Wednesday, April 21, 1999
The University Daily Kansap
Section A · Page 5
YOU fined $50 for election violation
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
An apartment complex near campus will receive $20 from the YOU coalition for cleaning up the coalition's campaign literature last week.
The elections commission's hearing board fined YOU $50 Monday night, $30 of which will be paid to the commission, for distributing campaign doorhangers to Berkeley Flats, 1123 Indiana St. The complex has a no-soliciting policy, and the elections code prohibits coalitions from campaigned on private property without the owner's permission.
Amy Cummins, graduate senator and Berkeley Flats resident, filed the complaint against YOU on April 14 after she found YOU doorhangers on her and her neighbors' doorknobs.
Although Korb Maxwell, YOU president and student body president-elect, said YOU had distributed about 800 doorhangers to about 10 apartment complexes around Lawrence, the board deemed it a minor violation because it said that it only heard evidence about cam-
pign materials in Berkeley Flats.
Maxwell said that YOU had apologized and that he thought it was fair that the coalition would have to pay recuperative costs to the complex's management.
"There are consequences, and we'll take it," he said. "They made a wise decision. They were not overly punitive and understood that it was just an honest mistake by candidates."
Cummins said she was disappointed by the amount of the fine because the violation had been a pattern during the last few years.
"I believe that this is a major infraction that deserved more than just a slap on the wrist," she said.
"Printing and then distributing thousands of these illegal handbills shows a deliberate attempt to manipulate the elections commissions' regulations. To many off-campus residents, using these handbills, then paying a small fine seems to be nothing better than buying the vote."
Individuals who fled two other campaign complaints, which were dismissed by the board Monday, will pursue further action.
J. D. Jenkins, Nunemaker senator,
said he would request that the commission draft a letter explaining its decision about a supposedly nonpolitical complaint he filed last Thursday before election results were tabulated. The complaint maintained that the recreation task force allegedly attempted to influence the election by violating numerous elections code rules and KU policy.
He said the task force violated rules about campaign materials on campus such as leaving flies unattended in classrooms and writing pro-campaign slogans on classroom chalkboards.
In addition, Jenkins said the task force committed fraud by providing misleading information about its proposal to students. He wanted the commission to write in the letter that evidence existed indicating that the task force had committed the alleged violations so that he could present it to Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
The board ruled that it did not have jurisdiction to rule on Jenkins' complaint. Jenkins said the ruling set a bad precedent.
"The referendum would not have passed by a landslide if they had not
had done all those things." he said.
"They made a mockery of the democratic process."
Partha Mazumdar, graduate senator, filied a complaint Monday on behalf of Delta Force alleging that YOU had committed libel and slander by distributing a brochure that claimed Delta Force was ant-greek.
Ben Walker, Nunemaker senator, had denied the charges, and the board determined that it did not have enough evidence to prove that YOU had created the brochure.
Mazumdar said he was disappointed with the ruling.
"They do this every year, and they're going to do it again next year," he said. "This summer we'll find out that they did it, and then it will be too late. The bottom line is that we ran a very clean campaign. This is the third year in a row that Delta Force was not found guilty of anything at all."
Mazumdair said he would request that the commission adopt a rule that coalitions must be held responsible for all campaign-related activities and materials on campus.
Edited by Duane Wagler
$1 per hour increase would help subsidize journal subscriptions
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"We certainly want the support of students, but Regents rules don't call for student votes on anything but student fees," Shulenburger said.
He said if the plan was approved and the legislature voted to match the funds, the University would receive approximately $1.2 million in additional revenue yearly. The proposal is similar to a dollar-percredit-hour technology fee the Regents approved in 1997.
"It seems like a small amount to pay for doing good work," she said.
Alison Watkins, Lawrence graduate student, said she wouldn't mind paying extra money for the library.
Bill Crowe, vice chancellor of information services and dean of libraries, said that as the father of an incoming freshman, he was concerned about rising tuition. But the library's role in a university environment led him to think that most people would support the proposed increase.
Crowe said the University had a long tradition of making its library a priority, but the costs of doing business had been outstripping that support.
"There are several things you can tell about the quality of a campus," he said. "One is the faculty; another is the library. You can get a sense of: 'Are these people up to date?' 'Are they offering contemporary services such that I want to come to school here?"
"It's not that we're getting less money," Crowe said. "We're getting two-thirds more money than when I
Tuition increases
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Resident undergraduate 69.65 71.40 72.40
Resident graduate 103.40 105.95 106.95
Nonresident undergraduate 289.75 297.00 298.00
Nonresident graduate 337.65 346.10 347.10
- subject to Board of Regents' approval of 2.5% inflationary increase
* **with addition of library fee**
Source: Board of Regents Budget Development and Tuition Committee
Jason Benavides/KANSAN
came in 1990. We were then paying for 16,000 subscriptions. Now we're down to less than 12,000, and we have a lot more money."
Crowe said graduate students felt the loss most keenly when they looked for an article in a journal and got a message that the subscription had been canceled. The situation wasn't as dire with undergraduate materials, he said, but was getting worse.
"When the library's at risk, your education's at risk," Crowe said. "It's that simple an equation."
A Regents committee will consider the library increase at its May meeting. If approved, the plan will go to the full board in June. The governor and legislature would have to appropriate the funds back to the Regents, as well as vote to match them, in the 2000 legislative session.
The increase would take effect in Fall 2000.
- Edited by Duane Wagler
Julie Numrich, outgoing chairwoman of Student Senate Executive Committee, enjoys the farewell speeches given at an end of the year Student Senate banquet held last night. Holly Krebs, holdover senator, was voted senator of the year; the integrated transportation task force was chosen the committee board or project of the year; and the Center for Community Outreach' into the Streets Week was the student organization project of the year. Floyd Cline from Multicultural Affairs, Aaron Profit from University Affairs, Cynthia Bracker from Finance and Niceka Skall from Student Rights were voted committee members of the year. Photo by Erin McElhinney/KANSAN
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