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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 21, 1998
Elected senators fear inefficiency
By Marc Sheforgen
msheforgen @kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
With last week's Student Senate elections leaving neither coalition with an overwhelming victory, some new senators worry that political division could render next year's governing body unproductive.
Delta Force won 34 Senate seats, and Campus Cause won 31, leaving neither side with a distinct advantage in next year's Senate. The nearly equal representation from each coalition could open the doors to inefficiency in passing legislation.
Although, ideally, senators cast aside their coalition affiliations after elections end, many senators agreed that this year, division plagued Senate's effectiveness.
Delta Force operates as a coalition and a student activist organization, meaning that senators elected with that party can remain members of the organization even after elections conclude.
"It seems to make it a little tougher."
said Leslie Peterson, newly elected business senator with Campus Cause. "It seems like they're still trying to be true to their ties as members of Delta Force instead of true to their ties as senators not attached to a coalition."
But Sam Pierron,
newly elected College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences
senator, with
Delta Force, said he thought that because so many of the newly elected representatives served on Senate last year that they would have learned a lesson and would not want to repeat what he called terrible division.
"Because people will know each other better next year, they should be more willing and more able to compromise," Pierron said. "I think that most of the people on Senate will generally vote their conscience."
Julie Numrich, newly elected College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator with Campus Cause, agreed that because members of each coalition may know each other better next year working together may be easier.
"I know a lot of people from Delta Force, and I think they're great people," she said. "Ihone
Numrigh: Thinks senators will work together next year.
people learned a lot of lessons from this year's Senate and how we really didn't get a lot accomplished."
Mike Walden, this year's vice president predicted better relations in next year's Senate. He said that last year's campaign was heated and that some hard feelings may have contributed to the division in this year's Senate.
"I believe that this year was really an aberration from the way things have been in the past," Walden said.
Mother Earth issues grow in importance
Senate branches out considers environment
By Graham K. Johnson
giojohnson@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
For Student Senate, going green has become a red hot trend in recent years.
The recent Student Senate campaigns made environmental issues a high profile concern for next year's Senate. But this is part of a Student Senate trend in the past two or three years toward a more active concern for the environment.
Newly elected student body president Kevin Yoder said that he would work to advance environmental improvements on campus next year by shaking up the Student Environmental Advisory Board by gaining new members
and working with the administration to establish concrete plans. He also said he would try to upgrade ongoing recycling efforts
with additional equipment.
"I'd like to continue to focus toward long-range solutions to our recycling program, such as building a recycling center." Yoder said.
Yoder said that his campaign focused on continuing efforts to improve recycling, which is part of a trend in increased environmental awareness that he said he had noticed and wanted to continue.
Yoder: Wants a campus recycling center.
Mike Russell, director of the University of Kansas' Environmental Health and Safety department, said his office had worked closely with Student Senate during the last two years and had noticed a change.
"Coming here six years ago, there wasn't the type of interest and integration of people working together for the environment as there is now," Russell said.
Danny Kaiser, director of the Student Organizations and Leadership Development Center, said that, as an advisor to Student Senate, he had noticed that environmental issues had become almost as important as some of the more perennial Senate issues, such as the use of student fees, transportation and the all-important issues surrounding student advising.
Reasons for this trend vary.
said that a successful effort, led by former student body president Grey Montgomery, to finance a comprehensive recycling program with campus fees had succeeded in making recycling and other environmental issues an integral part of Senate politics.
Kelly Huffman, chairman of Student Senate Executive Committee,
Huffman said that with student fees involved in the recycling program, recycling had become a big issue in Senate.
Russell said he had noticed several years ago that there seemed to be a group of students who came to the University interested in the environment and had influenced campus politics by becoming active. He said that many of them had formed or joined groups, such as KU Environs, devoted to influencing environmental policy.
"I think the student environmental groups really helped elevate the debate." Russell said.
Women who contribute to university, community to get awards at program
By Marcelo Vilela
mvilela@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center and the Commission on the Status of Women will recognize outstanding University of Kansas women tonight during the Annual Women's Recognition Program.
The program will take place at 8 p.m. at the Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. In addition to distributing awards, the resource center and the commission will provide dinner for the award recipients and their guests.
The goal of the program is to honor female students, staff and faculty who provide unique contributions to women, the University or the community, said Barbara Ballard, associate dean of student life and director of the resource center.
Ballard said that there were more than 40 nominations this year and that about 12 to 14 women would be recognized.
The program has existed for more than 40 years and is a way to get more women involved in the campus, Ballard said. She also said the program was established to identify female role models.
"It's just a fun program to recognize the contribution of women on campus and in the community." Ballard said.
"You have so many places in history where women were not recognized for what they have accomplished, and this is a way to be supportive of the work women on campus are doing," she said.
Ballard said that recipients of the awards were selected in February after they submitted applications and recommendation letters.
Women will be recognized in the categories of Outstanding
The applications were reviewed by a recognition commission.
Woman Staff Member, Outstanding Woman Teacher, Outstanding International Woman Stu
dent, KU
Women's Hall of Fame, Outstanding Nontradit ional Woman Student,
Outstanding Woman Student in Athletics, Outstanding Woman Student in Leadership, Outstanding
Ballard: Says awards honor exceptional women.
standing Woman Student in Student Services, Outstanding Woman Student in Community Services and Outstanding Pioneer Woman.
Awarded faculty and staff will receive certificates of recognition and flowers, while nominated students will receive certificates and cash awards from the KU Women's Memorial Award Fund.
Women's basketball coach Marian Washington will be the event's keynote speaker.
"I think it's a tremendous opportunity for women doing so many positive things to have a chance to be recognized and speak about women in leadership roles," Washington said.
She said it was rewarding to see women in athletics being recognized for the KU Women's Hall of Fame award.
"It's also neat to be there as a spectator and see so many young women of other areas to receive such recognition," Washington said.
Tanya Kooi, assistant director of the Emily Taylor Center, said award recipients would not be revealed until the last minute.
"It's a surprise," Kooi said. "Even when we read the citation for the recipient, we don't announce their names."
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