University Daily Kansan
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 11, 1980
'80 Student Senate presidential elections
Senate's credibility debated
Batee bound between challenges to Student Senate credibility and the setting of Senate priorities in a presidential sponsored by the Kansas Daily Dankan at the Kansasian last night.
Participants in the debate were Tim Salter, Bendover coalition; Steve Cramer, Focus; Greg Schanck, The Coalition; and Mark Hazelgren, vice presidential candidate for the Apathy Coalition. According to Hazelgren, the Apathy Coalition's effort to defeat the Fleshler, was too antichet to attend the debate.
Salter, attire in a mokhish-looking blue robe equipped with an aluminum card, crossed, said he
Salter said, "The administration doesn't pay attention to the Senate, the students don't pay attention to the Senate, but if I'm elected at least mayve they both laugh at us."
"Senate is a waste and nobody gets anything out of it," Saiter said. "I'd like to take my money and get out of it. I'd rather buy myself a steak dinner than fund them else's club."
SALTER SAT the Senate should line its priorities before educational issues. In the past, he said, the Senate has been reluctant to put them first.
But the value of Senate lies in its potential for action, according to Focus' craner. He said that student interest shouldn't be lost in the Senate organizational shuffle.
"At the beginning of the term we have 110 senators excited about doing something, and then they're immediately hit by budget hearings," Cramer said. "It is hard to interest you when you get it."
CRAMER RECOMMENDED "streamlined" budget guidelines that were consistent and easily understood. He said that truce parliamentary reform was a critical mechanism and proposed scaling down the procedure.
Cramer said student participation would become critical in future years, because declining enrollment was expected to pinch university finances.
"The students must do their homework," Cramer said. "The administration is not basically evil, they are not."
"However, students are only one side of the issue - we have to make sure students are the top priority."
SCMNACKE a unified Senate has more clout with the administration. She a separate
graduate Senate would only weaken all the students positions.
"We need to speak out as a whole," Schnacke said. "I agree the graduate students didn't get a good deal in Senate, but if we would be in a much weekeason position today."
Photos by Jeff Harring Stories by Susan Schoenmaker
Schnacke said the Senate should not shy away from addressing the issues.
"When senators quit because they're disgusted that nothing is getting done, then nothing gets done," Schmack said. "If the Senate addressed the issues of this year in the papers and on the administrator's decks."
"People will listen to if we don't joke about the problems as if we didn't care."
"I'm speaking as president of the student body, Hazelring I was elected by 85 percent of the students," he said.
But "not caring" is one of the Apathy Coalition's slogans.
HAZELRIGG SAID that if he took office this year, he would build an alumnium park at Lotton Lake. He said that could be funded by the $80,000 in unallocated Senate funds.
"Everyone knows the University needs one more parking lot and Clinton Lake is a convenient location," Hazelring said. "Maybe $80,000 isn't enough but we don't care."
Hazelring wore a orange T-shirt with the words,
"Who cares?" to debate.
He said that Senate attendance was low because the Senate had no power, and wasn't representing the people.
"The University has all the power and makes all the decisions," Hazelrigg said. "They'll look at a Senate bill and throw it in the wastewater. Senate has no power and there is no point in saying it does."
Candidates field questions during last night's debate sponsored by KJHK and the University Daily Kansan.
Student Senate presidential and vice presidential candidates, clockwise from lower left: Steve Cramer, Shelley McIntyre, Matt Davis, Greg Schneake, Chris Fleiss, Mark Hazelgrin and Tim Salter. McDowell, McCain, McClarke, McKinnon, Mills and Wheeler.
Bendover strives for flexibility
Tim Salter
While most Student Senate candidates are "looking up" for elections, the Benrover coalition, with presidential candidate Tim Sater and vice-presidential candidate Ron McDowell at the helm, is currently looking down—and not by lying
"Why set my priorities?" Saller, Martinsville, Ind., graduate student, then set my priorities it would mean we think we want to be smart and we don't think we can. Whenways begin to look better at KU, bend over. We decided student government here
He pointed to a campaign sign that said, “Hey lemmings, why not Bendover.” I bent over person with the words “the uncoalition” was on the bottom of the sign.
McDowell, Boccelib, Wis., graduate student, said, "Isn't the sign graphic enough?" It means to submit to additional forms. This is one of the champions of it. These cases are the administered tests.
HE PEERED out from under a lopsided grocery sack, with two uneven holes cut to reveal a pair of wirerimed glasses.
But if the coalition said it "bends over," it does not appear to be a push-over. McDowell said students were not given consideration by the administration.
"The lawns here are always clipped, they are always watered, but you can't check out a book from Marvin library was reshelved last time," McDowell said.
He said Senate had a minimal effect in guiding the University's direction.
"The administration gives students a minimum of power and lets them run around in circles to keep them from really raising their voices." McDowell said.
SALTER SAID the Bendover coalition treated the Senate lightly to prove to the public how insignificant it was.
“If we were serious and just said what we said now, we would appear just like everybody else, like maybe we thought we had a friend who would put Senate on our desk.” Sauer said.
"We want people to know that we're absurd and student government is absurd too."
Focus eyes education, research
The Focus coalition wants to focus on education and research to draw more students into Student Senate, according to presidential candidate Steve Cramer and vice presidential candidate Shelley Senecal.
A lot of times Senate doesn't know what it is doing because of the information they receive. Senators have confidence in Senate, the senators must have enough confidence in Senate.
Shellev Senecal and Steve Cramer
SENECAL, LAWRENCE SOPHOMORE, said the current Senate was "lucky," if most people read the Senate record in preparation for Senate meetings. She said research was usually the stumbling block.
Cramer and Senecal if, elected, they would assign each senator a research task, which would require the aid of a research team.
Streaming parliamentary procedure also would draw more senators into active participation, they said.
SENECAL SAID that Senate was not an "clitist group" but that only the senators who consistently attended knew what was going on. Both candidates agreed that knowledgeable senators would improve relations with the student body.
It is difficult to make visitations when you've got nothing to do with the game. You play everything plays off each other — that is the way Sesame has got to work.
CRAMER AND SENECAL said that running news capsules in the University Daily Kansan would be one way of strengthening Senate communications. They said the capsules would briefly summarize each Senate issue.
The Focus candidates said Senate needed to develop a consistent budget philosophy. They recommended zero base budgeting.
"You need to from scratch and justify everything in the budget," Cramer said. "That way when Student Activity Fee money declines in the future we can keep the largest number of organizations alive."
Coalition stresses involvement
The Coalition ticket wants to get the Student Senate back on track, according to Coalition presidential candidate Greg Snackner
Schnacke, Topea senior, Davison, Overland Park junior, said they would do this by connecting the Senate with students and faculty to participate in events.
"It is easy to connect with us, we'd do it for a name with deep inner meaning or significance to modern man." "Davis said. 'We
Davis said that their "bottom line" was participation within the Senate itself. He said the Senate needed to attract student Senators (and not just students) who were committed to the job.
"Our number one priority is to get Senate working again," Davis said. "There was a constant worry this semester about whether not there was a quorum. And it was a big problem trying to work with 120 people who aren't very interested in Senate."
"The same core will stay around," Schmoke said. "But if there are less seats, it will be harder to get and candidates will have to work to get elected. Right now senators can just pay $3 and get to put Student Senate on their resume."
SCHNACKER AND DAVIS PROPOSED cutting back the total number of Senate seats to force campaigning and to ensure that
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Matt Davis and Greg Schnacke
"Most senators' first real taste of Senate is attending those budget hearings," Schenhau said. "If we move elections back they would have three or four meetings to prepare for fall budget hearings.
Senators would have a chance to get some parliamentary procedure behind them so they would understand what was going on.
Schnacke and Davis agreed that budget allocations demanded time and an understanding of parliamentary procedure. They said that the bill was not ready to be voted on until next year.
DAVID SAID THAT the next Senate would begin with more than $100,000 in unallocated funds. He said that under the current system most of the senators were not participating during the budget hearings.
"Senate needs the time to scrutinize the budget," Davis said. "A lot of groups that ask for money haven't even spent the first week."
They just sit around and vote—only a few people really question the organizations," Davis said. "Homework is also a popular topic."
He said that the Senate could run more smoothly if the vice president took firm control of parliamentary procedure. He said that in the past, the Senate had spent more time on parliamentary procedure than issues.
"The vice president runs the meeting and should lay down the law," Davis said. "You can't have one half of the room explaining the other."
Apathy leaders stage comeback
As perennial as the flu and finals, apathy apparently has struck Student Senate elections, and the Apathy coalition is on a second day of primaries. The Republican presidential candidates Chris Fleisher, Emporia senior, and Mark Hozelring, Emporia senior, is, "If you don't vote for our last year, I won't."
Fleisher said that last year the Apathy coalition swept the elections with 85 percent of the non- vote. He said the coalition expected an equal show of non-support this year. He cited this year's Senate candidates' debate as an example.
FLEISHER'S RUNNING MATE Hareizigg was too apathetic to friend the debate. She did not care if it was said she would not be able to attend the debate to attend the
Hazelrigg was elected to a Senate seat last year with two votes. Phelser denied that Hazelrigg went into liberation during last year's election.
Hazelrigg attended a few meetings at the beginning of his term, and, with written permission from both his constituents, was able to attend her husband's funeral.
"His voting and attendance record is consistent with our stance. As a result of keeping our campaign promises, he has probably been removed from office, although we don't care enough to verify this," he said.
Fleischer said he and Hazelirqi "told obliged" to represent the non-views of their constituents. He said the Apathy coalition could be "perfectly objective" in handling problems because they didn't care about any of them.
"We're always around to listen to the apathetic majority," she said. "We may not care, but we'll be open to them."
HE SAID APATHY would like to see the Board of Regents fired for failing to act on the Chalmers Hail Resolution, the resolution.
Mark Hazelriqq and Chris Fleisher
unanimously passed by Senate, was to name the Visual Arts building after former Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers.
He also proposed to award every student seven concrete blocks from Wesco Hall.
"The students have paid for them, they ought to get some use out of them." Fleshier said. "I fear they must good book sleuth or侦探."
Fleisher advocated tacking a windfall profits tax on KU housing, and recicling the *i*, *n*, *y* in the form of no interest loans to KU investors.
He suggested commissioning Cristo, a Bulgarian artist, to cover Fraser Hall.
Fleisher also vetoed the athletic department.
"That way nobody has to look at it." *Fleischer said*
"We want to liquidate the whole athletic department because they're all losers," Fleisher said. "It will save the University a lot of money and reduce fees. The University could sell the practice for cheap, mail shopping or condominiums and make a killing financially."
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