Three student leaders participated in the taping Wednesday, Sept. 26 in the second of a planned series of question-and-answer symposiums titled The Roundtable. Participating in the discussion were WIXQ station manager Tom Casetta, Student Senate President Jim Kluska, and Snapper Editor-in-Chief Melissa Lintner, with WIXQ Educational Program Director Chris Watkins serving as moderator. The group discussed current issues including apathy, campus-community relations, and the challenges of student leadership.

"The community came up with seven major issues," Casetta said, referring to a station survey of 15 community leaders and 65 members of the general public. The issues were: streets, highways, and traffic; litter, pollution, and crime; housing; apathy; alcohol and drug abuse; employment and cultural awareness.

"The housing problem has been a pending problem on campus," Casetta added.

Kluska said, "One of the concerns the respondents in the survey did have was parties on campus overflowing into the community."

"I think in an election year what we have to look at is apathy," Lintner said. She cited the continuing vandalism on campus, saying, "If that's the opposite of apathy, we've got to find a different way to channel those energies."

"I know that down here at the station, more people are trying to get involved," Watkins added.

Lintner agreed on the increased student turnout for organizations this semester, saying, "We've started out with a larger staff tghis year than in previous years."

Kluska explained his plan for taking a senate meeting to the students to try to get them involved. "Senat e is going to have one dorm meeting this semester. We can go right to them. It'll be held in the basement of one of the dorms," he said. He added that the meeting will include a 15-minute question-and-answer period.

Watkins expressed his hopes for The Roundtable series, explaining, "I'd like to increase cultural awareness in the college community. Ity's basically trying to get people involved and know what's going on."

A third Roundtable, with students and administrators, is tenatively scheduled for November. The Roundtable is scheduled for airing Wednesday, October 3, at 6:00pm and Thursday, October 4, at 9:30am.

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