-79. “We would rather con struct the things plann ed when they are needed rather than be left with empty dorms or unused classroom space,” Ayers said. UNCC had to build the plan in congruence to the plans of the growth of the city of Charlotte. The expan sion of the college depends greatly upon the future of Charlotte and the surrounding area. in order to determine the priorities when submit ting a financial needs statement to the govern ment. With the excep tion of the every two year study, the plan has not been formally up dated to meet UNCC’s needs since the spring of 1975. Ayers said the plan is set up for five years simply because that is We Were Wrong In the Oct. 17 story on budgets, several errors were made. Motions set ting the buffer zone for Student Legislature were $2,918, not $2,198 as reported, the slash from $4,000 to $1,850 was from the president's budget, not the ex ecutive branch. A more serious error in the same story was made concerning Stu dent Body Government Treasurer Ward Sim mons. Simmons reported there was $16,000 in budget re quests pending before the Finance Committee. The committee had only $11,000 to work with. Therefore, extensive cuts of about $5,000 must be made from those budgets. The Stu dent Legislature is not in danger of overspen ding as originally reported. We apologize to Simmons for any trouble this may have caused him. Planned Parenthood. We give help. Not sermons. One thing you'll never hear at Planned Parenthood is a sermon on sexual behavior. What you will hear are some straight answers to any questions you may have about sex. And some ready solutions to your problems.including abortion service in our own clinic for women under 12 weeks pregnant. 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