University Daily Kansan
Thursday, February 8, 1979
Election '79: Student body president
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Stories by Carol Beier
Rapport: Allen, Kenner
Ron Allen, Marytea junior, and Dave Kenner, Maryville, Mo., junior, want to make something functional out of what they did. "We was non-functional—the Student Senate."
Allen and Kemer, presidential and vice presidential candidates of the 25-member
Ron Allen
Rapport Coalition, said they plan to do things differently.
"We have to improve communication between the Student Senate and the press," Allen said. "One of the Senate's greatest resources is the Kanas."
Both Allen and Kenner said low voter turnout, 9.1 percent in last spring's elections, raised questions about the legitimacy of the Senate.
Allen's and Kenner's plans for increasing participation include stronger meeting attendance requirements for student senators. Allen and Kenner have required the 23 senate candidates on their coalition to pledge to join a committee if elected.
Allen has been a senator for two terms, and is chairman of Concerned Students for Education, a student lobbying organization, and a member of Associated Students of Kansas and a member of the Student Rights and Student Services committees. Kenner also has been a senator.
Both said experience set them apart from the four other coalitions. The Rapport Coalition is the only one in which both states are elected members of the Senate.
Alen and Kerner also said they wanted a change in the Senate budgeting system, which has been criticized.
guarantee funding to worthy organizations. Those in the priority class would receive
"We want to research those organizations that aren't spending their money," Allen said. "Some are spending just to get rid of them, and that's before the hearings." That's got to stop.
Dave Kenner
Apathy: Hazelrigg, Fleisher
Mark Hazlerig, Emporia junior, and Chris Fleissher, Lawrence junior, are asking people not to vote in the upcoming Student Senate election—even though they are running for student body president and vice president.
The coalition is called Apathy and their campaign slogan is "Who Care?" Hazrelzig and Fleisher want everyone to know that they don't care - about Senate.
Mark Hazelriqq
Both candidates insist that they are serious candidates but that they do not care whether they are elected.
IN SPITE of their philosophy, the Apathy Coalition has drafted a platform for action and has assembled four additional candidates who are running
"All of those people who don't vote are really supporting us," Fleisher said.
- Renaming the Visual Arts building Chalmers Hall after E. Laurence Chalmers, chancellor of the University from 1961 to 1972.
- Provisions of the platform include the following:
- Remaining the Academic Computer Center Lippincott Hall for Josh Lippincott, chancellor from 1833 to 1889, "because he did as much to promote enrolment as any other chancellor has done."
- Keeping the name of Old Green Hall "so that the statue of Jimmy Green can be in front of Green Hall."
- Naming the new law building Alfred Afford Hall. Hazelgrin said Alfred was the student on the statue with Green. Because Afford supposedly was an engineer, the half of the building with Afford would be moved in front of Learned Hall.
- Criminalizing alcohol in the Kansas Union until marijuana is decriminalized
"The present arrangement does have the Nunemaker districts but the way that the lines are drawn is ludicrous," Hambright said.
"to eliminate the blatant hypocrisy which prevents students from getting high, but not drunk, before going to movies and narties."
Chris Fleisher
- Firing Don Fambrough, head football coach, because of his past losing record.
They intend to redraw district lines and have all senators elected by the student body.
- Firing all heterosexual teachers "since they might persuade people to think that they are normal."
La Plume: Tomlinson, Hambright
Bob Tomlinson, Overland Park junior,
and John Wichromt, Westwich junior, are
admitted outsiders to the present student
team. It is clear that the best is the
reason to vote for them.
Bob Tomlinson
As election procedure stands, only freshman and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences elect senators according to geographic districts. All other
Tomminson and Hambring lead the 11-member La Plume Coalition. Tomminson said Tuesday that he and his running mate Matt Clemens were in government by unlawful La Plume, or the "pen."
students elect senators according to their school of study.
Student candidates debate tonight
TOMLINSON AND HAMBRIGHT said their research showed that although 10 percent of the University's student population lives in fraternities and sororites, 53 percent of the members of their year's Senate are fraternity and sorority members.
"The best way to improve participation in senate," Tornilson said, "is by letting the senator speak."
The presidential and vice presidential candidates from five Student Senate coalitions will meet at 7:30 tonight to debate issues in the big Eight Horn of the Kansas Union.
Tomlinson said the present Senate districting and division by school perpetuates the over-representation of certain living groups.
"My primary qualification for the office is that I'm not in Student Senate." Tomlinson sighs.
Neither candidate lives in a fraternity or has been a senator.
Tomlinson is a former member of the
Hambrait, who transferred to KU from Wichita State University in August, ran for the Wichita Board of Education and was appointed to the Manpower Area Planning Council.
Senate elections committee and has served as an intern in the Johnson County Court-
Both said the administration would have more respect for a student government that was more transparent.
John Hambright
Panel members for the debate are Mike Harper, student body president; Caryl Smith, Dean of student life; and Mark Mikkeisen, Lawrence graduate student.
"We have to right to demand that a proposal be adopted," Tomlinson said, if it's not done. "We also need to give the vote."
Porch Step: Berlin, Gomez
Margaret Berlin
Margaret Berlin, Bonner Springs junior, and George Gomez, Topeka junior, think students should know what they are paying for.
To that end, Berlin and Gomex, the Porch Step Coinstein's candidates for president, have been distributing a cost breakdown of the $100.00 General Student Fee as part of their campaign. The fee is included in tuition paid by full-time students.
"Students have a right to know what they are," Berlin said Tuesday.
As part of their concern that students
get what they pay for, Berlin and Gomez want improvements in the advising system during enrollment.
"THEERE ARE SOME advisers who don't even know the graduation requirements." Berlin said.
The two candidates said they would push for student representation on committees that grant tenure, although he expected little faculty support on this issue.
"We are the ones who are watching the instructors instruct," Gomez said.
The 44-member Porch Step Coalition, Berlin said, conveys an image of openness, friendliness and a firm foundation. It also symbolizes another campaign effort.
"Student Senate has never done anything with housing." Berlin said, "except to try to get rid of living group seats."
Berlin said the only exception was last spring's Senate provision for an off-campus seat. She and Gomez want to set up an off-campus student housing board to deal with problems and complaints of students who live off-campus by using off-campus make up more than 80 percent of the student population.
GOMEZ SAID the proposed housing board would put pressure on the city commission for stronger enforcement of the existin' housing codes.
Berlin, a two-term senator, is chairman of the Communications Committee and a member of the Residential Programs Advisory Board. Gomex is a
George Gomez
former president of Battenteld Scholarship Hall and is a KU delegate for the Associated Students of Kansas.
Berlin and Gomez said their advantage over other conditions was their attitudes toward issues.
"Margaret has most of her experience in Senate and I have most of my experience in activities outside of Senate," she said. "I think we complement each other."
Imagination: Keizer, Templeton
"We really stress issues raise them," pop talks," Berlin said. "Sometimes one or two people can make a difference if they speak out."
Clair Keeper, Lawrence junior, and Craig Templeton, Topeka junior, are running for the offices of student body president and president. Templeton will give student government strong leadership.
Templeton said Tuesday that problems in beginning a legal services program for KU students had been a result of a lack of leadership and communication.
Keizer and Templeton are leading the imagination Coalition of 48 Senate candidates in a runoff vote.
KEIZER THE chairman of Student Union Activities Forums. He said he had a couple of college campuses and managed two campus political campaigns, including last year's spring campaign for president.
Clair Keizer
"I think the student government is at a time right now when it needs some leadership." Templaton said. "With our experience, Clair and I can provide that."
Craig Templeton
Mike Harper and Reggie Robinson,
student body president and vice president,
"Mike and Reggie have done everything they could to make the offices of student body president and vice president accessible." Keizer said.
Templeton, administrative assistant to the present student administration, has worked with the Senate treasurer in budgeting for student organizations.
The Imagination team is making add-drop policies of colleges within the University its first priority. The team said it wanted to lengthen the period in which students could drop classes. They said the issue had been neglected.
"That is definitely a thing we are going to continue."
Keizer said that if he and Templeton were elected, they would continue many of the programs and attitudes of the present student administration.
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