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Thursday • February8, Send your sweetie Sony. From the Texas A&M Womens Chorus sign up in the tvtSC February 5-9 , Singing Valentines • f ^ > to be delivered February ! 2 > 75 $10'on/$12'off campus : call 845-5974'M.SC 003-for more details /*t\ Texas A&M University /*T\ ijOnl, Native American Student Association, American Indian Science & Engineering Society ^ presents Keeping American Indian Culture Alive FEBRUARY 8,1996 7:00 P.M. MSC 224 featuring Rene Queton-Morgan Herbert Johnson, Jr. (Alabama-Coushatta) Livingston, TX (Kiowa-Seminole) Crowley, TX N. Bird Running Water (Cheyenne-Mescalero Apache) Austin, TX Roberta Whiteshield (Cheyenne) San Antonio, TX For More Information: Amber Clark Richard Burgess Multicultural Services 779-8214 589-2726 845-4551 ix FREE ADMISSION Please call the Dept, of Multicultural Services at 845-4551 three days prior to the event if you require special assistance. TONIGHT University Chamber Concerts Rudder Theatre 7:30pm Texas A&M University MUSIC BY THREE 1 Nokuthula Nowenyama Viola Rina Dokshinsky Piano Todd Palmer Clarinet Winners of the Younq Concert Artists Competition Performing music by Mozart, Liszt, and Harvey’s “Three Studies of George Gershwin” 845-1234 MSC Box Office Tickets: General - S10, Seniors, 65+ - $7, Students - S5 The Texas Commission on the Arts Attention Aggies! «f 2nd Annual «r Education Career Fair Date: Friday, February 9 Registration begins: 8:15am Booths Open: 10:00am - 1:30pm Place: Rudder Exhibit Hall Seminars 9-10am MSC 206 Legal, Moral & Ethical Dimensions of Teaching l:30-2:30pm Interviewing Tips & Techniques From the School District Point of View Education Career Fair hosted by: The TAMU Career Center The College of Education Page 2 • The Battalion Campus 'HE BA How to play campus politics fhursda^ ebruary 8, □ The Faculty and Student Senates and the Board of Regents share common goals but follow different legislative procedures. By Eleanor Colvin The Battalion Representatives of three Texas A&M Uni versity legislative bodies said students, fac ulty and staff members will be better repre sented if they understand the way the Stu dent Senate, the Faculty Senate and the Texas A&M Board of Regents work. The Student Senate and the Faculty Sen ate are advisory organizations to the A&M administration and the Board of Regents. The Board makes policies for the entire Texas A&M University System. Toby Boenig, A&M student body presi dent, said there is always a need for more student involvement in the Student Senate because it acts as the student voice to the administration. “More voices involved in the governing process makes things better,” he said. “We strive to have more students running for of fice and more students voting, to make the Senate something we can all be proud of.” Boenig said A&M has the highest stu dent-voter turnout in the nation, but that there is still room for improvement. “A&M is certainly the best, with a 25-per- cent voter turnout, but it can always be bet ter,” Boenig said. “Next year I would like to see 10,000 students vote, instead of 8,000.” Sixty student senators, voted into office by the student body, represent students from on-campus and off-campus living areas and academic colleges. Senators generate recom mendations based on student concerns. Five Senate committees research ideas and prepare recommendations that are vot ed on by the full Senate two weeks after they have been presented to it and after the Sen ate receives constituent input. Boenig said an example of a student generated issue is the recommendation the Senate made last spring to create a student library fee. “There was a general consensus that the library needed improving,” he said. “The new fee proposed by the Senate was a direct re sult of student interest in expanding and im proving library facilities.” Dr. Fierce Cantrell, speaker of the Facul ty Senate, said he does not think the number of faculty members involved in the Faculty Senate is high enough. "The U.S. cultures and internation al curriculum recommendations were the first two curriculum is sues that an A&M president out right rejected." — Dr. Pierce Cantrell speaker of the Faculty Senate for further consideration. The Academic Program Council comp® A&M’s provost, associate provost, deans, speaker of the Faculty Senate,st] dent body president and Graduate Council president. Cantrell said most Senate recommendat; are considered, if not approved, by Bowen. “The U.S. cultures and internationalt riculum recommendations were the firsttJ curriculum issues that an A&M presidd outright rejected,” he said. “The presiderl often request that resolutions are revisedj sharpened — they seldom reject them.” The cultures course recommendat:] called for adding a three-hour U.S. cultw and a three-hour international cultures:: quirement to students’ core curriculums. Faculty membcj c fr “We often hear complaints that we are not representing the faculty,” he said. “The Faculty Senate is just like Congress - if the faculty feels misrepresented, they should run for office.” The Senate acts as an advisory body to Dr. Ray Bowen, A&M president. Five Senate committees prepare resolu tions that are forwarded to Bowen after being approved by the general body of 93 senators. The president may approve or reject the Senate’s recommendations, or items may be referred to the Academic Programs Council nominate themselves] are nominated by I colleagues for Senatep sitions. Then the fanitj votes on the nominees. There is one senai::[ for every 25 faculil members. The Board of Regenli| is a legislative that considers recou mendations from tl:| Faculty Senate andsltl Student Senate, dents in general. Nine regents, appointed by the governor Texas, serve the A&M System for 6-year tenc Vickie Running, Board secretary, saidtl; regents want more student and faculty! put, since most issues originate at the Ui versity level and are then proposed to the: by the president or chancellor. The representatives of the three goverr. ing bodies said they share a common increasing faculty and student involvemet: in the legislative processes of A&M. 1$ Coi anc Br< wh; did has uni we wa - i : u ] and faculty voice their o the appropriate Senate. ent and Faculty Senates ommendations to alleviate Before the recommendations upon, they are drafted in BOARD OF REGENTS final draft of the recommendations sent to the A&M administration lor approval. The A&M istration includes Dr. Ray A&M president, and the emlc Programs Council. © Board of Regents makes policy forj entire Texas A&M University ■ By John Le The Batta VALENTINE ROSE SPECIAL Vase Ready 3 ROSE BOUQUET ,99 J^lowerama of 'Post Oak Mall ROSES 39. 99 dz. 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