THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, NO. 54
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
ANSAS STATE HISTORICAL
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OPERA, KS 46612
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8,1990
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Condom machines will be on campus
Bv Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Condoms will be available in KU residence hall vending machines next semester, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said last night at a Student Senate meeting.
The condoms will be sold in existing machines and should be in place by the beginning of the semester. The cost of the condoms has not been determined, Ambler said.
He said mechanical adjustments to the machines and orders for the condoms would also be made before the end of this seme-
The condensors will be removed from the vending machines during the summer because mostly minors will live in the residence halls. Amber said. The University had a small camp during the summer.
The Office of Student Affairs has been considering including the condoms in residence hall machines for years, Amber伯
want to be sensitive to that. We also want to encourage students to act responsibly."
Ambler said the decision to make condiments available in residence halls was made informally by investigators in the last several weeks.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said he thought that Ambler chose to make the announcement at the Senate meeting because Senate played a vocal role in the issue.
Last year Senate passed a resolution stating it wanted condions to be distributed on campuses and asked KU to study a condom vending machine program used at the University of Minnesota
"Student Senate has been presuring the administration to do it for quite a while. "Schreiner said, "I don't want authority to do anything about it."
Senate opposes engineering fee
Schreiner said Amberler told him of the decision in a letter sent to him Nov 1. According to Schreiner, Amberler said in the letter that the University would discontinue distributing the co-
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate passed a resolution last night stating that Student Senate adamantly opposes a proposal that would charge engineering students a $13-a credit hour fee.
The resolution also requests that the School of Engineering consult and include engineering students and Senate in making decisions affecting students.
Mike Schriner, student body president, said the resolution would be sent to the Board of Regents
The fee was proposed by the deans of engineering at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. The proposal, designed to help schools cover the cost of equipment used in engineering courses, will be presented to the Regents in November
David Suroff, engineering senator, said, "If engineering equipment costs are going up, then raise our tuition gradually. But one school will always cost more to operate than others. Students should be able to choose their careers by interest and not what they can pay."
But Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said the fee was necessary to finance needed equipment.
"One of things I think (senators) ought to be sure about is that they are representing the engineering student."
Locke said 40 percent of the engineering schools in the nation charged engineers a special fee to maintain, operate and replace laboratory equipment.
Subroutine that this routine with the first three
Dean sees no alternative to fee
By Amy Zamierowski Kansan staff writer
Although student senators are opposed to an, equipment fee, the dean of engineering sees no alternative to retain the quality of the School of Engineering.
"Without a substantial increase in funding to the school, we are going to degrade the quality of education," said Carl Locke, dean of engineering. "At this point, engineering equipment is not being funded by the state. We have been buying expensive, private sources, which is an uncertain source."
Locke said the fee was needed to repair and repaint existing lab equipment, including com
Locke said that although engineering senators passed a referendum against the fee, they did not propose other ways to guarantee the quality of equipment and education in the
David Suroff, engineering senator, said the
senators needed to defeat the fee before they began working to find a solution to benefit them.
Suroff said a concern was that a fee in one school could set a precedent and create a bias.
Locke said. "The fees may spread, but they may be needed. While students may think they are paying a lot for their tuition, it is lower than many schools."
Brian Culliss, president of Engineering Student Council, said he opposed the fee because it would apply only to engineering students, and he wanted to ensure freshmen away from the engineering field
legislators threatened to cut KU appropriations.
Shaun Nicholson, co-president of an engineering fraternity, Tau Beta Phi, said he supported the fee because he saw the need to pay for the fees. He added that a lot of other means to finance the improvements.
Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said it was possible that in 1984-85 the Legislature would have reduced KU's budget by the amount the University raised through the
"I am one of the few students who support the fee," he said.
some changes," he said.
Schreiner also said the proposed engineering fee did not meet the Regents requirement to explore all other possibilities of financing before imposing restricted fees.
Wednesday, November 7, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
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