University Daily Kansan, March 30, 1983
Page 9
Bill to bring feminist irks some senators
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
A small group of student senators say that the student body president was inconsistent when she signed a bill to bring a feminist to speak on campus.
Lisa Ashner, student body president,
last week signed a bill passed at
Wednesday's Student Senate meeting
with President Sonia Johnson,
a feminist, to speak here.
Johnson received national attention when she was excommunicated from the Mormon Church for opposing its enforcement of the Equal Rights Amendment.
But earlier this semester, Ashner veted a bill to bring Watergate conspirators John Ehrichman and G. Gordon Liddy to speak.
MOLLIE MITCHELL, co-chairman of the Senate Cultural Affairs Committee and co-author of the Ehrlichman and Liddy bill, said that Ashner should have been consistent and vetoed the bill to bring Johnson to KU.
Ashner said she did not veto the bill
because its authors had addressed the objections she had with the other bill
Unlike the first bill, the Johnson bill went through the correct procedure of being approved by a Senate committee before the Senate voted on it, she said.
The people backing the Johnson bill exhausted all other avenues of funding, she said, while the authors of the other bill had not.
Mitchell said she and the other authors of the bill for Ehrichman and Liddy had not been given enough time to find other sources of financing.
"She only gave us one full day," she said.
ASHNER SAID THAT the authors of the Johnson bill had requested a specific amount of money, but the other bill had requested a guarantee of up to $9,500.
Ashner said she also vetoed the Ehrhlichman and Liddy bill because the Senate's unallocated account was so large that it would require an enacting such a large sum of money.
Charles Lawhorn, chairman of the
Senate. Student Services Committee,
associated with the law school.
standard by not vetoring the Johnson bill. If, as she said, it would have been fiscally irresponsible to bring Liddy and Ehrlichman to KU, it would be fiscally irresponsible to bring Johnson here.
"If she was acting for the good of the students by voting the first bill, then it looks like she's catering to a special interest around not by voting this bill."
Lawhorn said Ashner had vetoed the bill so that she wouldn't have to "take the heat!" from the women's groups on campus.
TERRY FREDERICK SENATE treasurer, said the Senate did not have enough money in its unallocated account to pay to bring Johnson to KU.
The unallocated account now has $42,500, but only $12,500 can be used because the Senate must maintain a balance of $80,000 in the account, he said.
Frederick said he opposed the Johnson bill for the same reasons he opposed bringing Ehrlichman and Liddy to KU - lack of money.
Karen Schueller, law school senator,
said "it's only fair" for the Senate to
allocate the money to bring Johnson to KU because Phyllis Schlafly, an anti-ERA activist, had spoken at KU last year.
Schlueter said. "We're not strapped for money. We'll still have $10,000 in the account. The money was collected from this year's activity fee. Let's use it this year and not keep stockpiling and boarding it."
BUT FREDERICK SAID the unallocated account had been building up for several years. Between $10,000 and $20,000 is added each year, he said.
At the beginning of the fiscal year,
the account had $85,000. The Senate has
Helen Warren, assistant instructor of Women's Studies, said at the Senate meeting, "Controversial ideas are supposed to be aired at a university.
"As a speaker, I would rank Sonia Johnson on the same level with John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln.
"The time is right for her to appea here. Senate should finance bringing her here, because no other group has the money to do it."
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