News From Student Government
This is the first Collegian edition of the
Presidents Comer. This article is to tell you
what is going on in your Student Government
Association (SGA) and respond to anv ques
tions you may have directed towards mvself or
SGA.
To start wi th, your SGA has been work
ing on the situation of getting a traffic light at
the entrance of this campus. Also, we have
been working on various campus improve
ments through the use of the Campus Upkeep
and Improvement Committee of SGA. The
chairman is Erik Schiable. He holds meetings
in public in south hall lobby biweekly. If you
have a complaint, please attend these meet
ings. SGA has recently formed a 24-hour
visitation committee which is chaired by Kim
berly Williams. This committee is working
with Dan Darrow in order to put a proposal in
effect for 24-hour ■visitation. Please address
Kim with any questions on this matter. SGA
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Does Food Service Care About the Students?
By Janice D. Hayes
Recently the dining hall decided to cut
back its staff for Moonlight Munchies. Many
students are upset because these cut backs
cause problems, not just for students that now
will have to wait twenty minutes for their
food, but also for students who really needed
the money in their pay checks.
The problem is not that management
had to down size the staff, but when students
questioned manager Doug Wagner about the
sudden change, he shifted the blame to one of
his employees. Some students weren’t even
President’s
Corner
By Joseph C.
Spado 111
has also formed a MAC committee in order to
get MAC machine on campus. The Chairman
of that committee is Jason Kamel. He is in the
process of getting surveys filled out by the
students. He needs your help! If you have any
questions, or would like to lend a hand, please
feel free to talk to Jason or myself, or just come
d
own to your SGA office located in CloB in
the Lower Commons.
As your President, I have been working
hard with the Council ot'Commonweaith Stu
dent Governments of which I chair. We have
been working on a Student Activities fee as
well as other things to be announced in the
upcoming publications. Due to the tremen
dous efforts by the Senate of SGA, my job has
been made tremendouslv easier.
I would like to publicly thank all SGA
members that have been constructive for this
semester. If it wasn’t for them, my job would
be impossible. lam attending a legislative
function, and I will be reporting to the senate
in writing and I hope to have something about
it in the next publication.
Any comments or questions concern
ing the SGA or campus related issues should
be directed towards the Collegian or just call
your SGA office at 454-5785.
notified that they were cut. They had to leam
about their loss of hours through the grape-
Another problem is the management
did not even offer any alternatives when the
students w'ere cut from working munchies.
For some students Munchies is the only time
that they can w'ork because of class schedules,
study habits, and club activities. Also, for
several students working in the dining hall at
Munchies is the only source of income that
they receive. Not everyone is fortunate enough
to call home to mom or dad for money. If that
Clinton's Health
Care Plan: A Step in
the Wrong Direction
By Erik Schaible
Health care is a very important issue to
every American, and is one that should be
considered very carefully before radical
changes to the health care system are made.
Hie recent proposals made by the Clinton
administration arc indeed radical, and de
serve merciless scrutiny before they are en
acted, however, they may also be challenged
on a more broad, philosophical basis. Govern
ment run health care is far beyond the role of
a proper free government and is a disaster
waiting to happen.
The biggest problem with health care is
not directly with the government, but insur
ance companies, or more precisely, the very
concept of “insurance.” Price is a very-im
portant concept in economics It carries much
mote meaning than just the money required
for the exchange; it also transmits information
about the availability ofthe product and acts
as an incentive for the seller toprovide the best
service for the least cost. Insurance eliminates
much of this useful exchange of information
by hiding the cost of health services from the
patient and reducing the incentive ofthehealth
care provider to keep costs down. The govern
ment providing health care for all will cer
tainly not solve this problem, but will serve to
expand it.
When asked to name what the govern
ment docs well, most people are hard pressed
to name more than one or two activities, so, as
Rush l.imbaugh says, why would we want to
give them more to do? When, all over tho
world, countries are discovering that social
ism is a Hawed system and are moving away
from it, why are we taking steps in the wrong
direction? ? heard a caller, a doctor in Sweden,
on the 1 any King Show express hishappincss
in being in a country that was, at least, head
ing in the right direction. Ihc people of this
country, and especially its leadership, need to
leam the. lesson that the rest of the world has
learned. I lopefully it won ? take the time and
the bloodshed that other countries have en
dured, because the C’linton health care system
just wouldn't be able to handle it.
were the case then Munchie jobs would be
unnecessary
Some students who have been working
with the dining hall for more than three se
mesters had about one-third of their hours
w'ere cut. This fact causes a decrepency. Sev -
eral students who have recently been hired
within the last month and a naif maintained or
increased their hours. The lack of empathy for
their w-orkers tells the students just how much
the dining hall cares. If they continue to treat
their student workers like they are doing now
then they will end up with none at all.
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