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By CHRIS SEITZ Kansan Staff Writer
In terms of governing structure, KU is as advanced as any in the country in the opinion of Charles H. Oldfather, associate dean of the School of Law.
Oldfather, chairman of the KU Senate Executive Committee and active in other campus affairs, said Wednesday that KU moved swiftly in liberalizing its rules for student participation once there was consensus for a change among students.
OLDFATHER SAID he believed that students should have almost complete say in areas which affect them. In matters affecting the entire University, he said that his position had always been that students should have a voice, not as a privilege but as a matter of right.
Although the changes in overall governing structure at KU should solve many of the same problems which are now causing difficulties at other universities, Oldfather said, this does not take
The 1969-70 school term is the first year in which the reforms in KU government which were passed last spring are in force. These reforms, Oldfather said, primarily have had the effect of reorganizing the legitimacy of student control in areas where it had previously been present only on an informal basis.
care of problems which students have with the educational process at KU.
To handle this aspect, increased student participation in the governing policies of the individual schools at KU is being introduced.
He said that there are already students who are helping to determine curricula, apportion credit, and make other decisions affecting students in the School of Law and other schools on campus.
According to the Student Code, every school must have at least one student on its committee. This program should bear fruit by the end of this year. Oldfather said.
THE RECENT Senate decision on the position of ROTC on campus was an intelligent solution to the problems involved, Oldfather said. Concerning recent requests
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