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Show (I) Q o CQ C/) < ,'¦""¦. -¦ Finance Board: L. to R., Doug Richards-Chairman, Al Walcher, Mike Jacobsen. Workhorses of Student Government As is true of most governing bodies, the real decisions and practical functionings of the ASUU are carried out by the bureaucracy. In the case of the ASUU, the bureaucracy consists of a complex and interrelated system of boards and sub-committies. A sort of division of power and function exists, but no one is exactly sure of the basis for it-only that it is not efficient. Finance Board is a controlling interest in the function of every other ASUU sub-division, for it regulates the flow of cash necessary to carry out the programs these agencies plan. Finance has a strangle hold on the ideas and ambitions of every member of those under ASUU, and recently has been tightening its grip on those phases of student government it considers superfluous or inefficient. One finds it hard to determine just what it is that Academic Affairs Board does. Certain measures do come out of its meetings (such as Pass-Fail policy revisions) but they rarely seem to originate there. While the stated goals of the Board are to regulate and control, coordinate and represent, in the name of the student body, academic rules and requirements, curriculum changes and general student participation, it appears that it has no real power or function. While new and ineffectual this year, Campus Affairs Board has enough specific functions and powers delegated to it to become a real agent of student power. An unobstructed authorization to set up policies concerned with the new Special Events Center and student health programs, while generally acting in the interest of the university student, is an open mandate to expansion in ASUU. 147 |