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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
University Daily Kansan
Student Senate active in many areas this summer
By ALISON GWINN
Kansas Staff Reporter
The Student Senate has just completed one of its most active summer sessions, Ed Rolfs, student body president, said, and has been working underwisk for a heavy schedule for the fall.
During the summer months, StudEx,
acting for the Student Senate, took action on
the student's rights.
ONE OF THE MAJOR issues facing StudEx, Rolfs said, was the decision on whether to include a prescription drug rider in the Blue Cross-Blue Shield health insurance.
"The controversy centered on the present drug rider," Rolfs said. "Quite simply, for $28 additional cost to the policy holder, the first $100 for his prescription drugs."
"In essence, the policy would cost $120
instead of $94 for an additional $280 worth of insurance."
StudEx decided to include the drug rider in the health insurance policy.
A second major issue for the Student Senate this summer was a campaign to save the Hawket, the concessions area in Summerfield Hall.
IN MIDSUMMER, a decision was made to close the Hawkett and use the space it occupied to hold new computers and to house the School of Business reading room.
The Senate charged that students hadn't been adequately consulted about the decision, that the students wanted to keep students from voting and the use of the Hawklet space were available.
After reconsideration of the situation by a group of administrators and students, a compromise was reached in which the Hawklet would be removed from Sum-
Rolfs said, "The whole issue boiled down to a power play on the part of the administrators. The central administration had two sides to which it could respond. These were either student-related or administration-related.
merfield and a lounge area would be placed in the Military Science Annex.
"We, as students, will be gone in a year and they've apparently decided to accept us," he said. "We'll be taking ministrators, with whom they will have to deal for the next 10 or 20 years. I'm pleased that we were able to get something for the majority. I just wish it had been more."
The greatest problem with the second choice, Milnowsky said, is the difficulty of renovating Watson Library. The building has to many internal load-bearing walls, and the use of steel reinforced inefficient that they should be torn down before new additions are built.
A SECOND CHOICE is to build a new library big enough to combine several of the branches and spend the rest of the money renovating Watson Library. The new library will be in many places and perhaps the business collections; Watson would get most of the rest.
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The committee began its work last February. Malinowski said most of its time had been spent looking at the needs of the team, and now he is out realizing solutions tried by other schools.
KU's own choices narrow to three, he said. One is simply to expand Watson Library and the branch libraries. This choice is the least desirable, he said, because it involves a lot of costly services as reference areas, reserve rooms and binders must be duplicated, and students must sometimes go to several branches to find books because the University can no longer afford to buy books of needed information in more than one library.
A third choice is to abandon the existing libraries and build a new centralized one. Such a library would probably contain all collections except those in Sepeer Research Library and the law school library he said.
have room for shifting and expanding the collection," he said.
MALNOWSKY SAID that, ideally, the third choice was best, because it would eliminate duplication and allow the staff to work more effectively. However, what is ideal and what is necessary don't always coincide, he said, and the choice of building a new branch library rather than a central facility may be necessary.
Library . . .
Malinowski said that even if the entire amount of money were put into a new central library, there would probably be no more total floor space than Watson Library had already. The difference, he said, is that the library would use space more efficiently.
"What else would you do with Watson Library if we abandoned it?" he said. "It's not an easy building to adapt for other uses."
In part, efficiency means more extensive use of microfilm and computers. Malmowski said that although the library should never rely totally on microfilm instead of books and periodicals, any new facility should use it more.
"ESTHETICALLY, IMT not that concerned about pressure on the old, musty candle."
matters is what's on the paper. We've got a lot of Slavic and Latin American material that printed on poor paper and is rotting on the shelves."
"IT'S THE READER space we really don't have. We should be able to accommodate one-fourth of the student body," he said. "Even with squeezing, we don't have space for more than 1,800 students our teacher counts all our branches," he said.
Sites under construction for a new central or branch facility include the area around the Military Science Building and the area east of Hayworth Hall. Mallowshaw said.
The committee hopes to submit its recommendations to University administration. Whatever the administrators' decision, the earliest that any new facility could be ready is about 1800, and even that date will require a refinement of university's long-range goals. Malmowski said.
THE SENATE ALSO worked on the creation of a student advisory board to the Kansas Board of Regents. Student body presidents from six Kansas schools will sit on the board, which was established in June by the Board of Regents.
Library officials agreed that a major new facility was essential to solving the library's problems. In the meantime, they said, the library will have to find more basement rooms to store its books, and patrons will ask a ask the staff to find the ones they need.
ONE TEMPORARY SOLUTION might be for the library to take over the old law library when the new law school is completed. The law library is across the street from Watson Library and has six levels of stacks.
Students who associate using microfilm with the dreaminess of the library's current microfilm room are mistaken, Malnowski said, because microfilm readers have been developed that can be used in well-lighted, pleasant surroundings.
Because of the elimination of the College-within-the College system, a new election process will be created for the fall elections.
Malinowski said, however, that simply to conserve existing space by microfilming more of the present collection wouldn't be much easier. The amount of space was needed for more than books.
No decisions have been made about whether the library could take over the job.
"The group will advise the Regents on matters that directly affect the students at the colleges and universities, such as student placement and student rights." Rafa's quote.
"Since the commission released its report last April 30, the committee has vigorously and aggressively been pursuing the comments and ideas of members of the student body, faculty and administration," Rolfs said.
The Senate has also established the Lunch Bunch Express, a new bus line which will run from Robinson Gymnasium to the Union four times an hour, five days a week, and is scheduled to operate on Wednesday to alleviate the lunchtime problems created by the closing of the Hawklet.
taken over by the administration in June 1978.
Even a new library will not solve all of the problems, however. According to Helyar, who deals with many of the library's purposely expensive collections, it is also expensive for libraries to maintain extensive research collections in every field. The University may have some hard decisions ahead, he said, about which parts of the library's collection should be given priority.
The Senate will also examine the possibility of student representation from other states.
"Hundreds of hours have been spent in interviews, in writing letters and in meetings," he said. The mission will release its second intern report on Sept. 1. During the month of September, it will be soliciting more input from staff. It will release its final report." he said.
Senators will look into the need for fare and bus pay increases or transportation measures.
There have also been treasurer training sessions for student-funded organizations. The sessions are procedural and serve to educate students with finances to understand their jobs.
need for financial increases to Senate-funded organizations, the financial audits of money expenditures and the fulfillment of contracts made the previous year.
THE MOST IMPORTANT thing the Student Senate has done this summer, according to Rolfs, is Research for the On the Quality of Classroom Instruction.
"THE LIBRARY CAN'T make those decisions, but the University will have to do," he said. "What's your alternative? Widespread medicinity.
This fall, the Senate will be sponsoring faculty-student mixers for incoming fresh-
MARY LOU REECE, student body vice president, said, "We wrote to all department chairmen and faculty members and had about a 20 per cent response from faculty members who are willing to sponsor faculty-student mixers in their homes. This would involve 10 to 15 freshman students at home to meet the needs of our students during the first few weeks of school."
The Student Services Committee will be working on the transfer of Work Force "76 to administrative offices. Previously under the control of the Senate, Work Force will be
The Senate will also sponsor Higher Education Week, Nov. 12 to Nov. 19, which will include a symposium at which three top academics from outside the University will speak.
"It only makes sense to build on one's strengths. But the question remains, 'Which disciplines and departments are willing to take a back seat?' "
The Student Senate has been working on a new promotional campaign for the KU on Wheels bus system, including new bus stop signs. It is also making long-range plans for the inclusion of the Lawrence community in the system.
A special campaign is being started to urge students not to buy parking permits and to avoid getting tickets. The* is being done with the hope that, sufficiently trained Trade Response will make the department more responsive to student demands.
"TO MAINTAIN PRESENT levels of service, the amount charged each student will have to be increased. Our cash reserves must be doubled." Rofa said, and the final year," Rofa said,
THIS FALL, THE Senate wili review the
The Senate will also work on the possible sponsorship of a sale of Watson Library books that are normally thrown away or sold as money because they are considered obsolete.
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