University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 29, 1986
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Havden to talk today at Union
By BETH COPELAND
Staff writer
Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden will stop in Lawrence today to speak on campus and to attend a rally at the local Republican Headquarters.
The speech, sponsored by University Senate, a combination of the Student Senate and Faculty Senate, is held on Friday in the Kansas Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
At 6 p.m. Hayden will attend a rally with local Republican candidates at the headquarters in the Malls Shopping Center, 711 W. 23rd St.
Hayden, an Anwood insurance agent and the Kansas House speaker, is running against Lt. Gov. Tom Docking. In a telephone interview
Monday, Hayden explained how he thought his platform would affect the University of Kansas.
Perhaps the most noticeable effect would be Hayden's plan to require drug testing of athletes who attend Board of Regents schools, which include the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
KU tests athletes for drug use but is not required to do so by the Regents.
"Drug testing will ensure parents who send their children to college that the school is drug-free." Hayden said. "It sends a good, positive message to athletes: If you're going to come to our school, you're going to have to say 'no' to drugs."
In addition to drug testing, Hayden proposed another change in the Regents system.
Hayden advocated adding Washburn University in Topeka to the Regents system, a plan that he said would strengthen the Regents.
This addition, he said, would help eliminate duplication of programs at state schools.
He referred to the law schools at KU and Washburn, saying, "The question is whether Kansas can justify the production of 400 new attorneys every year. Nobody has demonstrated to me that there's a need."
Hayden said the Regents should consider paring some programs at state schools to avoid duplication.
Thirdly, Hayden said KU would play a significant role in economic development of the state
This would be achieved, in part, by encouraging Kansas students to remain in the state after graduation from high school and college. he said.
Hayden said he was considering a proposal in which National Merit Competition finalists and semi-finalists could go to the university of their choice — inside or outside the state, and upon completion of college, the state would pay the students' loans for every year they choose to remain in Kansas to earn a living.
"We want Kansans to come back to the state to work and make their livelihood." Hayden said.
Senate hopefuls debate issues at hall
By SALLY STREFF
The two sets of candidates running for student body president and vice president agree on what issues are important to KU students but say they don't agree on how those issues should be approached in a shorter-than-usual term.
About 100 students listened to the candidates answer questions for 90 minutes last night in a lobby of Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corball Hall.
Staff writer
The candidates are Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan, running for president and vice president with the Cheers coalition, and Betsy Bergman and Stephanie Quincy, running for president and vice president with the Initiative coalition.
The debate was sponsored by GSP-
Corbin Hall.
Both sets of candidates said a lack of communication between students and the Senate was the biggest problem facing the Senate.
Stanton, Prairie Village junior, and Milligan, Topeka junior, said most students didn't know what the Senate did or how to approach it with that.
concerns. The Cheers coalition would eliminate barriers in communication by having senators visit organized living groups and by publishing Senate information in student publications, Milligan said.
Bergman, Prairie Village senior, and Quincy, Iola junior, said they had already created a framework to communicate more openly with students by recruiting a diverse group of students for Initiative. Those students are committed to being the ears of the Senate in their schools, Quincy said.
The candidates disagreed on the
importance of previous experience in the six-month term. Senate elections usually take place in November and senators serve for a full year. But this year, elections will take place twice, once in November and once in April. Future elections will take place in April because of a change the Senate made this spring.
Stanton and Milligan said they would run for re-election in April if they won in November.
Bergman said she would not run again because she would graduate. Quincy said she might consider running again in April if she were elected.
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