Friday, April 2, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Elections dispute continues
By Nadia Mustafa
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Members of the YOU coalition who filed a complaint about Delta Force campaign abuses Wednesday may face dismissal penalties and fines if their claim proves false.
Jennifer Watkins, elections commissioner,
said that she would file a complaint against Ben Walker and R.J. Woodring, incumbent YOU candidates for Nunemaker senators, if their accusations were false.
Walker and Woodring
Walker-Says Delta Force received help from a KU graduate.
named that Jason Fizzell, 1998 KU graduate and former Delta Force president, was helping Delta Force with its campaign. According to the elections code, a
coalition must pay a "fair market value" for non-student consulting and must report it to the elections commission.
Wednesday night, Seth Hoffman,
Delta Force president and candidate for
student body president, denied that his
coalition sought campaign advice from
Fitzell.
Watkins said that if the complaint was false, Walker and Woodring could have violated three major rules: attempting to influence the outcome of an election by means of fraud; making libelous or slanderous statements regarding another coalition or candidate; and attempting to mislead or obstruct the commission, commissioner or hearing board in the performance of their duties.
The code allows the accused party to request that no action be taken against the individuals who filed the complaint.
The commission would determine the penalty for any major offense, which could include a $50 fine, removal of campaign literature from campus, disqualification from the election and dismissal from office.
But, Hoffman said that YOU should be punished for what he called political maneuvering.
“This kind of thing needs to be penalized,” he said. “They need to be a punished for deliberately attempting to scream us.”
If the allegations were true, Watkins
said it would be the commission's duty to assess a penalty.
Walker,
Woodring and
Delta Force representatives will take part in a closed hearing at 6 p.m. Monday at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Watkins said that she was unsure exactly
Woodring: Filed a complaint against Delta Force coalition.
how the commission would conduct its investigation because elections were in fewer than two weeks.
Edited by Chris Fickett
As time approaches for students to vote on a new campus recreation center during Student Senate elections April 14-15, the issue increasingly is becoming entangled in campaign politics.
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By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
After reviewing the recreation task force's materials during spring break, Delta Force released an alternative recreation proposal this week, mirroring a Student Rights committee resolution that failed last spring. The Delta Force proposal calls for an addition to the south or west sides of Robinson Center.
The Delta Force proposal, which is still on the drawing board, would cost about $4 million or $5 million and would require an estimated $10 to $15 per semester student fee increase.
Erin Simpson, incumbent Delta Force candidate for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, researched the alternative with Seth Hoffman, Delta Force candidate for student body president. Hoffman said that they relied on the task force's research and some students' opinions to draft their proposal.
"An addition would capitalize on all
Renaissance Design Group, a consulting firm from Des Moines, Iowa, verified the projected costs, benefits and estimated budget of the task force proposal March 12. Teresa Klinkenberg, director of administration, confirmed that the allotted fee increase would be sufficient to finance the project.
the things Robinson already has," Simson said.
Hoffman said that if Delta Force candidates were elected, the coalition would try to put its proposal to a student-body vote this fall and begin construction next spring.
Delta Force will campaign against the task force proposal, which will be on the ballot for a student body referendum during elections. The task force proposal would create a $16 million free-standing recreation center. With the task force proposal, fees would eventually increase by $49 per semester. However, there will be a KU Fit and intramural fee waiver for students who use the new recreation center.
Korb Maxwell, YOU candidate for student body president, said that YOU would not take a stance on the recreation center. But, he said, the task force had a solid proposal.
Tom Waechter, planning and programming manager for Design and Construction Management, said that
an addition to Robinson Center would be less expensive but that it would not necessarily be a good long-term investment.
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Simmpson referred to a letter written October 23, 1998 to David Ambler, Dean of Student Affairs, in which Jim Long, then Kansas Union director, said that Ambler had requested he assemble a group to plan for a new or expanded campus recreation center last summer.
Yoder said that the Department of Student Affairs always had supported improving recreation but that the task force proposal was entirely students' efforts.
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"I feel that the student body as a whole is in favor of this," he said. "It's very easy for groups to misguide voters. That's a smear tactic on this proposal."
Edited by Julie Sachs
"Robinson needs significant renovation, and you'd still have a mixed-used facility," he said. "That's the biggest trade-off."
To support Delta Force's more modest proposal, Simpson cited statistics from the 1996 Senior Survey, which revealed that almost 55 percent of graduating seniors had been satisfied with campus recreation. In addition, she said that the task force proposal was actually an administrative initiative, not a student one.
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