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Page 14 • The Battalion Campus Wednesday • October ll,l)| Regents Continued from Page 1 body president, said that he hopes to see a lot of students at the meeting. “I try taking the majority view to the Board of Regents,” Boenig said. “But there are lots of other viewpoints out there. They make so many decisions that pertain to students that they need to know who they are.” Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M presi dent, said the Board has shown a willingness to work with students in the past and continues to do so. “This is a very student-orient ed Board,” Bowen said. “They [deal with] very large and com plex issues. For the Texas A&M University students, it’s fantas tic.” Allen said he looks forward to the open house because of the chance to meet students. “It’s so rare that we have an opportunity to interface directly with the students,” he said. “I think it’s great.” Leaders Continued from Page 1 “reachable,” but that they often are too drastic. “Sometimes it’s to the extreme, and I wish it wasn’t,” Huffman said. Dawn Kirby, a senior civil engineering major, said she feels the same way about the student leaders. “There’s some [actions] that I agree with, but some of the actions they take for some of things they believe in, I don’t like,” Kirby said. Some students said their student leaders are reachable and concerned. David Bone, a senior mechanical engineering major, said he feels student leaders often work hard to discover general public opinion. Bone said he has encountered several student senators who canvas people they know for opinions. Bone feels his leaders can get the job done and an swer student concerns. “It might take you awhile to bring it to the right per. I son, like any bureaucracy, but they’ll address it sooner® | later,” Bone says. Other students said the Student Government seems I far removed from students and their concerns. Nancy Blackwell, a senior civil engineering major. I said she never thought about those who represent heron | campus and she would not know who to contact with a question or problem. “I don’t even know who most of the people are,' she said. t Q & A Continued from Page 1 of Science or off-campus students, none of the five locations is more logical than the others. Dickson said this situation is not a problem, because any senator is qualified to answer general questions, and com ments and concerns about particular col leges or portions of the student body will be relayed to the appropriate senators. “The senators will take your concerns down, and someone will get back to you,” he said. “And at least you will have addressed the problem.” Because the multiculturalism propos al is a hot topic right now, senators said they hope to receive a lot of student feedback and questions about the pro posed culture requirements. There are two forms of the cultures course requirement bill, one passed by the Faculty Senate and one by the Stu dent Senate. However, due to concerns that the cultures bill might not represent the views of a majority of the student body, the Student Senate is considering re pealing their version of the bill. Becky Silloway, Student Senate speaker, said student response will like ly determine what stance the Senate takes on the issue. “The whole idea of the repeal is that we don’t know what the students want,” Silloway said. “I’d like students to voice their opinions about the cultures course and anything else that is on their minds.” Elizabeth Neugart, an off-campus senator and junior biomedical major, said the Senate received criticism last year for making decisions without suffi cient regard to student opinion. If the concept of Constituency Day catches on, Neugart said it will proba bly be an effective way for the Senate to better understand the views of the student body. 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