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Page 4 The Prospector - April 5, 1983
The Prospector
Editor in chief...
Managing editor.
News Editor.....
Leticia Zamarripa
....Andrea Plaza
...Dino Chiecchi
pinion
Prospector endorses top 3 SA posts
In an effort to play an active role in this year’s Student Associa-
tion elections, The Prospector chose to endorse candidates for the
offices of president, vice president for internal affairs and vice
president for external affairs.
X five-member panel comprised of three editors and two staff
writers interviewed the candidates and rated them on leadership,
knowledge of student association matters, maturity and pro-
student motives.
Newsroom telephone number.............747-5161
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to protesting
student SOVC.
Students voting
or student govt.
Washington for president |
Diana Washington, 29, senior journalism major, is
this newspaper’s choice for SA president. Washington’s
platform is issue-oriented. It presents problems she says
she believes are a threat to the student population, and it
outlines an answer for each problem.
Perhaps what most impressed The Prospector panel
about Washington was her interest in legislative matters
and the impact legislation, now in Congress, could have
on students. Washington said she and members of her
ticket already have approached several legislators, in-
cluding El Paso’s Mary Polk, with the possibility of us-
ing the Permanent University Fund for projects other
than construction. She is interested in working with Polk
to see to it that the PUF can be used for educational pro-
grams, teachers’ salaries and books.
Washington also was the one candidate that spoke
clearly and aggressively on defending students’ rights on
this campus. She said she would like to be remembered
as one who worked toward making the administration
“respect student rights.”
The office of SAC president is an important office.
And we think that whoever fills this position should be
sincerely concerned about students, their rights and the
quality of education they receive. The office demands
dedication, knowledge and guts. And The Prospector
staff believes that Diana Washington meets these re-
quirements and could serve as the students’ direct com-
munication pipeline to the administration.
Crease offers experience
Andrea Crease, 42, unclassified graduate student, is not
just experienced, she’s over qualified for the position of vice
president for internal affairs.
She claims to be experienced in being able to pick leader-
ship — people who are serious and can get a job done.
Crease helped elect a third political party while living in the
Virgin Islands. She helped organize and elect the ICM and it
has been in office for 11 years.
She was a professional writer for the Kennedy Administra-
tion. She wrote platforms for several people running for of-
fice, especially minorities running for government.
At UT El Paso, she is eagerously believes in organizing
committees to resolve important legislative matters facing the
students and, most importantly, working toward “getting
things out of committee.”
She has actively participated in the Leadership Develop-
ment Program and while completing her first degree she was
on a four-year leadership scholarship.
Andrea Crease is mature and well-qualified for the position
of internal affairs vice president.
PR woman can do job
Robbie Farley, 30, senior journalism major, says she is
qualified for the position of vice president for external affairs
because she has the contacts and experience in dealing with
legislators. The Prospector agrees.
Farley was business manager for the Southwest Repertory
Organization.
She is concerned about looking ahead and anticipating pro-
blems arising from legislation before they strike students on
the campus by “constantly examining records of legislator
meetings at state, national and local level.”
She said she also would tap her already established sources
in the community to try to generate more money and support
for the University and all of its programs. And in doing so,
she said she would make sure she was representing the entire
student populous and not just a specific clique. She plans, if
elected, to talk to and exchange ideas with campus clubs and
organizations. Farley has already vowed to the College of
Nursing and Allied Health that she would meet with them
once a month and have a monthly nursing school report in the
SAC agenda in efforts to provide a link between the nursing
students and the main campus.
Farley also is in favor of a “student gasoline discount.”
And she already has presented her proposal to Mary Polk and
Tati Santiesteban.
Farley has the student in mind and she has the right idea.
Her job is one that requires a lot of legwork and public rela-
tions. She has what it takes to assume the role of external af-
fairs vice president, and assume it effectively.
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©1983 The Prospector
Things aren’t that hot around here
I offically encourage all of
you to participate in the Student
Association elections scheduled
for April 5 and 6. Yeah, I know
that for the most part the can-
didates in this election are
unknown to us, but that’s what
happens when campaigning is
done hours before an election.
I’m not going to feel very
comfortable voting, because I
haven’t had a chance to
challenge everything and
anything a candidate has to say.
I haven’t had a chance to make
the candidates fully explain
their words.
Technically, I haven’t had the
chance to do any of this.
There’s been some campaign-
ing, and one forum. The Pro-
spector could be blamed for not
prodding the candidates into the
game, as it were, calling for
declarations and other related
political material common to
elections. Perhaps the editors
needed to realize that the can-
didates were not going to do
anything until hours before the
election, and could have
organized some type of infor-
mation discharge to be publish-
ed about a week before elec-
tions.
But it’s here that I realize I’m
taking this student election (and
government) far more seriously
than it deserves. The lack of a
genuine campaign perhaps ex-
presses best that the candidates
in this election aren’t taking
things very seriously. They’re
not taking us seriously. They’re
crazy if they think handing The
Prospector some painstakingly
prepared written statement on
the issues and making a few
general and broad political
comments will satisfy “the
voters.” I oppose injustice and
favor order.
Ask yourself one question:
What are the issues the 1983-84
UT El Paso student body will
face?I have a feeling many can-
didates will be throwing the
Pink Flamingos thing around,
calling it an issue and crying
about the injustice of it all,
because it’s politically popular
to do that right now. And not
because it’s something that can
be remedied in a way to make-
up for the shafting we took
from the administration, but
because the event was so lame
that mere thought on it
generates the list of strong emo-
tions.
So other than that, what else
faces us? Tuition increases?
What about parking? There’s
only so much room around
here, and honestly in the five
years I’ve been enrolled, I’ve
never failed to find a parking
space. It may have been two
miles from my class, but I
always looked at the walk as ex-
erci e I don’t get from burying
my head in books.
So where does this leave us?
What situation is looming in the
distance that will require the
services of a student govern-
ment? You tell me.
Remember UT Austin
eliminated their student govern-
ment several years ago. That’s
the largest school in the system,
with a student population that
can fill the expanded Sun Bowl
stadium 50,000 plus. And I
haven’t heard any reports from
Austin on any new chamber-of-
horrors that UTA’s administra-
tion has layed on the represen-
tativeless students.
Off Base
By
Douglas Hanson
Columnist
If the candidates for a student
government election don’t start
their campaigns until just
before the elections, then I in-
terpret that to mean there’s not
much around to get politically
bent about. Which raises what I
think should be a central issue
in this and future Student
Association elections.
Do we need the SA as it ex-
ists? Can’t the good SA pro-
grams, such as File-A-Book and
day care services, be maintained
with the same efficiency as now
but with three-quarters fewer
persons? Does this campus real-
ly move fast enough to warrant
a full-blown council? UT Austin
doesn’t, which doesn’t mean
much until you look at
numbers.
I think SA could assume a
role similar to that of a city
manager and still accomplish
something on this campus.
Because for the most part when
I think of SA I think of a group
of sincere students valiantly try-
ing to deal with genuine issues
being hindered by this campus’
commuter orientation, the
apathy that results and the sim-
ple fact that things just aren’t
that hot around here.
Vote this week. And see if
you don’t come away thinking
that these elections are genuine-
ly “much ado about nothing.”
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