Wednesday, November 2.1977
Ticket petitions to be printed
By MELISSA THOMPSON Staff Writer
Staff Writer
Petitions against the proposed football ticket surcharge will be printed by the Student Senate office today, as an indirect effort to prevent Senate Communications Committee last night.
The committee unanimously passed a resolution that would have provided for the printing of the petitions against a football student season ticket surcharge proposed by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation.
...after Steve Leben, student body president,
Steve Lieber, student council chair.
Leben told the committee that because the Senate would later be considering a full resolution against the proposed ticket resolution of this sort would be a waste of time.
Leben said the Senate often printed petitions of this sort.
He also said that with a long agenda awaiting the senators' attention tonight, it would be difficult to get Senators to support the resolution. It would better serve the petition's purpose, he
said, if the petitions would be printed immediately.
COMMITTEE MEMBER Robert Green, Hays senior, had asked the group at the beginning of the meeting to suspend the agenda and consider the resolution, which he was presenting on behalf of two students who planned the petition, Stuart Brown, Dodge City senior, and Keith Duncan, Paola senior.
Green had urged the committee to consider the resolution seriously and said that it was a good idea.
Brown said he took his petition drive to the Senate because the Senate would be able to reach more people with the petitions and get the complete consensus from the students.
Duncan told the committee that if the Senate office would print the petitions, it would be responsible for relaying the results to the Governor's Agents Institutions Coordinating Committee.
"They (Regents) just need some reason to approve it (the ticket surcharge) or not approve it," Duncan said. "We just want to give them a reason."
WHEN THE COMMITTEE reconsidered the resolution at the end of the meeting, Green said he had thought the resolution necessary, but he agreed with Leben's suggestion to withdraw the proposal and have the Senate office print the petitions.
"I didn't consider it superfluous at the time, but knowing there is this kind of support, there's no need to waste time," Green said.
Polling subcommittee chairman Brit McPherson was asked whether an emergency poll could be done about the KUAC surcharge. McPherson said the poll was taken because it might conflict with the legal requirement that his subcommittee was conducting.
Such an opinion poll should have been done by any petition was proposed. M
He said that it would be difficult for the poll to be objective because of the already publicized Senate stand on the ticket surcharge.
"When the Student Senate says 'We don't want the subvis', it's very hard to have an administrator," she said.
Exchange with Nigeria discussed
By SUSANT. HALL
Staff Writer
Two University of Kansas administrators traveled to Benin, Nigeria, last week to discuss establishing cooperative programs between KU and the University of Benin.
Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor,
and Robert Cobb, dean of the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences, met with Nigerian faculty and administrators to discuss establishing a formal agreement between the two universities. The goal was to create an Exchange, postgraduate and professional training, research opportunities for KU faculty and Nigerian study opportunities for KU undergraduates.
"The University of Benin is looking forward to an immense expansion in their higher education system," Shankel said yesterday.
provide all the teachers it needs for this educational expansion despite a very strong
But, he said, Nigeria has been unable to
As a result of the shortage and their strong desire to expand, he said, University of Benin administrators have requested assistance from KU in the areas of business, engineering, education, fine arts, medicine and liberal arts and sciences.
DISCUSSIONS ABOUT possible cooperation between the two universities last fall when T. M. Yusuf, vice president of the University of Benin, visited KU.
Shankel said it was too early to estimate the costs of such a program because it depended on many factors, including how many would participate in the program.
"I think one of the things we want to explore further with them is federal assistance from the United States for the cooperative program," he said.
Shankel said administrators of the University of Benin had sent a draft of a cooperative agreement to KU administrators and preliminary discussions on a formal agreement had already started here.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes must approve the agreement, Shankel said. If approved, it would go back to University of Benin administrators for approval.
Student Senate to debate delayed budget allocations
The budget bills were not acted on at the Senate's meeting last week because the meeting was adjourned to avoid violation of the prior notice regulation. The rule requires that senators receive the Senate Record, which contains proposed legislation for the next three days before the scheduled meetings. Senators attend meetings and an ill secretary prevented the Record from reaching some senators until the day of the meeting.
A change in the University's recognition policy, proposed this year by the Senate, also may be discussed at the meeting, Munyan said.
But any motion to reconsider the petition, which would eliminate the need for a group to be recognized by the vice chancellor before it could apply for Senate funds, would be accompanied by a motion to postpone the next scheduled Senate meeting, he said.
servance would be held in conjunction with Higher Education Week, Nov. 13-19.
Fall supplementary budget allocations again will be the major topic considered at the Student Senate' s 6:30 meeting in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union tonight.
BUT BEFORE the program could be implemented at KU, said the approval of the program was delayed.
A bill changing the status of a student lobby group, Concerned Students for Higher Education (CSHE), will be considered if the senators agree to suspend the rules. The CSHSE a Senate committee instead of a subcommittee, is not officially on the agenda.
He said the exchange of faculty and cooperative programs, if approved, might benefit students.
The Senate also will consider a bill introduced by Ralph Mannyan, student body vice president, that would designate Nov. 19 as Alumni Appreciation Day. The ob-
Shankel said the University of Benin had an enrollment of about 4,000 students.
WHEN COMPLETED, the building will offer services similar to the Kansas Union—air, food, and a book and supply store, concerts and exhibitions, services for students living and working in the southwestern part of the campus. There will be four hour automatic banking will be available.
Harlan Counter, chief of construction for the state division of architectural services, said it would be at least a month before construction could begin on the satellite union. Construction is expected to be completed in fall 1979.
Architectural plans and specifications were approved by the Kansas Board of
In February 1976, students voted to finance the issuance of $2 million in revenue bonds for construction of a satellite union. The original building plans then were modified to meet new needs and to account for inflation.
Chancellor Archie R. Dykes said students should be recognized because of the heavy burden they have imposed upon themselves in financing buildings on campus.
KU STUDENTS voted in 1968 to have plans developed for a satellite union. But commitments for student fees for a new health service facility and for partial support in financing Wespohe Hall caused the Student Senate to postpone the project.
The state architect estimated the cost at
Students now pay $23 each semester to finance buildings, Dykes said.
Formal groundbreaking ceremonies for the satellite union were held yesterday morning at the construction site northwest of Allen Field House.
"The most important people we honor today are the students, who unselfishly taxed themselves so that this satellite union could be built," he said.
David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, presided over the ceremonies. He told about 100 people gathered for the ceremonies that yesterday was a day to honor students of the University of Kansas, past and present.
By SUSANT. HALL
Ground broken for satellite union
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Because of the lower than estimated
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Max Lucas, director of facilities planning, said the additional funds would be used to complete the landscape surrounding the building, including a small parking lot behind the structure, to finish part of the basement that was going to be left unfinished and to provide additional carpeting. Frank Burge, director of the Union, said
Frank Burge, director of the Union, said that because the revenue bonds were to be repaid in 20 years, students might pay for the facility until the year 1997.
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