CAMPUS/AREA
Wednesday, March 17, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Four Hashinger Hail resident arrested for selling marijuana
KU police arrested four students suspected of selling marijuana about 6 a.m. yesterday in their Hashinger Hall rooms.
Anthony Kitchen, Topeka freshman, Brian Reitmayer, Derby freshman, and Lee Farrell and Mike Wood, Highland Park, Ill., freshmen, were charged yesterday in Douglas County District Court with one count each of selling marjana. They were being held yesterday in the Douglas County jail. All were being held on $5,000 bond except for Wood, whose bond was set at $3,000.
KU police Lt. John Mullens said the arrests were a result of a Douglas County drug unit investigation that began around Thanksgiving.
Mullens said that each student allegedly sold a small amount of marijuana to an undercover agent working with the drug unit.
The four students lived in two rooms at Hashinger. Mullens said that warrants had been issued against the students in the last couple of days.
Selling marijuana is a Class C felony punishable with a minimum term of 3 to 5 years in prison and a possible fine of up to $15,000.
House may take action soon on bill for qualified admissions
State representatives in the House Education Committee entertained the same qualified admissions arguments yesterday that state senators considered during the first half of the legislative session.
Qualified admissions advocates again stressed that the state can not afford to provide remedial education to students who come to the Regents universities unprepared for college curriculum.
Critics of the plan argued that it was a selective policy and that state taxpayers deserved to send their children to state universities.
- Earlier this month, the Senate passed a qualified admissions bill. It was the first time the measure had ever passed on a full floor vote in 10 years of existence.
The bill now must pass the House committee before moving to the House floor for final action, which may happen as early as next week.
Qualified admissions would require incoming students at the Regents universities to meet one of three requirements for admission: a 2.0 grade point average, an ACT composite score of 23, or a ranking in the top third of their graduating class.
Under current law, any high school graduate in the state is eligible for admission to a state university
Filing deadline for Senate candidates, coalitions today
Today is the final day to file for student senator candidacy for the 1993 Student Senate elections.
Those filing must turn in applications to Diane King, elections commissioner, by 5 p.m. today in the Office of Student Life in 300 Strong Hall.
today is also the final day for coalitions to file their coalition charters. The charters are the coalitions' reports on the number of senators who have filed to run under the coalition's name. These reports must also be filed in the Office of Student Life.
The Senate elections will be held April 14 and 15.
Students set to appear in court for allegedly damaging Templin
Three Temple Hall residents arrested early Friday by KU police were given notices to appear in Douglas County District Court today in connection with $1,100 in damage done in the lobby of Temple.
Two freshmen, one from Salina and the other from Springfield, Mo., and a Leavenworth sophomore were arrested about 5 a.m. Friday in Templin and taken to the Douglas County jail. All three posted bond and were released later that day.
KU police officer Burdel Welsh said that the incident began at 2:15 a.m. Friday and continued for one hour. Welsh said in that time, the students used a pool cue to cause $1,500 in damage to a big screen television in the lobby. Welsh also said that a fire extinguisher was discharged toward the television.
Welsh said the pool cue was also used to cause $200 in damage to one of the walls and that three windows were broken by the students' elbows.
Police received a call from a student in Templin at 4:16 a.m. alerting them to the incident.
Briefs compiled by Kansan staff writers Mark Kiefer, Ben
Grove and Brett Riggs.
Senate looks into prospect of incorporation
By Brett Riggs Kansan staff writer
Student Senate is looking into the prospect of incorporating itself, with the intention of becoming more politically and fiscally independent from the state.
Student Body President Brad Garlinghouse said the change would allow Senate to deposit its funds in an interest-bearing account and would allow it to disburse the funds as it wished.
"It would let us do what we want to do with the student fee money," Garlinghouse said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said that it would be possible for Senate to incorporate but that it would have to collect the activity fee itself if it wanted full autonomy.
"If you receive public money, you can't use it as you wish," Amber said.
The money the University collects for Senate is held in a state account, and Amber said he would support a Senate vote to increase the liability of receiving the account's interest.
"I think they should explore this, but they need to decide if they really want to do this," Ambler said.
However, receiving the interest would require a change in state legislation, he said.
Garlinghouse and the Senate treasurer, Kevin Sigourney, met March 8 with administrative officials and officials from the comptroller's office to discuss this possibility.
Journey said Senate would not pursue the interest change immediately but would consider banding together with other Regents' schools next year on the issue.
"We need to get more lobbying going," Sigourney said. "I don't want to rush into this."
Sigourney said that he thought the chances for incorporation were slim. He said that Senate would have to register with the Kansas Corporation Division, which would require Senate to set up internal accounting and independent auditing
"Are not big enough to become it best position," said money said. "It wouldn't be effective."
Garlinghouse said he wanted Senate to operate like the Kansas University Athletic Corporation and the Kansas and Burge Unions, which are incorporated. The state collects funds for both corporations but allows them to put their money in local accounts and collect interest.
Garlinghouse said Kansas statutes only allow athletic funds, student union funds and student publications to operate in such a manner, but he said that Associated Students of Kansas would lobby the Legislature for a change in the law.
Museums to combine for efficiency
Aubner said that the Unions and the KUAC report to the chancellor.
Natural history will engulf three others, help them get funds
By Vicki Bode
Kansan staff writer
The University's Museum of Natural History will increase the number of specimens in its collection from one million to five million during the next academic year.
The four million new specimens will not come by making new acquisitions, but by combining three other museums on campus with the natural history museum, said Philip Humphrey, director of the Museum of Natural History.
KU officials approved the merger in November, he said. The Snow Entomological Museum, Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology and R.L.M Gregor Herbarium will merge under one administration with the Museum of Natural History by the summer of 1994.
From left, Ashley Stout, Fayetteville, Ark., sophomore, Sarah Sanderman, Englewood, Colo., sophomore, and Brannon Hertel, Crystal Lake, Ill., sophomore, on an assignment in the Museum of Natural History.
Mark Rowlands / KANSAN
"No physical change will take place in the museums," Humphrey said. "Each museum will stay in the same building it is in now."
The Snow Entomological Museum is in Snow Hall, the Museum of Invertebrate Paleontology is housed in Lindley Hall and R.L. McGregor Herbarium is in Bridwell Botany Research Lab on West Campus.
Humphrey said that each of the three museums will become equal divisions of the history museum. The Snow museum will be the division of entomology, the paleontology museum will be named the division of paleontology and the McGregor museum will become the division of
botany.
"All of the changes are positive ones," Humphrey said. "The three museums will become eligible for future government funds that aren't available to them now because they aren't open to the public for long hours like the history museum."
koger Kaesler, director of the Museum
of Invertebrate Paleontology, said that the change would make the history museum one of the strongest in the country.
The change will not eliminate any staff
"It will be more efficient," Kaesler said. "We are convinced that the merger will increase the interaction between workers."
members, he said. The directors of the three museums will become curators.
"We are hoping the merger will give the University more reasons to have a special museum on campus," Humphrey said. "Eventually we would like to have all three museums located in a building near Dyche Hall."
KU selection process typical
By Dan England
By Dan England Kansan staff writer
Although KU's selection process of its administrators has been criticized lately, it is no different from the system used by many of its peer institutions.
Several minority groups have criticized KU recently because only one of five finalists for the director of affirmative action is a minority.
Everett Wells, director of affirmative action at the University of Oregon, said that KU's selection process was typical of the systems used at many other universities.
When an administrative position opens, KU's guidelines are to form a search committee, recruit and advertise nationally, and then select final candidates. Once those have been selected, the committee conducts private interviews and recommends at least one candidate for the position. Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, makes the final decision.
Oregon, the University of North Carolina and the University of Colorado all use the same system as KU, the directors of the universities' offices of affirmative action said.
involvement of the office of affirmative action in that process does vary within each university.
However, the interviewing process and the
Garnett Tatum, director of the office of affirmative action at Colorado, said that he or one of his staff acts as a non-voting member of each committee. The member's job is to make sure the finalists for the position are as diverse as possible.
Tatum said that after the finalists were selected, the committee tries to select the best person for the job. However, if a person is selected that does not fit one of the office's special classifications, the committee must fill out a form justifying the decision.
Tom Berger, acting director of KU's office of affirmative action, said that his office takes a look at the finalists, but does not have the final save in the selection.
Robert Cannon, officer of affirmative action at UNC, said that some interviews of the final candidates were conducted in public hearings.
"If any students are concerned about the process, we tell them to go the hearing and ask questions," he said.
At many of the universities, including KU, student groups are invited to interview the candidates, but no interviews are open to the public.
KU ticket allocation leaves few for students
Kansan staff write
By Will Lewis Kansan staff writer
Not many KU students will get a chance to cheer for their team in the first round of the NCAA men's basketball tournament this week at the Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Ill., a suburb of Chicago.
Only 22 students who submitted an application with the University of Kansas Athletic Department were selected.
Bernie Kish, director of ticket operations and sales, said the NCAA allocated 250 tickets to each school playing in the tournament. The bulk of KU's tickets went to the "official group," which included players parents, officials in the Kansas Athletic Corporation and 31 members of the basketball
band. Sixty-five percent of the remaining tickets were distributed to Williams Fund donors, 20 percent to students and 15 percent to faculty and staff members. Of those who applied for the first round in Chicago, 139 were students and 79 were faculty and staff members. Tickets were $75 for all games in Chicago.
Matt Irwin, Overland Park freshman, submitted his application, but was not one of the lucky 22 students who were selected.
"It's very disappointing that so few students are going to get a chance to follow their team after following their team all season," Irwin said. "They look forward to the NCAA tournament. Then the tournament comes around and look what happens."
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