Student Spring Elections
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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1975
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Jeff Dunn
■ Student body presidential candi-
te Jeff Dunn’s goal is to create a
tronger student government.
“Student government is being
hindered because the administra
tion is not allowing us enough
input,” Dunn said.
Dunn is basing his campaign on
his experience and qualifications.
He has served three years on the
Senate, and now serves as vice pres
ident of academic affairs. He pub
lished the first student evaluation of
professors and the first teaching as
signment list.
Dunn said he feels student gov
ernment should spread its influence
into College Station since one-half
of the students live off-campus.
He wants more communication
between the student body and stu
dent government. One way to ac
complish more openness is to pro
mote news conferences as often as
possible. Student leaders, he said,
should be held totally responsible
by the news media for lack of initia
tive in student problems.
“I am encouraging the news
media to attack,’ he said.
As a second step toward more
communication, Dunn plans to
Jeff Dunn
write periodic articles in The Battal
ion to let students know what is
happening in student government.
A series of forums is the third
step. Student government leaders
would answer questions from the
students attending.
Also, Dunn is interested in lower
ing the cost of attending A&M. He
said he wants to continue the book
see DUNN, page 4
Doc Shroff
Doc Shroff, candidate for student
body president, said he. feels that
since he has, as a student, experi
enced a lack of concern by the ad
ministration, he feels qualified to
deal with problems of the student
body.
“A student body president who
establishes himself as a strong and
popular leader could well use his
voice as leverage against any ad
ministrative action,” Shroff said.
Last year, Shroff was Comman
der of D-l.
“I’ve always been outspoken,” he
said.
Shroff is basing his campaign on
eight issues.
First, Shroff said he feels there
should be a vote of no confidence on
the Student Government election
ballot. “The Senate voted this down
a week ago for the simple reason
that they were afraid, that should it
be included on the ballot, they
would be out of a job,” Shroff said.
Shroff said he is not in favor of a
student on the Board of Directors,
but that the student body president
should have speaking privileges.
“Students tend to vote with the
older members of the board, and as
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a consequence, don’t represent the
student’s wishes,” Shroff said.
“The student body president is
the one person who can follow an
issue through Rules and Regula
tions, the Academic Council, and
the Board of Directors and the
President’s Advisory Council,” he
said.
“He (student body president)
could be a common link between
see SHROFF, page 4
Tom Walker
Tom Walker, candidate for stu
dent body president, says one of his
major qualifications is that he works
well with people.
“I’m outgoing,” he said. “I relate
to people, both to students and the
administration. ”
He said he felt students would not
be hesitant to come to him with
problems.
Walker was a senator for one and
a half years. He is presently the ex
ecutive director of Student Gov
ernment.
Walker’s campaign is based on
five areas.
The first area is academic affairs.
He said he felt the committee had
not fulfilled its potential this year.
“I’d like to see the Student
Academic Council invigorated,”
Walker said. “It is the foundation for
achieving choice of professors.”
Communication is the second
area. Walker wants to set up bi
weekly meetings between student
government leaders and the student
body.
Also, tables would be set up at
key points and manned by senators.
Besides supplying students with in
formation, senators would partici-
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pate more.
“I want to put student govern
ment right out in the middle,”
Walker said.
The next area is external affairs.
Walker would like to see a student
on the Board of Directors. He is also
for stronger community relations
since participation in the commun
ity results in influencing decision
making. Involvement in national
see T. WALKER, page 4
Polling places
The election of yell lead
ers, class officers, Senate ex
ecutive committee and Resi
dence Hall Association offic
ers will be held April 8 from
8 a.m. till 6 p.m.
Polling places will be the
married student housing of
fice, the old exchange store,
Krueger-Dunn Commons,
the Corps Guard room,
Fowler lounge and the
MSC.
Candidates for yell leader
from the junior class are: Bob
by Bain, Jeff Brown, W. David
Cunningham, Tim Harrelson,
Jimmy Heck, Paul Lombardi-
no, Joe D. Mickler, Mike Roiz
and Rob Tucker. From the se
nior class, candidates are: Dan
(Wheel) Barrow, John Berry-
hill, Steve Bohlmann, Chuck
Hinton, Marty Kamerbeek,
John “Mic” McWilliams, Jim
Bob Mickler, and Austin Ster
ling.
Vice president of rules and regulations
Mary Ellen Martin
Mary Ellen Martin
Mary Ellen Martin, psychology
elementary education major, joins
two other students as candidates for
vice-president for Rules and Regu
lations.
Martin, a sophomore, brings two
years of Student Government ex
perience to her campaign, including
Executive Aide and student
senator.
A member of the Rules and Regu
lations committee, Martin’s plat
form is based upon expansion of
present committee activity to in
clude other areas of campus life.
“Rules and Regs is the basis for all
the campus as well as Student Gov
ernment,” Martin said.
She favors closer work by the stu
dent lawyer with students, a conve
nient and low-cost student pub and
expansion of the powers of the Judi
cial Board.
She also advocates compulsory
committee membership, constitu
tional revision, student control of
visitation hours and greater flexibil
ity of Academic regulations.
“Student Government can do a
lot for the campus, and most of the
work is behind the scenes,” said
Martin. “We need senators to get
involved. ”
Martin also stated that “a student
on the Board of Directors is abso
lutely essential, so the school can
truly serve the students’ needs.”
Martin is a member of the Cre
dentials committee. Academic Af
fairs Committee and the Student
Academic Council.
Karla Mouritsen
Among the hopefuls for Student
Government executive office is
Karla Mouritsen, candidate for vice
president for rules and regulations.
A sophomore history major,
Mouritsen’s SG experience in
cludes freshman executive aide, re
cording secretary for the Rules and
Regs Committee and recording sec-
VP of student services
Troie Ann Pruett
Troie Ann Pruett is running for
vice president of student services
and has two years of experience in
Student Government.
Her first year, Pruett was fresh-
man senator-at-large. The second
year she was senator for the College
of Agriculture.
Among her qualifications she
cited her previous experience in
Student Government and the desire
and confidence to be able to work
for the good of the students.
During the past year she worked
with several committees including
Rules and Regulations. But she
says, “Rules and Regs is something
abstract. I think I want to work for
something more concrete. The Stu
dent Services V.P. post would be a
place where I thought I could deal
with concrete matters.”
Pruett would like to see the off-
campus students get a better deal.
“After all,” she says, “they form a
majority of the student body.” She
thinks that off-campus senatorial
representation should be on the
basis of wards whereby each senator
would be assigned a particular area
which he would represent.
At the present time, off-campus
senators are chosen at large. Com
munication is extremely difficult
and it is very hard for the con
stituents to get hold of their senator
and vice versa, she said.
Also she said that every student
living in dorms annually receives 50
cents from the Coke fund. The off-
campus students do not. She said
she would like to look into it and see
how a fairer arrangement could be
worked out.
Pruett said she would like to look
into different types of co-ops for
students, shuttle bus systems from
the perimeter parking lots to points
inside the campus for the time when
in-parking would be stopped. She
also would like to look into the pos
sibility of wide-area telephone ser
vice (WATS) for students.
Pruett said she came to A&M
“among other reasons for it’s tradi
tion.” She does not like the idea of
female yell leaders, but she says, “If
my constituents felt any other way I
would vote for the way they wanted
me to. I consider myself a delegate
more than a trustee.”
Karla Mouritsen
retary for the Student Senate.
Mouritsen is running on a plat
form of increased student control of
U niversity policies and greater stu
dent input into SG.
“I want to give students back the
right to makeup their own minds,”
said Mouritsen. This includes visita
tion hours of residence halls, “Q”
drop policy, transfer of grades from
other schools, and alcoholic bever
ages at University-sponsored balls
and receptions.
In the area of increase student
input, Mouritsen looks for actual
student involvement on the Rules
and Regulations Committee and
better methods for disseminating
information through student
senators.
Mouritsen’s platform also in
cludes compulsory committee
membership by senators, a stronger
Judicial Board and revised election
regualtions.
“Some people consider the
J-Board a hulking monster, but I
think just the opposite. Too many
candidates are violating election
regulations, but they’re not worried
because they know the J-Board
won’t do anything about it,”
Mouritsen said.
Duane ThompsonjS
Sophomore Duane Thompson if
one of three candidates for Student ^\
Government vice-president for
Rules and Regulations.
Thompson, a pre-med major, is
student senator from the college of
science and a member of the Rules
and Regulations Committee.
The former SG Executive Aide is
basing his campaign on greater
senator involvement on Student
Government committees as well as
increased student input in the major
decisions affecting the entire stu
dent body.
“We need a stricter definition of
senator’s responsibilities as well as
strong enforcement of these regula
tions,” Thompson said.“I think pos
sibly we should have a committee
whose sole responsibility would be
in this area. ”
Thompson favors compulsory
committee membership by
senators, a student on the Board of
Directors, and establishment of a
student pub. Other areas of interest
include more understandable elec
tion regulations and a better defini
tion of the powers of the Judicial
Board.
Duane Thompson
Thompson is parliamentarian of
the Senate, a member of the traffic
panel, Student Academic Council
and the Scholarship Committee.
“I think my well-roundedness in
Student Government activities
qualifies me for vice-president of
Rules and Reg,” said Thompson.
Vice president of finance
Bill Flores
Practical experiences in financial
matters are the tools of Bill Flores, a
junior accounting major, as he seeks
RHA president
George Lippe
Better programming and dorm
life improvements are tops on
George Lippe’s list of plans for the
Residence Hall Association (RHA).
Lippe is a junior environmental
design major who is currently RHA
vice president and former president
ofPuryear Hall.
“We need programming for the
dorms to stimulate the Aggie
spirit,” Lippe said.
“The campus has not been as ac
tive this year as it was last year,” he
Larry Walker
Larry Walker, who is opposing
George Lippe for the RHA presi
dency, said he is tired of the dorm
student being a “third class citizen. ”
Walker said that facilities for stu
dents, particularly lounge areas, are
entirely inadequate.
“After midnight, there is no good
place for students to congregate.
They can’t go back to their rooms if
it’s a mixed group and the lounges
close at twelve,” he said.
While the lounges are open, he
noted, students vie for space to pur
sue their individual interests. Some
want to study, some prefer poker or
added, and attributed this in part to
the national status on the whole.
With the economic problems that
have been in evidence for so long,
he said, students have been affected
to the extent that they have lost
their self-awareness.
“There is not enough cohesion
within the dorms,” he said, “and not
enough emphasis on competitive
activities between them.”
Lippe said he would also like to
see improvements in on-campus
facilities and services. He cited
parking, menu planning and dorm
bridge, and others want to watch a
favorite television show. All this
goes on in one inadequate area.
“I’d like fo see the civilian
lounges renovated and redone like
the ones in the corps area, ” Walker
said.
These lounges have separate
areas for television, study and in
formal gathering.
Walker said he would also like to
see some of the older dorms reno
vated. He termed Milner and
Hotard Halls “barbaric.”
Another major problem area
Walker sees is the lack of activities
on weekends during most of the
year. He commended the efforts
improvements as a few of the neces
sities.
“I’d rather not get into every as
pect,” he said, “but find out from
the students, maybe by polling
them at the first of the year, what
they consider to be inadequate.”
From there he said he would es
tablish priorities and work on them
in a committee system.
“Sometimes we have to work
through the Student Senate,” he
said, citing the menu and laundry
boards as examples.
see LIPPE, page 4
made by Aggie Cinema and the
Basement Coffeehouse, but added
reservations.
“Not all students have the money
to go to a movie every week,” he
noted, “and the Coffeehouse can’t
get more than 150 people inside
without having the fire marshal on
its neck.”
He said he would like to see the
RHA Weekend activities expanded,
and that he would like to see fewer
date-oriented functions.
“I’d like to see more open-air
concerts in the plaza, and on
weekends instead of at noon when
see L. WALKER, page 4
Bill Flores
the Senate position of vice president
of finance.
For the past year, Flores has been
the Memorial Student Center vice
president of finance.
He prepared and presented the
MSC budget to the Student Ser
vices Fees Allocations Committee
and attended all the council’s hear
ings.
Flores believes students on the
Financial Committee should have
some business experience and, in
order to accomplish this, committee
members be drawn from the entire
student body.
Flores thinks the Student Busi
ness council chaired by the financial
V.P. could be the most im
portant committee in the
Senate by checking on all people
who spend student money.
Supporting a student on the
Board of Directors, he believes the
administration should pay more at
tention to student demands,
see FLORES, page 4
Joe Marcello
Experience, student input and
active leadership are the qualities
Joe Marcello, a graduate student in
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the college of science, hopes to
bring to the office of vice president
of finance.
Marcello’s qualifications include
membership in the Student Senate,
Student Service Fees Allocations
Committee, Student Academic
Council, Rules and Regulations
Committee, Graduate Student
Council President and participation
in the early development of the
Student Business Council.
Supporting the idea of a student
on the Board of Directors, Marcello
says students shouldn’t have to en
dure a building use fee increase or
the furnishings of the MSC refer
ring to them as a “God-forsaken at
rocity of a French whorehouse.”
Marcello stressed that as vice
president of finance and chairman of
the Student Business Council, he
would investigate all areas where
student money is used.
Marcello would also endorse the
see MARCELLO, page 4
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Jerri Ward
Jerri Ward, candidate for vice
president of external affairs, is run
ning unopposed in the upcoming
elections but says it is still her job to
get out and campaign.
Ward, a sophomore economics
major from Houston, has served on
several committees and has been
chairman of the Judicial Board. She
resigned that post when she de
cided to run in the election.
Ward believes that the Student
Government is more of an input or
ganization.
“There’s a lot of input from the
SG,” Ward said. “As far as its
power, I don’t think it has ever been
tested. ”
There were a few times she felt it
should have been tested such as in
see WARD, page 5
Rajesh Kent
Raj Kent
“I think it’s sad that the student
body has shown such apathy and to
think next year is our centennial,”
said Raj Kent, refering to his uncon
tested race for Student Government
(SG) vice president of academic af
fairs.
Kent, junior horticulture major,
said that during his term of office he
will try to use this year’s academic
evaluations to plan for next year. He
cited his experience on the planning
and production of the question
naires as an asset in the further
planning involving the results.
Expansion of the Student
Academic Council, a SG group that
meets with the faculty to coordinate
academic programs, is another one
see KENT, page 4