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prevented her from using LiftVan.
Senate currently does not have a seat to speak on behalf of students with disabilities.
Magario said she could fill the role as the representative.
"Right now what I want is just for disabled people to be a part of the decision making," she said. "If you do it right the first time, you don't need to fix it."
If Magario wanted to bring anything to Senate's attention, she would have to ask the international student senator. She said a lack of interest in the part of the student body government was not the problem, but a lack of awareness.
Jeff Dunlap, student body vice president, said he supported the idea of a senator representing students with disabilities.
"It's a population that gets overlooked a lot," the Leawood senior said. Dunlap said KU on Wheels was only designed to take students around campus and back home, but students with disabilities argued that students used the buses to go to downtown Massachusetts Street or go shopping at Target, and they were not given the same privilege.
Petitions like Magario's influenced Senate to expand the LiftVan service this year.
Senate put forth $10,000 to expand the service, half from KU on Wheels and half from the Office of Student Success. The service now takes students with disabilities to attend extracurricular activities on campus. The service will receive the same amount from Senate next year.
While Magario likes the expansion, she said the University could do better, and Senate needed to have a deeper interest in disability issues.
Zach Coble, Winfield sophomore and president of Able Hawks, would like to see disabled student representation in student government.
"Students with disabilities come to about 10 percent of the population here at KU. That's a fairly large percentage to not have any representation.
Zach Coble president of Able Hawks
"Many minority groups on campus have representatives on Student Senate. Students with disabilities come to about 10 percent of students here at KU. That's a fairly large percentage to not have any representation." he said.
To get a seat in Senate, Able Hawks, which is a campus organization that promotes awareness of disabilities, needs to create a bill and then Senate will need to pass it.
Able Hawks is taking an early initiative for a Senate seat. It will meet tomorrow to discuss potential candidates for the possible seat.
Melissa Manning, associate director of Disability Resources, said 651 students at the University had registered disabilities, which includes physical and learning disabilities. But she said the office only kept track of students who asked for help. She said about 2,000 students at the University had some form of disability.
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Stephanie Farley/KANSAN
Student Voice candidate Dennis Chanay, Paola freshman, answers a question as the election debate panel listens at last night's student election debate in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Michael Diaz (left), San Antonio, Texas, second-year law student, moderated the debate. The debate was open to the public and included participants from KU United, Delta Force and Student Voice.
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in-hand with the low turnout," Jardon said. "Senate needs to work on their outreach to better represent students."
Jones said she was not too worried with the crowd or the turnout. The numbers are consistent with other universities, she said. Nick Sterner, presidential candidate for KUited, said he thought online voting
All three presidential candidates addressed what their coalitions would do if they were elected into office. Sterner guaranteed that everyone associated with KUnited would still work to complete all of the issues on its platform if the coalition did not win.
would help increase voter turnout this year.
Chanay said Student Voice would begin working immediately on next year's election and begin recruiting members, if the coalition lost. This is Student Voice's first campaign, and Chanay said the coalition would be a year-round organization that would help to influence Senate differently.
Jardon said Delta Force would also be a year-round activist group that would continue to work toward the goals of its platform whether it won or lost.
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Bretches didn't know for certain if all of the 48 men in his hall were complaining about the construction, but he knew none of them were in favor of the University keeping the street's entrance closed, he said.
annoyed with using side streets to get to Battenfeld.
"We've learned to put up with it, but nobody's happy about it." he said.
"It's just been put on the backburner, and it's pissing everyone off," Cheney, Fort Scott freshman, said.
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Scholarship hall residents would be happy to see a worker every now and then, he said before construction resumed yesterday.
The 14th Street construction is the second phase of the steam tunnel project. The first phase was completed last semester.
In the second phase, Networking and Telecommunication Systems will run fiber optic cables through the pipes.
Quinton Cheney said he was
The cables will be used to power the Museum of Anthropology, the Juanita Strait House and the new Rieger Scholarship Hall on Ohio Street.
Current Electric, a contracting company from Topeka, was awarded $210,808 for the project.
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Arms control chief U.N. gone off track
Democrats at Bolton's Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing recited his past undiplomatic remarks about the United Nations and wondered aloud why he would even want the job. They also challenged him over alleged bullying of government intelligence officials who disagreed with him on issues including Cuba's weapons capabilities.
WASHINGTON — His Senate approval to be U.N. ambassador still in question, John R. Bolton told skeptical Democrats yesterday that the world body had "gone off track" at times but that he was committed to its mission.
Implant restriction debated yesterday
The committee is expected to vote Thursday on whether to promote Bolton from his current job as the State Department's arms control chief to become the U.S. ambassador at the United Nations.
WASHINGTON — Thirteen years after most use of silicone-gel breast implants was banned, the government reopened emotional debate yesterday on whether to lift the restrictions — despite lingering questions about how often the devices can break inside women's bodies and how bad those breaks really are.
— Anne Gearan/The Associated Press
In a daylong hearing, dozens of women, many in tears, told federal health advisers of pain and crippling health problems when silicone leaked from broken implants into their breasts and beyond.
About 264,000 breast enlargements and 63,000 breast reconstructions were performed last year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
- Lauran Neergaard/The Associated Press