Volume 124 Issue 127
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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POLITICS
Looking at liberals and conservatives
Your political views may say more about your personality than just who you will vote for in the next election, according to a study conducted at the University. Tien-Tsung Lee, professor of strategic communication, looked at how liberals and conservatives compare in their happiness, religious beliefs, curiosity and need for structure.
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Maples
Haberstock
"The most interesting findings were
that neither groups are happier, but liberals were more trusting of people who are different than them," Lee said.
Lee found that liberals were more open to foreign cultures, music and foods.
By contrast, conservatives tend to be more optimistic and religious than liberals, the study found. Lee said he was surprised to find that both groups relied on a similar amount of structure and organization in their lives.
Lee used a survey of more than 7,000 people conducted by an advertising agency for the study. Lee hopes to expand the research in the future by talking and observing people to people, rather than relying on only survey data.
Jessica Haberstock, a junior
from St. Louis, Mo., considers herself to be liberal but not religious. She said her lifestyle is dependent on her core beliefs.
Haberstock considers herself laid-back, less-structured and open to new ideas.
She also guessed that half of KU students were liberal while the other half were conservative, and while some students change their beliefs during their college years, Haberstock thought most are set in their beliefs after freshman year.
"Because I don't have religious beliefs that guide my political standpoints, I determine them for myself." Haberstock said.
Hayden Maples, a junior from Olathe, said he considers himself moderately conservative and religious and attends church every Sunday. Maples also thought of himself as happy and morally strict.
"I think openness depends on how you were raised rather than political beliefs," Haberstock said.
"I'm very conscious of how other people view my actions in light of my Christianity," Maples said.
Maples agreed with the study that Christians would more likely lean toward being conservative but said that making sweeping generalizations about lifestyle and political views was difficult to do.
"I don't know that you can necessarily look at a person's actions and determine what political stance they hold, especially in college," Maples said.
POLICY
Edited by Bre Roach
Bills include chalking policy, fines to vote on
Among the 11 bills that will be voted on by Student Senate tonight is a stricter election chalking policy and fines and changes to the Senate's budget code.
The full Student Senate meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Alderson room on the fourth level of the Kansas Union.
make sure coalitions are registered before they are allowed to chalk or distribute materials. It would also set deadlines before the election for candidates to pay fines from campaign violations.
If passed. Bill 2012-193 would
Other bills include funding requests for the Korean School Student Organization, SPIC MACAY and the Alternative Energy Society.
Vikaas Shanker
April 9: Active tabling begins Candidates can approach students to campaign and pass out materials
STUDENT ELECTION WEEK
April 9: Write-in candidate filing deadline — To be eligible, write-in candidates must file
April 9: Campaign activity and expense reports due Coalitions and candidates must present financials and activities for public view
April 11: Elections — 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. through ku.edu
April 12: Elections — 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. through ku.edu
April 12: Write-in candidate activity and expense reports due — Write in candidates must present financials and activities
Meet your potential student affairs VP PAGE 7
IFSSICA IANAS7/KANSAN
Thomas Robinson and Jeff Withey get excited to see fans who came to support their return to Lawrence at Allen Fieldhouse Tuesday night after their loss against Kentucky in the National Championship the night before. Robinson, along with Tyshawn Taylor, Jordan Junneman and Conner Teahan, later addressed the crowd.
STUDENT SENATE
BUDGET CHANGES
Funding for publicity, events to be voted on
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Changes to the Student Senate Budget Code, to be voted upon at tonight's Senate meeting, will help allocate student fees more efficiently to student organizations.
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OPINION 5
Last Wednesday, the Student Senate finance committee approved the changes, which aim to update the code while keeping the original intent of the rules. Several months were spent on the changes. The biggest changes include clarifying rules for funding of newsletters, events in which professors offer extra credit, advertising in The Kansan and organizations that aren't open to all students.
Senate changed wording in the code that applied to events that professors may give academic credit to students for attending. The original wording, which said that Student Senate could not provide funding for "any corporation, organization or group whose members receive or give academic credit for participation," was changed so that Student Senate could not fund any "corporation, organization, group or activity whose primary purpose
"Basically the intent was to bring things in line with our current process," Josh Dean, the finance committee chair, said. "It was removing rules that didn't make any sense. We have restructured the unstructured parts."
is for members to give or receive academic credit." This change in wording is based on the assumption that professors often have students attend events that are not directly affiliated with their course.
Other revisions included writing Senate rules that are already practiced but not written in the code, such as a rule that allows Student Senate to fund newsletters and events. The creation of the Student Senate Advertising Program allows student organizations to advertise in The Kansan for free, since Senate can't allocate student funds to advertise in The Kansan.
Some finance committee members unsuccessfully attempted to add another change at last week's meeting that would have allowed Senate to fund events open to all students, even if the organization hosting the event was not open to all students.
This change was sparked by Senate's decision to not approve the homecoming steering committee's request for $2,300 on Feb. 29, because the organization wasn't open to all students. Senate cited its policy: "No funds from student fees shall be allocated or apportioned to any corporation, organization, or group that is not open de facto to all University of Kansas students."
COMMITTEE DISSENT
If passed with the other budget
PROPOSED BUDGET CHANGES
Index
2. 2.2:
No Academic Credit for Participation. No funds shall be allocated or apportioned to any corporation, organization, group or activity whose primary purpose is for members to give or receive academic credit.
Notice of All Publicity Required. No funds shall be allocated to any corporation, organization, or group for any publication, advertisement, poster, flyer, promotion, etc. unless, upon request, a copy is made available to the Student Senate Treasurer prior to disbursement of funds for publication or broadcast. For non-English publications, an English translation may also be requested.
2.3.11:
8.5.3.3:
University Daily Kansan Advertising: Funds shall not be allocated to any corporation, organization, or group for University Daily Kansan (UDK) advertising. Student Senate, for the purpose of the Student Senate Advertising Program, shall be exempt from this rule.
8.5.19.9:
Funds from the Student Senate Activity fee may fund a special event up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00), beyond this level a group may receive up to fifty percent (50%) of the remaining expenditures for the special event.
code changes, the homecoming steering committee would have been eligible to receive student funding.
Dean, author of the bill amending the budget code, supported the finance committee's decision to rule against adding this change.
"It's OK to have a group where you elect a committee that's in charge of bringing in the speaker," said Mark Pacey, a graduate senator and co-sponsor of the bill. "But if there's no way for anyone to come on to even get elected to that group to plan the speaker, that's a problem."
— Edited by Caroline Kraft
ELECTIONS
Students still can apply for candidacy in Senate
The deadline for running for the Student Senate with a coalition has passed, but students can still run as independent candidates until 5 p.m. tomorrow.
Student senators represent student diversity on campus through academic, residential, off-campus and non-traditional seats. Each senator has a vote in full Senate on bills concerning student fees, university policies and student life.
TO REGISTER Follow this QR code to register your independent candidacy.
Senators also serve on committees that generate legislation. The four major committees are finance, rights, multicultural and university affairs.
Any student wishing to run for Senate
as an independent candidate must fill out a senator declaration of candidacy form, available on the election commission's web site at http://groups.ku.edu/~election/. The candidacy form must be stamped by the dean of the academic school the candidate wishes to represent. A candidate running for a non-academic seat must get the form stamped by the dean of his or her major.
and petition must be submitted to the Kansas Union administrative
Each candidate also must either fill out a petition with 50 signatures, or pay a $20 filing fee. The candidacy form
on the fourth level by 5 p.m. April 5. If a candidate chooses to pay the fee instead of filling the petition, he or she must pay by clicking the "Student Senate Fee" link on the bottom of the KU Bookstore's website.
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Don't forget that ESPN founder Bill Rasmussen is speaking in the Ballroom at the Kansas Union today at 7 p.m. Students get in for free.
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it's cooling back down again.