Bucklev Delivers on Most Promises
By SUZI SMITH Kanaan Staff Renorter
After nine months as student body president, Mert Buckley, Wichita senior, has fulfilled the majority of his campaign promises.
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Now that candidates are beginning to announce their intensions to run for student body offices, it seems appropriate to talk of the promises with the promises be made last spring.
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"I've been pleased with what we've produced," Buckley said Tuesday. "However, it's frustrating for me to find that so much of the work falls back on the
president, where the president ideally should initiate the work and have others ready to assist.
Richard Lauter, Evanston, III, senior and vice chairman of the University Senate Executive committee (SenEx), said Monday he thought Buckley had been less effective than he could have been because of a problem with transitions.
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THERE ARE TOO FEW senators, he said, who have been in the senate before.
Lauter said there had been a tide of student self-interest and apathy towards teachers.
"A lot of the things he (Buckley) has done, he's done on his own initiative," he said.
Student senator Ed Rolfs, Junction City sophomore, said the senate as a whole had a problem with apathy because senators who were unable to meetings weren't being suspended.
But he said, "I think he (Buckley) has a big effort to get people involved in compulsory work."
Natalie Rolph, Lexena senexa, said, "I don't think Mert has felt terribly compelled to participate."
"We've had some tangible productions," Buckley said, "the housebook bus, the bus system, the midyear report, the transfer of funding for CIS and LA&L 48 and hopefully the recreational facility (at Allen Field House)."
Buckley's campaign slogan was "meeting
backyne's needs now, driving for
saving."
He stressed the importance of the six standing committees of the senate: Student Services, Communications, Finance and Business, Education and Rights. Privileges and Responsibilities.
"BUCKLEY'S MAIN EMPHASIS has been on committees" Ripley Jackson, PhD.
said Monday, "He's worked very hard on them.
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"There are a few committees that have
had major projects that have just carried on
them."
-Know identification marks, such as serial numbers, on all valuables
Ask someone to keep an eye on your apartment.
- Make sure all windows and doors have secure looks.
Police department statistics indicate that there is an increase in residential property values.
The monthly median for residential
bargains this year is 28.5. Last January 42
bargains this year were 30.7.
Buckley said the committees hadn't done all they could have done, but it was important to recognize how far they had progressed.
During Thanksgiving break a KU sorority
has received hundreds of dollars and
hundreds of worth of goods which were
laken.
Lauter said the committee system had been more successful than in previous years.
Vernon Harrell, administrative lieutenant, said yesterday that only about 11 per cent of this year's burglaries in Lawrence had been solved.
He said he had never seen the committee stay together and work as hard as they had
He said the number of burglaries had increased about 5 per cent year which was due to an increase in crime.
Feedback was provided free at Hoch Auditorium during enrollment for all students.
Buckley's platform said the Academic Affairs committee would prepare Feedback
But Nancy Harper, Lawrence graduate student and director of the Curriculum and Instruction Survey, said Tuesday that the decision to provide feedback had been
SHE SAID SHE HAD decided to provide feedback free because students had complained to her about paying for it twice, once through their activity fee, and once to
After he was elected Buckley gave the Academic Affairs committee responsibility for examining the possibility of a four-day summer school week, examining the need for other universities and trying to get a course with credit for student government.
Todd Hunter, Oklahoma City junior and chairman of the committee, said last week the department of Buildings and Grounds had told him a four-day summer school week was impossible because of the cost of closing all the buildings.
A COURSE OF DIRECTED readings in the political science department has been discussed and is a possibility, according to the Board, for inclusion in student government next semester.
Hunter also said the committee was waiting to hear from Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee Ala., about plans for an exchange program with that school.
According to the platform, the Communications committee was to "establish a plan directed at further informing the faculty of Student Senate proceedings."
The committee published a midyear report Oct. 17 about the senate.
The report included reports of committee activities and senate projects as well as a breakdown and chart of how student activity fees were being spent.
The purpose of the report, Buckley said, was to tell students what the senate is and does, what had been done in the first six months of term and what would be done in the future.
Publication of the Senatorial Record, a magazine comprised of reports from committee chairmen about the progress of legislation and project of the Communications committee.
Buckley said he was extremely pleased with the Record at first.
IT HAS SLOWED DOWN this semester
has somewhat simply because committee
Mert Bucklev
chairmen haven't been reporting their activities to the editor." he said.
The record is mailed to all student senators before Senate meetings and is returned to the Board.
The activity fee this fall was $12, and it
remain at that level at least through
spring.
The Finance and Auditing committee has also been discussing possible changes in the budgetary procedures to prevent the influx of balances which became last spring." Buckley said.
Lowering the student activity fee from $28
*a year was another promise of bribery.*
HIS BILL TO MOVE the date of senate elections from March to February should also help to alleviate some of the problems at budget hearings, he said.
The Housing committee, according to the platform, was to compile a booklet that would "condense all necessary information and provide appropriate apartment hunter would need."
Such a booklet has been published in cooperation with the Consumer Protection
The Housing committee is also cooperating with the CPA on a low-rent housing survey that should provide the information for a booklet on such housing.
Paxson, chairman of the Housing committee, said information gathered in the survey would be available by the beginning of next semester.
Buckley's campaign charge to the Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities committee was to examine policy-making committees of the University to guarantee that the required 20 per cent student representation was present.
committee, said letters for this purpose had been sent to the chairmen of these policy-making committees, but the response had been spotty.
Rick McMaughan, Dallas junior and chairman of the Rights and Responsibilities
MCLAUGHLIN SAID THAT because of other demands on its time, his committee had been unable to follow up by contacting chairmen who had ignored its letters.
The Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities committee received a request from the senate as a whole to examine alleged inequities in parking ticket appeals procedures. They were subsequently changed by the Parking and Traffic Board
This committee has reviewed and made recommendations to the senate on legislation concerning veto powers for the president of the student body, changing the date of student senate elections and changes in the senate's rules and regulations.
Another responsibility given the Rights and Responsibilities committee last spring was to prepare a handbook about the University Judiciary.
Buckley said McLaughlin had promised that the first draft of the handbook would be finished last week, but he hadn't received it by Tuesday.
BUCKLEY PROMISED TO GIVE the Student Services committee the responsibility to initiate legislation calling for the establishment of a permanent advisory board for the health center that would be made up of students and hospital administrators.
"We don't want to rush in and set something up that will prohibit the reader from reading," she said.
The Student Services committee was also responsible for the Emporium Bookstore, which was closed in October, and for the Whomper, which has been removed from senate control and is operating under an independent board of directors.
The campus bus system is another project of the Student Services committee.
Buckley said Tuesday that the number of bus riders from Sept. 1 to Thanksgiving had increased by 60,000 over the same period last year at almost the same operating cost.
"That is responsible government," he said.
Nancy E. Archer, Anamosa, Iowa, senior was Buckle's running mate.
ARCHER HAS DONE LITTLE as vice president aside from presiding over senate meetings. However, Archer said the vice is more or less a figurehead position.
SenEx Vice Chairman Richard S. Lauter said the vice president's duties weren't clearly defined. "In the past the student body vice president has been free to follow through on any projects he or she feels are important," he said.
Archer has been very much involved in the Concerned Students for Higher Education, Buckley said. Also, her work in connection with the Higher Education Banquet kept her away from more senate-oriented activities, he said.
punished her weight," Buckley said. Archer, who termed the vice president as the "objective factor" in the senate, said that to remain objective the vice president couldn't be deeply involved in the administrative decision-making process.
Canned Food Drive For Needy Planned By Delta Tau Delta
Delta Tau Delta fraternity will conduct a drive next week in Lawrence to collect canned foods to give to needy families in the area for the holiday season.
Richard Van Auken, Shawne Mission senior, said that the drive would be conducted as a contest between active and pledge members of the fraternity but that anyone interested could bring canned food to the Delta Tau Delta house at 1111 W.11th
History Department Offers Courses at Overland Park
One course will be a graduate level course, "Colloquium in Twentieth Century America: Urbanization, Industrialization and World Power."
The history department at the University of Kansas will venture off campus for the first time next semester and offer two courses in the mission West High School in Overland Park.
The other course is "The World We Lived"
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The classes will be taught by John G. John and Theodore Wilson, professors of history at Harvard.
Students at KU can enroll in a course by contacting Clarck in the history department
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