UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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I don't understand why Senate would not want to fund one of KU's most popular events. Granted, it would be impossible to bring in the 10,000 people it brought in with Pearl Jam two years ago, but still, several students attend the event every year.
Considering how many activities Senate funds that less than a very small fraction of the student body can participate in, you'd think they'd want to fund one of the major events on the campus.
CCC
People come from out of town to this; not to mention KU students. I cannot believe that the Student Senate would not want to back SUA in possibly the biggest event for students on campus during the year.
My name is Brian Anderson. I think that both parties are at fault.
The Student Senate has been notorious for allocating all their money at the beginning of the year, thus leaving little money at the end of the year. Regardless whether they're in debt, they are low on money at this time and should be more careful in the future of spreading their money out over the entire school year — so deserving groups who come to them get their money at this time of year as well as the beginning of the year.
SUA is at fault because the money that they are requesting could have been requested much earlier in the school year. The way I understand it, the money is for the stage, equipment and that sort of thing. And it's something that's going to be needed every year for the Day on the Hill event. So the funding could have been proposed in Senate as early as opening sessions in late spring or early fall of this school year.
Friday, February 18, 1994
On Friday, the Kansan asked for students' opinions about Student Senate's original decisions not to finance this year's Day on the Hill. On Wednesday, the Senate gave Student Union Activities $3,200 for the annual event.
Following are the responses we received.
So I believe both parties are at fault and both need to quit whining back and forth in the Kansan and just accept the problems and deal with them as they've unfolded in the past few weeks.
I think that Student Senate should spend all the money they can on Day on the Hill. It's a wonderful event. It encourages unity among all the students here at the University of Kansas.
--approached us about a money request also — in the neighborhood of $4,000 to $5,000. We are a large organization, (but) we don't have that much money to give. But Student Senate has also gone to the Board of Class Officers and the Scholarship Hall governments. They're asking AURH, which is about 10 to 15 percent of the student body, for a third of the money. And, well, that's actually up for debate.
--approached us about a money request also — in the neighborhood of $4,000 to $5,000. We are a large organization, (but) we don't have that much money to give. But Student Senate has also gone to the Board of Class Officers and the Scholarship Hall governments. They're asking AURH, which is about 10 to 15 percent of the student body, for a third of the money. And, well, that's actually up for debate.
My name is Jason Heck, and I am the Oliver Hall Sixth South Vice President and a member of AURH. SUA
I think the Senate should come up with at least $3,200. I think we should come up with at least $4,000. But the SUA also wants us to fund summer activities, which most of our residents will not participate in. I think the Senate should cough up $3,200.
--pus will go crazy if it does not happen.
I find it amazing how little Student Senate represents the students. The students have made it very clear that they wish Day on the Hill to be financed, yet Student Senate consistently vetoes it.
Day on the Hill is only the biggest event that every KU student and non-KU student — anyone who's in the whole entire area — look forward to every year. I want to know, what about this $20,000 in the unallocated fund? I want to know about the articles in the newspaper the other day about all those groups racing to get the money, asking for thousands and thousands of dollars — a lot more than $3,200.
--pus will go crazy if it does not happen.
I don't know why Senate is so blind. They cannot withhold funding from something over which the entire campus will go crazy if it does not happen.
The first thing Student Senate needs to do is figure what their financial state is. One guy says they're over budget, someone else says they have extra money.
The next thing we need to do is finance Day on the Hill because even at $3,200 it's a bargain for how many people get entertained that day. If you have 10,000 people there, that's less than 50 cents a person. That's a good deal for good entertainment.
My name is Ken Martin, and I'm one of the co-sponsors of the Day on the Hill bill. I'm a Student Senator. I would just like to thank you at the Kansan for doing the open forum here, and I appreciate you and your staff trying to get input. I personally believe that the Finance Committee has done a terrible job this year in its motives for voting down bills and whatnot.
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I think it's ridiculous that they're not going to fund Day on the Hill. It's the big event of the year. It's one of the most enjoyable things that the school puts on for the students and for the rest of the community.
I don't think it should be downsized at all because I think it was downsized enough last year. From Pearl Jam to the bands they had last year — we need bigger talent than that. And we need an enjoyable concert for students to go to. And fund it.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
It's easier to criticize than to create policies
As a future administrator, I am always interested in academic culture. Associate Professor Elizabeth Banks offered a notable opportunity to experience some of the subtle intricacies coupling academic culture in her letter to the editor last Friday. Did Professor Banks participate, or try to, in the consensual relations policy negotiation?
Negotiation is always part of organizational change, and probably more so at a university (a collegeum) than a corporation (a bureaucracy). Often, though, as Professor Banks has apparently demonstrated, participating is undervalued by academicians (e.g.,
I don't have time, or Let "them" do it) who prefer to negotiate from a position of criticism after plans of action are drawn up. At that stage, confronted by fixed flats for change, those on the comfortable sideline use instruments of negotiation such as resistance and vetoes, foot dragging and quiet subversion.
Policy development within the complex environment of higher education is always difficult and painstaking. If we could get scholars like Professor Banks to utilize their intelligence and energy a priori, as opposed to ex post facto, we may not have responses such as hers in the UDK. My, the webs of culture we weave as academians.
Lee Alderman Lawrence graduate student
Health care costs will increase federal deficit
Last week I read that the Congressional Budget Office judged that Clinton's health care plan would increase the federal deficit by $78 billion, not cut it by $58 billion as its advocates have asserted. I had figured Washington would wait until after the program had been passed before they started revising cost estimates upward. If the bill already is being bumped up by hundreds of billions of dollars, just how high is the cost going to go after the new bureaucracy gets dug in and secure? (I recommend comparing the initial cost projections for Medicare and Medicaid to what we have actually ended up paying.)
The central theme of the Clinton plan has been "more for less."
Bureaucracy and red tape will be cut, costs will be controlled and everyone will get more and better health care while paying less. Yet Clinton's response to the new cost estimates was casual. I could see why he supported his plan before. But when the most wonderful part of the plan — "more for less" — was rejected, he never missed a beat. The $130 billion difference was no big deal. Now maybe Clinton cares so much about the American people that a few billion dollars isn't enough to make him reconsider his compassion. But could it be possible that "more for less" was something he never cared about or believed in the first place? And is it treason to question the other promises and proclamations that are used to defend The Plan?
Matt Conrad Wichita senior
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