The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 22, Ed. 1, Friday, March 7, 1980 Page: 4 of 23
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By YVETTE MOORE
Optimist Staff
Sing Song is more than fun and games. It
also brings in big bucks for the school and
each year participating students help decide
what should be done with the money.
This week the traditional decision-making
procedures were questioned by 300 ACU
students in the form of a petition.
The petition presented to the Senate
requested a committee be made (1) to in-
vestigate and evaluate these procedures (2)
re-evaluate 1980 allocations and (3) amend the
current process.
How should Sing Song allocations be
determined?
CHERISSE HOLLEY. Public Relations "I
don't think the students have a strong enough
voice in the decision of where the money goes
from Sing Song. During the voting procedure
there should be more of a listed explanation of
the choices leaving the students an option in
the setting of prices and amounts of money
distributed.
This year the ballots were very one-sided.
The students were given a restricted choice.
Set amounts of money to be used on projects
were listed with the project instead of leaving
that up to the students."
JOHN PAYNE Management "When it
comes to students deciding how much money
should be used for a project there should be a
Yes' if the student is for it; a No' if he's
against lit. But there should also be a number
of choices so the students can decide by a
vote if they want that figure trimed down or
altered. A multiple choice type questionnaire
breaking these costs down would enable
students to vote on the amount of money that
they think should be used for a particular
project."
TERRY DONAHUE Accounting "Maybe the
board whoever it's made up of could go out to
the different clubs and classes and take a poll
of how much and where students want the
money allocated. They could then tabulate
those answers and determine what the
majority of students want. I don't think there's
much of a choice as to what you can pick when
they've already set the amount to go along
with it. I thought that the purposed $25000 for
the landscaping was a little bit too much."
MAGGIE NELSON NewsEditorial "The set
up we have now is a fair one but it hasn't
exactly represented what the students really
want. This is because those students on the
Sing Song committee didn't evaluate the ideas
and amounts of money to be allotted to each
area the way the Sing Song participants ac-
tually wanted.
"John Duty is sticking up for the par-
ticipants interests by including students in the
decision-making process but the student
leaders aren't taking their responsibilities
seriously enough. In the future the group
directors and classclub presidents are going
to have to strictly evaluate all of the ideas and
amounts of money before approving them.
"I'm sorry the Spring Break Campaign had
to suffer this year in order for us to learn that
lesson. If we want something but we don't
want that much money allotted to it then we
shouldn't approve it. In that way it's in our
hands. We'll just have to be more careful with
the way we handle it."
MARY BETH CHALK Marketing "I think
that the students should decide how the money
is used. Allocation suggestions should be
written up on applications telling why sub-
mitters believe that the money should be used
for the things they're suggesting.
"Possibly a committee consisting of
students faculty and maybe even some ad-
ministration people could be set up to review
these suggestion applications. Once these
suggestions have been eliminated to 10 top
ones they should be issued to the clubs and
classes. The clubs and classes should discuss
the choices among themselves. Some ad-
ministration people could possibly come to a
clubclass meeting and talk with students
about the proposals.
"The clubs and classes could then vote on
where money should go. Perhaps the com-
mittee could decide how much should be spent
on what projects and students just ratify or
reject this. This way the students have the
initial right as to what is going to be voted on
and the last say in what exactly the money is
used for.
"I can see how it could get to be a huge mess
if students started voting on how much money
was put into projects unless there are some
regulatory powers over that. I think the
decision of how much probably should be
made by a committee of students and ad-
ministration who know how much certain
projects really need."
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Energy department expects drop in oil use
WASHINGTON (AP) The Energy
Department predicts there will be plenty of
gasoline this summer but says American
motorists driving more fuel-efficient cars and
faced with prices topping $1.50 a gallon by
year's end will cut their consumption for the
first time in seven years.
The findings in a quarterly report due out
next week closely follow similar assessments
by private sources including the head of the
American Petroleum Institute and the highly-
regarded Lundberg Letter.
Moreover the prediction for lowered con-
sumption would follow a trend already
established by Americans drivers. Govern-
ment figures indicate gasoline consumption
was down about 10 percent during the last
quarter of 1979 and the first two months of 1980
when compared to the same months a year
earlier.
The Energy Department report predicts
overall petroleum consumption in 1980 will be
17.6 million barrels a day compared to 18.3
million barrels last year if the winter of 1980
is not exceptionally cold. That would enable
imports of foreign oil to drop from about 7.7
million barrels a day in 1979 to 7 million
barrels a day this year.
Such a development would represent the
first annual drop in U.S. oil consumption since
the Arab oil embargo of 1973-74.
Although rising prices for gasoline and
home heating oil are cited as the main
cause for the drop in demand other factors
include more fuel-efficient automobiles
recessionary forces in the economy and calls
for conservation.
The report estimates a decline in gasoline
demand of 7 million gallons a day and predicts
there will be 260 million barrels of gasoline on
hand by April. It calls that "a relatively
comfortable balance of gasoline supply and
demand at the beginning of the peak driving
season."
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