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Page 10 University Daily Kansan, February 2, 1983
Student lobby group wants KU to rejoin
By SARA KEMPIN Staff Reporter
The president of a national student lobbying organization that was removed from campus by the Student Senate two years ago was in Lawrence Monday to urge the University to rejoin.
KU withdrew from the United States Students Association because the Senate disagreed with the group's stands on social issues.
Janiece Fine, 22, USSA president, said she is on a tour of the state to tell member universities what the lobbyists were doing to promote student issues.
Fine said she wasn't sure why KU withdrew its membership from USA
Lisa Ashner, student body president,
said some senators thought the group
should have devoted its lobbying efforts
only to higher education issues, not social issues.
IDENTIFYING where the majority of students stand on certain social and economic grounds.
Asher said she told Fine that the Senate Finance and Auditing, and Student Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities committees would consider whether to propose that KU rejoin USSA.
KU already is a member of the Associated Students of Kansas, a state student lobbying organization, she said.
"ASK is a member of USSA," Ashner said. "So we have access to the information USSA sends them."
USSA members pay $275 a year.
When the Senate committees consider whether to rejoin USA, justifying spending that money might be difficult, Ashner said.
THE STUDENT Senate Legislative
Affairs Committee and ASK do a good job of keeping students informed about issues on state and national levels, she said.
Fine said USSA had faced financial problems in the past and still had some debts but was taking care of those problems.
USSA lobbies primarily for higher education issues, she said, but it does take stands on civil rights issues as well.
She said the group would examine federal educational equity laws for minorities, women and disabled students at its 14th annual lobbying conference in Washington, March 4-6.
USSA thinks higher education should not be denied to anyone because that person cannot afford it or is disabled, she said.
The lobbyists hold conferences to
brief students on legislation and to train them to be good lobbyists, she said.
"STUDENTS are the future. If they're not thinking about important issues and trying to make a difference," she said, "then who will be?"
"We can't buy votes, but we realize there is power in numbers."
USSA also distributes information about legislation and issues it is concerned with.
"A lot of people don't know what the Solomon Amendment is," Fine said. "But they should know."
USSA is against the amendment, which would require men to show proof that they have registered for the draft to qualify for financial aid, she said.
The amendment discriminates against men because women are not required to register for the draft, she said. And it forces the financial aid officers to "play cop," a role they aren't set up to play.
Spencer features Renaissance collection
Books reflecting scholarly challenges of the Renaissance are now on display at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
"A Choice of Emblemes" is a collection of emblem books dating from 1534 to the 18th century.
An emblem book is a specialized book containing woodcuts or engravings that illustrate a fable or allegory. The pictures are accompanied by a motto, poem or sentence that interprets them.
NORA QUINLAN, librarian for special collections at Spencer, selected the works from more than 100 books of
emblems in the library's special collection of rare books.
Quinlan said the emblems were popular in Italy and France during the 16th and 17th centuries as a scholarly toy.
"They served as entertainment for scholarly people. You were cultured if you had an emblem book and could understand what it meant," she said. "I sometimes think of them as the 'Rubik's Cube' of that time."
The first emblem books were printed in Latin and translated to French and Italian. English interpretations were printed later.
Qquinlan said that the books were important today not only to the study of art history, but also English, classics and science. The images found in emblems can also be found in literature and early science books.
The people who made the emblems used characters and images from contemporary books for the themes of the prints. Emblems were derived from mythology, histories of classical gods and even old coins and medals.
THE EXHIBIT not only features the emblem books, but also books that were used in the exhibition.
featuring Cupid in a variety of scenes. The source for the emblem shows different types of Cupids demonstrating different meanings of love.
One book is a series of love emblems
Other themes include geography and politics.
The exhibit also includes commentaries and interpretations of the emblems.
A seminar about emblems and how they reflect the culture and philosophical beliefs of the Renaissance will be Feb. 23 at Spencer.
The collection will be on display through March 11.
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