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SGA makes plans for new year
Todd Vdlkstorf
Staff Whiter
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Reception to welcome
new deans
Chancellor James R. Leutze and
Provost John C. Cavanaugh will
sponsor a drop-in reception Aug. 30
to welcome the university’s two new
deans. Cathy Barlow is the new
dean of the Watson School of Edu
cation and Larry Clark is the new
dean of the Cameron School of
Business. The reception will be held
in the University Union Living
Room between 2 p.m. and 4p.m.
Siko named 2000 Staff
Award of Excellence
recipient
Judith Siko, accounting techni
cian for the Division of Academic
Affairs received the 2000 Staff
Award of Excellence, at the 25"’
annual Service Awards Program
on Monday, Aug. 9. The award is
presented to an employee whose
service to the university exempli
fies outstanding state service, in
novations, public service, human
relations or safety/heroism. Siko’s
honor recognizes her efforts to re
work the division’s accounting
procedures to make the financial
data easier to assimilate and
present.
Johnson named to
assist Surgeon General
Dr. James Johnson of the psy
chology department will assist Sur
geon General David Satcher with a
report on youth violence. Johnson
has done extensive research on the
impact of media exposure on violent
attitudes, with a conceiitration on
the effects of violent news programs
and rap music.
New Counseling Center
Director named
Dr. Anne Cowardin-Bach as
sumed her role as Director of the
UNCW Counseling Center on Au
gust 1st. Before coming to UNCW,
Dr. Cowardin-Bach served as Asso
ciate Director and Director of Train
ing at the University of Wyoming
Counseling Center.
After last year’s controversial SGA
presidential elections, the beginning of
the 2000 - 2001 academic year offers
the opportunity for the SGA to start
fresh.
Katie Russell, this year’s SGA
president, is looking forward to ad
dressing the issues that are important
to the UNCW student body.
“I feel honored to be president,”
Russell said.
Russell, a communications studies
major, won a majority of votes in her
bid for the presidency after an unusual
election process that took three sepa
rate elections to produce a clear win
ner. The initial election was canceled
after each candidate was disqualified
for campaign violations. The follow-
up election did not produce a clear
winner, which in turn forced a runoff
election in which Katie Russell
emerged victorious.
“It turned into a circus,” Russell
said.
With all disputes behind them,
Russell hopes this year will be better.
She would like to see more students
get involved with the SGA and other
campus organizations.
“People can be on committees; they
can help by getting people registered
to vote, and they can put up posters,”
she said.
Among many things, the SGA is re
sponsible for delegating student fees
to the different university organiza
tions like the Greeks, ACE and vari
ous other activities held on campus
throughout the year. The SGA also
takes up issues raised by students with
the university administration.
Russell said she is counting on stu
dents to attend the SGA meetings and
voice their opinions, or to let the SGA
know about issues of concern. She
also will encourage the various repre
sentatives of the SGA to go out into
their constituencies and make their
presence known.
“(Students) will find out that the
SGA cares,” Russell said.
Junior Valerie Kepley, a math ma
jor who said she votes in SGA elec
tions, would like to see the SGA ad
dress the parking problems of UNCW.
Student parking has become a ma
jor issue for commuter students, par
ticularly since UNCW implemented
the one mile radius policy and desig
nated more spaces to “faculty only”
parking.
Kepley believes the SGA should
encourage students to get involved on
campus.
“There are lots of groups people
should join here,” said Kepley who
works in the university union and said
that she sees the place vacated every
weekend even though there are a lot
“...UNCW would see
nearly $1.8 million,
which could be used for
academic buildings and
or the modernization of
existing ones. ”
of things to do.
A more efficient SGA will operate
this year under a newly formed uni
cameral body, which Russell said, will
make it much easier to govern than the
previous year’s two-house legislature.
Other items that are new for the
2000 - 2001 academic year include
meal plans and food dollars for com
muter students, an idea initiated by the
SGA, and a new secretary of technol
ogy who will be the webmaster for the
SGA home page and represent techni
cal issues relevant to the SGA.
Russell said that this will be a sig
nificant year in the SGA and our na
tional and state governments.
“This is a really important year to
vote,” she said.
When North Carolinians vote in
November for the president, they will
also vote on an education bond for the
state, which, if passed, will grant the
public universities in North Carolina
$3.1 billion. Out of that, UNCW
would see nearly $1.8 million, which
could be used for academic buildings
and or the modernization of existing
ones. Russell pointed out that UNCW
is one of the smallest schools in the
UNC system and could benefit from
the passage of the bond referendum.
She said that UNCW is growing ex
tremely fast, and that the SGA should
take an active roll not only in regis
tering students to vote in national and
state elections but getting as many
people as possiblt informed about the
issues.
“Students and their parents need to
know about the issues.” Russell said.
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