Thursday, March 4. 1999
The University Daily Kansar
Section A · Page 5
Regents board may be split apart
Bill could provide better coordination
By Kristi Reimer
By Kristi Reimer
kreimer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A plan to restructure the Board of Regents and coordinate aspects of higher education in Kansas was introduced in the Senate this week, while a similar bill is under construction in the House.
The plan would change the nine-member Board of Regents to a group of three miniboards. One segment would oversee public universities—such as the University of Kansas one would be responsible for community and vocational colleges, and one would handle coordination issues.
Sen. Christine Downey, D-Inman and sponsor of the bill, said the purpose of the proposal was to make higher-education entities work more closely together
"These groups are like肌 whirlwinds," she said. "Once in a while, they brush by each other and pick up some wind and sediment, but they're not structured."
Downey said that the state of higher education was not in need of a major overhaul, although coordination could be improved.
"We need to ask, if we did things this way, would it allow for improvement?" she said. "It's not that we think things are terribly wrong."
culated among campus offices and that administrators still were processing the information.
Last year, a task force appointed by Gov. Bill Graves proposed a restructuring plan that would have created a board of trustees to govern community colleges and a new higher-education coordinating council.
Provost David Shulenburg said he knew additional plans that existed in "oral tradition," and that the University would need to review all of them.
But, Downey said that creating new boards required a constitutional amendment.
She said the Senate's plan
to combat the invasion of Iraq.
"Many legislators have attempted to solve the problem; others wonder what the problem is."
kept the essence of the task force plan, but didn't require a change in the constitution.
KU administrators are taking a wait-and-see approach to any restructuring strategy.
Jon Josserand Assistant for Government Relations
"The issue of higher-education governance has been a persistent one in the last 20 years," said Jon Josserand, assistant for government relations. "Many legislators have attempted to solve the problem; others wonder what the problem is."
He said that copies of the Senate bill had cir
The Regents have taken the same position, said Tom Bryant, interim director of the board. But, he said coordination was an important issue.
"The Board of Regents are certainly in favor of anything we can do to help coordination," he said. "We want to do what is best for students."
Bryant said that he knew some students who complained they had problems transferring from community colleges to public universities.
Rep. Ralph Tanner, R-Baldwin and chairman of the House Education Committee, is working on a similar bill. He said it would be ready to introduce early next week.
Senate Bill 345 can be read online at www.ink.org/public/legislative/1999/bills/345.html.
Edited by Sarah Hole
Claiming Coke prize could be easier
Winners redeem free soda bottles at new location
By Ezra Sykes
esykes@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
One of the prizes — a free bottle of Coke — could not be redeemed at the stand.
awarded at the stand.
Students who bought 20 oz. bottles of Coca-Cola at the hot dog stand at Wescoe Terrace may have been disappointed if they won in the Coke sweepstakes.
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Unions, said that he was unsure why prizes were not
Winners instead had to trek to either the Kansas Union or the Burge Union in order to redeem their winning bottle labels or caps.
"It is our general policy that bottle tops be redeemable at places where they sell 20 oz. bottles of Coke," Ferguson said. "This was probably just a miscommunication."
Jay Glatz, food service manager,
said that the hot dog stand would
begin redeeming winning bottle
cans and labels today.
caps and labels today
ing labels each week.
"It's a gigantic hassle because we are such a small operation," Frazier said. "We've had only one irate customer in almost two years."
Adam Mangels, Ulysses junior, said that he had asked workers at the stand for a bottle of Coke he had won, but that they didn't award him his prize.
"It it seemed a little bit stupid since they sell Coke there," he said.
Although Mangels was frustrated that he couldn't redeem his winning cap at the hot dog stand, some students who buy Coke products at the vending machines didn't have a problem walking to the Unions to claim their prizes.
Katie McCloskev. Atchison
McCloskey was aware of the two campus locations and redeemed most of the bottle caps. She said that the locations weren't too irrational.
"It's not really a problem because either Union isn't too far away," she said. "It doesn't seem too ridiculous."
Renee Transue, Lawrence freshman and Hashinger Hall resident, said that at one point, she had four winning bottle caps from last semester in her purse from vending machines in her hall.
Transus won two free Cokes and $40 in KU Bookstore bucks, but never redeemed the caps because she didn't know where to go.
When Transue was told that she could redeem them at the Unions, she said that she wished she would have known earlier.
However, she said that she did not think the redemption locations were that inconvenient or a problem.
"I don't think it's too much to walk there because it's nice to get exercise before you drink another Coke," she said. "They kind of even each other out. Besides the Burge is really close to where I live."
— Edited by Sarah Hale
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