University Daily Kansan / Thursday, April 16, 1992
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Vision wants to set goals, fight apathy
By Jay Williams
Brydyl Williams
Kansan staff writer
Brad Garlinghouse
A week after their decisive victory, the president-elect and vice president-elect from the Vision coalition said the difference between the parties was experience. Both said they wanted to parlay their election success into action when they take office.
"We had people who had done this before," he said. "We had energetic, motivated people."
Brad Garlinghouse, student body president-elect, said several members of the Vision campaign who had Student Senate elections campaign experience made a difference in Vision's near sweep of the elections.
"We knew how to run a campaign," he said.
Lance Wright, student body vice president elect, also said experience was the difference.
But Garlinghouse said the campaign was not over. The focus will switch to fighting a student body that Garlinghouse said had lost faith in Senate.
Garlinghouse said Senate credibility had been declining.
"In recent years, Senate has had no goals," he said. "We need to communicate our goals to the students."
Senate credibility was damaged last semester when Senate vote to oust former president Darren Fulcher. Senate removed Fulcher after it was disclosed that he had battered his ex-girlfriend, according to Lawrence police reports.
To do that, Garlinghouse said next year's Senate members must communicate to students
what Senate was doing.
To change the image, Senate needs to involve more students with its committees and set specific goals it can achieve, he said. Garlinghouse said he planned to visit different groups and living organizations to involve more non-senators in Senate.
One of Vision's campaign promises was to set specific goals and achieve them to help restore Senate's image. Those goals include changing University grievance procedures.
Vision has proposed creating a student advocacy group to help students through grievance proceedings. Wright said.
"We are going to work out the logistics over the summer," he said. "We also want to look over, from a student perspective, what we can do to
simplify the procedures."
In the short term, Garlinghouse said he and Wright were starting the process of appointing students to different positions in Senate.
Applications became available yesterday for director and assistant director of Associated Students of Kansas, treasurer, administrative assistant, executive secretary and head of Student Senate Executive Committee.
The applications are due Monday in the Senate office. Interviews with candidates will be conducted, and the final choices will be presented for Senate approval at Wednesday's meeting.
The Wednesday meeting will be a joint meeting between this year's and next year's senates.
Bicycle rider sore but OK after stabbing
Alex Baker, left, Leawood senior, and Cord Huston, Lenexa senior, fence in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall. Yesterday they were promoting the KU Fencing Club, which is the the oldest club on campus.
Kansan staff report
Engarde!
A Lawrence man was in fair condition yesterday after being stabbed twice early Tuesday morning.
John Knackstedt, 25, was bicycle ride
ing about 12:05 a.m. Tuesday with his
brother Eric, 17, near the E-Z Shop, 1910
Haskell Ave., when they saw two men
anda woman.
The two males, who police have not yet named, said that Knackstedt and his brother provoked a fight by yelling at them and using racial slurs, according to Lawrence police report. The two men and the woman are African Americans.
John Knackstedt was stabbed in the chest and the side with a small knife during the fight, police said.
However, Eric Knackstedt said the men and woman provoked the fight, according to the report.
Yesterday, from his hospital room at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, John Knackstedt said that he was feeling sore, but better.
Police have not made any arrests in the case, although they have talked to the individual who allegedly stabbed Knackstedt.
Sgt. Mark Warren, Lawrence police representative, said the case would be forwarded to the Douglas County District Attorney's office, where a decision would be made about whether arrests would be made.
JFK researcher uncovers 'lies'
By Greg Farmer
Kansan staff writer
An Olaite history teacher said last night that the search for the truth behind the assassination of John Kennedy would be left to today's young people.
"My generation has failed to find the truth," said Casey Quinlan, a U.S. history teacher at Olahe South High School who has been researching the Kennedy assassination for 23 years. "Now, young people will have to take care of it. Read the Warren Commission Report, but the truth is not there."
"We only will find the truth when we all agree to challenge everything that we have been taught to believe."
Quinlan spoke last night about the 1983 Kennedy assassination to more than200 people at Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Quinlan's speech was sponsored by the Board of Class Officers, which paid him $750 from optional student fee money.
Quihan said high-ranking U.S. leaders and the press should be blamed for
making citizens mistrust their government.
"I get a little upset with Dan Rather and Sam Donaldson because they have been feeding us this duned for 29 years," he said. "We've been eating it because it tastes good, and we think it tastes good because we've been told it does."
Quinlan presented slides and film as evidence to support his theory that there was a conspiracy to kill Kennedy and a conspiracy to cover it up.
"I don't know who killed the president," he said. "I think the whole conspiracy was designed so that we wouldn't know who fired the fatal shot. My research shows that there were many trigger men. It was a well organized mess."
He said a computer expert had showed researchers a way to turn two-dimensional photographs into three-dimensional images.
"I have seen the evidence, but I haven't been able to get a copy of it,"
Quinlan also presented what he said was new evidence in support of the conspiracy theory.
Quinlan said. "The technique allows us to focus on in a picture or film and create three-dimensional images. In one case, he could tell that a guy's arm had been broken before. I believe, as the computer expert did, that we may be able to identify assassins with the technique."
He said that people who could have been additional gunmen already had been identified in the background of the assassination film.
Dave Hornighausen, Overland Park senior, said, "Taking pictures and determining stuff like broken bones, finding more out of photos that is possible."
Other students said they did not believe everything Ouianan said.
"Each of us has to decide what to believe, but he makes you think about the country we are living in," said Heather Haydock, Fredonia sophomore.
Wendy Bennington, La Croisse, Wis,
sophomore, "One thing is certain.
There is no way to leave this speech
without having your eyes opened."
CLAS assembly has 74 vacancies
By Ranjit Arab
Kansan staff writer
Because only 25 students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences applied for the 99 undergraduate student representative positions on the College Assembly, the deadline for applications has been extended to April 124.
Pam Houston, director of college undergraduate administration, said the duties of assembly representatives ranged from voting on proposed curriculum changes and degree requirements to shaping policy within the college.
Houston said the deadline was extended past April10to encourage more student participation.
"Some people, including me, are frustrated with the lack of interest and participation of students in something that affects them so directly," she said.
Every faculty member in the college is automatically a member of the assembly. Undergraduate and percent of the assembly, Houston
Undergraduate students interested in applying for the assembly can pick up an application at the college undergraduate center in 109 Strong Hall. There is no grade requirement or interviewing process. The only prerequisite for students is that they are enrolled in the college this semester and next semester, Houston said.
However, if more than 99 students apply for the vacant positions, students in the college will vote for representatives, she said.
Ruth Hillers, director of the college graduate division, said 43 graduate representative positions were available for the 1992-93 academic year.
She said the deadline for graduate student applications was May 1, but so far no applications had been completed
Kathy Hall, assistant director of college undergraduate administration, said most students did not realize the importance of the assembly.
"It is important to remember that a student's vote carries the same weight as that of a faculty member," she said.
She said she thought the low number of applicants was the result of the organization's low profile.
But in past years, controversial issues such as whether to use a plus or minus grading system and whether to allow credit for ROTC courses sparked student interest, Hall said.
Laura Russell, one of about 80 student representatives on this year's assembly, said low attendance was a problem in the assembly.
Russell, Overland Park senior, said she had been the only student representative present at the latest two assembly meetings.
She said she thought student apathy stemmed from a lack of awareness.
Student assembly representatives are also eligible to serve on the college's budget committee and the undergraduate studies and advising committee. Hall said.
"It is probably the same reason why people do not vote in the Student Senate elections," Russell said. "A lot of people do not think it concerns them, but it does."
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