CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, November 13, 1984
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Diverse interests surface in KU Senate race Beautifull days planned by commission Free speech is first goal
Beautifulful David candidates Nathan Collins, left, and David Spear.
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The Beautiful Day Commission wants each student to have a beautiful day on Wednesday and Thursday — and write it in on the ballot.
Nathan Collins, the coalition's candidate for student body president, said last week, "I need everyone who votes to have a seat on the board," allowing them to enquire a full of beautiful days.
But David Spear, vice presidential candidate, said last week that he didn't mind.
"Please, do not vote for us. Please, be involved with equal representation now in college and after college." Spear said.
Collins refuted that statement and said, "He was not thinking clearly when he said."
"I want to be elected. I want to make light of the subject of actually being elected because I don't know if 800 to 1,000 students can actually have a presence of mind to write in the BDC. Other coalitions are more likely toark next to the name already printed."
Collins, a 30-year-old English major.
said that if he were elected, he would advocate greater student involvement in artistic and cultural events, including one major spring art festival.
Another concern was the advising and counseling system, Collins said.
"It is archaic and antiquated," he said, and promotes blind careerism.
Spear, Fairway senior, said his coalition's main concern was equal representation for women and minorities on campus.
"Of all the Big Eight schools, the University of Kansas is supposed to practice the most equal opportunity for women," Spear said. "If this is true, then female students are being divorced from equal representation and equal opportunity with practically no role models on which to base their careers."
He said that 52 percent of KU students were women while only 10 percent of professors and high-level administrators were women.
Collins said, "The Beautiful Day Commission was chartered on friendship and offered an alternative to careerism, providing the treatment of others as material subjects."
Fresh Vegetables candidates Chris
Admussen, left, and Tom Rodenberg
If elected, he said. "I want a year full of beautiful days with friendship."
Fresh Vegetables plan tavern bus route
By ALEXANDRA McMILLEN Staff Reporter
Implementing a late night bus system and addressing a segregation problem in the Greek system are the main goals of the plan. Other countries, the president candidate said recently.
"Our concerns are what students bring to us," said Chris Admusson, the presi-
One of the concerns of students is campus safety. Admissen said he favored late-night bus service over an extensive campus lighting plan.
Admussen's proposed bus system would run Friday and Saturday nights until midnight. The bus route would go to 14 drinking establishments, all residence halls, several fraternities and sororities and scholarships halls.
Admussen said he had spoken to several tavern owners who supported the bus system and were willing to subsidize it. The late-night service would cost 50 cents
In a survey of 250 KU students, 88 percent said they would use the bus
service. Admussen said. He said this survey demonstrated the need for a late bus.
In addition to the bus system, Admussen favors strategic placement of lights on campus and safety awareness programs. The college has established account could finance these projects.
Admussen said another student concern was the segregation of blacks and whites in the school.
"I'm not attacking the Greek system or anyone in it," said Admissner. "What the Senate's doing concerning South Africa is with the discrimination problem here too."
"No one wants to deal with it. It is not a pretty issue."
Admissun proposes organizing a task force to investigate the situation.
He also proposes reviewing financing of student organizations. He said no group's budget should be cut because of its beliefs
Admissions suggests developing stricter requirements for groups to obtain Senate funds. He also favors giving grants or no loans to help self-supportive organizations.
Frontier calls for reorganization
Frontier candidates William Easley, left, and Joe Polack.
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
The Frontier Coalition wants to reorganize Student Senate without restructuring.
"It's not the system that causes inefficiency; it's the people in the system," Jeff Polack, Frontier's vice presidential candidate, said last week.
William Easley. Frontier presidential candidate, criticized Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president for being too concerned with personal beliefs or issues of no concern to most students. Shares views on Africa Week and the fight to decommission the campus nuclear reactor, he said.
Polack said important issues such as grade appeals, campus lighting and add-drop went unnoticed by the current administration.
"When you get up in the morning, do you think about getting an 'A' or about South Africa?"
If elected, Easley said, he will propose changing the process by which student
organizations request financing. Frontier would begin a grant program for student organizations based on need to help them become self-supportive.
After the first lump sum grant, organizations would be allowed to request additional financing only for special projects or in case of running out of
Easley said, "That process would stop organizations from viewing the Senate as a soup kitchen for free handouts and he put a real effort into their fundraising.
Polack would not say whether his coalition would approve of Student Senate financing for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
It's pointless because we are not the Finance Committee or the Student Senate.
Under Senate rules, the president has only veto power in those matters.
Easley said the Student Senate was in no position to judge morality.
"If you are taking that attitude, then you are taking a mightier than thou attitude."
Momemtum Senate seats important too
Momentum candidates Mark "Gilligan" Sump, left, and Charles Lawhorn.
The Momentum Coalition is unique because the people running in the coalition stand behind their presidential and vice presidential candidates, said Charles Lawhorn, Momentum vice presidential candidate.
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
"If Gil and I lose but our people get in office, then it will not be a loss for us."
stuart "Giligan" Sump, presidential candidate for Momentum, said he and Lawhorn were qualified to run because they understood how the Student Senate system worked, how it should work and how it could work better.
Staff Reporter
Lawhore said he had worked in Student Senate for five years, had served on every Senate committee at one time or another and had been an elected senator for one
"You have to know the system, and you have to understand the problems and have the conviction and the guts." Sump said.
"Sincerity is no guarantee for truth, and it is even less of a guarantee for action."
The main issue in the campaign is which candidates can accomplish the necessary steps.
president, Sump and Lawhorn said.
Sump said his coalition did not have a stated platform but instead was concerned with the potential for war.
Lawhorn said his “pet project” was campus lighting. He said Momentum would push for a student referendum on a budget to provide financing for better campus lights.
Another project that Momentum would like to work on, Sump said, was changing Legal Services for Students from a creative organization into a student organization.
Sump said he also would like to reorganize parking services so students would have a semester to appeal tickets and make accommodations for the agreement would be turned over to the state.
Lawhorn had Momentum had more experience working in Student Senate than
"If the students vote for the people who will do the job, there no doubt in my mind that students will vote for Momentum." Lawnhar said.
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Navy Jack candidates Tom Crisp and Jacqueline Hirbe say they want to bring free speech back to the KU campus.
"In general, the students have been neglected and betrayed by the Student Senate." Crisp, presidential candidate, said last week. "The people running the Senate have denied the rights of the majority."
Crisp, Lawrence graduate student, and Hirbe, Lawrence junior, say the current Student Senate has catered to special interests by forcing students to pay for private tutoring in compensations with money from the $24 activity fee that each student pays every semester.
If elected, the Navy Jack candidates say, they will seek new ways to distribute money from the activity fee to campus organizations. The Senate Finance Committee now is in charge of allocating student money to campus organizations.
"One thing we would like to do is to start a scientific, objective polling service to measure student opinion on campus issues." Crisp said.
Navy Jack candidates Tom Crisp left, and Jackie Hirbe.
Both candidates point to a Senate regulation that reads, "No funds shall be allocated for campaign expenses of any type for the purpose of promoting a candidate or state or slide of candidates, or issue or slate of issues, in any election or referendum."
This rule does not prevent groups such as Young Americans for Freedom, Praxis, Latin American Solidarity and Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas from organizing on campus, the candidates say. But they believe it does prevent the Senate from allocating student money to these groups.
The University Daily Kansan also has violated the Senate regulation by endorsing political candidates and editorializing on political issues. Crisp and Hirte say
For example, the Kansas editorialized against a petition started by Crisp that calls for a student vote to ask the administration to end campus recognition of GLSOK.
The candidates say they would give students the option of transferring the $3 of each $2 activity fee that is allocated to the Kansas each semester.
Reality decries liberalism
Staff Reporter
By GWEN TOMPKINS
Their personal religious beliefs play a large part in the campaign, the student body presidential and vice presidential nominees for the Reality Coalition said recently.
"God is our campaign manager," said John McDermott, presidential candidate
Both McDermott and his running mate, Pam Rutherford, are born-again Christians and members of Maranatha Christian Ministries. However, McDermott said, not all members of the coalition shared his religious beliefs.
McDermott said he decided to run for student body president because he "thought there was too much swing to the other side."
He defined the other side as "liberal thought and morals and no conviction."
"Well, they do have conviction, but about the wrong things, Mcdermott said.
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Neither McDermott nor Rutherford have been senators, but they have served on the Senate and on the Rights Committee. Rutherford served on the Minority Affairs Committee.
McDermott said most Senate candidates running with the Reality Coalition also had served on committees but had no experience as senators.
Referring to Rutherford's and his religious beliefs, McDermott said, "People are afraid of us because they think we'll make moral judgments. But isn't the University already making moral judgments?"
Reality candidates John McDermott, left, and Paul Rutherford.
"We oppose funding GLSOK because it's viewed as immoral in the eyes of many students at the University of Kansas," he said. "The question here is — isn't it a moral judgment for the university to say that homosexuality is normal?"
'Toto' stresses experience
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
What separates the & Toto Too Coition presidential and vice president candidates from the other candidates is that they have a distinct reason for running, said Chris Coffelt, & Toto Too presidential candidate.
"I'm running for a specific purpose. That purpose is to see that we have a more effective student government. Other co-counties haven't really been around long enough. It's going to take more than just these two, but it will take changes." Coffelt said last week.
Tim Bolzer, vice presidential candidate for "& Toto Too," said that other candidates viewed the current Student Senate system as a "sacred cow" and that his coalition wanted to change the structure of Student Senate.
Both candidates said their experience in Student Senate qualified them to be student body president and vice president, who knew the changes that should be made
Boller said he had worked for two years in the Senate on a number of committees and boards, including the Transportation Board, the Rights Committee, the Elections Committee and the University Judiciary.
Coffelt said she also had worked for two years on various Senate committees and boards. She now is vice chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee and chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee.
Coffelt said that "Tuto Too also was different because it had stated a campaign plan."
& Toto Too candidates Chris Coffell left, and Tim Bolter
"The thing that I like most about the & Toto Too" campaign is that it really stands for something. That hurts us and that increases the cause that distinguishes us. Coffelt and
The coalition supports recruiting more minority students and faculty members to the University of Kansas and establishing cultural programs on campus, she said.
On the issue of cultural programs, Beller said, "That's not radical, that's just inherent with living in Kansas."