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Friday. November 17, 1972
University Daily Kansan
University Senate
Mail Ballot Proposal OKd
BY CAROLYN OLSON Kansas Staff Writer
An attempt by student members of the University Senate to defeat the use of mail ballots, failed when the senate adopted the proposal at its Thursday meeting.
Last week the University Senate did not act on a motion to delete the paragraph in the University Senate Code revisions which allowed the senate to use a mail ballot when one-third of the members present at a meeting requested it.
The meeting was adjourned because there was no quorum.
At the University Senate meeting
Thursday, Herman Lujan, associate
professor of political science and presiding
officer of the University Senate, accepted a
motion to reconsider the paragraph
providing for a mail ballot.
A MOTION TO VOTE on Article III, as it was originally proposed to include the mail ballot, was accepted and passed. Also included in Article III was an amendment to meet at least once during the fall semester and once during the spring semester.
Before the controversial mail ballot section was adopted, students who were opposed to the provision attempted to append it.
Traditionally, a large percentage of students attend University Senate meetings, while only a small percentage of the faculty members attend.
Tuck Duncan, Wilmette, III., senior,
proposed that the mail ballot be used for
the purpose of voting only on Senate Code
Honors. His amendment was defended.
ANOTHER AMENDMENT, introduced by Dave Dillon, Hutchinson senior and
student body president, called for the use of the mail ballot when two-thirds of the members present requested it, instead of the one-third members stipulation.
Dillon's amendment also was defeated by a voice vote.
The bill requires that when a mail ballot is sent to members of the University Senate, the executive secretary must attach a copy of arguments for and against the issue.
Students had argued that it was unfair for a person not to hear the arguments for and against the proposal.
IN OTHER BUSINESS, the University Senate passed an amendment proposed by Robert Friauf, professor of physics and astronomy, which states that no Dean, director of a division or other member of the faculty, should be a member of the investigative responsibilities should be a member of the Senate Executive Committee (SenEx).
A second amendment calling for not more
than two of the faculty members on SenXe to hold a half-time or more than half-time appointment in the chancellor's office as associate dean or assistant dean or any other faculty member. By one vote, the One vote was cast by presiding officer, Lulan, after a tie vote.
ARTICLE IV OF THE PROPOSED revision to the Senate Code which strengthens the University Council was adopted. In the revision, the University Council will be the legislative body, while the University Senate will be the reviewing body of measures passed by the Council, and the committee of the professor of organ, and chairman of the Organization and Administration committee of the University Council.
Under the new article, the University Council will consist of 39 faculty members, 10 student senators and two graduate student senators. The chancellor and president of the student body will serve as ex officio members.
Advisory Committee To Study Nominees
The Campus Advisory Committee for the selection of a new chancellor will begin to consider nominees for the position at its meeting in Lawrence Sunday.
"The preliminaries are just about over," said Richard Von Ende, acting executive secretary of the organization.
Groups Now Responsible For Any Excess Spending
The Student Senate passed a bill accepting a contract Thursday that will make all senate funded organizations responsible for expenses in excess of their allocations.
The contract was written by Rick McKernan, Salina senior and member of the Finance and Auditing Committee. It provides that all expenses incurred by any employee in connection with the audit by the senate and those that are not spent in accordance with the line item schedule will
Czech Educator Will Visit KU
Milan Openczyk, professor of theology at Charles University in Prague, will be in Lawrence Sunday and Monday for his last lecture on America before returning to Czechovskah.
Opcenacken presently is European secretariat of the United Nations, which has offices in Geneva.
After a 7 p.m. jazz mass Sunday at the University Lutheran Church, Opcenayc will be present at a coffee hour. He will speak to area pastors on theological trends in Europe at 9:30 a.m. Monday at the University Lutheran Church.
Monday noon, at the United Ministries in Higher Education, 1204 Oread St., he will present a special faculty forum on "Wrestling with Problems of Revolutionary Change." He also will lead a discussion on Christian and revolutionary change at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road.
be the responsibility of the officers of the organization.
Although the Student Senate was given the authority in 1970 to regulate the student activity fee, their liability for overspending it is written down in a clearly defined contract.
"We had the money before we knew how to handle it," said McKernan. "The idea for the contract has been here a long time. No one took the time to write it down."
Mkernan said he worked on the contract with Charles Oldfather, University of Kansas attorney, until they thought it was legally binding.
The contract also provides that all expenditures from any allocated funds must have authorization from the senate either or some authorized senate employee.
In addition, at the time of any purchase a member of an organization must present a written request to the merchant (APO) to the merchant involved in the transaction. If the APO is not presented to the merchant, the Student Senate cannot purchase under provisions in the contract.
In other provisions, any organization receiving funds from sources other than the Student Senate must establish an account with the treasurer of Student Organizations in the KU Business Office. All the additional funds will be handled by the Business Office.
McKernan said the contract was written to establish a guideline concerning careful and timely monitoring of patients.
"We're responsible for the money of 20,000 students," McKernan said.
Von Ende said Thursday that the closed
basketball game begins at 9 a.m. in the Regents
Room in St. Louis.
Von Ende said that he and Jacob Kleinberg, professor of chemistry and chairman of the committee, met this week to finalize a plan for next year's committee discussed at its last meeting.
"We will present the guidelines to the committee to see if they will accept them as being in their final form," Von Ende said. He said that as of Thursday afternoon, his office had received 145 nominations, a few which were from students. He said that it was a challenge to distinguish qualities that the senders would like to see in the new chancellor.
Von Ende estimated that the meeting Sunday would last until noon and possibly
Bruce Frazee To Head IFC
The Interfraternity Council elected
theta president for the 10th year
at the University of Kansas.
The new president is Bruce Frazee, Inc. city senior from Acacia. The other elected officers are: Evan Olson, Salina junior from Phil Delta Theta, vice president of fraternity affairs; John Ziegelmeyer, Kansas City, Kan., senor from Phi Kappa Psi, vice president for rush affairs; Paul Clark, Phi Kappa Psi, vice president for Phi Kappa Sigma, treasurer; Van Spake, Kansas City, Kan., junior from Phi Kappa Epsilon, secretary.
Frazee will replace Les McLaughlin, Dallas laser, as president.
Nichols Discusses KU Problems
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Thursday at his weekly news conference that presidents and chancellors of other universities in the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges shared the same problem now facing KU.
Nichols and other University administrators returned Wednesday night from the annual meeting of the association in Washington, D.C.
"We discussed the leveling off of enrollment, which we are encountering in its initial stages; the financial crust, which is still being developed and partly from a leveling off of state and public support; the institution of affirmative action programs; tenure problems; and the expectation of federal support, which will be too little and too late," he said.
NICHOLS SAID that many of these problems could be brought early by the use of the Internet.
John Conard, director of University Relations, said that he and his counterparts at other universities discussed in depth public opinion polling and better use of the electronic media as ways of improving University relations.
"Public opinion polling is quite new to universities," he said. "It could be used to help universities determine what direction their educational programs should take."
Conard said that although KU had one staff member who worked with
television stations, Kansas was far ahead of most schools in this area. He said most universities still were relying heavily on the print medium.
"We need the vehicle of an educational network for a statewide public education
During the meeting, Keth Nichter, vice chancellor for business affairs, was elected chairman of the National Council of Business Affairs, Conard said.
program," he said. "The state needs more of this kind of service."
TODAY SUA Travel Fair
presents
SPEAKER-Anita Herzfeld, Foreign Study Advisor of the KU Foreign Study Office will describe their program at 12:30 in the Council Room.
MOVIES—Films from around the world and the US will be shown all day in the Traditions Room.
REPRESENTATIVES—Delegates from various programs, including KU Hostels, various travel programs and foreign countries will man booths in the Union Gallery all day.
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