Page 8 University Daily Kansan, February 26, 1981
Committee recommends quorum of 13
By KAREN SCHLUETER
Staff Reporter
"Ridiculous") is the word several Student Senate officers and senators used to describe a University Council committee recommendation changing the Senate's quorum requirement from 33 to 13 of the 65 senators.
The recommendation is one of the changes proposed by the council's Organization and Administration Committee to set consistent meetings standards for all University governance groups.
The University Senate executive committee approved the proposal last week. This afternoon, the council will consider the changes.
George Worth, SenEx chairman, said that the council probably would want to refer the quorum probable to Student Senate.
IN AN INTERVIEW yesterday, Bren
"It's ridiculous to think of conducting Senate business with 13 senators," Abbott said.
Abbott, student body vice president said he opposed the change.
"I see no reason to change a good policy just to be consistent with other University policies."
Anthony Smith, Organizations and Administrations Committee chairman, said his committee had found quorum discrepancies while trying to devise consistent requirements for closed meetings.
The University Senate and the Faculty Senate now require a one-fifth quorum. University Council and Student Senate require one-half.
SMITH SAID THE committee wanted to establish the same standards for groups of the same size.
"What we're doing is floating a
"They must determine if one-fifth is appropriate for the University Senate, but not for the Student Senate."
question for SenEx and University Council,"he said.
Bert Coleman, student body president, said that he saw no reason to reduce the quorum.
THIRTY-SEVEN SENATORS were present for the first roll call at the most urgent hearing.
"We've had quorum at every meeting this semester," Coleman said. "We're not having problems, and I see no reason to do it."
Smith said that his committee did not make the recommendation to correct problems the Senate may have in reaching quorum.
"I don't know what's going on in Senate," he said. "As a matter of fact, I've never seen a copy of the Senate's
Loren Busby, Senate Finance and Auditing committee chairman, said that the 13-senator quorum would make a mockery of the Senate's decisions.
rules and regulations. If it's a solution to a problem, it's accidental."
"Some of our decisions probably be made by not just a majority of the Senate, but the entire country, the magnitude of the questions," Bush said.
"We've just finished allocating $300,000 in activity fee money with barely a quorum. Tonight we will be paying $12 million for Health Services, probably with the same number. To let 13 sensors vote on this name be a joke."
GERHARD ZUTHER, University Council presiding officer, said that he would support the student members on
the council if they requested that the question be deferred to the Senate.
"I think it's up to the students on the Council to say, 'Hey, we don't think you should reduce the quorum size without consulting the Senate,'" Zather said. "If they did that, as I, an ordinary council member, would go along with a motion to defer this to the Senate for their opinion."
David Adkins, Student Senate executive committee chairman, said the larger quorum was an incentive for senators to attend meetings.
"I think by having a large number for *quim*, we can encourage senators to be there," he said. "If something goes wrong with senators, it should not have passed at all."
The Senate reduced its size in the fall, cutting the number of senators from 120 to 65.
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