University of Wyoming - WYO Yearbook (Laramie, WY)

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The Drama and The whole problem of the Student Senate rests with the individuals. I'm sorry to say that the people who have been elected I think probably traditionally have been popular and that,s just about the extentf, ,That's the way Steve Miller, Executive Assistant for Student Academic Affairs, put it. We agree. Steve continued, One of the biggest arguments used in the Senate is my constituency is in favor of this which means that they probably talked to about a half dozen of the kids in their house or dorm before they came to the meetingf, When asked what was the most important piece of legislation to go through the Senate this year one Senate member re- plied, Turn it off Cour tape recorderl, I've got to think of one . . . Cpausel . . . I can't think of anything. Cbviously, the Senate doesn't affect the average student very much. They spend too much of their time laboring over legislation which has no chance of passing the Faculty Senate and the Board of Trustees. A special meeting was called to determine the official ASUW position on the four-year college at Casper. For the Senate to believe that its lobbying group had any real influence with the state legislature was only their first mistake. The Senate did, however, make an attempt to reform itself by making a smaller, more efficient, body by way of a constitutional amendment. The amendment was defeated in an election drawing on all of 410 students. The Senate is caught up in a viscious circle. The Senate doesnit do anything really meaningful so the students have no confidence or interest in the Senate, with no student support or interest the Senate is handicapped in doing anything meaningful.

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