University Daily Kansan, April 18, 1983
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Students respond favorably to ASK poll
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
Most KU students who responded to a recent telephone poll support the Associated Students of Kansas, the校园 director said last week.
But an ASK delegate who had helped conduct the poll said the results might be biased because of the way some of the questions were worded and how students conducting the poll asked the questions.
Scott Swenson, the campus director, said that last Tuesday and Wednesday, the organization randomly polled 2 percent of the students at the University of Kansas about ASK and other issues.
"I WAS IN CHARGE OF running a similar poll for the Douglas County Democrats in the last election," he said. "I know how these kind of polls work."
Swenson said the poll renewed his optimism in the work ASK was doing.
optimism in the work ASK was doing. However, Lenny Mullin, Shawnee freshman and an ASK delegate, said, "As much as I would like to think the poll was accurate, I don't think it was. Students just weren't informed well enough to have an opinion on most issues."
Amy Brown, ASK delegate and poll worker, said, "A lot of people didn't know what the $15 fee was. But I wasn't in favor of the myself so, why would I lead people to say they were for it?"
Fifty-four percent of the students polled favored the $15 academic year.
Brown said that when she identified herself as an ASK delegate, many people asked her what ASK was.
BUT SHE SAID A telephone interview was too impersonal for someone to be pressured to say what she wanted them to say.
wanted him to talk to about Mullin said he had talked to about 150 people and that most said they did not know what ASK was.
He said it was difficult to explain certain issues and what ASK was in a two-minute phone conversation. When students hadn't formed opinions on the issues, some poll takers explained the issue in a biased way, said.
Brown said she had not observed any poll takers asking questions in a leading way.
Mullin said, "Quite a few students said they thought ASK should take stands on social issues. But they also said they didn't see how ASK could accurately represent the views of a majority of students on the issue."
He said he did not think that the poll takers meant to bias the students they talked to.
"They would have no reason to swine it either way." he said.
LOREN BUSY, CHARIARM of the Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, which would decide whether to allocate more money to ASK, said he thought the last question on the poll was biased.
The question read, "Would you be in favor of taking ASK out of the Student Activity Fee and placing its funding on a referendum so that ASK could increase its fee to 75 cents to greatly improve its lobbying effort?"
Busby said, "The last question wasn't worded well for a poll. It was worded well to get the response they wanted."
But Denise Farrell, ASK delegate and poll taker, said, "The questions were clear. They weren't ambiguous at all. The results turned out good because that's the way it was. People were truthful in their answers."
Seventy-two percent of the students polled thought ASK should lobby on social issues, and 38.4 percent thought allocation of tuition was more important than tuition, student jobs and social issues.
NEARLY 87 PERCENT thought student money should be spent to
represent student views in the Legislature and 66.5 percent favored placing ASKs a financing on a referendum. They pay for the organization to 75 cents.
Swenson said he had allowed a 3 percent margin for error when tabulating the poll.
he said he was not aware of any problem with the questions or the way poll takers asked them.
"I wrote the questions and submitted them to the ASK delegates at our last meeting for approval," he said. "All but one question asked for a choice between issues, so we had to make a choice between issues. They were all pretty clear cut."
"I did everything I could to make sure the poll was conducted fairly. The poll did come out well, but there is no way in a random sampling of students that a question could be asked in such a way that it could make anyone answer a question against their will."
BUSY SAID, "IF students did not know what the issues were, the poll taker should have just marked 'don't know' on the questionnaire.
"For the survey to be fair, people should not have been explaining the issues to the students they talked to. If people were doing that, then that's not proper for a survey."
Police still looking for robber of KU Credit Union
Police still are searching for a man who robbed the University of Kansas Federal Credit Union at 23rd and Iowa State Street in Lawrence. Law enforcement police said yesterday.
Chief Richard Stanwix said police suspect that the robbery was a "copypot" crime because the description of the robbery was similar to several recent crimes in the Lawrence area.
However, he said police were certain different men committed the crimes because their descriptions differed greatly.
The man who robbed the credit union is described as a black male in his late 20s or early 30s, about 6-14, 170 pounds and weighing 58-95 pounds of black hair and a blemish on his upper lip.
The other robber is described as a white male in his late 20s to mid-30s.
with a heavv build.
THE ROBBER OF THE credit union reportedly entered the bank about 5:20 p.m. Thursday, pulled out a gun and demanded that a teller give him all the money. Police did not disclose the amount taken.
Stanwick said an eyewitness had seen a Chevrolet Blazer speed from the area and drove away.
The same man had come in before
the crime and asked for change,
Stanwix said. The robber of other area
banks and savings and loan associates
had asked for change before he
robbed each bank.
The other robberies include the March 4 robbery at the Douglas County Bank, 23rd and Louisians streets, and an April 1. robbery at the American Saving Association of Kansas, 2435 Iowa St.
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The Lawrence School Board used the same procedure to fill a vacancy last year and the Kansas Attorney General had candidates candidately to be conducted in public.
The commissioners discussed last week the possibility of conducting the interviews for the position in closed session, but Mayor David Longhurst said yesterday that he thought that the interview with the Kansas Open Meeting Act.
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mission could have a study session next Monday to narrow the list of candidates, hear public comment at next Tuesday's City Commission meeting and interview the final candidates and make a decision by April 29.
The candidate will take office May 3 for the remainder of the two-year
Three new Lawrence city commissioners took office last week, but they and one incumbent are already faced with finding a replacement for the fifth commissioner.
By NED STAFFORD Staff Reporter
In case of a tie vote, the city attorney would cast the deciding vote.
In other business on a light agenda, the commission will have a public hearing on Sunflower's expansion of its franchise agreement with the city
The commission will discuss at Tuesday's regular meeting the procedure for filling the vacancy of Commissioner Barkley Clark, who announced last week that he would resign from the commission May 2.
LONGHURST SAID OF that possibility, "I would hope that we could arrive at something other than a tie vote. We're deciding on behalf of the community so I would hope we could find some common ground."
The commission has already decided to take applications from people interested in the position but has not yet decided on the procedure for selection
countower has asked for 15-year extension after its current agreement
Sunflower has also asked that its cablevision rates be decontrolled. Any rate changes must now be approved by the city commission.
In other action, the commission will consider a resolution that would allow the Lawrence Housing Authority to reallocate $40 million in County with the county's approval.
Competition for direct student exchange scholarships to France, Switzerland and Germany have been reopened, Mary Ryan, assistant director of the KU Study Abroad program, said yesterday.
She said the competition for graduating seniors and graduate students
The new deadline is April 22.
had been reopened because some students who were to receive the scholarships had accepted Fullbright grants instead.
The new law requires Applicants applying for the French or German scholarships must be fluent in the appropriate language. Ryan said
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