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Wednesday, October 23, 1985/The Battalion/Page 3 NOW’S THE TIME TO PREPARE State and Local Student Senate to hear bills designed increase input in legislative process By FRANK SMITH I Staff Writer Blwo bills designed to increase stu- jdent participation in the legislative fprotess are among business to be considered at tonight’s Student Sen- I ate meeting. « Dne calls for the establishment of tudent bill system, which would ■able a student to call attention to an issue concerning him by complet- jingand turning in a form to the Stu- Idem Government secretary. The f form would be referred to either the ■dent’s living area senator or aca demic college senator. Ilhis senator would then either prk with the student in preparing tislation or refer him to an appro bate legislative committee. The Student also would be granted taking privileges at Senate meet ings in which his bill was to be dis cussed. The other bill calls for the instal lment of an open forum procedure at Senate meetings. The bill would allow students to sign up for speaking privileges at the meeting. Laurie Johnson, speaker of the Senate, said the open forum bill of fers an alternative to a previous sys tem under which required students to sign up at the Student Govern ment office a week before a meeting to request speaking time. “If they want to speak at the Sen ate meeting, they’ll come to the meeting and just sign up with the speaker before the meeting (if the bill passes),” Johnson said. “They’ll be allowed five minutes to speak.” The old system allowed the stu dents three minutes to address the senators. Also scheduled tonight is the in troduction of a bill recommending that bicycle riding be prohibited on sidewalks within a substantial por tion of the central part of campus. The bill cites a large number of bi- cycle-related accidents on campus and the difficulty University Police have in enforcing bicycle regula tions. In other business, the Senate will be updated on the status of a bill call ing for increased security measures for students’ belongings in Sbisa Dining Hall. Originally introduced at the Sept. 25 Senate meeting, the bill has been held in the Student Services Committee since that time. Senators also will hear the first reading of a bill calling for reorgani zation of the student book exchange program. Johnson said the proposed reor ganization would allow a student to fill out a card and submit the follow ing information: the name of the book he wants to sell, the price and his phone number. Interested buy ers could come by the Student Gov ernment office and obtain this infor mation. “We’ll get all this information to gether but we’ll never actually han dle the money or the books. We’ll just exchange numbers,” Johnson said. The Senate also will hear the in troduction of a bill calling for en forcement of a University regulation prohibiting the giving of tests during dead week, the week immediately preceding final examinations. The Senate will meet at 7:30 p.m. in 204 Harrington Classroom Build ing. Success-bound RHA president Michele Fisher wears several hats at A&M i By MEG CADIGAN Staff Writer 1 Michele Fisher’s craziest Hallow een costume ever was an M&M dy. But, this year’s costume is a ret. jFisher is president of the Resi dence Hall Association which spon sors the campus-wide RHAlloween. ■ Fisher started out as RHA parlia- tmentarian as a freshman. She also ‘was a Student Government Fresh man Aide and a member of the Tra ditions Council. ■Fisher says she became interested |lbeing involved at A&M as a fresh- |man at Fish Camp, where she met Other student leaders. As a sophomore, Fisher was re ding secretary of the Student Senate and again RHA parliamenta- uia.n In her junior year she was RHA vice president. ■Fisher also has served on the Chancellor’s Student Advisory Board. Michele Fisher Fisher is a nationally certified parlia mentarian. She became interested in parliamentary procedure by partici pating in the Future Business Lead ers Club at Spring High School, she says. When the time came to choose a college, Fisher visited Texas A&M and University of Texas at Austin and decided she liked A&M better. “Everybody just seemed to know everybody,” she says. “It seemed like even if life was terrible I could make it here.” She says she thinks she made a good choice. “I’m doing things here 1 wouldn’t have dreamed of doing anyplace el se,” Fisher says. One of her more recent activities was as an assistant director of Fi|h Camp. Fisher says she enjoyed it because, “we all shared in the working and planning and it was interesting to see the whole project through.” In addition to her duties as RHA president, Fisher is involved in the College of Business Administration Fellows Program. She says she likes the program be cause it gives her the opportunity to hear lectures by various business men and to “learn what they really mean by professionalism.” Since program includes an inter nship, Fisher spent last summer handling all the accounting for A&M’s Department of Medical Mi crobiology and Immunology. “It was whole new cultural experi ence,” she says jokingly. She also is a member of the stu dent advisory board for the Aggie Credit Union. How does she still do well in school? “You just have to set your priori ties,” Fisher says. “If I have a half hour open, l don’t waste that time. I go home and do something.” She says a hobby she recently ac quired is going to meetings. 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