Wednesday, February 25. 1972
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Senate Polled on Changes
By ELAINE ZIMMERMAN
In response to suggestions by some University Senators and the Senate's difficulty in obtaining a quorum, a University Council subcommittee has sought Senate approval for a procedural and structural changes in the Senate and Council, including a proposal to establish separate Councils and the Senate Center and the Lawrence Campus.
A subcommittee of the Organization and Administration Committee of the University Council distributed a summary of the Senate and presented the results at a Council meeting Feb. 17.
Items included a provision for a mail ballot, an increase in the number of proportional representation in the Council and separation of the governing bodies of the Medical Center and the Lawrence
THE CHANCELLOR, vice-chancellors, members of the Faculty Senate and members of the School Senate make up the University Senate.
Lee F. Young, associate dean of the School of Journalism and Public Communication that during the past three years a quorum has not been reached a
The University Council consists of 39 members from the Faculty Senate, 10 student senators and the Chancellor and President of the University. The Council is an advisory body to the Senate.
The difficulty in obtaining the 20 per cent quorum stems from the lack of representatives to attend and lack of faculty participation. Young said, "There are 265 eligible students from the Center, often only 15 to 20 attend, he said, even with the availability of a full-time KuCU campus. He added that the consistent failure to obtain a quorum discourages the faculty from attending."
YOUNG ATTRIBUTED the lack of faculty interest to the routine nature of the majority of Senate business. When the senate provision calling for 20 per cent student representation on all
KU Book Collectors Plan for Competition
Entries for the 16th annual student book collections contest must be submitted no later than May 28. The co-chairwoman of this year’s contest, at the reference desk in Watson Library, or to Georgen Engkiengi, co-chairwoman of the library, Engkiengi said recently.
The competition is open to all students enrolled at the university. All previous winners, said Englinski, The books entered must be bound by the student and have been checked by him, said Englinski.
"We are interested in a book collection built around the
Students Get Relavs Jobs
Steve Wamers, Emporia senior, and George Chase, Waunut Creek, Alaska, William Reals, the Kansa Reals, disclosed last week that the selections of freshman members of the Kansas Relays were: Dale Boger, Hutchinson freshman; Charles Doyle, Bartvilleros, Okla., freshman; Brandon Olsen, freshman; Larry Hobbs, Lake Oswego, Oreshek, freshman; Thane Hodson, Ottawa freshman; Rick Nielsen, Chris Merriewire, Smith Center, sophomore; Mark Sinnin, Holton freshman, and Hozer freshman, Overland Park hazer.
contestant, another person or an idea. The books don't have to be read. You can read them as a coherence of thought related to the personal interest of the reader.
THE IS a graduate and undergraduate division in the college. It will be eliminated to four from each division from which a winner and runner-up shall be determined.
The first prize winner will receive $100 and the second prize winner $50 in books of their choice from the Oread Book Store.
Contestants are not to submit their books, but on the basis of bibliographies and statements of opinion, will be chosen, said Engliiks.
JUDGES for this year's contest are Joseph Shipman, director of Linda Hall Library in Kansas and the former chairman of the English department at Lawrence High School; Barbara Backus, associate special collections director; Larry Laird, Oberlin graduate student and last year's winner in the graduate division; and Dan Schleske. Lawrence special education undergraduate division last year. Engliniak said they had also asked Thorpe Menn, book review of the Kansas City Star, to be a judge who received a commitment from him.
policy-making committees came before the Senate in October 1970, he said, the quorum was met.
The contest is sponsored jointly by Elizabeth M. Sawyer, Karen L. Schmidt and the University donated her collection of the Spencer Library, and the Oread Library.
"Big issues just don't come along, that often." Young said.
along that often," Young said.
Student attendance has not been a problem, he said, since at least last year. "Students attend Senate meetings.
Of those responding to the survey, 251 favored the separation of the Kansas City and Lawrence Senate and Councils; 97 opposed it. There were 35 senators from the Medical Center preferred decentralization of government and only two who did not.
Young said that each Senate and Council would deal with matters german to its own campus. There would be an all-University Senate and Council available for matters of concern.
THE JURISDICTION of each governing body would in most cases be self-evident, Young said, but the final decision on jurisdiction would rest with the Executive Committee (SenEx).
Because of the limited Medical Center response to the original survey, the subcommittee has reissued the questionnaire on the Kansas City campus in order to capture picture of sentiment there.
Adoption of a mail ballot has also been suggested as a remedy for the quorum problem. Young users were given a survey, 245 favored a mail ballot on all issues and 107 were not of the issues. Six respondents negated it.
Many student senators claimed that they did not receive the questionnaire and that student senators were polluted in the ballot. Young said his subcommittee had not heard of any survey had reached the students.
YOUNG SAID he had mixed feelings concerning the mail ballot. He said he would hate to have to vote in a party favored having a provision for a mail ballot written into the Senate code, but, with a new law adopted on a given issue after debate and a vote on the Senate floor. Voting could then be done to further participation, he said.
want the legislative power to rest in the University Senate. Only 73 of the legislators have power to review Council decisions and 295 wanted the president.
Three of the questions on the survey involved transferring policy-making power from the University Senate to the Council. The items would abolish the Senate's power to review or decisions, enlarge the Council and elect it on a proportional basis.
He was against the blanket mail bail, saying that "the separation of the Med Center was a better move."
The senators favored proportional representation in the Council, 221 to 178, but a vote was not required for the enlargement of the Council.
Young said that the adoption of these changes would constitute the abandonment of the Senate as the law-making body and reform the Council from an advisory body into a legislative one.
Council members are currently elected at large, Young said, but since each school within the University is guaranteed a one-time representative, representation is proportional to 'by sheer happenness.'
ACCORDING TO the survey, a majority of the senators still
Young said that transferral of the legislative power to the Council was indirectly related to the economic problem in the Senate.
"With a smaller body, I feel confident that we'd have no problem getting a quorum," he said, "but it would abolish the necessity of college campuses—the one man, on one vote of thing."
INVESTIGATION OF THE quorum problem began in Spring 1971 when SenEx assigned the Committee. The Committee. The Subcommittee was appointed, Young said, and, among other things in the summer and fall.
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AURH Extends Funding of Magazine
The executive committee of the Association of University Residence Halls has recently agreed to continue sponsoring the College and University Residence Hall's publication, the NACUH Review AUMH magazine, the magazine last year.
graduate student, who was recently chosen editor of the NACUHR Review, last week the forthcoming issues of the journal were dealt with both the aesthetic and practical side of residence hall living.
Joe Speelman, Dodge City.
The review has a circulation of approximately 2,000 AURH officers, housing directors, and schools throughout the country.
Speelman said the NACURi Review, first published two years ago, was representative of student trends across the nation.
issue will be the third of six issues.
Speelman said this edition of the NACURH Review would be the most influential institutional text on the subject.
Publication of the magazine at kc begins last year and will be a bid at the annual NACUH conference to publish the review. KU's bid is for an article on this issue.
There needs to be more attention to the management of University archives, and the magazine will have features dealing with this concept.
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