Friday, October 19, 1973
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WSU, K-State Join Student Lobby
By SUZI SMITH
Kansas Staff Reporter
The Associated Student Government at Wichita State University voted Tuesday to join the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK), a statewide student lobbying organization, and became the sixth public university in college or university in Kansas to take this action.
The University of Kansas is the only university in the state that has not joined ASK.
Kansas State University's Student Senate will vote to ask AKS two weeks ago after the board approved a proposal.
The KU Student Senate voted 42-8 Sev. against joining ASK. Objections to the lobby included the possibility of KAIR asking a full time professional lobbyist, the discrepancy
between opinions on some issues across the state and the overlapping functions of ASK and KU's Concerned Students for Higher Education.
MERT BUCKLEY, Wichita senior and student body president, said he was surprised that K-State and Wichita State had joined.
Buckley said he agreed with the principle of ASK but had several strong objections to the lobby as it was organized when it came before the Senate in September.
He said he objected to what he considered a high degree of bureaucracy in ASK. And other programs for mass involvement have failed in the past, he said.
Burckley also said he thought the organizers of the lobby had concentrated on attracting new customers.
Ron Hein, Washburn University law student and ASK director, said ASK had done nothing definite in the way of sample legislation or issue research.
Support Shown For Renovation
WHATEVER lobbying is done during this session of the legislature, he said, will have to be on issues that have already been researched.
About 60 people attend a meeting last night to support a committee organized to renovate the old public library building at 9th and Vermont streets.
The Lawrence City Commission has said that the land could be demolished so the land could be used for a park.
"The interest this has aroused has surprised the commission and me personally," said Commissioner Jack Rose. "This has drawn as much interest as anything here in months. The fate of this project depends on what is presented to the commission."
She said several groups had expressed interest in resting space for some of the older tenants, renovated.
Hein said higher salaries for faculty members was one such issue. He said it would be up to a board of directors from all six schools to decide on the issues.
Marlyn Brown, appointed by the commission to prepare a plan for preserving the building, said she had received many comments suggesting the old building be used as a rehearsal hall and community theatre.
get ASK organized and functioning before the next legislative session.
Last night at the meeting representatives of 12 area arts and crafts organizations urged development of the building as a community center.
Funding the renovation and operation of the center is the main problem, Brown said. Some funds might come from the commission, but renovation costs would be high, and utilities could cost as much as $4,000 a year, she said.
The proposed renovations are new flooring, repairing roof leaks, partitioning side areas on the first floor and constructing a stage at the back of the first floor.
Other possible sources of funds include state and federal grants, the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and a community fund drive.
Brown said she would make a proposal to the commission based on comments she had received and would work with the Lawrence Arts Commission to form a committee to closely evaluate renovation plans and possible uses for the building.
Joe Knop, K-State student body president, said drug analysis, allocations for athletics and consumer protection legislation were some issues that interested him.
THE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, in cooperation with the William Allen White School of Journalism, is sponsoring a regional workshop for the staffs and faculty advisors of college engineering magazines to discuss new trends in Union. All engineering students are invited to hear representatives of 10 colleges. The workshop was to have begun at 9 a.m.
THE KANAS CITY COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE and the Kansas Association of Osteopathic Medicine will sponsor a Pre-med Day and Open House for all Kansas premedical students beginning at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Center for Health Sciences Auditorium, 2105 Independence Ave., Kansas City, Mo.
THE JAYHAWK SPORTS CAR CLUB
will have its fall gymkhana Sunday at
Raymond Nichols Hall. Registration will
begin at 10 a.m. to noon. Timed will begin
at 1 p.m. Entrance fee for members will be
$2, for nonmembers $3.
Hein said the ASK's main problem was getting funds because the member schools had determined their budgets before they were organized and were unable to contribute.
THE PENN HOUSE FOOD COOPERATIVE will be the subject of an informational program at 7 p.m. Tuesday in 4023 Wescoe Hall.
Penn House is a private non-profit organization and students may join.
CHEE CHEE WILLIAMS, KMBC-TV,
Kansas City, Mo., staff reporter,
and Martha Mangelsdorf, WIBW-TV, Topeka,
news reporter, will speak at 8:00 p.m.
tuesday in the Council Room of the Kansas
Union. The program, sponsored by Women
in Communications, Inc., will be on the role
of women in journalism.
The LOBBY will operate on a $3,000 to
$5,000 budget this year, according to Krop.
ASK did receive funding last summer from the six schools that eventually joined, but those funds were used for salaries and to finance a research ability report. Hein said.
"I hope we can show KU what the organization can do," Hein said. "I'm not sure I know."
Buckley said that he had talked to Hein after the KU senate voted not to join ASK and that Hein had promised to keep KU up to date on what the lobby was doing.
Freshman Presidency To Frazey
Destiny coalition candidates won the freshman class officer positions in the fall elections. Wednesday and yesterday. Student senators were also elected.
The new freshman officers are Rodney Frazey, president,-135 votes; David Wooding, vice-president-185; Brett Stewart, secretary-133 and Mary Harris, treasurer-149.
The new senators are;
- School of Education: Frank Smith6; Anne Oliver6; and Pam Palmer7.
- Graduate School, Shakik Ahmad-33,
Maryna Black-28; Ernest Thomas-45;
Jmaryne White-46.
—Nunemaker College; Charlie Fairchild-19
Centennial College; Bill French-38.
- Cincinnati College - Brian Prehodes.
- Oliver College: Steve Siegbrecht-62;
Galen Whitman-28; Lisa Wilke-54; and Steve Burned-64.
North College: David Andreas-53; and David Witts-80.
—Pearson College: Brian Kahl-39.
Liberal Arts and Sciences: Charlie Rhondes-40; and Bill Webster-37.
-Graduate School Representatives: Tom Nerneth 9; and Gary M. Schmemn 12.
The elections for two other Graduate School representatives resulted in ties.
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