The Vista April 21, 1987

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POW describes

Tricksters take District 9...page 6

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Sociology club plans panel...page 8

87 21, 1911 April

Vol. 85, No. 50

VISTA

Tuesday Edition

Central State University, Edmond, Oklahoma

Officer award bill passed, Shilling, senators inducted By Samantha Spencer

Student Writer A Soccer Club constitution and a resolution providing honorariums for three officers of the Student Association were passed by voice consent at the SA final meeting Monday which preceeded the inauguration. Resolution 86-226, providing for revocable cash honorariums for the SA president, vicepresident and speaker on a semester basis. The resolution calls for the student senate to allocate the honorariums in a closed session meeting during the next to last meeting each semester. Any objections to an officer receiving an honorarium would be voiced at this time and voted upon by the student senate. The officer would then be notified and given 48 hours to make an appeal. The appeal would be delivered to the student senate at the final meeting. The funds are to be allocated an-

nually in the SA budget. The money will come from the Student Activities Fund. Since these officers represent the students, it is appropriate for these payments to come from the Student Activities Fund, said Colleen Kavanaugh and Nelaine Greenwalt; authors of the resolution. The maximum honorariums per semester for each office would be: president $600, vice-president $175 and speaker $250. The effective date has been set for Fall 1987. The SA president and vice president receive salaries of $200 and $150 respectively. The honorariums would be in addition to the salaries. Following a recess, the senate reconveened in the Council Room for inauguration proceedings. Twelve senators and three officers were sworn in. Officers were Jeff Shilling as president, Glen

Kilgour as vice-president and Colleen Kavanaugh as the Director of Academic Affairs. "I work for the senate. They have really done a good job this semester and I'm proud of them. They showed they care and were very productive. They really had some good ideas and did a lot of investigation on the legislation," Shilling said. Two senator appointments were made by Shilling, Michelle Gallman and Kavanaugh. Gallman also was appointed to the Student Association Supreme Court for a second year. Several awards were also presented at the inauguration. Suzanne Knopp, director of public relations; Kilgour; Richard Passey, former vice-president; and Greenwalt received placques of appreciation from Shilling. Knopp presented Jerry Blansett with a certificate for his .help in delivering the weekly news letter.

Photographic Services: Dan Hoke

Jeff Shilling, Student Association president is sworn in for his second term by Nelaine Greenwalt, speaker of the house, while former vice president Richard Passey watches.

Student 'bats' his way to U.S. team By Shannon Blockcolski

Editor Shreepada Thimmiaih has been playing professional first class cricket since he attended high school in India. The 28-year-old graduate student in finance said his experience has paid off. He was chosen as a finalist from the southwest conference for the United States National Cricket Team. There are five major zones of competition, Thimmiaih said, and Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Iowa are in the southwest conference with 18 teams. Out of the 18 teams selected, one team will go to Chicago in

June for the first round of selections for the U.S. team, Thimmiaih said. "Only two players from Oklahoma have been selected, one from Oklahoma University and me," Thimmiaih said. In the first round of selections, 64 people are selected. The final team members will be chosen in Tulsa, and this team will go to the World Cup competition in India. "18 countries will participate for the preliminary world cup competition," Thimmiaih said. "The United States is ranked third in the world standings." Thimmiaih said he has been interested in cricket since childhood.

"I used to watch my father play when he was working on his doctorate in Middlesex, England," he said.

Thimmiaih said he also is interested in starting an intramural cricket team at CSU. "I have spoke to Dudley Ryan (vice president of student services), Larry Williams (vice president of administration) and Dr. Homer Coker (chairman of the health, physical education, recreation and dance department) and they are trying to introduce the game," Thimmiaih said. The only cost to the university, Thimmiaih said, would be to install a $400 artificial surface. The

Debaters break into second national round By Sandy Carroll

Student Writer Martin Glendinning, senior and Drew Duke, sophomore, had a 5-3 win/loss record in the first eight rounds of preliminary competition at the National Debate Tournament March 28-30 at Illinois State University. The team then advanced to secondary competition with 23 other university debate teams. They lost on a split decision to Michigan University in the octa-final round. Tammy Fleming, junior, and Craig Tomlin, sophomore, also attended the tournament for CSU. The team; however, failed to advance to

secondary competition. "It's been a very long, long time since CSU broke a team into the secondary competition at the NDT national tournament," said Doug Duke, director of forensics and debate at CSU. "I'm very proud of Martin and Drew. They did an outstanding job and deserve every ounce of recognition that they receive. "Even though Tammy and Craig didn't make it into secondary competition, they both showed quite a bit of hard work, determination and potential. I have no doubts that these two will continue to grow in the years they have left on our squad."

players would provide their equipment at first, he said. "We have students from India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Pakistan, the West Indies and England who are interested in playing cricket at CSU," Thimmiaih said. Cricket is an English game which is similar to baseball, except paddles are used instead of

bats. The average game lasts three to five days, but Thimmiaih said the game would be modified to one day at CSU. The games is played by two teams of 11 players on a pitch 22 yards long. At each end of the pitch is a wicket, comprised of three vertical stumps 28 inches high.

Journalism profs pick editors for publications From Staff Reports Staff positions for the summer and fall Vista and for the 1987-88 Bronze Book were selected Thursday by the journalism faculty. Positions for the summer Vista staff are; Jack Money, editor; Mary Butler, associate editor; and Kathy Fletcher, associate editor. Positions for the fall Vista staff are: Susan Green, editor; Money, associate editor; Kim Earnest, associate editor; and Butler, sports editor. Green was an associate editor on the spring 1986 staff, editor for the summer 1986 and associate editor for the fall 1986 staff. She is a senior newspaper journalism major. Money was an associate editor in the spring 1987 semester. He is a junior newspaper journalism major. The staff members for the Bronze Book also were selected. Assistant advisor and editor-in-chief will be Jane Meese. She is a senior journalismpublic relations major and was on the 1986-87 Bronze Book staff. Section editors are: Leah Tennison, sophomore; Debbie Descher, senior oral communications major; and Linda Kudy, a senior advertising major. Tennison and Descher were section editors for the 1986-87 yearbook.


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