Music
Close-Up Interview
with Kula Shaker:
Page 11
Perspective
So Long to the
Greatest Columnist
Ever: Page 13
Sports
Men’s Basketball Win
One, Lose One on
Road: Page 20
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LOYOLAN
February 5, 1997
Marymount University
Volume 75, No.16
Budget Ballot
Makes Comeback
A Taste of the Classic
■ ASLMU: Ballot system
resurrected but student
turnout is low
by Susan Myers
Assistant News Editor
After a controversial compromise last
semester to reinstate the Budget
Ballot, students allocated nearly $10,000
last week to the organizations and clubs
of their choice.
Isang Bansa topped the list with a
total of $481, while Alpha Phi placed sec¬
ond with $449. Women’s lacrosse
received $418, the Latino Business
Student Association with $307, and Delta
Gamma came out with $290 of the stu¬
dent fees to round out the top five.
ASLMU President J. Ruben Gonzalez
explained, “We have a set percentage of
our budget set aside for allocation to
clubs. Two-thirds of that money went out
in the first semester.
The other third is being
allocated this semes¬
ter.”
According to
AS L MU’ s Vice
President of Finance
Sharon Marciniak, only
25 percent of the stu¬
dent population allo¬
cated their fees to be
used by the various
organizations. Twenty-
thousand dollars was
available for students
to distribute to clubs through Budget
Ballot, but only $9,370 of that money was
designated.
Marciniak also noted that the
remainder of the funds will be distributed
by the Allocations Board. The upset
began when ASLMU dropped Budget
Top Five
2. Alpha PM $449
5. Delta Gamma $290
Ballot and switched to a
Club Allocations Board,
which is made up of the
ASLMU president, vari¬
ous ASLMU vice presi¬
dents and five students at
large. Some clubs com¬
plained after the board
allocated less money than
they received through
Budget Ballot.
After a student peti¬
tion last October, ASLMU
reached a compromise
with clubs to use the allo¬
cations board for first
semester and Budget
Ballot second semester.
Next year, the system will
become a two-tiered
process, with the Budget
Ballot and Club
Allocations being conduct¬
ed each semester.
The compromise has
seemed to benefit those
clubs that favored either
method. For example,
MEChA benefitted more
from the allocations board
used last fall. Through
the ’95-’96 budget ballot,
MEChA received $625,
but through club alloca¬
tions in the fall they were
the top benefactors with
$3,650. This semester,
MEChA is in eighth place
with $256.
Isang Bansa remains at number one
from last year’s standing on the ballot.
They received $1,206 as a result of ‘95-
96’s Budget Ballot compared to the $1,500
they were allocated in the fall of ’96.
Because of the smaller percentage of
funds available after the fall semester,
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The 16th Annual Wine Classic drew over a thousand novice and expert wine tasters to Gersten
Pavilion Sunday to help raise money for student scholarships. See story, page 2.
students had $10 to donate to the club of
their choice instead of the previous $17
they could allocate in ‘95-‘96 budget bal¬
lot.
Last fall $40,000 had been allocated
to clubs, leaving only $20,000 available
for this semester’s budget ballot. The
change from club allocations to budget
ballot has resulted in $9,370 of the stu¬
dent association fee being used out of the
$20,000 that was available.
“When we switched from allocations
to budget ballot the shift [in the amount
of money distributed] was necessary,”
said Gonzalez.
Chuck Hattendorf, a member of the
men’s lacrosse team, said, “I thought it
was a better idea than having ASLMU do
it, because it gives students a say in how
money is spent, instead of having some¬
body arbitrarily give a lot of money to
one club as opposed to another club. It
gives the students a voice.”
SDS Opens Doors to New Offices
by Jason Foo
Assistant Film Editor
Student Development Services wel¬
comed the new semester on Thursday
with an open house celebrating their
recently-renovated facilities in the
Malone Student Center.
SDS encompasses the offices of Black
Student Services, Asian Pacific Student
Services and Chicano Latino Student
Services, as well as the
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with facilities Director, Chicano Latino Student Services perception
President Rev. Thomas P. O’Malley, S.J.
Davis noted that the concept of SDS
was student-driven. “Students of color
were making a very clear statement to
the University that was, We feel exclud¬
ed, we don’t feel
like we belong, we
do not have a
voice,”’ said
Davis. “SDS was
the voice for the
students to guide
them into a sense
of inclusion as
opposed to their
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CLSS director Leticia Vidal spoke at the SDS Open House.
that give us a
positive feel¬
ing,” said Dr. Greg Tanaka, act¬
ing associate dean for special
projects. “I feel we’re over the
hump on reorganizing the whole
office, the whole department,”
he added.
The open house included the
history and future of SDS, pro¬
vided by Dr. John Davis, chair¬
person of African American
Studies, and culminated in the
ribbon cutting by University
being excluded.”
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“This student
approach gives Loyola the character that
is in the framework of a Jesuit educa¬
tion,” Davis concluded.
The overall purpose of SDS is to pro¬
vide students with a sense of worth, to
validate who they are, said Tanaka. One
of the emphasis within SDS is for the
ethnic-specific offices to provide cultural
programming.
This year “SDS will expand its out¬
reach on campus to all students and will
Open House: page 4
The Red
Sweeps
Semi-Finals
by Dan Newton
Staff Writer
Competing against ten other acts that
ranged from gospel to classical gui¬
tar, The Red— a band made up entirely of
LMU students— won passage to the
finals of the MasterCard ACTS talent
showcase, after winning the western
regional semifinals last Tuesday night at
UCLA.
The band, which includes Keri
O’Neill, Sharon Powowarski, Marco
Aiello, Greg Terlizzi and Victor
Langhaarn, has been together for a year
and a half. According to Aiello, The Red’s
music is an eclectic mix of different
styles, that has been influenced by vari¬
ous artists such as U2 and The Beatles.
“Any A&R representative can see us and
classify us.” Aiello noted. “We’re not try¬
ing to limit ourselves to any one kind of
music.”
According to lead singer O’Neill,
“Every song is a place or an image. It can
be an individual situation or a story that
Red: page 4
INDEX
News
1
Feature
7
Campus Life
8
Music
11
Perspective
12
Art & Theater
14
Film
16
Sports
20
Classified
22
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