EDITORIAL OPINIONS
By Lesa Bagley
Collegian Editor
Controversy over a proposed amend
ment has been the topic of SGA meetings
this year. Few probably even know what
the amendment would provide.
Amendment proposed: There will be one
poll, in the Classroom Building, from 9 to 5
and if the poll is opened an extra day this
must also be proposed and passed by a
two-thirds majority vote of the council
prior to the election.
The amendment was first submitted by
Marc Rovito SGA President at the Sept. 12
SGA meeting. The two-thirds majority of
the SGA Senate needed to pass this
amendment was not obtained. The
proposal for the moment has been
defeated with a 7-4 vote (an 8-3 vote is
needed to pass the amendment). The
amendment, however, is not dead. Rob
Blyler, SUB President, has resubmitted
the amendment for re-debate and vote at
the next SGA meeting.
As of this time all the Senators seem to
be standing firm in the way they feel about
the amendment and no one is seen as
changing his or her vote. If this amend
ment ever does see passage it will
probably not come until the seven new
SGA Senators are elected on Oct. 11.
When the seven new Senators are
elected they will be bombarded by both
sides as to how to vote on the' amendment.
These seven will determine the fate of this
amendment.
This amendment has been considered
idealistic by many and whether it truly is
or not awaits to be seen. Unfortunately we
don’t have a crystal ball to look into and
see if this amendment would indeed be
best for this campus.
The Collegian wishes to be completely
neutral during this controversy and the
two following statements are provided as a
way of showing each side’s opinion. The
Collegian wishes to show no bias for length
or content of statements.
A 1 Cwalina, SGA Senator feels that the
amendment will be bad for resident hall
and commuting students because it
doesn’t give students the best opportunity
to vote since students vote during their
free time. If the poll was to be located in
the classroom building the students would
be preoccupied therefore not having the
time to vote.
The purpose of the amendment is to help
stop the friction between the resident hall
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students and commuting students but in
my opinion this would not change anything
because both resident and commuting
students know their peers and will vote the
same way regardless of the placing of the
polls.
With the small turnout which is expected
if the polls is put in the Classroom building
it will surely help to enforce apathy which
needs to be combatted on this campus,
campus.-
I feel that my vote as an SGA Senator
represents the feeling of both commuting
and resident students of this campus.
I also understand that a group is suppose
to keep resubmitting the amendment
every week in hopes that the amendment
will soon be passed. I feel that this act is
wrong and detrimental to the student body
of this campus and would cripple the SGA.
As long as the amendment keeps being
brought up it does not allow other business
to be taken care of.
Rob Blyler, SUB President and SGA
Senator feels the poll in the dorm is placed
there solely for the convenience of the
dorm students where as the commuter
student has no such convenience.
One person I talked to told me he had
been handed a ballot upon entering the
dorm and has been asked to vote although
not planning to vote for he had no idea who
would be best for the office yet he was
pressured into voting anyway. This type of
practice affects the results of an election.
I personally feel that since the
Highacres Commons is the common
meeting ground for all Highacres students,
the poll should be placed in the Commons.
This, however, is idealistic rather then
realistic at the present time. The Com
mons is a meeting ground for only a select
segment of the student population con
taining some resident hall and some
commuter students who utilize its
facilities regularly. This leaves the
classroom building as the present common
ground for Highacres students and a single
poll should be placed there.
I believe that placing the poll in the
classroom building is the best present
solution to elections at the present time. It
is a start in the correct direction toward
eventually placing the poll in the Com
mons once the Commons becomes a true
meeting ground for all students, for
today’s idealisms are tomorrow’s
realisms.
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Board of Directors
In the words of Bill Magill, “It is ec
static!” One sophomore defines it as an
experience, and Pat Carece still hasn’t
found out that, he’s won. The remaining
eleven sophomore winners are probably
still thinking “big whoop” each time a
traffic officer directs them to the faculty
parking facilities at the top of Highacres.
Effective Monday, the eleventh day of
September, fifteen randomly selected
sophomores were granted the privilege of
legally parking their cars in the faculty’s
spots on the specified days of Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, by the power
invested in “The Lottery.”
The lottery, the solution to the over
crowded parking situation out in
Sophomore lot B took place on September
11th in the Commons building. Mr. Paul
Cerula, Business Manager; Mr. Ev Binns,
Assistant Dean; Marc Rovito, SGA
President; and Rob Blyler, SUB President,
officiated the ceremony as two freshmen
pulled fifteen slips of paper from among
several hundred that were concealed in a
large cardboard container. Eligibility for
the lottery was limited to those students
who are sophomore commuters and who
have registered their vehicles with the
business office.
The option of staging a lottery to
alleviate the parking problems of
sophomores has been a topic of discussion
among campus administrators for some
time now; as over the past three years
more and more sophomores arrive on
campus via their own vehicles as well as
their own distinctive styles. For example,
the sophisticated, 35 mph wind blowing
through the hair look, obtainable only by
cutting off the highway at the least ex
pected, right moment.
Currently the number of lot B vehicle
registration cards on file in the business
office as well as the over-crowded ordeals
taking place out in the lot verify that the
number of sophomores using lot B is far
greater than during any previous term.
Traditionally, sophomores fill lot B to
capacity by driving up alone during the
first few days of classes. However, by the
start of second week they buddy up or car
pool with friends they meet in classes and
who conveniently live around the comer.
Obviously, this year’s sophomores
aren’t buddying up as much as their
predecessors; the new trend beautifully
documented by the coincidence of two
sophomore roommates who have won
separate parking spaces and drive to
classes separately. However, according to
the administration, increasing enrollment
and the heavy scheduling of sophomores
on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays
have been the more crucial factors con
tributing to the congestion in the parking
lot.
While the majority of the sophomore
lucky winners feel that the ad
ministration’s choice of the lottery was the
best temporary solution to the parking
frustrations, one winner, who requested to
remain anonymous expressed the opinion
that a better solution would be, quote, “to
have all freshmen park at the mall.”
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