THE STUDENT VOICE SINCE 1904
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2005
VOL.116 ISSUE 36
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STUDENT SENATE
Senators want to better represent
Bogdan Pathak, a member of the KU Student Senate, talks to Joe Glowacki about plans to help the KU Motorcycle Club obtain funding.
Josh Kirk/KANSAN
New guidelines push members to talk to more students
BY JOHN JORDAN
jjordan@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Do you know who your Student Senate representative is?
Twenty students outside of the Underground Wednesday morning answered no to that question.
Responses like these combined with last year's 16 percent voter turnout for the Student Senate election are leading the Senate to make changes.
To counter these results, the Senate is changing its guidelines this year to try to increase communication between senators and other students. Senators are
now required to do outreach activities that are monitored by the Senate office. One senator even hopes to reach out to students through random e-mail contact.
In the past the senate required its members to attend its outreach committee meetings but did not require them to take part in other student events, said Nolan Jones, senate communications director and Pittsburg junior.
Now senators must participate in activities such as student organization meetings, information tables on Wescoe Beach and Senate-funded events, Jones said.
Jones said the old method was more like "homework" and the new method was "getting involved."
He said he hoped the new plan would provide the Senate with new ideas of how to serve students. He said the more the Senate knows about other groups and students, the more these groups and students will know about the Senate. He said the new program would help senators think outside the box and talk to a more diverse group of students.
"Now I'm not just talking about the things the three guys I'm living with talk about," Jones said.
Senators now get points based on activities they do for outreach. Different senators are required to do different amounts of work.
Regular undergraduate College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senators must participate in more activities than senators representing schools with smaller constituencies, such as the engineering, pharmacy and law schools.
Senators who are nontraditional or graduate students have smaller participation requirements as well.
ADMINISTRATION
Work continues to fill top posts at University
BY GABY SOUZA
gsouza@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Searches for four new administrators at the University of Kansas are moving forward slowly.
The University recently began its search for a new associate vice provost who will replace the former dean of students. Meanwhile, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Schools of Law and Social Welfare continue the hiring process for new deans.
The job description will be written during the first meeting. Then applications will be accepted and the committee will review them.
The search committee for the associate vice provost was scheduled to meet the first week of October. Its first meeting was pushed back to Oct. 18 because of scheduling conflicts, said Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student success.
On-campus visits for the applicants will begin in February and the new associate vice provost will begin work June 1, 2006. Roney said that everything in the process except the first meeting appeared to be on schedule.
Ann Brill, dean of journalism and chairwoman of the search committee, said she would lead the first meeting and ask the committee members what qualifications the new associate vice provost should possess.
The associate vice provost position was formerly called the dean of students. The Office of the Vice Provost for Student Success announced its decision September 22 to combine with the Office of the Dean of Students and replace the title.
VACANCIES
The search process is underway at the University of Kansas to replace the following administrators:
Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
* Kim Wilcox 2002-2005
Dean of the School of Law
♦ Stephen McAllister
2000-2005
Dean of the School of Social Welfare
Ann Weick 1988-2006 (She will retire after the spring semester.)
Dean of Students (The replacement's title will be associate vice provost.)
◆ Richard Johnson 2001-
2005
Source: www.ku.edu
Roney said the office decided to change the title because it confused students. Roney said students were confused because the title gave the impression that the dean of student's job duties were equal to the deans' of the various schools on campus.
The College of Liberal Arts and Science's search committee had its first meeting in July and started reviewing applications Monday, said Don Steplees, committee member and vice provost for scholarly support.
Applications will be received until the dean's position has been filled, but late applications will not be reviewed as thoroughly.
"The boat sailed ... anybody else will have to swim to catch up," Steeples said.
ANNIVERSARY
SEE UNIVERSITY ON PAGE 4A
A sound alternative
Jared Soares/KANSAN
KJHK DJ Kevin Mulcahy, Olathe senior, gives away concert tickets during his afternoon rotation show. The student-run radio station is celebrating its 30th anniversary this month.
KJHK still provides unique broadcasting
BY FRANK TANKARD
fankard@kansan.com
KANSAN SWIT WRITE
There are band stickers everywhere. And posters. And, of course, the place is filled with CDs and vinyl records.
For music fanatics such as Andrew Bullington this place, student-run radio station KJHK 90.7 is paradise. Bullington, Lawrence senior, scans a wall of CDs in the cramped
studio booth, searching for his next cut.
Now pause for a second and imagine the strangest, most ridiculous CD on earth. He pulls it off the shelf.
"It's time for some communist music," he says as he whips out a CD with a cover shot of smiling North Korean farmers at work in a lush, green field.
It's Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Pop from the Hermit, Kingdom.
He places the disk into the stereo, and the happy-sounding North Koreans sing to Lawrence. For 30 years this month KJHK has been providing students with "a sound alternative." It plays jazz, hip-hop, reggae, rock 'n' roll, metal, techno and a million musical genres you've never heard of, plus sports talk, news and play-by-play sports.
SEE KJHK ON PAGE 4A
For 30 years this month, KJHK has been providing students with "a sound alternative." It plays jazz, hip-hop, reggae, rock 'n' roll, metal, techno and a million musical genres you've never heard of, plus sports talk, news and play-by-play sports.
UTILITIES
Solutions to beat the high cost of heat
BY TRAVIS ROBINETT robinett@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITE
Students should bring out the extra blankets this winter because the U.S. Department of Energy expects the price of natural gas and propane to rise dramatically.
formation officer for the Kansas Corporation Commission, said this year's natural gas bills were estimated by the Department of Energy to be 50 to 70 percent higher than last year's bills, if the conditions were the same.
Rosemary Foreman, public in-
She said the department made that forecast because the supply of natural gas and propane are in shortage after hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The hurricanes caused production to go down while demand for natural gas went up.
"Let's hope we don't have an extremely cold winter because that's going to make the impact more severe." Foreman said.
Foreman said natural gas and propane are deregulated commodities, which means there is
no government regulation. She said supply and demand drive the price, just like the price of silver or gold.
She said utility companies were not allowed by law to make a profit on gas or propane. Aquila Inc. is the only gas company in Lawrence.
SEE SOLUTIONS ON PAGE 4A
WAYS TO CUT YOUR ENERGY BILL
To keep heating costs low, make sure to follow these rules:
- Reduce the thermostat setting to 68 degrees
- Set back the thermostat at night and when you leave home
- Install a programmable thermostat
- Change the furnace filter monthly
- Have furnace cleaned and tuned annually
- Let sun shine through the windows
- Check and replace weather stripping on doors and windows
- Close storm windows and doors
- Operate kitchen and bath vents minimally
- Lower the thermostat set point on your water heater to about 120 degrees
- Install a water heater blanket
Today's weather
Reduce hot water use
Reduce hot water use
Source: Kansas Corporation Commission
Wildcats hand Jayhawks a decade of losses Kansas lost their 21st straight match against Kansas State Wednesday night. The Jayhawks were affected by a Correa injury early on. PAGE 1B
Alumna remembered for influencing community Spencer librarian recalls his wife's life and her ties to Douglas County and the University. The couple has bestowed a $250,000 endowment to KU for student librarians. PAGE 10A
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