FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2002
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 3A
Referendum validity in question
By Caleb Nothwehr
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate is printing two copies of its 2002-2003 rules and regulations, one with Referendum B, and one without it.
That's because no one knows whether the referendum, which gives students in greek housing off-campus representation, is valid. The referendum is now in the hands of Senate Judicial Chair Phillip Delatorre. The student body voted in favor of Referendum B last April.
Molly Mulloy, administrative assistant for University Governance, said Delatorre was in the process of reviewing Referendum B, and he would decide if the judicial board would have a hearing on the issue.
"We expect to know in the next couple of days," Mulloy said.
The referendum came under question again this summer when former senator Branden Bell,
"The initiative was never conducted properly; it never followed any of the rules."
Branden Bell
former student senator and first-year law student
Tulsa, Okla. first-year law student, filed a complaint against members of the Student Senate executive committee.
According to the complaint, the referendum violated Senate rules and regulations in its formative stages and should not be upheld.
"The initiative was never conducted properly; it never followed any of the rules," Bell said.
Now the student body president and vice president are upholding the referendum.
"We are upholding what the students wanted," said Jonathan Ng, student body president.
Over the summer, Ng, Leawood senior, asked Rose Marino, University associate general counsel, to review Referendum B
as an impartial third party. Marino reviewed the referendum and, in an e-mail response, said the Senate should consider the referendum valid.
"The proposed legislation, which was Referendum B, having received over 50 percent of the vote, is valid; is to be treated as a regular enactment of the Student Senate," Marino wrote.
The referendum has gone on a roller coaster of support and dissension since the student body voted to uphold it last spring.
Former Vice President Kyle Browning overruled the referendum because the correct procedure wasn't followed for getting the referendum on the ballot.
When Ng and Student Body
Vice-President Loren Malone took office at the same meeting, Malone, Tulsa, Okla., senior, told the Senate than neither she nor Browning had the power to make a ruling on the referendum once it had been voted on by the students.
Andy Knopp, the senator who introduced the referendum, said the dispute over the legislation was all about a technicality.
Both Knopp and Ng said they hoped Senate could move past this issue quickly.
"If I had read it more closely I would've avoided controversy," Knopp, Manhattan junior, said.
"I hate to see us rehashing things that are in the past," Knopp said.
Contact Woolvein in cnothweh@kansan.com. This story was edited by Chris Wintering
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KU Web site gets face-lift, new navigation
Web page uses new technologies that offer advance online services
By Kyle Ramsey
Kansan staff writer
Visitors accessing the University's Web site this week might have noticed that things have changed.
"It was time for a face-lift," said Julie Loats, Web administrator for Academic Computing Services.
The redesign, launched late Sunday, aimed to bring better organization and a more cohesive look to the site based on e-mail feedback from users. Loats said
the change was also made to support the Web site's "expanded content."
The expansion includes a new online calendar that would allow groups campuswide to submit their events.
These entries could include items from the academic calendar published in the timetable of courses, student clubs and sporting events.
"It provides a central entry point for calendar information," Loats said.
Another feature incorporated in the new look was the virtual campus tour, developed by University Relations. The tour gives users access to 360-degree views of campus, building descriptions and histories.
Check out the University's new Web site at www.ku.edu
Loats said the redesign was still in transition but developers would continue to turn toward user input for ideas.
"Focus groups will very much be part of the evolving site," she said.
Behind the scenes, the new site uses technologies geared toward easy navigation. Brett Stoppel, Web developer for Academic Computing Services, said the redesign's appearance was based on cascading style sheets.
The style sheets are a Web technology that allows site developers to easily apply a universal format across the entire site.
He said another technology
with a similar focus was called server-side includes.
These "includes" allow developers to create components such as the navigation bar only once. The developer can then direct pages throughout the site to read and display that single file.
Although these technologies allow other campus departments to adopt the new look, Stoppel said there were no plans to mandate that all KU sites change their image.
System requirements for the new look demand at least a version 4.0 Web browser or above, Stoppel said.
Contact Ramsey at kramsey
@kansen.com. This story was edited
by Andrew Vaupel.
Jessica Havlicek/Kansan
Chancellor Hemenway, Mark Gonzales of Commerce Bank and Dale Seufering of the Endowment Association suprise Virgil H. Adams III with a $5000 Kemper Award yesterday in Fraser Hall.
Professors receive excellence award
By Lindsay Hanson Kansan staff writer
It's the University of Kansas's version of Publisher's Clearing House.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway led a "Surprise Patrol" yesterday, interrupting classes to present the 2002 William T. Kemper Award for Excellence to each recipient. The $5,000 awards have been given to 20 faculty members each year since 1996, for excellence in teaching and advising.
Hemenway, Janet Murguia, executive vice chancellor for University Relations, and representatives from the Kansas University Endowment Association and Commerce Bank, trustee of the Kemper fund, made up the convoy of presenters.
They presented an oversized check and a glass plaque from the University to six of the recipients yesterday. Jasjit S. Ahluwalia, chair and associate professor of preventative medicine, received the award Aug. 14.
The patrol has distributed $35,000 of $100,000 so far. The remaining 15 recipients will learn
of the honor today. Monday and Wednesday.
Virgil H. Adams III, assistant professor of gerontology and psychology, was teaching in Fraser Hall when the patrol burst into his classroom.
"I'm sort of at a loss for words," he said.
Yesterday's winners include Adams; Stephen H. Benedict, associate professor of molecular biosciences; Mark Joslyn, assistant professor of political science and government; Paul S. Lim, professor of English; Marjorie E. Swann, associate professor of English; and laue B. Wright, professor of theatre & film.
The Kemper Foundation of Kansas City and the Kansas University Endowment Association established the program in 1996. Hemenway said the awards were a good way to show gratitude to outstanding faculty.
"This enables us to put money in the great teachers' pockets," Hemenway said.
Contact Hanson at ihanson @kansan.com. This story was edited by Andrew Vaupel.
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