Wednesday, February 11, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section A·Page 3
Senate to discuss holdover seats
Another resolution seeks to decrease state's drinking age
By Melissa Ngo and Marc Sheforgen
mngo@kansan.com
msheforgen@kansan.com
Kansan staff writers
Committees will meet at 6 p.m. today in the Kansas Union.
Jason Fizell, Liberal Arts and Sciences senators, said holdover senators were elected by Student Senate, not the student body. Therefore, holdover senators have no constituents, so the positions should be abolished.
Fizell will introduce legislation in the Student Rights committee to eliminate holdover seats for the 1998-1999 term.
"This goes against the purpose of
having a representative body." Fizell said.
Fizell said that the reasoning behind having holdover senators was flawed.
"They say we need holdover senators because we need to have a historical or institutional memory," he said. "There are often a lot of people who have been involved in Senate, for example, the executive staff and the ex officio advisers, who know what Senate has done."
"They say we need holdover senators because we need to have a historical or institutional memory. There are often a lot of people who have been involved in Senate, for example, the executive staff and the ex officio advisers, who know what Senate has done."
Holdover senator Dion Jones said that there was a need for the seats because a veteran senator may have a different perspective than the executive staff or advisers.
Tonight's committee legislation also will include a resolution to lower the state's drinking age and a bill to finance the KU Public Relations Student Society of America.
John Colbert, Engineering senator, is sponsoring a resolution opposing the current drinking age at the University Affairs and Student Rights committee meetings.
Colbert said that he realized his resolution was not likely to bring about changes in state legislation,
Jason Fizell
but he hoped passing it through Student Senate would raise awareness of what he considered an injustice.
Colbert said that he expected this resolution to gain more support than the last legislation he proposed, which was a bill to finance a University waterslide complex.
"Freshman are mostly 18, and most of them drink," he said. "Anyone that doesn't think so is an idiot."
Liberal Arts and Sciences senator
Scott Merchant, Business senator, is sponsoring a bill to give the public relations society about $700.
Merchant said the money would be used by the group to work on their public relations skills by promoting events such as volleyball tournaments.
Committees
What:
Student Senate committees
When:
6 p.m. today
Various rooms, Kansas Union
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