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NEWS
MONDAY, MARCH 10, 2003
Student Senate apologizes to First Nations members
by Henry C. Jackson
cjackson@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
After what both parties said was a much-needed meeting Thursday, Student Senate's Finance Committee and the First Nations Student Association appeared to have settled their differences.
Student Senate and FNSA had been at odds over the potential funding of two student dancers for the group's annual Powwow on April 5 at Anschutz Sports Pavilion. The funding request filed by FNSA asked for $200
to be paid to two student dancers appointed to positions in the powwow. At that meeting, Senate was reluctant to award FNSA the requested money. Members of FNSA thought they were not shown respect.
Following the meeting, Kyle Johnson, Senate finance chairman, said he would oppose a forthcoming Senate bill which would outlaw Senate money being used to pay for student talent, a bill he had previously championed.
Johnson. Wichita junior said that most of the time, he didn't think students should be funded
for talent fees. The funding of the dancers was an exception.
"I don't think we've set an unfair precedent in this case because their culture is different," Johnson said.
Johnson's decision came after he and Blake Shuart, Senate assistant treasurer, attended FNSA's meeting intending to apologize for the way FNSA was treated at the Feb. 26 Senate meeting.
Johnson and Shuart wanted to explain why they were advocating a change in Student Senate's 'policy that would ban using Senate money to pay students for talent fees.
could explain to them what our point of view was of the incident and apologize for how they were treated," Shuart said.
But the meeting did not go as Johnson and Shuart planned.
"The members of FNSA were a lot more emotional and really were more interested in sharing than I thought they would be," said Shuart, Topeka junior.
Members of FNSA responded emotionally when asked by Johnson and Shuart how they were treated by Senate and how they felt about the pending Senate legislation that would outlaw allocating Senate funds for talent fees
Several FNSA members verged on tears as they explained the problems they saw in Senate's policies and how they were treated by the University. After the meeting, Ryan RedCorn, Lenexa senior and FNSA's copresident, said the group's response was triggered not by financial worries, but by emotional and spiritual concerns.
"It's not a matter of money. It's possible to raise the money by ourselves," RedCorn said. "It's just a matter of where it comes from. It's just the fact that we want
the University to support us."
Olivia StandingBear, Pawhuska, Okla., junior and FNSA's co-president, said the conflict between her group and Student Senate was mostly due to miscommunication.
"I don't think they knew what a powwow was and I don't think that our members had enough time to explain it," StandingBear said. "I can understand why they were skeptical, but I still also think they should have known what it was before they opposed it."
Edited by Anne Mantey
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