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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY, MARCH 2,2001
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IM sports fee increase fails, RBT to receive blanket tax
by Meghan Miller
THRESHER STA1T
Three of the four referenda on the
Student Association General Elec-
tions ballot passed this week, each
with at least 70 percent of the vote.
Rice BroadcastTelevision became
a blanket tax organization, intramu-
ral sports did not receive student ap-
proval to raise its fee, and both the
Student Association and Honor Coun-
cil Constitutions were amended.
A proposal to increase the Intra-
mural Sports fee from $10 to $15
failed by 2.25 percent. The additional
money would have gone toward in-
creasing referee wages and improv-
ing equipment. Director of Student
Activities Mona Hicks said.
The increase was put to a vote
because the fee was established by
referendum in 1993.
"Those were the measures
through which it was established,"
Hicks said. "I'm just trying to follow
the protocol that was set."
However, some students ques-
tioned the necessity of the referen-
dum.
"I can't pinpoint why [the refer-
endum failed]Hicks said. "There's
just so much energy about why we
were going about it the way we did
that it took away from the issue."
Hicks and Tina Villard, intramu-
ral sports director, plan to meet with
undergraduate sports representa-
tives to decide what to do next. They
are not sure whether they will put
the referendum to a vote again or if
they will approach the administra-
tion. However, they insist the pro-
gram needs more funds.
"I have to get the money, some-
how, some way," Villard said. "If it
means next year we'll be doing this
again, it's that important, that's what
we'll do. We'll explore all the options
we have."
RBTs referendum increased the
blanket tax by $4 per student. The
tax will generate about $10,000 per
year for the organization.
RBT President Travi» Johnson, a
Hanszen College sophomore, said
60 percent of the funds each year
will be spent on equipment, creating
a good studio and improving equip-
ment for use outside of the studio.
Also, RBT will purchase a $4,000
video server to allow the station to
broadcast 24-hour programming,
controlled remotely from any com-
puter on Rice's network.
RBT also plans to use about
$1,000 to air recently released mov-
ies, and organizers want to plan cam-
pus events for these releases.
Students also voted to pass refer-
enda changing both the SA and the
Honor Council's constitutions were
also passed. Both sets of changes
clarified the documents and cor-
rected inaccuracies.
The SA started working on the
changes last April, outgoing SA
President Lindsay Botsford said.
DANIEL KOCEVSKI/THRESHER
Rice Broadcast Television organizers said they hope to ^se the blanket tax funds students approved in the General
Elections to add new equipment such as a video server to their studio in the Mudd Building.
"We started looking at it last spring
and realized we weren't going to make
any progress," Botsford, a Wiess jun-
ior, said. "Most of the changes were
made last semester and halfway
through this semester."
The major change in the Honor
Council Constitution is an increase
in the graduate student representa-
tion, from four representatives to
between four and 10 representatives.
The council decided to make the
change in order to equalize the
graduate to undergraduate student
ratio. Graduate students make up
about 40 percent of the students at
Rice. However, there were only four
graduate students and 22 under-
graduate representatives on the
council in the past.
Other changes can be found at
http: //s a. rice.edu/amendments/
sa.htm and http://sa.rice.edu/amend-
ments/honorcouncil.htm, respectively.
Many offices uncontested, other positions remain for Spring Elections
CANDIDATES, from Page 1
James Dallal, a Lovett College
junior, did not appear on the ballot
due to academic ineligibility, though
he was initially considered a candi-
date and participated in last week's
presidential debates. (See Stoiy,
Page 4.) Dallal received 2.98 per-
cent of the vote as a write-in candi-
date. W XOf!
"1 appreciate that people sup-
ported me despite the fact that I
wasn't a candidate," Dallal said.
Because the ballots are cast
online, some students whose II)
numbers were not in the SA data-
base had difficulties voting. Students
who had problems were told to con-
tact Hanszen senior Igor Karpov,
who handled the technological end
of the elections.
'The registrar gives us a data-
base at the beginning of the year,
and some people don't have their
IDs in there," Karpov said. "What
they do is e-mail me and I'll put them
in the database."
The other four elected SA offic-
ers were uncontested. Brown Col-
lege sophomore Uri McMillan will
be the external affairs vice presi-
dent, and Sid Richardson College
sophomore Kim Tran will be the
internal affairs vice president.
"My main goal is to change the
campus climate, specifically with
respect to race and sexual orienta-
tion," McMillan said. "I want to
make the campus more comfort-
able for students so they don't feel
like they have to move off-campus,
and get student organizations more
involved with the SA by making
them more aware of what the SA
does."
'If anything, I would
like to see more Rice
music played on
[KTRUJ. I don't want it
to be about me
personally, but I want it
to be about the music.'
— Ben Home
KTRU station manager-elect
Hanszen freshman Caroline
Glendenning will be secretary, and
the treasurer will be Sid junior Anita
Rajadhyaksha.
Hanszen junior Angela Durbin
was elected president of Rice Pro-
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gram Council in an uncontested elec-
tion.
"I want to encourage more ipirit
and involvement with the campus in
athletics," Durbin said.
Ben Home, a Wiess junior, will
be KTRU's first station manager
elected by the student body. Elec-
tion of the student station manager
was part of the compromise KTRU
and the SAcame to with the admin-
istration after KTRU was shut down
last December. The shutdown fol-
lowed the station management's
clash with administrators over the
number of sports events to be broad-
cast.
"By no means am I trying to radi-
cally alter the station," Home said.
"If anything, I would like to see more
Rice music played on [ KTRIIJ. I don't
want it to be about me personally,
but I want it to be about the music."
Home said he wants to improve
the relationship between student
athletes and the resl of the student
body. "If we understood where each
other was coming from, there'd be
mutual respect," Home said.
I^eslie Liu and Robert Reichle,
Wiess juniors, were elected edi-
tors in chief of The Rice Thresher.
Outgoing SA President Lindsay
Botsford will be one of the under-
graduate representatives on the
University Council. Since she was
the only person running for two
open spots, the other position will
be chosen in the Spring Elections,
March 23-28.
There were no candidates for
editor in chief of the Campanile, so
the yearbook editor will also be
decided in the next round of elec-
tions.
Will Rice College sophomore
Steven Caufield and Jones College
sophomore Chad Chasteen are the
new co-chairs of the Rice Student
Volunteer Program. The two said
Ihey hope to increase RSVP visibil-
ity on campus and improve partici-
pation. Caufield and Chasteen ran
uncontested.
"We want to improve Outreach
Day and hopefully expand it to get a
larger participation," Chasteen said.
"We want to make RSVP more of a
campus organization than it has
been lately, basically through a lot
of publicity, and just keep going
with the programs that we have
that are good, and hopefully fix the
ones that are not working, and
maybe come up with some new
ones."
ROD GAODI/THHf SHEW
Hanszen College juniors Gavin Parks and Jamie Lisagor were elected SA co-
presidents in the General Elections, which ended Wednesday. Their election
follows controversy about whether multiple people can hold the SA presidency.
Also elected in uncontested races
were RSVP Treasurer Ian White, a
Brown freshman, and Secretary
Sharel Ongchin, a Hanszen fresh-
man.
My main goal is to
change the campus
climate, specifically
with respect to race and
sexual orientation. I
want to make the
campus more
comfortable for
students so they don't
feel like they have to
move off-campus.'
— Uri McMillan
SA external affairs vice
president-elect
Hanszen freshman Kate Floyd
defeated Wiess freshman Phyllis
Huang for RSVP internal vice chair.
Three candidates were initially on
the ballot for internal vice chair,
but Will Rice freshman Renee
Edlutul voluntarily withdrew from
the race Tuesday night. Edlund
refused to comment on her rea-
sons for withdrawing from the elec-
tion.
Write-in candidate Brown junior
Matt Ludwig received 3.86 percent
of the vote for SA president. Ludwig
was also a write-in in seven other
elections.
Trushar Sarang, a Hanszen se-
nior, was a write-in in 11 elections,
receiving .59 percent of the presi-
dential vote. Sarang won both Uni-
versity Court senior representative
and Honor Council representative-
at-large last year as a write-in. He
declined the IJ. Court position but
served on the Honor Council.
Lisagor and Parks also received
write-in votes supporting each of
them alone, not as a team. Lisagor
got 1.39 percent and Parks received
1.69 percent.
COLLEGE
PRESIDENTS
Baker: Neil Little
Brown: Mike Chapman
Hanszen: Erik Vanderlip
Jones: Steven Wilbur
Lovett: Daniel "Rizzo" Arizpe
Martel: Election date to be
announced
Sid: Anisha Patel
Wiess: Amy Schindler
Will Rice: Jesse Dickerman
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