UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, February 22, 1994
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Multicultural Center to be jointly funded
Student activity fee University split cost
By Heather Moore Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate and the University of Kansas have become partners to provide students with a Multicultural Center.
Senate approved funding for the center on Wednesday night. The University and the Senate will give a combined total of $40,000 for the programming and operating costs of the center. Operating costs include the salary for a graduate student who would run the center. These funds would also include computer costs, a resource library and the renovation of the Supportive Educational Services building, where the center would be located.
The $20,000 that Senate provides
would be taken from the $28 student activity fee, which is what Senate uses to fund other organizations. This would be a new use for the activity fee and would be called the restricted revenue code apportionment fee. The center will start receiving funding this fall.
Tim Dawson, Senate vice president,
said that the new apportionment fee
would be different from existing fees,
but students would not pay more.
"It's permanent, annual and indefinite like Watkins or Hilltop, but we're not raising student fees," he said. "I didn't want a restricted fee or an activity fee increase because student fees will increase anyway. We can utilize what we have."
When Senate draws from the student activity fee, possible sources for the money could be the unused funds of organizations or money that KU's lobbying group no longer uses, Dawson said.
Senate wrote a resolution calling for
the creation of the center during Fall 1991. David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, then asked Senate to match the funds that KU was raising.
Senate set certain restrictions on what groups could use the new fee. For a group to receive money from the restricted revenue code apportionment, the group must receive equal or greater funding by KU. A group also must have occupied space in a University building for one year and plan to occupy it indefinitely. Finally, a Senate board must monitor the group's activities, programs, financial status and facilities.
Dawson said that these restrictions would protect the Senate's interests and keep other groups from receiving protected funding.
"There isn't any other group that meets the criteria," Dawson said. "If a group meets the criteria, they might deserve that funding. I don't want to set a precedent. It should be reserved
for things like the center, which is a University institution."
Dawson said the center would help all students.
Sherwood Thompson, director of minority affairs, said the center would help students now and in the future.
"The center will augment a student's education so they will be more marketable," he said. "We are taking a bold step. We are one of the first centers in the country."
Thompson said that the center would have a variety of programs that a committee would decide upon.
Michelle Rolfe, Black PanHellenic senator, said the center would offer a good foundation for all students' learning.
"It will enhance the education of someone who is not of an ethnic background," she said. "Students can get life experience in working with people of diverse groups."
Slattery discusses future plans if elected governor
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
Jim Slattery said he knew last summer that his current term in Congress would be his last.
"I didn't want to go to Washington with the notion of spending the rest of my life there, like some people," he said.
Slattery found another possible job, however, when Gov. Joan Finney announced in September that she would not seek reelection.
"I want our state to be an inspiration tqthe rest of the nation," he said. "That is why I'm running for governor."
$lattery, the U.S. representative
from Kansas' second district and candidate for the Democratic nomination for governor, spoke before a sparsely filled Alderson Auditorium last night.
After a brief
Jim Slattery
statement, Slattery took questions from the audience, addressing issues from abortion to higher education.
economic development and crime.
Slattery said that as telecommunications improved, companies would want to move to areas that provide high quality public education, health care and public safety.
The audience asked about topical social issues at the candidate, who said he was not to evade questions.
Slattery said that he had supported Kansas law with regard to abortion and had not voted for constitutional amendments overturning Roe vs. Wade. He also said that he did not support federal funding for abortion unless a mother's life was at risk, or if it was a case of rape or incest.
"That is probably not a position you can put on a bumper sticker, but it's precise." he said.
As governor, Slattery said he would support a narrow death penalty but only if it was part of a larger crime package.
"I'm going to spend the next four or eight years as governor, if the people of Kansas give me that honor, debating death," he said. "I want to discuss how to make life better."
Lisa Golzar, Tulsa, Okla., senior,
said Slaytter had won her vote.
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