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ICC meeting heated; issues unresolved by Rochel J. Wllliams ÂŁ:cec11tive Editor
Sparks new a1 Wednesday's ln1er-Club Council meeting as a result of a proposal approved by the Board ofTrustees and a bill proposed by ASNIC Senator Patrick Camie. The resolution states the chronology of the events leading up 10 Feb. 16 when the Sw1e of Idaho Anorney General sent a legal guideline stating the law is clear that NIC must rccogniz.c Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Alliance and failure 10 do so would viola1e LGBA members' rights. TI1c second half of the resolution slOtes that as long as student organiuuions are recognized as clubs by ASNIC they will be independently recognized by the Board as oflicinl "Clubs of NIC" including LGBA. Also, ii reads tha1 the odministmtion is directed 10 mnkc criteria for recognition of clubs 10 ensure that they have equal treatment. Confusion over the resolution's meaning was equally mixed with concerns regarding the bill dmftcd by Camic dealing with club funds and club status. Various representntives voiced their concern over losing recognition as clubs or possibly losing their funding. Speaking up almost immediately was a reprcsenta1ive from the LGBA, Anron Jones. He said that ASNlC was going about the whole ordeal bl-cause it still didn't agree with having a gny club on campus. "You denied our voice because it didn't ma1ch what your voice said," Jones said 10 Higgins. Another side expressed worry about the clubs being disbanded completely. "We're all a li1tle concerned that were not going to be sitting here next month," PTK Representative Carla Austin said. ASN!C Vice President Ryan
Higgins and Camie assured the representatives that would nol be the case. Higgins slated later that the issues of funding and admi nistrative involvement with clubs are completely separate and though they both tie in somcwha1, tbey should not be confused. "The intent of the bill was not 10 destroy ICC or anything like that," Camie said. 'The bill hasn't got through yet, righ1? And if it does, ICC will still ex isl, we'll still give out funds for participation and activities." Representative Linda Payne. one of the most outspoken persons in the meeting, said that it sounded ns if ASNIC was giving away whul power they had to the Board. She likened the situation 10 a 16-year-old being denied the use of his parcnt.s ' cur because he go1 in trouble. However. the kid never wants 10 use the car ngnin. "It's really jus1 revenge," Payne said. "and cutting off your nose to spite your foce, basically." Others present voiced comments such as "does sound like revenge" or "sounds like a mntrum 10 me." "If you really wan1 more power," Austin said along with Payne. "what you should do is create more requirements." Camie brought up the poin1 that ASNIC has gone over the handbook extensively in the interest of handling the situation correctly. "I think we know just about all there is to know about 1hc clubmaking process," he said. Austin said that what has happened has happened and the renl reason the meeting was held was to see if the clubs are still going 10 exist, which, according 10 Carnie, they do, and nothing is changing except that cennin approved clubs will now be recognized by the Board and others by ASNIC. The statement caused
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photo by Alan Steiner Shreddln'- NIC student Steve Bryant stands before Silver Mountain, ready to do battle with his snowboard.
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