SUAB halves its senate vote
In an attempt to maintain its
numbers in the University Senate,
the Student University Affairs
Board passed a proposal Tuesday
to keep 16 to 18 SUAB members
on the board. However, each
member would have only half a
vote in the senate.
SUAB's proposal goes before
the University Assembly today.
Under the proposal, SUAB
members would lose half their
voting power in the senate while
retaining a full vote in the larger
assembly.
If approved, the proposal would
prevent a proposed reduction of
SUAB members from 18 to eight
but would still decrease SUAB in
fluence in the senate to 20 per
cent. Currently, SUAB represents
one-third of the senate.
SUAB member Tom Birkland
said a smaller SUAB could
become a “clique" of students
representing special interests
rather than the entire student
body.
Although a smaller SUAB might
be more influential, the current
membership attracts more
students and keeps the board ef
fective every year, Lori Lieberman
said.
Having half a vote in the senate
vote would be personally demean
ing, member Karin Keutzer said.
Having eight members on SUAB
who really want to be on the
board would make for a stronger,
more effective board, she said.
Board member Mark Lakeman
concluded that a SUAB board with
a larger membership would be in
SUAB's best interests, and that
over time SUAB could work to
restore full voting rights for all
members.
In other action, SUAB members
listened for a second time to
testimony by Dave Bauer for his
appointment to the EMU board.
ASUO president Mary Hotch
kiss, who spoke for Bauer, said
he had started with an unfair ad
vantage in his previous hearing
because that meeting was not
tape recorded.
Bauer, a former SUAB member,
said he was on top of EMU issues
and could be effective in that
position.
After he was questioned by the
board on issues ranging from
EMU rent to establishing a tavern
on campus, Bauer was rejected by
the board.
Snafu snarls workshop agenda
As the opening date approaches, ASUO coor
dinators of the “Crisis in Central America,” con
ference are dealing with a small crisis of their own.
The three-day conference, scheduled to begin
Thursday at the University, is slated to feature 18
workshops, six films and eight panelists.
U.S. Army Col. Lawrence Tracy, a Latin American
specialist in the Reagan administration, was to be
one of the panelists in Friday's discussion,
"Nicaragua in Focus" — but U.S. officials are
reportedly having second thoughts.
Tracy's presence on the panel as it is now com
prised would violate Defense and State Department
policy. Policy bars U.S. government officials from
panels that include representatives of countries
which the U.S. government considers to be unfriend
ly, Conference Coordinator Mary Lewis said Tuesday.
Nicaragua is considered to be an unfriendly
country and Miriam Hooker, special advisor to the
Nicaraguan ambassador in Washington, D.C. is
scheduled to sit on Friday's panel with T-acy.
Tracy works in the office of the Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Interamerican Security
Affairs.
Lewis said she is waiting for further clarification
from the Defense and State Departments. Possible
alternatives include Tracy participating in Friday's
discussion, but not as a member of the panel, Tracy
participating only as a workshop leader, or someone
who is not on salary from the government tilling
Tracy's role. -
Thursday's and Saturday's panel discussions are
"Roots of the Crisis," and "Prospects for the Future."
Other panelists scheduled to speak are
Guatemalan specialist Milton jamail, a professor of
government at the University of Texas; William Ratliff
of the Hoover Institute on War, Revolution and Peace
at Stanford University; and Felix Kury, a represen
tative of the Democratic Revolutionary Front, the
political arm of the opposition coalition in El
Salvador.
For more information call the ASUO at 686-3724
or refer to their publication. Off the Record, which
includes a four page supplement on the conference.
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