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University Daily Kansan, November 16; 1981
Student senate election
Candidates voice opinions as elections near
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
When students go to the polls Wednesday and Thursday to vote in the Student Senate elections—if they will choose presidential and vice presidential candidates from three coalitions.
Yesterday, candidates from the Perspective, Groucho Marx and Working Alternative coalitions spoke about their reasons for running and what they wanted to accomplish if they got into office.
PERSPECTIVE
The Perspective Coalition was the first to formally declare its entry into the campaign more than a month before the Oct. 15 filing deadline.
Presidential and vice presidential candidates David Adkins and David Welch, both topoTEK junior, point to the state's sincerity and eagerness for the offices.
"You can't deny that the other coalitions were thrown together at the last moment," Adams said. "We have a game plan for the year ahead."
"We can bring some unity to the office staff."
The Perspective Coalition candidates see Senate's problem as a lack of credibility and they say that with their experience, they can change that.
ADKINS IS IN HIS second year as a student senator and besides being the former chairman of the Student Senate executive committee (he resigned when the campaign began), he is also a member of the University Council and the University Senate executive Committee.
Committee.
Welch is also a first year senator and serves on the University Council and the KU Parking and Traffic Board.
They said that the changes in the budget process, which transferred spring budget responsibilities to the other committees, were a result of the other committees for different duties.
Monte Jansse, left, and David Phillips
David Welch, left, and David Adkins
"I honestly think that Senate can be a little more streamlined in its functions," Adkins said. "We really don't have to worry much about the 'educious budget process.'"
They said the Senate committees
needed to be coordinated with University committees and student boards so they could be more effective.
They also said they favored the creation of a state and community affairs committee to deal with the problems in city of Lawrence on K11 student issues.
A THEY SAID THAT increased student involvement was an important element of building a good student government.
or something. "I think David and I can appeal to a broad base of people, legislators and the administration," Welch said.
Adkins said that the new University administration was receptive to student input and the Senate should provide some of that input.
"I don't think the Senate has had any resolutions come through it taking stands on anything." Adkins said. "I think there's no way you could spend enough time with the Regents and the Legislature."
Adkins said he saw representation as his main function as student body president.
"I see more clearly delineated roles of the (Senate) executive and legislative." he said.
He said he would use his office to reach out to both legislators and students on issues such as the Reagan tax cuts and how the cuts would affect students.
Welch said that his major duty would be to run the Senate meeting so that senators could have a say.
seem a good way to appeal.
"It's not an end-all and cure-all, but at the same time we can do a lot of things." he said.
ADKINS ALSO SAID that he would meet weekly with the chancellor and other University administrators.
They said their experience and planning gave them a definite advantage over the other two coalitions.
"We are not just in this for ourselves," Welch said. "We were not just thrown together in the last minute."
Adkins agreed and said that his goal itself to make student interest.
"The reason people can't stand student government is because the people in student government want to make it a game," Adkins said.
Groucho Marx
David Phillips, Overland Park junior, and Monte Janssen, Solomon junior, are newcomers to student government.
That fact, plus the name of their coalition, have caused some people to refer to the two as a "ioke" coalition.
But it is a charge which Phillips and Janssen have denied during the campaign.
THEY MAINTAIN that they are concerned about the Senate and what they consider a lack of responsiveness to the students' problems.
"We didn't think students were being represented," Phillips said. "I think we ran because we though we could do a better job controlling the budget for the students."
As a part of budget control, Philips said that the new Budget Committee formed this fall further removed jobs from the money allocation process.
The other standing committees should still retain a place in the budget process, he said, with the Budget Committee. The other committees recommendations.
"I disagree with that," he said. "The committee they're setting up, instead of being the only step, should be one in a series of steps."
Phillips said that if he were elected president, he would not involve himself in Senate operations, but would leave that to Janssen.
vantage was that they could not "be blamed for what's gone on in the Senate for the past two years."
He said that his and Janssen's ad
"They (the other candidates) can the student body president as somebody who is supposed to deal with the Senate," Phillips said. "I think the student body president should be separate from the Senate.
"I think the student body president should be as remote from the Senate as possible."
HE ALSO QUESTIONED the use of student lobby groups such as the Associated Students of Kansas and the United States Student Association.
"Why can't the student body president be used for that," Philips said. "Legislators can find out from the student body president what the students say."
The coalition also would like to see a stricter absenteeism policy with more enforcement.
But at the very least, the coalition hopes that it has stirred up interest in the campaign.
"Something we've said all along is that we'd much rather lose in an election where 10,000 students vote that 8,000 students only a few votes. Phillips said."
WORKING ALTERNATIVE
Loren Busy, Hutchinson junior, and David Cannatella, Opelousas, La., graduate student, were a last-minute body president and vice president.
Bursy begged his Senate experience as Finance and Auditing Committee chairman, SenEx vice chairman and member of the University Council.
re is in his second year as a student senator.
Cannatella is in his first term as a student senator, although he is also a member of several University Senate committees.
"What sets us apart is we think we have strong personal qualities of leadership not equally possessed by us. Weich as a team," Canaan said.
"We feel we have to provide aggressive leadership."
ALTHOUGH THE TWO filed five minutes before the filing deadline, Busy said that he considered running for quite a while.
He said that he put off declaring his candidacy because he couldn't put together a coalition, but he began considering running when he saw the two coaltions who were involved up to that time.
"It then became apparent that there was only going to be one set of candidates with any experience running," he said.
That number has now grown to more than 20.
He and Cannatella teamed with 13 Senate candidates to form the Working Alternative Coalition.
"We thought we could serve the student body." River said.
BUSBY AND CANNATELLA will the basic issues as working to gain student input in student government, including Senate and Senate's credibility would be restored.
"In terms of issues there's not going to be very much difference (with the other coalitions)," Busy said. "Where we differ is a lot of experience in student government and a lot of knowledge of the University in both positions."
Busby said his role as student body president would be as representative to
David Cannatella, left, and Loren Busby
the administration, the Legislature and the Board of Regents. But he said he would also be involved in the workings of the Senate.
Cannatella, who as vice president would be presiding officer of the Senate, said he would try to encourage participation by individual senators.
"Most of the bills are authored by a half dozen may be 10 cents." haveoic
He said he would make the senators "on a personal level feel their input is welcome and needed."
Both thought that their roles as student leaders, and Senate presidents should overlap.
"I almost see it as a co-presidency." Busby said.
THE TWO SAID they hoped to change the view of Senate so that it deals with issues of importance to the students, rather than internal legislation.
They said that with the Budget Committee now taking over the budget hearings, the other committees will be free to deal with some of those issues.
And to find out what those issues are, the two propose a speakers bureau of student leaders who will visit different schools. University to discuss their problems.
"I don't think we can emphasize enough that we'll provide strong leadership to the children, we are not to lie down and die when the administration tells us to do so."
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