.- r "The Editorially Independent Voice of the DMACC Boone Campus" ACTS March 8.2000 -1 serving the Community Since 1956 Issue 1 - ~ - - Volume 45, --_ _ ~ Problems exist for SAC Boone Campus student government struggles By Arthur Davis accountability and to figure out wliere to 13eur Fucts .Ytufl spend the money." Jamieson's role in all of this is to nezotjale conlracts with wllo Where oh where has our student gov- ever provides the activities and to pay the Total Student Activity Funds for 1999-2000 ernment gone'! This selncster DMACC bills. The students are responsible for Hoone Campus appears to have no Stu- deciding what events Boone Campus dent Act~vities Counc~l (SAC). You kUliOlS UI111181 students get. Women s Vollevbal~ Beam Facts know, these are the people who decide Council member Josh Keller said. "If how the $22.787 of student funds will be 1erry (Jamieson) sees an event he likes. spent. he can get it. This was an agreement The SAC decides what activities stu- between the student government and dents will have on campus. These activi- Terry. Students can bring ideas to Terry ties for the 1999-2000 school year in- to see if it can happen, but in the end cluded $1,823 for Bear Facts, $1,595 for 'Terry has the power." Drama, $228 for the Honors Dinner, Council members Keller, Andy Car- $228 for the International Club, $91 1 for rel, and Jodi Daigh all recall a meeting in Rer lSluden1 Actmon I ntramurals, Special Evrnls which Jamieson was given control. SAC Ralarncl .- -.-.. --.----- -- . President Jaret Morlan, Secretary Mys- "If Terry (Jamieson) sees an event he tique tschliman, and council member likes, he can get it. This was an agree- Tracy Shaw cannot seem to recall this ment between the student government - meeting. Computer lab floods and Terry. Students can bring ideas to The next problem that the student Terry to see if it can happen, but in the government faces is class and work Anybody for 'surfing' the Web? end Terry has the power." schedule conflicts. Council member - Council member Shaw said, "We had a good strong coun- By Patrick Fleming were to be replaced, we are looking at Josh Keller cil at the beginning of the year, but this __ Bear Facts Staf $2,500." semester we have had many members Ann Watts, the head librarian at the $1,595 for Men's RasPball, $1,368 for with schedule conflicts." On Tuesday ~ebrua~29, surfing the DMACC Boone Campus. said. "We .are Men's Basketball. $228 for Nursing Stu- President Morlan said, "Every time Internet took on new meaning as the so grateful are lab is set up the way it is. dents United, $684 for Peer 'Tutoring, we have a meeting, I find out about it student computb lab, located off the If are computers weren't raised off the $1,823 for Phi Beta Lambda, $228 for after the meeting has already taken Campus Library was due water floor, we could have had quite a disaster. Rec. ClubIStudent Action Special Events, place." According to Jamieson, for most damage. We may have had td replace 40 $228 for Rotaract, $6,379 for of the meetings, he is left sitting by hirn- On Tuesday and Wednesday, the lab self or with one or two others because the SACIActivities fund, $1,823 for was filled with industrial fans working to johnson said the room would take two council members do not show up. Every Women's Basketball, $1,823 for dry the floor rather than students full days to dry and students could count Women's Softball, and $1,823 for week Jamieson posts the date of the next to finish mid-term papers. on being back in the computer lab by Women's Volleybal I. meeting on the bulletin board across frorn Along with the lab being flooded, ~ h ~ . ~ ~ d ~ ~ Every year the SAC must approve the the ICN room. several DMACC teachers' offices had Watts also said, ,,I think the we owe a activities fund for the next year. This Apathy is the last problem with the water damage due to the flood. big thank you to our maintenance staff budget comes from $6.40 added on to student council, said Keller. ''If the stu- Head Custodian Gary who were here at 5:30 am on Tuesday every enrolled credit hour from all stu- dents don't car;, how can the govern- how the lab have morning. and worked hard to get students dents at the Boone Campus. ment be expected to care?" Keller started with no rain or snow to be seen anywhere back in the lab by Thursday morning... What has happened may be that either feeling this way when he saw the low in sight. "Well a heating pipe ruptured! Due to the flooding, students filled the the SAC does not care what happens, feel attendance at the "5 Bands for 2 Bucks" The engineers who designed the building school*s other computer c~asrroom~when apathetic towards the rest of the student event in the campus gym in January. This had a major screw What is they busy or full, including the body, or are just too busy to serve. How event cost the SAC around $400. Coun- they put the heating units side by side Academic Achievement Center and cil member Carrel feels the same way. with the many students even know there is a stu- units' When it gets DMA,CC's four computer classrooms on warmer outside the room, it says cool me dent government.. .or even care? Ja~niesonadmitted to having solne apa- the second floor. Several problems appear to exist thy towards some things but feels that down, and at night when it get colder within the student government at this you do not always get what you want. outside, the room says heat me up. Before time: the adviser may have too much Looking at how some of the other you know it the heating and cooling pipes involvement and may have total auton- campuses work could be a solut~onto start competing and the next thing you omy over student activity funds. Council solne of the problems at Boone. Ankeny know we have a flooded computer lab." members have admitted to having work has 25 students who meet every Wednes- Johnson said this had happened and class schedule conflicts, and some day at 320 p.m. They have at least a 75 before. "This is the third time it has have admitted to being apathetic towards percent turnout at every meeting, ac- happened. But it's also going to be the the student body. With only four events cording to Karen Hawbaker, Ankeny last. We finally got the people up here ' this semester the-funding 'appears to be Campus Student Activities Assistant. from Ankeny to fix the problem." almost gone. Ankeny Campus' student government When asked about the cost of the Terry Jamieson, SAC adviser said, board also puts out a calendar of events damage, Johnson replied, "Well luckily no "The students preferred for me to have (continued on page 2) computers were dam-aged, but if the carpet The Editorially Independent Voice of the DMACC Boone Campus -.BEAR FACTS~ NEWS March 8,2000 2 - --.-----... .. ..-. -. -. -...- ...----------. -..-- --.-- ---- SAC continued (conlinz/edfiom page I) handed to each student at the beginning of the year. Their council from the year before decides what major events will appear at their campus the following year, but if the cur-rent council wishes to make changes, it is welcome to do so. Joanne Morlan, SAC adviser on the Carroll Campus. said Carroll SAC stu- dents wear a key chain necklace that George Dorman identifies them to the rest of tlie student body as a council member. The council members also have mailboxes in her of- Boone Campus fice, so she may contact them if an un- scheduled meeting needs to be called. 'l'lils helps ~Zrlanto stay in touch w~tli journalism thc council members The ('al-roll Campus council also students attend schedules the next 1)ear.s major events, which can also he altered by the current council if' it chooses to. Morlan stated. conference "All 1 am is the contractual Derson: it is S1aflpholo up to the cofilcil to sink or 'swim They George .Dorman. keynote speaker and Phi Theta Kappa members and out-going ant1 in-coming advisers attended the Iowa Regional make all the choices; all I do is make investigative Sp01-tsreporter from the St. C.onvention on the Ankrny Campus: (From I. to r.) Tau Plii President, Michelle Johnson, ad- sure that they (the choices) are legal and Paul Pioneer Press, was the keynote viser Jane Rlartino. Rlicliael Chow, adviser Nancy Woods, Audra Price. Mitzi Shoening, and Aniie HI![[. Also present -ere David Wennerstrom and Jan LaVille, adviser. moral." speaker at the Best of the Midwest The Boone Cam~usSAC at this time journalism conference in Minnesota. Dorn~an wrote the story about the cheating that went on at tlie University of Minnesota. He recently found out he has been nom~nated for a Pulitzer for th~s story. Bear Facts staff members Art Davis and Patrick Fleming. along with adviser. Jan LaVille. attended the conference in Minneapolis. Several workshops were designed to help student journalists. It was a chance for members of college papers from around the Midwest to get together and learn from each other and professionals. There were also planning and discussion sessions for advisers. Another keynote spealcer was Harlan Cohen. better known as Help Me Harlan.