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Wednesday, January 24, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Senate election planned
By CAROL BEIER
Staff Reporter
Members of the Student Senate Elections Committee met last night to line up strategy for conducting the upcoming campaign. The Senate and class officials Feb. 14 and 15.
John Mitchelson, committee chairman,
outlined tentative plans for a "Meet the
Candidates" night Feb. 7 at Gertleburd
Sellars Pearson and Corbin residence
halls and explained regulations on voting
procedure.
The filing deadline for the 107 Student Senate seats will be 5 p.m. on Jan. 29.
Committee members will be responsible for checking signatures on petitions of candidates who file for office. Each candidate must submit his/her constitution or pay a $3 fee filing.
ALTHOUGH SENATE regulations require candidates to file by one of those two methods, Mitchellson said, the committee had allowed candidates in past elections to file by petition even though he was called as many as five invalid signatures.
"Because of the number of candidates involved in this election, we will scan the petitions instead of checking on every signature like we did last fall." Mitchellson
Mitchelson said after the meeting that if any invalid signatures were found each signature on the petition would be checked.
No one has filed for any of the Senate seats but Michelson said he expected many students to file the day of the deadline.
"MEMBERS OF the coilitions usually come in on the day of the deadline and file at the same time." he said.
There are five coalitions in the upcoming election, each headed by a team of candidates running for the offices of student body president and vice president.
The coalitions are: The Porch Step, Imagination, Rapport, La Plume and Anathy.
The Porch Step Coalition's ticket is headed by presidential and vice president candidates, Margaret Berlin, George Gorka, and George Torpez,去来ez junior.
Berklin and yesterday that her coaition stood for openness and friendliness in the world.
"It also stands for a firm foundation, which the Student Senate should have," Berlin said.
OFF-CAMPUS housing and concern with the quality of education are two of The Porch Step's main concerns, Berlin said.
"We also would like to investigate the possibility of student representation on committees responsible for granting tenure. The students are the ones who attend the classes and can see how effective a teacher is." she said.
The quality of a KU education and potential Student Senate involvement in improving that education are also concerns of the Imagination Coalition, headed by Clair Keizer, Lawrence junior, and Craia Tempelton, Toekea junior.
Templeton said student complaints about advising and the dropout policy were common.
"IN THE PAST, Student Senate has mainly been concerned with its own budget and coordinating activities. It should be taking a greater role in the decision-making process of the University. We are all here for," Templeton said.
Templeton said student rights issues should be a senate priority.
Ron Allen, Sabetha junior, Rapport presidential candidate, also said firmer Senate policy on student rights was a tough issue. Senate chairman Robert D. Dave Kenner, Maryville, Mo., junior.
"The Student Senate should have been much stronger on the administration's veto of kozol as the Higher Education Week speaker, for example." Allen said.
Allen said the administration violated Kansas Board of Regents regulations by its veto of Jonathan Kozol, author and critic of the American educational system, as Higher Education Week speaker last fall.
KOZOL HAD been selected by the student steering committee for Higher Education Week. The administration decided to send a representative of the National Academy of Education.
According to Allen, that was not all that went wrong last semester.
"One thing that has to be stopped immediately is the internal politics between the Senate and the Kansan. The attitude has been to 'watch out for the Kansan,'" Allen said. "The Senate should rely on the Kansan, not watch out for it."
The La Plume Alliance, headed by Bob Tomlinson, Mission junior, and John Hambricht, Wichita junior, chose his name as the new president to student government. Hambricht said.
Hambray declined to comment on the specifics of a proposal his coalition was working on that he said would increase participation of all students in student government, including those not elected to Student Senate.
"A MAJOR ISSUE is apathy." Harnay said. "The problems of the past, including the lack of voting and poor attendance at meetings, can be helped by improvement in the training."
Hambricht also said his coalition was not affiliated in any way with the present government.
"We want it to be very clear that our use do not reflect the present administration."
Apathy is not only an issue but a creed to presidential and vice president candidates, junior, and Christopher Fleisher, Lawrence junior, who head the Apathy
Hazelrigg said the purpose of his campaign was to "moral victory" over President Obama, who is expected to be removed on October 1.
"THE POINT is this," Hazelrigel said. "If you're apathetic, you don't vote. We are representing the majority of the current body who don't vote and don't care."
Hazelrigh and Fleisher said apathy was tan but because it was free of responsibility for the problems.
"Everyone who doesn't vote is in essence voting for us."
By BRUCE THOMAS
Reviewer
A former KU student brought his brand of bluegrass music to Lawrence last night when Dan Crazy, Brian Belinne and John Carroll, Jr. performed at the riff-wall Hall, 737 New Hampshire St.
The concert featured Crary on guitar, Berline on fiddle and mandolin and Hickman on the five-string banjo. It was sponsored by the Kansas Folkcore Center, a nonprofit organization that promotes the folk arts in Kansas.
Trio picks and fiddles at concert
The organization, based in Lawrence,
promoted a concert by Byron Bowers,
a bluegrass musician, in December. In
the second week of March, it will organize
the annual Fiddler's Gathering at Off-the-Wall Hall.
Bluegrass is a traditional music born in the rural areas of America. It combines the music of the acoustic guitar, bass, fiddle, banjo and mandolin in fast paced instruments and harmonized vocal arrangements.
FOR MANY WHO listen to bluegrass, it characterizes the comfortable and friendly sound of bluegrass.
The audience at the concert seemed to be infected with the music's warm and relaxed mood. Many of those who entered the hall seemed to be getting together with old friends, and the musicians, while warming up, joked with those who stood nearby.
Once the concert began, the musicians tried to cape the crowd into getting involved in the music by clapping along as they played. The joking didn't work and the crowd remained relatively quiet for most of the concert.
The show started with two traditional bluesgrass instruments that featured each other.
THE CROWD BEGAN responding to the music when the group played a Johnny Cash song, "Big River," in an up-ball bluegrass band. He then went off to the music with his driving guitar style.
Perhaps the best song of the night was a Texas fiddle tune called "Limocerk." This song carried a playful but intricate melody on its back and forth between Beline and Crary.
For Crary, this was a kind of homecoming. He first came to Lawrence in the early 1960s as a student at the University of Alabama and a doctorate in speech communication in 1968.
Interest increases in Study Abroad program
Staff Reporter
By LAURIE WOLKEY
Snow-scovered Mt. Oread is not the only place KU students are attending classes.
This semester, about 75 students are studying in such varied countries as Costa Rica and Chile.
Mary M. Ryan, KU Study Abroad adviser, said yesterday that there had been an increase each year in student interest in overseas study.
“Recently, student interest has been particularly high for our Costa Rica and French students.”
"Once students get through the red tape, there are few obstacles in their way," she said.
Although interest has increased steadily in the past several years, she said, many more students can participate in overseas study programs.
THE REQUIREMENTS for students are not as difficult as many people think, Ryan said. For most of the program hours, there are two courses—microstaff tourers hours of credit and at least a 3.0 cumulative grade point average. Also, students must have taken at least four semesters of the host course.
However, students who wish to attend a summer program are not bound by the 60 credit point requirement.
Ryan said the deciding factors for qualification were enthusiasm and a strong work ethic.
The cost of the programs vary according
to host countries and the length of student visits.
For example, the cost of a 10-month stay in Costa Rica is about $2,300. The cost to stay in Great Britain for 10 months is about $4,000.
LIMITED FINANCIAL aid is available through the Study Abroad office and the Office of Financial Aid. Students who have completed the KU can apply them to overseas study.
The Study Abroad programs have been expanding recently to include programs in various countries.
Three types of programs provide students options on the length of time they study abroad. They can stay for a summer, a semester or an academic year.
"We are now working on an exchange program in Africa at the University of Benin
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"There are programs to meet every need." Rvansaid.
Students participating in the programs study at selected universities in foreign countries.
"All of the universities are open to Americans and have advisers there to help them," Ryan said. "We now have a program at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. It has been very successful and we will continue it next year."
VICTOR POMEROY, Topeka senior, studied at the University of Bordeaux in France last year and said that it was a great experience. He also had a few problems with the program he was in.
The main motivation for participating in overseas study is to gain a better understanding of another language and culture. Ryan said.
According to Ryan, all college credits earned abroad transfer back to KU. However, she advised that all students must complete a Bachelor's track transfer questions with KU departments.
"The way they laid us the credits would be transferred was misleading. My credit still exists."
Pomorey said, "I was getting tired of school here and I knew it would look good on me."
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Peter Baird, Columbus, Ohio, senior, said his year in Germany increased his understanding of the language tremendously. Baird, who is majoring in sociology and who studied at the University of Erlangen, had no big problems with the program.
Hickman said they had been to Japan three times in the past few years. He said American style bluegrass was very popular there.
Students interested in the Study Abroad program can contact the Office of Study
"Sophomores and Juniors: Apply now for the 2 year ROTC Program. Get a call when you graduate. See if you qualify: Call Capt. John Mack, 864-4876, or stop by the Military Science Building, Room 100.
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"If you mention a name that they are familiar with or a song title then they all clap even though they don't understand English," he said.
"THE FIRST DAY that I heard bluegrass
liked it!" I said. At that time, many of
the major stations were playing.
JAPANESE MUSICIANS copy their bluegrass style from American records, even singing in English although they do not know the language. he said.
"Bluegrass today is an alternative kind of music for those who have become fed up with other types of music. In a way the growth of bluegrass shows that people are returning to their roots in art as a response to change in society that is too rapid."
Cryan, who grew up in a suburb of Kansas City, Kan., said he became interested in bluegrass music about 20 years ago when he first heard it on the radio.
The three musicians live outside of Los Angeles, where they own a production company. Hickman said they spent about $1 million a year traveling and playing on the road.
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