The Student Association Senate passed a resolution Sunday against comments made by DeKalb Mayor Greg Sparrow about student actions during the April 13 Day of Action II.

Sparrow said during an telephone interview April 17, “NIU is a college of demand,” and “the university does not have to tolerate ‘radical’ behavior. I don’t think what they did is going to make one iota of difference in the legislators’ minds.”

Sparrow also suggested imposing university sanctions as serious as expulsion against protestors who blocked Lincoln Highway.

The resolution passed at Sunday’s SA meeting was created by SA President Jim Fischer, President-elect Paula Radtke and Sen. Dave Stern.

The resolution states, “Mayor Sparrow has consistently come before members of the SA for support and a significant number of (his) constituents are students.”

It was resolved that “the NIU SA does not in any way support or agree with the opinions of Mayor Sparrow on how the university should regulate student actions.”

In his president’s report Sunday, Fischer said the Holmes Student Center Director Marlin Tenboer plans to rent the Student Center Gallery to an outside group, but a student wants to have his exhibit there instead.

He said Tenboer and the College of Continuing Education are searching for an alternative exhibit location for the student. “The student should not move; it’s the outside group who should move,” Fischer said.

Sen. Jim Valentine said, “If we’re paying for this place and its our student center, we should have some authority.”

Fischer said he and other student representatives are trying to convince the administration that “it’s in the best interest of the students” to accept a proposal creating a student governing board.

The proposal states, “It is evident that students need direct, binding input into the operations of the (student center).”

It states the board would consist of 11 voting student members in a one-year position and six non-voting staff or faculty members.

The main duties of the board would include approving all policies regarding the operations of the student center, including its budget, the proposal states.

In other business, Henry Winsor, student representative on the Ad Hoc Parking Committee, said the Campus Parking Committee is taking 225 student parking spaces and allocating them to the faculty.

Stern said, “We’re not going to be able to change this until we get more student representatives.”

Winsor said, “This organization needs to establish a standing committee” of eight to 12 members which would disuss issues and “become more familiar” with them.