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SenEx agrees members should be enrolled at KU
By Jamie Munn
Kansan staff writer
He then asked the committee to accept the editorial's viewpoint as the official opinion of SenEx.
In its last official meeting this semester, KU's Senate Executive Committee continued to deal with the ghost of resigned student representative John Allevogt.
Altevogt, a Student Senate member who resigned last week, cited lack of student power on SenEx and University Council as his reason for leaving.
"We welcome it," he said. "It was
SenEx head, T.P. Srinivasan, said he had been pleased with an editorial written by the University Daily Kansan about the incident. The editorial stated that Student Senate should check whether a student is enrolled for both the fall and spring semesters — something that had not been done in Altevogt's case. Altevogt was enrolled as a student last semester, but not this semester.
Srinivasan said he agreed that students should be part of the student constituency to be elected. He condemned the Student Senate, which had no policy requiring senators to be enrolled both in the fall and spring semesters of their terms.
"We need to urge the student leadership to watch this," he said. "It's a fundamental step to any electoral system."
ble as far as their student-to-faculty ratios and their resources, he said.
He said the expansion of the Big Eight conference had prompted the Regents to consider accepting the University of Texas, Austin as a peer institution to KU.
SenEx voted unanimously to accept the editorial as the committee's position on the incident.
The two Universities were compatiforthright and timely and a good contribution to the governance system.
Later in the meeting, Srinivasan said he recently discovered that the Board of Regents had been casually discussing plans which could affect KU and its peer institutions.
Wil Linkugel, SenEx member, said the comparison would be healthy for KU.
"It would make our faculty salaries look a lot worse," he said. Linkugel then laughed and said KU could not compare to Texas schools for faculty salaries.
The comparison would emphasize salary inequities between KU and other schools which had been the main issue for many supporters of the failed Partnership for Excellence.
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In other business, Srinivasan said he was pleased with the recommendation by Gov. Joan Finney to allocate money for the stalled reconstruction of Hoch Auditorium.
Srinivasan said he was confident that the State Legislature would approve the additional $3.8 million to complete the reconstruction.
He said he had assumed that the legislature would approve the appropriation had Finney only urged them to.
Author's latest best-seller focuses on deception, truth
By Cheryl Cadue
Kansan staff writer
Harriet Lerner, best-selling author of four books, cringes at the label of self-help author because, she said, women have too many experts telling them what to do.
"It is a multi-billion dollar business sensitively attuned to our insecurities and our purses," she said. "It's not really women who need to change. At the same time, women have to change if we want change to happen, for the simple reason that no one else will do it for us."
Lerner, a psychologist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, will speak at 8 tonight in the Lied Center about her book "The Dance of Deception: Pretending and Truth-Telling in Women's Lives." The free event is co-sponsored by KU's Women's Studies Program and Friends of KU Women's Studies. As the last book in a trilogy, Lerner said, "The Dance of Deception," was the most provocative.
"Family members keep secrets with the best of intentions. We keep secrets to protect, not fracture relationships, but secrets erode trust and they corrode intimacy," she said. "Family secrets, like 'don't tell your dad,' lead to alliances that lead to a pseudo-closeness between the insiders and distance from outsiders."
However, truth telling is not always a virtue. Lerner said.
"In keeping with the topic, I'm most honest about myself," she said. "Deception and truth telling is at the center of everything we hold most dear. Authenticity, intimacy, selfesteem, joy, all these depend on our ability to know our own truths and to be able to open up the lines of communication with other people."
"There is a difference between productive truth telling and spontaneously saying whatever comes to mind," she said. "People as they mature, hopefully, learn to make more thoughtful, informed decisions about who to tell, what to tell and how to tell."
Lerner said deception could be a necessary tool for survival or harmful as in the case of family secrets.
Judith Galas, president of Friends of KU Women's Studies, said Lerner has sold millions of books and her words have affected millions of women around the world.
Lerner was quick to point out that deception was not only a women's issue nor was deception always bad and truth telling always good. Lerner said the subject concerns everyone because unexamined deception threatens everyone's survival.
"In any category of deception, we could find examples that run the range from the deplorable to the questionable to the excusable and to the honorable," she said. "We all do better when we can talk openly about things that matter. Larger systems like two nations get into the same problems that two people get into when they're not able to problem solve around difficult truths."