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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, March 19, 1992
Coalitions outline election objectives
'Unless' hopes to join KU by tackling all issues
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
Jean Winter, Student Senate presidential candidate, said that some might have viewed the Unless coalition as upstarts with little Senate experience.
But she said that may be the upstarts could change things in Senate.
"We want to involve the uninvolved." Winter said.
She said that Senate in recent years had appeared to become more cynical, and students had become cynical about Senate, which might have explained low voting turnouts.
"I would die happy if I could get 15 percent turnout," Winter said. "That's pathetic."
She said that she also would like Senate to bring together different factions on campus.
"There are divergent issues on campus," Winter said.
No current senators are running for Senate seats with the Unless coalition, she said, but coalition members had experience in other organizations such as OAKS - Non-traditional Students Organization and Junior Panhellenic.
"They have been involved, just not as senators," Winter said.
Chris Stong, Unless vice-presidential candidate, said that the coalition had hoped to begin regular meetings between senators and the students they represented.
"There would be a time where senators come in and talk about what they are doing in Senate and then let students ask questions about what is or should be happening in Senate," he said.
Other major issues for the Unless campaign include:
Creating more campus recycling.
Stong said that everybody was aware of the need for recycling.
"Now the campus is basically recycling aluminum and newspaper," he said. "I think it would be an easy step to recycle glass and other papers."
Winter said that the coalition would lobby for the hiring of more female staff at the University and increase services for victims of sexual assault.
By Jay Williams Kansan staff writer
'Vision' plans to combine experience and fresh ideas
Experience could be the major difference between the two coalitions formed for the 1992 Student Senate elections April 8-9.
"I think having experience is
Brad Garlinghouse, presidential candidate, and Lance Wright, vice presidential candidate, are two current Senate members who are running on the Vision ticket. Garlinghouse is the head of Senate's University Affairs Committee and Wright is a social welfare senator.
Garlinghouse said about 10 current senators would run for Senate seats with the Vision coalition.
important," Garlinghouse said. "You have to have some experience to get things done."
However, he said the coalition also would have several new people. He wants to add new people in order to get new ideas.
He said many students did not view Senate as a campus leadership organization.
"The only way to restore credibility is to follow through on what we promise," he said.
Some of Vision's goals are:
- To work at a state level to increase the percentage of student tuition going toward education.
- To form an advocacy group to work with students during grievance procedures. The group, comprised of students, would work about 25 to 30 hours a week, Wright said. Workers would be appointed by the student body president and the program would be administered out of the Senate office.
To push for the creation of a vice chancellor for minority affairs. Wright said the aim would be to move the office of minority affairs out from under the office of student affairs.
Also, Wright said the coalition would support the creation of a multicultural center in Hoch Auditorium if the Kansas Legislature approved $1 million to start planning the renovation.
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