University Daily Kansan, November 13, 1984
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Highberger and Vogel introduce to the Senate a new class of student representatives. Some claim the Senate has become more accessible under their administration. Seven coalitions are candidates for the position Highberger and Vogel are vacating, the most since 1971.
in Senate if Vogel and Hibberger had not been elected, said Jay Smith, a graduate
Smith also said that the Senate probably would not have financed LCSO, had it not been done.
Che Guevara vs. preppy
"Boog and Carla have brought about a wide range of discussion on a wide range of issues," he said.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he gave Vogel and Highberger high marks for the issues that they wanted to address.
Vogel and Highberger have had less than nine months to introduce their new ideas because Chancellor Gene A Budig invalidated a controversial November election and called for another election in the spring.
"They were really kind of an unknown item to us," Bamber said.
Ambler did administrators were somewhat apprehensive after the spring election because Vogel and Higbinger had no student government experience.
That unfamiliarity may have contended to conflict between the ad主管部门 and the court.
In June, the office of student affairs asked that the Senate payroll be signed by an administrative staff member, instead of just by Vogel, to prevent recurrence of thousands of dollars, such as the embezzlement of thousands of dollars from funds by a Senate worker two years ago.
Vogel and Highbberger objected, and Vogel now signs most of the checks alone, unless the Student Senate Executive Committee determines that the amount is too great.
"I would still say that we have some basic differences about how the world ought to turn and how the University should operate." Ambler said "But I feel, at the end of their term, very positive about them."
Vagel and Highberger clashed not only with administrators but also with some staff members.
Jeff Polack, chairman of the Congress Committee and a Nunemaker senator, said conflict was reflected by the number of cases in his beginning of Vogel and Highberger's term.
When they took office, Vogel and Highberger asked the Senate officers to re-examine the vote.
But in March, the Senate's executive secretary, treasurer and administrative secretary announced their resignations within a week. The chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee resigned in April.
"Bogw and Carla weren't willing to back the people that they had in office up," said Polack, now a candidate for student body vice president. "Bogw and Carla were really nice, but they didn't know when to listen to advice."
Chris Coffett, a journalism senator, said he was hostile to them at first because they
"I really was not happy," she said. "I thought they were far too idealistic to make Senate work. I've changed my tune."
Coffelt now is running as a presidential candidate for & Toto Too, the group Vogel and Highberger helped form.
Idealism acknowledged
Highberger freely acknowledges such idealistic goals. He has called for the elimination of rules restricting discussion, and he would like to see the power of student government put into a union of students.
"Most people in Student Senate have a strong commitment to American democracy," he said, "but it serves their needs very well. We're raised in a way that to question our political or economic systems is almost treason."
During their campaign last spring, Vogel and Highberger had promised to allow more discussion by eliminating Roberts Rules of Order, the parliamentary procedure that the Senate uses to conduct its meetings.
Once they had won the election, they tried to persuade the Senate in March to abandon Roberts Rules of Order. After a trial run, senators rejected the idea.
Highermaster still does not like the Senate rules. He remembers his first encounter with them, when he read them from cover to cover about a week after he took office
"My mind turned to Jell-O," he said, smiling "I thought it seemed very bureaucratic, but I steered myself to have live meals, but I steered myself for the grisly ordal."
Some objected to Vogel and Highberger's dress because they did not wear the Ivy League sweaters or the preppy clothes of past presidents.
Ptacek said he thought that some senators might have accepted their ideas more readily if they dressed more conventionally.
"But Boog has long hair, and he doesn't wear Topiaries, and Carla does not own an
Vogel and Highberger also abandoned
the neat, professional look of the Senate offices that typified previous administrations — a decor recently called nouveau prepy.
Instead of a bulletin board and Jayhawks, the office walls now are cluttered with posters urging political action, fliers, newspaper articles and letters.
Ambler remembers the impact of the poster
And a poster of the Guevara, a radical revolutionary leader, sticks to a door. It went up the day Vogel and Highberger took office and symbolizes the difference between past and present administrations. Highberger said
"In the first couple of days, I had a stream of outgoing Student Senate leaders who were outraged about their putting up a poster of the Guevara in the Senate office, and doing all kinds of what they considered outrageous things," he said.
The two welcome end
The past @ 8: months, Vogel and Highberger said, have not been easy for them. Highberger has felt worn out, and Vogel sometimes felt like a small bird that has been kicked around. Both are looking to help their successors into office.
But whatever administrators, senators,
current candidates and Senate officials
have to say about Vigel and Highberger,
they have on one fact — they were
different
"Quack, quack." Highberger said. "I always wanted to be a lame duck."
If their term has not been particularly easy for Vogel and Highberger, it also was not, perhaps, the easiest of terms for the Student Senate.
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need that much and that they'd give it to us for a year or two and then cut it off.
"This study was done to show them that if we don't continue, it will make a big problem."
THE REPORT SAYS that even with the extra $4 million, the Regents are far from having enough resources to accomplish maintenance, repair and remodeling work.
"There were not so many obvious defects, things you could see." Corman said. "If was not clear, they weren't."
The problems that need to be fixed are mainly those caused by the depreciation of materials because of time, use and weather, the report says.
Money needed to improve Regents academic buildings
School Dollars in millions
KU 15.7
KUMC 2.8
KSU 20
WSU 8.8
ESU 2.6
PSU 16.2
Fort Hays 8.4
Kansas Tech. 2.1
TOTAL 77
and steam pipes and rust hidden inside furnaces.
"I knew we had a list of about $12 million worth of items that have been submitted that we haven't been able to fund. I knew the final amount would be two to three times the cost of things that had been requested. But I was really surprised at that large an amount."
CORMAN SAID KU$ 22 percent satisfactory academic space was related to the fact that about 80 percent of its buildings were 15 or more years old.
"Once they get that old, things like plumbing and heating systems start breakin'."
The report says, "The institutions are doing well with the money and the personnel they have, but they are able to do only the highest priorities and must reluctantly leave work undone from month to month and year to year.
Corman said he thought KU was not really in any worse condition than the other campuses.
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"I'm here to promote peace, not fighting," he said. "But we have no alternative now."
he supported the resistance of his people against the South African government, which controls Namibia and imposes its apartheid system of racial separation there.
Imbil still lives in Nambia, where he said he and his family never had been directly persecuted by South African officials. He said he was glad to leave his country for the tour, if it would help inform those in the United States of conditions there.
"I don't want you to experience what I
have experienced," he said. "You must raise your voice against it."
Imbish said he wanted the United States to put political pressure on the South African government.
"I's really bitterly affecting us," he said. IMBUL SAM HE had been pleased by how relaxed the police were on Saturday in the United States because racial segregation was so clearly marked in his country.
"You don't have that feeling of inferiority and superiority here," he said, "and I feel uneasy."
Jimenez, said she was speaking for the
"All we know there is violence and despair, but when they say, she said, 'but there is much heavier load.'
millions of Americans who lived in poverty and oppression despite their citizenship in an
"We cry together and play together," he said. "It will be very sad when we separate."
Ty said before his appearance that the demands of the peace tour had tired him. But he said he was grateful for the friends he had come among the other teenagers on the tour.
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Shuttle
JERRY ROSS IN mission control told the crew initial indications were that Westar would not have the same problem, but, "We can't be 100 percent sure."
"I will be too tired when we separate."
"I don't think I'll ever see them again."
NASA officials said they would discuss retrieval options today, a light day for the crew. Controllers the shuttle had plenty of fuel to catch up with Westar, which was about 700 miles ahead of Discovery yesterday.
The two satellites, stranded in orbit by rocket failure last February, will be returned to Earth when the shuttle friday at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.
Insurance underwriters pay $10.5 million to NASA and the satellite builder for the
"IT'S JUST INCREDIBLE." said James Barrett, president of International Technology Underwriters. "I don't think we can adequately express our gratitude to NASA, the Hughes Aircraft Co. and especially these fine hero American astronauts."
salvage operation to recover some of the $180 million they paid the satellites' original owners, Indonesia and Western Union. The company burfish the satellites and launch them again.
Gardner used a television camera to show controllers the black object on the top of Palapa that kept him from attaching the satellite be used by the arm to berth the satellite
The operation began flawlessly. With Allen and Gardner waiting in Discovery's airlock, Hauck and Walker flew the shuttle with precision less than 35 feet below the satellite; its blue glass solar cells glittering in the sunlight, and shuttle were traveling at 17,229 km/h.
David Braverman, associate manager of Hughes' commercial systems division, said the obstacle was an "oversight". But if the problem exists on Westar 6, he said he was confident it could be overcome.
ALLEN USED ONE of two 24-jet backpacks in the cargo bay to fly up to Palapa like a high-tech knight with a 4-foot lance-like grapple.
Book exchange considered
Tom Van Holt, Rochester, N.Y., senior,
presented his idea for a book exchange to the
Templin and Hashinger hall senates at their
regular meetings last night.
A McCollium Hall resident assistant is promoting an idea which he says might save students money on textbooks.
Van Holl is proposing a non-profit, student-run book exchange that would give students credit for books turned in to the book exchange at the end of a semester. The students in this class that credit for books from the book exchange at the beginning of the next semester.
"We all know we're being ripped off," he said, "the publishers have a monopoly."
At the hall senate meetings he attended last night. Van Halt described the proposal and asked that people who were interested to help promote the book exchange in the halls.
A COMMITTEE OF about a dozen people is working with Van Holl on the book exchange idea, which he has already presented to Ellsworth and Oliver halls, he said. Another member of the committee attended the meeting R. Pearson Hall senate meeting last month.
The exchange would be campus wide. Van
Van Holt spoke to the Student Senate about his idea at its last meeting.
Steve Word, general manager of the Union bookstores, said, "Tom has the best intentions at heart. He is going to have to be very, very cautious when he approaches this entire concept. He needs to be fully aware of the offalls."
Word, with whom Van Holt has discussed the idea, said that he didn't see the book exchange as a threat to the Union bookstores and bookstores were a non-profit organization.
THE BOOK EXCHANGE would determine what books were to be used on campus the next semester by using a list provided by the Kansas Union Bookstore, Van Holt said.
Campus organizations will be asked to help finance the book exchange, Van Holt said.
By JOHN REIMRINGER Staff Reporter
"After all, the Union was established to help students." Word said.
Van Holt said volunteers would run the book exchange. He said that he wasn't sure how to make it work.
Book exchanges have been tried at the University of Kansas and at other schools in
Holt said, but it was being started in the residence halls because of the concentration
"I have seen it tried and kept going for two
or three semesters at various colleges and
universities."
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