THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 93
Wednesday February 15,1978
Lawrence, Kansas
Write-in policy confuses election
Bv MELISSA THOMPSON
Staff Writer
A University Senate Code regulation could prohibit a write-in candidate for student body president from taking office if he were elected, a Student Senate official said last night.
Jill Grubbau, Senate Elections Committee chairman, said a section of the code concerning Student Senate elections stated that all candidates for student body president and vice president must file a petition to attachment to run with the Senate secretary.
In her opinion, she said, write-in can
depend on not be permissible under the
code regulation.
Grubbaugh said, however, that was her opinion only and the entire committee would take a more objective look.
Scott Morgan, Mission junior, is the only write-in candidate for president that has declared his intention to run. Mike Harper, Lawrence junior, and Jane Calciac, Glendale, Mo., sophomore, are the two candidates who have filed and are listed on ballots.
Grubaugh said all write-in ballots for president would be counted and recorded, but the elections committee would rule later as to whether the ballots would be honored.
If a write-in candidate would win the election, she said the decision immediately backfires. But voters want it.
Harper, who is currently StudEx chairman, said all elections committee decisions were final. The committee, he said, is not answerable to the Senate or to StudEx.
Any appeals or complaints would be considered by the elections committee it
Morgan was not available for comment last night, but a student helping him in his write-in campaign said he thought it would be better to take the role as a write-in candidate to take office if he won.
The student, Steve Pankey, Wichita junior who persuaded Morgan to start the write-in campaign, said he had not checked Senate records that Mr. Banks had been write-in lines included on past ballots.
"If the student body wants to elect somebody, won't let them?" Pankey said.
The confusion about Morgan's campaign, Pankey said, was probably his fault for not closely checking the rules, but he said there seemed to be any reason behind the code rule.
Morgan announced last November that he would seek the position but later withdrew his name from the race because of school and health reasons.
Polls will be open at:
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. today and tomorrow in the Kansas Union lobby, Wescole Hall cafeteria, Jayhawk Boulevard information booth and the second floor of Summerfield
Today only. 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Fraser Hall lobby.
Tomorrow only, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Learned Hall.
Tonight, 5 to 7 in Lewis, Naismith,
Satellite Corbins and in halls
Jawawker Towers.
7:30 to 8:10 at sigma Nu. Phi Kappa Theta, Pi
beta Ti, Kappa Kappa Gamma and Chi
beta Ti.
Tomorrow night, 5 to 7 at McCollum Hall, Phi Delta Theta, Deltahort, Ellsworth, Joseph H. Pearson and GSP-Corbin hall, Joseph H. Pearson and GSP-Corbin hall, Beta Theta Delta, Beta Theta Delta and Sigma Kappa.
Ballots will be counted tomorrow in the Hawk's Nest of the Union after the polls result. Grubbaugh said she expected some of the results to be in by 2 a.m. Friday.
To vote, students must have an identification card with a 1978 spring enrollment card.
Complaints about the elections and polling
themselves be accepted by the Senate until
p. 31. Thank you.
Walker says cigarette tax would benefit KU athletics
REDIRCK STEIMEL
Staff Writer
TOPEKA—A proposed cigarette tax to help fund state university athletic departments was endorsed yesterday by Clyde University of Kansas athletic director.
Walker told the Kansas Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee that an increase in women's athletics and student interest had caused serious space problems in Allen Field House and Robinson Gymnasium.
The cigarette tax bill, which is sponsored by State Sen. Donn Everett, R-Manhattan, would place a five-cent tax on each package of cigarettes sold in Kansas. Twenty-one percent of the revenue from the tax would cover the six state university athletic departments.
The KU athletic department would receive more than 22 percent of the $8.4
million Everett estimated the cigarette tax would raise annually for university
THE BILL states that $33\frac{1}{2}$ percent of the revenues from the tax would be divided equally among Pittsburg, Emporia and FL Hays state universities. The rest of the money would be divided by KU, Kansas University and Wichita State University.
Ten additional intercollegiate sports have been added by the growth of women's athletics, Walker said, bringing the total number of sports to 20.
"When I came to KU five years ago I thought we had problems getting 10 sports practice time, but with 20 sports the problem is serious," Walker said.
Staff Photo by ELI REICHMAN
Everett said one of the goals of his cigarette tax bill would be the construction of a new office.
Though many students prefer a more conventional method of travel, Mara Krome, Garden City junior, and Dave Goode and Dennis Schaefer are just getting started.
Moving along
more thrilling way to ride. All three hung onto a rope while climbing the City Junior, drove along snow-packed Memorial Drive.
Ouster letter has drawn no reaction
Dykes said Monday night that he had not time to read and properly evaluate the letter.
Response to a letter sent last week by Steve Leben, student body president, has been limited. The letter was sent to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes asking for the removal of Clyde Walker, KU athletic director.
He said Walker had received a lot of criticism but was in no trouble.
He ("Walker) has done a very good job," Dwkes said.
Dykes said he thought the situation bet-
tered and Leben was largely a problem of
their own.
Walker refused yesterday to comment on the specific allusions of the letter.
Leben said he had received no response from the administration concerning the
However, Walker said he was in the process of trying to schedule a meeting next week with the student representatives of the university of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board.
Leben said last week that the letter and a column, which appeared in last Thursday's Karsan, suggested that Walker was one of the University and should be removed.
"I'M HOPEFUL I can meet with them as soon as possible to find out their major
He said a proposal for reserve student seating at basketball games and a refusal by the athletic department to let the Senate distribute printed literature at a basketball game last month were two recent examples that demonstrate its problems in dealing with Walker.
Leben has urged senators and students to write the clancher and voice their com-
munity.
SenEx considers grade appeals
Staff Writer
Rv ALLEN HOLDER
A petition for a grade appeal court was forwarded to a University Council committee yesterday, but only after a heated debate among members of the University Board.
The petition for a court of Student Academic Appeals was sent to members of the council's Academic Procedures and Finance Office for examination and recommendation.
Members of the Student Senate passed a petition in December asking the council to establish a court for students who wanted to graduate grades they thought were given unfairly.
But SenEx members yesterday debated whether to return the petition to the Senate to be made more specific, forward it to a court and send it directly to the council for a decision.
Chris Caldwell, Overland Park senior,
said that sending the petition directly to the
city's office would be more efficient.
one Senate floor the night it passed, said the Senate had anticipated changes from the
CALDWELL, who rewrote the petition on
But some SenEx members thought the petition should be sent directly to the
Don Marquis, associate professor of philosophy, said he did not know why the petition should not be sent directly to the council.
"What is the argument against sending this to council?" he asked. "Why should we obstruct them and send it to another committee?"
Caldwell said there was nothing specific for the council to vote on vet.
But Carl Leban, assistant professor of economics at Yale, said the proposals did not need to be delivered.
"The best way to solve the issue is to deal with it broadly and generally," he said.
Much to his surprise, University of Kansas basketball player Darnell Valentine received a singing valentines from a chorus of students at the University.
HOWEVER, OTHER members, including Sam Zweifel, Lawrence graduate student, said the proposal should go back again to the Senate.
Zweifel said that he objected to the poor
day afternoon. Alpha Phi annually presents singing valentines to raise money for the Heart Fund, Valentine, and players Mac Stallcup and John Douglas and head basketball coach Ted Owens received special messages from personal fan clubs.
But Caldwell said it probably would be fail before the new Senate could complete action
Caldwell used the same argument that Steve Leben, outgoing student body president, used two weeks ago when SenXen asked him to explain if he wanted to make it more specific.
LEBEN HAS SAID that the student members of the committee were responsible enough to see that the specifics were handled. The committee returned the petition to SenEx unchanged.
But William Westerbeke, SenEx chairman, said he also did not think the committee would be able to act soon on the petition.
Zwiefel said he would be surprised if the incoming Student Senate did not act on the
way the petition was put together and that it should be sent back for the Senate to rework. He said the petition was not a viable piece of legislation now.
SenEx members also yesterday sent a proposed amendment to the University's
Valentines' valentine
The policy for financial exigency—a financial emergency declared by the chancellor—would take effect if the危机 could hurt its national crisis that could hurt its national position.
The policy says that if there were a financial exigency, the University would release tenured faculty members only as a last resort.
Council members last week and SenXen
members yesterday discussed an amendment
that would call for the chancellor to
cur salaries before he released tenured
men.
BUT COUNCIL members could not agree on whether the amendment would force the chancellor to cut salaries first or only the cuts before he released tenured faculty.
THE AMENDMENT was discussed last week at the University Council, but members could not decide exactly what the amendment meant.
financial exigency policy to the Faculty
Rights committee and Responsibilities
for revenue
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