Monday, Sept. 9, 1985
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University Daily Kansan
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Senators propose changes in meeting structure
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
A bill restructuring the Student Senate that would give more power to Senate committees and strictly regulate Senate meetings will be presented to the Student Senate Rights Committee tonight, the sponsors of the bill said Friday.
"Student Senate is gasping for air right now," David Epstein, Nunemaker senator and co-sponsor of the bill, said Friday.
"Qualified student senators flock away from the Senate because of the bickering and time last waste," he said. "Now don't long if it's not restructured."
Epstein and Martie Aaron, Social Welfare senator, said they wrote the bill because committee meetings
often were attended only by a half dozen people and Senate meetings sometimes lasted until 3:30 a.m.
"Now the structure is too loose and gets abused."
"The bill is a change of philosophy," Aaron said. "We are a governing body, but our first response studies. We need to be more efficient."
William Easley, student body president, said, "It's not the way the Senate is set up, but the people in it that are creating the problem. It gets long-winded when everybody wants to speak. It's great that we have discussion, but people should know when to sit down."
Tim Boller, chairman of the Rights Committee, said yesterday that he liked the clarity and conciseness of the proposed rules.
"The rules and regulations need revamping," he said. "The bill probably needs fine tuning, so I don't expect action this week."
Aaron and Epstein said they worked on the bill all summer and there should not be any loopholes in it.
"Now is the time to take action when we are in the beginning of the term," Aaron said. Aaron and Epstein said they hoped the Rights Committee would submit the bill to the Senate for the Wednesday meeting.
"We want it as non-political as we can," Epstein said. "That's why we're doing it now. When we get closer to the election, it will be more political."
Boller said, "Of course it' s going to be political whenever we deal with it since a presidential candidate (Epstein) is sponsoring it."
Epstein said time was wasted because three or four speakers talked for 20 minutes each on every issue. The bill would `\mit` speaking time to three minutes, and the Senate could give the speaker two additional minutes to answer questions.
The proposed bill also requires the Senate to meet every week instead of every other week, but its meetings cannot go beyond 9:30 p.m. without a two-thirds majority vote.
Easley said he and Jeff Polack, student body vice president, were working on a proposal to limit
speakers' time but it could not be as rigid as the bill being proposed by Epstein and Aaron.
"Some issues need to be talked about more," he said. "We need leeway when we deal with important issues."
Aaron and Epstein also said committee work often was worthless.
"Now the Senate doesn't know why the committee recommendation was made," Epstein said. "It can take us hours to get to a point in Student Senate that was reached in last night's committee meeting."
Easley said the issues needed to be rehached in the Senate before any decisions were made because the senators were elected representatives, but any student could sign up for committees.
Boller said the proposed rules to strengthen committees were a good idea.
"The committees should do the thinking and the Senate should say yes or no," he said. "Now the Student Assembly will pass what he ever passed in the committee."
Easley said he also opposed the bill's proposed combination of University Affairs Committee and Cultural Affairs Committee into one University Life Committee.
Epstein said the scope of the two committees was too limited and one committee would become more active. Easley said the committees had enough to do if the members took initiative.
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we only accept those two types of I.D.s. The DA won't prosecute on anything besides those two types. We wouldn't have any legal recourse without them."
Cassity said that sometimes the manager would accept a passport and KU I.D.
The Kansas Division of Motor Vehicles issues state I.D. cards and
"We try to stress to foreign students that it's easy to get a state identification card at the National Guard Armory," Cassity said.
driver's licenses at the armory, 200 Iowa St.
Cashing checks isn't the only problem foreign students encounter.
Joyce Castro, Santiago, Chile,
sophomore, said her Chi Driver's
license confused employees at taverns
because it was in Spanish.
"I usually use a driver's license I got in Colorado," Castro said. "It's easier because people at bars know what a Colorado license looks like. They are the ones you are faking because they don't know what foreign L.D.s look like."
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Credit System, said that the system sought governmental help. Farm loan defaults caused the system to seek a bail out that could reach $20 billion.
Willie Nelson, who performed in
In a news conference at the fair, Block said the government would probably step in and help the system more before the system uses its reserves.
Government officials, however aren't the only ones addressing the farm crisis.
a concert at the fair before almost 7,000 people Saturday night, recently organized the Farm Aid event to be held Sept. 21 in Champion Jail.
Nelson said he founded the concert so more attention would be focused on the plight of the American farmer.
"I got the idea after I heard Bob Dylan on the Live Aid show that it's too bad that some of that money wasn't going to U.S. farmers," Nelson said.
KC man sets himself on fire after quarreling with family
The Associated Press
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A man distraught over a family quarrel died after soaking a bedroom of his house with gasoline and then setting himself on fire, authorities said yesterday.
Police officers Wilson Brown and Matthew Jordan responded to a report of a family disturbance about 4 p.m. Saturday at a one-story home in the Ruskin Heights area of south Kansas City.
Two police officers trying to coax Alan G. Stubbs, 44, of Kansas City, into surrendering attempted to extinguish the fire, but flames spread rapidly and forced them from the home, authorities said.
Stubbs had emptied a can of gasoline on his bed and the rest of the room. He was was stretched out on the bed and smoked a cigarette as the two officers talked to him.
Brown said Stubbs seemed calm but then suddenly set the bed on fire with his cigarette lighter.
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