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Thursday, February 7, 1974
University Daily Kansan
Senator Alleges Political Pressure in KU Elections
By JILL WILLIS
Kansas Staff Reporter
A campaign manager threatened to oust a student senator if he didn't support the manager's candidate for student body president, the senator said yesterday.
The senator, Rich Lauter, Evanton, Ill., senior, said Richard Paxson, Baxter Springs senior and manager of the Beisner-Hunter campaign, threatened to oust him from the senate after Paxson discovered Lauter, supported the Rofls-Kelly tickets.
John Beiser, Salina junior, and Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City junior, are running for student body president and vice president on the Unicamp ticket. Rolfs, Junction junior, and Kelly Scott, Junction junior, are running on the Valentine's Day ticket.
"Taxson told me," Lauter said, "that Beisser was very upset with me and wouldn't talk to me to me. Then he said, 'Something may come up about your senate
the topics of pressure politics and dirty campaigning were avoided by both candidates at last night's debate, which was in the Kansas Union.
Lauter has held his senatorial position because he is the president of the Unorganized Housing Association (UHA). The position is provided for by the Senate.
Some senators have recently urged the abolition of the position because the UHA has been charged.
"He (Paxson) has been hiting all along that the seat should be abolished," Lauer said, "but the fact that I was helping Ed made him want to bring it out in the open." Lauer said he thought the presidency of UU was to fail and wanted to finish his term in office.
Paxson said both he and Beiser were unhappy with Lauter, but 'not because he is
According to Paxson, Lauer said he was advising Rolls, and Paxson thought he
"Some of the good ideas Ed has come up with, he has gotten from Rich," Paxson said. "It doesn't matter to me whether Ric Lauter is in the senate or not."
Lauter was originally slated to run for the senate on Beisner and Hunter's Unicamp coalition, Paxson said, but decided after Christmas break not to run at all.
Paxson said Lauter was trying to shift attention away from the question of how he obtained his senate seat by making the charges.
During last night's debate, Beiser said he didn't think the campaign was dirty.
When Rolfs said Beisner formed a coalition of senatorial and class officer candidates for political expediency, Beisner denied it.
Beisner said he had formed the coalition to involve more persons in student government.
Also discussed at the debate were the
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Rolfs said the No. 1 problem in academics was enrollment to be pledged to work for a university.
He and Beisner agreed that the present system of academic advising was inadequate, but they didn't agree on the remedies to be taken.
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candidates' plans for the Security and Parking Department, academics and the rules of the student body president and vice president. Both candidates gave top priority.
"My only problem will be getting students." Rolls said.
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He said a student advising program wouldn't be difficult to staff in the Colleges-Within-the-College, but there "might be some problems" in the professional schools.
Beisner criticized Rolfs' plan as im-
practical.
"It is a very riky business to put advising in the hands of volunteers," Beisner said. "There are hundreds of volunteer programs that have gone down the drain."
Beisner promised to eliminate the 16-hour foreign language requirement. He said that many prestigious schools had already abolished foreign language requirements and that students often became disinfluenced by the University because of the requirement.
He said the funds used to finance foreign language departments could be used by students.
Second in priority for both candidates was improvements in the Security and Parking
Rolls said he would hire students to walk a campus beat and would increase campus
Beusner said he would appoint a task force to study the problems of Security and Parking.
"If Security and Parking wants student walkers," he said, "it could get the money."
He also said he favored the reinstatement of the initial warning ticket for parking violations. The warning ticket was abolished last year.
Bevera said Security and Parking employees were "lucking everything that isn't
He also proposed cutting back on the
number of employees and the number of interruptions in the traffic control
The roles of the study body officers attracted considerable attention.
Beisner and his running mate, Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City junior, stressed their experience in the senate. Both were committee chairmen this year.
Hunter said a lot of experience was necessary before someone could preside.
"You have to know a lot about the senate," he said. "You can't just jump into
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Kelly Scott, Houston sophomore and Rolf's running mate, said their platform was "an alternative to the status quo of the Student Senate."
Hunter said the vice president had to be prepared to assume the senate chair if the president was unable to serve.
She said the vice president needed to be a good moderator, so that senate discussion could flow.
"If you don't know what's going on," he might not be able to handle it properly.
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