University Daily Kansan, January 24, 1983
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Chairman could sign guests without assembly approval
New AURH rules may bring more performers to KU
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
A structural change in the Association of University Residence Halls system could bring more academic lecturers and performers to the University of Kansas, an AURH official said yesterday.
Scott Corbett, Stow, Ohio, graduate student and the educator to the social programming committee of AURH, said he would like the social chairman of AURH to be able to sign contracts with speakers and performers without first getting formal approval from the group's general assembly.
In that way, he said, many speakers
would not have to wait for the approval before signing a contract.
But Bob Jolly, the present AURH social chairman and Derby senior, said the proposal was not needed and that there was no problem with the present system.
"IF THE SOCIAL chairman is doing his job and planning ahead of time, there is no problem going through the assembly." Jolly said.
He said residents of the halls had a right to determine what was going on at the mall.
The present system requires the social chairman to get final plans approved by the general assembly of the council. The president of each residence hall and
two representatives from each hall, Corbett said.
The new proposal will allow the social chairman to let speakers and performers sign contracts without waiting for approval from the general assembly, said Corbett, who is also resident director of Templin Hall.
Corbett said the social chairman would discuss ideas with the assembly before any definite plans were made, and would return with the signed contract to make the best program possible.
JUAN GIRALDO, chairman of AURH Housing Services and Topeka junior, said he would support the proposal if it were well-written.
The presidents of several residence hall's, however, disagreed.
Milton Scott, East St. Louis, Ill., junior and president of EWLworth Hall, said he wouldn't support the proposal. "I don't see one person making the decision."
DAN MAILER, president of Oliver Hall, said the proposal conflicted with Hall's own plans.
"I don't see how what Mr. Corbett said is true." Ahlert, Florissant, Mo., sophomore, said. "I cannot give the answer to that. That's not the system set up."
But Michael Horton, the chairman of the board of appeals of AURH, said he would probably support the proposal. Horton, Margery Mo., judges, said
that he thought the AURH's executive board would have mixed reactions to this proposal.
The concert, featuring Crow Johnson,
is sponsored by Tempelin and Elworth
for the event.
CORBETT SAID he noticed the need for a new system while preparing for a concert for Wednesday and Thursday at Hashinger Hall.
He said planning for the concert began last year, but Johnson's schedule openings were during spring break. AURH was supposed to consider the concert last December, but Corbett said he was unable to submit the proposal because he was in the hospital.
Paul Berardi, Kansas City, Mo.
sophomore and president of Joseph R. Pearson Hall, said he opposed the proposal, but he added that there was a problem in losing prospective speakers.
"Sure, there's a problem, but there's a problem in everything," he said.
Corbett said he would make the proposal if he could find a delegation that would formally propose it to the assembly.
The present system does not allow members of the executive board of AURH, composed of the president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and the standing committees, the power to vote or make formal proposals, Corbett said.
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