Wednesday, November 17, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
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Senate votes could amend some rules
Committees to review outdated procedures
By Chris Borniger writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
From time to time, the rules and regulations of Student Senate must be refreshed. Three bills to be considered by Senate committees tonight aim to do just that.
The University Affairs and Student Rights committees will vote on three pieces of legislation to amend rules and regulations. One bill would reform procedures in Senate meetings; another would modify handling of impeachment procedures against a student body president; and another would delete obsolete portions of rules and regulations.
The Student Executive committee revises rules and regulations each summer, but not everything that needs revision gets caught, said J.D. Jenkins, senior holdover senator and a sponsor of two of the bills.
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"Sometimes things get through the cracks," he
In other business, Senate committees will consider:
■ A bill to allocate $166.55 to the Course Content Subcommittee.
A bill to allocate $3,925 to KU Filmworks.
A resolution to thank Betty Durbin Grimwood,who passed away. She was a former director of the cultural exchange program between international students at the University of Kansas and the town of Burns.
said. "It's just a matter of catching them."
The rule handling impeachment proceedings, for example, makes no sense in its present form. Jenkins said. He said it was written hastily in 1992 after the removal of Darren Fultcher, then-student body president. At the time Senate had no route for impeaching a president. Fultcher eventually was expelled by a Senate vote.
The revised version provides for a committee of five senators and the five standing committee chairpersons to consider impeachment charges.
If something like that should happen again, it's important to have a procedure that works," he said.
The bill to reform voting procedures could affect the end results of some votes. Present pol
icy requires a majority of senators or committee members to be present and vote to pass the legislation. The revised version only would require a simple majority of those voting to do so.
Votes to abstain essentially count as votes against a bill, said Partha Mazumdar, graduate senator and legislation sponsor. He said the revised version would make them true abstentions.
Rules and regulations were written in 1970. They underwent their first major overhaul in 1983.
Muthukrishnan said the legislation was akin to housekeeping.
"It's a slow legislative cycle," he said. "It seems like a good time to clean up shop."
The third bill would eliminate committees that were no longer needed, said Aravind Muthukrishnan, Finance committee chairman and legislation sponsor. One such example is the Social Responsibility committee, formed in 1985 to protest apartheid in South Africa.
At 6 tonight, University Affairs will meet at the Big 12 room; Multicultural Affairs at the International Room; and Graduate Affairs at Alcove D, all in the Kansas Union. At 6:30, Finance will meet at Parlors A, B and C; and Student Rights will meet at the Jayhawk Room in the Union.
— Edited by Katie Holman
Lectures to add context to photo exhibit
By Amanda Kaschube
Kansan staff writer
The Spencer Museum of Art has long been home to works of art by Georgia O'Keefe and Ansel Adams. But for the past month, images depicting death and despair have filled the walls.
"Facing Death: Portraits from Cambodia's Killing Fields" has been on display in the Kress Gallery since Oct. 30 and will be displayed until Dec. 19. Starting today, the 100 gelatin-silver prints will be presented in conjunction with three lectures from a variety of speakers, including a University of Kansas professor and a former Cambodian refugee.
The Photographic Resource Center at Boston University organized the images and sent them on tour. The prints were made from negatives in the archive of what was once a secret prison in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
At 3:30 p.m. today at the gallery, David Smith, professor of sociology, will integrate the photographs in his discussion about issues of genocide in Cambodia
"I will focus in part on the background of genocide and the implications it had in Cambodia," he said. "I'm also going to be bringing in a comparative perspective by talking about other genocides in the 20th century."
Smith, who has done extensive research about the issues, will relate the Cambodian genocide to similar examples in Rwanda and World War II.
Smith's lecture is a part of the KU Perspective series.
At 7 p.m. tomorrow at the auditorium in the art museum, Ambassador Kenneth Quinn, a former U.S. ambassador to Cambodia, will elaborate on the actions taken by the Khmer Rouge, the communist army which committed the atrocities in Cambodia.
"From the Field of Dreams to the Killing Field: Cambodia's Khmer Rouge Nightmare" will highlight Quinn's experiences and findings about the activities that unfolded in the late 1960s.
"They are responsible for approximately 2 million deaths from a country of 7 million people," Quinn said. "The country has gone through unbelievable and unspeakable evil. Their people have suffered far more than they deserve."
Quinn said the ordeals he witnessed had a tremendous impact on his life.
"I helped bring the country back to a state where life is getting better," he said. "It's not perfect, but it's better."
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The lectures will conclude at 7 p.m. on Dec.2 at the auditorium in the museum with "Cambodia: Millennium of Glory," a lecture by Sichan Siv, a senior adviser for the International Republican Institute and a former Cambodian refugee.
Christina Mitchell, education services coordinator for the museum, said Siv would draw from his experiences in a death camp.
"He escaped to Thailand in 1976 after being in a forced labor camp and marked for death twice," she said. "He also served in the Bush administration as the deputy secretary of state for South Asian affairs."
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