CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 9, 1983
Page 6
Student to start conservative paper
By ANA DEL CORRAL Staff Reporter
Because of what he called the liberal, biased news coverage of the University Daily Kansan, a KU student next semester will start a weekly publication with a conservative editorial policy, he said yesterday.
John Kean, Lenexa sophomore and the state chairman of the Young Conservative Alliance, said yesterday that Student Senate should not finance any group or publication that advocated a political viewpoint.
Kean, the organizer of the new publication, said that the Kansan's editorials often contained false information to support a liberal viewpoint.
"Sure they've made up figures," he said. "They've made up figures out of the blitz."
KEAN SAID THAT proof of factual error in the Kansan's editorials would be presented in the organization's newsletter, to be published Friday.
But the new publication, the Oread
Review, will differ from the Kansan in
terms of its content.
"The news is going to be as unbiased and as objective as humanly possible," Kean said. "The editorial policies will reflect a conservative opinion which is only necessary because it is a conservative paper."
The trial issue of the new periodical will be published for the first time in December, he said.
Because the Kansan is partially financed by Student Activity funds, each student is a stockholder in the Kansan, he said. But he said the liberal views of the paper did not reflect the views of the students.
He also said that he had told private organizations that agreed to finance the Oread Review that their constituents had written about, the contents of the new publication.
THE KANSAN USES money from the student activity fee to pay for part of its printing costs. The great majority of its financing, including staff salaries, is from advertising and subscription revenue.
Although Kean refused to disclose details of how the publication would be financed, he said it would not be financed by the University.
"There is no way we will seek money from the Student Senate," he said. "Public funds should not be used to promote one point of view."
Kean said that the Young Conservative Alliance, which is a nationwide organization, had opened a local chapter in response to the liberal education at KU and in response to the passive role of conservative organizations such as the Young Americans for Freedom and the College Republi-
The Alliance registered with Student. Organizations and activities in September 1983, he said.
But Kean refused to disclose how many members the local chapter had.
Arthur Skidmore, faculty adviser for the Oread Review said that he agreed to be the publication's adviser because students should have the opportunity.
"I certainly have no intention of taking part in their day to day operations," Skidmore, professor of philosophy, said. "I completely oppose their point of view."
KEAN SAID THAT although the Oread Review had assembled part of its staff, he was not willing to disclose the names of staff members because he considered himself the sole spokesman for the publication.
Although he disagrees with the principle behind state financed universities, he attends KU because it is his duty to try to present an alternative viewpoint to counteract the campus's liberalism, he said.
"I have a duty to come in here and fight that," he said. "I have to give the alternative perspective."
The Alliance sponsored a meeting Monday night at the Kansas Union Woodruff Auditorium. About 10 people attended.
The low attendance, Kean said, was partly due to the fact that the group had not been able to show up.
Haworth addition on time for '85 completion
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE F. HONOMICHL
Construction of the Haworth Hall addition is proceeding on time and on budget, the University director of facilities planning said yesterday.
The project, which will add almost 100,000 square feet of classroom labs and laboratory research space to Haworth, is scheduled to be finished in either December 1984 or in spring 1985, said director Allen Weichert. The contracted completion date was July 1, 1985.
The framework is expected to be finished in about three weeks, said Stan Chaassen, project manager for R.D. Andersen Construction Co.
"The MASONY IS about 20 percent complete," he said. "We expect to have the last pouring of cement on the roof done the day before Thanksgiving."
Two utility rooms, one housing elevator parts and the other housing working parts for the heating and cooling system and elevators, are
scheduled for completion by February,
Claassen said. He said work on the two
rooms, which will be on the roof, would
begin Dec. 5.
He said, however, that either heavy rains or extremely cold weather could have caused the fires.
Snow removal usually isn't a problem. Claassen said, however, the problem was that the snow
He said that Andersen had experienced about a month of weather delays since work on the addition began in February.
Claassen and Weichert said they expected the project to be finished under budget.
THE HAWKOR ADDITION was budgeted at $14 million. Andersen's budget was set at $11.1 million. Construction plans for Haworth were approved in April 1982 the Gov't of Regents in September 1982. The Gov't had approved the project in April 1982.
said. Also, $550.00 was budgeted for architectural fees.
He said the addition would make Haworth the largest building on the Lawrence campus. The building will provide about 140 additional classrooms and laboratories and is intended to centralize the biological sciences division, which is now scattered throughout several buildings.
The rest of the budget is for moveable interior furnishings and for the archi-
tural design.
"We're happy to see that this thing is proceeding on schedule," Weichert said. The addition should be finished in March or April 1985.
Senate reviews committee policy Students often absent from meetings
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Attendance is "absolutely essential" because of the need for a voting quorum, he said.
Carothers said that the problem of absenteeism at meetings was no worse than the usual case.
"The overall record of student participation on standing committees of the University Senate has not been good." he said.
BUT ORMSEE SAID that because no formal procedure had been established to inform KU students of committee assignments and meeting times, some students had not been notified of their duties.
Student absenteeism on University governance committees continues to be high, the chairman of the University Executive Committee said this week.
Some faculty and students attribute the problem to lack of a definite policy to inform students about committee assignments and meetings, said the chairman, James Carothers, associate professor of English.
The Student Senate has formed an ad hoc committee to try to solve the problem. The four-member committee met yesterday for the first time and proposed that the Student Senate Executive Committee assume direct responsibility for notifying students of committee appointments.
THE TEMPORARY committee also proposed that StudEx make sure that the committee seats are filled by candidates from the District. Ormsbee, a dc committee chairman
To address the present problem of students not attending meetings, the ad hoc committee has also proposed that the Student Senate mail notification letters to all committee members before Thanksgiving vacation, telling them of their committee appointments, she said. Also, SenEx should mail them in advance to urging the chairmen to notify their committee members about meetings.
University Senate committees but was not notified about her appointments or about the times the committees would meet, she said. She had to telephone the Student Senate office to get that information.
"I don't know how it was done in the past, but it's not getting done this year." Ormsbee said about the notification process.
Carothers said, "The notification process is fairly cumbersome. I think faculty are calling attention to the problem."
'The overall record of student participation on standing committees of the University Senate has not been good.'
— James Carothers,
SenEx chairman
SenEx is supposed to notify students of committee appointments and committee chairmen are supposed to inform their members of meeting times, whether directly or through the Student Senate office, she said.
BONNIE DENOYELLES, administrative assistant for the Student Senate, said that in the past, no single person or governmental body had had complete responsibility for informing students about appointments and meeting times.
"Sometimes it works well. Unforeseenly it is kind of maddled, de-nares me."
Ormsbee was selected to sit on two
Carothers said that all of this year's University Senate committee chairmen will be involved.
Ormsbeck said, "It's unclear where the fault lies."
THE TASK OF assigning students to University Senate committees may have to be altered to make the notification process less complicated. Tom Berger, SenEx member and student senator, said.
Students now complete applications during the spring semester, indicating on which committees they want to serve. Decisions on committee assignments are made by SenEx during the summer, then students receive letters, or phone calls informing them of their appointments.
However, Berger said that because most students were not in Lawrence during the summer, some students did not receive their notifications.
"That still isn't a very efficient way to do things, in my mind." Beruer said.
Attempts are usually made to notify the students in the fall, but often their addresses or phone numbers have changed. he said.
BERGER ADDED THAT it was easier to notify students living on campus because they could receive mail, not the usual mail, which does not require postage.
Off-campus mail requires postage, which Berger said is not provided for in the letter.
To remedy the communication problem, Berger has proposed that all student committee members be required to stop by the Student Senate office once week, to get messages and information when the committee will next meet.
Ormsbee said that it might take an allocation by Student Senate to post-graduate students.
Berger said faculty and students must cooperate to alleviate the notification problem, which he said was something that occurred every year.
IN THE MEANTIME the Student Senate does not have student representation on some of the committees, Berger said. And faculty members have every right to complain about the lack of student representation.
"The problem is how we get in contact with these people?" Berger said. "I think it can be worked out. I need to take it the ball by the horns."
Arno Knapper, a SenEx member and professor of business, said that lack of student representation had been a "historical problem."
However, Knapper said that students have not been the only University Senate members guilty of absenteeism. The problem unique to students by any mpg.
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