University Dally Kansan, February 15 1983
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Senate chairmen to get outline of goals
By SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
After about a month in office, Student Senate committee chairmen still have not received formal written outlines of the Senate administration's goals for the committees, several committee chairmen said Sunday.
Jim Cramer, student body vice president, said he was now setting up meetings with the committee heads to discuss their plans for the semester.
Liaa Ashen, student body pressmen,
said the committee heads would
be able to provide feedback.
MOLLIE MITCHELL, co-chairman of the Cultural Affairs Committee, said that when she was chairman of the committee last year, she had received written charges outlining the plans from the student body president and
vice president within a week and a half of taking office.
Loren Busby, chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee, said. The administration took office in November 2015, when it was to get committee charges drawn up."
Cramer said he had wanted to wait about a month before he met with committee chairmen so that committee members familiar with how the Senate worked.
"I don't think written charges are as effective as sitting down and talking to the committee heads and exchanging ideas," he said.
BUSY SAID that because committee chairmen have not received written charges, some committees have had issues on issues outside of their jurisdiction.
Some committees, including the Student Services and the Rights;
Privileges and Responsibilities
committees, have been working on issues such as the Kansan and JKHJ services committees should have been working on.
Blair Tinkle, co-chairman of the rights committee, said he thought the juridical problems were a result of initial enthusiasm of the committees.
"At first the people on the committee were lean and hungry to attack issues,
The issue should have been handled only by the academic affairs committee.
CRAMER SAID the rights, the student services and the academic affairs committees had all been discharged. The trade appeals process at the University
Asher said that the jursidical problems with Senate committees were
being taken care of in Student Senate Executive Committee meetings.
StudEx is a committee made up of senate committee chairmen and other senior members.
Asher said, "We are sharing our goals with the committees at the meetings and asking them to work together on projects than one committee is interested in."
He said he wondered what might have happened if a new chairman had taken over this year and he had not received charges.
BUSBY SAID, "It didn't matter too much that I didn't receive charges because this is my third term as finance and auditing chairman."
Cramer said that if a new finance chairman had been elected, he and Ashler would have met with the new finance secretary and informed him of his duties.
On campus
TODAY
THE KU MOUNTAINERING ASSOCIATION will meet at 3:30 p.m. in Room 1508.
THE PUBLIC RELATIONS STUDENT SOCIETY OF AMERICA will meet at 6:15 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union.
TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 242 Robinson.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST
paint in the Alderson
Room of the University
THE KU RUGBY CLUB will practice at 7 p.m. in Allen Field House.
THE KU GUN CLUB will meet at 7 a.m. for a Conference Room of the Satellite University
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THE MELLON FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR will discuss 'Genius' and 'Masterpieces,' Gertrude Stein's celebrated process, at 3:30 p.m. in the Union.
A SENIOR RECITAL by Robin Thornton, soprano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
TOMORROW
POLICE REPORTED about 400 arrests since Saturday for drunkenness and trespassing. However, there was little violence.
New Orleans ready for party
THE KU GERMAN CLUB will meet
at 4:30 p.m. in Wesco Hall for
the event.
CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will have a Bible study at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
The feverish partying during a weekend of 20 parades cooled slightly Monday as maskers prepared for their climatic bash on Fat Tuesday, the day before Lenten fasting brought a return to sanity
A FACULTY RECITAL by Susan Hicks on the oboe will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
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TIME: 5:30 p.m.
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IS HONESTY THE BEST POLICY?
Almost four centuries ago Miguel de Cervantes coined the phrase "Honesty's the best policy". To be honest, Webster's Third New International Dictionary tells us, is to be "free from fraud or deception . . . truthful. . . adhering to principle . . . frank and straightforward." Although the Preamble to the Constitution states that "We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice . . . and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America", today's alleged machinery of progress is creating casualties among those most in need of governmental protection.
Consider for a moment our income tax structure. While many know that the Internal Revenue Service views with sympathy all "three-martini-lunches" consumed in the course of business, tar fewer realize that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has allowed the Panchandle Eastern Pipeline to pass on to consumers the costs of a profit-making $1.3 million golf course located in Louisburg, Kansas, where the company has about fifty employees. It is cowardly decisions like this one which have reduced our tax structure to a pockmarked edifice benefiting special interests rather than a device which equitably distributes a civil burden.
Consider for a moment the governmental bureaucracy itself. Even as our present Social Security Commissioner suspects that the agency may have paid a total of $100 million to deceased people and the General Accounting Office reports that some $1 billion a year in food stamps is going to the ineligible, public funds are used to transport local, state, and national officials throughout the country and world to recruit industry and create situations which will benefit some segment of the private sector. A country of competing individuals and a supportive government has been transformed into an entity in which governmental representatives competing for industries and businesses are financially supported by struggling individuals.
Consider for a moment an economic system which tolerates the dissemination of inherently obscene material enriching the stagnant as it consigns to near-poverty and stressful working conditions the courageous teachers employed by and trying to educate in our public schools.
Consider for a moment the generally accepted definition of full employment, i.e. a state of the economy in which all persons willing to work can find employment with comparatively little difficulty at prevailing rates of pay. Some unemployment, both voluntary and involuntary, is attributed to frictional and seasonal factors and is therefore tolerated in a full employment economy. At one time a figure of $4\%$ was taken as the normal rate of such temporary unemployment, but some supply-siders have recently found acceptable a rate of $8\%$ or $10\%$. All theoreticians who subscribe to a normal unemployment rate ignore the existence of sprawling ghettoes and comparable "pockets of poverty" in which live in ill-concealed anger most of the perennially unemployed.
Consider for a moment a populace which views as productive because a profit is made the yearly conversion of three million acres of agricultural land to nonagricultural use. The thousands of shopping malls, which dot the national landscape and transfer decision-making and financial power beyond the bounds of their immediate surroundings, have often driven off good land farmers who are already undergoing their greatest ordeal since the Depression.
Consider for a moment the Constitution which, in the Fifth Amendment states: "No person shall be . . . deprived of life. . . without due process of law. . . ." It was a long decade ago that this Constitutional prohibition was held by the highest judicial authority to be of less importance than the choice of an already harried pregnant woman. Rather than create a mechanism that would assist the mother and her baby, the Supreme Court legitimized the abortion procedure and thereby gave rise to the notion of a "safe abortion", i.e. surgery which, because it is performed by a physician, results in an even greater difference between the maternal and infant mortality rates.
Today America manages to profess respect for the individual entrepreneur, schoolteacher, farmer, and child while materially rewarding the faceless corporation, substanceless pornographer, relentless mall, and heartless abortionist. If honesty's still the best policy, we must submit to facts, not fables.
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