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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2002
Online calendars update students
By Caleb Mothweir
cnothwehr@ku.edu
Kansas staff writer
KU students now have double the options for searching on-campus activities online.
Currently, two KU activity calendars are posted on the Internet: one on the KU home page at www.ku.edu, and another, sponsored by Student Union Activities, at www.kucalendar.com.
Both are aiming toward the same goal: making information available and convenient for students.
Loren Malone, student body vice president, said her vision for kucalendar.com would include a monthly calendar where students could click on specific dates.
Malone said the calendar at www.ku.edu would be different from kucalendar.com because kucalendar.com would focus on student activities rather than academic or departmental events. In the interest of full disclosure, The University Daily Kansan currently provides on campus information for kucalendar.com.
Malone said she wanted to start an activities calendar last spring while running for office. Over the summer, Malone met with Julie Loats of University web administration to make the University online calendar more comprehensive in posting student events.
"The biggest thing now is figuring out how to work together and use it." Malone said.
Loats said when the University redesigned its Web site, changes were made to the calendar that were direct results of her collaboration with Malone.
"My understanding was that we made modifications to accommodate for the student perspective." Loats said.
In the past two months, Malone has met with representatives from SUA, and expects that changes to the Web site will be made after fall break. In the finished product, Malone said she would like to see the two calendars linked to each other.
Scott Wadley, Topeka senior, said the Web site would be helpful for underclassmen.
"They always tell you, as a freshman, to get involved."
Wadley said, "An online calendar would be great for that."
As the social/recruitment chair for the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, Andrea Pantoja said a consolidated activities Web site would be helpful in recruiting new members.
"When I first transferred here, I wanted to get involved and didn't know how," the Mission sophomore said.
Starr Slavin, Shawnee junior, said an online calendar would be more convenient than listing events in the newspaper.
"I only use the newspaper for the crossword puzzles." Slavin said.
Bush: security union requires controls
Edited by Sarah Hill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The battle between Democrats and Republicans over labor rights for a proposed Homeland Security Department's 170,000 workers has caused a six-week impasse on Senate legislation that would create the Cabinet agency to safeguard Americans from terror at home.
President Bush wants the power to waive union agreements for national security reasons and to create a new personnel system he says would be more nimble and modern. Bush and the GOP portray a slow-footed federal civil service hamstrung by union work rules.
"We're stuck in the Senate because some senators want there to be a big, thick book of
bureaucratic regulations to tell this administration and future administrations how to run the department," Bush said yesterday at a Republican campaign rally in Waterford, Mich. "For the sake of national security, I ought to have the capacity, on a limited basis, to say, 'Our national security is more important than some collective bargaining rights.'"
The GOP said that the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents 12,000 prospective homeland security workers, sought to block the Customs Service from requiring inspectors to wear personal radiation detection devices.
At a recent fund-raiser in Boston, Bush said the union wanted to take to collective bargaining a proposal intended to prevent smuggling of weapons of mass destruction into the United States.
Bush said it would have taken more than a year to resolve the issue.
The union denies that it ever refused or tried to delay, although it certainly raised questions.
According to an exchange of letters between the union and customs officials, the union suggested on Jan. 4 that the detectors be used on a voluntary basis — as they had been for three years — and requested to negotiate.
Customs quickly rejected the idea of keeping the devices voluntary, replying on Jan. 9 that it had the power to mandate them. Later in January, the sides discussed fears about improper training and use of the detectors. In April, the union president, Colleen Kelley, told the Customs
Service the union did not object to the proposal.
"Opponents ought to have the courage not only to address the issue on its merits but to base their arguments on the facts," Kelley said.
Republicans also have cited what they call opposition by the same union to the Bush administration's color-coded terrorism warning system.
The union complained Sept. 18 that the Customs service was issuing directives related to the new system without first notifying the National Treasury Employees Union to offer an opportunity for negotiation.
The aim, Kelley said, was not to challenge the color-coded system but to ensure that Customs notified the union, as required when work conditions change.
KU dean studies political debates
By Louise Stauffer
By Louise Stauffer
lstauffer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Diana Carlin says political debates aren't boring, just misplaced.
Carlin, dean of the Graduate School and International Studies and professor of communication studies, has applied her research on presidential debates to help improve political debates in general.
She said one improvement would be to broadcast debates at times when the public would watch them.
Carlin was recently appointed to the Board of Advisers of the Debate Advisory Standards Project. Carlin said the project was a national study on what citizens and candidates thought about the election process. She said the project's point was to develop a set of standards and guidelines on how debates should be run.
Carlin
These guidelines were developed from polls and surveys that the study conducted.
The directors of the project, sponsored by the University of Maryland, were Peter Francia of The University of Maryland and Ronald Faucheux, editor of Campaigns & Elections magazine.
Carlin said the study also found that voters want candidates to debate more than once, a format that allowed for rebuttal, and want questions that reflect the audience's interests.
Carlin said an ideal debate format would inform candidates of the debate topics ahead of time; limit the number of topics to three and allow time for follow-up questions.
She said the project also compared topics in candidates' advertising to topics of public interest.
Carlin helped prepare materials from her research, which will be published in a book. Carlin's research was an outgrowth of her interest in citizen involvement and polling, she said.
Carlin has participated in debate from high school through college. She has also coached debate and has about 15 years of research on the subject.
— Edited by Melissa Shuman and Adam Pracht.
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