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Friday,October 9.1992
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Student Senate reconsiders allocations to organizations
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Student Senate spent 20 percent of its unallocated budget for the 1992-93 school year last night, then decided it had overspent and voted to reconsider funds approved for one organization.
The group approved more than $9,500 for eight of the nine organizations which solicited funds at its third meeting of the year, then voted to reconsider the $1,648 it had approved for the KU Cultural India Club.
linghouse said.
"They're just funding every small interest group that comes along," said Brad Garlinghouse, student body president. "When the larger groups come by later in the semester, we're not going to have any money left."
Senate allocated $10,300 during its first two meetings. About $30,000 remains in the account.
"I'm not saying don't fund the small interest groups, but we're talking about little things that could easily fit under an umbrella organization." Gar-
To reconcile the situation, a senator suggested that Senate withdraw its endorsement of the KU Cultural India Club and reconsider it at a later date. The bill had already been approved by Senate without much debate, and the club's members who presented the bill had already left the meeting.
A $20,000 bill to finance a student lecture series was tabled in the finance committee for further study at the committee's first meeting Sept. 9 and will be brought before the committee again in the next two lectures.
Last year, the lecture series brought to campus Peter Arnett, a Cable Network Gulf War correspondent. This year, Nelson Mandela, Magic Johnson and Mikhail Gorbachev topped the list of possible speakers.
Neither the Black Student Union nor the Hispanic American Leadership Organization has brought requests for funds before Senate yet this year. And if the lecture series passes without amendments, Senate will have less than $10,000 to allocate
to these and other organizations until May.
Kevin Sigourney, Senate treasurer,
pointed this out at 11 p.m., more than
four hours after the meeting began.
He said he already voted away
more than $6,000.
"The groups we'vefinanced do great things, but big deal if it's not what the students need," Garlinghoe said. "It's difficult to change in the middle of a semester all of a sudden if we decide," Well, we'll not be going to fund that any more. 'Well, we've already set the precedent.'
Groups that were funded included the KU Art Students' League, $916.50; Bioethics Club, $345; Homeless Awareness Week, $389.50; Native American Student Association's Middle School Month, $1,100; Public Relations Society of America, $254; and Pinch, an alternative art magazine, $3,950.
Only a bill to fund the Japan/America Club for $54 failed. It missed the two thirds majority needed to pass by two votes.
Wichita State withdraws from ASK
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Wichita State University's Student Senate voted last week to withdraw from Associated Students of Kansas, leaving the student lobbying group underfunded by more than $15,000.
Wichita State's Senate believed ASK did not adequately represent the school's interests, said John Schwartz, KU ASK co-director.
Wichita State, the only Board of Regents school not involved in ASK, will send its own lobbying group to the Statehouse in Topeka two or three days each week instead of helping to support the ASK lobbyist.
ASK directors had already voted in the summer to make budget cuts so they could lower each school's fees from 75 cents a student to 51 cents a student and appease Wichita State's and Kansas State University's threats to pull out of the organization.
K-State's Student Senate voted last month to remain in the group.
When Wichita bowed out, funding, which began at $98,000 last year and was cut to $79,000 in the summer, dropped again to about $64,000.
"We can operate like this for three or four years," Schwartz said. "But indefinitely? That would be difficult."
ASK directors from the remaining Board of Regents schools — the University of Kansas, K-State, Pittsburgh State University, Fort Hays State University and Emporia State University — last week discussed three ways to deal with Wichita State's desertion.
"Tim Nimz—he's our lobbyist in Topeka — said the best way to deal with the loss of Wichita State is extreme
streamlining." Schwartz said. "We won't be losing any thing that way, but we won't be expanding either."
The directors were critical of the second suggestion—to raise fees —because K-State had remained in the group on Friday.
Another suggestion was to invite Washhum University in Topeka and other four-year colleges, such as Friends University in Wichita and Benedictine College in Atchison, to join ASK.
Washburn, which is supported by property taxes paid by Shawnee County residents, wants to join the Board of Regents system within the next three years.
"Right now, legislators in Shawnee County don't have a whole lot to lose when they vote against higher education or the Board of Regents," Schwartz said. "We'd really like to have Shawnee vote with us. That would give us 10 to 12 more representatives and two to three more senators."
The addition of more schools would help ASK's funds, but would increase the work load for Nimz, the only ASK lobbyist left in Topela after ASK rewrote its budget and eliminated the second lobbyist. Schwartz said he expected Wichita to return to the group.
"Wichita is two hours away from the capital," Schwartz said. "It's going to be difficult for them to get good representation. I expect there will be a strong movement down next year to rejoin ASK."
Schwartz said the ASK directors did not hold any animosity toward the straying Wichita State State, but he also did not believe the Senate could have a strong voice in Topeka the way it planned its new program.
"I think it's safe to say that it isn't going to work out nearly as well as they would like.
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