University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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EE E T0 EYE Greek, looks As presldent of the Mlssourl Students Assoclatlon what do you vlew as the proper role of the Unlversrty lts rlghts and the llmlts of nts powers The authorlty that the Umverslty must have should mclude what IS necessary to accompllsh the educatlonal objectlves of the Unlverslty The key Words here are necessary and educatlonal objectlves l do not thxnk necessary authorlty IH the Unrverslty s lole should mclude authorlty over students personal l1ves regardmg soclal rules conduct rules etc ln exammmg the Unxversxty s educational Obyectlves or mxsslon lt should further be recognlzed that the Unlverslty can provlde a great learnmg experrence by refusmg to exert authorlty ovex students personal llves and thereby allowing the mdlvldual student the opportunlty to make declsxons tor hlmselt and learn the meaning ot responslblllty You have not otten used MSA as a means of passing leglslatlon that N011 perdonally mrtlated D0 you feel that MSA could have been Md more by you as a vehlcle of communlcatlon with studen I guess xt could have but passlng a Senate blll doesnt mean Jlm Heeter, ROTC lock, at his term cus MSA president you re communlcatmg wlth students The MSA presldent should not be a super senator The Senate sjob lS to represent student opmlon by resolutlon You g1V0 a resolutlon that IS passed to the presldent and h1s job IS to make sure lt IS 1m emented I don t usually even vote rn Senate thmgs There have been a few thlngs thls year where I asked other senators who were experienced 1n wrltlng leglslatlon to wrlte a b1ll l feel there should be a separatlon between the executlve and the leglslatlve l can t go along wlth the 1dea that lf your name IS on 60 Senate b1lls you ve done something That doesnt mean a thlng A Senate blll by ltself IS meanlngless channels In the major problems of your admmlstratlon mtervlsltatlon, budget, etc , have you felt frustrated by working 'through channelswl There lS no question that on th1s campus the admmlstratlon vlrtually ln every case opens channels to students through whlch any student or any group of students can make his VICWS known and m most cases make at least some contrlbutxon to the declsxon pollcy maklng of the Unlverslty tl-leeter d1d llst some quallflcatlons to thrs statement 5 Contmued on page 25 . O . . . , - , . -. . . ' ' T- - . . . 1? ' . 66 91 AL ' ' ' ' 57 I I , gi I W . I I , . . . . . . . - I . 7 - ' ' ' 5 3 ' . ' ' ' ' You ran on a platform of 'fworking through the - 1 - 7, ' . ' - w - . ' 6 l , x . . . . . - U ' X 1 . . . . ts? ' ' I

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THE DID Rick Goodman, campus activist, ex-Greek, looks at his term as MSA legislative . As leader of the Senate, what do you view as the proper role of the University--its rights and the limits of its powers? The University exists to educate studentsg to create an educational environment. The Universityis interpretation of this is different than mine. Creating an educational environment means giving students as much freedom as possible. That is not done here. The dorms are a prime example. The University feels it has to have complete authority. They can search rooms any time they want. Each floor in the dorms should decide its own policy. Those are the people who have to live under the rules-not the administration., The role of the administration is to organize. lt should administer. lt's their right to decide on the curri- culum, what classes should meet, when and where. These things present huge organizational problems. These policies should be decided by a student-faculty board, with equal representation or perhaps more students. As it stands now itls not education. ltis repression. Does the University have the right of H in loco parentis '! Ask any of the Curators and they will deny that in loco parentis is a University function. But that's hypocritical. Their actions speak louder than their words. vice-president How do you view Senate actions of the past year? Most of the Senate bills passed in the last 10 years have been aimed at improving the Senate, not the campus. They made the Senate function better through by-laws and rule revisions. Some bills have not been too relevant, like the bill to lower the flag over Jesse Hall until the Vietnam War was stopped. tGoodman co-sponsored this billj. Support of intervisitation was probably one of the most important pieces. of legislation to be passed by the Senate. Another was a bill passed to set up our own student bookstore but the administration defeated that. lf we could pass legislation that would be enforced, the Senate might have significance. But it has no power-just what the administration grants us-and thatis piddly. Proposals are before the Senatenow that would give MSA financial control of their student activities fees. That would help. Money is power in the U.S. Do you feel the more liberal elements in the Senate and on campus are emerging as political force? l think they're emerging in the Senate and among the leadership on campus. We had three radical student officers CGoodman, Weinberg, and Hillj and one liberal. Yes, l would classify Heeter as a liberal. l think the Individual Coalition is liberal. Continued on page 24

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Goodman continued I would say a majorityof the campus is still conservative but the leaders are liberal. This is because the liberals are the ones who get involved. Conservatives react instead of act. This campus is more and more as a whole leaning towards the left. Each year it's more activist oriented than the year before. You favored a more demonstrative action in the intervisitation issue as opposed to Heeter, who believed some form of intervisitation would have been passed by the Board, if proper channels would have been used. Two questions-1. Why did you support intervisitation in the manner you did? 2. Looking back, would you have chosen Heeter's alternative if you had known the consequences? I think that Heeter is wrong in believing the Board of Curators would have passed intervisitation. I was willing to go along with him for a while. So was the Cabinet and, in part, CCS. We waited until the January Board meeting to see if they would reconsider. V I place the blame on the fraternities. They shouldn't have acted when they did. Their action cut off any chance to have intervisitation passed. We made one tactical error. We misjudged the base of our support About 60 percent of the dorms had voted to participate but there was nowhere near that amount participating Pear and propaganda put out by the administration was effective in scaring a lot of students off We misjudged how far people were willing to go If I had known what support was going to turn out to be I would have recons1dered my actions But despite the low turnout it disrupted the campus enough so that the Curators will not want that to happen again What is your view of the admimstration's tactics and powerq The fear that they can kick you out of the University is the only thing the administration has and it s very effective They realize the immense power of 20 OOO students They know what could happen if we ever got 5 000 or 10 OOO people together on this campus They use threats of police violence expulsion etc to keep students down It works well here It may not work as well elsewhere where students are more committed What do you think of student apathy This IS more a matter of social upbringing I think most kids who go to school here are from lower and middle income families They re here to get a degree to go out They have goals not consistent with the more radical leaders on campus Their goals are to remain and enhance the present system They want to get ahead and they know they re not going to get ahead if they get thrown out of school The University pushes this line to make everyone a productive member of this particular system What are your views on Heeter s policy of going through proper channels When we CSchott Goodman Weinberg I-l1ll Coalitionj campaigned last year it was a matter of using channels but only when they remained useful We found most of the channels were open this year Student faculty committees gave the opportunity to spend capital improvement fees and helped in the selection of the new Union director. The s only place this broke down was on the intervisitation issue. Jim and I agreed on that until the final point of that one Senate meeting. I had wanted to go into the streets before the Board meeting but Jim asked me not to and I didn't. I think Jim did a fairly good job this year. The only conflict we've had was over intervisitation. He still feels he's right and I still feel I'm right. What do you feel about the present argument for removing 3 Student Activities from MSA control? l'm not in favor of separation. SA can too easily be taken over by some special interest group. It's too easy when they get into SA to perpetuate that power. Such a - closely-knit group needs a larger group like MSA to supervise it. This is not a slam at SA. They do a pretty goodjob . every year. As long as they continue to do a good job they 2 don t have to worry about MSA interference There is no reason why MSA should turn over student activity funds to SA MSA is responsible to the students for the use of that money We approve a general budget but don t tell SA specifically what to do with It After a year in office, looking back, how do you view the role The office itself doesn t entail many duties run the Senate appolnt a few committees which will probably never meet I view the office as a stepping stone to being a student leader I never wrote a bill though I co signed some I didn t view my role as directing legislation through the Senate There were people in the Senate with my views who were more experienced at writing bills But in such issues as intervisitation the office gave legitimacy to the views I had The fact that I ran and won on those views also gave them legitimacy I could also act 1n my position as liason between the Senate and the more radical elements on campus I could talk to CCS when perhaps Jim I-Ieeter could not , . 7 ' 5 , , ' . i . . . ,E 9 1 ' lil . g ' ' ' . 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