WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 3A
Diverse ideas define coalitions this year
By Sarah Hill Kansan staff writer
By Sarah Hill
Four coalitions have candidates running in this year's Student Senate elections, which are April 10-11. Below are profiles of the coalitions.
Teamwork and activism on campus issues will influence Delta Force's platform for the sixth year of Senate elections.
Delta Force
Presidential candidate Karen Keith, Tulsa, Okla., junior, said that while she and Kit Brauer, Denver sophomore, were the spokeswomen for the coalition, their job was to get the rest of the slate elected. Keith is an off-campus senator, and Brauer is Association of University Residence Halls senator.
One of Delta Force's top priorities for next year is to work to have a voting student representative on the Board of Regents.
"I've talked to the Board of Regents members, and they are receptive to the idea," said Maggie Beedles, Lawrence junior and College of Liberal Arts and Sciences candidate.
Delta Force will also work for fair wages for graduate teaching assistants, resident assistants and staff, ask the Board of Regents for a domestic partnership policy, improve accountability for minority retention and recruitment, insist on a specific outline of where tuition money is spent and implement a new alcohol policy that would allow beer in the Jaybowl and Memorial Stadium.
KUnited will draw on diversity and experience this year to lead Student Senate.
KUnited
Jonathan Ng, Overland Park junior and presidential candidate, said he and 16 other members of their coalition were returning senators, including vice-presidential candidate Loren Malone, Senatobia, Miss., junior. Ng is a CLAS senator and Malone was a Panhellenic senator her freshman year.
"We have experience and knowledge that we can use as a guide to facilitate change," he said.
The coalition will work to create a central on-line calendar for the University, collaborate with the KU parking department to produce maps that outline where students can park for special events, allowing beer in the Jaybowl and implement a "yellow bike" program for campus transportation.
Ng said the program would provide bicycles, usually painted yellow, on campus for students to ride as an alternative to other forms of transportation.
KUnited will also work to build a new Multicultural Resource Center. Ng plans to use money from the KU Endowment Association's KU First fund-raising campaign to build a new center.
STUDENT
SENATE
SMILE
Paul Bammel wants to make sure that everyone has a smile on
their face next year.
Bammel, Andover junior and presidential candidate for the SMILE coalition, will run with Jared Hiatt, Salina junior and vice-presidential candidate, on a feel-good platform designed to improve the overall campus attitude.
"We're going to do stuff that's fun and exciting for KU as a whole." Bammel said.
The seven members of the coalition have no previous Senate experience.
SMILE will use student fee money for entertainment and to promote student clubs.
Bammel said that, according to statistics from the vice chancellor of student affairs, Student Senate would have $81,094 in their unallocated account from student fees. This money is distributed by Senate throughout the year.
Instead of a formal platform, Bammel said SMILE coalition members would be out on Wescoe Beach today with sidewalk chalk. The coalition is inviting students to tell the coalition how they should best represent the student body.
"Rather than tell the students what are platform is, they're going to tell us," he said.
Vision Coalition
The Vision Coalition strives to ensure that all students at the University will be heard.
iwatt Steppe, St. Joseph, Mo., junior, and Laura Rupe, Wichita junior, combined forces from last year's campaigns to bridge the perceived gap between greeks and non-grecs. Steppe, residential senator and Student Legislative Awareness Board director, ran with Delta Force last year, while Rupe, a Nunemaker senator, ran with the voice coalition.
"The greek versus non-greek issue is so asinine," Steppe said. "It gets in the way of students doing things for students."
The Vision Coalition will institute a tuition "Bill of Rights" to make sure that students are not placed with the burden of improving higher education by themselves.
Other issues that the Vision Coalition will work for are making the Kansas and Burge Unions more student-friendly by adding programming and amenities, such as allowing beer in the Jaybowl and allowing residents of residence halls to use a portion of their meal plans in the KU unions' food services and convenience stores.
Steppe said they would also recommend installation of dual-use blue phones, which have a local phone built-in to the safety phone.
"Students can use the phones to call Safe Ride or a roommate to come pick them up, instead of only being able to call the police," he said.
Contact Hill at shill@kansan.com. This story was edited by Anne Mergenmeier.
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