University Daily Kansan, March 8, 1984
Page 5
Resign
continued from p.1
FRIEND, THE STUDEX chairman,
said, "When 'Boog' and Carla first
came into office, I told them that they
didn't have to keep me on if they didn't
want to. I had nothing to do with
Student Senate until last November."
Friend, who also said he did not receive a copy of the resignation and that first he was upset because he thought he was being accused of racism.
"I know a lot of people at BSU, and I was really upset that they did this," he said. "I've hardly done anything in the last two months — I'm a part of the different administration."
Brown also said there were not
enough minorities in the Student Senate.
Brown said that more people are likely to walk into the Student Senate offices now because the Senate in the past had represented only a small part of the student body — the Greek system.
"Boo' and Carla represent a new step for the Student Senate," she said. "They're not trying to exclude anyone from the Senate."
Although Brown said that she thought her resignation request would not be honored by the officers, she wanted to see new people in the Student Senate.
"THESE PEOPLE CAN be replaced," she said. "Nobody is going to run for an office if they don't have the knowledge to apply."
Brown said that her statement was a plea not only for the Black Student Union, but for the whole student body.
"When Scott Swenson came into office, applications were handed out for a staff," she said. "We think the same should be for 'Boog' and Carla."
"When 'Boog' and Carla got elected, it was a signal from the students that they wanted something different in Student Senate," she said.
HIGHBERGER SAID THAT although he and Vogel had not received a copy of the resignation request, they
had talked to Brown to try to clear up the misunderstanding.
"Some people at the BSU are upset about the way they have been treated," Highgerauer said. "I'm not sure about that, but I think they feel that we have sold them out."
"We've been in office for six days, and things will change," he said. "But, if you want change in which one gets hurt, that would be wish-washy."
Higherberger said that the Black Student Union had expected Student Senate to change with the Costume Party victory last week.
An additional position of Student Senate administrative assistant was vacated Monday by Terry Frederick and had stayed on until this week.
No one objected, and the petition passed.
Higherberger led a short discussion on the petition and then asked whether any answers were given.
Russ Ptacek, co-chairman of the Minority Affairs Committee, introduced a petition asking the University of Kansas administration to change the foreign "agreement" in international" in any reference to students who were not from the United States.
wishes to participate at anytime during the meeting
Senate
The second proposal, which would allot $908 to the Jayhawk Sings from
continued from p. 1
The singers then bartered with senator Michael Duggan, suggesting a possible amount.
the Senate special projects fund,
snarked more discussion.
Ray Williams, executive director of the singers, said the group needed the
HIGHERER GER TOLD THE Jayhawk Singers that under the consensus system they could ask for any amount of money to be given and paid to the amount stated in the proposal.
After Jon Gilchrist, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduced the request, members of the Jayhawk to increase the amount to $1,700.
CARLA VOGEL, student body president, told senators at the beginning of the meeting that the key to success this semester was cooperation.
"We need to work together — regardless of length of hair, color of skin, nationality or sex," she said.
president, thanked senators for their support during the election but urged them to work with Vogel and Highberger.
Loren Busby, a student senator who ran against Vogel for student body
At about 9 p.m., Highberger said, "I guess that's all for tonight."
One senator asked whether a motion to adjourn was necessary.
money to finance their performances this semester.
two seconds, and a whole new set of
writing be any different". Why should
writing be any different"?
One senator suggested that they take a voice vote on the proposal. No one objected, so they voted to give the singers the $'08 originally requested.
Higherberger responded, "Do you guys all want to go?"
After a final roll call, the senators left.
At the next senate meeting, if Highberger wants to suspend the rules again, senators will have to vote again.
Ashbyery's poetry was not always so difficult. When he first began writing seriously as a high school student, he imitated those he called the easier contemporary poets, such as Elinor Wylie and Edpa St. Vincent Mülay.
But soon he discovered W.H. Auden, Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams, more difficult contemporary poets.
Ashbery continued from p. 1.
"WHEN I FIRST began to write, naturally I tried to imitate classical forms like the sonnet," he says. "After I discovered it wasn't too difficult to write in traditional forms, I began to look for something more difficult."
He also moved away from traditional forms of poetry because they seemed faint.
"Free verse and its seeming formlessness, to me, is more challenging to do and succeed in than the traditional forms.
Ashbery published his first book of poetry, "Some Trees," in 1956, while a Fulbright scholar in French literature, and his second, "Tennis Court Oath," in 1963, an art critic in France in 1962. Those were dark days for Ashbery's poetry.
"THEER WAS A time when I seriously considered giving it up," he says. "With my second book came out, I realized that nobody read it. The first
"Robert Frost said free verse is like playing tennis without a net. I agree, but it's much harder to play tennis without a net."
book was a total failure, and the second was even more so. I decided either I stop writing or I write with the understanding that nobody was ever going to read it — just do it because I like to do it.
Although he eventually gained confidence and a wide readership, and although he has become influential in the work of other poets, he still has his detractors. One of the biggest is William Pritchard.
"HE'S ALWAYS ON my tail," Ashbery says. "Every time he writes a poetry review, he drags me into it. I know that when I see an article of his, somewhere he'll say, if he likes the poet, At least he doesn't write like him. And if he doesn't like him, he'll say, Well, he's been affected by Ashbery."
Ashbyber says that, in general, he is not bothered by negative criticism.
"One thing that does bother me is this odor of controversy. It seems that people who have never seen the poetry probably would be scared off by it because it's difficult and esoteric. They ought to give it a chance and see if they like it. A little frustration is good for a reader from time to time."
After having published eight books of poetry, three plays, a novel, four translations and numerous reviews, editions and articles of art criticism, Ashberry, at 57, is writing more now than ever.
"I write more than I used to maybe because 'At my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.'"
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