New Mexico Lobo, Volume 074, No 45, 11/12/1970." 74, 45 (1970)
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University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1970 The aiD ly Lobo 1961 - 1970 11-12-1970 New Mexico Lobo, Volume 074, No 45, 11/12/ 1970 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1970 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Lobo, Volume 074, No 45, 11/12/1970." 74, 45 (1970). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/ daily_lobo_1970/128 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1961 - 1970 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1970 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. according to the decision: a student the current rewritten elections code, Student Court out of their own may run for Senate with less than a they are ineligible for office. Three ) incompetence. ' I ,\ 2.0 gpa, but only if that person has of the four decided to challenge the earned less than a 2.0 at another At this point it would surprise no I constitutionality of the 2.0 one, least of all probably Student school, or if he has dropped out for a stipulation before Student Court. Editorial: period of time and then re-enrolled. Court, if the entire election is The Election Commission, which had invalidated. The three students look I NEW For example, if Dimple Smith previously ruled that those with less dropped out three years ago with less as if they will run. If they are than a 2.0 were ineligible, was elected, those with a 2.0 gpa will than a 2.0 gpa, then returned last powerless to prevent the challenge, probably challenge the election if year and has since earned a 2.0 or and they did not discourage the they lose. better, Dimple is eligible for Senate. action. Perhaps the best answer to the As has happened in the past, Student Court should have refused Student Court was asked to make a current problem would be to provide to hear the case on the grounds that a iegal advisor to the Student Court, Again ruling which never should have been it has only the power to interpret, considered in the first place. Four so in future cases such stupid, not change, the Constitution. This is time-wasting problems will not arise students currently running for not a case of interpretation of the again. Senate have less than a 2.0 and under Contitution, as it was turned mto by Sarah Laidlaw Baum 'Caught ih Middle' Student Court has once again involved ASUNM in a needless 'What Now??' hassle. Student Court is empowered to Of KUNM Music Dispute interpret the ASUNM Constitution. A letter in yesterday's Lobo Although the decision about students in giving them rooms Last night it attempted to change the charged Union Director Ron which music should be played in . Constitution, which in itself is Baum with "unilateraly" deciding over a town group." the Union "probably should be In a situation such as last that "music of his choice {KRST) made by Union Board," the unconstitutional. The altercation is more fitting to be heard than spring's strike, when the Union arose over three Senate candidates governing body, Baum said he building was cleared of students the music the students themselves only "conferred with a couple of who do not have the 2.0 grade point support and pay to hear over with help from state police and KUNM." the board members prior to National Guardsmen. Baum said average required to run for office, as switching" from KUNM to KRST. The letter said a circulating he didn't know what l1e would stipulated in the Constitution. Court Baum said the change was made do-allow students to stay in the petition demands that KUNM be because the other station provides ruled it is unconstitutional for played in the Union. The letter Union, or have it cleared. "I candidates to have to meet the better background music than would wait and see," he said. was submitted by student Bob KUNM. He said he could defend Union Director Ron Baum said Steinberg, a Union board member. Another incident which created mandatory requirement, as the 2.0 he's "sort of in the middle" of the the change in no other way than figure is "arbitrary," and therefore Baum said yesterday he has some hard feelings was Baum's music hassle. Several students are that some students had refusal to allow ASUNM to post unfair. Union Director spoken to "four or five" students complained about their inability circulating a petition demanding about the music matter, but "I announcements on its glass door, After the court ruled the 2.0 that KUNM be played in the to study while listening to KUNM. as there was no bulletin board. really don't have any preference Some 200 signatures have been unconstitutional, some bright soul Union, rather than a commercial about the music. I'm sort of in the Baum said he could understand station. middle." collected on the petitions pointed out to them that it is protesting the playing of KRST, AS UNM 's position in posting unconstitutional to change the and several other copies of the announcements on the door, since petition are still circulating, said the office is closed at noon and ASUNM Constitution in a fashion after business hours, but since he other than by referendum. So court Faculty May Have Own Senate Matt Walsh, news director of KUNM late yesterday. took the signs off the door, he has provided bulletin boards. Sign reversed its own decision, and Circulation of the petition, instead reinterpreted the definition Plan Designed to Streamline Governance Procedures posting areas are also available in A proposal for a senate designed which asserts Baum "brushed the cafeteria, he said. of residency. The definition now is, approve formation of a "truly up primarily in response to charges aside" requests that KUNM be to streamline governance representative body of the teaching The Union director said in procedures will be taken up at a made last year by the North played in the Union, began faculty'' that would "be Tuesday after KUNM broadcast some case.~ rules may be bent special faculty meeting next Central Accrediting Assn. of a lack rather than strictly adhered to, empowered to act on all faculty of "effectiveness of the an editorial on the radio station Tuesday. The senate proposal, business other than certain change. but such a decision must be made originated by the Committee on organization of the specified business to be reserved to But if certain areas were cut with consideration toward All-University Governance, was decision-making process" at UNM. everyone who sues the Union, the faculty as a whole." off, or if music was patched into handed to the faculty without The faculty constitution now In keeping with his idea that By JIM PENSIERO The proposal includes a requires the faculty meet only recreation areas, someone Ruben "Mags" Cragar and fellow recommendation from the Faculty provision for "at least" two the Union must be responsive to As the average American most Policy Committee (FPC). monthly, a quorum consisting of would complain, said Baum. companion in drag, Hurst Shifty. As meetings of the general faculty per "You're damned if you do, and the entire community, Baum likely knows, the automobile has Across The FPC yesterday also delayed 25 members. Business is approved would like the Union to become a year to "discuss any matter of damned if you don't." greatly influenced, for better or we enter, Mags is lying under his final action on a revised statement by a simple majority. There are gathering place. "I'd like to see a University concern," and over 500 voting faculty members. Baum said "some action" will worse, the ex cell en t life style in swift Nash trying to figure out the on the Rights and Responsibilities formation of an ad hoc committee probably be taken by Union fire in the fireplace, and free hot reason for his cracked muffler and a of Graduate and Teaching Suggested mechanics of the cider or chocolate. I'd like to see these here United States. to set up the exact structure and Senate proposal drawn up by the Board at its Friday meeting, but The Great Assistants pending opinions from procedures of the senate by he has not officially put the singing and poetry readings It has with one fell swoop lifted rabid case of the blues, in that order. governance committee include a University lawyers, the Academic February, 1971. matter on the agenda. He expects around the fireplace." such deserving and progressive Up cruises Shift and they begin a Freedom and Tenure Committee size of ''somewhere between 75 In order to institute new Union heated discussion into the Advantageous and 100 members" that would the petitioners to raise the issue industrialists as Henry Olds and (AF&T) and the written The governance committee from the gallery. programs and make repairs, Baum importance of a good car and hot argumentation of the Graduate "accommodate proportionate would like an additional union fee Bunkie Knudsen into the thin ozone Divide concluded "the advantages of a representation of the various Another complaint voiced in women. Shifty is dressed in an Committee. faculty Senate strongly outweigh Steinberg's letter was Baum "has added to present student fees. The of success. They are, as a favorite ridiculously obvious in the older Principle Discussed colleges" and members·at·large, money, he said, would relieve the alligator suit and has six "Born to the disadvantages," and listed prohibition of closed meetings, proven himself even less veep would say, "household words." generation with their passion for After informal discussion of the increased efficiency of action, responsive to students" than his bool1store of its role as the main Raise Hell" tatoos on various parts .