Tuesday, November 14, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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UP platform explained by party leaders
By Ted Bell Kansan Staff Reporter
It's ASC election time again. Billboards, platforms and promises bring with them the sighs and chuckles of "Here we go again." "Haven't I seen that before," and "Why waste the time and vote?"
University Party (UP) president Scott Brown. ASC president Kyle Craig, and ASC chairman Don Chubb, seem to be convinced that this year it will be different.
Brown: "Due to the unique situation this year, we have to get things done, or we will be faced with trouble this coming spring."
Chubb: "Most critics of student government don't realize what the ASC's position and power is. They expect us to come up with spectacular movements without understanding that there is a lot of normal and routine things that have to be done first. Some people think that these routine works are done by the administration. When we can get them done quickly, we can spend more time with the 'spectacular.'"
ASC president Kyle Craig claims that the "spectaculars" take more than one semester to accomplish, and that for one of the first times, the ASC has a majority strong enough to continue work started the previous semester.
This is the basic reason why two of the four issues on last year's UP platform are back on it this fall.
"The establishment of set times and days in which living groups can have 'open house' and the institution of such a program."
Chubb claims that the Council started work on this last semester by enabling the organization's social committee to approve "open house" dates, and to then investigate the results. This year they will attempt to instigate a program whereby living groups (mainly men's residence halls) will have regularly scheduled open houses each week, without petitioning for permission.
"A re-evaluation of the University's system of parking tickets and the fines levied for certain violations. Example: the graduated parking ticket scale."
This was the second issue to reappear on the platform. The UP leadership said that the ASC does
not have the jurisdiction to change the parking and fines system, but they are confident that it can bring enough pressure to bear on those who do.
There are eight other issues in the UP platform that probably raise similar apathetic comments.
For instance, the issue calling for the establishment of a student-run and oriented Better Business Bureau dealing with higher student wages, better student treatment and fair pricing.
Both Brown and Chubb claim that student interest groups who
have attempted to do something in this field (i.e., foreign students) have been unable to make headway because of lack of authority and recognition. They agree that the ASC can fill this role, and be recognized. The Lawrence City Commission has been worried about student opinions and attitudes towards the city, and as Brown puts it, are "ready to bend over backwards to help when they can talk with a body that represents the whole student body, not just fragments." He says the ASC can and will be that body.
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The party says that there are less "pie in the sky" elements in this year's platform because they can afford to stick to more needed issues, now the opposition is out. They say they don't like the one-party system, though.
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The UP is calling for the establishment of a student opinion poll, student evaluation systems of the University's faculty, and an ASC Publicity Committee.
Chubb said it was the ASC that got the recent extension of library hours. He said that the main issue concerned finding funds for library workers, and it was the ASC, with the Chancellor's authority, that came up with the idea of using Student Union Bookstore refunds, and that they were scheduled to vote on its implementation the night after Francis Heller, acting provost, announced the new hours.
Chubb emphasized that the proposed student evaluation of faculty members would have nothing to do with promotions or pay raises.
According to Craig, the latter idea has been brought up before, but was hampered by financial harnesses. This year, he says, there will be an ASC Newsletter that will be distributed like the Kansan, with possible opinion ballots enclosed, on which students could mark opinion questionnaires.
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