Mickey Burnim, vice president

Lively Senate creates controversy

United Students of North Texas President Troy Phillips said in September that this would be one of the liveliest years that student government has ever seen. He was right.

The senate came up with many surprises and controversial issues.

At the beginning of the year Phillips responded to a letter from Dr. Kamerick stating that in some matters students should have the dominant role in making decisions and determining policy. Phillips said that students should participate in those decisions that directly effect them.

Phillips also accused "several groups" in Denton of overacting to campus activist organizations such as the Students for a Reconstructed University and SDS.

Early in October Vice President Ellen Stricklin resigned for health reasons and President Pro Tem Mickey Burnim became the new vice president.

The senate voted 18-11 to endorse a YD petition demanding one page of the Campus Chat for use as a student opinion forum.

When the university calendar revealed that that classes would resume after the Christmas holidays on Friday, Jan. 3, the USNT passed a resolution "discouraging class attendance" on Jan. 3 and 4 if the administration failed to act on the senate's recommendation calling for the suspension of classes on those days.

In October the senate voted to pay the USNT president $150 per semester and the vice president $125. The secretary receives $175 per year.

In other action the senate allotted the Faculty and Course Evaluation (FACE) $150 to complete 27,000 questionnaires.

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