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By Amanda Riddle
Arizona Daily Wildcat
December 5, 1996
The Associated Students will hold a forum today and Friday from noon to 1 p.m. to collect student input on the structure of next year's student government.The constitutional convention, in the Memorial Student Union Tucson Room, will provide information on a structure that ASUA recently formulated and will ask students if any part of it should be changed.
At a meeting of the Undergraduate Senate last night, Senate Chairman Gilbert Davidson said the main structure of the ASUA Constitution will remain the same. However, student input could change some of the services the new government will provide, he said.
The split of the Graduate and Professional Student Council from ASUA in October has outdated the current constitution, Davidson said.
Sen. Ryan Anderson said that the loss of GPSC, which was one-third of the legislative body, requires changes in ASUA.
"Ever since GPSC left, it's been like kids in a sandbox and no one knows whose sand is whose," he said.
The structure of ASUA changed after GPSC's move from a program and service to become a part of the legislative body in the 1992-93 academic year. The structure anticipated for next year is a return to the original.
"Our system right now is not very old. I think this new system will last. It is very sturdy and capable of growth," Davidson said.
"It will be a complete check and balance (system) with the rest of ASUA. The president will have the power to veto a Senate vote. If this happens, a veto override committee can then vote to override the president's veto," he said.
Early next semester, the Senate will vote on the final structure of ASUA, and then it must be approved by the Central Coordinating Council.
In other business, the Senate unanimously voted yesterday to support a student activity fee for KAMP, the university's student radio station.
The support from the Senate is the start to putting the proposal on the general elections ballot in late February.
Next, KAMP needs 3,500 signatures from students who support the $1-per-semester fee.
Anderson worked with KAMP to create the proposal and said it is something the student body should have a chance to vote on.
KAMP hopes to raise $350,000 from the five-year fee. The money would be used toward the purchase of a 5,000-watt antenna used to broadcast throughout the entire city, Andy Carrol, KAMP media relations director, said in an earlier interview.
KAMP's current 30-watt antenna was purchased by ASUA in the spring of 1995 and has a frequency that can be picked up in a three-mile radius from its location atop the Student Union.
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