Student finance chairman resigns
University Daily Kansan
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
Wednesday, December 7, 1977
Tim McCarthy resigned this week his position as chairman of the Student Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee, citing problems with expressing discontent with the Senate.
In a letter Monday to Steve Leben, student body president, McCarthy said that he had been hampered by illness for two or three weeks. Mr. Leben took on own sake and for the sake of the committees
McCarthy said he would remain as a student senator.
Although he resigned because of illness, McCarthy said that he thought too many persons had been alienated by a small number of patients at the top of Lehman's administration.
The root of the Senate's problem, McCarthy said, may have been the appointment, rather than the election, of Mike Harper as StudEx chairman.
McCARTYSAID said last night that he had supported Harper's appointment, but he had seen two previous StudEx chairmen nominated and elected from the Senate floor. The StudEx chairman should be elected that way, he said.
"That was the problem that began to alienate some senators." McCarthy said. "They (senators) saw all the legislation coming from a handful of people."
In a reply to McCarthy's resignation letter, Leben said that Harper's appointment as StudEx chairman had been approved by the Senate and Student Senate rules and regulations.
McCarthy said he hoped that the next student body president would not appoint the StudEx chairman but let the Senate elect the chairman.
LEBEN STATED that McCarthy had not given him a very good reason for resigning.
Leben said last night that McCarthy apparently no longer had enough interest to
make the time available that was needed to chair the committee.
Leben said that McCarthy's committee had not met charges that Leben had made last spring and earlier this semester. Leben explained that the team should help them define their responsibilities.
McCarthy said that the committee had been concerned with the fall supplementary budget hearings this semester and also had audited Senate programs this fall.
According to Leben, however, the outager hearings and the audits were not committee charges, but regular committee functions are specified in the Senate's rules and regulations.
McCarthy had said in October that he had seriously considered resigning from his position at that time, but had decided it was more important to remain as chairman.
The Finance and Auditing Committee will meet Dec. 13 to elect a new chairman,
Legal service budget predicted
Preliminary planning of a budget for prepaid legal services for University of Kansas students was completed last night by the Student Senate Services Committee
The predicted budget, which ranged from $47,000 to $80,000, would provide for the hiring of one attorney, one legal secretary, two paralegals, three clerks, interns and general supplies and equipment.
Mike Taraboulos, committee chairman, said last night that predicted figures were nothing but "ball park figures" because neither he nor any of the committee members had any concept of the operating expenses of a law office.
The prepaid legal service was proposed by Steve Lehman, student body president, and Mr. Rudy Kunz, acting president.
service would have to be approved by two-thirds of the Senate.
THE PLANNED legal service would be financed through student activity fee money and would be available to all KU students. Any resulting increase in the fee would have to be approved by two-thirds of the Senate and by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Committee members debated the question of whether to allow the service to be used by students on behalf of a spouse or children, but no decision was reached.
Tarabules said that the service, if approved by the Senate next spring, could run into some problems in the types of cases he handled. He said he deals for all cases dealing with a student against
Senate to consider court
the university or University community, against a non-University party, against another student or against the state to be accepted.
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A request for a court of student academic appeals will be considered by members of the Student Senate tonight, along with two other scheduled pieces of legislation.
StudEx members last night placed only three pieces of legislation on the agenda for tonight's meeting, the last meeting of the semester. Legislation deals with the court and two petitions to the University Council to amend the Senate code.
The court of student academic appeals would be established for students who think their schools are not doing enough.
Only instructors can change grades now.
Students who appealed their grades would have to go through several steps to reach the court, which would consist of three faculty members and two student members. The court would be able to change a grade it thought had been given unfairly.
Only instructors can change grades now. A petition to the University Council asks that students and parole legislation that would not be subject to the veto of the student body president.
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Communications group to study KU On Wheels
Two members of the Student Senate Communications Committee will study what their chairman called the mystery of Kansas transportation system.
Don Green, the chairman, has asked Margaret Berlin and Cindy McKelvey, committee members, to conduct the work. University's bus system, KU OnWear,
The request was prompted by the recent completion of a national study done by Henningson, Durham and Richardson, a Nebraska firm. The firm's study recommended several changes for the company to Lawrence for Lawrence's other bus services.
Berlin and McKelvey will use the firm's final report and the questions of the committee to compile question for Steve McMurry, Student Senate Transportation Committee chairman, and Steve Leben, student body president.
Green said that one reason for the study was the lack of general knowledge concerning the operation procedures of the bus system.
Committee members also wanted to know what kind of funding changes KU On Wheels would require if subsidies from the Senate were to be stopped.
The committee was not sure what percentage of the total student activity fee went to the bus service.
Other questions included the possibilities of extended hours, weekend hours, projected rate increases for next year and the condition of buses now in use.
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Another of the committee's unanswered questions was the status of the transportation committee. Committee members did not know how many people were on the transportation committee or how long McMurray had been directing the bus.
Results of the study will be reported at the committee's Dec. 13 meeting.
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