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Wednesday, August 22, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Student Senate
President: Mike Schreiner Vice-president: Aimee Hall
Senate Offices
410 Kansas Union
864-3710
**Architecture**
Lara Adams
Scott Pohlenz
**ASHC**
Bill S. Moseley
**AURH**
Suzi R. Scher
**Black Panhellenic**
Curtis Garrett Jr.
**Business**
Pamela Hermesch
Eric Shoup
**Education**
Amber Atkinson
Roger Ross
**Engineering**
Vince Calhoun
Kirsten Hoglund
David Suroff
**Fine Arts**
Randy Minor
Katrina Widholm
**Graduate**
Ravi Amaraweera
Michael Bath
Mark Byrne
Brad Harris
Lynn M. Jenkins
Alice Ming-Hsian Kuo
Randall L. Morrison
Arlan Maltby
Eric Rabe
**Holdover**
Todd A. Boerger
Greg L. Hughes
Alan Lowden
**IFC**
Mark Holley
**Journalism**
Kim Bowling
Curtis Estes
**Law**
Paul C. Pierce
Jeff Wieitharn
**Non-traditional**
Belinda Cook
**Pharmacy**
Penny Schulz
Libby Schindler
**Liberal Arts**
Chris Burger
Hieu Dao
Angelique J. Kelly
Michael N. Feurer
Darren Fulcher
James T. Madison
John May
Kathy MacNaughton
Jay M. McIntosh
Liz Mendez
Tracy Robbins
Ardra Tippett
Ethan Vaughan
Ed Young
**Nunemaker**
James Baucom Jr.
Dave Damon
Darci L. Davenport
Shelly Fraga
Sarah Gard
Dana Hanson
Leslie Lancaster
Christine Lynn
Channing Nuss
Heather Richetto
Michelle S. Roberts
Jill Sullivan
Seth Traxler
Heather Roberts
Stephanie Warden
**Off Campus**
Stacey Cook
Jason Mcntosh
Elizabeth Morgan
Giles Smith
Jennifer Roth
Michael Spotak
**Panhellenic**
Stacy Warren
**Social Welfare**
Kathryn DePaollis
Pam Jefferson
**Resident at Large**
Steve Dixon
Rollie Paquin
Michael S. Moschini
Catalina Teodorescu
David Unekis
Student Senate's affect wide
Rv Melissa Buloren
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate is a governing body at KU that has the ability to act on all matters affect directly and primarily affect students' lives.
The Senate has 77 members, one senator for approximately every 400 students on the Lawrence campus. It influences student matters like rights, privileges, organizations, health and campus transportation.
"If any student has a problem, KU Information or Student Senate is the place to call." Mike Schreiner, student body president, said. "We're going to have them as our students. If we can't help them, we know where to lead them."
As well as helping students, the Senate allocates more than $1.3 million from student activity fees to help students take advantage of projects and other activities.
Schreiner said some of the services that student money helped pay for were KU On Wheels, Legal Services for Students, the University Daily
Kansan and the Black Student Union.
Schreiner said some goals of this year's Senate included improving campus recycling, enriching cultural diversity, improving the image and
Aimee Hall
efficiency of Watkins Health Center and raising student interest in community service.
The Senate's six boards are transportation, communications, legal services for students, recreation services, student health and sports council
Mike Schreine
Student senators are elected by the student body each April, but any student may join a Senate committee or board.
The Senate has six committees. The Finance Committee allocates
student activity fees. The University Affairs Committee deals with the concerns of the KU community, especially issues that directly affect student life. The Student Rights Committee works to protect student rights by maintaining student representation on University committees. The Minority Affairs Committee works toward a better campus environment for minority students. The Cultural Affairs Committee works to foster development of students by bringing art to the University. The Graduate Affairs Committee voices the concerns of KU graduate students.
Students who want to join a Senate committee or board should apply at the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union.
Aimee Hall, student body vice president, said involvement was the best way for incoming freshman to enjoy the University.
Law professor blazes trail in environmental research
“If you become involved, your experience at KU will be more fun,” she said. “Senate is just one of the institutions that has a lot to offer freshmen.”
Bv Brenda Krebs
Special to the Kansan
A distinguished professor in the KU School of Law teaches courses and gives international advice in a field in which he has never taken a class.
For that matter, 20 years ago no law school offered courses in his area.
George Coggins, Frank E. Tyer distinguished professor of law, is one of the first scholars to write about climate change and to interpret the nation's environmental law.
Coggins said that because environmental laws have been on the books in the United States for more than 100 years, she felt it was important to one who had written about them.
"When I went into law school, none of the courses I teach had been invented yet," he said.
Nor had anyone taught environmental law.
Coggins, who grew in Inly, Mich., completed his juris doctorate in 1866 at the University of Michigan. He then practiced an private practice in San Francisco.
Coggins began his KU career in 1978 by teaching procedural law courses but soon discovered that he had an interest in environmental quality, he said.
"I've never had a single original thought in my life," he said. "I'm not a great thinker, just a compiler and organizer."
Although Coggins defines himself as just a compiler and organizer, his work has had both national and global impact.
Years of careful research have made him one of the nation's leading authorities on environmental law, but Cogollock would consider him one of its greatest.
Bill Hays, Coggins' research assistant, said Coggins had been cited several times by the U.S. Supreme Court cases involving environmental law.
Mike Helvey, another of Coggins research assistants, said that in 1978, in one of the first U.S. Supreme Court cases challenging the Endangered Species Act, the majority opinion cited Coggins' work.
In 1983, he became a member of a U.S. SUV exchange program established to bring together environmental specialists from both countries. His work with the program resulted in the proposal of a joint international park to be established alone the Bering Strait.
At the delegation's June conference in Fairbanks, Alaska, Coggins pushed to expand park thinking to include the entire Bering Strait.
"Government officials on both sides have an unduly limited view of what a park should be, where it should be and how it should be operated." Coggins says "But the decision is intentionally dragging its feet."
At a time when so much attention has been focused on the Amazon rain forests, his involvement in the Bering Strait is coincidental.
“It’s mostly a question of serendipity.” Coggins said. “If someone would invite me to handle the Amara prison, I would say my way, I would say ‘great.’”
"The Bering Strait has no higher intrinsic value than any other area," he said. "As a delegate to the U.S.-Soviet law exchange, I find this is an area where we can work together and have a good chance for success."
Other environmental issues on which Coggins has been consulted include a proposed intergenerational environmental treaty, the clarification of laws concerning our nation's watershed and American Indians' rights to subsistence hunting and 'ishing in Alaska.
The proposed international, intergenerational people's treaty is the brachism of C.J. Porter, an officer City, Mo. Mayor, coggins said.
The treaty would attempt to create an environmental plan that would respect the rights of future generations to the world's resources, Helvey said.
Coggins said, "This treaty recognizes that world environmental problems cannot be solved locally. There is no primary, transcontinental problems."
Coggins has devoted 120 pages of his 1,300-page annual treatise, "Public Natural Resources Law," to the watershed subject, he said.
The watershed issue involves the protection of geographic areas where rainwater is filtered into lower lands, Helvey said. Without the watershed to act as a buffer, rejuvenation of the soil becomes impossible.
Coggins said, "While half a dozen laws call the watershed a resource, no one knows exactly what that means."
Helvey said "Public Natural Resources Law" is used by both pro-environment and pro-development sides in many court cases because it is a leading work in environmental law.
Coggins' assistants spend much of their time proofreading and certifying the facts of the cases cited in
Coggins' treatise, which he updates annually.
Coggins said the treatise caused him to spend many hours away from home.
"I figured out that for two years I never spent two consecutive days at home," he said. "Now I've toned that down."
But Coggins' assistants have not noticed a slower pace. Coggins puts in a full day on Saturdays, Helvey said.
"He's a dynamo when he works, but he also enjoys relaxing with his family." Hays said. "More than just about anything else, he would rather be playing baseball with his son, who is in Little League."
Coggins' wife, marge, said Coggin's also played basketball with a group of faculty members from the KU School of Law.
He is a '50s and '60s music buff,
builds model ships and reads three to
five books a week, she said. The
books he reads in his spare time are
not about law; he reads spy and
mystery novels, she said.
Coggins likes to spend his vacation time hiking, he said.
Coggins will have little time to spend on his hobbies in the fall.
His plans include a trip to the Soviet Union for another U.S.-Soviet environmental conference, participation on the range-land committee of the National Academy of Sciences, teaching at KU's School of Law and updating "Public Natural Resources Law."
Although his schedule keeps him busy, Coggins said he enjoyed his work.
"My job beats real work," he said.
"I just wish they paid me better. No client tells me where to be or what I have to do."
Coggins' schedule also keeps his assistants busy. But like him, they voiced no complaints.
"As far as law school or the University in general," Helvey said, "one of the best students can do is work for a professor with more experience in field. You learn more working in such a setting than in the classroom.
“It’s reassuring to know that people of professors Coggins’ quality are combating the moneyed interests in this country that seek to exploit, for them, the profits from their resources that by right belong to every citizen in this country.”
Hays said, "It's very appropriate that he is a distinguished professor in campus. There aren't many of us, and I think we the title well."
Jobs are available on campus, in town
Special to the Kansan
By Preston Girard
Students who plan to earn some money during the school year should start their job search soon.
Cheryl White, placement counselor at the Lawrence Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., said that jobs, both on and off campus, would become scarce toward the end of August and they would require extra effort.
"I think the jobs are there." White said, "but people really have to dig for them.
"There will be an abundance of part-time jobs in Lawrence as long as students are flexible and open as to what they consider done."
Mariann Skahan, student program assistant for the Kansas Career Work Study Program, said there were both internships and work-study jobs available on campus.
"Every year there are about 2,000 openings for students who want to work on campus for the academic year." Skahan said.
'I think the jobs are there but people really have to dig for them.
There will be an abundance of part-time jobs in Lawrence as long as students are flexible and openminded as to what they'll consider doing.'
— Cheryl White
Placement Counselor
To get a work-study job, students must show financial need. Hourly jobs are available to any student who wants to work.
The biggest on-campus employer is the Student Housing Department. The department employs 800 students every year for seven basic positions at KU residence halls, including front desk assistants, food service workers and security monitors.
Skahan said the KU Kansas Career Work Study Program and KU Youth Educational Services were two of the three schools affiliated with the University.
Skahan said off-campus employers posted job listings on the Student Job Bulletin Board in the basement of the university; also lists available on campus jobs.
The Kansas Career Work Study Program employs about 90 students off-campus. Students must be Kansas residents and have at least a 2.0
grade point average.
Youth Educational Services, which tutors grade school and high school students, supplies about 50 off-campus jobs to KU students.
Students interested in either program should apply at 1 Strong Hall.
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Students who want to work in residence halls should fill out applications at hall front desks.
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