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Thursday, August 30, 1973
University Daily Kansan
Student Leaders Oppose Lobbyist
By JEFFREY STINSON Kansan Staff Reporter
Mert Buckley, Wichita senior and student body president, and the Student Senate Executive Committee (StudEx) both have rejected a proposal to join six other Kansas colleges in hiring a professional lobbyist in the Kansas Legislature.
The Student Senate will have KU's final vote on the issue in September.
A proposal developed by a Washburn University law student calls for the formation of an organization to serve as a voice for the 70,000 students of the member schools before the Kansas Legislature, the Board of Regents and the state courts.
The organization would hire a lobbyst to express student opinion on such issues as lower tuition and greater funding of higher education in the state.
The organization would be named the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK).
STUDEX VOTED unanimously in July not to join in the proposal.
The six other schools—Fort Hays State College, Kansas State Teachers College of Emporia, Kansas State College at Pittsburg, Kansas State University, Washburn and Wichita State University—will also vote on the proposal next month.
Ronald Hein, the Washburn student who developed the proposal, recommended in a 51-page report commissioned by the student body presidents of the six schools that "paid, full-time, nonstudent lobbyist" be hired.
"Legislators, like everyone else, judge the credibility of those people they work with, including the lobbyists." Hein said in his report. "Thus, a full-time lobbyist would have a chance to earn the legislators' trust, respect and confidence."
At a meeting of the student body
Women's Group Planning Sexual Potential Program
Programs ranging from human sexual potential to career opportunities for women will be offered by the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) this year, according to Cindy Hird, CSW president and Lawrence senior.
Hird said every student could benefit from CSW programs.
CSW programs begin with orientation meetings Sept. 4 and 5 in Corbin and Gertrude Sellard's Pearson residence halls and Sept. 10 in the Kansas Union. A film will be shown each night, followed by discussions of commission goals and programs.
"We consider every woman a member of the commission," she said, but anyone filmed her.
"The commission hopes to involve men as well as women. Its important to include all the young people in the decision."
"The commission's growth has been amazing and a number of men interested in the commission are involved with the committees and the political action committee."
The CSW, which has four officers and nine chairmen, is divided into nine committees covering programs of films, guest speakers on women's opportunities, and research on women's opportunities and rights.
Programs scheduled this fall include informal career seminars dealing with topics on graduate school, study abroad and two career marriages.
Hird said she hoped "Beyond High School," a program designed to help the high school coed be aware of career opportunities and to reach students directly in the schools.
"I see a breakdown in communications between students and counselors. . . maybe we could expand into the area by going out to the high schools to sneak." she said.
The Human Sexuality Series will explore the sexual potential of men and women in a series titled "Celebration," said Jan Saman, an assistant professor of human sexuality in the program into three parts: self and sexuality—awareness of a sexual nature and potential; same sex sexuality—friendships and homosexual relationships. —friendships and homosexual relationships —friendships and sexual relationships.
Programs scheduled are, Sept. 4, 5 and
10. Orientation meetings, Sept. 11,
Oct. 2.
Wescoe Free Of Barriers For Disabled
Wesco Hall is free of architectural barriers that inhibit the physically handicapped, said Roger Williams, chairman of the Architectural Foundation for the architectually handicapped.
Williams said that when construction plans had been made, specific standards for making the building accessible to and physically handicapped had been coped with.
Some of these standards included 48-inch-wide public walks, at least one primary ground level building entrance to be used by persons in wheelchairs, steps with non-slip surfaces, staircases and swing out, have an opening of at least 32 inches and be operable by a single effort.
"I think that since the University committee for the architecturally handicapped began, there has been a general decrease in the presence of architectural barriers which inhibit the physically handicapped," Williams said.
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Apartheid Cited InYouth'sDeath In South Africa
JOHANNESBURG—An 18-year-old white South African died of an internal hemorrhage after a road accident near here in June because a policeman refused to have him "illegally" rushed to a hospital in Cape Town, for reasons for blacks, it was reported recently.
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Kaufman's friend died almost instantly and Kaufman laid unconscious on the floor.
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Onlookers telephoned for an ambulance, but the ambulance that arrived was one for "non-Europeans only," the Sunday Times called, owing eyewitnesses and Kafka's father.
The Sunday Times headlined the story
Aparadhil Killed My Boy', quoting the
conclusion of *Dear Mr. Brown*.
The story said Robert Kaufman had been one of two persons on a motorcycle that collided with a car driven by a girl in a white dress and a residential suburb north of Johnsburg.
Despite efforts by persons to have the injured boy rushed to a hospital immediately, a traffic policeman stopped his removal.
BUCKLEY SAID this week that he had been studying the proposal since it was introduced in April and was against KU's participation in the organization.
presidents Aug. 21, 2018. Buckley told Hein and the officers from the other schools that he believed in the potential for a successful
"At first it seemed like a good idea to become politically active in the state for funds to higher education," Buckley said. "I expected rejections to its and I thought it could hurt KU."
"I don't think that ASK can develop a singular opinion of things that students want lobbied on," Buckley said. "A lobbyist's effectiveness is dependent upon the block behind him, and people of our age have too many divergent views."
He said that he didn't like the idea of paying one man in Topeka to represent
The proposal calls for a chain of command involving students from each school on a single governing board. The school also would have offices on each campus.
THE FORMULATION of issues vital to students would come through campus polls, each school's governing body and the board of educators and the board of the student body presidents.
"I don't think you can get students' opinions of the issues through a ballot," he said.
Hein estimated in his report that the costs of establishing offices, hiring a lobbyist and staffs and the operating expenses for the agency would be about £29,000 for the first year.
and good polls cost quite a bit of money."
"There's too much red tape," Buckley said. "I prefer something like the Students Concerned About Higher Education, where the people get together on things they really care about and lobby on their own time and without pay."
THE STUDENTS Concerned About Higher Education in Kansas was organized at KU in 1971 to approach the legislation on this issue, considered important to the University.
Buckley added he also liked the group of concerned students because it did not ask for senate funding and was nonpolitical in campus affairs.
Buckley he thought the other schools were going to ratify the proposal regardless of whether or not he was
"We could receive some of the benefits of it if they went ahead on it and we didn't," he said. "But we could also get some of the nonbeneficial things that could hurt us."
Buckley said that for the last 10 years KU had received less money for capital improvement than the two other major universities in the state and that he didn't think that an organization of all the schools would alter that.
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