Fee Allocations Jumbled Under Senate Management
Editor's Note: The University of Kansas recently elected Student Senate will begin its annual process of allocating funds from the student activity fee Wednesday. This is the first in a series of stories by Kansan staff writers examining the history of the activity fee and its use in the past fiscal year. His story is based on interviews we received.
By LINDA SCHILD
Kenson Staff Writer
Kansan Staff Writer
Student activity fee allocations have been liberated by and have fallen victim to student activism at the University of Kansas during the past four years.
Transferring management of the fee from the chancellor's office to the hands of student politicians presented no problem, but following that transferal, controversy and complexity wrapped themselves around the issue of allocations.
Since the activity fee became the
responsibility of the Student Senate in 1970, organizations have splintered, widened offspring and risen from inactive pasts to claim a share of the money. The number of organizations funded by the fee has risen from 31 in 1986 to 68 in fiscal 1973.
"ORGANIZATIONS splintered to get more money. There is no question about it."
Organizations have either splintered or student interest in organized extracurricular activities has taken a decided upward swing, according to the Student Senate financial records for the past six years.
In fiscal 1968, the last year the chancellor's office allocated the activity fee in conjunction with the All Student Council (ASC), the administration allocated funds which included the ASC, which distributed fund-raising accounts to only six other organizations.
According to Nichols, the number of organizations funded by the chancellor's office and the ASC remained fairly stable, as did the amount of the fee itself. The Athletic Association, the University Daily Concert Series, the University Theatre and student government have consistently received the largest allocations.
IN FISCAI 1988, the year the Student Senate replaced the ASC, 47 organizations were funded. Again, the authority rested with the chancellor's office.
Organization that don't last, conferences that only occur periodically or fund
Off Campus Housing, an organization created in 1989 as part of the Student Senate Code, was one such wavering attempt. It was funded only one year.
requests for specific items cause fluctuation in the number of allocations made each
"It was a completely unmanageable, unrealistic organization that couldn't ever possibly have succeeded." Peter George, former president of the group, said recently.
"Of Campus Housing was designed to operate for the benefit of the most massively apathetic sector of the University population. It was impossible," George said.
The Black Student Union (BSU), also organized in 1969, was evidently more viable. In the past three years, five other groups intended primarily to serve black
SUPPORTIVE EDUCATION Services (SES), originally Summer Tutorial Program, was an offshoot of the NSU, accustomed to teaching the director of the office of minor affairs.
students have also asked for allocations from the student activity fees.
The Black American Law Students Association, a nationally affiliated group, and Black Veterans on Campus were funded by the National Park Service veteran group disappeared after ope year.
During that year, some black students in the School of Engineering observed that there weren't many blacks in their field and were not recruiting to the recruitment and motivation of black engineers, according to Bill O'Neill, Ballinw, Mo., senior and former Student
The group worked separately from the BSU, he said. Its purpose was to go to major
engineering firms and oil companies to request that they set up scholarships funds
The group has been highly successful and has motivated other schools to do the same thing. It successfully set up a major, long-range program, O'Neill said.
IN JANUARY 1972, the Student Senate received requests for two new students to attend Social Work Students (a School of Social Welfare group) and BlackTect (black architecture students). They received support for fiscal 1972, according to O'Neal.
"BlackTect was a tutorial program that included tutorial services other than an archetype to use to sign the appointment for certain jobs," said. "The only funds oked were for
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The University of Kansas—Lawrence. Kansas
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opened the 1972 Festival of the Arts. Tonight Robert Moog will lecture on the synthesizer, which he invented. Other activities during the week include comedian David Steinburg; folk-jazz singer Jimmy Spheric; and blues guitarist B. B. King. Also scheduled are a writing contest, an art exhibit featuring feminist art and an art sale in the Kansas Union.
Doug Houston, Jack Rimp and Vivian Landau; members of the Empire Theatrical Corporation; rehearsal Kurt Vonnegut's *The Inheritance* (1964).
Student Senate Amendment Brings State Law to Campus Allocations
By DWIGHT DEAY
Kansan Staff Writer
The Student Senate Monday night passed two amendments to the senate Rules and Regulations aimed at clarifying and enforcing the senate's finance and auditing procedures.
Joe Speelman, Dodge City second-year law student, and Jim Posey, Lawrence first-year law student, submitted an amendment to the Rules of Procedure guidelines under the protection of Kansas.
Speelman said that by using the state statutes in some cases, the senate could protect itself from law suits, which he predicted might become more frequent now
THE BLAK STUDENT Union filed suit against the Student Senate earlier this year after funds for a food cooperative were withdrawn. The University Judiciary had rued against the BSU, an appeal to courts outside the University might successfully overturn the lawsuit.
that the Black Student Union (BSU) had set a precedent.
"The amendment also expands the senate's and the Finance and Auditing Committee's power to deal with funds," Speman said. "By using the state's own statutes, the senate can benefit from the statute, while insuring its defense under them."
OTHER PROVISIONS of the amendment ask that more formal and written proof be submitted by the Finance and Auditing Committee when an organization is incapable of financing speakers, guest performers, consultants or staff personnel).
Kansas Senate To Vote Today On KU Funds
"The new enactment will make the Athletic Department more responsible and more efficient."
State funding for the University of Kansas received tentative approval in the Kansas Senate Monday. A final vote is scheduled for today.
No changes have been made in the KU budget since the Higher Education subcommittee of the Ways and Means Committee restored several minor cuts that Gov. Robert Docking made in the Board of Regens' requests.
The other amendment passed by the senate affects senate finance and auditing procedures and is designed to clarify bookkeeping guidelines. It was submitted
The bill also expanded the ways in which an organization can obtain property items
If passed by the Senate today, the bill will go to the House of Representatives for consideration.
Leroy McDermott, Welch, Okla., graduate student, criticized past senate policies, that he said blindly honored the demands of "sacred cows."
Senate leaders expect quick approval of the budget.
Senate bill 404, the omnibus appropriations bill that includes 1973/74 funding for all six state colleges and universities reported by the Ways and Means Committees.
ONE SECTION of the amendment stipulates that any organizations, corporations or groups must demonstrate a student majority or have student officers in order to be eligible for senate funds. This rule would prevent the senate from making allocation to such groups as the Athletic Department, the American Men, Wilmette III, senior and a senator.
by Roger Martin, senate treasurer and Shawne Mission, third-degree, law student.
The amendment is expected to simplify some of the bookwork of senate line items by consolidating them within broad categories.
Two additional bills that would introduce more radical restructuring of senate funding rules were sent to the Finance and Auditing Committee for study.
The senate also passed a bill that allocated $1,500 to pay expenses for KU's debate team to go to the National Debate Tournament April 7-11 in Annapolis.
Mert Buckley, Wichita junior and student body president, endorsed the bill and said the amendment would make allocations among campus organizations.
Nixon Assures Thieu U.S.Aid to Continue
SAN CLEMENT, Calif. (AP)—President Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thien Monday pledged a joint effort to build a lasting Indochina peace, then began discussing Saigon's plan for stepped-up U.S. economic
After the leaders completed an initial 90-minute meeting at the Western White House, officials indicated Thieu had been relieved of responsibility of U.S. aid for postwar reconstruction.
But indications were that Nixon was frowning upon a Thieu request for a specific U. guarantee of renewed military intervention if North Vietnam blatantly
Muskie Attacks Use Of Presidential Power
WASHINGTON (AP)—Sen. Edmund Muskie, D-Maine, said Monday that President Nixon was abusing presidential power through "a notion of one-man rule over the budget, over inflation and over the Waterate case."
Giving a response to the President's address to the nation Thursday night, Muskie said that the President was unanimously an unremitting attack on Congres.
"The President has asked for a free hand, a blank check, so that he can decide and decide alone" the issues of ending the war. "We must take taxes and national priorities. Muskie said."
As he gave Thieu a full military welcome, Nixon voiced the hope that their two days of summit talks would produce "great steps forward in building the lasting peace, the real peace that we have fought together for."
violates the still-fragile cease-fire agreement.
"We in the Congress fear, as all Americans fear, the threat of one-man rule," he said, "and distrust any President who can refuse that only he knows what is best for America.
City Goes to Polls Today; Vote Will Fill 6 Positions
Muskie said the President had lifted Phase 2 controls on the economy too soon and then had clamped a ceiling on the highest meat prices in history.
He said that that step did not control inflation and that all evidence, ranging from the devaluation of the dollar to higher interest rates, caused the whole economy was out of control.
Three city commissioners and three school board members will be elected today as voters go to the polls, which opened at 7 a.m. and will close at 7 a.m.
He said that Nixon's attempts to shift to Congress the blame for runaway inflation was unfair and untrue. Muskie said the President never had submitted a balanced budget to Congress. Congress cut all of his four budgets for a total savings of $2 billion.
After the two leaders' opening meeting.
THEIU RESPONDED by expressing "heartfelt gratitude" for past U.S. assistance and said he hoped the summit would bring "a consolidation of peace in Indochina and a new era of constructive cooperation in in peace among all parties concerned."
The six candidates running for the three city commission positions are Barkley the mayor, Robert Haraleck, William Lemessay, Fred Pallium. The candidates who finish first and second in the city commission race will serve four-year terms, and the candidate will serve five-year term.
Muskie said the President could not claim that the war in Southeast Asia was over as
The slate of candidates running for the three open positions on the District 297 School Board also numbers six. All three Boardists elected will serve four-year term.
Running for the school board are Robert Ammel, Annel Berger, William Bradley.
Gary Condra, Dr. Helen Gilles and Larry Hatfield.
Poll locations are as follows:
FIRST WARD
First and first predicents: Pinkney
School, Sixth and Mississippi streets.
School, Sixth and Mississippi streets.
Second and third precincts: Douglas County State Bank, Ninth and Kentucky streets.
SECOND WARD
First and second precincts: Community Building, 11th and Vermont streets.
Third precinct: Hillcrest School, Harvard Road and Hills Drive.
Fourth precinct: Allen Field House,
Naismith Drive and Sunnyside Avenue.
cnn precinct: West Junior High, Yale Road and Crestline Drive.
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long as American planes continued bombing Cambodia.
"The bombing does not have the approval of the Congress nor has that approval been approved by the president."
"We believe that Americans want a complete and final end to our military involvement in Southeast Asia, and that it is the responsibility of Congress to insist upon it," he said.
Muskie asked the President to allow full testimony by his immediate staff members and others in the executive branch on the Watergate affair. He said Congress could not accept what he called the Nixon tactic of virtually eliminating the power of Congress to influence the role of the federal government.
White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Nixon and Thieu had reviewed the situation in Indochina and had stressed the importance of implementing the cease-fire agreement signed two months ago in Paris.
The two presidents, Ziegler said, "reaffirmed the continuing strong friendly ties" between their countries and discussed the development of their postwar relations.
He said the leaders were discussing in depth and in detail such other questions as efforts to account for U.S. troops still missing in action, reported infiltration by North Vietnam and the presence of North Vietnamese troops in Laos and Cambodia.
As Nixon gave Thieu a red carpet welcome to the Western White House four days after the United States officially ended its decade of Vietnam involvement, he said that if any other country can defend their own independence and their right to choose their own government.
In the two days of talks—his first face-to-face conference with Nixon in nearly four years—Theun is seeking assurances of his economic and economic support for his government.
Nixon reportedly is ready to give these assurances, but sources said the toughest bargaining is centerering on Thieu's request for a guarantee that the United States would offer similarly if the North Vietnamese blatantly violate the cease-fire accord.
SOURCES REPORTED that the summit talks were bringing hard bargaining on issues, including substantial discussion regarding economic assistance, redevelopment assistance, which the United States could continue to do until Uruguay as it moved into the postwar period.
By A. W. HURLBUT
Kansas Staff Writer
Dear Sirs: I am sick and tired of April
horrors. What do I should do?
Forecast for April Says Rain, Taxes, More Rain
"Fed Up"
It's too late to do anything this year,
Fed. The air masses that will dictate our
weather for the remainder of the month
are forming this very minute.
In fact, our extended forecast through this weekend calls for cooler temperatures and-sorry-more rain.
This shouldn't be a surprise to you, however. Bears' Agricultural Alliance for April 17 to 7 calls for a stormy spell on the Mississippi coast over the Flints, in the Missouri area.
A little research into your problem might have saved you a lot of heartache. Ped. Also you would have learned that a grade-B chicken egg weighs two ounces.
After discussing your letter, we feel that the root of your problem is in your attitude, not our weather. You have to learn to accept the facts of life in the Pilates.
If the past few months haven't given you a hint about the kind of weather we have around here, you're slower than this year's croos. For sunshine, romance or spring April in Paris or Portugal. In Kuwait you tornadoes, static and 3.2 beer.
You need to think more positively about things like flash floods, drowned distributors and canceled ball games.
Is it possible that you have developed a mental hang-up about the month of April? Remember that you can't expect too much from a month that starts with an incomprehensible Day, peaks with an incomprehensive and winds up with overtime term papers.
Erase those negative thoughts from your mind. Consider the great events and famous people in history connected with the month of April.
Just think. Fid. If your birthday falls in April you might share a day with such notables as Thomas Jefferson, William Smith, and Benjamin Franklin. Need me, nephew, Paul Reynolds?
You might be more comfortable with a lesser-known figure. How about Sir Samuel Smokes (Who?), Button Gunnell (Who?), or Henry Gray (Ah!Hah!)?
If you happen to think that the South will rise again, you can look forward to April 28, Southern Memorial Day. Be careful not to start celebrating a day before. You might be mistaken for one of the holidays saluting the birthday of Ulysses S. Grant.
We hope we've been able to brighten our outlook, Fed. If not, we can only wait. It's in the northern China and much of western China are practically free from April
Then there is always the Lo Desert,
just north of Tibet, where it hasn't rained
to speak for 2,000 years and no one will
tell you it's good for the crops.