Future of former Soviet Union looks bright says Grazin

The four tickets in this year’s student body presidential race disagreed on the issue of open­ ness in student government, but a g r e e d on th e n eed to tak e stronger action again st crim e during last night’s student body presidential debate. Both the Greg Butrus/M olly O’Neill ticket and the Rich Delevan/Joe Wilson ticket said they supported the closing of student g o v ern m en t m e e tin g s to th e public if sensitive m atters are being discussed. “It’s easier to get stuff off your chest if you don’t have a cam ­ era behind your back,” Delevan said. T h e D ave C erto /M att Bom berger ticket strongly op­ posed closed meetings. “(On th is ca m p u s), th e re is noth ing so sen sitive as to r e ­ q uire c lo sed m e e tin g s ,” sa id Bomberger.” T he G eo rg e S m ith /M ik e Goodwin ticket also said they objected to closed meetings. “The only way for (students) to see if their proposals are be­ in g e n a c te d is to op en th e m eetings to whom ever wants to walk in ,” Smith said. On the crim e issu e , all four tickets presented proposals as to how to im prove security in and arou n d th e N otre D am e