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m
irst senate meeting
is orientation session
ByED ALANIS
Staff Writer
The newly elected 1984-
|985 Student Senate held its
Jirsl meeting Wednesday
light. But the meeting
linly served as an orienta-
session, no business was
ansacted.
Next year’s Student Body
sident David Alders ad-
Iressed the group and en
raged each senator to
to make a positive
igein the environment of
(exas A&M.
Alders also announced that
:would be appointing a spe-
studenl btxly president
dvisory council. The council
consist of 10 members,
are involved in various
anizations throughout the
npus, he said.
“these students will not
necessarily share my opin
ions,” Alders said, “but rather
they will serve to hold me ac
countable for the goals I have
set out to accomplish.”
Alders also will appoint a
special assistant to the student
body president.
One of the first tasks of the
new senators will be to choose
a Student Government com
mittee to serve on. Also, at
the April 25 Student Senate
meeting, the senators will
elect the speaker of the senate
and the speaker pro tern.
Vice President for Aca
demic Affairs Tom Urban
said the main goal of his com
mittee next year will be to
fight to preserve the senior fi
nal exam exemption policy.
The committee also will work
to increase library hours and
computer
said.
lab hours, Urban
The main goal of the Stu
dent Senate Finance Commit
tee next year will be to work
at increasing student input
into the allocation of the Uni
versity Center fees. Mike Kel
ley, the new vice president of
that committee, said it will
work in particular on the ad
ministration of the newly es
tablished University Center
Reserve Fund.
The Student Services Com
mittee will continue its work
to establish outdoor study
areas around the campus and
to have large maps of the
campus placed in some of the
main buildings. Michael Mul-
cahy is the vice president of
that committee.
School prayer debate
clouded by confusion
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ly KATHLEEN WEST
Reporter
iixth congressional district
pdate Hugh Parmer,
dnesday, said he will carry
empty chair with “Dan ?”
men on the back for the next
ee weeks prior to the Demo
tic party’s May 5 primary,
said the chair will represent
ponent Dan Kubiak’s refusal
lebate him.
'This empty chair has to rep
ent my opponent Dan Ku-
k because I can’t gel him to
or solo, ptii etme in a televised debate of
that are of impor-
ce to the people of the sixth
gressional district,” Parmer
le said he wanted a chance
compare his own record as a
te senator to Kubiak’s record
aslate representative,
western pitfarmer criticized Kubiak’s
musical inS isumer voting record calling
“When you put my record
against Kubiak’s record,”
Parmer said, “you have a case
where I have supported the
public interest and Kubiak
voted with the special interests.”
Parmer said debates serve a
public interest because they let
people see the candidates and
hear their stands on issues. He
said Kubiak’s refusal to debate
is serving his own political inter
ests, not the public interest.
“On a face to face basis it’s
hard to fool a TV camera. If
you’ve got three or four hours
and you have all your press peo
ple writing your response you_
can come up with some pretty
clever ideas,’’Parmer said.
“I have no intention of par
ticipating in deversionary tactics
in order to seek media atten
tion,” Kubiak said.
By JILL GOLDEN
Reporter
Confusion was the key ingre
dient in the final debate of the
semester sponsored by the
Texas A&M Debate Team
Wednesday night.
The confusion was the diffi
culty both sides had in defining
organized school prayer. As a
result, by the end of the debate
most people in the over
crowded room agreed with each
other.
The pro side headed by Tim
othy Riehf, a junior business
analysis major from Los An
geles, defined organized prayer
as the right of a group to volun
tarily gather in school, specif
ically during a break or lunch,
to pray together.
The con side headed by Da
vid Dick, a sophomore finance
and accounting major from San
Antonio, defined organized
prayer as a specific prayer time
set aside when all must partici
pate.
Dick was hissed at for saying
organized prayer was a prayer
of the tongue, not the heart.
Dick counter attacked saying
meaningless repetition would
not be hear d by Cod and added
that was what organized prayer
would be.
Riehl said the right to prayer
is constitutionally protected. He
added that public schools are
models of society and should in
clude prayer to develop chil
dren morally and spiritually.
“When you’re face to
then I think the truth c
through,” he said.
face.
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the Texas House ot Rep-
entatives.
Kubiak, in an earlier press re
lease, said Parmer is trailing far
behind in the polls.
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Riehl’s final point in favor of
organized school prayer was
that a person’s commitment to
religion should not be denied in
any area of life — including
school.
Dick said organized prayer
was not voluntary and could re
sult in brainwashing.
When the debate was opened
to the audience, a con audience
member clarified the somewhat
subdued debate by saying the
cons agreed with the pros that
individuals should be allowed to
voluntarily gather at school to
pray. Both sides cheered.
The voice vote at the end was
close but the counted vote
pushed the pros ahead by a
large margin.
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