Wednesday, April 22, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A · Page 7
Monumental errors to be corrected
University's Vietnam Memorial will be rededicated Saturday
By Gerry Doyle gdoyle@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Thirty years after the fact, two former University of Kansas students are getting recognized for their sacrifices.
Retired Army Col. Fred Green, a 1963 KU graduate, visited the KU Vietnam Memorial wall in 1994 and noticed the entries for two of his fellow students were incorrect.
The identifications of two former students are incorrect on the University's Vietnam Memorial. It will be rededicated Saturday and will include the omitted name of one former student killed in the war, and one who had been misidentified as Missing In Action. Photo by Holly Groshang/KANSAN
Lloyd Meredith Wilson, who was killed when his aircraft was shot down in Vietnam in 1968, was not listed at all. The other man, Larry E. Martin, was listed as Missing in Action, but Green knew his remains had been identified in 1989.
Jeff Weinberg, assistant to the chancellor, said the memorial was being modified and would be rededicated Saturday.
The 20-minute ceremony will help undo thirty years of misunderstanding, Weinberg said.
"It's not something we ever anticipated doing," he said. "The Department of Defense had listed the state of residence as Texas rather than Kansas. As careful as the University was, it's understandable that a name could be omitted. Also, there
have been significant changes in forensics since then. We do know now that MIA was correct when the monument was built."
The monument was erected in 1988 through efforts of the student body, Weinberg said. It cost $4,000 when built. The money to finance construction was donated by students and veterans' groups.
Green said that he was surprised when he saw the incorrect listings on the monument. He said that although the corrections were coming late, they were worth it.
"I walked around and looked, and it jumped out at me," he said. "It's not there. It's nice to get this done."
Changing the memorial was the right thing to do, said Brian Wehrv,
    who has died.
El Dorado senior. The corrections needed to be made, he said, or the monument would be incomplete.
Wehry said that the meaning of the monument would be lessened by its inconsistency.
"Yeah, I think they need to do it." he said. "It's a good thing. A memorial left undone isn't much of a memorial, is it?"
The ceremony will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday with the presentation of the colors by the KU ROTC department, Weinberg said. Chancellor Robert Hemenway will speak, and Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Charles G. Boyd — who received the Distinguished Service Citation from the University in 1997 — also will make a presentation.
By Melissa Ngo and Marc Shefioren mngo@kansan.com mshefioren@kansan.com Kansan stuff writers
Last year Scott Sullivan, student body president, listed what he wanted to accomplish. As Sullivan prepares to step down tonight, it is with the knowledge that he has not accomplished all that he said he would.
Sullivan is proud of the things that his administration has achieved this semester, but he said that because of political division in Senate, some goals went unobtained.
Tonight marks the changing of the guard in Student Senate as this year's senators make way for their successors at the joint senate meeting. The meeting will be at 6:30 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Senate leaders prepare to relinquish their reigns
Kelly Huffman, Student Executive Committee chairman, agreed that the administration's perception hurt Senate's effectiveness.
Without a Senate united in efforts to pass legislation, it was difficult to get the administration's respect, he said.
"A lot of the things we worked on this year were things we didn't have complete control over." Huffman said. "If the administration sees the dissension, then when you come to them with your
ideas, they're less likely to take them seriously. They ask 'Why should we listen to you if only 51 percent of your group is behind this?'
Last year, as student body presidential candidate for the Unite coalition, Sullivan's top campaign priority was to convince the University to release faculty evaluations.
Faculty evaluations have not been released. However, a course content guide has been implemented. Professors voluntarily can place their class syllabi or other class information in the guide.
Other Unite platform issues included implementing a coordinated bus system with the city of Lawrence, instituting an ethical choice policy that would not punish students for objecting to class assignments and campus and community outreach.
There were attempts to reach out to the University community. One way has been the Senate list-serv, a forum for student-senator discussion.
Matt Bachand, off campus senator, said one of the main reasons for Senate problems was the
resistance from old senators to expand the boundaries of what Senate was capable of doing.
"We were challenging the old views and saying that there"s more for Senate to do than allocate money," Bachand said.
Bachand said Sullivan and Mike Walden, outgoing vice president, had not fulfilled their campaign promises because they failed to be leaders for the student senators.
"They came in touting their experience, but they failed to use that to unite Senate," he said. "Sullivan should have been constantly pushing an agenda with Senate, but he just left it alone and did his own thing. It was almost like there were two separate administrations — the executive staff and Senate."
Kevin Yoder and Scott Kaiser will take the reins as student body president and vice president and will pick up the fight to make Senate less of a politically divided organization.
Kaiser agreed that the biggest problem in this year's Senate was the coalition ties.
"The best ideas in the world go unrealized when you don't have an environment where people cooperate," Kaiser said. "If they think they are still part of their coalition then they are the ones that are going to be at fault for paralyzing Senate."
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