University Daily Kansan, March 7. 1983
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Rules need revision, chairman says
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
The Student Senate has failed to revise its outdated and often ambiguous rules and regulations despite criticism from students, the chairman of the Senate Student Services Committee said Saturday.
Charles Lawhorn, the chairman, said his committee, at a meeting tomorrow, would begin discussing the overall effectiveness of Student Senate and its tendency to suspend the Senate to do Senate business.
HE SAID HE had written a letter to Jim Cramer, student body vice president. Feb. 18, which reviewed the regulations and Robert's Rules of Order.
In the letter Lawhern said, "It was my view that the suspension of rules might have been inadvertently misused or misinterpreted by past Senators."
Lawnhorn said that Lisa Ashner, student body president, had formed an ad hoc committee of past and present student senators to rewrite the rules and regulations, but that the committee had not yet met.
Cramer said the committee was supposed to meet Feb. 24, but the matter did not materialize.
However, he said, revising the rules and regulations was a main priority of the Senate this semester.
LOREN BUSSY, chairman of the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, agreed that the Senate was lax in revising its rules and regulations.
He said Ashner had asked him to rewrite the revenue regulations in the rules.
"But time is growing short," Busby said. "The whole semester has been a fight over the rules and regulations.
"If we have to have any credibility as an organization, we have to have our own house in order, and it's pretty obvious that we don't."
Lawhorn said Student Senate had set a pattern of suspending the rules anytime there was a question about them, rather than correcting them.
WHEN THE SENATE has to constantly and arbitrarily suspend the rules, it doesn't set a good example for students, he said.
Senate rules are supposed to be like bylaws or a constitution, he said. They can be amended or changed, but not suspended.
"I am opposed to revision of the rules and regs that allows for suspension of them," Lawhorn said.
"When the United States Congress suspends the rules, it is the procedural rules they suspend as provided for within those rules; Congressmen do not at any time suspend the U.S. Constitution or the U.S. Code," he said.
the Senate should not suspend its rules to consider legislation that had not gone through committee.
LAWHORN SAID, "You could say that a lot of the past legislation that Senate has addressed by suspending the rules to consider legislation that has not gone through committee is invalid."
Cramer agreed with Lawhorn that
Many problems could be solved by writing a provision for the suspension of the rules and adopting it within the rules and regulations, he said.
"It would recommend that this matter be carefully researched in the hope that appropriate legislation may be quickly drafted so that Senate will be able to continue its business in a correct manner." Lawhorn said.
Cramer said he disagreed with Lawhorn's interpretation that both the rules and regulations and the Senate code were the Constitution or bylaws of Senate and thus could not be suspended.
"The rules and regulations pertain to Senate procedures and we have to be able to suspend or change them," he said.
THE CODE is more the constitution of Senate, Cramer said.
The Senate has suspended the rules to vote on bills that did not go through committee first, but Cramer said that legislation was not invalid.
He said he thought the rules and regulations would be revised before the new law was put into effect.
Joggers unite to fight rape
The recent raps on campus have prompted one student to try to form the Runners' Rape Watch Patrol.
The patrol will be made up of joggers who run through certain trouble areas on campus, John Foster, senior, and senior and patrol organizer, said.
"Lawrence has a prevalent rape problem," Beldock said. "It was a problem when I first came here as a girl and it is still a significant problem."
The patrol will cover specific areas such as Potter Lake, Allen Field House, Robinson Gymnasium, the 0-2 vehicle parking lot, the woods by the Chancellor's house, and GSP Corbin, Beldock said.
THE PATROL will also run through South Park downtown. Beldock said that area had been a "haven for ransacks."
Beldock said he wanted at least 20 to 24 people on the patrol. Both men and women are welcome to join, he said. The men were tentatively scheduled for March 21.
BELDOCK SAID he hoped to start the patrol next the night. The trouble areas will be watched from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. every night.
Interested people can contact Beldock at 841-6389 after 11 p.m. and before 8 a.m.
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Old Testament: God commands 'holy wars'. (1 Sam. 15:2-3)
Do good; seek peace and pursue it. (Ps. 34:14)
Angels: On earth peace among all with whom he is pleased (Lk. 2:14)
Jesus: My peace I give you, not as the world gives (Jn. 14:27)
I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. (Mt. 10:34)
All who take to the sword will perish by the sword. (Mt. 26:52)
Would that even today you knew the things that make for
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Please bow to the commander. (Mt. 5:0)
Blessed are the peacemakers. (Mt. 5:9)
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KU asks for dismissal of discrimination suit
The University of Kansas at U.S. District Court judge in Topeka Friday to dismiss a discrimination suit filed by former chemistry department employee
Ron Broun, assistant University general counsel, also asked the court for a more definite statement from Willie V. Stagg, the plaintiff. Broun said that many of Stagg's allegations in the suit were vague and broad.
Also named with the University as a defendant in the suit was Jack Hose, a former professor of English.
She was hired by the University in October 1970.
Slagg alleges in her suit that the University discriminated against her by not promoting her in the same profession, while white employees in similar positions.
STAGG ALSO alleges she was a victim of harassment and that although she was fulfilling her job requirements, she failed Sep. 4, 1981, because she was black
Stagg is seeking damages of $200,000 in the suit, as well as judgement ordering that she be reinstated to her former position with back wages.
She is also asking that the University
properly promote her and not discriminate against her in the future, according to the suit.
In the dismissal motion, KU alleges that Rose and the University, when acting in their official capacities, are immune from Stagg's discrimination claims, because the 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution bars all such claims by a citizen against a state agency.
THE UNIVERSITY also alleges that because Stagg was not employed in a program or activity receiving federal financial assistance, she was not entitled to sue under the federal Civil Rights Act.
In a motion for a more definite statement, the University alleges that Stagg's claims of being harassed and not promoted were vague.
The University also asked Stagg to name the person who harassed and discriminated against her as well as the manner in which she was harassed
IN THE RESPONSE, the University asked Stagg to name the white employees who received promotions she was allegedly denied and to name the persons or persons who allegedly failed to promote her.
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