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              The MAROON Vol. 63, No. 23 Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 April 19,1985 Arthur elected to SGA presidency By Rene Sanchez News Editor Byron Arthur has been elected 1985- 86 Student Government Association president after defeating Tommy Ruli in a runoff Monday and Tuesday. Arthur, English/philosophy sophomore, won with 57 percent of the vote. He received 820 votes of the 1,476 ballots cast in the runoff. Ruli, political science junior, finished with 43 percent, or 625 votes. Arthur beat Ruli in three of Loyola's five colleges, and finished strongest in Arts and Sciences with 66 percent of the vote. Ruli won in City College and the law school. In the primary election, Ruli finished first among five candidates with 27 percent of the vote. Arthur ran second with 25 percent. "I'm quite excited," Arthur said Wednesday. "And considering the field of candidates, I'm quite honored the student body felt I was the best person to do the job." Arthur attributed his victory to insight and ideas. "My campaign was very positive in terms of realizing what the SGA's problems are, and I think that students realized I had some concrete solutions." Arthur said he expected the runoff to be closer because of Ruli's "very good campaign." Ruli said he is happy for Arthur. "Byron's a very good friend of mine, and he will make an excellent president," he said. "I didn't lose, Byron won. I'll do whatever I can to help him." Ruli said he thought the race for president was an excellent one. He said he is pleased with his campaign. "I have no regrets whatsoever," he said. "The students didn't want me, and I can live with that." In other runoff elections, Tom Delahaye defeated Angela Rey in the race for SGA vice president with 54 percent of the vote. Rey finished first in four colleges, but Delahaye, a firstyear law student, received 85 percent of the law school vote. He received 310 law school votes, while Rey collected only 55. Dina Dimaggio was elected to the second remaining congressperson-atlarge position. She received 51 percent of the vote to defeat David Kramer, who had 49 percent. In the primary election, Kramer had 41 percent of the vote, and Dimaggio had 23 percent. In the race for arts and sciences president, Gina Pellegrini defeated Mike Powell. Pellegrini collected 55 percent of the vote, while Powell got 45 percent. Powell won the primary election by two percentage points. Tim Babin, with 58 percent of the vote, won the final arts and sciences representative spot by defeating Maura Vezina. Jeff Griffin was elected business school president after he received 52 percent of the vote in the runoff against John Deveney. In the battle for SGA president, however, Arthur was not a complete winner. Ruli said he and Arthur made a bet after the primary election: the winner of the runoff would have to buy the loser a steak dinner. 4 7 think that students realized I had some concrete solutions." —Arthur Tommy Ruli congratulates president-elect Byron Arthur Tuesday night —Photo by David Aguillard Library needs space, funds to grow By Andrew Moreau Executive Copy Editor SECOND IN A SERIES Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series focusing on the recommendations of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the university's self-study report. A better library makes for a better university, University Librarian Mary Lee Sweat says. More money, more up-to-date materials and more room are key improvements that the library needs to keep pace with the future needs of the university, Sweat said. Sweat said the university, since 1975, has realized the importance of library improvements and has increased the library's budget at least 10 percent every year. Continued support along this line, she said, will enable the library to keep pace with academic improvements, such as introduction of new programs. Loyola devotes 3.3 percent of its educational and general expenditures to the main library, and spends about $433 on each full-time student (this figure combines expenditures for the law and main libraries). But the library does need a separate line-item in its general budget for new programs, Sweat said. A team from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools visited campus in March and recommended that the university create a separate fund that the library can use to buy materials when new programs are introduced. The group was on campus to evaluate Loyola for reaccreditation, which has to be reaffirmed every 10 years. The team also suggested that Loyola consider expanding the library staff if the library moves into the law school. After Loyola bought the Broadway Campus, the library put in a proposal to move into Miller Hall when the law school moves to the new campus. The university initiated its own selfstudy report in September 1983. The university committee that studied the library made four recommendations: to expand the physical facility, to improve library technology, to raise staff salaries and to increase the staff. • Sweat said the separate fund recommended by the visiting team will ensure expansion of the existing collection and allow the library to buy new materials. The library now has to use money from its general budget to start a new program. This harms existing programs because money that was originally appropriated to improve them has to be redirected into the new programs. Yet money alone will not solve the library's problems, Sweat said. Perhaps the library's most pressing need is elbow room. —r The main library is 35,000 square feet, but Sweat says about 100,000 square feet of space is needed if the library is to keep pace with the university's academic.goals, , A move into Miller Hall could be the answer, Sweat said, adding that the building is about 80,000 square feet'. "I see moving into Miller Hall as a chance to just sort of have some breathing space," she said. The building would provide breathing space and a lot more. Sweat said the library needs more stack space, more seminar rooms, a classroom for bibliographical instruction, a small auditorium and screening rooms. She said more student seating spaces also are needed. The main library has about 340 seats, but 1,000, or one seat for every three students, would be ideal, she added. A move into Miller Hall would increase seating to about 650. Another benefit would be that the library, which oversees the Media Center, would be able to consolidate all its operations under one roof. There is a problem, though — other departments, chiefly the business school, also want the law school building in order to expand their concentrations. A compromise may be in the works. At worst, Sweat says her department "So much of what we plan to do depends on where we are." —Sweat . See Library/page 8