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Wednesday, April 4. 1973
University Daily Kansan
Student Control ...
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had had an opportunity to consider the requests.
Budget requests are normally submitted to the Finance and Auditing Committee, which draws up each year's budget. The Budgetckt checks and to the Student Senate for approval.
THE POLITICAL TENSION of the spring lingered and intensified locally.
Amid the confusion of a hot, uneasy summer, Donald Rick Dowdall, a young ex-cop from Chicago, was killed July 16 by a city policeman. Violent confrontations erupted between police and civilians.
At a closed meeting Sunday, July 26, the Board of Regents voted unanimously to fire Gary D. Jackson, a black who had been hired earlier that month on the recommendation of the BSU as an assistant to the KU dean of men.
According to the Topeka police, Jackson purchased 27 boxes of ammunition from a Topeka gun store July 17, the Kansan reported.
The regents moved that the attorney general be requested to conduct an immediate investigation into the purchase of firearms and ammunition in more than normal quantities in the area in recent weeks.
THEY ALSO appointed a subcommittee to investigate the allocation of student fees at KU. The regents froze activity until they could raise the level until the investigation was complete.
Jackson denied Aug. 31 that he had used a check to buy ammunition, although he did not deny that he had purchased ammunition. He also noted that he used ISU funds. He was not rehired.
At the end of September, an investigation ordered by Gov. Robert Dockert announced that no state money had been used by the Department to pay for it during the July disturbances in Lawrence.
Jackson and the ammunition purchases were turned into a political issue, according to Senator Dodd.
When school convened that September, the Student Senate's proposed budget, which had been written during the summer by a subcommittee, was still frozen. Under the ice, however, several changes had taken place.
THE BUDGET was written by a group of persons who have since become KU institutions. Members of the subcommittee were R. L. "Puff" Bailey, chairman of Finance and Auditing; David G. Miller, Student Senate treasurer; Bill Ebert, Senior Vice President of SenXe and StudEx; and Peter member of StudEx, according to George.
The subcommittee reduced the Athletic Association's allocation and entirely omitted the Rifle and Glee clubs and the Kansan from the budget.
Miller explained in a Kansas article that the Athletic allocation was cut according to a formula that would ensure that only those students who purchased tickets to sports events would contribute activity fees to the athletic department.
The subcommittee thought the Kanssan shouldn't receive funds because the paper was "essentially a lab session for J-school students." Miller said.
Activity fees should be used only to fund student-controlled groups, and the Kansas was not a student-controlled group, ac cording to Miller.
THE KANSAN was readmitted to the budget before the end of the summer. But its allocation was set at $42,500, the amount the paper contributed as income. In effect, the paper did not receive funds from the senate.
"I favored cutting the Rifle Club allocation because the club was primarily a social function," George said recently. "That was the intellectual reason for cutting it. The emotional reason was that there was not violence, anti-military atmosphere prevalent at the time. The Rifle Club seemed to be that kind of an organization."
"The decision could have been a compromise. Everyone had their own opinions, and most of our decisions were compromises."
The regents restored allocations to the Rife Club, the Glee Club and the Athletic Association of Women's Center and the Commission on the Status of Women as one funding category, reduced the proposed BSU allocation and the Oread Daly allocations for Catalyst and the Oread Daily.
THE CATALYST LAAS® 48 program was deleted on the grounds that the University would pay for such academic programs from another fund, but a year later Catalyst was released.
The Student Senate survived on funds approved by Keith Nitcher, vice chancellor of business affairs, but there was a load, of reaction at KU to the regents' actions.
"The Student Senate had no warning that the Board of Regents would freeze the funds," Ebert told the Kansan. "The basic question is who controls the money--students' elected representatives or the Board of Regents?"
"Students have the right to prepare the budget," Von Ende said recently. "That fall, they forget in the excitement of handing over the budget that they had to be part of the University budget."
STUDENT LEADERS also criticized the regents for "ignoring" the Student Code of Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct by refusing to approve or disapprove it. The regents approved the code, freezing or changing allocations would have been illegal.
"The regents delegate to the chancellor the sole responsibility for this institution," Von Ende explained recently. "He, in turn, can delegate power to whoever he wishes." The chancellor gave de facto approval to the code; the regents didn't have to.
"The regents do have the power to change allocations within specific budgets, such as the new state budget."
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee began hearings the first week of September to decide allocations for a revised budget.
The BSU requested $32,000; $15,000 more than the total funds available to the senate. The senate allocated $18,500 to the BSU. The recessions trimmed the allocation to $14,000.
THE STUDENT Senate gradinggives his approval to the regent's rearranged position. A contingency fund of $47,896 was allotted for "Atlantic Admissions or the Student Health Center." The Health Center didn't get the money.
The money was given to the Athletic Association with two stipulations: that the Association allow 50 per cent student representation on its operating board and that the Association report to the senate to explain the present request for expenditures and to account for the use of the activity fee allocation of the past five years.
"In the past, the Athletic Association had not been required to account for expenditures, since it is a private organization. As a result, the student financing committee had no idea whether increased demands for funds were justified. Head Coach Kansan as student senator, was quoted in the Kansas as saving.
"THE 50 PERCENT representation request was carried to the operating board and promptly disposed of," Von Ende said. "NCA rules stated that faculty had to take care of students and reordered to read institutional control. There are now three students on the board."
A travel allocation was given to the KU marching band with the stipulation that women who sought to join the band would not be discriminated against. The band remained an all-male institution, and funds for the activity费 were stopped the next year.
The band since has admitted women and has been returned to the activity fee budget. Late in September, StudEx endorsed the proposal of a student strike in which students would refuse to pay an activity fee and were offered more resources to the activity fee money back to the students*, or the students determined to abolish the activity fee.
STUDENT SENATORS applauded and criticized StudiEx for its endorsement. By December, the idea of a strike had faded into committee.
In the controversy that surrounded allocations that fall, Bailey introduced the idea of reducing the fee from $12 to $2 a week in which they could buy tickets to support and attend events of their choice. This idea also was referred to committee, but it contributed to later referenda against more effective means of structuring allocations.
Procedures surrounding the use of fee allocations are cumbersome because few of these procedures are required.
Although the Student Senate treasurers have produced clear explanations, most organizations still have trouble learning how to handle their allocations, according to William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs.
Teaching the treasurers of every group how to use their allocation produces a problem, especially if the groups' officers change rapidly, he said.
PROBLEMS THE activity fee has face are the least of its problems now. Apathy seems to have crawled in as the overriding student control of activity fee allocations.
Applications Due April 18
The Kanan Board is now accepting applications for the position of editor and business manager of the Kanan for the fall semester. Application forms are available on the website www.men'soffice28.org. Men's office 288, Strong, den of women's office 228, Strong, or 105 Flint Hall.
Deadline for submission of completed forms is noon, Wednesday, April 18. Forms should be returned to Dana Leibengoud, in 105 Fletch Hall, the Journalism, in 105 Fletch Hall.
Selection of the editor and business manager will be Thursday, April 19, following an appointment. Kansan Applicants will be notified of the time and place of the interview.
SUMMER POSITIONS
(June 1-30)
The University of Kansas Orientation Committee is now accepting applications for ten student assistant positions in conjunction with the 1973 summer orientation program for entering freshmen.
Job descriptions and application forms are now available in the office of School Relations, 101 Kansas Union. The deadline for applications is April 6, 1973.
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