The Michigan Daily-Sunday, November 18, 1979-Page 3 Adams and Solomon vie for LSA-SG presidency Dan this ele Unlik cy of1 (LSA-S Acaden ment ( preside Execut IN A resigne tee pos paign s himself The r loses to of LSA- - The r Lion is' we're r SOLO govern of "edu "Stu educati SAID candidate gambles on election By CHARLES THOMSON the presidential hopeful said. "This is student influence on the body. Solomon is really gambling on one of the top-notch schools in the coun- Solomon is running with Kim Brower, ction- try, but students are not getting the who was a member of the LSA-SG Ad ke his opponent for the presiden- education they deserve for a school of ministrative Board last year. the LSA Student Government that status." G), Solomon, with Students for "The college should provide students mic and Institutional Develop- with a broad liberal arts education," he SAID), has not filed for both the said in a debate on Thursday. Solomon ncy and a seat on the LSA-SG proposed that in order to provide. ive Council. students with this type of education, DDITION, Solomon says he has courses for non-majors should be of- d from all the LSA-SG commit- fered. Such courses, he said, would. sitions he held before the cam- "reduce fears of grade competition." io that he will be able to devote SOLOMON ALSO proposed that, in f to the presidency. order to improve education for studen- esult, says Solomon, is that if he ts, greater student input is needed on... morrow's election, he will be out the College Executive Committee. . SG. Solomon said that "in reality, the n. eason he's gambling on the elec- Executive Committee is the ultimate; "because we're so dedicated that decision-making body in the College." isking everything." '.Students," he asserted, "must have -......Student,......asse...,..ms..h.. )MON'S proposals for LSA-SG an institutionalized voice on the com- ment revolve around his concept mittee." Solomon suggested that he n cational development." might examine the legality of the Solomon dents, are not getting the Executive Committee keeping its on they really deserve here," meetings closed in an effort to increase ..". gambling on election SABR E can ', 1 By CHARLES THOMSON J.P. Adams thinks it's time for a change on LSA-Student Government (LSA-SG). The time has come, the LSA-SG presidential candidate from the Student Alliance for Better Representation (SABRE) says, for LSA-SG to become accountable to the students of the college. "ACCOUNTABILITY seems to be the most pressing issue before us," Adams said at a debate with his opponent on Thursday. "The need to build an effec- tive, credible student government organization is imperative. A struc- tured internal organization, something with which to push forth, must be for- med to give specific focus to the im- mediate future."' The way to achieve accountability in LSA-SG, Adams said, is to establish a "strong internal organization," in- crease communication between LSA- SG and the LSA student body, and iden-. idate proposes changes tify the student needs and working for ference," he remarked. "We might them." disagree on how to get to the same ends, Adams said the type of internal but basically we are addressing the organization he had in mind would in- same issues." volve the establishment of a committee similar to the Michigan Student Assembly (MSA) Budget Priorities Committee to consider fund allocation requests, a personnel committee to place students in the various commit- tees of the student government, and several "issue committees" which ''. would investigate issues for the Executive Council. ADAMS PROPOSED that LSA-SG publish a newsletter to better com- municate with LSA students. Adams also proposed increasing student input into the tenure process, extending the program, of course evaluations, and working on the . problem of minority enrollment and at- trition. Adams said there are marked similarities between the two can- Adams didates. "I really don't see a lot of dif- ... wants change Anthony.Asquith's 1952 THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST An elegant, beautifully costumed, expertly paced rendition of Oscar Wilde's immortal force, about a London man-about-town who invents a scapegoat .brother as an excuse for his sudden expeditions to the country. His pros- pective mother-in-law, Lady Bracknell, is the most formidable dowager ever conceived, a gorgon that cannot be dispatched. With SIR MICHAEL RED- GRAVE, JOAN GREENWOOD, MICHAEL DENISON, EDITH EVANS and MARGARET RUTHERFORD. In Color. Mon.: Inuit Filh Series: AT THE WINTER SEA ICE CAMP & ICE PEOPLE (FREE at 8) a. Four independents compete for LSA-SG By CHARLES THOMSON Candidates running as independents in the LSA Student Government (LSA- SG) elections tomorrow and Tuesday face uphill battles in their bids for elec- tion, says one of the four independents seeking positions on the LSA-SG Executive Council. Elizabeth Scott; a junior, said it, is "extremely difficult" for candidates to run without the support of a party. Scott said while she thinks parties are of great assistance to a candidate in getting elected, "Parties are irrelevant except for informational purposes. " THE OTHER independent candidates are freshperson Karin Gregory, sophomore Keith Lee, and senior David Michel. . Gregory aid her first priority if she were elected to the Executive Council would be to increase student input into 'decisions which affect student affairs. She wrote in a position statement that she wanted to be on the council to "start getting involved and familiarize myself with the University." Gregory also said she wanted to promote programs that will yield "effective affirmative action procedures, effective student grievance procedures, and fairness in academic misconduct hearings." Michel advocated change to allow students to vote on tenure decisions at the department level. GREGORY ALSO said students should have more input on tenure decisions, adding, "If anybody can judge who is going to teach us, it should be us (the students)." Michel said his first priority if elected to the council would be instigating change in the process of granting, faculty tenure. Citing a need for student evaluations of instructors as necessary in determining which faculty members are to be tenured, Michel called for the selection of students to sit in on tenure discussions and the eventual inclusion of students as voting members of department committees which make tenure decisions. Michel also suggested that the council initiate a standard training program for teaching assistan- ts in the college, and increase the num- ber of LSA counselors. Lee could not be reached for com- ment. Students to vote on (FREE at 8) CINEMA GUILD TONIGHT AT 7:00 b,4:05 OLD ARCH AUD $1.50 7 ballot proposals 7:00 & 9:05 SUNDAY FILMS Mediatrics-Beat the Devil, 6:30 & 10 p.m., In a Lonely Place, 8:15 p.m., Assembly Hall. Cinema Guild-The Importance of Being Earnest, 7 & 9:05 p.m., Old Ar- ch. Aud. Cinema Guild-Le Boucher, 7 & 9 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. Cinema Study Club-Final Vietnamese Border Clash, 1 p.m., Aud. A, Angell. PERFORMANCES International Center-Brunch and concert featuring "Nuttmigs and Giner," 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Detroit Art Institute. WPAG-FM-Live Country Music, noon until 10 p.m. New Musket Co.-"In the Dark," 2 p.m., Power Center. UAC Theater Productions-"'Robin Goodfellow," 2 p.m., Kuenzel Room, . Michigan Union. School of Music Opera Theater-"La Boheme," 3 p.m., Lydia Men- delssohn Theater. U Club-Brunch on the Terrace, featuring Antares, noon, U Club. MISCELLANEOUS Gay Discussion Group-Tom Morson, speaker, 6 p.m., Guild House, 802 Monroe. International Center-Thanksgiving dinner in Frankenmuth, 1:30 p.m., leave from International Center lounge. Washtenaw County/Regular ACLU Executive Board-Monthly meeting, 7:30 p.m., First Unitarian Church. Museum of Art-"Crisis of Impressionism 1878-1882" seri% featuring Camille Pissarro's "Peasants Resting," 3-3:20 and 4-4:20 p.m., Museum of Art. MONDAY FILMS Cinema Guild-Ice People, 8 p.m., Old Arch. Aud. Ecology Center of Ann Arbor-Living the Good Life, Looking for Organic America, and Farming is Farming, 7:30 p.m., Public Library, 343 S. Fifth Ave. PERFORMANCES EMU Laboratory Theater-"Home Free" by Lanford Wilson, 7 & 9 p.m., EMU Quirk Bldg., Rm. 107. Michigan Varsity Band-Public Concert, 8 p.m., Hill Aud. WUOM/WVGR-Live broadcast of Sterling Chamber Players, 8:05 p.m. Society for Creative Anachronism-Medieval Group, 7:30 'p.m., West Lounge at South Quad. School of Music-Opera Workshop, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. SPEAKERS Wesley Foundation-"What You Are is Where You Were When," 12:10 p.m., Pine Rm., Wesley Foundation. UAC-Viewpoint Lectures-Susan McGee, "The Changing Roles of Women," 8p.m., Kuenzel 'Rm., Union. Resource Policy & Management Program-Frank Ruswick, "Legal Issues in Wetlands Protection," noon, 2032 Dana. Macromolecular Research Center-Eugene Helfand, Bell Labs, "Kinetics of Confomational Transition and Relaxations in Polymers," 4 pm., 3005 Chem. Bldg. Center for Social Concerns-"Sexist Language and Its Effects on Everyone," 7:30 p.m., Catacombs Rm. of Holy Trinity Chapel, 511 W. Forest, Ypsilanti. Feminist Federal Credit Union-"Give Women Credit," 7:30 p.m., Lawyer's Club Lounge. Center for Near Eastern & North African Studies-Clement Henry, "Qadhafi's Green Book in a Circus Perspective," noon, Lane Hall Commons. MISCELLANEOUS Washtenaw Association for Retarded Citizens-Membership meeting, 7:30 p.m., High Point Cafetorium, 1735 S. Wagner Rd. Reith Lectures-Ali Mazrui. "The African Condition-A Political By DAVID MEYER LSA students will have the oppor- tunity to vote on seven ballot proposals from the LSA Student Government (LSA-SG) tomorrow and Tuesday. The results of voting on all but one of the proposals will be non-binding, designed merely to determine student opinion. The only question students will decide with their votes involves a possible change in LSA election procedures. IF PASSED, the proposal would replace the current preferential voting procedure with one based on "approval voting." Approval voting does not require that students rank their 15 votes according to preferences as does preferential voting.. According to one of the proposal's propoinents, LSA-SG Vice-President Kathy Friedman, "As the ballot is right now, voting is very confusing." LSA-SG member Dan Solomon, agreed. "It (approval voting) would be a lot clearer for the voter." Solomon also noted that approval voting would significantly reduce the time necessary to count the votes since all votes would be of the same value. Political Science Prof. John Cham- berlin agreed, but emphasized that preferential voting allows for election of representatives from minority groups or organizations. "Approval voting strikes me as a good system to elect one individual (such as a student government president). But it doesn't strike me as a very good system to elect minority representation," Chamberlin said. The other ballot questions, all non- binding, are: " A proposed increase in the LSA-SG mandatory fee from 50 to 75 cents. "It would increase our allocating ability to student groups that really need it," Solomon said. A similar proposal to raise the fee to one dollar was narrowly defeated in last year's election. Larry Litchman, president of the Michigan Republicans Club, said his organization would oppose the fee hike, due to reser- vations about the way student gover- nments have dispensed money. " The extension of drop/add deadlines and pass/fail modifier deadlines to "give students a better chance to get a feel for a course before they have to decide," according to Solomon. He also noted the fact that most classes don't have their first test until after the deadlines have passed. * Possible establishment of a uniform program for the training and supervision of graduate teaching assistants. Solomon and Friedman cited a lack of proficiency in the English language as one of the problems that the proposed program could help alleviate. Friedman stressed that the program would be implemen- ted on a department-by-department basis. * The establishment of an office to aid students in filling out applications to graduate schools. While noting the suc- cess of a similar office at Stanford University, Friedman noted that such an office would mean a substantial cost to the University. * The inclusion of student represen- tatives on the administration's LSA Academic Actions Committee, which is delegated the responsibility of granting individual exemptions to University regulations such as the drop/add deadline. The committee is currently composed exclusively of faculty. Ac- cording to Solomon, "Faculty may not be sympathetic to a situation a student may be in." Friedman explained that the proposal would allow student representatives access to other studen- ts' files. Because of this problem, Friedman suggested the possibility of instituting a program where students would have the option of allowing students' representatives to view their files. Even though the results of six of the ballot proposals are non-binding, Solomon emphasized that the results would carry weight. C "Ps'G INEMA II PRESENTS CLAUDE CHABROL, 1970) A psychological suspense thriller. When a butcher returns home from 10 years in the army and begins a casual fliartation with a schoolmistress, a series of bizarre murders begin to plague the countryside. With this film that rivals the best of Hitchcock, Chabrol adds a new dimension to the genre. Starring STEPHANE AUDRAN and JEAN YANNE. French, with subtit les. (93 min) ANGELL HALL 7:00 & 9:00 $1.50 Tuesday: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS BY WOMEN FILMMAKERS sponsored by The Michigan Council for the Arts publicity sponsored byMSA OWN -....r..... .....r...r.... 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