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Student Association president Donald Griswold passes the gavel to his
successor, Will Helixon.
Groups Gear For Fall
By Lisa Mitcham
After a year in which the Student
Association defined its duties as an organization
to serve the students, rather than a student
government that merely deals with the
administration, the group's president, Donald
Griswold, will leave the SA's office knowing
he was part of its growing process.
The organization's greatest impact this
year, he said, was improving relations with the
administration through universitywide
committees, on which SA members acted as
watchdogs for students' interests.
"This year," he said, "we've tried to
give SA a rock-solid definition. Now that we've
been significantly defined as a student service
organization that represents the students, what
will we do with it?" Griswold said.
That is the question Will Helixon,
president-elect of the SA, will decide when he
takes office on May 15. Jay Ruuska, SA's next
vice president, will join him.
Helixon said he sees the SA becoming
more involved in state and local politics.
"Your university won't thrive if it isn't
supported by its community," he said.
Helixon said that while the larger
universities, such as UT-Austin and Texas
A&M University, have student lobbyists in
Austin, NT does not. This is one thing he said
he hopes to correct.
"This is a good organization with an
established core," Helixon said, crediting Jon
Theobald, SA's public relations director, with
having everything organized, making it easy for
the president-elect to take over.
"You're only as good as the staff you
have working with or for you. We have no
intention of bringing in a new staff. We just
want to provide a new direction for our staff,"
he said.
Part of this new direction, Helixon said,
includes what he terms "overlooked services for
students,” such as a child-care cooperative and a
crisis hotline.
"I think the SA will become a very
powerful organization that will be able to voice
the concerns of the students and act upon these
concerns. I think it's doing fine now, but I think
it can be doing better. Any organization that
thinks it cannot be improved upon is in dire
need of improvement," he said.
Ruuska said he would like to see an
effective crisis hotline installed on campus,
also. He said he hopes to have one partially in
operation by the end of the summer.
"It's important that you have good ideas
coming in and goals you want," he said. "We
are set for next year."
The SA is not the only organization on
campus facing change. The Faculty Senate will
hold its election for office May 11.
Margaret Hudnall, chairwoman of the
senate, said this year was one in which the
senate started the ball rolling for revisions.
Hudnall said the senate was
instrumental in presenting a minimum-merit
increase request to the administration so that
teachers can get raises.
These raises, she said, will average
$1,000 for the 1988-89 year.
"The members have had a very positive
attitude toward their participation, and their
attendance has been good," she said.
"Several of the committees have
undertaken studies of recommendations which
might be implemented. There have been some
new steps take to imeorporate new steps into
policy processions."
Although Hudnall said she did not want
to speculate on the elections, she said, "The
ones who are elected are the ones who will set
the agenda fer the coming year."
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