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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
The University of Kansas
Thursday November 3,1977
Vol.88.No.48
Lawrence, Kansas
Senate votes to recess after losing its quorum
By ALLEN HOLDER
Staff Writer
After approving supplementary allocations for 13 of 30 campus organizations requesting funding, the Student Senate last week made business until tonight because it lacked a university.
Although 65 of the Senate's 120 members were present at the beginning of last night's meeting, only 51 members were present three hours later when she Shelia Everhart, Nunekemer senator, asked that a quorum be maintained. Sixty members are needed for a quorum.
"Sheila was within her rights to call a guar count," Steve Leben, student boot
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president, said last night. "I can only wonder what these people (who left the meeting) had in mind when they ran for office."
Everhart said she asked that a quorum count be taken because she had recently reevaluated her position as a Senate member.
She said she had decided that senators should be present and that a quorum was needed to vote effectively on last night's legislation.
Concern expressed on anti-bias plan
Bv BRIAN SETTLE
Staff Writer
An administrative letter urging stronger recruitment of minorities has lost some of its impact because of administrative delays in passing a new affirmative action plan, Hobart Jackson, associate professor of culture and urban design, said yesterday.
A letter sent Monday from Ron Calgaard, vice chancellor for academic affairs, to the deans, directors and department chairmen of the University of Kansas, urged stronger recruitment of minorities to fill vacant faculty positions.
"It (the letter) is not the same thing as having a top administrator make a strong statement concerning the new affirmative action plan or developing a more aggressive plan to comply with affirmative action," Jackson said.
But Jackson, a member of SenEx, FacEx, the Black Faculty and Staff Council and the affirmative action advisory committee for the Office of Academic Affairs, said the fact that the Office of Academic Affairs was "the encounters for faculty appointments was encouraging.
DEL SHANKEL, executive vice chancellor, has said the new affirmative action plan would be a restatement of equal opportunity goals, "with a lot of added detail."
KU's original affirmative action plan went into effect in February 1973. Shankel has said the original plan was good but not sufficient, and line with new University and federal policies.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes was expected to approve the new plan in late September but has yet to do so. Top administrators are in Kansas City, Kan., to discuss the plan.
Jackson said he did not want to imply that Danny Skunkel was against ailmentary action.
He said, however, he thought the leadership by Dykes and other KU administrators could be "much more aggressive."
In his letter, Calgaard said, "I wish to take this opportunity to enjoy your support in dealing with one of our great problems in the area of faculty and staff recruitment.
“AS YOU KNOW, we have a legal as well as a moral responsibility to pursue a program of alternative action to increase the safety and minorities on our faculty and staff.”
Under affirmative action legal guidelines,
it is a violation of state and federal law to
specify preference for either male or female
attorneys in court. It may be to be a bona fide occupational qualification.
See CONCERN page eight.
Everhard had been suspended from the university afterences but recently was remediated by Studios.
CHRIS CALDWELL, treasurer, said that 18 persons had been suspended from the Senate this year because of absences. Any senator who has received two unexcused absences or four absences of any kind is suspended, according to Senate rules and regulations. Everhart appealed her suspension to StudEx.
The Senate allocated $14,135 to the 13 groups. The Senate tonight will consider recommendations by the Senate supplemental budget committee for the remaining groups that requested funding, and the groups have requested a total of $11,682.04.
Leban said he did not think votes on the 13
Groups would have been changed last night
because of the protests.
"We were not having close votes," he said. "Had there been five or 10 more people there the votes would not have been changed."
Leben said the Senate could act on legislation with fewer than 60 members unless someone asked that a quorum count be taken.
Caldwell said he did not think the recess would be fair to those groups waiting to see whether they would receive supplemental allocations.
He said that those groups had been waiting nearly two weeks since the fall of 2015, when he and
See SENATE page six.
Deliberation
The tedious process of considering budget allocations elicited a yawn from Bill Scott, Lawrence sophomore, at the Student Affairs Department.
request of the Graduate Student Council, which was granted $4,350. Later, the Senate adjourned when it failed to keep a
Health policy still disliked by foreign students
By SUSANT. HALL
Staff Writer
Members of the International Club will meet with two University of Kansas administrators next week to reiterate their commitment to health insurance policy be rescinded.
Norman Forer, associate professor of social welfare and adviser to the Institute for Health Insurance, demand again that the mandatory health insurance policy be dropped as a prerequisite for enrollment at KU and also would ask for clarification of the Kansas law.
Jeannenett Johnson, Shankel's administrative assistant, said yesterday that students would meet Wednesday with Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Foreign students were required this semester to have health insurance before they could enroll. American students and foreign students are not required to have health insurance.
Student to visit Nobel ceremony
Staff Writer
A University of Kansas freshman, whose breakthrough in cancer research could lead to a cure for the disease, will attend the Awarding Ceremony Dec. in Stockholm.
"Most researchers," he said, "think that cancer exists in our bodies at all times but not in our cells. However, if a number of cells become malignant, a blocking factor appears to be produced which can prevent the immune system from acting against the malignant cells."
The 18-year-old student, Wesley Alden, Wichita freshman, won the Nobel Prize Visit Award at the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) last May in New York. He was also invited him to attend the ceremony and participate in the week-long festivities that precede it.
Alden's three-year cancer research project, which he began as a sophomore in high school, won the award. The project has been hailed by some professional researchers as a promising approach in a new area of research that could lead to a cure for cancer.
ALDEN'S **PROJECT** focuses on stages of the body's immunological system to lighten fractures.
Alden said he might have isolated a blocking factor and also has found hormone combinations that prevent this factor from working.
Kansan posts open in spring
Bv KATHY GANNON
Applications are available in 105 Flint Hall; the Student Senate office, 106B Kansas Union; the dean of men's office, 228 Strong Hall, and the dean of women's office, 220 Strong Hall. Applications must be turned in at 105 Flint Hall.
Applications are now available for the positions of editor and business manager of the spring Kansan.
Deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Nov.
17. Applicants will be interviewed by
the Kansean board Nov. 21. Applicants will be
interviewed at the time and place of their
interviews.
"Although more research has to be performed," he said, this work could inevitably restore the immune system to normal, allowing it to act against the ma-
During Alden's Nobel visit to Stockholm, he will attend the Nobel lectures of the laureates and will be a guest at three acclaimed events: the American Embassy luncheon, the Nobel
Foundation's reception and the banquet and ball after the Nobel Awards ceremony.
"The most exciting part of the trip," Alden said, "will be meeting and talking to
ALDEN ALSO will participate in the Second Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar (ISEF). The program for this seminar will include visits to Stockholm University, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Ungslöa University.
the laureates. I'll be nervous about being with such eminent individuals as the inventors of the Internet.
Alden earned the international award at ISEF in competition with more than 500 entries from 227 regional science fairs in the United States, Canada, Japan, Sweden and Puerto Rico.
He also won a first place award in the
See NOBEL page eight.
Walesen Aldley, Wichita freshman, will leave behind his KU laboratory equipment for a short time next month and rub elbows
Bou wonder
Staff Photo by PAUL ROSI
KU requested the requirement, Coan said, after it learned that the Nigerian government, which sponsors most of the 58 Nigerian students attending KU, would not pay for the health insurance coverage which was incorporated into regular student fees.
Last Friday, several members of the executive committee of the International Club met with Clark Coan, dean of foreign students, Martin Wollmann, director of Watkins Memorial Hospital, Steve Leben, El Dorado senior and student body president, and with members of the Student Senate's committee on foreign students to demand an explanation of the insurance requirement.
with international digitaries and Nobel laureates at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in Stockholm. Alden won a visit to the ceremony on April 24, 1976.
A similar mandatory health insurance policy for foreign students has been in effect at Peking University.
Bill Kauffman, Regents attorney, said yesterday that the question of mandatory health insurance for foreign students was being reviewed.
the health insurance requirement for foreign students last March.
"It is my recollection that the ruling only gives authorization to enforce the policy."
The International Club is a coalition of various nationality clubs at KU. Members of the club's executive committee are elected annually.
The Regents, at KU's request, authorized
There are now 1,349 foreign students enrolled at KU.
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Fonda
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