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Volume 126 Issue 111
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
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CAMPUS
Bob Dole returns home, visits University
Bob Dole and sophomore Eric Pahls pose during their interview. Dole is speaking on campus today in an open house at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics as part of a tour of eastern Kansas.
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TOM DEHART news@kansan.com
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Former U.S. Senator Bob Dole will be on campus Tuesday from 11 a.m. to noon.
The Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, named after Dole in 2003, will host an open house honoring his life as a Kansan, his commitment to service and his success in U.S. politics. The senator's return from Washington, D.C. will be part of a small tour of eastern Kansas, allowing him an opportunity to meet and speak with his former constituents.
One University of Kansas student was given the opportunity to meet him in the summer of 2013 while interning at Sen. John McCain's office in Washington, D.C. and has recently gotten the opportunity to interview him for a journalism project. Eric Pahls, a sophomore from Beloit, said that while he was growing up in western Kansas, Dole's name was respected and admired. Pahls developed an admiration for him as he grew older and began working at the Dole Institute his freshman year.
"He is kind of the embodiment of Kansas and Kansans, and I'm just very fond of the way that he worked in a bipartisan manner," Pahls said. "He was a deal-maker, and people on both sides of the aisle respect him and liked him because he was good to work with whether you were on his side or not."
Throughout Dole's political career, he was an advocate for providing equal rights to
individuals with disabilities. After being wounded in World War II and fighting back from his injuries and a significant level of paralysis, his right arm never fully recovered.
"That's why he was so big on the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). He knew struggles, and he knew they were out of people's control," Pahls said. "That's why he showed that compassion and conservatism that is rare today."
"Here is an American who ... left the Senate in '96, and he has served consistently since then."
BILL LACY Dole Institute director
Beyond his involvement in passing the ADA in 1990, Dole recently took his support to an international level and has been a strong supporter of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, according to the United States International Council on Disabilities' website.
Bill Lacy, the director of the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, said one of the remarkable things about Doles life is his long-standing career and commitment to public service.
"Here is an American who ...left the Senate in '96,and he has served consistently since then," Lacy said.
Lacy and Pahls agree that Dole's desire to improve
the well-being of American citizens and his desire to serve, even up to present day at the current age of 90, is inspirational.
"It's important for people to know what he did, and know his story," Pahls said. "So that we can try to emulate that in politics, or even just our personal lives."
— Edited by Emily Hines
Dole served in United States Politics since the early 1960s. He ran for a vice president alongside Gerald Ford in 1976, and later ran for president against Bill Clinton in 1996.
SUMMARY
Bob Dole, former U.S. Senator from Kansas, will be speaking as part of an open house at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics today.
University students and faculty at the Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics said that his life and career in public service is both an embodiment of Kansans, and is a demonstration of commitment to public service.
ADMINISTRATION
Chancellor discusses campus finances, construction
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Chancellor Bernadette-Gray Little explains University finances, Student Senate elections and tuition proposals.
STUDENT SENATE ELECTIONS
Currently, no coalition has been declared a winner in the election because the Jayhawkers appealed the decision to disqualify them for allegedly providing Chipotle for campaigning purposes, which is against the rules.
Chancellor Gray-Little said it's a complex situation and wondered how the decision will impact the election.
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Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little addressed a variety of University topics on Monday, including the current Student Senate elections situation and summer construction plans.
"I've wondered if, almost regardless of the outcome, it will be necessary to have a new election, and I don't know," Gray-Little said.
MCKENNA HARFORD news@kansan.com
Fundraisers and "internal resources" will be used to reach the $75 million needed for the building, which will improve technology and expand class sizes to address the current physician shortage in Kansas.
"[The subcommittee is] trying to get to a point somewhere that allows our students to be here and have it affordable, and yet for us to continue to do the things that we think will enhance the quality of education here," Gray-Little said.
SUMMER CONSTRUCTION
She hopes that the induction will happen before the end of the semester so the next Senate can be productive.
"As we construct the new facilities, it allows us to expand the number of physicians to address the shortage and that expansion would take place partly at the Medical Center in Kansas City and then partly at the Wichita campus," Gray-Little said.
"That Student Senate, as part of a University governance overall, will be able to work effectively with all the other components of the University,
This summer there will be several construction projects, including the continued renovation of Jayhawk Boulevard, the new School of Business and engineering buildings, and new residence halls on Daisy Hill.
The higher education budget that was approved by the Kansas Senate included many of the University's priorities, including returning the salary funds that had been previously cut and partial funds for the medical educational building at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
The budget didn't include funds for a Translational Chemical Biology Institute that Kansas requested, but Gray-Little said that the administration is working with legislators to get funding
BUDGET
The Senate subcommittee that creates tuition proposals is still working on the tuition and funding recommendations it will make for next year, but Gray-Little said that the Senate's return of the salary cuts could have an impact on future increases. She said a lot of consideration is given to affordability and the goals of the University.
Don't Forget
for the project in the last few days of the legislative session.
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that would be my goal," Gray-Little said.
TUITION
To recycle the Kansan for Earth Day.
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