AS postpones business until fall semester

By ELIZABETH LEFFALL

Newly elected Associated Students officers will start their term on June 2 by voting on whether to buy new computers for the Henry Madden Library a senate meeting decided last week.

If AS votes yes, summer school students may be able to check out more laptops for longer periods of time.

“We know there’s a need out there,” reference librarian Dave Tyckoson said. “In our laptop program, we have 75 computers. In the month of April, those 75 laptops were checked out 11,000 times. We need your help.”

Tycoson said the university has offered the library 100 four-year-old laptops by December 2005, but said he was seeking assistance from AS because he wasn’t sure the laptops would last over the three years the library will be under construction.

“If we do nothing, we’ll start the regular semester with 75 computers,” Tyckoson said.

During the May 5 senate meeting, AS also voted Kelly Ansaldo as the new senator for the College of Agriculture, for the second time.

A tie in the Ag senatorial position in the April AS general elections forced the senate to vote to break the tie, but the vote was thrown out because one senator was found ineligible to vote.

President-elect Jennifer Reimer said senator-at-large Walter Ramirez was disqualified because of grades.

AS adviser Gary Nelson said Ramirez was notified about his ineligibility in January.

“The senate member was asked to step down several times but wouldn’t,”Nelson said.

Ramirez was not present at the meeting.

Ansaldo won the seat over sophomore Nicole Richardson by a vote of 7 to 4.

“I’m glad it’s finally over,” Ansaldo said. “I wasn’t sure when it would end. Now I’ll be able to focus on my new job.”