raga Six SCARLET AND BLACK Status Nothing To Qua About As New SGA Wind: Up Year The year was not a spectacu- lar one tor the scar Except tor the week before the convention this spring, student government continued normal operations, largely out of Sight and out of mind for the campus at large, The Encampment was held in September, when to students and 20 faculty and administra- tion members “retreated" to a church camp near Boone, They spent two days discussing cam- pus problems, with attention centered on the North Campus Problem. Partimpaltts expressed cone cern over the lack of maturity and responsibility on North Campus, and made several sug- gestions to change the residence hall system. Other suggestions at; , ' mam BILLY Kl were (a) a pass-fail system ,(this was partially adopted later), (h) a syllabus for each murse. and (c) more convoca- lions to increase faculty-student tontact, The North campus Problem ‘dominated the discussion at the Encampment and participants presented their reports to stu- dents at a coilee hour in Octo- ber. There was enthusiastic de- bate over the problems of and solutions for North Campus lor nearly an hour among 100 stu- ‘dents at the meeting. IlillllliilillliiiiIIliiilllliiilllliiiiilliiiiillliiiillliiiiillliiiilliiiiilliiulh D. M. Project: No Subsidy Illliiilllliiiiillliiiilliiiilllliiiillliiiiilltiiiillliiiilllliiiilliiiiillliiilllliii » Also in October the Senate re- sed, by a vote oi 17-3, to an ropriate any money for the es Moines Project. The main bbjection was that this would mount to using student social hnds to subsidize a political brogram. The North Campus Problem .was again brought to the atten- lion of students when SGA President Jerry Goddard Vis- ited houseniectings to circulate a petition. Goddard obtained 830 signatures on the petition, which objected to the way in which students were being excluded irom decisionrmaking on resi~ dence hall changes Goddard presented the petition to Presi- dent Leggett, who commented that he had “every intention" of consulting students betore he made any changes. iiilliiiiiIIiiiillliiiiilliiiiiIIiiiillliiiilllliiilllliliillliiiillliiillliiiiilliiiiil Thurston Bids CoiHP Farewell lIIliilllllililliliilliiiiiilliiiiilliiiiilliiiiilliiiiilliiiiillliiiilliiiiilliiiilllli In December the Senate re- ceived the resignation of Paul Thurston, Coil-1P President, who said that he was “not as em- bittered or as pessimistic" as his predecessors in their [are- well speeches. Thurston, who left to spend second semester working and studying in Costa Rica, offered his conclusions about the North Campus Prob- lem and the operation or the CofHP, Nle Nonas took over as Coil-1P President. in January the SGA turned introspective and, airer much debate, reorganized itself. Jerry Goddard proposed to re- place the Senate with a joint CofHP—AWS Council. Goddard argued that the change would increase eliiciency and put re- sponsibility tor rule changes within those groups that were "fie NG (center) here ieads discussion or the Des Moines Proiect at one of its first organixational meetings. King, a commmunity worker. was based in Des Moines this year leading rent sirikes in the ”Bottom" area, a sium section of iowa's capital. The Des Moines Project provided financial ruppori and acuve help throughout lhe year. and ran a fast to raise money. ' Fridty. May I3. not A HEADACHE FOR SOME. +he SGA convention this year was the highlight of student government activities. George Witigroi. Sieve Shender and Steve Kent went into conven< iion.w1iigrat and Kent came our. ‘ most directly concerned with enforcement. But the Senate l'eiused to abol- isll itself. After defeating God- dard’s proposal it sent the mat- ter to committee and finally voted to (a) return to the old Senate, with two members from each hall, (b) reestablish the post of Speaker, and (0) allow only the Coil-ll> and aws Board to propose rule changes. iiiiiliiiiiiilliiiiilliiiiillliiiiilliiiilllililllliiiillliiiiillliiiilliiiiillliiilliii‘ SGA Convention Arouses Interest ‘llliiiillliiiillliiiillliiiiiIIiiiiilliiiiillliiiillliiiiillliiiillliiillliiiulliiilli in February the campus be- came involved in student gov- ernment politics during the SOME GRINNEiLIANS demonstrated their commitment to the outside world by attend- ing the November Peace March in Washingtoni Pictured is Dave Gibson. week before convention. The [our candidates (Sieve Kent, Dan Bucks, Steve Shender and George Wittgrat) visited halls and discussed the issues of Silk dent apathy and involvement. All agreed that open dorms and Women's hours should be ex- tended, and that the North Cam- pus Problem should be kept out oi politics. Tlii-ee candidates went to con- vention, along with the Eye- brow and Batman, (Dan Bucks was iorced to withdraw tor per- sonal reasons.) The convention only lasted two ballots, as Steve Kent polled 140 votes after re ceiving only 15 on the iirst bal- lot. George Wittgrai also ex» ceeded the amount necessary to nominate, and Shender with- drew. throwing his support to Kent. Kent was elected by a Vote of 565-234, or 71%. The tranSl- tion in government was made early in Mar-ch, when Jerry Goddard made his farewell speech. He defended his admin— istration a g a i ns t anonymous critics who charged that it had been a “status-qua" govern- meitt. iiilliiiiiililiiilliiiiiilliiiiiiiliiiiiilliiiiiilliiiiilliiiilllti‘iiiliiiiiiiliiiiilli Foole, Laulerhuch CofHP, AWS IiilIIiiiillIIiiilIIiiiiiilllliiilllliiiilllliiiiiiliiiiillliiiillliiiillllliiiilliiiii In other elections, Bob Foole defeated D on Kurasch for Coil-1P President (Les Pail was forced to Withdraw [or academ- ic reasons), and Karen Lanter- bach deieated Kathy Jagow for the AWS Board presidency. in April the new Kent admin- istration attempted to interest students in extra-curricular ac duties by holding a coiiee hour with eight other organic ons, to explain opportunities {or in— voivel‘nenli In the Senate, Dim Bucks was nominated to be