Monday, April 19, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 3
YOU leaders look ahead to work with Delta Force
By Nadia Mustafa
mnustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The student body president-elect and vice president-elect who headed the YOU coalition, which stole a majority of Student Senate seats last week, said they hoped to drop partisan lines and work with members of Delta Force next year.
After a celebratory weekend, Korb Maxwell and Dede Seibel said they were ready to get to work this week in preparation for taking office during a joint Senate session April 28, where old and new senators come together.
This week, Maxwell and Seibel will choose Senate executive staff members for next year and will
and the three referendums passed by the student body last week.
Maxwell said he would begin discussing the construction of a new $16 million campus recreation center — a proposal over overwhelmingly passed by students — with Kevin Yoder, student body president and recreation task force chairman. He predicted that one of the toughest aspects of his new position would be his responsibility for both Senate's failures and accomplishments.
"One of the hardest things about being student body president is that you're on your own," Maxwell said. "There's no one to tell you what to do."
He said he wanted to implement a student judicial board to hear complaints from Senate and student organizations. Also, he said he planned to form presidential task forces next fall to work on a reformed course-retake policy.
comprehensive campus safety program, public transportation, parking and a tuition cap.
The task forces would require input from members of both coalitions, Maxwell said. He and Seibel said they would seek collaboration with Seth Hoffman and Mary Liu, Delta Force candidates who lost their bids for student body president and vice president.
"I hope to work with both of them as much as possible." Maxwell said. "I'm going to be as open to work with Seth as he is to me. I'll try my best to reach out to both of them."
Seibel said she hoped to implement some structural changes within Senate, such as allowing non-senators who are standing committee members to sponsor legislation. Also, she said she wanted senators to visit student organizations regularly, conduct a majority of meetings outside of the Kansas Union, serve office hours in the Union lobby and hold town hall meetings at Wescoe Beach.
Hoffman said he was not yet sure if he would be directly involved with Senate again next year. He said he was confident that other members of Delta Force who were elected would work on issues important to him and the coalition.
"I'm taking a step back right now," he said. "Part of me wants to get back to work, and the other wants to walk away. But it'll probably be the first."
Hoffman said that if he did not return to Senate he would join other campus organizations and continue to work on securing a fall break and implementing a new campus bulletin board policy through his position as chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee.
YOU who lost their bids for Senate seats still plan to be involved with Senate in other capacities.
Liu could not be reached for comment about her plans for next year.
Many members of Delta Force and
Trevor Loney, former incumbent Delta Force candidate for Nunemaker senator, said he would remain on the University
Affairs committee and apply for a replacement senator seat.
Lisa Braun,
Queers and
Allies senator
and former
YOU candidate for off-campus senator, said she would apply for Queers and Allies or holdover senator for next.
Maxwell: Will form task forces to study important issues.
ator for next year.
Old and new senators alike look forward to the next steps involved with the passage of the student body referrums.
Nicole Skalla, KU on Wheels transportation coordinator and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator-elect, said she and other members of the transportation task force would begin discussing a joint citywide public transportation system between the City of Lawrence and the University with administrators and city officials.
Deidre Backs, off-campus senator and member of Students Against Hate, said she and other members would discuss a zero-tolerance policy for hate crimes and sexual assault with administrators and senators.
All campaign-related material must be removed from campus by 5 today. Jennifer Watkins, elections commissioner, will certify election results tomorrow.
-Darrin Peschka
A Panel Discussion about Race and the Justice System
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Prof. of Sociology at UMKC
Ralph Oliver,
KU Director of Safety and
Marlon Williams
Assistant District Attorney for Douglas County
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at 7:30 p.m.
Frontier Room, Burge Union
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National Pan-Hellenic Council
Race in Justice
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