USGA Proposes Reorganization Students Lobby for Activity Fee Control
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Anh Dang be in place before the May stu Each of the elected senators Holtz said the final proposal NEWS EDITOR dent government elections. would be required to serve on for the Student Senate constitu Chestnut After four years of existence in The proposed model for stu two Student Senate committees. tion will contain “a check and its current form, the Drexel stu dent government will focus on The current structure specifies balance system built into the one Jonathan Poet dent government may soon tasks and actions, said Junior the existence of six committees; [student government] body MANAGING EDITOR undergo another transformation. Class Representative Sarah communications and institution among the committees.” Drexel student Jessica Fuhrer Undergraduate Student Gov Holtz, who chairs the USGA gov al advancement, academics, stu was struck by a car at the south ernment Association officers are ernance quality improvement dent life, finance, administrative USGA west corner of 33rd and Chestnut drafting a new student govern committee. services and elections. Adopted in the spring of 1993 Streets on Tuesday evening at ment model called Student The president and vice presi to replace Student Congress, the about 6:30 p.m., just two days Senate. With approval from a Student Senate dent would run on a joint ticket. USGA constitution is loosely before city police officers began University-wide student referen The preliminary structure of The president would preside based on the constitution of the issuing tickets to pedestrians and dum, this new constitution will Student Senate combines the leg over the Student Senate. Other See USGA structure on page 2 motorists for violating pedestri an-related traffic laws. Fuhrer is in stable condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was Dragon Q>stume Debuts brought by ambulance immedi ately after the accident. Fuhrer, a sophomore major ing in materials engineering, was hit by a motorist as she exited the back seat of the car she was rid ing in. Fuhrer had left her book bag in the Drexel Bookstore ear lier in the day and was heading for MacAlister Hall to retrieve it. The car she was riding in, which was driven by senior Nick DiFranco, was stopped at the traffic light on Chestnut Street in the right-hand lane of traffic. Fuhrer got out of the car via the passenger-side rear door and began to run across the parking lane when a red Honda Prelude veered towards her to pass traffic stopped at the light. Cars are permitted to drive in the parking lane on Chestnut Street from 7:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. only. According to eyewitnesses, Fuhrer landed on the hood and slid up on its windshield. The driver swerved into a sign on the sidewalk, bringing the car to a halt. Fuhrer fell off onto the side walk. Fuhrer received a small frac ture on the back of her skull and broke her right fibula, a non weight bearing bone in the lower Noah Addis The Triangle leg, as a result of the accident. President Constantine Papadakis knights the new Drexel Dragon mascot at halftinne of the Friday, Feb. 7 men's basketball game against Northeastern in the She has undergone three CAT Physical Education Athletic Center. The new costume was a gift of the 1997 senior class. scans to monitor bruises on her brain, but for now feels well. She See Accident on page 2 Students lobby for activity fee control Anh Dang McCarthy proposed that an process had not been a problem they reviewed the allocation NEWS EDITOR allocation committee consisting until last year, when then-USGA process on Feb. 3, according to In response to changes to the of student government members President Steve Martorano McCarthy. student activity fee allocation would vote on the distribution of attempted to give a major por Seven students attended the process proposed by Director of the fee. The student body presi tion of the fee to the athletic Feb. 12 USGA committee meet Student Activities Adam Gold dent, com ptroller, and CAB department, a non-student-run ing, chaired by USGA stein, juniors Chris McCarthy president would be ineligible for organization. Martorano’s inten Comptroller Riz Shavelle. All and Dan Bahar introduced an the committee. tion failed, and the resulting allo attendees who spoke, including alternative model on Feb. 12 An advisory board composed cation was not different from USGA President Nick Kampar- during a student government of students, faculty members and that of the previous three years. osyan and USGA Speaker committee meeting. administrators would guide the McCarthy also proposed spe Tehseen A. Khan, agreed that the McCarthy, who is president of process to ensure consistency. cific rules to reduce potential power to allocate activity fees the Campus Activities Board, Unlike the joint student, faculty problems the student govern should be left to the students. However, specific details in said their model addresses the and staff allocation board pro ment could face after the alloca McCarthy and Bahar’s model problems documented by Gold posed by Goldstein, the advisory tion decision is made. Following were left open-ended. Noah Addis The Triangle stein and his staff while keeping members would not have voting these rules would prevent confu sion and conflicts documented McCarthy and Bahar are The Student was struck by a car in the the allocation power solely in the power. by Goldstein and his staff when - See Activity fee on page 2 .parking lane of Chestnut Street., V students’hands. He noted-that the allocation University/Local The Triangle • February 14,1997 Bail set for suspects in local botched robbery THE TRIANGLE ASSOCIATED PRESS more than a dozen counts of kid the bandits captured three work morning, police said. But the Established 1926 PHILADELPHIA — Two sus napping, robbery and related ers from the check-cashing store, truck came and went without a pects were arraigned Sunday in offenses stemming from the along with the assistant manag move by the suspects. By mid connection with Friday’s botched robbery and hostage sit er’s husband, police said. morning Friday, police were Editorial botched robbery of a downtown uation, Philadelphia police Sgt. The bandits held the group tipped off to the plan. SWAT Editor-In-Chief Patricia O'Brien check-cashing agency. Earl Schoen said Sunday. hostage overnight at the assistant teams surrounded the store, Managing Editor Jonathan Poet Willie Small, 31, and Jay Diaz, Police say Small, Diaz and manager’s home, where another trapping 100 people inside. But News Editor Anil Dang 22, appeared in a Philadelphia perhaps up to six other suspects man was holding the woman’s 4- after a four-hour standoff, the Entertainment Editor BradW ible had planned to rob The Financial year-old daughter at gunpoint. people in the store were released Sports Editor Larry Rosenzweig courtroom and were ordered Photo Editor Noah Addis held on $1.6 million and Exchange, a check-cashing The suspects had planned to unharmed and no money was Eminence Grise John Gruber $900,000 bail, respectively. agency, on Friday. The scheme rob an armored truck at the taken. The people in the house The two are charged with began Thursday afternoon, when check-cashing store the next escaped unharmed Friday. Administration Business Manager Jay Kimball Fee policy Advertising Manager Venu G addam idi USGA proposes reorganization Classifieds Manager Jonathan Mullen Distribution Manager Ryan La Riviere altemative USGA structure from page / cers representing Greek life and mess. I told them ‘We’ll fix it.’” the college of engineering. Holtz said the process started United States, and features three Compared to the USGA struc in the summer term when the branches: judicial, legislative and ture, total Student Senate officers USGA governance quality developed SUffWrittrs executive. would decrease from 44 to 23, improvement committee Peter T. Buckley, Kathleen DIdinger, Activity fee from page 1 The USGA president is the but total voting officers would (GQIC) started to hold meetings. Nick DiFranco, Sean Murphy, RIshi Chadha increase from 20 to 22. This poli Chairing GQIC, Holtz said the only link between the three Columnists working with the USGA financial branches. Only USGA legislative cy is designed to increase committee first decided on the Michael Busier restructuring committee to iron officers are allowed to vote in chances of getting a quorum to duties of an ideal student gov perform official business, Holtz ernment. The members then Photographtrs out discrepancies. They hope to weekly meetings presided by the Christine Fitts, have USGA endorse their model USGA speaker. The check and said. compared those functions to the Michael Lawless to meet the Feb. 17 response balance system between the current USGA structure. Cartoonists deadline set by Goldstein. branches was hoped to bring Other changes “We looked at constitutions Don Haring, Jr., Jason Jensen, Goldstein’s own model was a accountability to student govern The chief justice would be from other schools,” said Holtz. Milbourne T. Monkey, Daniel Rosas result of a six-month review of ment.