Run-Off Necessary SGA President Race Subcommittee to Review Health Fee
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• Run-off necessary In• SGA president race by Sherr; Conyers More than 900 votes were cast 350 against 310 for the Steve of the votes. a run-off election Frida y in one of the largest St udent Goodmanj David Rever ticket. between the top two tickets must be Government election returns in According to S.G.A. Election held this Friday, according to SGA recent years. The Terry Nolan/ Board';s rules, since none of the election rules. ' Robin Kyler ticket carried a simple candidates in this multiple ticket Mike Rifkin, Chairperson of the majority of the Presidential votes, election won a 50 per cent plus one Election Board, said Goodrilanand Rever are contesting tb election, but Rifkin declined to comment on the nature of the dispute, since "it's FLASH! not resolved yet .. .it's not fair to any of the parties. " The SGA Election Board from the student Board is Rifkin said that several announced late'yesterday after expected tonight, according to I senatorial candidates had been noon that the Terry Nolan University Director of Judicial disqualified, some mistakenly, and Robin Kyler presidential ticket Affairs Barry Henderson. ,that the disqualifications fall into has been disqualified from The Nolan-Kyler ticket lead three classes, as fonows: ..'riday's scheduled run-off elec the four ticket general election . Two senior senator contestants tion. Friday with 350-votes. Nolan and Kyler immediately CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 filed an appeal with the campus Judicial Board. A hearing was Steve Goodman (I.) placed second In the presidential voting. held last night, and a decision RetRieveR Volume 15, Number 2:6 Unil'enilY (~l Maryland. &Ilimore County , April 29,1181 Subcommittee to review health fee proposal by Damian Jones A mandatory student health fee from UMBC, and six ofthese were awareness, family planning, and 'of $16 oer semester for full-time in the previous Health Service. CPR, among others. students has been proposed to "Because the (old) Health Health Service hours will also be University of Maryland Central Service did not see many patients. expanded from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 Adminstration, according to they stock-piled a lot of supplies. p.m. service, to an 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 Debra Sivertson, Nurse We have been running on those p.m. weekday service. In the Practitioner and Director of stock-piled supplies, plus evenings, Emergency Medical Student Health. returning what we could," said Technicians (student technicians The fee is slated for a Board of Sivertson, explaining how the Candidates Robin Kyler (near), Terry Nolan (r.), and campaign manager Regents sub-committee review Center survived this year. In CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 JIm List await election results outside the Student Union. May 26, and will be subject to addition to cutting other corners, Board approval June 6. If the nurse practitioners have been approved, the fee would be doing Health Service laundry in optional for part-time, summer their homes. UMBC students to session, and minimester students, "Next year there is no way we and would be instituted this Fall. can do this again," said Sivertson. • • The fee was developed by She warned that without the health Sivertson, Vice Chancellor for service fee, not only will services be JOin EI Salvador march Student Affairs, Scott Rickard, cut, but students will have to be by Beth Sturdevant Assistant Dean of Students Brent charged for certain services and UMBC students opposed to the Students on campus have also Steele, and the Health Services medication. that the purpose ofthe presentation U.S. government's distribution o~, sold buttons stating "Defend student staff, in consultation with A student health fee is not was to expose the U.S. govern $25 million in aid to EI Salvador are Atlanta's Children not EI the Student Health Advisory unusual for a university, Sivertson ment's position in El Salvador and planning to join a march in Salvador's Junta." Committee (S HAC). Health said; College Park and UMAB, for inform students of the alleged Washington Sunday sponsored by A slide show on the El Salvador Service's state funding, which was example, already have student abuses suffered in that country. the People's Anti-War Mobiliza issue was presented earlier this reduced last year, has not been health fees. Even with the new fee, Robert Sloane, an associate tion to Stop U.S. Intervention in El semester and was widely attended. enough to maintain the Center, she claimed the UMBC health professor of Spanish, recently Salvador. Dr. John Sinnegan, an associate and still provide an adequate level service cost per student will be the circulated a faculty petition calling Daniel Brafman, a student in professor of service. lowest of all UM campuses. of Spanish and a member for an end to U.S. involvement in El charge of chartering a bus, which of the Baltimore chapter of The Health Service was The fee will cover expenses Salvador. The petition has been will take the students from UMBC CISPES (Committee in Solidarity reorganized last Fall as a result of associated with visits to the Health signed by eighty faculty. members. Governor Harry Hughes' mandate to Washington, said that he was with the People ofEI Salvador) said Cente:-, some laboratory work, a "optimistic enough to order a big' to eliminate approximately 250 first day supply of medication, plus bus" in anticipation of a large turn "lines" (full-time positions) in the new and expanded health University of Maryland. Seven of out. Thirty students had signed up education programs, including as of Friday. these positions were withdrawn diet counseling, alcohol March to be vital step in Public opposition to U.S. support of El Salvador's ruling junta has increased since a reversal opposition's efforts of U.S. policy toward sending On The Cover military aid to that country. Many [(CPS) -On Sunday, May 3 anti call a "'transition period" from El Salvador observers, including sentiment against U.S. involve '~scattered; Freshman Senator Jessica Bower exits the voting booth during la~t community-based Friday's SGA elections. Bower won a second senate term. She will some members of Congress, claim ment in EI Salvador will go through protest" to a more "political·· serve on the Procedural Rules Committee. the junta is assisting paramilitary what amounts to a rite of passage phase. right-wing terrorists. The Reagan for political movements: it will Campus activiti~s in the last six Staff photographer Ed Fagan got the shot. administration has also been stage its own march on Washing months against U.S. El Salvador criticized for sending military ton, D.C. policies have indeed been both advisors to El Salvador. The march caps what organizers spontaneous and widespread, The march, which is expected to call "the busiest protest season unlike the more carefully-arranged involve approximately 50,000 since Three Mile Island," and recent campus rallies against Meszaros remains managment .......... , .................... , ..... 3 people, will begin at the Lincoln marks what these same organizers apartheid in South Africa. nuclear Photo works ...................................................... 8 Memorial and proceed past the very aware of comparisons to the power, and the draft. A March Big Twist at the Fish ............................................. 10 offices of-the State Department, first college stirrings against U.S. protest at the University of Election results .. , ................................................19 involvements in Vietnam in 1964- ending at the Pentagon. CONTI, Nl)~D ,ON PAGE 2 March to draw attention to EI Salvaqor issue FROM PAGE 1 California-Riverside "peaked" at, more diversified groups to the are even denied recognition. SUNY's Petras finds "remarkable" estimates "a year or two at this rate 70 people, while a march at the cause, many with religious At New Orleans' Loyola comparisons. provided U.S. policies do . not University of Massachusetts affiliations. University, a newly-formed "The teach-ins and scattered change." Amherst surprised organizers a few "The striking part of the CISPES group received a Student protests we see now about El "We're in a very important days later when it drew 1200 enormous growth of the movement Government Association Charter Salvador roughly compare to the transition state right now," Petras students and faculty. is the religious overtone," Petras only after a long and heated debate . stage of the Vietnam movement in says. "We've been going through Not limited to larger state . observes. "Most prevalent IS the Law delegate Frank Milanese late 1964 or 1965," Petras asserts. the educational stage-consisting of schools, activity has been reported active work of particularly argued vehemently for the It's getting to the point where teach-ins, mostly-to the point from Loyola University in New Catholic organizations and nuns opposition in the student newsl)ap people with ,diverse interests are where there is protest and rallies. Orleans to Sinclair Community and priests. Considering the er when he warned the group "is a getting involved, not just people Now we have to see protest turn and Grand Valley State colleges in numbers of Catholics murdered radical political organization that who have a history of being into politics with more specific Michigan. All featured speakers daily in El Salvador, their just smacks of communism." politically active ... goals. " and seminars on U.S. foreign participating is not surprising, but Students at George Mason Active participants no longer Whether the El Salvador policies, colloquially called "teach Although Petras maintains "The University in Virgina were not so include only those people who were movement will successfully make ins." great bulk of U.S. faculty Opposes" lucky. Their application for a active in the Vietnam movement the transition from "protest to Services commemorating the American involvement, others may university chartt'r was denied on and are interested in finding a politics" will be most clearly seen at first anniversary ofthedeath of San not be quick to agree.