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I The , -Hoop Players Candidates Honored. ; p. 5 ~IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. Nowhere but••• The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Two Pairs Running For UCCSAS Executive Positions by Trent Strauss With Student Government elections just two weeks away, April 25 and 26, the two pairs of candidates running for co-exec utive are defining their goals and addressing ·the issues they feel are important to UCCS' future. Running for co-executive this year are Ray Kolbe with Donna Bellows and Patrick Kearney with Peter Crowell. Both pairs of candidates say they would strive to improve the lines of communication between Student Government and stu dents as well as the administra tion. They also said growth of the campus will be a major issue and each will address it if they are elected. Kearney and Crowell felt Patrick Kearney Pete Crowell Ray Kolbe Donna Bellows strongly about being the stu With their experience on the tives would be, according to they feel is important to the cerns, we want to be open to dents' representatives to the ad JB they feel they would make a Bellows, "to uphold and protect future of the campus. "We've work on those concerns and have ministration and keeping in good liaison between students student rights and insure effec discussed this with the chancellor something done about them." touch with what the students and the administration. "What tive student representation." She and we are aware of the current With the coming of the new want to 2 ei; on th~jr_ c;ampus. we've done in one year with the is concerned with the increase of status of tpe issue and th_e steps, Stud.ent Center .. they feel it is an "We want to be responsive to the (JB) a~d the -constitution com- - regulati~ns for.the Pub, and said required to bring it about," he important time for "students to needs of students and represent mittee shows that we have in she thinks students have had not added. have many new opportunities to them to the regents. I think that's terest in what we're doing and enough input regarding those Bellows said they would also have input in the decision highly important to the position, that we're doing it for students/' regulations. like to see lower student spending making process," Kolbe said. but we're responsible and ac Crowell said. "We brought this concern to wherever possible. "We believe He went on to say that it is the countable at all times to stu The other pair of candidates the chancellor and he said he it's important that student fees responsibility of the executives to dents,,,. said Kearney, who will are also experienced in Student would address the issue if the ex should be spent only for students "effectively promote student in be a senior next year and is ma Government. Kolbe, a graduate ecutives brought it up. We would and student activities. An exam volvement, and insure that the joring in political science and computer science student, has definitely bring it up if we were ple of that is the amendment we students' viewpoint is not only economics. been on the Senate for the last elected," she added. brought forward for the con solicited, but addresses." Crowell, who will also be a three years as student dean of They also felt "more effec stitution, (which states that) They said that as executives, senior next year and is majoring Engineering; and Bellows has tive" channels of communication students must benefit from the ·they would make sure students in finance, stated that one of been a senator at large for the were an important issue. Kolbe use of student fees and that were represented in all aspects of their goals would be to make stu past year. said they would hold regular money is going to benefit student the university's operation. They dents more aware and get stu They also have been the chair meetings with senators and even organizations." have already met with the chan dents more involved with Stu and vice chair of the Association invite the chancellor and other Although they have concen cellor and stated their concerns dent Government. of Computing Machinery, and, administrators to the Student trated their position on a number to him, they said, and also to Kearney and Crowell both because of this, "We have ex Government meetings to address of issues and goals, Kolbe said "initiate a dialogue with" the served on the Judicial Board this perience working as a team to ac concerns and answer the ques they "want to promote effective ad.ministration. semester, and Kearney was the complish goals," Bellows said. tions of Senate members. communication, and should stu chair of that branch of govern Their primary goal as execu- On-campus housing is an issue dents ccme up with new con- ment. They also both served on the constitution revision commit tee, Crowell as chair and Kearney as vice chair. Fifteen Candidates Run Fo_r Senate Spots One of their goals is to run the whole governing process more by Sherie Melanson his first year at UCCS and will elected, the issue he will concen The current co-executive, efficiently. And because of their Rich Smith, a Business/Mar be a senior in the fall, sees the trate on is getting an internship Laurel Bennett, is running for former positions, Kearney said, keting major, is seeking re need to have a representative in or co-op program running for the Student Dean of Graduate "We have been able to see, from election into the office of Student Student Government that has the the School of Business. The busi School. The graduate student of a neutral position, how the sys Director of Finance. Smith, a experience of employment to ness student adds that he wants Public Affairs-Public Admin tem has been run and how it op junior, explains that the first year help bridge the generation gap at to make sure that the Senate re~ istration feels that the best way erates; and we have seen how it in office is learning the respon UCCS. His goal as the Student mains politically neutral while he for her to stay involved is to, could be run more efficiently.'' sibilities of the job and how to Dean of Business would be to represents the views of the stu "apply my energies to the gradu Crowell also addressed the carry out the duties. If re-elected, "see the administration of the dents. ate school." If elected as the Stu issue of on-campus housing. "If he would, ''like to see a new student budget filtered down to Mary Lynn Modic is vying for dent Dean of the Graduate we had dorms it would attract focus followed through, such as a recognizable level for student the title of Student Dean of School, she will concentrate on more students, more students the Advisory Recommendation funds," so that students· can see Engineering. Modic has spent working on internships and co would attract more faculty, and Board to make sure that pro what their student fees are being three years at UCCS and will be ops for the schoc;,ls of Letters, all of that would attract more cedures and policies are fol used for. O'Sullivan wants to, graduating in 1989 as a Com Arts, and Sciences and Public research and more money for the lowed. The specific issue Smith "be able to influence (student puter Science major. Modic is Affairs with faculty involvement ,. university.'' He felt making is interested in is heightening in fee) direction from a supervisory currently a Senator-at-Large. As so that students will get "on the UCCS less of a commuter cam volvement in Student Govern standpoint rather than an the Student Dean of Engineer job and practical experience." pus is a long-term goal, but one ment funded events. He adds· author.itative standpoint.'' ing, Modic wants to improve Kathryn Seeley is a hopeful for that "should be pursued every that not many people participate Doug Williams, the current communication between Student the position of Student Dean of year until_we achieve it." in programs being offered that Student Dean of Business, is run Government and the School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. The They said that with the expan are funded with student fees ning for re-election. Williams, an Engineering. She adds "The cur current Senator-at-Large is a sion of the Student Center, they he wants to change that. Information Systems major, be rent dean is doing good, but you Political Science major and will would be able to keep better in Neal O'Sullivan, a Finance lieves he has, "proven this year can never have enough." An be a senior in the fall. She is seek touch with the views of students major, is running for the position that I'm looking out for the best other goal of Modic's is to offer ing the position because, "I'd and added that they would keep of Student Dean of Business. interest of the students and how and promote more engineering like to have a better working re- consistant office hours. O'Sullivan, who is completing their money is spent." If re- scholarships. continued on page 3 Students Protest Troops In Honduras Though° American student re luring of students off campus. In Minneapolis, for example, action to President Reagan's Kim Paulus of the National University of Minnesota students deployment of 3,200 troops to Student Action Center in Wash joined 5 community protests dur Honduras last month was slow, ington, D.C., predicted in mid ing the last 2 weeks of March.