12 SCHOOLS REPRESENTED: STATE ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT GOVERNMENTS TO GATHER HERE

About 100 student leaders from 12 public and private colleges and universities in Missouri will be in Cape Girardeau this weekend for a meeting of the Missouri Association of Student Governments.

The meeting will be held at the University Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University.

K.C. Martin, Student Government president at Southeast, said the two-day meeting will be the first official session since the organization was established at a meeting at Northeast Missouri State University in Kirksville last November.

Saturday's session will feature a keynote address by Mel Carnahan, Missouri lieutenant governor. Carnahan will speak at a noon luncheon. There will also be a number of panel discussions that day.

The group will hold a business meeting and elect new officers at Sunday's session.

Martin said that Gov. John Ashcroft has proclaimed this week as Missouri Student Government Week.