March 4, 1982
Vol. 80, No. 43
Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma
Judicial Board reviews questions Reese argued that the senate is By Melissa Vierheller The Student Senate Judicial like a large committee. "If the Board met Monday night to re- executive board cannot vote, view two questions. One con- then they must have veto power cerned the appointment of the in order to check and balance the Student Senate attorney generall system," he said. The board's decision will be and the other dealt with the voting rights of the Student Senate read before the regular senate meeting, March 22. Executive Board. This was the first time any The questions were brought before the board by four mem- issue has been brought before the Judicial Board. Therefore, no bers of the Student Senate. Stuart Case presented a brief previous guidelines had been set on behalf of Joe McCourry. The up to conduct the meeting. The brief asked if the seat of attorney board ruled that each side would general is vacated mid-term in be given three minutes to present the senate election year whether their arguments and half that time the newly appointed attorney would be allowed for rebuttals. The board consists of three general should serve a one-year term from the date appointed or non-senate members appointed serve out the term of the previous by the senate president to decide cases of conflict concerning inattorney general. The office is held by Tammy terpretations of the student senate Causey, appointed last May to constitution's rules, procedures replace graduating Lori Gadd. and guidelines. Senate President Tim Reese has Members of the board are declared the office open. Dena Kirby, Julie Burkhart and The second question presented Cherri Lowther. The seante atin a brief authored by Gavin torney general, Tammy Causey, McGinnis, Mary Kelly and served as clerk for the group. McCourry, asked whether the Senate Executive Board has the loses new right to vote on senate questions. The executive board consists of a president, vice president, secretary-treasurer and parliamentarian. According to McGinnis, the By Kim McConnell senate constitution states that the A power surge, caused by an job of the executive board is to electrical short, damaged two uphold and execute laws, not to video display terminals (VDTs) make policy. at The Vista office and a typeset-
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Vista photo by Harry Tonemah and J.D. McDaniel.
Michael Freeman, of the campus physical plant, put out an electrical fire and surveyed the damage Tuesday caused by a wire and cable
rubbing together. The shorted cable, which led to The Vista office and the campus print shop, caused damage to equipment in both buildings.
VDTs
Power surge damages equipment
Music equipment stolen Three pieces of equipment, valued at over $10,000 were stolen from the Music Building Tuesday, according to Jim Dunn, chief of campus security. The equipment, including a basoon, an oboe and a Sony tape recorder AM-FM radio, were taken from the office of Susan Anderson, basoon instructor, at approximately 9 a.m. Tuesday. The office door was open and the room had been left unattended, Dunn added. There are no suspects. The basoon was valued at
$9,000, said Dr. Clarence Garder, music department chairman. The oboe was worth $800 and the recorder approximately $200. All the equipment was the personal property of Anderson, Garder added. "The basoon will be hard to replace," Garder said. "There is a waiting list five years long. They are hand crafted and only so many are made each year. If she orders one now, she will be waiting five years." Garder added that Anderson had left her office unattended for less than five minutes.
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ting control board in the campus printing office Monday night. At approximately 11 p.m. Monday, the equipment cable line running between the Communications Building and the Industrial Art Building rubbed through a 110 volt power line, causing the short. "I assume a secondary street light wire shorted into the cover for the cable and shorted the cable," said Nimrod Chapel, director of campus maintenance. Chapel was not certain about the total damage caused to the wiring in the immediate area, adding that his office is in the process of determining the amount of damage and the total cost.
The print shop had been using the new equipment to produce campus projects. "We'll do whatever is requested for us to do," he said. According to Hank Mooney, Vista advisor, the transmitting line was carrying 110 volts AC at the time of the accident, when it normally carried 12 volts DC. Mooney added that the overload short-circuited the control board in the print shop, causing an electronic loop that entered the news office power lines to burn out two of the three VDT keyboards. David Polhemus, head printer, said the only piece of print shop
equipment to suffer damage was the control board, the part of the machinery that sends the type from the "floppy disk" to the typesetter. No copy may be run through the new equipment until that piece is repaired. The shut down will mean a problem in setting type for campus projects. "We've been using the new equipment with a new (typesetting) style on the projects we've been doing. We'll have to go back to the old style, then back to the new style again. It's not the same style at all," Polhemus said. According to an estimate by Micro-Comp, the company which installed the new printing system, costs to the university for a service call and repair to the system could run as high as $1,800. A purchase order for the print shop damage has been approved and a Micro-Comp representative will arrive within a few days to repair the machinery, according to Dr. Ray Tassin, chairman of the journalism department. As soon as the equipment is repaired, the print shop will go back to the VDT system, he added. Repairs in The Vista office will take longer, Mooney said. The journalism department plans to run new cables underground and before they may do so, the
issue will have to go to the Board of Regents for approval and bids will have to be let out. "The Vista will still be produced on the new system, but we will not have access," Mooney said.
The Vista will still be produced on the new equipment, but not by staff members. Plans to convert The Vista to a VDT system have been actively pursued for more than one year. Early in the spring of 1981, one terminal was purchased and installed and in the fall of 1981, two more terminals and one line printer were added to the office. Tow VDTs, a controller, dual disk drive and a typesetter were added to the campus print shop. Training on the equipment was begun March 22 by print staff and journalism faculty members. The Vista staff had begun using the terminals to produce the newspaper last Friday.
Notice
Class schedules for the fall 1982 semester will not be available Monday, according to Dick Mitchell, vice president for student services. The schedules will probably not be available until after spring break, he added.