University Daily Kansan
Guidelines help Events Committee iron out problems
By REGGIE ROBINSON and PAULA SOUTHERLAND
Staff Writers
The University Events Committee, which last year was embroiled in controversy, is now operating smoothly under its new guidelines, committee members sav.
"The new guidelines have sharpened our role. They have given us a reference point from which to act." Scott Jarus, Wichita senior said recently.
The new guidelines were approved by Chancellor Archie R. Dykes on June 14 and were approved by the Board on December 20.
Events committee membership policies and jurisdiction were questioned last year after KU police removed a guitar player from the Wescos Hall lawn because the guitarist did not have committee permission to play there.
Under the new guidelines, the committee is an advisory and scheduling group, not an enforcement group. That distinction was not clearly stated in the old policy.
THE VOTING membership of the committee now consists of eight students and eight faculty or staff members. Novotting members are the chairman of the committee and one person each from the KU Police Department, the Division of Continuing Education and the Office of the Comptroller. The Office will not invoking its officio members that it wants.
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Last year's committee comprised nine students and 14 faculty and staff members.
The new guidelines also state that the committee is under the chancellor's control.
Last year the only written policy on the committee was written in the Student Senate Rules and Regulations. That raised concerns of who had jurisdiction over the committee.
Committee members seem to be satisfied with the new guidelines.
STEVE LEBNE, student body president,
said, "I'm not really worried about the
school."
the powers of the committee are more specified and students have equal voting
Some committee members said the new guidelines had not changed the role of the committee, but had only put in writing what the committee had been doing all along.
Kathy Hoggard, director of the information center, said, "As far as I can tell, the role has not changed. We never had to worry about it; they could do; we could only advise them."
Kira Ribades, Leawed junior, and she said she no problems with the committee's office. She had been part of it for a year.
But she said, "It is pointed out to the committee that it can't play God and that it does."
QUESTIONS ABOUT the role of the committee arose last fall when KU police asked Max Tenant to stop playing his guitar in front of Wescoe Hall. Police said someone had complained that Tenant was disturbing classes.
The complaint was filed by Jarus, a member of last year's committee.
Caryl Smith, committee chairman, said last year that Tenant could not play in the
large segment of the University by concentrating on only one sex," she said. "Women have to work with both men and women outside of school."
Hundley said it was difficult to contrast his experiences in Owl Society and Mortar Board with the experiences of a formerly organized. He said the important part of any honor society was that it enabled members to meet other leaders on campus and facilitate partnerships that might not have been made earlier.
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"All of these people are really sharp," he said. "The reason they're there is because they've excelled on campus and in the community."
OWL SOCIETY and Sachem Circle presidents frankly say their groups simply do not want to go coed at present and will continue without University affiliation. Both agreed that the vote on the single-sex issue probably would come up each year.
"We're not overly concerned with it (the sex issue) this year," Rhoads said. "You
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can get too concerned and not be as effective in other things."
Carroll said more pressure to make the change to coed had come from the other honor societies than from the University. He believed that tradition were reasons to remain all-male.
of Wescoe Hall because it was a "high intensity academic area" and that Tenant had to get approval from the committee to play his guitar on campus.
KU-Y, a campus branch of the YMCA-YWCA, said in a letter to the Events Committee that the committee was restricting freedom of expression. In protest, KU-Y distributed literature outside of the Kansas Union without committee approval.
Rhoads did disaffiliation from the alumni would be much harder on the organization
Several groups at the time thought that the committee had overstepped its jurisdiction.
LAST SEPTEMBER, the Senate passed a resolution that directed the Senate's Rights, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee headed by Steve McMurry, to study the events committee's jurisdiction, its recent actions and its role at the university.
than existing disaffiliation from the University.
Leben, author of the bill, questioned the committee's jurisdiction in regulating the nonacademic conduct of students and command companies, which did not conform to senate guidelines.
Pinkston said the Mortor Board and CWENS alumni regarded the change to coed as both bitter and sweet. They were said to have felt the difference in the new organizations we working, she said.
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The bill also gave the Senate final approval of committee guidelines and created a Senate subcommittee to oversee the actions of the Events Committee.
Shankel then appointed the intermediary committee composed of students and
University by the committee involve student" and responsibility for events on the campus ultimately rested with the administration.
But Del Shankel, executive vice chancellor, voted the Senate bill. He said, "We are going to make it happen."
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The guidelines were formed by an events subcommittee, approved by an intermediary committee, and then sent to the chancellor.
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