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Judicial Board to rule in Student Senate controversy
AMELIA ARVESEN
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The Appeals Panel may have submitted its decision to the University Judicial Board regarding the disqualification of Jayhawkers after yesterday's hearing.
The Panel denied media access at the hearing site.
Three members decided either to extend the appeals process, or uphold or reverse the decision made by the Elections Commission to disqualify Jayhawkers.
At this point, only the Board knows the results. The hearing was also closed to the public, per request of Jayhawkers.
"In the past, the precedent is that the decision is made in the room, but the time that it takes to draw up the decision officially and have it submitted to the student body can take much longer than that," said Angela Murphy of the Elections Commission.
In the hearing, Murphy said Jayhawkers received 10 minutes for an opening statement with the option of interruption by the Judicial Board to ask questions for
clarification. Murphy said the Elections Commission was then afforded 10 minutes with similar limitations. Jayhawkers was then given five minutes to rebut and the Elections Commission had five minutes to close.
"We do all our talking through the Judicial Board in which we make a decision in writing," said Thomas Stacy, a law professor and chair of the Appeals Panel.
The University Judicial Board is comprised of three law members, 22 faculty members, two members of the unclassified professional staff, three members of the University support staff, three administrators and 16 students.
"We're just trying to make sure that every vote that was cast is counted," said Mitch Rucker, a Jayhawkers representative. "As it stands, if the University Judicial Board upholds the decision of the Elections Commission the voices of the students who voted for the Jayhawkers will not be heard."
Will Admussen, a Grow KU representative, said he
was disappointed that the meeting was closed, which is in accordance with Judicial Board policies.
"I think that there was a lack of transparency," Admussen said. "I think there needs to be leaders put into place that can make those steps toward transparency and really connect with the student body instead of shutting the doors because they're just nervous."
On Wednesday, Mackenzie Oatman said Jayhawkers would reach out to University Governance to request press to be in the room, but later said in a text message the situation was out of her hands.
She echoed the previous statement that Jayhawkers wanted a fair chance during the hearing without distractions from other people in the room.
"I would have kept it public but I had no power over that," said Kevin Hundelt, presidential candidate of Crimson & True. "If you can't handle the heat, get out of the kitchen — the kitchen meaning the court and the running."
Edited by Paige Lytle
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CODY KUIPER/KANSAN
Students hold a banner and march from Stauffer-Flint Hall to the Kansas Union on Wednesday as part of "March for a Voice." The event was hosted by the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access.
Students march for Sexual Assault Awareness Month
CODY KUIPER news@kansan.com
As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA) hosted its first ever March for a Voice event Wednesday evening.
To promote awareness about unreported sexual assault, IOA provided free food, T-shirts and other items on the lawn of Stauffer-Flint Hall before participants held
signs and marched to the Kansas Union, where a Sex Ed Boot Camp presentation took place.
Jennifer Brooks, an investigator and trainer for IOA who helped organize the march, said the message of the event was the importance of reporting sexual assault, specifically on college campuses where cases are underreported. According to a recent government study, one in five women have been
sexually assaulted while in college, and an average of 60 percent of assaults in the last five years were not reported.
"It's important that they report because so many times they think that it's not a big deal, but it really does impact people's education down the line even if they don't realize it right away," Brooks said. "It impacts how often you're studying or participating
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Jayhawk Health Initiative hosts basketball tournament
CONTRIBUTED FILE PHOTO FROM 2013 Volunteers from three different schools (Kansas, New York, Colorado) sorted medications before the clinic opened the next day in Darien, Panama.
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Jayhawk Health Initiative is a program for pre-health students to get hands-on learning and volunteering experience.
"There just isn't any other opportunity for students to do this here at KU," said Leigh Loving, a junior from McPherson. "This is the first student-initiated, international volunteer program."
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The basketball tournament funds will help buy medication for the trip. These supplies cost an average of $3,000. Last year's tournament raised about $1,100.
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Hoops for Health, a three-onthree basketball tournament sponsored by Jayhawk Health Initiative, will take place Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center.
A basketball tournament taking place this weekend will help fund Advil, anti-parasitics, vitamins and toothbrushes for a mission trip to rural Panama.
Loving founded Jayhawk Health Initiative last year with support from the Honors and Study Abroad Programs.
Last year, Jayhawk Health Initiative went to a rural community in Panama to volunteer with Global Brigades, a non-profit health
Over the next three days, they worked a community clinic: taking vitals, handing a Panamanian dentist the appropriate tools, shadowing Panamanian doctors giving consultations, teaching kids hygiene practices then playing soccer, and helping the pharmacists assemble medication for each patient.
Loving estimated that a total of 100 students stayed at the compound, sharing rickety bunk beds and a community bathroom.
They sorted the medications they had brought, dropping pills into baggies to be distributed at the clinic's pharmacy.
and sustainable development program.
Twenty-five students arrived at the Kansas City International Airport at 4 a.m. the day after finals with 25 duffel bags of medical supplies. The Global Brigades company sent a bus to pick up the layhawk Health Initiative group and groups from other colleges from the Panama City airport.
Shawnee Wallace, a sophomore from Waverly, Tenn., went on the trip last year. She said the experience gave her a unique insight into health care.
"You're really doing something that's needed," Wallace said. "We have a belief
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that everyone should have access to health care."
They also worked on Global Brigades' public health program. They built five cement latrines for an indigenous tribe. Loving was surprised by a mix of technology, customs and traditions. The tribe lived in grass huts on stilts with satellite dishes attached to the top of thatched roofs. They had
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