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October 16,1991
University News
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STUDENT GOVERNMENT
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Lucia Palos, a senior at UD, is the
director of the program. She has been
bers. Many of them believed that book-
stores were only for books and, in turn,
helped to pass down the standing rule
which states that the UD bookstore is
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recalled, it did sell items of “necessity.”
Shampoo and nail polish were among
the items sold.
The necessities aisle, however, was
located beside the bookstore “entrance”
and within sight of several faculty mem-
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items currently sold in the campus
bookstore arecontained in a small bas-
ket at the front of the store. Such limited
emergency items are stocked by the
store’s candy supplier and could not
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Consequently, the only necessity
Dr. Elizabeth Sanchez speaks with
parents.
a department store.
The faculty want the bookstore to
be a bookstore—because that’s its pri-
mary function. They don’t mind the
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ties on the SMU campus, she noted, are
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convenience store, which serves as a
sort of 7-Eleven.
Bozeman said that she believes the
potential to implement a similar con-
venience store on the UD campus is
strong, provided that it has the proper
student backing. She added that she
would be willing to help in the students ’
efforts to push for such a store, but
warned that if students want an on-
campus convenience store merely to
save money on items of necessity, they
may be out of luck.
“If you want to get good prices,” she
souvenirs, but they don’t want it to look
like a drugstore.”
Other universities, she acknowl-
edged, do resemble drugstores.
SajahChmaitelli, a UD student, can
attest to that. “I took some classes at
Rice and the bookstore had everything
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by Diane Gilcreast
The Oct. 7 meeting of the Student Government assembly was marked by
“buffoonery” and confusion over procedures.
After programming board Chairman Barbara Bitter announced the up-
coming week’s programming schedule and Treasurer Laura Halferty an-
nounced the status of the Student Government spending: $438.32 for the
week of Sept. 29 to Oct. 5 and 4153.22 for the year to date, Parliamentarian
Alex Tessnow outlined the proposals for the Constitutional Review Commit-
tee suggested by the Task Force. “This is something that is outlined in the
Constitution which takes care of analyzing the final wording and exactly how
we want to state the changes that we were going to make,” he said. The
pertinent articles are Article I: section three and Article VII: section seven.
Volunteers were taken for consideration by the executive council which will
nominate five persons pending approval of the assembly. The five volunteers
were Barbara Fix, student apartments’ representative; Ann Clark, senior
representative; Erin Meyer, junior representative; Mark McNamera, junior
representative; and Matt Boyle, junior representative. The committee as a
whole and the representatives nominated were voted upon by the assembly at
the meeting of Oct. 14.
The buffoonery commenced as Mark Bultman, senior representative,
proposed an amendment to the Student Government Constitution: “All male
members of the executive council shall completely shave their heads at least
once per semester.” Tessnow attempted to persuade Bultman to drop the
amendment, but instead of letting the matter rest as the joke it must surely have
been intended to be, debate flared.
i this in accord, since you are a senior rep., is this in accordance with the
rest of the entire senior class?” said Bitter to which Bultman replied “No.”
President Jim Bitterman said, “I’d just like to remind the assembly that as
we consider recommendations, amendments to the Constitution that each rec-
ommendation and amendment will be sent to the President. In order not to
foster [ill will], at least in the beginning stages...buffoonish and ridiculous
recommendations [should not be allowed].”
Lisa Grueling, sophomore representative, asked Bitterman if he felt Vice
President Kevin O Neal and Secretary Nick Conger were buffoons for
shaving their heads in order to raise money for charity. She also stated that
if Conger and O Neal were to be applauded then somehow the shaving should
be extended to all executive council members as a sort of martyrdom or
something. Erin Meyer, junior representative, also defended the honor of
Conger andO Neal whichin actuality had not been impugned. Bitterman also
said, “Making an amendment [like this] to the Constitution, I think, is silly and
wastes the Student Government’s time.”
After the assembly voted 23 to three not to vote on the motion, the motion
was tabled indefinitely. This brought on a heated discussion over whether this
was proper procedure. In fact, throughout most Student Government assem-
bly meetings there are numerous confusions and disagreements concerning
parliamentary procedure. Obviously, it has not occurred to the executive
council or the parliamentarian that a condensed copy of Robert's Rules
distributed to the assembly would be immensely helpful.
The meeting wrapped up with a discussion on the resumption of the
Guardian Groundhogs escort service. Cynthia Rodriguez, freshman repre-
sentative, had taken a poll concerning the subject. Out of 156 responses, 152
supported the idea, 75 volunteered their services and 74 said they would use
the service. The next step would be to make a detailed presentation to the
Dean of Students Donald Miller.
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The bookstore carries a limited amount of personal goods.
you need (whereas) here you can’t buy
the basic necessities without leaving
campus.”
Angela Franz, a first-year UD stu-
dent from West Virginia, added, “I was
on the Catholic University campus this
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said, “you have to buy things in large
in the SMU-sponsored quantity. If you want low prices, your
best bet is to catch a friend who’s going
to Walmart.”
For students like Franz, catching a
ride can be difficult at times. “(Getting
to the store) depends on my friend who
has a car. It depends if she can go. It
depends if she has homework or not.”
Students should.be encouraged to
come forward and express their needs
and wants to bookstore employees and
to the UD administration, Bozeman said.
With a sigh, Franz said, “I just wish
the bookstore had more things that I
could use other than books.”
Should UD’s Bookstore Have More Than Books?
by Mary E. Pflum
Throughout the past two decades,
the UD Bookstore has supplied the
campus community with textbooks,
notebooks, pencils and pennants. But not to deviate from its original book-ish
numerous students see a need for an
even larger variety of bookstore items,
items of a drugstore nature.
Devon McLaughin, a junior, is one
student who admittedly finds fault with
the present status of the bookstore. “It
seems to me with the transportation
problem on campus that the bookstore
should provide more items students
need,” she said.
“Granted, some students are j
to buy stuffed animals at some point (in
their college career),” she continued,
referring to what she perceives as an
over-abundance of novelty items in the
bookstore’s boutique. “But more useful
items could be sold on a regular basis
, children more to college in general than
■I ' * t° UD in particular. But if they’re going
to go to college, then why not go to a
great school like UD?”
Palos said that she has truly enjoyed
her involvement with the program.
“You really do see the fruits of the
program. The children enjoy it, and
they bring in new people: friends, fam-
ily members, classmates, etcetera. The
families are very satisfied with what we
do, and that’s what is important.”
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such as shampoo, over-the-counter
medicine and other personal items.”
Kirk Besmer, a junior from South
Dakota, agreed. “They (UD)don’thave
a way to get people to the store and then
they don’tsellnecessary hygenic items.
It’s a real problem.”
But such a problem didn’t always
exist Sixteenyears ago, when the book- possibly meet the needs of the
store was temporarily located in one University’s entire on-campus student summer, and it sold lots of convenience
half of the lounge of Jerome Hall, Betty population. items. It was nice! ”
The feeling here, Jackie Boze- According to Karen Brubaker, as-
man, UD bookstore manager, said, “is sistant manager of the Southern Meth-
that our bookstore isn’t supposed to be odist University bookstore, her book-
store sells newspapers, magazines and
electronic items (CDplayers, walkmans,
etc.) in addition to the normal book
supply. Students seeking out necessi-
Hispanic Tutoring Program:
Middle School Students Gain
Encouragement and Rewards
gram this year. She said that she enjoys
working with the children, especially
because it encourages them eventually
to go to college. “We’re hoping they
get a feel for what college is all about,”
she said. “We even had a night last year
with Sybil [Novinski] to inform them
about UD and tell them what sort of
courses they should be taking in high
school to prepare them for college. The
tutoring program gives them extra
motivation to continue with school and
to do their best while striving for col-
lege. While we try to keep the interest
in UD alive, we’re really recruiting the
by Peter Mitchell
The Hispanic Tutoring Program,
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fered to seventh and eighth graders in including the first summer tutoring pn
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in its third year, is a program of- involved with theprogram for four years,
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the Irving and Dallas area.
The program is run by UD students
and runs for nine weeks each semester.
It offers children who are usually aver-
age to excellent students a way to de-
velop their English skills, while at the
same time encouraging them to go to
college.
The program meets once a week, on | J
Tuesday nights, for two hours. Stu-
dents come from local Catholic and
public elementary schools. The first 45 ||
minutes of the meeting consists of class.
Seventh graders go to math class, while W
eighth graders attend geography class.
A fifteen minute leadership talk fol-
lows.
The meeting closes with one hour of
individual one-on-one tutoring; 25 to
35 UD students are involved with thq
program. No knowledge of Spanish is
required, as most of the children’s par-
ents speak English.
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