Bridgewater State University Virtual Commons - Bridgewater State University The ommeC nt Campus Journals and Publications 1984 The ommeC nt, November 5, 1984 Bridgewater State College Volume 58 Number 18 Recommended Citation Bridgewater State College. (1984). The Comment, November 5, 1984. 58(18). Retrieved from: http://vc.bridgew.edu/comment/541 This item is available as part of Virtual Commons, the open-access institutional repository of Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. ~ ;'SGA President violates Constitution; Contract By Gregory Mathis that exceed the $100.00 limit. However, Magoon did not sign Edit or-in-Chief action to prevent further LUTE DEADLINE of Friday, The highest total was that of this voucher, in fact, there was violations." Sept. 21, I 984 at 4:00 p .m. will $1,250.00. This was taken out of no SdA counter-signature on it. Magoon also violated the the Social Activities Fund to The final voucher that violated become property of the Student Book Exchange Contract. First Government Association . of pay for the SGA Homecoming the Constitution was one for of all, the Book Exchange is a Recently, The Comment has band, Rags. The second and the $200.00 for the Bridgewater­ Bridgewater State College. No received copies of vouchers service to students who wish to exceptions will be made ... third voucher were for $500.00 Raynham marching band. sell and buy their books from signed by Student Government Magoon approved a voucher, each to pay for the· Plymouth­ In a letter submitted by Treas­ some place other than the school Association President Daniel then counter-signed it on Carver and Silver Lake march­ urer Nadine Lucas to President bookstore. The contract, which Magoon that have violated the October 12, 1984, to pay a stu­ ing bands for participating in Magoon, she warned "do not every student must sign, reads: Constitution of the SGA. The dent $56.00 for her books that the Homecoming parade. The take it upon yourself to sign "In signing this agreement her­ Constitution, under Article 5, i were sold. fourth voucher was for $250.00 . vouchers over $100.00 again. eby state that any books and/ or Section B, Subsection I, Letter to pay Sears-Roebuck and Co. Disregard for this request will money not picked up at the i, states that the President may for a flatbed for the parade. force me to take necessary Catholic Center by the ABSO- "have the power to sign vouchers for the expenditures of under $100.00 in the event that neither the Trea$urer nor the Assistant Treasurer. is availa­ ble. " Under no other circum­ stances, according to -the Constitution, is the President certified to sign vouchers. Whether or not the Treasurer the or the Assistant Treasurer were available is not even the issue. The fact is that The Comment November 5, 1984 Vol. LVlll No. 18 holds copies of five vouchers Students Stake in the Election By Ralph Nader after the federal education 3. Students are known to This has been a regime that is erty rolls since 1981, with the Consumer Advocate budget (now a mere 6.5% of the want a healthy enviroment. In setting records for secrecy, cen­ percentage of Americans living military budget). with a cleaver the Sixties and early Seventies, soring public employees and in poverty moving from 13% to in 1981 and 1982. Over one mil­ many students were up front locking out citizens from partic­ over 15% in . the same period. The question for millions of lion students wovld not be in fighting for the enactment of ipation in their own govern­ Yet, as a Wall Street Journal college students is whether they · college, if Congress had agreed laws designed to redur ! the pol­ ment. article pointed out, Mr. Rea­ plan to spend several special to all of the cuts. In 1982, stu­ lution of air, water, and soil. gan's economic policies are hours, as they would for an aver­ dent aid would have been More recently, ~tudents have 5. President Reagan is makinu the rich ri.che.r and the "!'e IMiS tC1lli . eXam:;"··StUdying slashed by 60%. Due in part to opposed . nucle(!r power and building a governemnt of the poor poorer. the records of the Presidential student lobbies, Congress held backed solar energy and energy Exxons, by the General Motors, Many students believe. they candidates before the election his reductions to 20% in con­ efficiencies. President Reagan and for the Duponts. He sup~ are familiar with Ronald Rea­ on November 6. They need to do stant dollars from the 1980 leveL chose de-regulation here, cut­ ports corporate· subsidies and gan, the television personality. this if they want to cast their But wait until next year' if he is ting back law enforcement, bailouts, like Walter Mondale, But are they informed about his ballot on facts and judgements, re-elected. budgets, and research dramati­ but he also believes in weak anti­ government's record? It is Rea­ rather than on the politicians' cally in envirome.ntal programs. trust laws, rejects proper gan's government that is up for persuasive images, symbols, and 2. Apart from the rising stu­ He poured subsidies i~to enforcement of the auto, food, judgement next month, not Nix­ rhetoric. · dent debt, the booming national nuclear power, propping up a drug, product safety; and on's, Ford's, or Carter's.; Have Much is a stake in this elec­ debt will burden especially the costly technology_that is raising worker health laws, and is with­ students dug into Walter Mon­ tion for students as students and younger generation. Mr. Rea­ electricity rates sharply, and has ering away the corporate dale's active record as a Sena-· as graduates in the coming gan has taken the· $930 billion shredded the solar and energy income tax, thus shifting more tor? Or do they think because he years. This is not a Tweedledee debt he inherited from all of the conservation programs. Pollu­ burdens to less wealthy individ­ is not exciting, it does not matter vs. Tweedledum electiOn, as the past Administrations and driven tion is just not an economic uals. For all the ballyhoo about what he has done for civil rights, dominant right wing of the it up to $1 ·.6 trillion .. The non­ waste; it causes cancer' birth economic recovery, u.nemploy­ consumer protection, the envir­ Republican Party declares every partisan Congressional Budget defects, emphysema, and otner ment under Reagan has aver­ oment, child nutrition pro­ day. The U.S. Supreme Court, Office predicts that, given pres­ diseases. aged 2% higher than under grams, or education? that last resort guardian of our ent government economic poli­ Carter. It is time to turn off the one rights when the other two cies, the debt at the end of a 4. Civil rights, civil liber­ minute television ads of both branches fail to do so, will be Reagan second term (January ties, and women's rights groups 6. Poverty, according to the parties and put on the old think­ quite different over the next 25 1989) will reach a staggering have issued· detailed reports U.S. Department· of Labor, is ing cap. On November 6th, your years, depending on whether $3.1 trillion (see graph). That demonstrating the poor, often increasing .. Five million more choice should be an informed Reagan or -Mondale makes the means 32 cents of every tax dol­ offensive, record of the Reagan people, nearly half of them decision, not· made. on a hunch next four of five (out ·of nine lar you send to Washington then government in these basic areas. children, were added to the pov"' or an image. Justices) nominations. will go just to pay interest on the Let's look at the record, as debt. Reagan got about the Roosevelt advisor Jim Farley budget size he wanted from used to say: · Congress; he vetoed no major s·pending bill. You will pay for SSAM Referendum. \ 1. President Reagan went · these deficits in many ways. Passes at BSC 700 (S670) tion, financial ·aid, and a high dent A ff airs Committee, Comparison of Federal Defic,its By Janet Coffey quality education). "I was some­ informing them on the results of 600 (Cumulative for each Administration Staff Writer what disappointed in the lack of the SSAM referendum. This In Billions of Dollars) student involvement,,, said Car­ will appear on the November soo reiro, ~'but I think that the out­ agenda of the Board of Trustees. 400 The State Student Associa­ come would have been about the If passed, the SGA fe~ will be tion of Massachusetts (SSAM) same.'' increased from $18.00 to $19.00. ~00 recently propsed a ··referendum There was a total of 150 votes, First~ Vice President Carreiro question to the BSC student with a margin of error of 3.8%. would like to thank the follow-· 200 ·body. Th.e referendum passed The votes were as follows: 138 ing people for their help in man­ 100 with a 92% approval rate, said yes votes; 11 no votes; and 1 ning the tables and getting the Dave Carreiro, the First-Vice blank. All of these votes were counting done .so quickly: Dan President of the SGA (SSAM, legally accepted by the SGA. Darcy, Matt Donogh'ue; Kerry for those who still aren't familiar · A letter will be sent to Presi­ Fay, Brian Jenney, Denis Law-:: Eisenhower Johnson with it, is .an advocacy group . dent Adrian Rondileau, the rence, Annie McLaughlin and promoting .the interests of state Board· of Trustees, and the Kathy White. college stt1dents in re~ard to Chairman.