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Amy thoughts about Jordan Crawford and Jason Windhorst is here to help. Sort of. Love playing professionally. xavier.edu/ FEATURE, pg 12 SPORTS, pg 9 newswire inside @ Changes coming SGA executive elections to core curriculum Wednesday Feb. 17 - Thursday Feb. 18 BY SARAH WIETEN “It’s not a light-switch, a quick This year, three tickets are vying for Student dential candidate Emily Dougherty, legislative Campus News Editor fix, but it is a way for the academy Government Association executives. All three vice president Abdullah Alkoblan and admin- to contribute,” Heydt said. tickets are from within SGA. istrative vice president Katie Heinert. Future classes at Xavier The change is not retroactive. The elections are held Wednesday, Feb. All the tickets want to get students more University will face a different EPU will continue for current stu- 17 and Thursday, Feb. 18 under the “Student involved in SGA through engaging students set of diversity-specific require- dents and be phased out slowly. Services” tab on the portal. and clubs. ments in the core curriculum. The The first class that will encounter The first ticket is composed of presidential Each also focused on campus expansion as university plans to phase out the the 6 hour requirement will be the candidate junior Neil Heckman, administra- a major issue in the upcoming year. Heckman’s EPU program and include a six- freshmen of 2011. The commit- tive vice president sophomore Taryn Buckley ticket is campaigning on a slogan, “You gov- credit hour diversity requirement tee estimates that the new system and administrative vice president sophomore ern, we’ll rule,” to stress student input. from various departments. will take about five years to fully Vernon Thomas. Contrera’s ticket is running on experience, The diversity curriculum re- implement. The second ticket is composed of three ju- as well as a platform formed by student and quirement was proposed to the Students are encouraged to niors: presidential candidate Kevin Contrera, club leaders. Board of Undergraduate Studies “double dip”—that is, to find administrative vice-president Cristin Giacci Doughterty’s platform stressed change. on March 28, 2008 by the Gender classes that are accepted under and administrative vice president Blair They say their platform is flexible to meet stu- and Diversity Studies Minor the new diversity program that are Kmetz. dents’ needs and any issues that may arise. Committee, headed by co-direc- also required for other aspects of The third ticket is also three juniors: presi- —Kathryn Rosenbaum tors Dr. Tyrone Williams, profes- the core or their major. Classes ap- sor of English, and Dr. Margo proved for this diversity require- Heydt, professor of Social Work. ment are expected to be offered “The current EPU program is in all departments. However, stu- Meet the candidates a one-credit, non-academic, pass/ dents are only allowed to take one fail class that we feel is not suffi- of the two required classes from cient for what our students need their major area. President: Kevin Contrera • Junior, biology major in the diverse, global world of to- Now that this measure has • Experience: Three years in Senate day,” Heydt said. passed, the committee plans to get The measure passed by an all back to reviewing the Gender and Legislative Vice President: Cristin Giacci faculty vote of 77-74 on Nov. 23, Diversity minor, which may move • Junior, sociology major 2009. from a requirement of 15 credit • Experience: Two years in Senate “Any change to the core is a big hours to 18 credit hours and pos- Administrative Vice President: Blair Kmetz deal, as we have the largest Jesuit sibly include Women’s Studies and • Junior, economics and English majors core in the U.S. So some faculty Africana concentrations. • Experience: Three years in SAC voted against the measure regard- “We think it needs to be broader less of their feelings on diversity, than that [offering a new Africana Platform: Based on what students and clubs wanted. Biggest challenge: growth of the school because they think the core is al- minor]. There are other kinds of ready too large,” Heydt said. discrimination than those that The measure grew out of the would be dealt with by that solu- 2001 “wish list” of the Academic tion,” Dr. Brent Blair, committee President: Neil Heckman Vision Committee. member, said. • Junior, marketing and entrepreneurship majors • Experience: Two years in Senate Legislative Vice President: Taryn Buckley Weather, disciplinary • Sophomore, economics major • Experience: Two years in Senate hearing delay debate Administrative Vice President: Vernon Thomas “It is unfortunate that these • Sophomore, finance and economics majors BY ANDREW CHESTNUT • Experience: Two years in SAC Managing Editor circumstances prevented us from holding a debate,” he said. “We Platform: Based on increasing student input A debate for the three SGA understand how important it is to Biggest challenge: campus expansion, loss of community executive tickets, originally sched- the election.” feeling uled for Monday and delayed due The election code does not re- to snow, will not take place. quire there to be a debate for the President: Emily Dougherty The debate was rescheduled executive elections, Fischer said. • Junior, economics and Spanish majors for Tuesday evening, but was SGA limited the campaign to • Experience: Three years in SAC, current SAC Chair postponed again because a disci- one week this year, shortening it plinary hearing was held for one from two weeks in years past. Legislative Vice President: Abdullah Alkoblan • Junior, int. studies and int. business majors of the tickets, said sophomore SGA shortened the campaign • Experience: One year in Senate Nathan Fischer, member of SGA time mainly because it felt two Board of Elections. weeks gave too much publicity to Administrative Vice President: Katie Heinert Fischer did not disclose which the elections, Fischer said. • Junior, finance and economics majors ticket was involved in the disci- • Experience: One year in SAC ©2010 plinary hearing, saying that it was Platform: Based on flexibility, recognizing variability BOE policy not to release infor- THE XAVIER NEWSWIRE Biggest challenge: changes without student input mation regarding disciplinary ac- All rights reserved tions taken against candidates. The disciplined ticket commit- ted two violations for advertising during restricted times, meaning For in-depth coverage of each The Newswire endorses an that the campaign was fined (de- Advertising (513) 745-3561 ticket’s platform, turn to executive ticket on creasing the amount of money Circulation (513) 745-3130 NEWS, pgs 2-3 OP-ED, pg 6 it could spend on advertising), Editor-in-Chief (513) 745-3607 Fischer said. www.xavier.edu/newswire Photos courtesy of respective campaigns FIAT JUSTITIA, RUAT COELUM 2 February 17, 2010 News XAVIER NEWSWIRE XAVIER NEWSWIRE SGA Executives Election Preview Members of the Newswire staff interviewed the three SGA executive tickets. Below are excerpts from the transcripts. Xavier Newswire: What is three years and honestly haven’t form in a year? your SGA experience? done anything. Our ticket has two ED: I think so. I think it was Dougherty│Alkoblan│Heinert Emily Dougherty: This is SACers and one Senator which designed with that in mind. The my third year on SGA, and I’m hasn’t happened in the past five huge ticket items, the things that SAC chair this year. I did a lot of years. One of our goals is to have sound great and fantastical, we event planning my first two years a ticket mainly from SAC so we don’t have a lot of those because and served on different commit- can bring the two boards together. we know that, for the most part, tees, like Weekenders, when it In order to do that, we need new, they’re not that realistic for get- was around. Last year, I did a lot fresh faces which is why we call ting done in one year. A lot of the of sustainability programming ourselves “New thinkers for New other stuff we talked about is very with Earth Day and Election SGA.” This year that Katie and I doable in one year. Day. This year I’ve been working have been on SGA, we’ve done a XN: What do you see as your big- to keep SAC within a budget. I’ve lot…I believe in one year we’ve gest challenge? been planning all the workshops done the work of three years. AA: I think the new which have come down signifi- Then, we have our expert Emily expansion. cantly in cost. I have also worked who has been on for three years. ED: Yes, and I think in the last on SAC collaborations and pro- KH: Leadership and experi- couple of years we’ve seen a lot of gramming for commuters. ence isn’t just a title…I jumped changes being made without stu- Abdullah Alkoblan: I’ve in and got involved really quickly.