SG focuses on student issues
by VALERIE SALVEN
StUDENT Government (SG) focused on four main issues in the area's of student's rights, academic affairs, dorm life, and tenant's rights.
Headed by Jim Flegle, president, Peggy Pearson and Bob Clement, first and second vice-presidents respectively and the Senator, SG was able to effect many changes.
Commenting on his administration Flegle noted it was a young student government and "none of us had been fully incorporated in Student Government before, so there was a complete change  over in the office." But he felt it was a "healthy change," that they learned quickly what plans the administration and faculty would accept or reject, and "learned to act accordingly."
One of Flegle's main objectives was to "build an interest base" in the SG office. He pointed out that 40 people were directly involved in SG office activities last year, as opposed to three the year before. SG also began a weekly column in the Kentucky Kernal called Harvest Revolution in an effort to encourage students to examine more closely the current issues affecting them.
In working for more student rights, SG authored 29 amendments to the Student Rights and Responsibilities Code, including a removal of expulsion as one of the penalties that the University can impose on a student. SG also worked with the Student Confidentiality of Records bill which was presented to the Kentucky State Legislature supporting Student Services.
SG dealt with academics mainly through the University Student Advising Committee (USAQ. USAC was instrumental in starting the practice of published teacher evaluations, and in putting out the first edition of Courseselector at UK.
Courseselector is a magazine which gives a description of the requirements and format of the classes most often requested by students at UK. Hopefully, it will eventually catalogue a description of approximately 500 of the most wanted classes at UK each semester.
Since the majority of students live off campus, SG tried to provide students with help in selecting apartments. David Mucci, president elect for 1974-75, had begun efforts to create a tenant-referral system located in the SG office that would provide a description of apartments available to students, cost, and reputation of the landlord in former dealings with students.
SG led the opposition that defeated a proposed change in the cafeteria's meal plan. It would have required students to pay a single, definite sum at the beginning of a semester. Emphatic student disapproval of the proposal finally resulted in its' being abandoned as a remedy for rising food costs.
SG also joined with the Environ-
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