Faculty humanist focuses energies
Mother's Day concerts slated
Eleven qualified for track Nat'ls
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Thursday, May 5, 1988
Volume 42, Number 13
Special meeting called for student fee check by Craig Bruce
Free Wheeling
Slade Zumtlole
NIC's free spirit illusions are in limbo until finals end.
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A demand lhat the board of trustees repc.11 the Outdoor ~aciUties Fee and return money collected by the fee to the students of NIC was issued at an emergency meeuns of the Associated Students of North Idaho College on April 19 The emergcn.:~ meeting was called after Oc;in of Administration Rolland Jurgen., requc-stcd a SIO inc:rcnsc in s1udent iees to pay for campu, remodeling pro;c.:t,, su.:h ih the Ri~cr /\, enue parl..mg for pa, mg proJecl. The Outdoor Fa.:11iti~ Fee wa\ pro~ed and a.:,cpted b) the board of tru,tec-. an \pril. 1982 It proposed thar ,tudent fee, be us,:d for on-.:ampu\ proJc.:t~ such as parking lot e:1.pansion and othe• remodeling projects. ASl\ IC feels that the fee is inappropriate under Idaho law and that it is the state's responsibility to maintain sum buildings. After meeung "ith Norm Gissel, attorney for NIC students, senators Vicki Cade and Pam Marcheski drafted a letter to lhe board of trustees. lo addition 10 demanding lhe repeal of the Outdoor Facilities Fee, the leuer asks Lhai all money collected to date under the fee be returned to students in a way to be later determined.
In the Apliil 2.S meeting. President of Voanional Students Sheri Chnsl' urged more interaction between ASNIC 3nd the Voc3tion31 Student Cou ncil. Only 10 percent of NIC students arc in 1he vocational program. "hile the rem3ining 90 percent are academic students. Vocauonal ~llldcnts feel they need more represent3tion, Chase said. Member~ of the VocatiOn31 Student Council. "hich is responsible ior managing the vocational budget. asked for ,alarics for their president. viccprc~idcnt and secrctary-trcruurer. The !>alaries would come from 1ht ,,ocationnl budget. On the issue of salaries. Cade was opposed to seuing a prC'Cedcnt for clubs on campus. but Senator Lowell Eklof stated that Vocational Student Council is not a club. Eklof, who represents vocational students in the ASNIC Senate, argued that Vocational Student Council and ASNIC Senate make up student government at NIC. A motion was then passed to allow ne.~1 year's Vocational Student Cou ncil to give salaries of S100 each to president and vice-president and S50 for secretary / treasurer.
Festivities hosted for pre-exam tension reliever by Walter Ross
A Spring Festival, jointly spcn}ored by ASNIC and <;.E.A.L., i~ happening today at 2:30 p.m. Billed as "pre-fin3l exam tension releaser." e,cnts ·ludl" live music: by Golhrun. a k~ing booth and free Jt dogs and watennelon. Other events include: a dunk tank with IC President Or. Robert lknneu and physical sciences inSLructor Lloyd Ma rsh pro,•idi ns gn1'i tation3l fodder : mud
wrestling featuring pan-time mudmen Oa~id Lindsay. dean of student sef\ ices. and Chairman of Physical Sciences Bob Bohac; a pie-in-the-face booth "1th targelS, Duke Sn)'der anthropology 1nstnmor, Warren Ducote " ork study coordinator and Dale Marcy chemistry irutructor. lo addition. there "ill be a tugof-\,ar bet"t<n NIC facult} and students. S.E.A.L. Vice-President Marty Eh in IS encourag-
iog Lhc various dcpartmenlS or faculty and clubs 10 partictp;ite in some of the activities to provide the greatest amount of entertllinmcnt for spectating studentS. He suggested carnival-type games, races. the pie-in-the-face and mud wrestling. Interested parties arc encouraged to con1ac1 Elvin if they wish to participate. Messages ca n be lef1 in Ted Fuentes-Williams' or Dave Foster's mailboxes.