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The University Daily
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Wednesday morning, January 11, 1984
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 75 (USPS 650-640)
Disputes lead to new Senate election
Budig orders new vote because of 'ambiguities'
By CINDY HOLM
and MATT DEGALAN
Staff Reporters
Chancellor Gene A. Budig has ordered a new student body presidential election in response to a coalition's appeal of last fall's elections. The University of Kansas Judicial Review Board described the election as "fraught with inconsistencies and ambiguities."
Student Body President Lisa Ashner last night appointed six students, two faculty members and an administrator to a temporary committee that would set an election date and establish guidelines for the election. The committee is scheduled to present its recommendations to the Student Senate on Feb. 8.
Budig has asked Ashner and Vice President Jim Cramer to resume their old positions until their successors are elected.
BUDIG INVALIDATED THE ELECTION upon the advice of the Judicial Review Board. Board members, acting on an appeal from Momentum pressi-
professor of sociology; Michel Van,
assistant director of the office of
minority affairs; Sylvia Sanders, Law-
rence sophomore; Roy Goldberg, Prairie Village senior; Steve Bergstrom,
Winnetka, III., junior and Costume
Party representative; Jeff Polack,
opека sophomore; James D. McCarthy,
Charles Lawn, Kansas City, Kan., seni-
ment, Momentum Coalition representative
Senate rules also require that candidates have 30 days to file for candidacy. Ashner said the election would be run as if no other election had been held so that all candidates would have to retie new candidates would be able to run
BUDIG'S DECISION to hold a new election drew mixed responses from the four presidential candidates who ran in last November's contest.
Scott Swenson, Priority Coalition presidential candidate, said that the situation was disturbing and that he wanted the state to join the University Judicial Board.
"I think, if I may borrow a phrase from the University Judicial Board, the decision was 'freug with inconsis
RELATED STORIES:
- Scott Swenson moves out of office, again
- Review of events leading to new election See page 6
dental candidate Kevin Walker, issued a ruling calling for a new election because inconsistencies had "seriously affected its fairness."
The board recommended that the election be held on or before Feb. 15.
However, Ashner said candidates had 30 school days to appeal the Board's decision, which would mean the election could not be held before September.
The board also recommended that Student Senate revise election rules to include procedures for write-in candidates.
IN THE NOVEMBER election, ballots marked "Momentum" were declared invalid by the Elections Review Board. According to Kansas law, voters cannot name the candidate, but Student Senate rules do not address the issue.
The temporary committee, composed of six students, two faculty members and one administrator, will also determine the length of the filing and campaign periods and will establish election procedures.
Members of the committee are: Tom Berger, Lawrence graduate student; Ron Williams, director of the University Theatre, Shirley Harkess, associate
tencies and ambiguities." Swenson said.
SWENSON DECLINED TO say whether he would be a candidate in the special election and said he needed to concentrate on his grades.
Walker, who made the initial appeal to the board, took a different view, saying the ruling was fair but less than satisfying.
"I agree with it but we won the election for all intents and purposes," he said. "I haven't the slightest idea why they didn't give the election to us, but it was fair based on what they knew at that time."
Walker said he and his running mate Mark McKee would definitely be candidates in the upcoming election.
Both Swenson and Walker said they would like to see the election held on the recommended date. Feb. 15, despite the problem of the 30-school-day appeal limit, which would make the first possible election date Feb. 21.
Walker said he thought only he and Julie Menzel, Elections Review Board Chairman, had the right to appeal the decision.
conduit in the upcoming walker questioned Swenson's right to appeal the board's decision.
See ELECTION, p. 6, col. 3
Kevin Walker submitted a declaration of candidacy form, right, on Oct. 24, after the College of Liberal Arts confirmed his University enrollment. Student Senate rules and regulations require that all candidates on the ballot be enrolled in the University. Walker began a write-in campaign after the Senate's Elections Committee ruled that he could not be placed on the ballot because he missed the Oct. 17 filing deadline.
Walker had "student status" when the form was signed Oct. 24 by a secretary in the College. He was withdrawn from KU on Nov. 23, six days after the election.
DECLARATION OF CANDIDATY FOR STUDENT BODY PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT
KEVIN-WAILED
I WILL DECLARE my candidacy for the office of Student Body President. I have fulfilled the requirements as provided in the Student Senate Rules and Regulations and the Senate CODE. Date:
Candidate's signature: Huma S. Billman
Lawrence Address: STOUTFEN Fl 25-9
Phone Number: 841 2547 Home Town: WEBSTER GROVES
I CERTIFY THAT (CANDIDATE'S NAME) Kevin S. Walker
IS ENROLLED IN (SCHOOL/COLLEGE) Elizabeth Hate + Science
Date: 10/31/83 Dean's Signature: Jean Dusat Tylds
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in order to be eligible for office, either the candidates must have served on the Student Senate, or their declaration must be supported by the signatures of at least five hundred members of the Student Body. Applications must be made in person. The deadline for filing for Student Body President and Vice President is in the Student Senate Office, B10S Kansas Union
the Student Senate Office, B105 Kansas Union.
Coalition Name: M O M E N T U M ON. M-KU
Walker won board appeal while not enrolled
By CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporter
Kevin Walker was not enrolled when the University Judicial Board recommended, after an appeal by Walker's Momentum Condition, that he student body presidential election be conducted.
ATTEMPTS TO REACH other members of the judicial board were not successful.
According to the office of student records, Walker had not been enrolled since Aug. 22 but was allowed to enroll late for the fall semester on Oct. 24.
The University withdrew his enrollment again on Nov. 23.
"The important thing is that during the campaign and election I was enrolled," Walker
Doug Whitman, chairman of the University Judicial Board that recommended a new election after reviewing the disputed results, could not be reached for comment on whether Walker's withdrawal would change the board's decision.
John Gergaz, associate professor of business and a member of the judicial board, declined to say whether Walker's enrolment was discussed in his draft statement. It considered the Momentum Coalition's appeal.
Chancellor Gene A. Buddig defined comment about Walker's enrollment but designated Carryl Smith, dean of student life, as spokesman for the administration.
Smith said she did not know whether Walker's enrollment problems would affect the decision to hold a new election.
The office of student records cannot release the reason for Walker's enrollment withdrawals, but Walker said yesterday that he was in both times because he could not pay his tuition.
Walker, Webster Groves. Mo., senior, said he could not afford the $1,320 non-resident tuition and academic fees. He said he applied last year as a student because he was denied because he filed his request too late.
GIL, DYCK, DEAN of educational services,
verified that Walker was enrolled "from early
October" until the third week in November.
Walker is specifically which dates
Walker was enrolled.
Gary Thompson, director of the office of student records, and that a student generally does not attend school.
After that, he said, students need special permission.
"Anyone who enrolled that late would have to have several recommendations to do so."
Thompson said of Walker's late enrollment. "He would have to convince somebody and have them make a major exception. It's not normally done."
Duck said that the way the records office had handled Walker's enrollment was consistent.
However, Dyck did not elaborate on how Walker might have obtained the dean's stamp
WALKER HAD ORTAINED a dean's stamp from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences before he enrolled late on Oct. 24, so Dyck allowed him to enroll.
Student Senate rules require candidates to file a declaration of candidacy for their names to be placed on the ballot. On the declaration, the dean candidate's college must 'verify' his enrolment.
Walker was not allowed to file his candidacy on Oct. 17 with the rest of the candidates because he was unable to attend.
WALKER OFFICIALLY ENROLLED on Oct 24 and filed for his candidacy the same day. He said that according to Senate rules, candidates had 30 days before Thanksgiving to file their candidacy, which would make the deadline Oct 24.
See WALKER, p. 6, col. 1
Gov. Carlin gives budget blueprint to'84 Legislature
Proposal includes a 6 percent increase in unclassified pay
TOPEKA    Governor John Carlin makes recommendations for the fiscal year 1985 budget for the University of Kansas during a special session on fiscal management.
By GRETCHEN DAY Staff Reporter
6 percent increase in salaries for unclassified employees. Behind Carlin are House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, left, and Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Cordonia.
"This flexibility is essential if we are to compete with the private sector and other states." Carlin said in outlining education proposals for the fiscal 1985 budget.
The enrichment pool, to be allocated through the Board of Regents, would be used by the schools to help attract and retain superior faculty.
Jim McCrossen/Kansar
TOPEKA — Gov. John Carlin yesterday recommended a 6 percent increase in faculty and other unclassified staff salaries and a $2 million enrichment pool for increasing faculty.
The Democratic governor also requested a 5 percent increase for classified employees, combined with a 10 percent upward with the said he would increase classi-
sation overall an average 6.4 percent
In his annual State of the State address, Carlin told a joint session of the Legislature that education, the environment and the prison system were all in the mind of a "quiet
crisis.
"WE HAVE SUFFICIENT time, by acting now, to engineer thoughtful, long-range solutions instead of quick fixes forced upon us out of
urgency," Carlin said. "We have an opportunity to resolve the issues and set precedent rather than repeal them."
Carlin's speech about the "quiz crisis" was upstaged slightly when three phone calls were received threatening that a bomb would go off in the packed House chambers during the address.
The chambers were searched, but Lt. Vernon Prostler of the Kansas Highway Patrol said Capitol Security found no evidence of a bomb. Carlin was quickly escorted out the back door of
the chambers at the end of his speech, and House business continued as scheduled.
ROLLING OFF LAST year's controversial severance tax triumph, Carlin made education his first priority in a record budget request of $3.328 billion.
He recommended that legislators increase spending by $44 million for public education and by $30 million for higher education. He also requested $13 million more to increase prison
CARLIN RECOMMENDED a budget of $10.6 million in general-use funds for the University of
See CARLIN, p. 5, col. 1
capacity and $50,000 to clean up the state's hazardous-waste sites.
For Regents universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina, Carlin proposed a $435.9 million budget. His budget proposal is $20.2 million above current general-use fund
By the Kansan Staff
Campus officials discuss options for payroll woes
Despite already having had three months of problems in the distribution of paychecks for KU employees, KU officials are still debating whether to retain the state's new unperformed payroll system.
A decision about which option to pursue could come as soon as next week. Russell Getter, head of the state's emergency task force on KU payroll problems, said yesterday.
But Getter said it was too soon to seey which wav the University would go.
"the technical people in Toppea and at KU are discussing a variety of options for the future." Getter said. "I anticipate it will be sometime when we get to see a set of options and recommendations."
Getter said one of those options might be to alter the system that has caused all the problems, the Kansas Integrated Personnel Payroll System — KIPPS. He said a new computer program might be written to help solve the problem.
About 475 paycheeks did not arrive in November and December, the first two months the University was on the new statewide computerized payroll system.
That prompted a decision by the University late in December to find a replacement for KIPPS, or to revise the system to accommodate KU's complicated payroll.
New hope was breathed into KIPPS Dec. 30 when the January payroll went out. Only about 40 checks were made out for the wrong amount and 50 checks were said, Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
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