Thursday, February 25, 1999
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Holdover senators retained
By Nadia Mustafa
Kennedy staff writer
Student Senate committees voted last night to maintain the position of holdover senator, and voted against paying for new KUID readers for Senate elections in April.
The finance committee voted in favor of providing $1,920 to operate the polling sites at Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall and Ekdahl Dining Commons, but committee members did not feel that students should have to pay for renting magnetic-strip readers for the elections.
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Aravind Muthukrishnan, Nunemaker Hall senator, said that because students did not have much input in the administration-initiated new KUID system, the University should pay for the KUID readers.
"It's kind of like an unfunded mandate," he said. "Students end up paying for a lot more of the burden. They shouldn't have to pay for something they didn't ask for."
Amanda Weinberg, elections commission chairwoman, said the University was willing to consider funding a portion of the cost for KUID readers.
But Jennifer Watkins, elections commissioner, said the administration would not pay for the KUID readers this year.
The elections commission will receive the polling site funds if the full Senate passes the bill next Wednesday.
The student rights committee vote 9-11 against a bill that would have eliminated the position of holdova senator.
The committee debated whether holdover senators, three seats appointed by the previous year's Senate for the purpose of historical knowledge, were representative and democratic because they were not popularly elected by the student body.
Tiffany Seeman, Panhellenic senator, said the position of holder senator was advantageous because it did not cater to the interests of a specific constituency, but to the whole student body. She said that Senate should not attempt to mimic higher governmental institutions in achieving full democracy.
"We pretend like we're the U.S. Senate, but we're not," Seeman said. "We're just a student senate."
Holly Krebs, holdover senator and the bill's co-sponsor, said the position of holdover senator was unrepresentative.
"These seats do not fit into the scheme of trying to make Senate more representative," she said. "Representation through popular elec
tions is far better than the representation we assume we get through hold over senators."
During the debate, some senators veered from the issue of holdover senators and began discussing problems with the Senate system.
Maria Abatajoglou, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said that she believed in democracy but that she also believed in reality. She said students were not aware of the issues and could not make an educated decision in Senate elections.
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Matt Bradshaw, fine arts senator, said he agreed that elections were often popularity contests, but it would be paternalistic if Senate decided who served as student representatives.
"I believe in educated democracy, and we don't have it at this university," she said. "So it helps to have a handful of people that can be the leaders of the pack. The flaw in the system is not the holdover senators, it is all the other seats."
"It would be better if campaigns were issue-driven and not for where a candidate lives or how flashy they are," he said. "This is not limited to KU, but we should do our part to try to fix it."
Krebs said the bill's sponsors would present the bill again next year as a fourth consecutive attempt.
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Student leadership group formed at KU
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Kansan staff writer
Two students are attempting to unite student organizations by forming the first student leadership organization at KU.
Jacob Eastman, Lawrence sophomore and Jeff Geurts, Oklahoma City, Okla., freshman, registered a new organization called KU Lead at the Organizations and Leadership Center this semester.
Eastman, KU Lead co-president, said that he and Geurts wanted to initiate the group after attending Leadershape, a leadership conference sponsored by the Organizations and Leadership Center, in January.
"KU does not have a student leadership organization," he said. "The whole purpose is to promote existing leadership opportunities through student involvement and have a central point to help other student organizations network."
Eastman said that 35 students had applied to be on the organization's executive board. The co-presidents will be establishing the executive board and recruiting membership during the next two weeks.
He said that individual membership was open to any students who thought leadership issues were important
"For the executive board, we need people who are extremely motivated, good public speakers and want to get in on something that's going to be huge," Eastman said.
who taught leadership issues were important. Eastman said that KU Lead had five major goals for the semester. The first was to create a 45-minute presentation that would be presented to freshmen and new students in living organizations and in introductory courses. The presentation would focus on how leadership develops through student involvement.
Another goal was to construct an online resource database for organizations and individuals to get information about opportunities for involvement and leadership development programs.
A third goal was to set up a community-based calendar to which student organizations could post information about campuswide events through e-mail, the Internet and campus mail.
Also, KU Lead wanted to establish an executive board training committee that emphasized leadership development within existing organizations.
A final goal was to host a monthly forum for officers of student organizations to network and discuss common problems.
Beth Harralson, Lawrence sophomore, applied for the position of KU Lead secretary. She said that she wanted to network and expand her horizons.
"Most of the people who are going to be on it are major people who have influence over students and the University," Harralson said. "I want to get some creative influence. Everyone joining together like that can give great leadership to the University."
Aaron Quisenberry, assistant director of the Organizations and Leadership Center, said that Leadershape played a major role in the formation of KU Lead.
KU Lead will conduct interviews for executive board members Sunday and Monday. Interested students should e-mail Eastman at hokub@ukans.edu by Friday.
"Students come back and they're fired up and ready to save the world," Quisenberry said. "They're a new group with full energy. They don't know where they're going yet, but they're in full stride."
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