Special Section
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
82nd Year, No.103
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
A Look At Elections
Friday, March 10, 1972
Five Teams Outline Campaign Issues
Decentralized Power Amin's First Priority
By HAL RITTER
Kansan Staff Writer
A decentralization of power within the Student Senate would increase the effectiveness of student government at the University of Kansas, Mohammed Amnun, Ralsenian, Iren senior and student body candidate said candidate in a recent interview.
"There is a concentration of responsibility and work on the shoulder of a very few
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He said the majority of senators came to Senate meetings and voted on legislation and that was the extent of their involvement.
Amin said no senator should have more than one major responsibility in the Senate, such as membership on a committee, and that Senate duties should be distributed among the greatest number of senators possible.
"Communication between senators and students needs to be improved," he said. "Involving a larger number of senators would do this."
To further increase senate-student body communication, Amin said, the Senate should publish for interested students a monthly news bulletin of Senate activities.
"We should give an account of the student activity fees every month telling how much has been spent and for what and how much is left," he said.
Amin said he had two ideas he thought
the Student Senate could work on, one that involved students with part-time jobs and internships.
He said the University did not have enough night classes for the growing number of students who found it necessary to work part-time.
Studying other schools and how they handed the night classes would be one of the most important parts of a degree.
Arin said he thought women did not receive a fair share of student activity fees because they had received funds from the Senate were predominantly or exclusively male in mem-
Redistribution of the funds would provide women with financial equality, he said.
Amin said he thought the Student Senate was important to the University as a "channel of communications between students and the university system."
"The Senate is a unifying tool for the student body," he said. "You can't protest government policies."
The presence of students on University Senate committees is important, he said, especially when faculty members are split in opinion. The committees are the determining factors in decisions.
Amin said he selected Mike McGowan, sophomore senator from Western Springs, as his running mate because they shared similar views about the role of the Student Senate.
Landolt Uses Farce To Reveal Problems
Landolt and his running mate. Mike
By HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writer
Employing tactics of force and ridicule to interest KU students in real problems is the method Joe Landolt, Kirkwood Mo., taught in his campaign for student body president.
Joe Landolt
Schoenleiber, Wichita sophomore, created the Birthday Party with the purpose of "continuing the fine tradition of mediocrity in KU student government."
Landolt said apathy was reaching "epidemic proportions" at KU, and that the Student Senate was "more a cause than a cure of this disease."
He said the Senate was "far removed
from the will of the student body" because only one-fourth of the student body voted and because the Senate had no power to enforce its legislation.
He said the chancellor was responsible to the Kansas Board of Regents and that the Regents had to rely on the state legislature for funding.
"This is the crux of the power in the university," he said referring to the [Jordanian]
"Massive student involvement in demanding more money from the legislature is the key to solving the University's problems. Students must keep firstrate professors," he said.
Landolt said the student senators and student body president should be the leaders in "mobilizing and coordinating student activity to effectively lobby for more funds for the University" instead of wasting time arguing at Senate meetings.
He said that through the student body president's meetings with representatives of his communities, a campaign to coordinate efforts in obtaining increased funds for higher education.
He said it did not matter whether the reaction was negative or positive, but that a reaction was important because it was the first step toward involvement.
Landolt's生日Party platform designs of unrealistic proposals designed to make students realize the Senate "as a legislative organization is a laKE." he said.
David Dillon
"If more people vote this year than last year because the campaign is interestless," she said.
"We think our platform will at least get a reaction from everyone who reads it," he said.
Mohammed Amin
Optional Activity Fee Green's Campaign Goal
By CATHY SHERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
Restructuring the Student Senate into a more representative body is the goal of Joel Green, Rapid City, S.D., sophomore candidate for student body president, and
Joel Green
his running mate, Joel Payne, Kansas City, Kan., sobomore.
Green said the role of student government should be that of representing student rights, privileges and responsibilities in the University and not one of allocating the funds received from the student activity fee.
"An optional activity fee would give the students a chance to decide what they wanted to do with their money," Green said. "A lot of people on this campus don't want many of the University organizations to use their money."
Green, who represents the Aardvark Liberation Front, proposed that the student activity fee be eliminated in its implementation and be replaced with an optional one.
Green said that if there were an optional student activity fee, there would not be any additional cost.
groups now funded by activity fee allocations would basically be funding them
Once the Senate's role of allocating funds is eliminated, Green said, the Senate would be able to investigate problems of student rights more fully. Better communication between administration, faculty students could also be achieved, he said.
Green said that he saw the need for a full-time paid ambushd for the University. He said that a number of other students had ambushed him and the University of California at Berkeley, had ambushed them and that they were tween the administration and students.
"The ombudsman program now is a good one," Green said, "but the oombudsmen (who are law students) have to be very hardworking, so would be more accessible to the students."
Green said that he thought the Senate was not representative of the whole campus, but that it represented various living groups and off-campus as well as the present representatives from
He also said the voice of the Senate was not representative of the whole student body, because the voice of the people was from the majority of students who are too apathetic to vote.
To open up lines of communication between the administration, Senate and students, Green said there would have to be a greater investment in government and a lessening of bureaucracy.
"Consequently," Green said, "it is difficult to gauge the mood of the campus when everyone doesn't participate in student government or in voting."
Green said that he would like to see the Senate developed to where it would not be necessary to hold meetings on a regular basis. "It was important of the work would be done in committees."
Green said neither he nor Payne planned
the salaries for the student body
because he felt they were too large.
"It would be hypocritical to accept salaries from the system that we are trying to employ."
Election March 15-16
Dillon Lists Concern For Academic Funds
By HAL RITTER Kansan Staff Writer
Higher education in Kansas, the academic program at the University of Kansas and the KU Student Senate are the basis of the campaign for student body president of Dave Dillon, Hutchinson junior.
Dillon said recently that he thought a continued interest in higher education by the University community was necessary to adequate funding by the state legislature.
Better communication between the University and legislators would also enable the University to spend money it did receive in the best way possible, he said.
DILLON SAID HE wanted information similar to that published in Feedback about faculty members to be used as supporter of the salary increase for a faculty member.
"We want students to think of the teacher's capacity to teach," he said. "In order to get an increase the teacher has got to be able to teach."
Dillon said the role of the Student Senate needed to be changed with a reorientation
The emphasis now is on politics and
finance, and I'd like to shift that to student service," he said.
Dillon mentioned the health system and student insurance plan which were operated through the Senate to illustrate that they would perform services for the student body.
"The Senate has a lot of resources and a lot of man hours to offer." he said.
DILLON ALSO SAID he thought the Senate could begin a job placement service that would help students obtain employment connected with their educational interests.
He said a big problem of the Senate that needed to be overcome was "showing people that our senators are not
Despite the apathy of most students toward student government, Dillon said he believed there was a need for a Senate at KU and that it would survive as long as it was flexible enough to change with new attitudes on campus.
He said the activities of the Senate including its programs and the work of its committees needed to be publicized more urgently, he said. The Senate could know what it was doing.
**WE HAVE CONTROL of the activity**
(technology students should know what we
are doing)
He said he chose Kathy Allen, Topeka sophomore, as his running mate because she was "quilted to implement the ideas of our team" talking about concerning student service."
Dwyer Wants Senate Pared to Essentials
By CATHY SHERMAN Kansan Staff Writer
The primary function of the Student Senate should be that of a student rights group, according to Richard Dwyer, Joppa State University and candidate for student body president.
This would require paring the Senate down to the bare essentials, Dwyer said recently. This would entail reducing the number of senators, reducing the student body and increasing much of the bureaucracy and paperwork involved in operating the Senate.
Dwyer said there was alienation in the Senate and many of the senators were not fully informed or aware of the issues they voted on. A smaller group would eliminate this alienation, be said, and interaction would be greater.
"Often senators don't vote in accordance with their constituents," Dwyer said. "It would seem to me that most senators never consult their constituency."
As a result, many students think that the senate is a joke and are not interested in it.
Dwyer said a mail ballot sent to all the students would increase the participation rate.
be eliminated or reduced also."
Dwyer proposed a system to select committee members, in which senators interested in a certain committee would serve on a special committee to a special committee of senators.
Dwyer said he would like to see an optional student activity fee evolve in a
"We can't just eliminate the whole student activity fee, however," Dwyer said. "There would be a lot of worthwhile projects, such as the Kansan, that would
Dwyer and his running mate, William Jacoby, Lawrence senior, said they would not accept the salaries of student body president and vice-president if elected.
"I don't see the need to pay someone to allocate money," Dwyer said. "There is no money."
Richard Dwyer
ested in the job, why should they be subsidized?"
By eliminating some of the structure and bureaucracy that has become inherent in the system, Dwyer said the Senate office operating costs could be reduced and less expensive to fund, required. All this money could then be funneled back to the students, Dwyer said.
Apathy, Splits, Complaints Characterize KU Elections
BY JAMES COOK
Kansan Staff Writer
By JAMES COOK
The University of Kansas' student government has never been stagnate. changes, some expedient and colorful, often make everyone, best describe KU's campus politics.
KU's present form of government was the University Senate Code in 1969. This code, drafted by a university committee, created the Student Senate, the Faculty Senate, the University Senate and the University Council. These organizations are the present form of University government.
But this present form did not develop overnight. And it may not be the final governmental system. Campus political processes do not involve the fluid process of change and modification.
radicals, reactionaries, ballot box stuffers,
phones and crazies.
In the past, political parties had controlled KU's student government and the Greeks had controlled the political parties.
SOME ELECTIONS, such as the 1952 election, split the campus into two groups:
As with all political systems, KU's student government has experienced
In 1952 fraternities and sororities, with their block votes, dominated campus PMS.
In the '52 election the Independents united to form the FACTS party. The opposition, the Pachacamac party, was firmly entrenched.
But 52 saw the emergence of a cohesive independent force, a force which would have been unthinkable had it not occurred.
The central issue of the campaign was whether All Student Council (ASC) would accept an offer to host a conference.
of school representation or be put on the basis of proposed residence-districts.
In '51 FACTS held KU's first party primary. FACTS won a majority of the vote and it was clear that constitutional amendment was amended to require all campus political parties to hold primaries. The amendment also provided that only members of an approved membership could vote in party primaries.
PACHACAMAC LEADERS insisted that all students be allowed to vote in the primaries. FACTS leaders countered that party primaries had never been set up in such a fashion and said the idea of having a primary was not validated if all students were allowed to vote.
A special election was called to decide on the ASC amendment. Less than one-fourth of the students turned out to vote and Pachchun took votes, easily defeated the amendment.
FACTS immediately included the reorganizational issue as part of their party platform for the coming spring general election.
THE AMENDMENT would have provided the university with a more equitable system of education.
The student council president urged adoption of the ASC amendment. The amendment would have changed voting districts from a school basis to a residence basis, would have changed the method of election from a system where a district nominated a candidate and the whole district would have limited any one district's council membership to no more than one-fourth the total membership.
The purpose of the amendment was to prevent any one group from running a slate of candidates into office. This, it was hoped, would break down the Greek-
Pachacamac won the ASC election with
1,396 votes to FACTS' 1,103 votes.
But FACTS had shown the independents could be united.
Pachacamac was instructed that it must require closed party elections. The ASC has a policy of holding elections but on the morning of the Pachacamac elections, party leaders encouraged all candidates to attend.
Independent political split.
The ASC was enraged and Pach candidates were excluded from the show.
Vox Populi (Vox) and the University Party (UP) opened the 62 campaign. But
The ASC, controlled by FACTS, voted to allow Pacchacam candidates to run in the spring election but denied them party support. The ASC also allowed Pacchacam no longer existed, but in fact was allowed to run its slate of candidates. Pacchacam won the ASC election with
a third party, Action, envision to bring a new area to campus politics national issues.
IN $2 the John Birch Society, the Young Americans for Freedom and various members of the state legislature claimed that the school board is a communist and socialist element. Civil liberty groups were demanding that blacks be admitted to fraternities and sororities, and the administration refused to allow any student organizations pressured for action.
Action pulled national issues into KU's elections.
"The new party," an editorial in the March 21st Kansan read, "is interesting in that it represents an attempt to take action on controversial issues through the established political organizations. This is something that has not been done as
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