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-tooK a break Monday from end-of-school worries to listen to Onyx perform
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; Lee receives an award
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Robin Lee senior chemistry major
.from Pampa recently received the
'.' Texas Institute of Chemistry Award as
the outstanding senior chemistry
- student at ACU.
-. -Lee attended an awards banquet
'April M at Brooks Air Force Base with
a Dr. Tommy McCord chairman of the
chemistry department and Dr. Bennett
Hutchinson professor of chemistry.
Lee was chosen by the ACU chemistry
faculty as thcnominee for the.award.
. "I didn' know anything about it
-beforehand" he said:
The Texas Institute of Chemistry is a
professional society tha t recognizes the
1 1 outstanding senior chemistry major of
each of the major universities in the
state whose chemistry programs have
j been accredited by the Committee on
y Professional Training of the American
f Chemical Society said McCord.
' Lee received a certificate com
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point average of 3 95. He's just an all-
round good student."
Lee will begin working June 1 for
Dow Chemicals in Freeport after
graduating this spring. In his five years
at ACU he has been named to the dean's
(1 honor roll for 10 semesters and has
received a five-year ACT scholarship a
fit o-year Edmond Scholarship and the
Otto Foster and Welch Undergraduate
Research Scholarships for 1983-84. He
also has received the Freshman
Chemistry Award and the Instrumental
Analysis Award.
Lee is a member of the Alpha Chi
National Honor Society and the student
chapter of the American Chemical
Society
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Optimist Staff
The ACU Student Senate conducted
"the changing of the guard" Tuesday.
The purpose of the ceremony was to
install newly elected Senate members
to their offices. The new Senate
members will then begin where the
1983-84 Senate left off. Some 1983-84
Senate members say this year's Senate
performance gets the new Senate off to
a good start but others say the year
was a disappointment.
Brad Chevcs Students' Association
president said the people were the
major strength of the Senate this year.
He said "I was impressed with the
class officers contributing leadership
ability and also having good working
relationships in the Senate." One key to
the success Chevcs said was an at-
titude of service in this year's Senate
and another was the fact that people
"took their job and ran with it" and
were dedicated.
John Beyer senior class president
said he personally thought having
people in the Senate he had confidence
in was a major strength and he said he
v. as confident in the executive officers
Robert Pitman junior class
president said he also noticed that this
year's Senate members were more
committed to attendance at meetings
and events and to their work. Also
during this year members exerted
more effort in getting non-Senate
members involved.
Les Hunter sophomore class vice
president' agreed that the Senate's
work has been good this year. He said
"We didn't shake the world but as far
as class activities are concerned we did
pretty good."
However some Senate members
believe a priority problem existed in
the Senate. Rob McClain sophmore
class secretary said some people in the
Senate didn't take their job seriously
and absenteeism seemed to be a
problem. A person who is elected as a
Senate member should realize he is
taking on twodemanding tasks classes
and the Senate he said. One way to
solve the problem would be to create an
absenteeism policy McClain said.
Senate members who don't attend
meetings should be punished in some
way.
However Mark Slough senior class
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should not be initiated because the
people in the Senate arc not only in-
volved in Senate but also arc involved
in other activities. He said "I don't
think they can put 100 percent into
Senate. There's going to be a little give
and a little take Involved."
Scott Sager freshmen class senator
said "It's ridiculous that there is the
lack of attendance at Senate meetings
by Senate members who ran in elec-
tions to represent the students. If they
don't want to show up to the meetings
why did they run in the firstplace."
An unnamed Senate source said the
reason for the lack of attendance at
Senate meetings is because of the
uselessncss of the Senate meetings. "If
nothing is going to be done at Senate
meetings then there is no reason for
going to them" he said.
One of the Senate's strong points.
Hunter said was its organization;
Cheves kept things organized and under
control.
Jim Sager junior class senator also
said the Senate meetings were. orderly
under Cheves' direction.
Cheves said the Senate must have
some structure to its meetings and the
meetings must have an agenda. He said
he tried to put forth rules of order and
overall he thought the meetings were
constructive.
Hunter said a big problem for the
Senate this year was student apathy
and the separation of Senate and
students. He said "If we are really
honest with ourselves many students
don't care about Senate." The Senate
needs to find a better way to com-
municate with the students.
Mark Pickle SA treasurer said the
present system of ACU student
government is not combatting the
problem of apathy. He said he would
like to see the Senate expand and have
more branches of government. A
legislative and judicial branch should
be added to the present government
and the legislative branch should in-
clude representatives Jrom special
interest groups on campus.
The judicial branch could be the
faculty review board Pickle said. If
more people were involved in the
Senate they would care about Senate
activities.
Scott Sager said "I think the students
will start caring more about what is
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going on in the Senate when the Senate
starts caring more about what's going
on with the student."
Slough also said the Senate did not
accomplished more student awareness
this year. Students take the Senate for
granted and don't realize all the things
the Senate docs.
McClain said if the students saw the
Senate do more work they might take a
greater interest in it
Jim Sager said the Senate seemed
separated from the students even
though the members were elected to
serve the students. "We get in the
Senate and it's like we are in our own
social club" Sager said. "We tend to
stick to our own ideas." Because the
Senate did not involve more people in
its activities this year it tended to be a
political Senate rather than a people
Senate. He said the students should be
the focal point of the Senate not
politics.
Pickle said "Politics has no place in
a Christian university's student
government. When our goals and ob-
jectives are directed toward glory
seeking issues and beauracracy we
might as well take the 'Christian' out of
our university." He said the primary
goal of a Student Senate should be to get
people involved in a Christian en-
vironment and to give others a sense of
importance.
Hunter and Beyer suggested that the
students should be informed about
issues to be discussed at meetings
before meetings occur so that students
have an opportunity to attend the
meetings and to become involved.
Pitman who agreed about an apathy
problem said the Senate made more
contact with the students this year and
he thought the Senate represented them
well.
Scott Sager said he didn't think
people were the major emphasis of this
year's Senate. "Anytime you have
student leaders who become
synonymous with the administration
rather than the students your SA isn't
serving its purpose." Sager said he
believes working with the ad-
ministration is important but not as
important as working with the students.
McClain and Pitman said they
believed an increase in willingness to
work with the administration was a
strength of the Senate. Pitman said the
Senate worked well with the ad
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ministration this year. He also said the
Senate was lucky because some
university senate bodies work against
their administration but the ACU
Senate worked with the ad-
ministration. Beyer said the Senate should be
concerned with the representation of
the students to the administration. Thtw
Senate is the body with the power (
do so The Senate has more power than
it realties; however he said it does not
use this power to its fullest potential.
Pickle said the power of the Senate as
a body was somewhat diminished this
year The Senate was too much of a
"two man show" he said. "Instead of
the students seeing the Senate as group
power they saw one or two people in
power "
Slough said certain members
exercised their power more than
others but they chose to do so. Con-
sequently their views and programs
w ere noticed more. H
Pickle said the goal of the Senate 3ry
the first of the year was to provide an
atmosphere at ACU where a student
could grow socially spiritually and
educationally. The social aspect of the
goal had been reached but the spiritual
and educational aspects were lacking
he said. Although Spring Break
Campaigns and Christmas For
Children were major accomplishments
for the Senate. Pickle said the
educational and spiritual aspects were
not developed to their fullest potential.
Scott Sager said his major disap-
pointment this year came from the 'oa.
that the student government here didirW
seem any different from any other
student government. He said he was
hoping to see a much stronger spiritual
influence here. "The Senate has the
power and the responsibility to supply
social and spiritual development pot
supplied in the classroom." he said.
However the Senate earned a "C plus"
for its effort in this f!eld. Sager said.
Some Senate accomplishments this
year were Spring Break Campaigns an
extra day of spring break Christmas
for Children Senate representation in
the zoning issue two successful majoj-.
concerts on campus. College Bowl.V
successful on-campus movie program
the approving of Welcome Week and
reaching out to other campuses to
encourage minority students to attend
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