Wednesday. August 20,1986
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Senate seems content with appointed officer
By Bill Raynolds
Staff writer
Kris Kurtenbach was not elected student body vice president, but her May appointment by the Student Senate Executive Committee has caused little controversy. In fact, the move has been called necessary.
"David (Epstein, student body president) wasn't here for the summer, and we needed someone to organize summer orientation and to attend meetings of the Student Advisory Committee to the Board of Regents," said Gordon Woods, a member of StudEx.
"We picked Kris because she lived here all summer. There's no way the office could function with no one here."
Kurtenbach replaces Ann, Brown, who resigned when she decided to accept a position as a copy editor with the Argus Leader, a Sioux Falls, S.D. newspaper, instead of going to law school at the University.
Epstein said Brown recommended Kurtenbach as a replacement at a StudEx meeting in May, and StudEx unanimously approved Kurtenbach in an emergency session May 18.
StudEx is the executive committee of the Student Senate and is made up of Senate committee chairmen or their representatives, Senate executive officers and Student Senate representatives to the University Senate Executive Committee.
Kurtenbach was KU director of the Associated Students of Kansas, a state-wide, nonpartisan student lobbying organization. She also won an off-campus Senate seat last
fall and was Epstein's and Brown's campaign coordinator.
Woods, graduate senator, said that the Student Senate rules and regulations and the University Senate Code gave StuEx the power to act in behalf of the Student Senate when classes are not in session and that StuEx had emergency powers to act on matters requiring action within one week.
Although no formal Senate rule requires that the entire Senate confirm Kurtenbach, Epstein said the full Senate might have a vote.
Kurtenbach said she wanted to be vice president so that she could have a better chance to work with the University administration toward achieving both the goals of Epstein's and Brown's administration.
Those goals included setting up a cab service for students who had consumed too much alcohol at local taverns and establishing a course guide for students.
"Their platform issues were worthwhile, and I wanted to be in a position to achieve their goals and my own," she said. "You don't have as much leverage as a senator, but now I have a better chance to work with the administration to help reach those goals."
Kurttenbach and Epstein currently are working on Course Source, an expanded syllabus that will give freshmen and sophomores detailed descriptions of general courses in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the amount of work in those courses and the professors' expectations of the students.
The University is building a $3.5 million communications system that could give students access to library and research materials in their residence hall rooms.
Eventually, fibre-optics will be used to connect the wiring between buildings and allow the transmission of video and high speed data communication to access points all over campus.
System to link halls, library
By Colleen Siebes
Staff writer
Since May, the University has been rewiring campus buildings to prepare for the system.
In the first phase, scheduled to be completed in June 1987, copper wires will be used to set up a University telephone system that can transmit sound and low-speed computer information.
Dewey Allaire, associate director of facilities operations, said officials had no definite schedule for completing the project.
The system, when completed, would allow students who live on campus to tap into University data banks from their residences. This is not possible now, Allaire said.
The new system will transmit data
Dean search continues
chancellor for academic affairs earlier this year.
The search for a new journalism dean is continuing and is expected to get more intense this fall.
Linton also said some nominations were been made, and applications were sent to the nominees.
For example, students could save research time by looking up library resources from their residence hall rooms, and medical students could watch live operations on video.
University officials this summer placed advertisements in professional journals to fill the position vacated by Del Brinkman, said Bruce Linton, chairman of the search committee and professor of journalism. Brinkman became vice
Linton said he didn't expect much response now to the advertisements because most people who were likely to respond to the ads would be busy preparing for the fall semester.
By a Kansan reporter
Some faculty members feared the new system might replace professors.
through three wire centers or "mother computers" which will allow students, staff and faculty access to data banks in other buildings.
"The new system will provide flexibility for using a great deal of new technology that the old system couldn't." Alaire said.
Lee Young, professor of journalism, will be the acting dean until a replacement for Brinkman is found.
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