The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Friday, November 21, 1980 Vol. 91, No.64 USPS 650-640
Impact's Coleman, Abbott win top student offices
DREW TORRES/Kansan staff
Top: Impact Coalition candidates Bren Abbott, vice president, and Bert Coleman, president, thanked supporters last night at the Sigma Chi fraternity house. Center: Talking with reporters last night before election results were announced are John Gillroy and David Berstein. The two ran for vice president and president as independent candidates. Bottom: Kristy Kossover, Spectrum vice presidential candidate, waits to hear the final election results from Larry Metzger, Spectrum presidential candidate.
Senate election results page 5
Impact takes top student spots fails to sweep Senate seats
By MIKE ROBINSON Staff Reporter
Bert Coleman and Bren Abbott, Impact candidates for student body president and vice president, waited for a phone call in a basement back room of the Sigma Chi fraternity house last
Coleman stuck his head outside the room and asked suppors to bring him a beer.
"I think I'm going to need one," he said, grinning.
"When you hear the phone ring, it'll all be over," Abbott added, closing the door.
A few minutes later, when the phone did ring with a call from the Student Senate Elections Committee, Abbott opened the door and gestured to his running mate, said, "I would like
to present to you the next student body president."
Coleman and Abbott won with 1,230 votes and Larry Metzger and Kristy Kossover of the Spectrum Coalition received 935 votes. Mark Bernstein and John Guillory, independent candidates for president and vice president, got 359 votes.
Impact won the most Senate seats with 29, and Spectrum had only seven. Twenty-one of the 58 seats went to independent candidates and members of small coalitions.
The winner of the law school seat was not yet determined because final results were not completely tabulated.
Coleman and Abbott said they were confident they could work with the candidates from the two parties.
See IMPACT page 10
Campaign issues will not die. Spectrum candidates maintain
By KATHY MAAG Staff Reporter
The music softened and the football players paused as the Spectrum Coalition party in Naishtm Hall closed in to hear the candidate's announcement.
"We lost-good enough," Larry Metzger, Spectrum coalition's presidential candidate said.
the concise statement continued with the usual round of thanks, then the losers retreated to spend a few quiet moments alone.
Spectrum candidates Metzger and Kristy Kosever had lost the Student Body presidential and vice presidential race, tallying 935 votes and coming in second to the Impact Coalition.
The two vowed, however, that Spectrum's issues would not go unnoticed.
METZGER PLEDGED his support to the new officers and said he was pleased with the camerabased team.
pagen.
"Both parties feel that this has been the cleanest campaign in recent years and should promote a compatible, working Senate," he said.
See SPECTRUM page 5
Bernstein, Gillory lose election but life will continue, they say
By PAM HOWARD Staff Reporter
By PAM HOWARD
Mark Bernstein, Student Senate presidential candidate, cradled the telephone receiver as he listened intently. Silence fell over the room filled with annoying friends. The tension could be felt.
"Oh sick!!!" shouted Bernstein as he hung up the phone.
After announcing that he and his running mate, John Gullory, had been soundly defeated, he said, "Well, it was worse than I thought."
Bernstein and Guillory, running as independent candidates, placed third among the three coalitions, with 359 votes out of the more than half votes cast for president and vice president.
Gullery disappeared upstairs in his house at 185 Kentucky St., where he and Bernstein waited for the election results. After listening to the results on an extension phone, he did not reap reward.
BERNSTEIN SAID he thought he had learned something from running in the election.
See INDEPENDENTS page 5
Staff Reporter
By MIKE ROBINSON
Dean, committee named in complaints
An associate dean and the Senate Elections Subcommittee were named in two of the four elections complaints filed yesterday, Octavio Viveros, chairman of the subcommittee, said.
Eric Harkness, candidate for the pharmacy Senate Seat, said in his complaint that he had seen Hugh Cotton, associate dean of the School of Medicine at Northwestern University, and throw them away Wednesday morning.
Harkness said he confronted Cotton and "discussed briefly with him the impropriety of his action," Harkness put up more posters and found them torn down again yesterday, he said.
He then filed his complaint with the sub-
committee. Hartness also said that he had a
duty to report the matter.
the walls of the new addition to Malott Hall in accordance with a display policy. The policy says that signs can be posted on bulleting boards, but not directly on the walls, he said.
He said he thought the problem was that the building's display rule were unaware of the building's display rule.
Cotton said he had removed only posters from
Howard Mossberg, dean of the school, said incidental conversation about the incident before the charge was filed led to his dismissal.
mossberg said that Cotton felt the posters shouldn't be on the walls because the Malott addition was brand new.
The elections subcommittee also was accused of not having the nighttime ballot boxes at the Delta Ch fraternity house and Delta Gamma house at 5 p.m. last night as scheduled, Viveros said.
THE COMPILEAT, filed by Christopher Mehl,
election day, 2013. The Impact
COMPILER'S NAME
See COMPLAINTS page 5
Plan to add student to Regents board abandoned
By GENE GEORGE Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-The Student Advisory Committee of the Board of Regents decided yesterday that its tactics to get a student on the board were not working and decided to strike a compromise.
The SAC proposal would change the board policy on disseminating information to read, "Give the Student Advisory Committee any Board of Regents correspondence in response to an issue," items from individual campuses and statements or decisions of legislative boards of elected officials."
The committee proposed a compromise that would allow the SAC and all students sitting on other Regents committees to have access to the debate, and voting members of Regents committees have.
GREG HAGER, Emporia State University student body president, said the change could "further tie the hands of students" when it came to having input on decisions.
Hager said that even if the Regents agreed to supply information, the students' input would not necessarily mean any more than it already did.
But Jim Anderson, Fort Hays State University student body president, disagreed.
student body presentation," he said. "I think it's a good step, if future SAC's continue to use it."
Tash said he didn't think any Regent was willing to put a student on the board now. Anderson, however, said he knew of at least two members who suggested the idea although he did not name them.
Randy Tosh, Kansas State University student body president, proposed the compromise because the issue "was approached from the wrong direction and too fast."
Anderson noted that the SAC itself was formed out of a similar compromise when students said they had no representation with the Regents.
"I'd really rather see us go for the committee level before we get into a position we request." he
TOSH SAID THE next step would be to propose giving voting rights to student members of Regents committees.
In a separate meeting, the Faculty Senate resident president criticized the student on the board.
The plan the FSPC reviewed was proposed by the Associated Students of Kansas, and until
yesterday's meeting, had been supported by the Student Advisory Committee.
The FSPC told Robert Bingaman, executive director of the Associated Students of Kansas, that the original plan was self-serving and really better than the present makeup of the Revents.
Bingaman said the SAC could not fully represent the students because its members, student body presidents, were tied up with campus problems.
He added that the presidents have only served one-year terms on the SAC and that was not enough time to learn about the system and start participating.
BINGAMAN SAID that under the ASK proposal, a student would be appointed by the governor to serve a four-year term on the board.
He said state Rep. Saphy Duncan, R-Wichita,
would introduce *SAPHY* to next
week's Republican caucus, which begins in January.
But Charles Hathaway, faculty senate president from Kansas State University, asked Bingaman, "Why don't you build a case and congratulate and ask for support?" Build a better case.
other case
Hathaway and several other members said
they still did not know how the change would be better than the present system.
Bingaman, who admitted ASK was facing an uphill battle, said he would consider re-writing
SEVERAL MEMBERS did not like the wording of ASK's position paper on the matter. They said they did not agree with ASK's statements that students knew best when it came to "the faculty, administration and institutions in the educational process."
The full Board of Regents then will consider the reports from its committees and the requests from individual schools.
In other action, the SAC decided to write a letter to Gov. John Carlin asking him to continue financing for student aid programs in fiscal year 1982.
Today, the Budget and Finance Committee is scheduled to discuss the need for increased funds for the new civil service pay plan for classified employees.
The Legislative, By-Laws and Policy Committee will consider the policies on political activity submitted by K-State and Emporia State.
Weather
It will be warm and windy and mostly clear today with a high near 60, according to the National Weather Service, it will be southwesterly at 10 to 20 mph.
Tonight will also be mostly clear with the low in the middle to upper 28s.
Warm weather will continue tomorrow with the high around 55 to 60.
row with the age around 35 to 60.
The extended forecast calls for mild days and cold nights Sunday through Tuesday, with the highs in the 30s and low 60s and the lows in the mid-20s to to mid-30s.
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