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THE CO GE VOICE October 3, 1989 Volume XDI, Number 6 Ad Fontes Comparison Look At Club SGA Passes 1989-90 Budget and OrganizationFinances Dorms Vote Wednesdax Oub '88-'89 Request '89-90 BlJd&et '89-'90 Gt3nt awareness, amounl of lasting im- tained that the fundraising burden by Sorob HuoOey pact, club improvement, and fiscal placed on the Council could not . Fresbman 1700 1500 The College Voice responsibility." possibly be met if free, non-a1co- Sopbomore 2200 2725 2200 Tensions rose late Tuesday, holic events remained SAC's pri- SR. Breakfasl 1600 2000 1800 After debating whether or not September 26. as the budget was mary commitment. At Thursday's Junior 3100 4119.61 3100 totabletheproposalandexpressing unveiled to club members for the SGA meeting, Jeannie Thomma, Senior 6500 10133.10 7500 much concern about insufficient first time. Tbe committee pre- '91, chair of SAC, said that the SR. Week 8500 10500 8500 funding, SGA voted 24-7 in favor sented an outline of budget deci- $61,000 allocation was "inade- SGA 5000 13950.18 6500 of the Finance Committee'S pro- sions and paragraphs of justifica- quate for basic expenses of SAC," J·Board 550 1343.15 900 posed budget. tion. Both provoked strong student and thai "things you expecl to see SlUdenl Org. 6000 7500 6000 The committee had r------....:..----::::....----, on this campus will not be Koine 8750 12459.50 9500 the formidable task of here." WCN! 5300 21000 5300 allocating $206,700 to The $61,000 allocation was 'In- In response, the Fi- 61000 SAC 64000 75907.28 clubs requesting a total adequate for basic expenses of nance Committee cited Theater One 6335 16500 6500 of $328.000. Betsy SAC's previous $6000 LaUnidad 4100 12975 4900 Grenier, '91, SGA vice- SAC ...things you expect to see on deficit as the principal A.S.J.A. 875 5200 1700 president and finance this campus will not be here,' reason for the decrease. S.O.A.R. 7100 15300 6800 committee chair, stated Grenier staled thai "the 9000 Umoja 9000 14000 "the Finance Committee • Jeannie Thomma, $6000 deficit was more 885 S.N.A.P. 1000 1840 has spent four weeks of SAC Chair than the total [debt] of 211 College Voice 23000 30943.60 23000 extensive work on the other clubs" and cannot be 2500 Blats 2150 11641.49 budget," and urged op- ignored. The Gallery 2332 4245 2300 ponents to respect the effort of each reactions. Trudy Flannery, coordinator In Politics 2050 1800 committee member in the attempt Perhaps the biggest surprise of student activities, agreed. "SAC The Echo 200 5880 1400 to develop an "equitable budget,' and debate involved the $3000 mUSIbe financially responsible. [II P.O.W.R. 470 1894 800 Grenier also summarized the decrease proposed for the Student receives] more resources as a part Alliance 600 829.85 750 committee's focus this-year. Four Activities Council's budget. of the SGA ...and should serve as an major themes included "diversity SAC representatives main- See Budge' p.B F~~~~~~QflJuiOjorruuiiim:ENi01Qt[fRlieiiacilih~ed~::;:=====~TR~e~t=u=r=n=FT~o~C~o:Jli1.le:::g::e~SCit~u:::-:d:l.e:;:n:-;t~s 1: JIlIDcdl~~ SGA To Denied SGA Assembly Seat '90, President of SGA, the referen- Features p.4-5 by Moria Vallucd dum is now a dead issue. Munroe The College Voice Send added, "I'm happy it didn't pass Interview with Alexey An issue that was approved because a 101of the students didn't Vasilievitch, Soviet Union unanimously by the Student Gov- fully understand whal they were Exchange Student Abortion ernment Association failed to pass voting on." a student body referendum. Munroe admitted thai this was I A. & E. p.lO-HI The referendum read: "I sup- probably due to poor publicity. "It Letter port the by-law was a mistake Movie Review: change which on our (SGA's) by Stephanie Lutz 'I'm happy it didn't "Parenthood." Broadway The College Voice would allow pass because a lot of the part," she said. Review: "Grand Hotel." RTC (Return to students didn't fully N i col e Music Review: Deborah The Student Government As- College) stu- understand what they Breck '90, . Harry's "De! Dumb sociation's abortion rights referen- dents on the were voting on. ' SGA director &Blonde" dum failed to reach quorum, bUI SGA Assem- of public rela- eleventh hour maneuverings sal- passed, SGA decided the letter bly." - Carla Munroe lions, ex- This refer- 1.- .. plainedthatthe vaged the plan. would be sent to the President of Comics p.l2-l3 The student body was thirty- the United States, localrepresenta- endum was not passed due to the poor publicity was due 10the belief four votes short of the 1,066 voles tives of the Connecticut State fact that there was not a quorum of that "It was not as important an needed for a referendum. A quo- Legislature. and various relative votes. However, among those who issue as the Abortion Referen- rum (two-thirds of the matriculated publications. The abortion rights did vote, 88% were in favor. dum," and thai it was assumed that students) is needed for passage of a leiter was passed by a voteof26-5- Accordin to Carla Munroe COnliNUdonp.7 referendum. J. Of the 64 percent of the stu- Carla Munroe, '90, president. Safety Call dents who ofSGA, voted voted, 92 per- in favor of "Outland:" Opus Lives! cenl agreed 'Itdoesn't really bother sending the Boxes Installed with the stale- me that we didn't get a leiter. "It ~y_H-" ~.§ Sports p.l4-l6 ment on the .~ doesn't really ballol, "I sup- quorumforthereferen- bother me that TheC.... V_ - pori every dum. I am still glad we we didn't gel a As a resull of safety coneems ~ woman's right got 64 percent of the quorum for the expressed by SGA last spring. seven l! to an abortion referendum. I call boxes areintheprocessofbeing l regardless of students participating.' am still glad installed 011 campus. "- race, social or we gOI64 per- Tbe phones are available to -6~~~.-.-~~"--" fin a n cia 1 - Carla Munroe cent of the stu- slUdents ID notify Campus security Newly IastaIIecI Call Box standing." dents partici- of an emergency or the need for a secmity escort. N i c k 1.- .. pating." Acconling to Steve George. Director of Operations-Physical Holohan, house senator of Bur- "The letter is definitely repre- Plant, some locations differ from original plans. "The locations we dick, proposed a motion to send a senting the students' views. The ended up with are due to the need to be asclose as possible to sources leiter from SGA supporting. a bottom line is thai we know thai the of cabling to tie into the phone system." Men's Soccer Takes Tbe seven current boxes are positioned with two in North Lot, Bowdoin In Homecom- woman's right to an abortion and majority of the students are pro- including the vole results. choice. Even if all the other stu- See Col Box.. p.IO mingGame Through an amendment thai was See Abor_, p.7 .. : VIEWPOINT ~~============:=:~~~~=- i SttIMtttGoNtfIlIJeIllMrutR,,,,.mkr 'Harassment' Piece Only Makes Things Worse ~. Wlwre Its Responsibility lies i'~ "I1Ie ............ lJlm ... nattbeonlyissuevatedoo Letter to the Voice: ~ .Jtile Cv rctitut CollEl It1IdeDt body I8It week. TIIere After reading Jeffrey Berman's CONNThought article "Four Years After Fanning: A Student Is Harassed," WM ..... refereDduJD tIIat read: "Isupport the bylaw Iwas inspired to write a response. Before Ido, however,l feel that it is necessary for me to state a few facts about .~ •• wIlidI would allow RTC (Return to Col") stu· myself so that my letter is not misinterpreted. lam white. Iha~e several black friends on this c~pus. Ido not ~ deIlts _ tile SGA Assembly." Beca_ quorum .... nat hate, fear or distrust blacks. Iam very much aware racism exists on this campus. Iam not a racist, j readied. tile referendum did nat pass. The Student Gov- Ipredicted to several friends that an article or more would be written about black harassment related to the 8 em_tAssoda .. blames the failure of the referendum camous intruder scare. Ieven saw a cleaning woman pointing at a black donnmate and asking a co-worker, "Is ~ _ student confusion. that him?" It was clear to me that in a predominantly white community such as ours, a typical case of '" What caused this confusion? Lack of publicity, in part. "negrophobia" would promptly spread after the posting of campus safety alert flyers. Ibelieve Iwas not the only There were posters on every door and table tents inevery one to make this simple deduction. dining hall urging students to vote on the abortioo refer- Mr. Berman makes several statements in his piece that I agree wholeheartedly with: I) This campus lacks endum Not ooe of these posters or any of the tabel tents racial diversity. 2) "Greg" was stopped by campus safety on the sole basis that he resembled the suspect in skin ever _tioned that the RTC referendum vote was taking color.