University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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i TEXAS UNION BOARD Policy makers incorporate creative methods by SHERRI EVANS Contriving new ideas and innovations was the forte of the 1984-85 Texas Union Board. Among the more creative ideas devised by the Board was the in- troduction of the TUX card. This card, which would be available to all students in the fall of 1985, would act as a Texas U nion credit card. Students would deposit an amount of money at the Union and then receive their card, which could be used for all Union ser- vices and functions, including the Varsi- ty Cafeteria and the MicroCenter. The Board, which was the policy making body of the Texas Union and was made up of six students, three faculty members and three non-voting members, planned to continue making advancements into the next academic year. Aside from putting the TUX card program into operation, there were also plans for remodeling the Varsity Cafeteria and the Quadrangle Room. Perhaps more important, however, the major goal for next year, said Laurel FIRST ROW: Darrick Wayne Eugene, Dave Alan Steakley, Laurel Ann Baumer, Frank B. Bartow. SECOND ROW: Mark Thomas Mitchell, David John Drum, Astrid Marie Cosper, Michael Lee Meadows. Photo by Robert Cohen Baumer, business senior and chair of the Board, will be to target freshmen and make them aware of the Union and what it has to offer. Baumer also said the Board hoped to provide more learning experiences, to increase communication with students, and to increase services the Union offers to students. One of 20 donated Macintosh computers from Apple, Inc. is used by Laurel Baumer in an effort to facilitate her duties as Board President. - Photo by Marci Doane 214 Texas Union Board

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STUDENTS ' ASSOCIATION But Gulp said there were mur un- counted ballots than usual due tu con- fusion about the system. It simply didn ' t line up with our expectations during the general elections, so we had to go back to the old way of scratching voters ' names off the roster at in- dividual colleges for the TSP elections, she said. In the March 5-6 general elections, 317 ballots were discarded out of 5,581 ballots cast. The majority of these were ballots marked with votes for can- didates in more than one college. We ' re definitely still in search of a better system, Gulp said. Campaign supporters help Janie Perelman canvas the campus with posters on trees when campaigning officially began on Feb. 20. Photo by Doug Lay ton JUDICIAL COMMISSION: FIRST ROW: Julie Roxanne Culver, Michelle Elaine Shriro. SE- COND ROW: Michael Barry Doyle, Byron Keith Henry. THIRD ROW: Steven Dean Kesten, Kevin Abel, Julie Marie Cox. Photo by Robert Cohen ELECTION SUPERVISORY BOARD: FIRST ROW: Nina Devorah Bronk, Catherine Ann Bonet, Jeremy J. Gitomer. SECOND ROW: Anne Miya Buxbaum, Teresa Weidler. Photo by Bev Cotton Students ' Association 213

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by LAURIE ROSENBOWER To keep up with the needs of an ever-changing student body, the Texas Union committees underwent some changes in the 1985-86 school year. After a two-year evaluation process of the existing committees, the Program Council of the Union, with the approval of the Texas Union Board of Directors, revised the existing program committee system to include an Arts and Humanities committee, a Campus In- teraction committee and an Ideas and Issues committee. Two new committees will be added including the Interna- tional Awareness and New Technologies Committees. The Union developed these commit- tees to Provide educational and social Liberal arts sophomore, Kevin Lewis, who will take over the Ideas and Issues committee next fall, gets hands on experience in the graphics lab session. Photo by Kevin Gutting TEXAS UNION FEATURE New committees alter program programs for campus, said Carol Prior, assistant program director for the Union. We are teaching life skills, helping with a person ' s development and growth, to more adequately meet the needs of the student body. The two new committees were a result of a perceived shortage in areas growing in popularity. There was a big hole in the area of technology such as new medical advances, computers and space travel, said Prior of the New Technologies Committee. She said there will be many engineering and pre- medical students that this will be of in- terest to. Another new committee, Interna- tional Awareness, was planned to help in understanding the cultures of other people, said Prior. There are many people on this campus from other coun- tries, and the world in general is becom- ing multi-cultural, Prior said. The remaining three new committees were to be combinations of existing committees. Arts and Humanities will be a combination of the former Fine Arts and Theater committees. This group will broaden to include fine arts, literature and philosophy. It will broaden in scope and take on theater also, said Prior. Some of its activities will include art exhibits and the Madrigal Dinner, said Beth Collier, publicity assistant for the Union. Another new committee was to be a combination of the Special Events and Special Programs committees. The Campus Interaction Committee was to be in charge of Friday Gras and Cupid Connection, things that are more campus-wide versus a specific area. Ideas and Issues, an extension of the former Ideas and Interactions commit- tee which brought in speakers on social and political issues with an emphasis on local issues. The committee ' s emphasis would be on ideas and issues important to students. At a meeting of next year ' s committee chairmen, Lois Poe, Beth Collier and Jacqueline Souroujon discuss graphic techniques. Photo by Kevin Gutting Texas Union Feature 215