The Lumberjack, February 19, 1997.

              Special elections turnout low Less than 150 students vote By PAUL P ETERSON
The Lumbeijack
A low number o f participants at
recent NAU elections would point
to voter apathy as a problem
among students.
There was a low turnout for the
Associated Students o f NAU elec­tions
Tuesday.
All together, aboutl 50 NAU stu-den
ts voted for their student body
officials, Mark Davis, ASNAU Pres­ident,
said.
Bobby McGee, election commis­sioner
said voter turnout is usually
better. *
“These were special elections.
That was the reason that the turn
out was so low,” McGee said.
McGee said that more advertis­ing
could also help to get more
voters.
Lore Haller, freshman business
major, said the reason she didn't
vote was because she didn’t know
anything about the candidates.
“I didn’t know who, what or
where,” Haller said.
Haller said she thought ASNAU
isn’t very publicized and students
don’t know much about what they
are doing.
Joanne Toney, freshman in tema-tional
business major, said “I didn’t
even know they (elections) were
going on."
Along with the low voter turn­out,
ASNAU had a low candidate
turnout
According to information pro­vided
by ASNAU, only 2 of the 7
open offices had more than one
candidate running to be elected.
The new ASNAU Senator for the
College o f Social and Behavioral
Sciences is Spring Naylor.
Senator for the College o f Ho­tel
and Restaurant Management is
Laura Frock.
Senator for the College o f Eco­systems
Management is Brandon
Harper.
The new Senator for the College
o f Communications, Leslee Dera-hain.
New senators-at-large are Rebec­ca
Frampton and Craig Harris.
The offices o f Senator for the
College o f the Arts and Sciences
and Senator for the College o f the
Performing Arts had no candi­dates
running.
Rerwyn Hawkins1 name was writ­ten
in on the ballet for the College
o f Arts and Sciences senator and
Brian O ’Neil’s name was written in
for College o f Perfoming Arts sen­ator.
Both Hawkins and O ’ Neil re­ceived
the majority o f votes in their
respective colleges.
Both candidates still must collect
the required number o f signatures
before they can take office.
“I knew about theelecdons, I just
didn’ t get involved,” Dana Robert­son,
freshman business major, said.
Robertson said she thought AS­NAU
tries to make things such as
elections publicized.
“I just think that it is really hard
to get college students involved,”
she said.
Banji Neply, sophomore elementary education major, votes during Tuesday's special elections for open AS­NAU
senator-at-large positions. Rebecca Frampton and Craig Harris won the two open seats. Evaluations ready By TRAC IE W ILLIAM S
The Lumberjack
After a 23 year process, the faculty senate has ap­proved
the publication o f course/faculty evaluations.
W hen published, results, will appear as percentag­es
o f student opinions and results will be divided by
course and faculty member so students can find in­formation
quickly.
Between 15 and 20 faculty senate members have
volunteered their classes to be used to pilot the pro­gram
throughout the next three weeks, Mark Davis,
president o f the Associated Students of NAU, said.
Studen ts in these classes will answer questions and
their results will be tallied and brought back to them.
They will be asked if they thought the questions
they were asked would be helpfiil in future courses.
Students will also be asked if they thought the ques­tions
tvould have been beneficial to them prior to
beginning or registering for the course, Davis said.
Davis said the student response on the publication
o f course/faculty evaluations was overwhelming.
“It (the publication o f evaluations) will help the stu­dents
to find instructors who teach according to the
way students learn," Kory Mildenberger, sophomore
chemtetrv major, said- ■**'
Costs are not a forseen problem with publication.
“We*re not looking for it to cost anything to stu­dents
... 1 think we can do it (offer published evalua­tions
for firee) by budgeting very closely," Davis said.
If it is necessary for a fee to be incorporated in the
beginning stages o f the program, students will notbe
charged more than the cost o f printing, Davis said.
Evaluation s will initially be published on hard copy,
but Davis hopes to have evaluations available on the
LOUIE system or through the NAU homepage.
“It’s great that we’re finally' getting done with a 23
year saga ... I just hope student government execu­tives
will help get them published next year," Brian
Davidson, vice president o f student affairs, said.
NAU lacks parking By THERESA CURRY
The Lumbeijack
One o f N A U ’s favorite recre-
- ation *pots may be lost in an ef­fort
to create more parking
spaces on north campus.
The field located outside the
Wall Aquatic Center, often re­ferred
to as the Natatorium
field, is one o f several options
being considered for a new
parking lo t
David Lorenz, director o f uni­versity
services, said with the
new Biology/ Chemistry centen­nial
building coming in, some
parking changes need to be
made.
He said the building will cause a
loss o f 175 parking spaces, 128
where the building will be and 28
on the road.
He said using the Natatorium
field for parking is just being con­sidered.
Other options include
using only half the field in an ef­fort
to compromise with those who
want to keep i t
“We’re interested in where peo­ple
are going to park. That’s what
this whole-discussion is about; what
are the options?" Lorenz said.
Lonn Dunphy, senior history
and secondary education major, is
on the Parking and Traffic Adviso­ry
Council, an elected and ap­pointed
group that studies is­sues
o f this type.
He said the feedback they've
received regarding die prospect
o f losing the field is negative.
“J hope personally it doesn ’t
happen," Dunphy said. “It’s a
useful field, as well as aestheti­cally
pleasing."
Intramural sports are played
on the field. The field serves
many other purposes. For ex­ample,
during the winter, stu­dents
use the field to play foot­ball
in the snow.
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Flagstaff, Ariz.
Priority draw ends rush
Local Catholic churches change
Mi
B E R JA C K ROADTRIPPIN’:
Students takes
chance and roll the
dice in Vegas*
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He said the main reason for the consol­idation
is because of the shortage o f priests
and the small population o f Catholics in
Flagstaff.
"If you add up all the registered fami­lies
of the four parishes there is 1,600 and
thane's about 2,400 at the university. In
Phoenix that would be considered a small
to medium size parish and that would have
one priest, but there are four of us up here
right now so the reality is we can’t afford
to have four priests in Fh^stalf,” Klecze-wski
said.
He said within mm years of the consoli­dation
a bigger community church will be
built for Flagstaff. Where it will be built is
still a question to he angered
Not ail o f the parishioners are happy
about the consolidation o f the churches.
John Monsma, professor erf*speech com­munications
and active parishioner at Sc
Pius said he would rather have seen two
churches, one for the east and one for the
west, instead of one church for the com­munity.
“I would have like to have seen it (the
two parishes) partly for transportation rea­sons.
even though we are a snail town, six
miles in Phoenix probably is nothing, up
here it seems like a lot," Monsma said. "I
think ai«> there's a difference is Flagstaff
among the parishes.
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By PAUL PETERSON
The Lumbeijack
Instead o f waiting in line all night in
sleeping bags and tents for a dorm room,
students can now press their luck and ap­ply
for the Priority Draw.
“Priority Draw was designed to give stu­dents
across campus a fair and equal op­portunity
to different spaces on campus,”
Brian Ward, coordinator for administra­tive
services, said.
In the priority draw system, students first
fill out an application and are assigned a
priority draw number.
Then they can apply first for their same
hall, same room; or for their same hall,
different room; and then it is opened up
for application to different halls. Ward
said.
Ward said what was happening in the
past was students ❖ere lining up the en­tire
night before with sleeping bags.
Then students would set up tents and
By KIVA ALTAMIRANO
The Lumberjack
The Newman Center, the catholic stu­dent
church on campus, will be stopping
it’s services due to a consolidation with the
other Flagstaff churches.
The catholic churches erf Flagstaff, Na­tivity
of Bleaed Virgin Mary Parish, Our
Lady of Guadalupe, St. Pius X, and the
HoljrTrinUjr Newman Center w*B be con­solidated
imp one parish in July; the Rent
Kieren XJetzewski, director of the New­man
Center, said.
“In December the Bishop made the de­cision
to consolidate the four parishes into
one,” Kleczewski said.
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would rush in and try to get the first
spaces.
This tradition made getting a dif­ferent
space dependent on if some­one
had the availability to wait all
night for a space, he said.
Priority draw was designed to give
a process for getting a different
room, to give people an idea when
they were going to be able to sign
up and what their chances of get­ting
a space were, Ward said.
The idea is not to displace any­one
who is currently in their room,
but to give students the opportuni­ty
to see how good their chances o f
are getting a different room on
campus. Ward said.
“I f £ person savs. Well, I really like my
room in .Allen Hall, but 1 would also like
to live in The Ridge', they (students) can
say T m number 50 on the list, I have a
pretty good chance o f getting into The
Ridge, I am going to go ahead and give
Priority Draw
• Began as a response to students waiting
outside dorms in order to get the best pos­sible
spots for the next year
•Studentscan use this to see their chances
for getting into a new hail without giving
up a space in the old one.
* 1050 students applied this year, 601 were
assigned numbers.
up my place in Allen’ ; or if they are the
last person on the list they may say My
chances are pretty slim o f getting into The
Ridge, I want to keep my space in Allen,"
he said.
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