New Executive Council discusses ASUSU Web site
In the first official meeting of the 2002-2003 Associated Students of Utah State University’s Executive Council, members discussed legislation on a new Web site and approved action items.
Camey Hatch, public relations vice president, proposed a bill requesting $5,000 from the Capitol and Support fund to create a professional ASUSU Web site.
Unused funds for the Web site will be returned, she said.
“We want this up and running before the fall,” she said.
A professional Web site would be important to ASUSU and to the general student body, Hatch said, in order to provide student with direct e-mail contacts for everything ASUSU does.
And, she said, “The main thing is to make it more user friendly.”
Although a bill written for a new ASUSU Web site failed in the former Executive Council’s legislation, Hatch said, the same bill has been rewritten with more specific information for the council to consider.
The bill will be further considered in next weeks Executive Council meeting.
The council was also debated an action item to either approve or turn down seven newly appointed members of the honor pool for The Honor System.
Celestial Starr Bybee, the new ASUSU president, said the honor pool’s duties are to hold hearings on academic and non-academic dishonesties involving students and the university.
All seven members were unanimously approved by the Executive Council.
In addition, the council approved their new House Rules for all 2002-2003 Executive Council meetings.
“[The rules] are what our meetings are run by. They make sure our meetings are efficient and council members know their boundaries and limits,” Bybee said.
In other business, Roger Karren, a senior computer science major, discussed with the council the possibility of reinstating the recently cut Programs and Entertainment mostly known for “An Evening with Glenn Miller.”
Karren said he is not directly involved with Programs and Entertainment but is a musician by trade.
“I’m growing weary of seeing arts programs being cut in favor of Athletic programs,” he said.
USU spends an estimated $195,000 on “An Evening with Glenn Miller,” Karren said, with the show actually costing close to $300,000 and a revenue of $450,000.
Karren said this show helps finance the school and should be brought back.
However, Mike Monson, of the Resident Hall Student Association, said the university had to cut the program because they lost state funding which subsidized “An Evening with Glenn Miller” in the first place.
He said many other programs and student services are being compacted and affected by the cut in state funds.
Bybee said she recommended Karren write a resolution for Programs and Entertainment and present it to the vice president of Student Services.