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Thursday, Sept. 18
Calendar
What: Veggie Lunch
When: 11:30 a.m.
Where: Ecumenical Campus
Ministries
About: Dish up a free vegetarian
lunch.
What: Dominique Christina
When: 7 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union
About: The slam poet will hold a sexual assault workshop.
Friday, Sept. 19
What: 15th Annual Collage Concert When: 7:30 p.m. Where: Lied Center About: Performers include the KU Symphony Orchestra, Graduate Woodwind Quartet and Etta Fung.
What: Campus Movie Series: "The Parent Trap"
When: 7:30-10:30 p.m.
Where: Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium
About: Attend a free showing with friends. Also showing 2 p.m. Sunday.
Sunday, Sept. 21
Saturday, Sept. 20
What: Family Weekend Tailgate
When: 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: Memorial Stadium, The Hill
What: Monarch Butterfly Tagging When: 7:30-11:30 a.m. Where: Baker-Haskell Wetlands About: Monarch Watch and Jayhawk Audubon Society will provide tags, nets and instructions in how to net and tag monarchs.
What: Honey Beezz Flea Market
When: 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Where: Columbus Hall
About: Vendors gather to sell antique and vintage items.
What: Homecoming: Clue
When: 8 p.m.
Where: Wescoe Beach
About: Homecoming is hosting a real-life Clue game on Jayhawk Blvd. Teams of four can compete to solve the mystery.
Said, Wagner return to Student Senate
MIRANDA DAVIS
@MirandaDavisUDK
Student Body Vice President Miranda Wagner presented a bill to create a social equity director position. The bill passed unanimously in Multicultural Affairs Committee and reached a two-thirds majority in Rights Committee. It will be addressed in full senate next Wednesday.
The position would add an additional executive staff member to the office. The director would be paid with leftover funds from unworked summer hours' funds. If passed, this year would be a trial run for the position and after this year, it would be paid out of the Student Senate block fund.
At the end of the meeting, members did not think the bill initially passed; however, when Said, Wagner and Chief of Staff Mitchell Cota reviewed the vote after senate, they discovered that during the vote, they had counted the abstention against the two-thirds majority. Twelve voted in favor, six voted against and one abstained. After removing the abstention, the vote passed by an exact two-thirds vote.
Said and Wagner both spoke favorably about the bill, which stems from one of the Grow KU platforms during their election campaigning. Said said they had researched other universities and found some had already filled the executive position.
Wagner said that part of this person's job would be to bring students from groups not currently involved in senate and inform them of ways they can be involved in the legislative process.
"I think senate from year to year is kind of homogenous... and every election cycle [students] hear a lot of talk about diversity and inclusion and it doesn't really happen," Wagner said. "So I think it's about time that the executive staff is committed to bringing students in, through the replacement process, through committees, anything we can do to make sure we're being very inclusive and representative of campus."
of this, to add staff member responsibilities that tackle these issues, should first be considered lined out responsibilities of existing staff members who might just have to be doing this already," Joyce said.
"I think that the intention
"If we were to add these responsibilities instead, make them at the forefront of those individual jobs and hold them accountable to that and they still can't do that? That's when we have to find a staff member, that's when we have to pay them a few thousand dollars over the course of an entire academic year," Joyce said.
Alek Joyce, a fifth-year senior from Lawrence and former chair of the Finance Committee, spoke unfavorably about the bill.
Said was excited that the bill had passed and was proud that the committees had passed it. She said that the fact that Multicultural Affairs passed the bill unanimously shows the need for this position.
Joyce is no longer a senator but is a Rights Committee member. He had concerns about how an individual in the position would be paid in future years and if the description already fell within other positions within the executive staff.
Committees took place after short speeches by Emma Halling, outgoing acting student body president, and Tyler Childress, outgoing acting student body vice president. Said, Wagner and their executive staff took over senate after winning the re-election last week.
...it's about time that the executive staff is committed to bringing students in..."
MIRANDA WAGNER Student body vice president
During his officer speech, Cota addressed progress on a social justice minor. He said that it was coming along quickly and if it continues to go through the University channels, it should reach the Kansas Board of Regents by December. If the Board votes it through, it will be available through the department of American Studies by next fall.
Full senate will take place next week.
Edited by Amelia Arvesen
MICHAEL O'BRIEN/KANSAN
Student Body President Morgan Said addresses Student Senate during the meeting Wednesday night in the Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Student Body Vice President Miranda Wagner sits at the meeting of the Student Senate Wednesday evening in the Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
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