Ripon College - Crimson Yearbook (Ripon, WI)

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Appeal Of Student Union Improves Mailroom, TV, Union Office, And Games Added Walking down into the same old deserted mailroom in the evening to check the same old empty mailbox, you see something new, something different! — two guys scurrying around distributing flyers, lettering posters, and generally organizing things. They are Ken Carlson and Gib Malm, coordinators of the something new. something differ- ent Student Union office. The Student Union office is an ex- perimental effort to provide a stu- dent service that has never existed on this campus before. says Carl- son. We're trying to give a ‘Stu- dent Union' effect. There should be students in the Student Union! Ripon is one of the few campuses where the Union is not a Union at all; infact, students rarely go there for any other purpose than to check for mail. “It's physicoily not very adapt- able. Nobody really wants to come to a room (ike this. Carlson ex- pressed the attitude of the entire student body. Who wants to waste time with a bunch of metal chairs sitting around a big-screen TV on a cold linoleum floor? The new Union office is going to change all that. Nicer chairs, some carpeting, and a posted Prime Time schedule will draw more students. “We want to make it a place where you can come and sit down to watch ‘All My Kids' for that half hour before your one o'clock class. said Malm with enthusiasm. During office hours (7:30-9:30 weeknights except Tuesday: 9:30- 10:30; Saturday 3:00- 5:00. Sunday 1:00-3:00 and 5:30-7:30. the Union workers will keep an eye on the TV equipment in the mail- room and to signout Rigrii Ken Cafteon (r ght) and G fc Malm sit cut de the Stu- dent Union Office where they wotk the available Student Senate-fund- ed VCR for use in the lounges or in individual rooms. This will give those incoming ‘dry' freshman classes an- other alternative to going down- town drinking; going downtown to rent movies! One of the most important aims of the Union office is to become an information center. Once they get a telephone, they will be able to answer any question about which part of the administration to take a problem to. If Carlson and Malm don't know the answer, they'll find out for you the next day. “What we hope we'll eventually become is a ‘magic phone number' for people, explained Malm. “If they've got any questions, they can call this number. As another informational service, the Union office will be organizing bulletin boards in the central mail- room, sectioning off a space for each club. Malm and Carlson are also considering organizing a ride board. (These boards will serve the double purpose of being informers and also covering all that empty white wall space!) The Union office will also provide other services that aren't generally available in the off-hours, such as the non-profit ‘mini-bookstore' where students can go to buy emergency pens, typing ribbon. etc., for those last minute, late-night papers. ‘The Union office will also be distributing emergency aspirins for those last-minute, late-night headaches!) All at the same pri you would pay at the bookst during regular hours, the mini-book store is a straight service to the s dent body. Offering many other services t can't be found anywhere else campus, the Union office will working to make life at Ripon more enjoyable. Carlson and hope to be used as part of the center staff. According to C “In these two weeks we've here, about three people a ask for packages; it would make sense to make that t rarily part of our job. And for t sports fanatic who couldn't lug ol equipment to Ripon. the office be renting out college-own camping equipment and cr country ski equipment at rates. Finally — although first foremost in the minds of those are dreaming of 'real' college life] complete with SPRING BREAK Carlson mentioned “The other t g| things that Gib and I hope to do and haven't received any tion to but also haven't receivi much support for — is to org trips down to Florida during break and Christmas trips to Jock son Hole. Ripon's new Union of- fice is one of those bri- liant students ideas that has been kicking around Student Sen- ate for the past t years looking for o place to settle Finaly with the help of Dean Young (advisor to the Student Senate) two work grants were writ- ten into the budget and a few days after the semester started, the Student Union of- fice found its niche in the central mailroom

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Debuting at Ripon on Fnday, October 5, a new harpsiccxd found a home in a recital ha'J in the C.J Rodman Center for the Arts on lower campus. Professor Donald Spies dd the honors of playing the beoutiful instrument for the first time. At left, top: Lorry Fahnoe checks his mafcox in the new central madroom. At left The Student Senate Executive Staff Jason Patterson. V.P. Activities, Jim Wohn. President. Joe Cullen. Treasurer. June Issoc. Joe Endrizzi Missing. Jube Lynch. The Student Senate exercises the legislative and ex- ecutive functions of government on campus. It meets once a week, usually in the glass room in the commons, and carries out the business at hand, relying on informa- tion from student representatives from each living group on campus. Highlights of the year included the addition of a central mailroom. the successful completion of budget hearings, and the fun and excitement of such events as Home- coming. Winter Weekend, and Springfest. A central issue in the meetings of the student senate during the 1984-85 academic year was the increase in the drinking age from 18 to 19. The state of Wisconsin plans to increase that age to 21 in order to get needed funds for its highways in the next few years. The Senate had to adopt a new drinking policy to be approved by the Executive Committee of the Hill. (For more informa- tion on the policy, please turn to page 28). During the Summer of 1984, a central mail room was constructed in the tower level of the Harwood Memorial Union. Every student picks up his mail here, and can also find information from various clubs and watch TV on the large screen TV. Adjacent to the mailroom the Union office was built. Left Joe Culen makes a point at a senate meeting in the commons Student Life J 9

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ond came into being. Chris LeLand. chairman of the Stu- dent Life Committee, has high hopes for the new office They're gong to provide a lot of services for the students, and we're hoping (on a long-range plan) that we'll be ode to expand hours. he predict- ed “We've made a first step to- ward making the Union into a stu- dent center, and the Union office is gong to bring students in. but I think It's important to stress that the stu- dents should use this If the students do start to use it. it will be a suc- cess Malm and Carlson, coordinating afl these services with the coopera- tion of the Student Senate Execu- tive Committee and with the input from students, hope to put the of- fice into functional action by the end of the month. By the end of the semester, the Student Union office wi be running at full tilt. If you have any ideas you would like to see in- corporated into the office's respon- , stolties. contact either Malm or Cortson or your student senator. “We're going to put as much ef- fort as we can into this, but students I have to use us. It’s definitely to their advantage ' urged Malm. With a note of caution, Carlson added I“We have to have a lot of input and we have to be used, because if we're not used as an information center, this will disappear. (Stay by Beth Mont our e courtesy of JheRpon College Days. September • 28. 1984) And It Worked . . . The student Union office workers were successful in developing o mairoom and office which was uti- ized by many students. Whether it 1 was to pick up a package, gain in- formation. pick up a typewriter rib- bon at the last minute, or catch a bit Of “Al My Children. the students chose to gather in the Union more than ever before. The office was also successful in organizing a trip to Daytona Beach March 15-March 24 for only $209.00. . i 4 The state of Wisconsin provides many areas for recreational pur- poses. one of which many students choose to take advantage of is hunting. Local woods and lakes provide hunters with an ideal place to try their skill (and maybe a little luck). As Jim Thompson, a junior from Milwaukee, found out. the best part of the whole thing is bringing home the trophies.