University Daily Kansan, August 22, 1983
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Senate cracks down on bus-pass abusers
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
The Student Senate this summer approved a new system for identifying student bus riders in hopes of curtailing bus-pass fraud.
Students who buy semester passes this year will receive stickers to affix to the backs of their KU identification cards.
Lisa Ashner, student body president,
said the new system would prevent
students who did not pay for passes
growing passes from their
friends.
LAST YEAR, bus passes showed only a signature to identify the user.
With the sticker attached to the bus rider's KUID, bus drivers will be able to match faces with the picture on the ID.
Asher said that fees for bus passes would not be increased this semester and that the Senate had designed new bus routes that were being distributed.
A new bus route that will serve residents in the Heatherwood subdivision in southwest Lawrence has been added to the bus system. Also, a revision was made to the Meadowbrook route so that fraternities and sororites on High Drive will now receive bus service.
In other action this summer, the Senate completed work on revising the Senate's rules and regulations, a move that the Senate had wrestled with in the past.
THE CHANGES were made after nearly five months of committee discussions about loopholes in Senate rules.
"Originally we scheduled to have the work done by the end of last semester," said Jim Cramer, student body vice president. "The problem was that the rules have never been completely redone since the mid-1970s."
Ashner said that changes in the rules were necessary because the present rules had become inconsistent with amendments in past years.
The proposed rules changes will not affect any past legislation the Senate
has approved, Ashner said. The new rules will also cut down on the number of Senate committees, she said.
"There were several committees that overlapped spheres of influence." Adrian
CRAMER SAID that the new rules were expected to be approved during the first two meetings of the Senate, scheduled to officially convene Sept. 7.
In other action, Ashner completed an organizational plan for the Joseph Pearson lecture series, which she will or approval at the Sept. 7 meeting.
The plan includes a clause that will permit the Senate to spend $500 for each speaker, excluding speaker transportation costs.
Asher said that there was no set limit on the amount spent for speakers last year, which was the first year of the lecture series. However, she said, both speakers in last year's series — U.S. Sens. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., and Gary Hart, D-Colo., were paid less than $500.
Asher said the plan would maintain the original purpose of the lecture series, which was designed to bring the campus together and speak at the campus at a minimal cost.
THE SENATE IS working to bring some big names to the campus, she said, including the strong possibility of bringing a Reagan Cabinet member and candidates for the 1984 presidential campaign to KU.
In other summer activities, the Senate completed first-hand inventories of property the Senate owns and regulates. Last year, the Senate discovered that several thousand dollars in property was not accounted for.
Ashner said the bulk of the inventory not accounted for was attributed to missing equipment from a defunct building, and the equipment was later discovered, she said.
noookup errors also added to the problem of unaccounted property, she
SOME ITEMS have been marked as unaccounted for this year as well. Ashner said, but the value of the items amounts to a few hundred dollars.
As the majority of students left Lawrence for the summer, so did much of the so-called action as far as the Police Department was moved.
"We've had a horribly boring summer," Jim Denney, director of police, said Friday. "There wasn't much traffic moving on the hill."
Summer crimes up slightly
The July 18 theft of musical instruments valued at $9,145 was the biggest problem confronting the department, Denney said.
Two clarinets, a clarinet barrel, two saxophones, an amplifier and a synthesizer were taken from a storage room in Murphy Hall during a session of the New Music Series. It was the largest in the history of the camp.
THE INSTRUMENTS, which belonged to three campers, had not been recovered as of Friday. Denney said. No charges have been filed
"The leads have been exhausted." Denney said. "Probably during the school year, something will show up."
The thief or thieves were thought to have entered the room through an unlocked door or possibly by using a master key.
"Nobody knows very much about it." he said.
THREE MORE crimes occurred this summer than last summer, when 57 were reported in June and
Denney said that 140-150 crimes were normally reported every month during the fall and spring semesters.
54 in July for a total of 111. This summer there were 53 crimes reported in June and 61 in July.
Police think a fire June 26 in the manager's office of Joseph R. Pearson residence hall was the result of arson. Damage was estimated at $500, and $85 was reportedly stolen. But most of the crimes this summer were smaller burglars who made some reports of criminal damages to property, battery assaults and harassing telephone calls.
Despite the calm summer, Denney said, police were busy working overtime shifts. He said the normal staff of 39 officers was down to 19 because officers were taking vacations and some positions still remained unfilled.
WITH THE PERSONNEL shortage, Denney said, the department's two detectives, its crime prevention officer and its training officer were involved in the purposes. All but one detective have returned to their regular jobs.
With six jobs still open, Denney said, the department has only been able to provide basic campus patrols rather than offering campus escorts and security guards for campus events.
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A University of Kansas student thanked the office of student financial aid in a sweet way Friday morning. Two pizza-sized chocolate cookies were delivered to the KU student, were delivered to the office with a small card attached.
The financial aid office would not release the student's name.
"Instead of thanking you as we should, we end up cursing you," the card said. "This is sad. So I decided to say thank you from me and all of the other students who you try to help day in and day out."
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"When you're in the financial aid business, money's kind of emotional, and you can't say yes to that. You're going to be people disappointed."
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