University Daily Kansan, April 30, 1982
Page 9
Senate's performance discussed
By ANN LOWRY
Staff Reporter
Although some students and members of the Student Senate have questions about Senate's value, other members defend its importance despite several improvements this semester.
“It’s a lot of little things that add up to a professional organization,” David Welch, student body vice president, said yesterday. “That doesn’t come screaming out in big red letters, ‘Hey, what look Senate has done.’”
He said the Senate had tried to establish credibility with the administration and the students and he thought it had succeeded.
"I think one of our major accomplishments this term is we have effectively set up a working relationship with the administration by attending meetings—going to meetings with administrators and faculty with the view we're here to provide input, not argue." Welch said.
DURING THE YEAR, students worked with faculty and staff members on committees such as the Parking and Traffic Board, the Health Advisory Board, Recreational Services Board, Student Advisory Council, University Council, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and the Kansas Union Memorial Board.
Welch said it always took Senate administrations time to prove their credibility within such groups because the first semester was a learning
process.
But Loren Busby, holdover student senator, said, "It's been a kind of year
where nobody's rocked the boat, just administered to the bureaucracy without moving forward or backward."
busty said he had noticed that senators were more concerned with getting out of meetings quickly than taking time to become well-informed
"What botheres me is the KU Student Senate was created in 1969 in response to national student movements to provide a voice in student affairs," Busy said. "All we're doing now is allocating money."
WHILE ALLOCATING the student activity fee is a large responsibility, Welch said, committee participation in other areas grew considerably this year and the Senate became more organized than it was last year.
"We have tried to get as many students involved as possible," Welch
Some of the Senate's main issues, Welch said, were trying to get beer in Memorial Stadium and protesting cuts in financial aid for higher education.
The Communications Committee finished a Senate brochure that the last administration started, the Academic Affairs Committee gave the students' opinion to the Committee on the Status of Undergraduate Education at KU, the rights committee reviewed the curriculum and the Cultural Affairs Committee helped the Swarthout Student Society's student membership drive.
EXCEPT FOR THE bills dealing with the budget, most of the legislation passed by the Senate this semester was administrative.
One bill renamed the Student Legal Services as Legal Services for Students. Another stated that the Senate would support the chance to speak before Senate.
Resolutions against higher education loan cuts and the KUAC's student activity fee hike were passed.
The Senate passed resolutions supporting the Friends of Solidarity and the Swarthout society's student membership drive.
The Senate passed a petition to rename the Visual Arts Building after J. Ward Lockwood, a former KU professor. He is among some of his paintings to the University.
The Senate passed a petition to allow students to serve three years on the University Council and another to establish a committee of faculty, administrators and students to consider the beer-in-the-stadium issue.
NONE OF THESE issues caused fireworks.
"I think the problem with the attitude toward Student Senate is the fact that Senate is a big trusteeship," Jim Cramer, student senator, said. "The issues and things they deal with are sometimes so technical that the average student would think nothing was going on.
"It's not something that's going to fire up the average student, but that doesn't mean it's not necessary or important."
Wich said the Senate had plans for two main projects to begin this summer; buying a computer system for the Senate and instituting a new lecture series to bring big-name speakers to KU.
On the record
A KU student told Lawrence police that his roommate had threatened him with a six-inch butcher knife and then stolen about $260 from him at about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday at their residence at $248 Murphy St., police said.
Police said the roommates had been arguing and the victim went into the bathroom to get away from the suspect. While the victim was in the bathroom, he grabbed a knife and grabbled at the butcher knife and swung it at the victim when he came out.
The victim left the apartment. When he returned, the suspect was gone and the money was missing, police said. There have been no arrests.
POLICE ARRESTED a 19-year-old Douglas County woman for allegedly attempting to forge a check at abut a 17-year-old in the State Bank. 595,154 ST. police said.
Gail R. Grandtaff, Rt. 2 Humbult was arrested after she allegedly tried to write a $225 check that was not hers. A police closed for several months, police said.
Grandstaff is being held on $5,000 bond in the Douglas County jail.
VANDALS SHATTERED a plate glass window worth about $600 sometime Monday at the House of Usher, 838 Massachusetts St., police
They said vandals threw an object at
the window and shattered it. There are no suspects.
VANDALS ALSO CAUSED almost $500 worth of darmage to West Junior High School, 2700 Harvard Road, sometimes during of March, police were warded.
Reported Vandals had thrown rocks and bricks through about 20 plate glass windows at the school, police said.
There are no suspects.
BURGLARST STOLE more than $300 worth of stereo equipment about a 4 a.m. yesterday from a parked car at 554 Pine Cone Drive.
Police said burglar broke the passenger side window and stole a cassette stereo. There are no suspects.
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