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-s- . SGA VUes SearchiriK ^nto the files of the Student Government Association can result in Lme -GtJ-cilns surprises, last year, all the bills that haye been passed in «irstudent sSnate from former years until the present time «ere codified T^nd filed in the SGA permanent files. While in the process of putting ?he loglolatl'. a neasuJes into order, the officials In charge of the project ”^“Acco?dinrirtlio‘'‘f?SltlS®organlzatlon of SGA, when a hill is passed by thrSaSnL leglslati-.re body, it beoones permanent law unless otherwise stated in the Mil Itself. let, several of the bi^s now in the codified a’^e Tyin^ id'J e in functioi* or have bccome outdated. , • _ , Tvio\-uch bills ancludc one to provide pi-izes for Homecoming displays and n hill to e‘=^tab''ish a -crogram of Studon'c Body scholasuic o-j-±dSe. The first, passel^n ?950"■'stote,/thSt tho SGA shall award'330 as a first prize and Ilo as a second pri2e to ■campus org.'ninations or don,;a which. In the opinion of thrre faculty .judges', chosen by the HO Committee, shall construct winning hLSis 'displaJs.Shls year,,and for tUe pastfewjears tj^ree prizes . a'7c.rded for dispi.ays :.n the. sums of h>25> ,t>Oj According t.^ th^'of^^icial record, the third, place winner could not actually .collect, x’h^le"th“ first-and socond place winners could collect more xhan now given. Tb- second Mil establisliec a SGA fund for soholasoic awards of 5 to h- £ri’’en °ac^' y^aT' to Slbn students vac have done outscanaing work in their “tulles! 'Icc'crding to thio bill, Swards are to be given In each; of the four Divisions of the cirriculum. Ti’he candidates fjr such honors ar'e^required to have a- "B" average and-must prepare a 2000 V7ord paper on a subject en-" compassed by the division in which they are competing, The_ cauttu.dates_ are to be chosen, on the basis of their papers and class committee o'f judges Com-Dosed'of' faculty members from the iour Divisions. ^ies- awards are to be presented at the final regular meeting of the studtit-body. The bill war passed in 1957o Such honor?: have not been ■oresented fSr at least four years. Had someone with a "B."-average written-a 2000 word: paper last year, he might have had some, money ±c.v. books. At any ' rate, the cpmpetifcion v/ould no doubt have been s.i.im since so few people are aware of thifj bill. . . r. ' . . ^ \ ■, -i Does all of this m'^^ah that when, an in;terested Senator 1) works three weeks writini^ a bill, 2) has forty-four'copies'made of the bill, 3) has twelve copies'^signea, labors over a convincing speech'to deliver to his fellow ^pnatorc ‘oresent'^' his bi3.3. only to have it sent to a coinmittee for diS“ o- n '6' "-icenves the bill back from oommixtee and nas lo passed, and 7)^finally'has it signed by the SGA President and now stamped with the new official seal,tho-t it is stowed away in the file and forgo cten? More, perr haps it m-eo.ns that s.s the- original purpose'of the bill is earrled out and . as the author:’ is graduated and is not around to "■‘"od SGA into utilizing "fcne measure, new officials neglect jtQ,, familiarize the".'.selves with the files ' and become unaware of the more obscure bills., New ideas and methods quickly roTDlace those which are lost due to what sometimes be merely an oversightj Or, perhaps a succeeding administration m.ay simply deem a certain bill too expensive/iii-..:‘:c23sary, or ir'tpractical and no one is the wiser* SGA is an ever-changing establii^hmen"': Wiiich continues to move forward. However, there must be a certain amount of back-traoi^ing and consolidation in'order to keep policies df^finite and'files uncluttered t7ith’nilor or un used rules 0 AlsOj stabr Hr c/jion i.s'aided with a continuing knowledge of : ;)ust what is contained, in the'SGA, history and with familiarization with all rlscords oh the part of those in the main offices„ ' Thi s year’s administration is presently attempting to-weed outtunneces^ sarv bills, >'&vise those which 'nave been already charged through practice, and'^to put'back, into operation those regulations which have ^valuable pur-. i:pse:? and have been overlooked. Here is a tremendous task for the Senate* and for the- SGA officers. T^ihen the skeletons have been discovered and the clearing-house project finished, then perhaps the loopholes will close and continuing stability can Ve pr^;served through an up-to-date' and truly "governing" file^ ' .' ' • ’Meanwhllo. it may be well for all Senators■who are writing bills to judge -cheir -fforko ijill the bill bo useful in the future as well as the present? Is it a fle>:ible. .law-? .¥hej3.--a Senator signs his name to a new law^ -t is as -fchough he ha? made a small .to.qtprint in the SGA path of progress. But the destination is only reached through straight travelingo -c."
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