University Daily Kansan / Friday, November 14; 1986
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News Briefs
Write-ins accepted for Assembly seats
Undergraduates in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences still may run for a seat in the College Assembly, despite Tuesday's formal deadline for self-nomination.
Turtle talk planned
The college accepts write-in candidates for the election Nov. 19 and 20 because only 57 students have registered for the 108 seats that are open, said Pam Houston, assistant to the dean.
Self-nominations should be turned in to the office of undergraduate services, 106 Strong Hall.
The Kansas Herpetological Society will sponsor a two-day program this weekend to promote public awareness about the new Kansas state reptile, the ornate box turtle.
The program will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and from 8 a.m. to noon on Sunday. The event will be in Dyce Hall auditorium both days, and is open to the public.
The society also will sponsor related activities in the Natural History Museum both days.
Drive seeks $14,000
The Kansas Audio-Reader Network is sponsoring its fund drive until the end of this month to raise money to produce large-print monthly program guides for service users and to buy new equipment.
Rosie Hurwitz, director of Kansas Audio-Reader Network, said the goal for the Help Expand Kansas Audio-Reader Network drive is $14,000.
The 15-year-old audio-reader service is a statewide network that broadcasts readings over a closed-circuit station to more than 10,000 blind, physically disabled and elderly people. Listeners use radios provided by the KU-based service.
Activists to convene
For more information about the drive or the service, call 864-4600.
The Progressive Student Network, a group organized to unify student activists, will have a Midwest conference tomorrow and Sunday at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
The title for this year's conference is "Burning Down the House: Fighting for Peace and Justice in the Reagan Era."
Chuck Munson, president of the KU Committee on South Africa, said he planned to attend the conference. He said the Progressive Student Network had a Midwest conference in Chicago last November and about 500 people attended.
SenEx to meet today
The University of Kansas Senate Executive Committee is to meet at 8 a.m. today in the Regents Room of the chancellor's suite in Strong Hall.
SenEx, made up of both students and faculty, is a branch of the University governance system.
Among the items on the SenEx agenda is a discussion of the corridor concept, the procedure by which the Kansas Legislature decides the amount of money allocated to the University each fiscal year.
Weather
Skiers today will be cloudy with the high temperature near 40. The winds will come from the south at 15 to 25 mph. Tonight the skies will be partly cloudy with the low temperature around 30.
From staff and wire reports
Cheers
Innovation tops list in coalition platform
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Whether they win or lose in next week's elections, Brady Stanton, Prairie Village junior, and Kelly Milligan, Topeka junior, will be running for student body president and vice president again in the spring.
The two candidates for the Cheers coalition say they have spent the last months researching programs to help KU students and want to be in office long enough to make sure they successfully achieve all of them.
Some of these programs, especially a plan to provide loans to students and a plan to lobby the Lawrence City Commission for underage students' admission to taverns, have come under attack by their opponents. The Initiative coalition candidates.
But Stanton and Milligan said students needed to look at the two
coalitions' platforms to see which set of candidates had more enthusiasm and new ideas.
"We're doing innovative things," Stanton said. "And new ideas are seldom accepted with open arms. During the debate over SecureCab last year, everyone said, 'It will never work.' But now it's one of the Senate's most successful programs."
But their main goal is to change the Senate's emphasis back to serving students, something they think this year's administration started, Milligan said.
Their programs will try to take some of the pain out of getting a college education, they said.
"We had lost that sense of responsiveness to Senate." Milligan said.
To combat that, the two said they would require all senators to pay regular visits to different student groups to listen to their concerns.
Brady Stanton, left, and Kelly Milligan are running for student body president and vice president on the Cheers ticket.
Stanton, who has lived in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house since he was a freshman and is majoring in advertising, was first elected to Senate last fall. He also was the freshman vice president for the Board of Class Officers.
Milligan has lived in the Sigma Alpha Education fraternity house since
he was a freshman and is majoring in magazine journalism. He was elected to the Senate last fall and is the vice chairman of the University Affairs Committee.
Although their opponents frequently have said that they have more experience in Senate, both Milligan and Stanton said they thought they had
the necessary experience to deal with administrators, the Kansas Legislature and Board of Regents.
Milligan said the two knew they; would have to work with University officials to start many of their programs, such as one that would provide lecture notes for some courses.
Initiative Candidates cite mix of ideas, experience
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
The four students running for student body president and vice president all were elected as student senators last year on the Common Sense coalition.
But all four insist that resemblances between the two groups end there.
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
Betsy Bergman, Prairie Village senior, and Stephanie Quincy, Iola junior, the Initiative presidential and vice presidential candidates, say they have the right mixture of fresh ideas and experience to be successful student leaders.
"Our platform may not have lots of flashy, go-get'em, free-beer-on-WescoBeach issues, but they're responsible." Bergman said.
They contrast their ideas, which they call responsible and serious, with the ideas proposed by their opponents.
There's so many campus problems, academic and non-academic, that can be addressed," she said.
Quincy said, "To me, the major problem of freshmen is not that they can't get into bars, but that so many of them don't graduate."
Betsy Bergman, left, student body presidential candidate, and Stephanie Quincy, student body vice-presidential candidate, lead the Initiative coalition in Student Senate elections.
The Cheers coalition wants to lobby the city to allow people under the legal drinking age to enter taverns.
Bergman, who lived last year in the Gamma Phi Beta sorority but now lives off-campus, is majoring in English. She first ran for a Senate seat last fall.
Her Senate involvement increased when David Epstein, student body president, appointed her as a student representative to the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation Board, she said. She also was student representative to the Senate Executive Committee.
Quincy, who also lives off campus and is a political science major, ran for Senate as a freshman.
After last year's election, she was
appointed as the chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee
The two said that because the Senate term would be only six months, their first priority will be motivating senators to work hard.
"We won't be able to do all of this stuff ourselves." Quincy said. "But if we have a bunch of motivated senators, we can do it."
whether she would run again next spring. Bergman said she would not run again next spring.
Quincy said she didn't know
Both said they thought their experience with administrators the past year would help them communicate with KU officials, state legislators and the Board of Regents.
Another of their strengths is the diversity and commitment of students running with their coalition, the two said. They recruited students from many areas of the University and sat down with each candidate to explain what would be required of them, they said.
"We both know what we're getting into," Quincy said. "We have the ability to work with a lot of people."
"We told our senators that their main task would be after the election, not before," Quincy said.
Student issues split coalitions
By SALLY STREFF
But their idea of what students need are as different, both groups say, as night and day.
The two sets of candidates running for student body president and vice president agree that the Student Senate needs to increase services that help students.
Initiative's candidates, Betsy Bergman and Stephen Quincey, want the Senate to improve the KU's undergraduate advising system and start an off-campus housing list.
Their opponents, Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan, Cheers' coalition candidates, want to start a short-term emergency loan service and lobby the Lawrence City Commission to allow under-age admittance to taverns.
At a debate last week between the two coalitions, the Initiative candidates charged that the short-term loan service was against state law because the Senate was not a banking institution.
Stanton and Milligan said yesterday that they had consulted an official at the state office of consumer credit, who told them that organizations needed to be licensed but didn't need to be chartered as banks to make loans.
They also have asked Legal Service for Students to look into the matter, the two said.
The proposed program, which is modeled on one at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, would allow students to borrow up to $100 from a $5,000 loan pool that would come from the Student Senate unallocated account. A part-time graduate student would be hired as a loan officer to process loan applications.
They say that many city leaders and tavern owners are against the idea.
Jerry Jackson, director of office assistance in the Student Government Association at Alabama, said the loan program there had been in operation for at least 10 years. He said the program had a high return rate on loans.
Another Cheers proposal — to lobby Lawrence's leaders to change a city ordinance that forbids persons under the legal age for consumption of grain alcohol to enter laverns after 8 p.m. without a parent or legal guardian — also has drawn protests from Initiative candidates.
Cheers candidates contend that similar rules work at other college towns in Kansas, including Hays and Manhattan.
Part of Initiative's campaign platform is a proposal to change the undergraduate advising system, based on recommendations made by a Board of Regents committee this spring, Bergman and Quincy said.
The plan would require that all freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences be advised by trained workers in the Advising Center instead of by assigned professors. Students with declared majors would be assigned professors in their areas.
But Bergman said the changes had occurred only in the summer orientation program for freshmen. Also, the faculty and administration cannot agree how the advising system should be improved.
Milligan said the University of Kansas already had started to make changes in the advising system over the summer and was committed to making more changes, with or without encouragement by the Student Senate.
Area developers show little interest in track
By BETH COPELAND
Although Douglas County residents approved the palli-mutu wagering amendment to the Kansas Constitution on Nov. 4, local developers have shown little interest in building a race track.
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County administrator, said yesterday that he had heard little talk regarding a race track in the county and cited two reasons.
First, McKenzie said, counties with a large number of horse and dog breeders would be most interested in race track construction. Lawrence and the rest of the county do not have many breeders.
secondly, McKenzie said, most counties see pari-mutuel wagering as a way to raise revenue.
"Douglas County is in fairly good shape economically, McKenzie said. "Other counties that want parimutuel are not in as good of shape and would use it for economic development."
In Douglas County, 57.5 percent of the voters approved the amendment.
The legislative Special Committee
wrote the bill to study a task force's
Wednesday to study a task force's
draft bill on legalized wagering on horse and dog racing.
The State Task Force on Pari-Mutuel drafted the 33-page bill dealing with race track licensing and taxation of money wagered on horse and race races. After leaving the committee, the bill will need approval from the Kansas Legislature and the governor.
McKenzie explained that once the state put a pari-mutuel bill into effect, county and local governments could establish guidelines for construction of the race track.
"If people want to build a track, they'll have to satisfy local requirements." McKenzie said.
Debi Moore, administrative assistant for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce, said that she hadn't heard of interest in a local race track and that she wasn't aware of any push by the chamber to build one.
Gail Giesecke, director of communications for the Kansas Chamber of Commerce, said that the business organization lobbed for passage of the constitutional amendment but that implementation would be left to counties.
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