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Thursday, November 17, 1977
University Daily Kansan
Senate ...
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University Daily Kansan on the resignation of Tom Mitchell, former Senate business
Leben had asked for Mitchell's resignation, when report revealed that he was a member of the board.
The shortage was caused by a voucher made payable to Mitchell, carrying a signature passed off as Leben's. Leben said he never signed the voucher.
Leben said last night that the Kanasan article had been factually correct, but that he had not made the reasons for the resignation public at the time because he had been involved in recovering the last salary and relieving计具他 of his duties as business manager.
Making the matter public would not have helped the situation and would have hurt Mitchell's chances of being employed, he said.
LEBEN SAID he thought the major public
interest was not in sensationalizing the issue but in explaining the steps taken by Senate officers since that time to see that similar occurrences did not happen.
The Senate Student Services Committee recommended last week that the Senate provide information about policies offered by American International Insurance Co. and the Prudential Insurance Company of America.
In other action, Senate members passed a bill that would provide information about the proposed changes.
The Senate also passed two bills that permanently established as a special committee the Concerned Students for Education (CSA), a group that represents the group and its purpose as a lobby group.
After lengthy discussion, the Senate
admitted that a request by the Student
National Education Association was
made.
Area transportation study outlines possible changes
The Senate also allocated all of the Hang
By STEVE PARSONS
Staff writer
KU on Wheels, the University of Kansas bus service, needs more than one administrator, according to recommendations from Lawrence University of Lawrence on transportation needs.
He murray that if anything happened to McMurray, the system would have no admit.
Although the report has not arrived in Lawrence yet, Jim Morley of Henningson, Durham and Richardson of Omaha, the planning firm, said he mailed copies of the report to city and to Steve McMurry, Student Senate Transportation Committee chairman.
"Although KU on Kleses is working quite well, there is a strong potential to fall apart."
Also, he said, with more than one person running the system there would be greater efficiency.
That is important, he said, because a bus system is as large as those in cities three or four times larger.
THE $20.000 studv. funded mostly by an
Urban Mass Transit Administration (UMTA) grant, also includes a recommendation to coordinate area transportation units and a city system advisory committee. The area systems are KU on Wheels, Unified School District 497 buses, Union and Yellow Cab companies, which are the same ownership, and Bus 62, a Council on Aging office.
Morley said the study included recommenda-
tion systems to use in the next two to three
But the improvements should be coordinated by an advisory committee, he said.
The study also will be putting the city on alert by encouraging it to decide whether it will use UMTA federal grants available in 1980, he said.
THE GRANTS could be used for operation or expansion of city transportation systems and for expanding the population of 50,000 or more. Lawrence will have to wait until the 1890 census before it officially can be eligible, even though city officials say that its population is now more
Help...
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provision in the agreement that each institution in the HELP program was required to sign. The provision requires the financial disqualification of an individual immediately of a student's disqualification.
"It may be possible for small schools, but
"FOR US TO notify the HELP office immediately after a student has discontinued enrollment," Weinberg said, "would mean that we would have to monitor every add and drop slip to pick out the ones that pertain to HELP.
for a school the size of KU, it is nearly impossible."
When the Financial Aid office at KU
informed SJL of Agreement, Weinberg said he
enclosed the program. He also noted
problems with the program. The letter
stated what KU was able and not able do,
that.
Weinberg asked the HELP program to contact him within 10 days of the terms in writing.
Weinberg said the HELP office had never contacted him concerning the letter.
LEWIS HALL CAFETERIA • 8:00 • SAT, NOV.19
MEMBERS 75¢ NONMEMBERS $1.00
Gliding and Soaring Club's $1,310 request to purchase a hanger glider.
THE SENATE had voted at its last meeting to deny the Recreation Advisory Board's request to purchase a hanger glider, but after club members presented a request to the Senate Sports Committee last week, the board rejected the vote to recommend funding for the group.
Engel said he had resigned because he planned to run for a senior class office and he would have had a conflict of interest as chairman of the committee.
The resignation of Russ Engel, Senate chairman, was announced.
The fire prevention code is more stringent in buildings than for other types of buildings.
was the best alarm system because it was monitored.
From page one
Fire...
Hickman inspected Watson Library Tuesday and after writing his report said, "I'm going to expect a lot to be done. The travel distance is considerable from the stacks to the exit area and the emergency exits aren't lighted."
HE SAID he would ask that another direct exit be added on each floor of the stacks that are to be used.
Funds...
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authorized salary advance of $350 on July 13 and the unauthorized $300. He paid $100 to the Senate on Sept. 6 and has made no other payments. He said Tuesday that is now unimproved.
Caldwell said that in addition to the security measures instituted immediately after discovery of the possible forgery, she made a maid in the general inventory procedures.
A DOUBLE-CHECK system also has been instituted in the use of vouchers. Caldwell said that Susan Regier, administrative assistant to the treasurer, was responsible for checking vouchers before he signed them.
Voucher books now are kept in a locked cabinet in the treasurer's office, Caldwell said, and only four people have keys to that cabinet.
Books are balanced monthly against a computer printout provided by the University comptroller's office and are recorded in ink instead of pencil, he said.
He said one restriction was daily recording of bus-pass sales during the period in which he worked.
Caldwell said the University's comptroller's office in Carruth-O'Leary Hall, where the computer balances are kept, also has tightened its procedures for handling voucher requests for Senate funds. Leben is the only Senate official who can authorize a major request or payment of any major request is verified by the telephone by the comptroller's office.
Caldwell said some of those changes resulted from reports by a KU auditing student who studied the handling of funds in the Senate as a class project and from opinions expressed by Caldwell's brother, who is a certified public accountant.
Caldwell said his brother was asked to recommend whether the Senate should invest in a complete professional audit and improve the efficiency and security of the system. Caldwell's brother said the audit was not used, but made other recommendations.
ONE SUGGESTION from the auditing student's report will be started some time next week, Leben said. Because of the suggestion the Senate soon will require double authorization on vouchers for money in the local account in the form of two signatures—Leben's and the Senate treasurer's.
—NOTICE—
To: All Organizations allocated funds by the Student Senate from the Student Activity Fee
Activity Free
From: Office of the Student Senate Treasurer
PRIOR: Office of the Student Senate Treasurer
All officers who are to be responsible for the expenditure of collected funds MUST:
1. Attend a TRAINING SESSION conducted by the Student Senate Treasurer
2. Obtain WRITTEN ADVANCE AUTHORIZATION from the student body
3. Obtain documentation from the institute
3. OBTAIN WRITTEN ADVANCE AUTHORIZATION for each expenditure from Student Activity Fee Funds.
These rules apply to all Activity Fee-funded groups and their officers, including groups who receive mid-year funding and newly-elected officers who wish to gain control over their group's Student Senate account.
A Treasurer's Training Session has been scheduled for:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 7:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL Room,
Level 5, Kansas Univ.
Level 5, Kansas Union
Please contact the Student Senate Treasurer's office at 844-3746 to sign up for this session, or for more information.
The Student Senate
Haworth was found to have a questionable alarm system, and Sailors said a pre-school teacher in the basement had been shot.
is funded from Student Activity Fees.
If the state fire marshal approves Hickman's recommendation, considerable structural change to the library would be required. If a book given an ample time to comply, Hickman said.
Gordon Sailors inspected Haworth Hall Tuesday and the wing to Haworth yester-
day.
The state code requires all pre-school children to be on ground level of exit.
Also required are safety electrical outlets, which the pre-school did not have.
Today the inspectors will attempt to finish the week's inspections.
The team will return after Thanksgiving
break to inspect breeding halls
The team of five inspectors is in its second full week of the annual fire inspection.
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