STUDENT SENATE: Bookstore costs committee created
By LAURA ROMPF
Assistant News Editor
Communication between faculty, students and the bookstore is essential for positive changes to be made, Knott Hall senator Michael Pfaff told the senate Wednesday night.
Pfaff, along with the Academic Affairs committee, presented a resolution regarding the formation of the bookstore academic committee.
"We want to investigate how the bookstore is run and how the bookstore can better serve the student body," Pfaff said. "Right now, there is no formal forum between the student body and the bookstore. This resolution will create a forum."
Pfaff said the new committee will be comprised of two senators, a Student Union Board (SUB) member, a member of Flipside, an office of the president representative, a faculty senate member and a member of the bookstore's managerial staff.
"The goal of this committee will be to serve student interests as well as the bookstore's interests," Pfaff said. "We want the bookstore to be a more integral part of student academic life and student social life."
Pfaff said members of SUB and Flipside were included on the committee because suggestions have been made to use the bookstore for more programming events. Pfaff said membership on the committee is especially important for Flipside.
"Flipside has a very small budget and many of their venues are off-campus," he said. "We would like to help them do more on campus."
Pfaff said the resolution's main goal is to make open communication easier. "If there's going to be any change, the change needs to come from communication between the Notre Dame student body, the faculty and the bookstore," he said.
In other senate news:
u O'Neill senator Bill Ferreira informed the student senate that starting next fall there will be a scholarship office to aid students in applying for prestigious national scholarships, such as the Rhodes, Marshall and Fullbright scholarships. The location of the office is not yet determined, but Ferreira said a committee, including Mark Roche, dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Eileen Kolman, dean of First Year Studies, has already begun the planning process and welcomes any suggestions.
"It will be a place where we can network together. Students can meet with faculty and other students," Ferreira said. "One of the ways in which outsiders judge the intellectual climate on any campus is to measure how students in a university consistently perform in nationally renowned contests. Our academic programs are consistently compared to Ivy League schools, yet we don't match up when it comes to student recognition in national scholarship contests."
u The senate passed a resolution requesting the formation of an Ad Hoc Committee on the Workers Rights Consortium (WRC). The resolution provides the senate with an opportunity to voice students' opinion on whether the University should join the WRC. The committee will investigate both sides of the issue and make a recommendation to the senate next week. Father Malloy is expected to make a final decision on the matter March 8.
u Andrew Oxenreiter was unanimously approved as the 2001-2002 Student Union Treasurer.
u The senate approved the nominees for the Executive Board Members of SUB for 2001 - 2002: Paul Krivickas as board manager, Kathleen Hammond as director of programming, Jacquelyn Gelzheiser as director of operating, Gabriel Brownas director of creativity and Melissa Kane as chief controller.
All News Stories for Thursday, March 1, 2001
