University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 27. 1990
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Senate appoints 5 to elections board
By Jennifer Schultz
cansan staff writer
Student Senate last night appointed five students to an election commission formed
According to Senate rules and regulations, the elections commission will enforce all rules and regulations relating to Senate elections and campaigns.
Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said he received 40 applications from students.
"I looked for students who did not have any pre-set notions about the elections and who were willing to start from scratch." Warren said.
Senate approved the following appointments: undergraduate students Richard Boyle, Caldine Denton and Wendy Pankonin; graduate student David Small and law student Curtis Wingearner.
Senate also passed a bill that will add another law student to the commission in place of a member of the law faculty. The change was suggested by Robert Jerry, dean
Last November, David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, suggested that Senate create an elections commission that would be independent of Senate.
His suggestion followed the University Judicial Board's ruling that in 1989 the Common Cause coalition exceeded spending limits outlined in Senate rules and regulations.
In other business, Senate passed bills allocating money to several organizations: KU Bloechos Club, Engineering Student Council and the Women's Student Union.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, announced Jeff Wilson as the winner of the award.
Schreiner said this was the first year of the scholarship, which was financed by extra money from the financial aid scholarship search program's operational expenses.
He said the scholarship was named after after Gordon Woods, who served on Senate several years ago and was involved with University Council and other campus activities.
Kansan staff report
Schreiner wants issue resolved
Student body president Mike Schreiner said at last night's Student Senate meeting that he was not overly surprised that University officials would offer ROTC classes to count toward graduation.
"There are other issues involved that go beyond the question of discrimination; he
Schreiner said it was traditional for a department to make its own decisions regarding what courses should count toward graduation credit.
"We have clearly stated that we are
opposed to the discrimination of gays and lesbians," he said. "I have met with a number of people who support the University Senate decision and who do not support it. It is agreed that the Department of Defense should work together at a national level to change this."
The Department of Defense policy excludes members based on sexual orientation from receiving scholarships and being commissioned.
Schreiner said he did not want to see the ROTC issue die. He also does not want the ROTC issue die.
Building fee added at Regents
By Yvonne Guzman
Korean staff writer
Students enrolling in classes at the KU Regents Center in Overland Park this year will pay $10 more for each credit hour to help finance a new building to house the center, said Lindy Eakin, KU budget director.
The $6 million building will replace the existing one, which was converted from an elementary school in 1975.
The $10 fee will raise $220,000 a year to pay off bonds. Eakin said. The fee will remain until the bonds are paid off in about 20 years.
The current cost for each credit hour is $86.
The state is providing $2 million for the building. Money from the University's regular operating budget and about $1 million from private contributions will also help finance construction.
The building will enable students to take advantage of advanced technology, he said. The center will be equipped to send and receive micro-phones, cameras and lectures at the Lawrence campus can be broadcast to Overland Park.
The new building will provide more room for library and administrative use, Eakin said. Classrooms will be designed for college instruction.
The Board of Regents approved final construction plans for the building last week. Construction is expected to begin in late October or early November. The new building will also be in Overland Park.
The building will probably continue to serve primarily graduate students. Eakin said.
"There isn't a University there that provides that service," he said. "That's where we think the real demand is."
Mary Davidson Cohen, assistant vice chancellor of the center, said the center offered instruction in nine courses in engineering and social welfare.
"We don't have any traditional college students here to speak of," she said.
The average age of center students is 27, Davidson Cohen said. About 1400 students attend the center.
Center students may be enrolled in courses at the Lawrence campus and in Overland Park, she said.
Say 'cheese'
Christie Cronin, Dodge City senior, poses as Scott Litman of Varden Studios prepares to take her yearbook picture. Senior photos will be taken until Oct. 12 in the Strong Hall rotunda. A $3 sitting fee will be charged for a basic set of poses.
University responds to lawyer urging change in ROTC policy
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas sent a reply this week to a Sept. 11 letter from a Wichita chair that urged Chancellor Gene A. Budig to change KU's policy regarding the Department of Defense's ROTC program.
In the letter, lawyer Jim Lawing urged Budig to end discrimination against homosexuals.
"Discrimination against homosexuals is being allowed to continue on the KU campus through the relationship between the University and the Department of Defense's program." Lawing said in the letter.
He said the University was opposed to discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against homosexuals.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said he sent a reply letter to Lawing on Monday that reiterated the University's commitment to non-discrimination in all activities under University jurisdiction.
"We do enforce the right of all students to participate in ROTC courses as part of their academic training," he said.
Lawing, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union, did not mention in his letter the possibility of being filed against the University.
But he also said that the University did not control the department's policies on commissioning officers.
present a plan of action Oct. 13 to the ACLIU state board of directors.
He said the issue would be heard by the Kansas ACLU legal board in October. The legal board would then form a committee to decide whether decision would relied on a large extent
Kurtchenbue said that the board would know by mid-October if they would file a lawsuit. The board would then seek to recruit a lawyer from Lawrence, Topeka, Johnson County or the Kansas City area.
But Dick Kurtenbach, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri, said a lawsuit was possible. He said the issue would be heard by
on what the KU ACLU thought should be done about the ROTC issue.
David Orr, vice president of KU ACLU, said his group would present their case to the ACLU legal board in the next two-and-a-half weeks.
Orr said that he did not like the way Budig was planning to solve the problem.
rung has said that he would continue working with national educational associations to change the Department of Defense policy that prohibits women on sexual preference from being committed and receiving scholarships.
ABC fines Pizazz for four violations
Bv Elicia Hill
Kansan staff writer
The owners of Pizzaz, 901 Mississippi St., were fired yesterday by the Kansas Alcohol Beverage Control Department, which enforced state alcohol requirements.
Tom Hanna, ABC director, heard testimony last week from three ABC agents who presented evidence concerning the violations.
Hanna said that after consulting with a legal adviser and members of the ABC executive committee, he decided to fine the owners, Don and Jon Schmidt, $1,000 and to force them to close the club from Oct. 18 to 20
The owners have 15 days to appeal the decision.
The four violations were: allowing non-member access, failure to adequately display a liquor license, failure to allow adequate inspections
of financial records to an ABC auditor and false advertising.
Mike Riling, a Lawrence attorney representing the Pizzaz owners, said he would have a news conference this morning to respond to the charges.
Don Schmidt said there was an explanation for all of the violations but would not elaborate on them.
"We have not decided if we will appeal or not," he said. "The charges are ridiculous, and I will say that I've been in the bar business for 10 years and I've never seen anyone treated like this."
Hanna said that he thought the penalty was appropriate.
"If after this, another violation occurs, the penalty will get stiffer and stifter," he said. "I have the authority to take their license away, and I will if violations keep occurring."
Group fights racism
Kapsan staff writer
By Holly M. Neuman
Call-in show would cover area reports
A community task force on racism, discrimination and human diversity is trying to organize a television and radio program consisting of called-in-reports of racism in the Lawrence community.
Ann Weck, charperson of the task force, which was appointed during the summer by the Lawrence City Commission, said at a meeting last week that he had contacted various media机构 about the possible call in show.
"Preliminarily, I've had very positive results," Weick said.
The show probably would be aired sometime after the Nov. 6 election to avoid any conflicts with election coverage. There would be a panel to take calls that could be broadcast. There also would be people asked there, and they would not be broadcast if that would make the caller more comfortable.
The idea of the call-in show is part of the task force's attempt to gather information about racism and discrimination from people who have worked with the City Commission. The force will compile a report that it will present to the City Commission.
The group also discussed other ways of gathering information about racism and discrimination, including
public forums and soliciting write-in comments.
The dates and locations of the forums are being discussed. Weck said. Proposed topics for the forums are tolerance of diversity, and discrimination in housing, employment, education, and delivery of public services.
Andrea Katzman, a member of the task force, said that she thought the task force needed to personally visit the victim. This action was affected by racism or discrimination.
"I've talked to some people, and I got some angry responses," said Katzman, Lawrence senior. "They say they always have to go somewhere else to get someone to listen to their concerns."
Members of the task force agree that their role was not to solve any discrimination problems that Lawrence may have.
Lequetta Diggs, task force member, said, "I am committed, however to going deep and including in the city the problems to the city for solving the problems."
"We need to gather as much information as we can," Diggs said. "We want to identify problems in Lawrence from the grass roots up.
"I am determined not to just scratch the surface of the issue for the next 10 years."
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