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Student
declines judiciary seat nomination
By
Daniel Linck Savino
Daily Forty-Niner
Assistant Opinion Editor
In
a shorter than usual meeting yesterday,
the Associated Students Senate discussed
judiciary nominations, donations to the
crew team, the possibility of a campus recreation
center and heard a plea for clean elections.
Michael
Ruttie, nominee to the Associated Students
Judiciary, has withdrawn his name from consideration
for the position of associate justice. Ruttie,
who was nominated by President Mike Johnson,
would have filled the last vacant seat on
the Judiciary. The Judiciary currently has
one chief and four associate justices.
The
school crew team is $10,000 closer to buying
a new boat. The Board of Control, under
the direction of Treasurer Rebekah Smith,
recently approved a grant for the team.
They
will use the money as a down payment on
the new rowing shell. With that money, the
team is $42,000 short of the shell's total
price.
Though
there is the possibility of future grants
from Associated Students Inc., the remainder
of the money will mostly come from the club.
"The
crew team does an insane amount of fund
raising," Smith said.
The
issue of a campus recreation center has
surfaced again. Brailsford and Dunlavey,
the consulting firm that ran focus groups
to determine student interest in a center,
presented their report Friday of last week
to the University Student Union's board
of directors. The Senate, which approved
the board's minutes, has now brought full
circle the first stages of building a recreation
center.
The
end result of the survey is a need to do
more surveys to get more specific information
on the proposed center. The Senate's next
move will be to determine whether or not
to continue with the survey process. Senate
chairman and ASI Vice President Erik Joliff
said, "It looks like something we want
to move forward with."
In
the Senate gallery was Jeb Sprague, leader
of a coalition of several student groups
that has opposed the center since the idea
first became public at the start of the
semester.
During
the comments period of the Senate meeting,
Sprague announced that the coalition has
changed their group's name, which previously
reflected their anticipation that the center
would cost $35 million. The new name, The
CSULB Coalition to Stop The $48 Million
Rec. Center, adds $13 million to their previous
estimate.
At
the beginning of the meeting, Andrew Brooks,
a political science major and regular attendee
of the meetings, briefly talked to the Senate
about the importance of clean election campaigns.
This electoral season has seen a particularly
vigorous struggle among the five major candidates
for the presidency.
"As
a student I am far more interested in what
a candidate stands for," Brooks said.
"I am not interested in hearing...the
flaws of the other person."
He
went on to say "I don't want to see
the candidates wasting valuable debate time
and killing trees, writing and making miscellaneous
pointless statements."
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