NEWS KANSAN STAFF >> YOU NEED TO KNOW NEWS MANAGEMENT Editor-in-chief Katie Kutsko Managing editor Emma LeGault Digital operations manager Miranda Davis Engagement manager Will Webber Brand manager All Peterson Advertising director Emily Stewart Sales manager Sharlene Xu NEWS SECTION EDITORS News editor Allison Kite Associate news editor Kelly Cordingley Sports editor Scott Chasen Associate sports editor Christian Hardy Arts & culture editor Vicky Diaz-Carnacho Associate arts & culture editor Ryan Wright Opinion editor Anissa Fritz Visuals editor Hallie Wilson Chief designer Jake Kaufmann Chief photographer James Hoyt Features editor Kate Miller ADVISER Sales and marketing adviser Jon Schitt The University Daily Kansan is the student newspaper of the University of Kansas. The first copy is paid through the student activity fee. Additional copies of the Kansan are 50 cents. Subscriptions can be purchased at the Kansan business office. 2015 AID Dole Human Development Center,1000 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence,KS.,66045. The University Daily Kansan (USN 046-4967) is published on Mondays and Thursdays during the academic year event fall break, spring break and exams. It is published weekly during the summer session excluding holidays. Annual subscriptions by mail are $250 plus tax. Send address changes to The University Daily Kansan, 2051A Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Avenue 2000 Dole Haman Development Center 1000 Sunnyside Avenue Lawrence, Kan. 66045 editor@kansan.com www.kansan.com Newsroom: (785) 166-1491 Advertising: (785) 864-4358 KJHK is the student voice in radio. Whether it's rock 'n' roll or reggae, it's sport or special events, KJHK 90.7 is for you. KANSAN MEDIA PARTNERS Check out KUJH-TV on Wowl of Kansas Channel 31 in Lawrence for more on what you've read in today's Kansan and other news. Also see KUJH's website at ENGAGE WITH US ยป ANYWHERE @KANSANNEWS /THEKANSAN KANSAN.NEWS @UNIVERSITY DAILYKANSAN ZOE LARSON/KANSAN RCIH FROM PAGE1 Student Union, the communications department, African and African American Studies and the School of Social Welfare, among others. Rainey also said the group has received support from the Interfraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council. "To see that there are people who understand that in the context of this, it is way bigger than them, and they need to reach out and they need to ask what they can do, really makes a difference and that lets us know that our message is getting through, and it lets us know that there are systemic changes that can be made," Rainey said. us going forward and the way we interact." A large part of the group's mission over the last month has been allyship and inclusion. Grant said she wants to challenge every person, regardless of privilege or identities, to be an advocate for marginalized and minority peoples. "Looking outside yourself is such a beautiful challenge, and I love it," Grant said. "There is a role for everyone, even if you can do as much as filter hate mail, or to defend us on social media to control the narrative of Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk being a movement that is productive and fighting for change." - Edited by Leah Sitz On Monday, Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said administration has been looking at issues that pertain to the demands through the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Advisory Board. "As the [advisory board] is working, it may be there will be some areas that say we have this in place," Gray-Little said. "Others will say we don't have it in place, but we can have it done in this amount of time." KANSAN.COM/NEWS | THURSDAY, DEC. 10, 2015 Students fill the chancellor's office after a demonstration on Wesco Beach. Grant and Rainey said Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk would meet with Senior Vice Provost of Academic Affairs Sara Rosen on Friday to discuss demands and how to move forward. Rainey said that although she thinks it is promising they are meeting with administration, she remains skeptical on how interactions will look in the future. "I am glad to hear that there are some deadlines being set, and that's the biggest thing that's come out of this," Rainey said. "I think I will be satisfied when they make and release a statement, that'll determine my feeling about Senate bills address diversity and transparency ALANA FLINN + CASSIDY RITTER @KansanNews During its last meeting of the semester, Student Senate passed bills addressing diversity, transparency and funding. Bills included redacting a professor's name from the resolution supporting Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk's 15 demands, giving increased voice to minority and international students, and mandating all official Senate meeting be recorded were among the topics discussed over the course of the evening. Impeachment proceedings, which would have continued for Moon tonight, had been pushed to January. The meeting began with senators motioning to move bills with student organizations present to the top of the agenda, and the meeting continued that way throughout the evening. The first bill of the night that passed was $5,360 for a Rock Chalk Swing honorarium, which will be held Feb. 12-14 at the Kansas Union. Senate unanimously passed a resolution in support of encouraging KU to become the home of a Division I wheelchair basketball team. Some debate began over a bill written by Nanyi Deng, an international undergraduate senator, and Tyler Childress, finance committee chair, that would direct Tomas Green, development director, to issue an international student climate survey on mental health. Deng said she wanted Green to create the 40-question survey and distribute it to all students, but Student Body Vice President Zach George stated Green does not have the unilateral authority to access the listserv of students or distribute more than one survey in a year. Correction: An article that ran on Monday on Page 1 with the headline: "Why do students say they feel less safe at night?" incorrectly reported information from Jessica Mattes, an orientation program coordinator, as a quote. The information was paraphrased by the reporter. The agenda was moved around once again, when Senate approved two members for the Court of Appeals and one for the Elections Commission was moved to the top. All three were approved to the respective seats. An amendment was added to the bill that says Student Senate will not have to send out the survey itself, but that it would advocate one to be sent to the student body. The bill passed. Full Senate moved back to seeing bills with a request to create an International Student Association Senator seat, authored by Deng. The bill passed 59-1-3, and the seat will be open in spring 2016. Deng said she is happy about the creation of another international senator seat. This seat would make international voices heard, she said. Chief of Staff Adam Moon wrote a bill โ€” which passed โ€” extending Student Executive Committee voting rights to the director of diversity and inclusion, Omar Rana. Moon said the graduate affairs director has voting rights in the same committee, so he felt it was time to give the director of diversity and inclusion the same rights. Moon followed up with another bill that would extend election voting time in the spring from 6 a.m. on Wednesday to 4 p.m. on Thursday. Tymon Wall, a junior/senior College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said this bill was originally killed because senators were concerned that candidates would rally votes at the bars overnight. "We can address bar votes with stricter legislation," Wall said. "That can be fixed in another bill." Moon added that the polls would only be closed for four hours overnight with the current system, so there's no point in closing them. Rana and School of Education Senator Michaella Schick advocated a bill that awards 20 points to senators who attend or volunteer as a tour guide, actor or actress at the Tunnel of Oppression, an event hosted by the Office of Multicultural Affairs. The bill passed 62-0-1 A resolution sponsored by 30 senators passed that encourages all University policies, admission applications, restrooms and student housing to accommodate transgender students. Policies and admission applications would use gender-neutral language, and student housing would be encouraged to make transgender student housing as well as transgender bathrooms on each floor of every new campus building. LSS Senate tabled a bill that would create a new position, the Director of Internal Affairs. The director would "take over the responsibilities of Executive Secretary that were consolidated into the Communications Director Position," according to the bill. Moon said during a negative speech that there is not enough funding for the new position. The bill was tabled indefinitely, but Childress, Moon and Senate Treasurer Madeline Sniezek will now look into whether Senate has the money for the position. Some bills made edits to the Student Senate Rules and Regulations, including one with 20 sponsors that now mandates a transcript and recording of events. One of the authors, Daisy Tackett, a freshman/sophomore College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said the passage of this bill was essential to Senate accountability. Psychological Clinic "If we're not recording during a meeting, how do we know if people are lying or misrepresenting themselves?" Tackett said during her speech. "I don't want Senate to devolve to that environment, and I think it's very important to have this." Chance Maginness, a freshman/sophomore College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said during a negative speech that recording every meeting is unfeasible because one person cannot be held accountable for ensuring every single Senate meeting is accurately recorded. "This is legislating to absolutely extreme circumstances, like the one that happened in the staff meeting." Maginness said. "We can't allow ourselves to legislate to extreme circumstances because it will create undue consequences." "I'm going to throw this out there, Chance is just wrong," Angela Murphy, graduate affairs director, said during Maginness's speech. George later reminded senators to be civil to one another, following a comment from Harrison Baker, a junior/senior College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator. Baker followed by deferring to Danica Hoose, a former senator, who gave a room-silencing speech encouraging senators to act with more poise and respect toward each other. "There's no need for these House of Cards-type games. There's no need for the political tension and reaction โ€” we're all just humans trying to live in this University together coexisting." Hoose said. "So just quit being mean to each other, pass this, because if you can't have a voice recording of something you said out there in the public because 340 Fraser | 864-4121 www.psych.ku.edu/ psychological_clinic/ COUNSELING SERVICES FOR LAWRENCE & KU Students and Non-Students Welcome you're worried, then why are you saying it? Confidential "Transparency is a good thing." Hoose said. The original bill requiring all official Senate meetings to be recorded passed with 65 percent of the vote. The last bill passed would reduct a professor's name from a resolution previously passed by Senate. The resolution gave full Senate support to all of Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk's 15 demands. Otherwise you'll just get coal. During the last part of the night, officer reports, Pringle announced the second annual Ad Astra per Aspera First Generation Scholarship. Applicants must be first generation students who plan to pursue a career in public service. Applications are due Feb. 12 by 5 p.m. to the Student Senate offices. Give yourself the gift of three credit hours over break. BARTonline.org YOUR COMMUNITY COLLEGE SOLUTION Winter Intersession Enroll by Dec. 11th LEGAL SERVICES FOR STUDENTS 328 Image Center, #646-6450, Dinesen Dr. (800) 745-6140 SATURDAY, DEC 12 OUTLAW'S CHRISTMAS EXTRAVAGANZA AND GR THIS WEEKEND THURSDAY, DEC 10 PAMONA REAL ADULTS THE ROTYLENECK transfer.bartonline.org FRIARY, DEC 11 STOP DAY FREE SHOW!!! FRACTAL SKY THUMPUR SUNDAY, DEC 13 SMACKDOWN TRIVIA = FREE POOL AND $1 DOMESTIC MUGS FROM 3-BPM DAILY! UPCOMING SHOWS SEATTLE ROYALE PEARL JAM DECADENT NATION) ALICE IN CHAINS (PERFORMED BY THE HIPNECKS) SOUNDGARDEN (PERFORMED BY THE MANY COLORED DEATH) DECEMBER 17 GGM LAUREN CASE QDD HARMONA LOVE BOOKMARKS DECEMBER 19 DECEMBER 22 AMERICAN SLIM DECEMBER 28 KU BASKETBALL WATCH PARTY SOMETHING AND THE WHATEVERS DECEMBER 31 SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD ROLLING FOLIAGE JANUARY 1 AMANDA FISH BAND BRODY BUSTER BAND FULL CALENDAR AVAILABLE AT WWW.THEBOTTLENECKLIVE.COM FREE LEGAL HELP FOR STUDENTS MIP. Traffic. Lease. Tax & More (785) 864-5665 9 9