1975-4-Vol 3, Issue 7

Volume III, Issue VI April 197~ Student Senate Passes Activity Fee Increase Organizing Votes 12-4 Alumni Assoc. Although an Alumni In Favor Association is not an ex· isting organization, plans The Student Senate reo are currently underway cently passed the resolu to form one at DMACC tion raising the student ac in the near future. tivity fee for full and part As of July 1, 1975 a time students. computer will be avail After a heated debate, able to print up cUrp~ \lt mailing lists and stickers to contact former stud· and a roll call vote, the ents of DMACC. Senate approved the reso In addition to the com lution by a 12 to 4 major puter, the student senate ity. The resolution will has formed a committe ~ raise the fee for full-time to contact the student students to $7.50 per body and organize the program. The committee quarter and a mandatory is headed by co-chairmen $.60 per quarter hour for Larry Keller and Mark part-time students. Carlson with advisor Jon The resolution faces ano- Schneider. Donald W. Diehl, right, co-author of training, Master Builders of Iowa; Any students or Alumni. IlCommercial Carpentry" ~resents a Lowery; Marvin Yarrow, chairman of wishing more information volume of the curriculum material to the building trades program at the col ther test as action is pend or wanting tc h.:lp the Des Moines Area Community College. lege; and Harold Faber, chairman of ing with the College Coun Alumni Association be Accepting on behalf of the college is the man Dower and training committe~ cil and the Board of Direct· come a reality may con Superintendent Paul Lowery. for Master Builders and vice president ors. If passed by all com· tact the c,,",chairmen in Participating in the ceremony are: of Ringland, Johnson & Crowley. mittees the resolution will room 3210 or Jon Schnei from left, Richard Toon, director of go into effect next fall. der in Bldg. 4. Insurance May Not (over Students yc e ang ays enale ole Jack Asby. Assistant Superintendent for Busi Motorcycle helmets may Also in the proposal is become mandatory if the Democrats. They felt the ance was a motorcycle ness Affairs, reports that a section that requires all bill should be defeated gang, that inadvertaintly the College does not car Senate passes a bill pass motorcyclists to use their ed by the House. One of as a matter of principle, changed nine votes. ry personal accident in headlights when they are simply because the gov Another bill passed the surance on students, only the main reasons the bill operating the vehicle on a ernment was trying to Senate giving dismissed liability insurance. Non passed was because of the public roadway. An am· more than $10 million in force its passage. Sever teachers the right to a college related activities endment by Krause of al legislators said earlier involving students are the road use mpney the fed neutral third party arb Palo Alto that would they did not plan to vote itrator if they choose to responsibility of the stud eral government has threat· have required all motor ened to impound if the favorably, but votes chang challenge the school boar· ent. Low cost student ists to wear helmets was ed during the debate. ds decision. accident insurance can be legislation is not passed. defeated. However, to this date, no Debate on the hel met Previously, the instruct obtained for $5 per year. The House passed the bill brought wide respon ors' right to appeal was Students should contact federal money has been bill with nearly a two refused to a state because se from the general pub limited to the board that the Business Office in thirds majority despite lic, most of it against the dismissed them. With the 4 for further infor- they haven't passed re opposition from many commended legislation. measure. Also in attend- new legislation, teachers still may appeal to the school board, or may ap· Former Aid Jeb Magruder peal further if they desire. Before, their only recourse was to the cou rts. atergate Conspirator To Speak At Also included in the measu re is a sa.called Jeb Stuart Magruder, convicted Watergate con "laundry list", that was spirator, will appear at DMACC, Monday, May 5, not requested by school in a special program planned by the DMACC Student lobbyists_ The list speci Activities Committee. fies under what grounds Magruder, who served under Bob Haldem<Jn as a an instructor may be dis special assistant to ex-president Richard Nixon, has missed. But most educa· served seven months in prison for his part in the tors agree the new legisla· Watergate conspiracy. He was released, along with tion is better than what several others, under a decision rendered by Judge they had before. John Sirica to shorten their sentences. The bill is still not clear Magruder, who worked as campaign chief-of-staff route to become law. It and deputy director of the Committee for the Re· must still pass the House and then be signed by election of the President, was accused of giving .. overnor Ray. While Ray political intelligence assignments to G. Gordon Liddy. is ex pected to sign the In his book "An American Life: One ·Man's bill, the House calender is Road to Watergate", and in his lectures, Magruder rapidly becoming filled discusses the people and events of the Watergate saga, with appropriations meas his role in it, and the changes that have resulted from ures. Speader Dale Cochran it·both to him as an individual and to the country. says the House will adjourn Magruder also says that Nixon had plans to accel· bef.,..e July first, but anti - erate to a position in which he could unilaterally trust legislation, land use, control the country by virtuallv appointing his and tax reforms are still successors and through "absolute 'management be to Be considered. Cochran come an absolute monarch. recently told reporters Magruder will appear in the Little Theatre in Bldg. these issues will be dealt with before the end of 24 from lIa.m. to 12:30 ttl: session. - Page 2 Editor-i n- Chief •.....•...•....• J ack i e King Manag ing Editor ....••••.....•...• · J a n Link New s Edito r .•.....••.......... DeAn ne Baue r Acti v iti es & Features Ed ito r .•.. Ju l Ie Rutz Art Di rect o r .•••.•.....• ····· Barb An der son Bus i ness Manager •.•••••.• ····• Ma r t ha Perry EclectiC Is published bl.monthly by the Board of dent Communications at the Oes Moines Area Com· A '" unity College, Ankeny Cam pus, Ankeny. Iowa. The clectlc Is edited and managed by students. Opl~lons I.' are not necessarily those of the administration. programs. departments. or ~f the student body. The newspaper oflleel, located In Bulldlng21.Room 241:lA United States citizens and the South Vietnamese gov ernment are at odds again, only this time, instead of fighting over arms and war equipment, the two factions have made the baby crib their battleground. • As South Vietnamese has graciously given up one pro vince after another to the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong, Americans have become riddled with a sudden at· tack of conscience. Such an attack is becoming rarer and rarer in today's society. The attack felt by many Ameri cans is in such massive proportions, it might be called an epidemic. IJnwarranted Funding? What has happened is that Americans, after over ten years of "accidently" and possibly not so "accidently", killing Vietnamese civilians have suddenly found that in their hearts they want to save the total crop of Vi et To The Editor, • namese orphans. Never mind that we did little to help Korean infants A man had two sons. Both were ready to leave home American soldiers left in that wa r-torn land, and never to ma ke a life for themse lv es. As a gesture of encourage mind t hat it has been more than two yea rs since the last ment and fatherly love the two were each given an " officia l" American sold ier was stationed in ' Nam. It is amount of money by their fa ther to do with as they saw now t hat Americans are feeling pangs of conscience which fit. lead them to massively apply for Vietnamese adoptees. Since the father was a respected man of considerable means, considered to be a self-made man by his associ Naturally the Vietnamese government has been a little ates he encouraged his sons to plan wisely how they more than reluctant to let these innocent by-products of wo~!d manu \j ~ the gift. They were informed of a special war go to what has been hailed by many as the "promised honor each would receive for responsible investing and land." How would Americans feel if a foreign country, spending resulting in prosperity and also of a dubious • such as Australia or Germany, began to airlift American contempt their father would feel for either through negligent waste of the 9ift. The nature of each award orphans in groups of three or four ~undred. .' How would predominately JeWish Israel feel If Its or was left to their imaginations. phans were all of a sudden dropped into a Buddist envi Several possibilities for an end ill9 are obvious so no ronment? How W, j~IlJ any country feel if twenty years space will be used to expand on them. However, the ending isn't the point of the example. The point is after a war which kil led many of their young men it was neither child necessarily had to have the money given to discovered that that ge nerat ion's babies had been airlifted them.

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