Wednesday, March 26, 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Student Senate committees elect 5 chairmen, outline year's goals
By GREG HACK Kansan Staff Reporter
Five student committees elected chairmen and outlined goals Tuesday night in preparation for hearings April 8-11 on the allocation of student activity fees.
The chairman automatically become members of StudEx, which will assign groups requesting Student Senate funding to them. The chairperson is a student, body president, said Tuesday.
The Finance and Auditing and Student Services committees will meet at 6:30 and 7:30 tonight in the Council room of the Union.
In the hearings, the committees will hear requests and vote on the amount of funds to give each group. The Senate will then vote on the committees' recommendations and complete consideration of next year's budget by April 17.
Rolfs said there would be an open meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the Jayhawk room of the Union. The meeting will explain the Senate's budget process to non-Senate members of the committee and any interested students.
David Shapiro, chairman of the Sports Committee, said he was especially concerned with reorganizing the University's intramural program.
"The program is not efficient at this time," he said. "There should be a definite calendar for intramural events, and more advance notice of changes given to residence halls. We need more concrete guidelines for the program."
Shapiro, a voting member of the Kansas University Athletic Corporation because he is the committee chairman, said great improvements could be made next year. The athletics intramural program had a $25,000 guarantee and prepared to this year's $8,800 total allocation.
HE SAID THE committee would try to speed up work on new intramural fields at 23rd and 10a, Iowa, to ensure that new additions to Robinson Gymnasium meet student needs. We have an intercollegiate Athletics develop long-range planning and policy-making guidelines.
Shapiro said he hoped the committee would investigate the economy of football coach Bud Moore's proposal for new football helmets, the possibility of a computerized system for purchasing student equipment and the chances of getting located for support a discount coupon book for students purchasing season tickets.
Kevin Flynn, chairman of the Communications Committee, said his committee was responsible for disseminating information about the Senate.
He said the committee would continue last year's efforts, which included helping the Alumni Association and the chancellor with the university to alumni and high school seniors.
THE COMMITTEE WILL also study the
possibilities of a student advisory board to Kansas' representatives in Washington and will help students communicate with their student senators, he said.
Marylou Reece, student body vice president, said the committee would help her in re-establishing the Concerned Students for Higher Education.
"This group has done quite a bit of effective lobbying in Topopea in the past, but they have done virtually this year," he said. "Thus lobbying would be very helpful now."
Rofs addressed the Academic Affairs Committee, whose chairman is Bill Bichler.
Rolfs said the committee would have to carefully scrutinize budget requests because it would have about $6,500 to allocate, but more than $4,000 in requests
ROLFIS SAID THE COMMITTEE had to continue to work with administrators who were concerned with implementation of early enrollment and to investigate the process of implementing the system. He said the committee was also responsible for presenting a case for changing KU's foreign language requirement because past polling of more tools showed only 11 had foreign language requirements as strict as the University's.
Finally, Rolfs said the committee should examine the Curriculum and Instruction Survey and recommend action concerning faculty evaluation.
"We are the only university in the United States to have such a program and, while it has its faults, it is certainly better than nothing," he said.
THE STUDENT RIGHTS, Responsibilities and Privileges Committee is not heavily involved in allocating Senate funds, said Ted Tasheff, chairman. However, the committee cannot because it deals with changes in the law and constitution of the Senate and in the rules, she said.
Chuck Fisher is chairman of the Culture
evaluating cultural activities on campus.
The committee will investigate the possibility of establishing a University-wide complaint board, recommend steps that may be taken to provide for student safety and assistance in rules and regulations for students, similar to those in the Senate Code, she said.
Rolfs said the committee would have to establish a new method for election of senators by freshmen and sophomores next year because the college-within-a-college existence exists. Before undergraded cleremons voted for them, undergraded cleremons from their own colleges, he said.
The committee will be concerned with coordinating culturally related groups on campus and with insuring that student groups are consulted before bringing speakers to campus through various lecture series.
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