Wednesday, March 4, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 5
Delta Force arms for election
Coalition kicks off campaign tonight at the Granada
By Melissa Ngo
mngo@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Delta Force coalition members are seeking to change the Student Senate system, and they will kick off their 1998 campaign with speeches and bands tonight at 9 p.m. at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.
Matt Dunbar, off-campus senator and the coalition's student body vice-presidential candidate, said Delta Force wanted to improve Senate's relationship with the student body
He said that the coalition would not spend a lot of time handing out fliers on sidewalks but would visit different groups to get feedback on the campaign issues.
"People will care more about issues when they can tell you how they feel about it," Dunbar said. "We don't want to say 'Here's what we believe, vote for it.'"
Heath: Says Delta Force goal is to empower students
Emily Heath, Center for Community Outreach co-director and Delta Force's student body presidential candidate, said the group had conducted brown bag lunch discussions and town hall meetings throughout the year to get student feedback about issues.
"The idea behind Delta Force is empowering students," Heath said. "We believe in standing up for things and having a strong voice."
Delta Force ran in last year's Senate elections and won 22 of the 57 available seats. The coalition stayed together because those involved wanted to continue to work on the issues. Heath said.
Seth Hoffman, All Scholarship Hall Council senator and Delta Force Nunemaker senator candidate, said some Delta Force issues included improving campus safety through a nighttime student patrol and escort service, creating e-mail kiosks and improving minority recruitment and retention.
"Some people say that Kansas is not
DELTA FORCE PLATFORM ISSUES
Improve minority recruitment and retention
Improve Robinson Center
Improve campus safety through a nighttime patrol program
time patrol program
Improve foster family
Improve Student Senate outreach
- Improve Student Senate outreach
- Bring e-mailkiosks to the University
- Bring email links to the University
* Create a fall break
diverse, but there are certain areas that are," Hoffman said. "KU is not drawing as much as they can from those areas."
Improving diversity and improving Senate outreach are important to Delta Force members, Heath said.
"We want to bring Senate to the students, not force the students to come to Senate."
Heath said. We were thinking of having rotating Senate meetings. We want to make people feel that they can fit in."
Heather Yates, Delta Force candidate for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said she joined Delta Force because the group had a plan to accomplish its issues and improve student apathy.
Dunbar: New Delta Force vice presi-
dential candidate
Yates said she wanted to improve campus safety, parking, advising and diversity.
"I want to create a campus that has more student input so that the campus reflects the student body, not just a small group that makes all the choices," Yates said. "I want students to be able to change what's going on through their criticism."
Another important issue for Delta Force is increasing voter turnout by increasing the diversity of ideas. Heath said.
"We want to reach out to different populations that haven't been reached out to before so that they'll come vote because they're more invested in it." she said.
Another way that Delta Force is getting people involved is through the Friends of the Force group.
"Students who can't run because they're graduating or because Senate's not their thing can still work on the issues and be involved," Heath said. "They advise and plan and help with a lot, including the grunt work."
Last year's student body president, Grey Montgomery, is an adviser, Heath said.
Coalition gets new candidate for vice president
By Melissa Ngo
mngo@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Matt Dunbar, off-campus senator, replaced Seth Hoffman, All Scholarship Hall Council senator, as the Delta Force coalition's student body vice-presidential candidate yesterday morning.
"I've decided that now is not the time for me to run for vice-presi-
dennis but remain deeply involved with the Delta Force campaign." Hoffman said.
Hoffman said he would run as a Delta Force Nunemaker senatorial candidate. Dunbar could not be reached for comment
Hoffman: Will not run as vice-president candidate
Emily Heath.
Center for Community Outreach co-director and Delta Force's student body presidential candidate, said that the decision to replace Hoffman was not taken lightly.
"We've been discussing this for awhile and decided that this would be the best thing for the coalition," Heath said.
Hoffman has worked this year to bring e-mail kiosks to the University, to create a campus safety patrol program and to institute a Daisy Hill polling site.
The coalition formally will announce the candidates and kick off its campaign tonight at 9 p.m. at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St.
The deadline for filing presidential and vice-presidential forms at the Office of Student Life, 138 Strong Hall, is 5 p.m. Wednesday, March 11.
Wednesday, March 18, is the deadline for filing coalition and independent candidacy forms.
Senate seats may go to minorities
Kansan staff writer
By Melissa Nao
in Senate and to express minority views.
Student Senate might debate a bill to add four new Senate seats during tonight's 6:30 meeting at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union.
Dion Jones, holdover senator, introduced a bill to add seats for representatives from Hispanic American Leadership Organization, Black Student Union, Native American Student Association and Asian American Student Union in the Student Rights committee last week, but the bill was tabled before it could be discussed.
Jones said he would go to the Student Executive Committee meeting before tonight's Senate meeting to ask that the bill be placed on the agenda.
Jones said he wanted to create these seats to increase minority representation
"I from my perspective, these are the groups that I have seen dealing with the most issues." Jones said. "Their perspectives and purposes are different from other organizations."
Jones said that if senators thought that other organizations deserved Senate seats, they could write a bill to create those seats.
Pat Mazumdar, graduate senator, said that although he agreed with many aspects of the bill, it should not have been discussed last week because Jones had not talked to all of the organizations. Jones had talked to BSU and HALO.
"Dion should go to official meetings of all four organizations and have them decide whether they want a seat or not," Mazumdar said. "I think that it's a good bill that's worth discussing next week."
Mazudam compared the bill to the 1996-97 Senate's vote to keep the International Council seat when it changed its name to
the International Student Association. The problem was that the group did not want the seat. Mazumdar said.
The student body president voeted the bill after talking to the group, Mazumdar said.
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Sandé Beauboeuf, BSU president and St. Louis junior, said BSU had discussed Jones' bill at its last two meetings and wholeheartedly supported the bill.
"I just don't want that to happen again," he said.
If the bill is passed, the four organizations would join the Association of University Residence Halls, All Scholarship Hall Council, Interfraternity Council, National Pan Hellenic Council and Panhellenic Association, which now appoint Senate representatives.
"This bill does address the fact that we need real representation on Student Senate to have a voice on Senate and to have an impact on what it does," she said.
Jason Noyes, Great Bend sophomore, left, and Matt Bruner, Great Bend senior, assemble a manatee skeleton at the Natural History Museum. According to Maria Eifler, a curatorial assistant at the museum, the skeleton is from a female manatee that weighed about 1,600 pounds. The manatee was washed up on the coast of Georgia. Eifler said there were about 3,000 manates in the world and mainly were found by the Florida coasts. Because the manatee is an endangered species, the skeleton belongs to the federal government. However, the museum is assembling the skeleton to put it on display in conjunction with a traveling Smithsonian exhibit on manates, which opens April 11. "If it's just like a big puzzle," said Eifler. "I know kids see pictures and specials on manates on television, but I hope the skeleton will help them see how impressive they really are." Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
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