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University Daily Kansan
KU official directs state office
Staff Photo by ALAN ZLOTKY
By TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reorter
TOPEKA - Karya Hoggard, looking out from behind stacks of letters to the governor, is the Lawrence version of the small town girl who made good in the state
Kathy Hoggard
The service, established in Carlin's administration, was initiated to process constituents' inquiries.
Hoggard, 31, is on leave of absence from her job as directors of KU's Information Center and assistant to David Ambler, vice chairman for student affairs. She left KU to become director of the office for constituent services for Gov. John Carlin
With the same efficiency she used to organize KU's Information Center, Hoggard has begun to simplify the number of answers answering inquiry to the governor.
"OUR MAIL ranges from 'may' I have your autograph letters to letters asking for help with the mailing of a recent taking mail Jan. 23 and having received 780 numbers. The number could go as high as 1,000 a week when the Legislature sets controversial issues on the ballot."
When a letter is received, she said, it is recorded on a daily log sheet. Then, a "back slip" (as in passing the Huggard case) is sent to the state agency that can best solve it.
When the agency drafts a reply, it is rewritten by the office staff and sent to the constituent with the governor's signature.
"The reason we send our repies under the governor's signature is that most people would be insulted if they were written to by someone else.
"EVER IF THE answer were written by someone who is an expert on a problem, a person might think they were just some funky," she said.
Although she said she received personal satisfaction from her new job, she said she wanted to be careful not to overdo it.
"There are some inquiries we'll never be able to help," she said. "We have to be careful and have a reasonable attitude about who we can help and not get burned out, but at the same time, not become afraid of people who really need our help."
While Hoggard stays busy helping
people in Topeka, there are some in Lawrence who wish she'd never left.
HER FORMER boss, Amber said, 'We miss Kathy a lot. She can only take a two-year leave of absence, but we hope she'll be back before that.
"She was one of the greatest things that happened to this University, but I couldn't argue with her going because of the opportunity of working in the governor's
Judy Browder, actoring director of the Information Center, said that although the center was running smoothly without Hoggear she "missed Kathy just because she loved her."
"Kathy was at the Information Center for seven years," she said. "She was more
than the director, she was a moral back-up person. The director she has a toll-free number so I can call her.
Hoggard said she was not sure when she would return to KU.
"IF THIS job doesn't just chew me up and split我 out, I plan on being here at least five more times."
She said she enjoyed working with Carlin.
"I am more and more impressed with him all the time," she said. "He seems to be a very good manager and is very kind. My need I see to see him, he makes the time."
Despite its pleasant aspects, Hoggard said there were some things about her job that made it difficult.
"THE HARDEST thing to get used to is 'how people perceive the governor's office,' she said. 'The glamour of the governor's office is far more apparent than real. I still come to work and work with me, so eat peanut-batter sandwiches for lunch.'
Another less enjoyable part of the job is the formality required of the employees,
"The difference between this job and the Information Center is like night and day," she said. "Where the Information Center isfolk and informal, there are pressureshaving to work with people youve never met before. They're not always friendly."
Voters in this week's Student Senate election will be able to pick from the longest slate of registered presidential and vice candidates in the 8-9 year history of the Senate.
Or voters may bypass the candidates presented by the five registered coalitions and cast their ballots for a write-in team whose campaign slogan is "Abolish Student Senate."
Rhodon Stoner, Bonner Sprinter junior, and Fay Chance, Lawrence junior, have begun a year-long relationship with president and vice president in the hope that they will one day be able to dissolve the company.
Chance said yesterday that he and Stoner wanted to "clean up the act" of Student Senate by abolishing the student government. A possible replacement for the present system would be a committee of faculty representatives to be chosen by faculty members.
"WE'RE NOT TRYING to wipe out the student voice." Chance said. "I just want it off."
Once the program is implemented,
Chance said, the only officer needed would
be a parliamentarian who would oversee procedure for the committee.
"There would be no need for a student boy president and vice president," Chance said.
He said he was not certain of the exact method he and Stoner would use to abolish slavery in the North.
"I don't think it would work to have the Senate plan its own demise," he said.
Chance also said he was not certain of how professional schools such as the School of Law would be represented on the new committee. He said the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences' representatives would be in charge by faculty members in each department.
*Faculty members are professionals. We hope the faculty is qualified to select the team.*
"Because such a small percentage of the students vote, I don't feel voting is fair."
Chance said he and Stoner had considered run for Senate seats in last fall's elections but decided against it after sitting in the Senate. He said he said the Senate had "overgrown itself."
LA&S deadline tomorrow for drop without record
Undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences have until tomorrow to drop a course without having a record of that course on their transcripts.
After March 6, a student who wants to drop a liberal arts course must petition the University.
After tomorrow and through March 6, a student who drops a course in the college will receive a W on his transcript, indicating that he dropped the course.
Richard Shaw, a member of the Academic Standards Subcommittee, said the petition would be reviewed by a screening committee and approved if the student could show some overriding personal or economic reason for dropping the course.
Last Tuesday the College Assembly of Liberal Arts and Sciences voted to send a ballot to all students and professors in the college to decide whether to keep the present drop policy. The policy was initiated by the assembly in the fall 1977 semester.
Some students at the meeting who supported the change argued that the present seven-week period before a student must petition was too short. Many wanted the period extended to nine weeks with no petition necessary.
According to a report issued to the Committee on Undergraduate Study and Advisory last November, 783 students participated in Liberal Arts and Sciences to drop classes.
The college office approved 374 petitions.
Of the 409 sent to the academic standards subcommittee, 177 were approved for accreditation.
Of the 783 total petitions, 161 were submitted by freshmen, 189 by sophomores, 177 by seniors.
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