News
February 18, 1999
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SGA passes E-SPAN bill,
change in Senate Rules
E-SPAN bill meets with dissention
Carrie Lancos
The Pendulum
The Student Government
Association (SGA) passed bills to
establish “E-SPAN” and to make a
Written agenda for Thursday meet
ings readily available to senators
and to the public at the Feb. 11
nieeting.
The establishment of E-
SPAN allows for a camera to be set
Up to film the Thursday night SGA
nieetings. The videotape of the
nieeting will then be replayed on
ESTV channels 5 and 14 two times
a week.
The bill met with some dis
sention in the Senate, as the neces
sity of making the proposal a bill
Was questioned.
“The bill that passed con
cerning televising SGA meetings
Was a waste of the Senate’s time,”
Senate Parliamentarian Eric
Hurwitt said. “There is nothing to
keep anyone from coming in and
taping our sessions at this time.”
Although the bill passed in
the Senate, the question of its ne
cessity is also prompting questions
about a possible reversal of the
decision from the executive presi
dent.
“This is a situation where
hopefully Mark [Richter, SGA Ex
ecutive President] will use his veto
power,” Hurwitt said. “Not to say
that this bill is a bad idea, but it
would set an example for any fu
ture ill-conceived legislation.”
The second bill established a
change in the Senate Rules which
moves the deadline for all new busi
ness to be turned in to the executive
vice-president. The previous dead
line for all bills and resolutions to
be proposed at the Thursday meet
ing was the Tuesday preceeding.
The new bill pushes this deadline
back to Monday.
The bill was proposed so that
a written copy of the meeting
agenda could be prepared for dis
tribution to SGA senators, The Pen
dulum and to the general public
attending Thursday meetings.
The stipulation that all new
business should be turned in by
Monday was made so senators
would have more time to review
the proposals before the meetings,
giving them more time to contact
their constituents and find out their
opinions.
The two bills were reintro
duced to the Senate by academic
council senator Jim Crotts after one
was tabled and the other was with
drawn at the Feb. 4 meeting.
from ELECTIONS, page 1
In the other races, Akilah
Weaver is running uncontested for
Executive Vice-president and
LaRhonda Johnson is running un
contested for Executive Secretary.
All but seven positions in the
Senate have candidates and three of
them, junior class president, sopho
more class president and sopho
more class vice-president, are con-
tested races.
“I think we have a wide array
of candidates,” Richter said. “We
have people who have been in SGA
for numerous years and then we
have newcomers,”
“Students need to look at can
didates and decide who will best
serve their needs,” he said.
The highly contested execu
tive races, the publicity for the ex
ecutive president race in the form of
the televised debates and a wide
field of candidates for Senate posi
tions are expected to bring more
voters to the polls this year.
“I expect to break the record
for voter turnout,” Angel said.
from NCSL, page 1
Suber encourages all people
to come and watch or participate,
regardless of their major or where
they are from. He stresses this as a
chance for students to have fun and
watch how state governments are
run. “The primary purpose of the
NCSL is that we teach and learn
from each other how to make deci
sions that will help to form a better
future for ourselves as citizens of
the United States.”
There will be sign-up sheets
posted in Long on Saturday morn
ing for people interested in joining
the club.
For more information, please
contact Travis Suber at 538-3303,
or Chalmers Brumbaugh, the NCSL
advisor, at 584-2577.
Students protest phasing out of single-sex Greek houses
uled throughout the weekend of Feb.
12, includes the popular “keg jump”
on ice skates, an 18-year-old tradi-
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HANOVER, N.H. (CPX) -
Dartmouth College’s decision to
radically change Greek life has an
gered students at the Ivy League
school and resulted in the cancella
tion of all major parties on campus
this semester.
Members of the the College
Fraternity Sorority Council nixed
all 21 events planned for this year’s
“Winter Carnival” after reading a
letter sent to students this week that
announced plans to phase out the
current Greek system, make col
lege life “substantially coed” and
encourage more “respectful rela
tions between men and women.”
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Council members said the
cancellations are designed to show
school officials that without Greeks,
there’s nothing much to do at
Dartmouth.
That perception, school offi
cials say, is precisely the problem.
Aside from concerns about abusive
alcohol consumption, officials say
they are also troubled by the exclu
sive nature of the college’s Greek
system.
“Dartmouth must provide stu
dents with an environment that en
courages them to reach their full
potential in non-academic as well
as academic activities, that sees them
as individuals, that permits them
choices in social life and that en
courages respectful relationships
between men and women,” the
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Trustees went on to outline
five principles that “should charac
terize the residential and social sys
tem.” Their first two goals called
for “greater choice and continuity
in residential living” and “additional
and improved social spaces con
trolled by students.” The third prin
ciple is what has kicked up contro
versy: “The system should be sub
stantially coeducational,” it says.
Administrators say they want
students to make suggestions that
will shape any upcoming changes,
but many students say they’re espe
cially upset that they weren’t con
sulted before trustees made their
announcements.
“Every time they plant a tree
or modify the curriculum, they con
stantly have student meetings and
discussions,” sophomore Catherine
Curran told the Associated Press.
“For something this drastic, they
should have gotten student input.”
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