Election complaint filed
Staff Reporter
By CAROL BEIER
A complaint regarding Student Senate campaign tactics was submitted last night to John Mitchelson. Senate elections com-
Requirements for candidate disclosures of campaign spending may促请 the filmmaker of a second complaint today.
may print the file of a second complaint today.
Any student can file a complaint with the electors committee.
Any student call in a complaint Warrant records confirm. The first complaint was filed by Barry Shalinsky, candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2013. He asked Harper, student body president; Reggie Robinson, student body vice president; and Eileen Walker, off-campus senator.
WALKER, WHO WAS appointed last fall, is running for the off-campus semester seat in this election.
The letter contains information on the elections, the legal services program, the Consumer Affairs Association, transportation for handicapped students, roommate listing services and a complaint service.
In the complaint, Shalimar accused Walker of mailing the letter, with her signature at the bottom, to coincide with the first
The complaint states Shalimar's objections to a letter sent by Walker to all off-campus students. The letter was printed on Student Senate stationery and mailed with a Student Senate bulk rate permit.
The complaint reads: "I am alleging that this letter . . . was sent for the primary purpose of urging off-campus students to vote, and to vote for Walker. The glaring absence of a list of the names of other candidates must lead to this conclusion."
"APPEARLY STUDENTS at KU are paying for election expenses of incumbent senators who use a tiny veiled campaign policy to communicate with their electorate on election day with Senate money. Iresent this."
Walker said last night that the timing of the newsletter was the result of difficulties in obtaining a list of more than 15,000 off-campus students. She discussed the possibility of sending the letter last fall with Harper.
"One of my biggest concerns was the failure of senators to communicate with their constituents," she said.
"IM JUST REALLY sorry that it's come to this. I have a lot of respect for Barry."
She said she had thought of including a list of candidates for the off-campus senate seat when she wrote the letter.
"I was concerned about that but I thought a list of off-campus candidates would be tacitless," she said.
Robinson said he could understand Shalai'sky point but that Walker had been trying to mail the newsletter since last fall.
If it wouldn't have been for a bureaucratic mess, she would have had it out a long time ago. It's merely coincidence that it happened.
"It just doesn't hold that much water with me. Etta was just doing her job as off-campus senator."
The second complaint is to be filed today by Rob Green, Hays senior. He said yesterday that his complaint would demand that the elections committee require fully documented spending reports before the deadline provided for in the Senate regulations.
Those regulations require all candidates to submit spending reports and receipts to the elections committee within two weeks.
GREEN DECIDED to report the complaint after reviewing preliminary spending reports submitted by the presidential and executive offices.
"There needs to be more investigation of the figures and more uniformity," Green said. "I wish I would have realized no one was
"My complaint is a request to use the sort of vigilance that the elections committee should have used in the first place," he said. "We have a great responsibility to overspend the $20 limit for presidential and vice presidential campaigns, but did not have figures to prove his suspicions."
Michelle said that Green complaint was probably right but that more complete disclosure would be investigated in the
"I don't have any voice in the matter until the complaint is submitted." Mitchelson said.
Ice racina
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
raced held over the weekend by Wheesport Motorcycle Club of Lawrence. See page six for story and more photos.
Cyclists scramble for position during the start of one of several
Harper, Robinson satisfied with year
Harper said he had been disappointed by
"We didn't realize how much the things we wanted to do would cost," he said.
robinson admitted that they did not get as much expansion of the KU on Wheels
Bv CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
When the votes are tallied early tomorrow morning, Mike Harper and Reggie Robinson will vacate their offices of student body president and vice president with the feeling that they may have revived a dying Student Senate.
The number of candidates and the increased competition of this election indicates a renewed interest in student government, Harper said.
He and Robinson listed several accomplishments of their administration, including the establishment of Wheels bus service, improvements in recreational facilities, the beginning of a bus service for handicapped students during the summer months, and plans for prepaid legal services for students.
There are five teams of presidential and vice presidential candidates in this year's election.
"Either we did a lot right or a lot wrong," Harper said.
HARPER'S YEAR-END report recommended that his successors further expand KU on Wheels and make the handcapped service permanent instead of temporary.
Harper also said he would have handled at least one issue of the past year differently—the resignation of Phill Kaufman as the student Senate Executive Committee.
the delays of the legal services program. He promised in his campaign last spring that the program would be operating before he could go now slated to begin in the next few weeks.
Robinson, who led the Higher Education Week steering committee, said he would have brought the disagreement out into the open earlier if he had it to do over again.
"I wasn't a clear-cut case of 'You can't
have him,' he said. "There we hints but
we don't."
Harper and Robinson have been criticized by some of the candidates for their acceptance of the administration's veto of a bill passed in December's Higher Education week ban.
"We weren't paying for him to come and speak. That kills you; you can claim cainism. That's not a joke."
"I WOULD HAVE asked him to resign
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Robinson said he thought the administration was justified in its veto of the speaker, Jonathan Kozol, a controversial author on higher education.
"WE TRIED NOT to make false promises."
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The University of Kansas
Thursday, February 15. 1979
Vol.89.No.95
Lawrence, Kansas
SenEx endorses foreign center
By JOHN LOGAN
Staff Reporter
A report proposing that a foreign student center be established at the University of Kansas was endorsed unanimously by the University Senate Executive Committee yesterday.
In a resolution to Chancellor Archie R. Dykes, SenEx called for establishment of the center and asked the governors to approve the resolution.
The SenEx endorsement came after 30 minutes of questioning the representatives of the University Senate.
The report, sent to SenEx members last week, recommended that the center be used as a place for meetings and social activities of foreign students. The center also would sponsor foreign films and other special events, the report said.
THE CENTER would house the offices of the KU International Club and other international student organizations. Those organizations currently share one 8-by 12-foot office in the Kansas Union, the renoir said.
The report also recommended that the United Ministries building, 1900 Great, be bought and used for the center.
More than $200,000 would be needed to buy the building.
according to the report, and interest from a $400,000 endowment fund would be required to run it.
During the discussion with subcommittee representatives, SentEX members expressed concern that the use of
"I'm worried about a separatism problem," Don Marquis, associate professor of philosophy and a SenEx member, said. "I'm concerned that the international movement will move to 1924 Oread and we won't see them again."
Another SenEx member, T.P. Srinivasan, professor of mathematics, agreed with Marquis.
"I AM CONCERNED that the center would segregate foreign students from the mainstream," Srinivasan said. "There is already a tendency for foreign students to organize among themselves."
But Arthur Djang, chairman of the subcommittee that prepared the report, disagreed.
"Foreign student centers at other universities have developed into major centers of student life." Djang said. "This would not polarize them, but would bring them together."
Joseph Conrad, professor of Slavic languages and chairman of the University Senate Committee on Foreign Trade.
"We may be idealistic, but we feel that the center would bring about more interaction between American and European people," she said.
**CONRAD AND Djang told SenEx that funds for the proposed center would be solicited from countries that send students to KU. Last semester, 1,452 students from 99 countries were enrolled at the University.**
Conrad told SenEx that a full-time resident director would be hired to supervise the center's activities. One of the roles of the director would be to prevent disagreements sparked by international rivalries, he said.
"I'm sure there are a lot of nations with a favorable balance of payments towards the United States who would accept that," she said.
Conrad said all fund-raising efforts for the center would be made through the Kansas University Endowment Association. The countries making donations will have no control over the activities of the center, he said.
"We would do this to avoid any charges that foreign governments had control over the center." Conrad said.
The proposal for the foreign student center will now be sent to Chancellor Dykes for his decision.
Dykes said yesterday that he had not reviewed the proposal and he would not comment on when he would.
Contest seeks best one-liner in singles game
By PATRICIAMANSON
It's a familiar college event.
You spot a good-looking stranger across a crowded bar. Your eyes meet. You walk across the room. You take a deep breath, open your mouth and say . . .
What do you say?
The company, Barronbrook Publishing Company, is holding a contest through February to find the best pickup line being used on college campuses.
A California publishing company is trying to find out.
The company will pay the winner $1,000 and 500 runners-up $15 to $100, Ron Toper, vice president of Baronbrook, said. About $10,000 will be paid all together, he said.
The lines will be published in a paperback book. "501 Best Pickin Lines."
See "pick-ups" page three
"ITS NOT just going to be a laundry list," Tepper said. "We'll have all kinds of lines—funny, intellectual, direct. We're going to make our work best in which parts of the country."
Tepper said Baronbrook had received more than 5,000 entries from all parts of the country since the contest began Feb. 1.
"There are a couple of universal lines and then some that are peculiar to certain regions of the country." Tepper said.
"One guy turned in about 20 lines. His imagination was working overtime. A lot of people have turned in more than one."
Women as well as men have entered the contest.
"We estimated we'd get about 20 percent
"A lot of times, a woman will cite a line used on her. She'll say, 'It didn't work on me, but I thought it was pretty good.'"
of the lines from girls," Tepper said. "It surprised us, but almost 50 percent came
Tepper said one woman who rejected a pickup line was told, "We won't have to have sex. We'll just lie naked beside each other."
ALTHOUGH CONTESTANTS are only required to send in a line, Tepper said, about half have told where they used the line and the results it produced.
"Most of the lines were used at bars or parties." Tepper said.
The lines are screened by a group of college-age workers as the company receives them, Tepper said. The finalists
will be judged by two men and two women who are in their 20s and 30s.
Some employees of the company already have tested the entries, Tepper said.
"There are some guys in the marketing部门 who are 22 or 23 years old, just out of school," he said. "These guys can test the effectiveness of the lines. They've thumbed through the entries and tried in hats. I don't know to what effect."
BARONBOOK is spending about $7,500 for advertisements in 38 college newspapers.
The winners will be announced March 31 and the book will be published in April.
Tepper said he thought Baronbrook would receive many more entries.
"There's a lot of creative lines out there." he said.
Glover writes bill to reduce pot penalties
By GENE LINN
Staff Reporter
Possession of less than an ounce of marijuana would be handled by Kansas law enforcement personnel as a traffic ticket is introduced in the Kansas Lethalitation is passable.
The current law states that the second conviction for possession of marijuana in any amount in a felony and carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail, State Rep. Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said Monday.
Glover wrote the marjana bill, which was introduced last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee by State Sen. Elwina Withey and R-Topeka, the committee's chairman.
"The big difference in the new bill is that it would remove the fear of getting a criminal record and of going to jail," Glover said.
Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan
said yesterday that he would support such a bill if it had certain safeguards.
He said he thought the legislation should include the same prohibitions against public use and against use while driving a vehicle that apply to liquor.
Glover said citations under the new bill would be handled like a traffic ticket.
"YOU SHOULD be able to go on the street without worrying about getting hit by someone who either drunk from drinking whiskey or stoned from smoking a joint," he
"This is a possible trade-off point," he said. "Some legislators feel that it is all right to give the governor more power."
"The offender would get a citation to appear in court, and in lieu of going to court he could pay the fine, which could be up to $100," he said.
He said no matter how many convictions a person would have under the new bill, the government had not done anything.
Under the present law, Glover explained, the amount of marjiania the offender had to pay for the offense.
Glover said his legislation would make possession of more than one ounce of marijuana legal.
more. It won't be easy to keep the penalty
the same for all convictions and get the bill
THE SECOND OFFENSE is a felony and carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
The new bill, he said, has a better chance of becoming law than similar bills he has passed.
The first conviction for simple possession is a class A misdemeanor and carries a maximum penalty of a $2,500 fine or one year in jail or both.
His former proposals would have made possession an unclassified misdemeanor, he said, but the new bill would create a D classification of misdemeanor strictly for
possession of less than an ounce of martiann.
"The purpose of this change is to avoid the stigma of decriminalization," he said. "It will help the community."
"Frankly, after the Republican primary last year in which Ron Hein was accused of voting for decriminalization, some congressmen are worried about voting for eliminating penalties for possession," he said.
State Sen. Hein, R-Topeka, was defeated in the second district congressional race by Democrat John McCain, just before the election a Topena family counselor distributed thousands of pamphlets accusing Hein of having voted for decriminalization of marijuana and an assault law.
GLOVER SAID supporters of his new bill
promise penalties for possession, not decriminalizing
them.
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