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Q ..s::: ca -"'C Volume'll, Number6 Wednesday, October 4, 1978 Vo-Tech Takes Own Ballot John Chancellor About 60 per cent of the students ASBSy president). presented, but Vo-Tech students at BSU took In the Vocational-Technical school they couldn't be there becauseof "Journalism is one of the few said, "Okay, you'rea reporter ...• matters into their. own hands last participated In' the ballot. which class loads." crafts that does benefit directly for That's a perfectly valid way to Monday and voted their opinions was handled from class to class Last week, the VcrTech a liberal arts education." said advance yourself, to try above all on the on-campus pavilion. The largely by student senators"Kathy Q).()rdlnatlng Committee. made John Chancellor, longtime NBC to get close to the people who are results ended up the same asthose Russell and Steve Andersen. up of representatives from a news broadcaster who spoke on prnduclng journalism." of polls taken by the student Russell said. "The vo-tech stu- number of .vo-tech classes, ar- the BSU campus last Friday. He On public attitudes: "There's a povernment: most students want a dents felt they needed to get some ranged to have a slmliar vote taken stressed developing "Ideas. (clear) lack of corinectlon between our pavilion , but most do not want to Input. A lot of them knew about last Thursday. The results, ulti- thinking. a senseof curiosity about hopesand what we've been given. pay $40 per semester for it. the apen forums Rob (Perez, mately similar, were rejected by the society In which we live. and in terms of the senior leaders of Andersen because of lack of due ... a little knowledge about that our government ... I think there's procedure. Andersen and Russell society." an element In the American public Students Turn Tables then set about producing the same Chancellor was In Boise for the that Is disillusioned and to some ballot within the bylaws of the 25th anniversary· of the KTVB degree cynical about It. The way to ASB constitution. The valid results television station. He had earlier fix it Is for people to get off their on P'resident's Recall can be presented to the State spoken to the Idaho Press Club assesand do something about the Board of education by and was involved In several promo- government." Some opponents of the petition' distributor. Mary Ann Lebsack. Perez Thursday, along with "about 20 tlonal activities for the station. On press rights: "If (the courts) to recall ASBSU president R Perez another Towers RA, reported testimonies" from individual stu- After a few brief remarks. do succeed in getting parts of first were angered when It came out. gathering 100 signatures the first dents both tor and against the Chancellor opened the rest of his amendment rights away - and Now a good deal of them have- day. "There were people Italked pavilion. 45 minutes available to questions there have been chlppings away - reacted in kind. to," she said, "who had been from the audience. Among his I won't suffer much, Walter Russell said from her observa- A petition simply stating, •'We approached as if they were signing remarks: Cronkite won't suffer much, but I tion, there Is "quite a bit ,of .support Rob Perez at ASBSU an anti-pavilion petition, and _ think all kinds of journalists with support" for student government .Presldent," has been distributed signed the recall petition." , . On the Camp David meeting less legal resources ... it really can In vo-tech, but "not much support across the campus since Monday. Estimates of the number of between Presidents Carter and make life untenable for them." for the pavilion," referring to a on the heels of a petition to put pro-Perez signatures rangedTl!9S- Sadat and Prime Minister Begin: On the taxpayers' revolt: "I petition presentlyclrculatlngwhlch Perez to a recall vote because of day afternoon from six hundred to "Jimmy Carter showed that he Is a think the one possible hopeful asks for a recall of Perez because his "misrepresenting" stand Oil nearly a thousand. The recall leader and a bringer together of thing out of California's Proposi- ' of his stand on the pavilion. the multi-purpose .pavilion. "If It petition had about 1·100to 1200of people.. I think they may have tlon 131s that It makes the people The final results of tha ballot: comes down to a vote, we'll know the required 1700. Invented a different way to do a who elected to office· think 1) Are you In favor of an on-campus are' there are qUite a. few propie who The recall of student senatorJoy 'summit conference We got no . carefUlly about the feelings multiple purpose pavilion: mor~ are aware of the situation and are Mclean, according to Initiator out of ·It (before the end), of those who elected them. On the Yes 159 news .behind Rob,·' said Ann McDonagh Chat Hawker, will hinge on the sucurlty held pretty watl,and other hand, there's.a considerable No' 148 was one of the distributors of the ASBSU judiciary's Interpretation I knowl'mspSaklng for'alpt of dangerto the process u 2) Are you prepareclto pay a $40 when pro-Perez sheet, and a resident of a clause In the constitution advisor at the Towers dormitory. ",...~II i h h' 'I f fee Increase to fund the pavillion? .: The signature ,drive will hot UO<ll ng w t t areca l.o clfficers. Yes 84' . The constitution states that one' No 223 affect whether the recall vote will fifth of thestud8lJts, represented be taken, If.' the recall petition b h ffl . I gains the required 1700slgnatures ' yt eo cermust s gnln order to and Is flied. , force a recall. Mclean is one of six Travis Opdyke, who started the senators from the school of Arts Day Care' recall ~itlon. said the counter .and Sciences. , drive was "a great Idea ... I Hawker orl,glrially planned' to. • happen to believe thefi.mctlon 'of recall ali the ~s·and. Sciences Funded anyone In politics is to get out senators, but after the student amongst the people_and find out senate voted for a resolution Funding has been renewed for what they're thinking." he added. favoring the pavilion, he and other the director arid one teacher at the "It we 11..'\d4000 signatures backers of the petition decided to Child's Future Day Care center on between the two petitions," he drop petitions against all except University Drive, according to observed, "that would be nearly Mclean, the senate vlce-chalr- director Blrgltta Burkhart. CErA four throes as many students as man. "The senate themselves had previously withdrawn the voted In the last ASBSU election. admitted' that they did not know funds as of October 1. people n t e nat 0 press that start putting. referenda on the That would represent some real, ' what, their role was," Hawker " Burkharts's position was are perfectly delighted that It ballot In all fifty states ••, the honest-to-god Input from the stud- said,notlng that they had stricken re-funded until November 1, .anda worked that way." referendum Is a scalpel-like tool ents." Opdyke asserted that he an &mendment to the resolution teacher's salary was reinstated On the Middle East: "I think If for me government: Wlen.· you considered therecaJl mechanism' that would have stated the resol- until the end of December. the they don't-tle (the summit SQree- have a stateUke California, where the closest thing' to 'ia vote of utlon ....~ "In the best Interests of federal money had been wlt~ nmt) in with some resonable you-get 15 to 18 referenda on the confidence" that the ASBSU sy&- the students". drawn by CETA because of low . settlement with the Palestinians ballot, then why go to all that fuss tern affords. The petition has well over the1i) unemployment In Ada County. on the West Bank of the Jordan, of electing people to represent you The pro-Perez petition was star- signatures that would be requlred The center has applied for a and some hope that the question of In 8acramento? Why not do It all ted by student senator Kathy· If McLean represented only a sixth. grant for operation after January J6rusalern could be resolved, then by referendum? ... It would be Russell and ASBSU vice-president . of the Arts arid Sciencesstudents. 1979. The ASBSU has subsidized ;.~the world will get back to where chaos." , Steve BoHmer. Russell said she - If the judiciary rules. that each the cooter for Insurance and may we .were before Camp David - On coverage of terrorism: was "upset" because members of senator represents the entire actively raIse funds for Its opera- wondering when the next war will "There are cases when covering the ASB government. had bean school, ~ said because of tion. break out, not wondering If ... " terrorism as fully and accurately advised to "slttight, let it blow academic pressures he will aban- Child's Future provides day care On televlslon news coverage: as possible actually helps the over, don't rock the boat." don the petition.