Student Control of Activity Fee Has Stormy History
Editor's Note: The annual battle of the student activity fee budget will open tonight before the Student Senate's Finance and Auditing Committee. In past years, allocating the fee has been the focus of considerable controversy. This is one of a series of national staff writers夺回 the history of the fee and its use in the past fiscal year.
Kansan Staff Writer
By LINDA SCHILD
Some of the most painful and jumbled episodes in the recent history of student activity fee allocations have stemmed from funding of social activist groups.
As student interest in supporting social causes heightened in the late 1960s, students gained a foothold in the government of the University. The Student Senate became responsible for activity fee allocations in 1969.
Gaining that foothold was easy enough. In the spring of 1968, a group called Students' Voice (later people's Voice) presented to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe a petition
signed by 1,700 students who demanded a reevaluation of the existing student-faculty
Wesco appointed a 12-person investigative committee to study the effects of a proposed ban throughout the summer and into the fall, the committee released a report that recommended the creation of a Student Senate whose members would be represented in the senate.
BY MARCH 1989, final approval had been given to the senate, which was to replace the All Student Council (ASC), and elections were held.
During the following year, the Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct was written, and the senate and the chancellor gave it their approval.
"The code was part of the package of students wanting to participate," Richard Von Ende, executive secretary of the university and former student senator, said recently.
Article 14 of the code gave the Student
Senate the "sole authority to allocate University funds designated student activity fees," subject to approval of the Board of Regents and the Guard of Regents as required by state law.
The chancellor's office had handled fee allocations under the previous system of student government. Responsibility for this work was between the administration and the ASC.
UNDER THE OLD SYSTEM, the ASC received an allocation from the administration, from which it satisfied its own operating budget and indirectly supplied money to other student organizations. The ASC would ask the Business Office to set up a new account out of the general ASC accounts requested by students in academic request funds, Von Ende said.
"The ASC had control of the activity fee money insofar as they didn't rock the boat," he said. "Their requests would be honored if theASC would accept them as the Athletic Association or the Kansas."
'Accountability was impossible for the
students because funds were harneted through the Business Office. Allocations existed that the ASC didn't even know about."
The power to allocate funds became a responsibility of the Student Senate in 1970.
IN THE SPRING of 1970 racial disturbances broke out at Lawrence High School; the Kansas Union was partially destroyed by fire; President Nixon sent combat troops into Cambodia; four students were killed at Kent State University; nine were killed in shooting and the University of Kansas determined, by voice vote, to end the semester early.
The first Student Senate budget wasn't written until that summer after the
University had already submitted its budget to the Board of Recents.
At its last meeting of the spring semester, the senate voted to take out a loan to fund the summer activities of the black Student Union (BSU) and a new program, Catalyst, until the senate would receive activity fees in the fall.
The BSU had been allocated $56.92 for the previous fiscal year.
JOHN SPEARMAN, former chairman of the BSU and about 50 BSU members attended the last senate meeting of the 1970 spring semester. In a roll-call vote, the Senate voted 68 to 8 in favor of giving the BSU $1,125 for its summer programs.
The senate also passed a second allocation of $10,000 to support the establishment of Catalyst, a multi-faceted program that has created Headquarters, the Yellow Brick Road School (Yellow Brick Road School) and other social action projects.
Gus DiZerega and Steve Emerson, then
student senators, gave speeches at the senate meeting in support of the allocations. Their speeches may have affected a number of votes, according to Bill O'Neill, former body treasurer. Bill Ebert, then body treasurer, was also behind the motion, O'Neill said.
"THE BSU programs never went
through," said Lindsay. "We had
no vouchers but we admitted
to having them."
"A lot of students don't realize we're not just setting up accounts. If money isn't spent, it comes back to the senate. There are many things that we think about programs that may never be funded."
The senate's procedure for appropriating the money was challenged in June by the KU judiciary. The Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx) temporarily withheld the allocations until the senate's Finance and Auditing Committee
"I suppose there are a few student senators who don't realize that."
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U.S. Bombs Rebel Forces In Cambodia
SAIGON (AP)—American B52s and F111 swing-wing fight-bombers pounded insurgent forces Tuesday in some of the battles over the Cambodian war, U.S. sources reported.
Every available B25 in Southeast Asia participated in the massive bombings, apparently designed to beat Cambodia's Khmer Rouge rebels and their North Vietnam allies into accepting a peace offer, the official American sources added.
The wide-ranging aerial assault was reported to extend beyond tactical support for Cambodian government ground forces suggested a new turn in the three year war.
"We have had a major effort for some time, he said, without disclosing the number."
Hanoi radio denounced the attacks as a "criminal act against the innocent Cambodian people" and warned the United States of "dangerous consequences."
The bombing Monday started Monday night and continued until shortly after dawn Tuesday, the sources said. A Pentagon spokesman said in Washington, however, that there has been "no dramatic change in the last few days" in the bombing level.
The United States has about 200 BS2s on Guam and in Thailand and normally about 60 per cent of them are operational at any time. The Boeing engine aircraft carries 30 tons of bombs.
Senior U.S. officials in Cambodia said that the Communists think they are on the brink of victory and see no point in peace negotiations.
The sources compared the massive raids in Cambodia to the bombardment of Hanoi and Haiphong last December. That intense bombing was designed to force the North Vietnamese into accepting a peace agreement in Vietnam.
"The Communists in Cambodia think that time is on their side and that it will bring them complete victory," said one senior U.S. official in Phnom Penh. "Our bombing aims to persuade them that they could be wrong."
U. S. air attacks have concentrated on Communist forces edging closer to the central belt and isolating it from the rest of the country by cutting off highways leading into it.
Continued U.S. bombing has raised a storm in the U.S. Congress, where critics of presidential administration have questioned the President's authority to continue bombing.
Fred Pence, Right, New City Commissioner
Attributed win to North and East Lawrence vote
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Senate Changes Drop Policy For Students
Clark, Pence, Emick Voted to Commission
By CHUCK POTTER Kansan Staff Writer
Barkley Clark, associate dean of law swept past a field of five other candidates Tuesday night to convincingly win the Lawrence City Commission general election.
Clark led the voting with a total of 5,499 votes, a margin of 1,615 votes over Fred Pence, who finished second and had 3,099 votes. He won against John Einick was third with 3,993 votes.
Robert darick was fourth with 3,339 votes, former mayor and incumbent commissioner J.P. Pullam was fifth with 2,876 votes. Lemesay finished sixth with 2,959 votes.
As first and second place finishers, Clark and Pence were elected to four-year terms.
Asked to what he attributed his win, Clark said, "The first thing was hard work. I didn't take anything for granted after the people. I tried to go directly to the people."
Clark also had finished first in the primary election March 6.
"One of the first things I want to do is learn all about the city and how it works," he said. "My first job will be to get familiar with all the mechanics and policies.
"I also want to bring a higher priority to developing better communications between the commission. I like to see the Lawrence Comprehensive Plan updated. Everything is important."
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Nixon, Thieu Issue Threat
"I think my work with the planning commission will help," he said.
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP)—President Nixon and President Nguyen Van Thien threatened vigorous reactions against Communist cease-fire violations Tuesday, and Nixon promised substantial postwar economic aid for South Vietnam.
Senate Concedes to Nixon's Veto
But the communique, which crowned two days of summit talks at the Western White House, has left many unresolved.
WASHINGTON (AP)—President Nixon won his first spending clash with Congress Tuesday when the Senate failed to override a bill for rehabilitating the handcuffed
In the 1,500-word communique, Nixon ruled out no course of action, but the document did not contain a preach of renewed U.S. military involvement.
U. S. military intervention in Vietnam and gave no specific dollar figure for an "adequate and substantial" economic aid program.
The Senate mustered a 60-36 majority in favor of overriding the veto, but it was four votes short of the two-thirds majority needed. No House vote was taken because both houses must concur in overriding a vetoed bill.
The rehabilitation bill was the first of a dozen bills pocketedvet by Nixon last year and congress adjourned which Democrat congressional leaders had hoped to override.
House speaker Carl Albert and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield both expressed disappointment at the Senate vote to ahead with a plan to override other bills.
However, jubilant Republican leaders had thought the Senate vote had given Nixon the win.
with Congress that would make it easier to sustain later vetoes. Ten Republican, including James Pearson, R-Kan., deserted Nixon on the vote. Five Democrats, in turn, backed Darrk, D-Aark, chairman of the appropriation committee, voted with the administration.
After giving a lecture April 27, 1972, at Kansas University, his alma mater, Dole donated to three handicapped KU students who received the honorarium be received for playing the guitar.
Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, who himself has been rehabilitated from a physical handicap, voted to sustain the President's veto.
The importance of the Senate's upholding Nixon on this first test was stressed by Sen. Robert P. Griffin, R-Mich., the GOP whip Fennell, the Senate floor fight for the administration.
Griffin predicted that if the Senate outrore the veto, the actuon would spur the governor to give in.
The vetoed bill would have authorized $2.6 billion over a three-year period for continuing and expanding a program of grants to support students' computers, devices and launching a new program of grants for the severely handicapped. Its first year authorization would not require any further funding.
However, Griffin and other Republicans argued that the psychological effect of passing a bill authorizing expenditures far exceeding those required would have serious influxality consequences.
The rehabilitation bill would have no actual impact on the budget since it merely authorizes programs and sets spending ceilings. The money to operate the programs would have to be appropriated in separate legislation.
spending $50 billion over Nixon's budget
The cease-fire, especially its provisions on military forces and supplies, "must be faithfully implemented if prospects for a war are to be assured," the communitee said.
The two leaders said they "viewed with great concern infiltrations of men and weapons in sizable numbers from North Vietnam into South Vietnam."
Democratic leaders selected the bill for the first veto test because of the bills emotional content and its long history of Congressional support.
—Nixon said he intended "to seek congressional support for a longer range program for the economic development of Viet Nam now that the war has ended.
The communique also included these major points:
Nixon also affirmed that the United States expected to continue, "in accordance with its constitutional processes," to supply the Saigon government "with the material means for its defense" consistent with the cease-fire agreement.
—Nixon informed Thieu that he was greatly interested in the negotiations in Paris between the Saigon government and a political settlement in South Vietnam.
—The two leaders agree that "a regional reconstruction program," presumably including postwar aid to Hanoi, will boost the prospects of a lasting peace in the area.
—They voiced hopes the Laotian ceasefire agreement would be fully implemented, expressed their concern that North Vietnamese troops had not been withdrawn from Laos and Cambodia, and agreed that the Cambodian "should be quickly implemented."
Clark is finishing a three-year term on the lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission.
"I've got some positive programs in mind, but I'd rather not say anything tonight. That might be mentioning them too soon. There's a time and a place to get
Pence, who finished second, said, "Part of my strength was East and North Lawrence, where I ran real strong. Those people were able to relate to me.
things done. I'll just have to pick my way a bit," Pence said.
"I hope to work diligently with the things we've started, like the North Lawrence
"No, I'm not really satisfied," he said. "I had hoped to do better this time. I sorry I did."
Emick, who had placed second in the primary election, did not seem happy with the results.
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By MARGIE COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
Condra Tips Bradley In Tight School Race
Incumbent Larry Hatfield hit the tabulations with 5,633 votes, 357 votes ahead of the second-place winner, Dr. Helen Gilles, also a school board member.
Dr. William Bradley, president of the board of Lawrence School District 497, was defeated Tuesday by Gary Cordra in a close race for the third seat on the school board. Cordra will be the only new board member to serve in an unofficial final count of vote totals.
Hatfield, Gilles and Condra will have four year terms on the board.
Anna Berger finished fifth with 1,323
notes, and Robert Anamel finished sixth
with 1,485 notes.
Bradley received 4,881 compared to Condra's 4,881.
"I'm really happy to have won," Hatfield said after the totals were in.
Hattifeed he foresaw more individualization, more diversity in the programs approved by the new school board. He said that all board members would want to help students of all kinds reach their maximum level.
"The present board." Hatfield said, came through hard times, and came the next day.
Hatfield he attributed his lead to the campaigning of 20 of his friends.
He said he would stress more vocational education and more counselors, not only for college-bound students but for students in vocational training.
Gilles said that when both the school board and the administration wanted to keep good schools and make them better, there would be changes.
Although Condra will be new to the school board, he is not new to the education system; she has been a school district of fifteen schools and has vocational education, director of adult
education and acting superintendent for instruction. He is executive director of Cottonwood, Inc., a training facility for the handcapped.
During his campaign he stressed that as a board member he would be able to see what was going on.
Condra said, "It feels good to be on the upside."
Bradley was unavailable for comment last night.
Delbert Mathia, county clerk, said that usually not more than five votes were changed from the unofficial to the official vote. The election completed and announced Friday morning.
The new board of education will be seated July 3. A new board president will be chosen in October.
The new board will consist of the three winners and Kenneth Anderson, professor of education, Mrs. Alan Hack and John Amani Sr., vice president of the present board.
Vote Totals
Commission Race
Barkley Clark    5,499
Fred Pence      3,909
John Emick      3,993
Robert Haralick  3,339
J. R. Pullman   2,674
William Lemesanv  2,956
School Board Race
Larry Hatfield 5,633
Dr. Helen Giles 5,276
Gary Condra 4,891
Dr. William Bradley 4,881
Anna Berger 1,323
Robert Ammel 1,115
Bill Containing KU Funds Approved in Kansas Senate
The ommibus appropriations bill that contains funding for the University of Kansas was passed Tuesday by the Kansas Senate, 36 to 1.
The bill is essentially the same as Gavin Robert Dickson's requests. Several minor additions were made three weeks ago by the committee of the Ways and Means Committee.
The subcommittee added $135,475 to Docking's requests for the Lawrence campus and $286,000 to the KU Medical Center requests.
Specific additions were $73,138 for a faculty disability and life insurance program, $18,400 for additional planning of the new visual aid building and $43,957 for new classroom equipment.
No floor amendments were made to KU funds; however, $400,000 was added Monday to health program appropriations for Wichita State University.
KU's total funding was set at $48.8 million.
The bill now goes to the House of Representatives for consideration.