Editorial
Endorsement review
gives election insight
The general elections start today. So for your conve
nience and easy reading we will review who and what we
have endorsed over the past two weeks.
Kasey Brooks and Sarah I^chkar are the remaining can
didates for ASUO President. Once again we feel Brooks and
her running mate Karen Gaffney are the strongest
candidates.
They have had the experience in student government to
effectively head the ASUO Executive. The only drawback to
the Brooks/Gaffney ticket is their connection to the Athletic
Department. Rich Brooks, the head football coach, is Kasey
Brooks’ father.
We believe Ron Munion, Collin Farrell and Teddy
Wallace are the most qualified candidates for the one-year
IFC seats.
Munion already has served one year on the IFC. This ex
perience is invaluable. He knows campus groups and issues
as well as the IFC process.
Farrell’s ideas for the IFC are his strongest points. He
stresses lobbying the state for funding and setting priorities
for groups.
Perhaps the most sensible and sincere candidate runn
ing for the IFC is Teddy Wallace. Although she does not
have experience with the IFC. she has worked with the
budgets of several organizations.
Unfortunately joshua King, our only endorsement for
the two-year IFC seats, was eliminated in the primaries. We
felt King was the only candidate who showed the potential
to become an effective IFC member. The remaining can
didates do not demonstrate the qualities necessary to make
dedicated, unbiased members.
Of the 10 measures on the ballot, we support all but two
of them.
Measures 1 and 2 gain our support because they simply
reword the ASUO Constitution to bring it up to date with the
current process. Measure 1 changes the constitution to in
clude the difference between one-year and two-year IFC
seats and Measure 2 redefines the funding process for
OSPIRG.
Measure 3 is a recommendation to the University to ex
tend library hours during dead and final weeks. We agree
with the concept of the measure but note that the cost of the
process must be considered when research begins.
Extending the length of time between classes from 10 to
ir> minutes is the recommendation of Measure 4. Because
this measure would specifically benefit disabled students,
we support the idea.
We approach Measure 3. the recommendation to lobby
against the Riverfront Research Project, with caution, ('are
must be taken to preserve the landscape. We oppose the
measure, however, because we believe the project is impor
tant for students.
Measure 7 asks tor a 03 cent increase for the Marching
Band. It is important for the University to reflect its support
and pride it has for the band.
Measure 8 is ours. Need we say more?
We give a hesitant endorsement to Measure 9. It pro
poses a $6.55 increase in student fees for the Athletic
Department. Athletics has had to cut several programs
already because of money.
Measure 10 would make the Counseling (’enter a non
incidental fee group. We do not support this proposal
because it would take away the regulating power of the IFC.
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Letters
Editorial page
Your coverage of the ASLJO
elections can 1m* summed up in
two words: irresponsible
journalism.
While readers expect an
editorial page to 1m? biased, it is
misleading to editorialize on
every page of the paper. It was
clear which candidates you
would endorse long before the
official statement was
publicized.
You have, in effect, insulted
the students on this campus. In
order to make an informed deci
sion on who to vote for, we ex
pect the school paper to provide
us with information on the
issues at hand, not who you
perceive as having the freshest
face.
Why weren’t the students in
formed of the candidates’ rele
vant experience and qualifica
tions? Why did you endorse
Ron Munion without mention
ing his votes against Black Stu
dent Union or Amazon’s
childcare?
Why did you endorse Karen
Gaffney without informing the
students that she was in
strumental in the effort last year
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to remove OSPIRG from the
KMU? Or that she and Kasey
Brooks are committed to in
creasing funding for the
Athletic Department even
though such an increase will
proportionally decrease fun
ding for minority groups and
childcare?
Why did you fail to endorse
Sarah Lachkar without men
tioning her active involvement
with the Sister University Pro
ject or her experience with the
ASIJO Executive as Assistant
Finance Coordinator? Why did
you avoid Incidental Fee Com
mittee Chair Jodie Mooney
altogether?
As student fee payers who
subsidize your publication, we
deserve to be informed on
issues important to us. The
editorial page should be limited
to one page. It should not con
stitute the entire paper.
Mindy Wekselblatt
Law Student
Wake up
I've got to hand it to Ron Mu
nion for being such an adept
politician. No doubt Munion
and his CSRL cronies are rejoic
ing that I, as a principal
childcare reform activist, was
beaten out of my bid for the
EMU Hoard position.
However, 1 am undaunted.
The board position was only
one link in the chain of in
fluence for childcare reform.
More important is the escalating
grassroots activism of parents.
Eventually, families will be
recognized as a significant part
of the University community in
spite of Munion and cronies.
Ironically, behind closed
doors. SPA candidates in
cluding myself are not anti
athletics and not anti-Marching
Band. The needs of non
revenue-generating athletics
and the Marching Band are seen
as legitimate. A 43 percent in
crease in the current $700,000
for athletic event tickets,
however, is outrageous.
The real issue is a matter of
setting priorities. SPA can
didates recognize the hard reali
ty of parents in day-to-day
financial crisis that often results
in forfeiting education for a
dead-end job; thus, the real
issue is access to education.
Airfare for the wrestling team
must take lower priority than
non-restrictive access to
education.
SPA has struggled with
blood, sweat and tears in a six
year tradition championing the
cause of non-restrictive access
to education. How frightening it
is to imagine all the efforts of all
who went before us annihilated
because of yuppie apathy.
Wake up people! Vote SPA —
it’s the least you can do.
james Munyer
Journalism
Poor execution
After reading the April 3 arti
cle by Scott Maben concerning
Pete Frangos’ tragic death, we
of Tingle Hall felt that it was
very poorly executed.
Here, therefore, are my own
complaints and corrections;
some are the. fault of your
sources, some are your own:
1) No reference was made to
John Dixon’s lifesaving first-aid
at the scene. Bigelow made it
sound as if she were the only
competent person present.
Bullshit.
2) Most of us find Ratti’s com
ment (“basically dead”) to be in
extremely poor taste.
3) Tingle is not a freshman
dorm.
4) What could Chris Chupa
have said? You made it sound
like he took the Fifth when he
said he didn’t wish to talk about
it. 1 only wish he had been ruder
to you on the phone.
5) You didn’t interview any of
Pete’s friends or his roommate.
1 he only people you interview
ed seemed to be interested
mainly in feeding their own
egos and/or teaching us a lesson
already learned.
Get a brain cell, Scott.
Finn John
Undecided