UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, August 19, 1992
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Senate improves image
Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate has been plagued with a bad reputation in recent years,
Student body president Brad Garlandhouse and student body vice president Lance Wright said the reputation must change this year.
"Last year was kind of a hard year on Student Senate with all the stuff that went on." Wright said, referring to the ouster of former student body president Darren Fulcher. "A lot of students see Senate as kind of a bureaucratic mess because of it."
Several meetings last fall focused on Senate's ouster of Fulcher after publicity surfaced about charges that he battered an ex-girlfriend in Lawrence in February 1991.
To overcome Senate's poor image, Garlinghouse said senators were working harder than ever to advocate for their student constituents, including trying to find space for existing campus programs such as day care.
About 300 students and faculty seeking day care for their children are on a waiting list at Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd. Many of the names have been on that list for two years. Wright said.
"There's just too many kids for the spots available," he said. "What we need to is expand Hilltop."
Garlinghouse said other locations such as unused rooms at Joseph R. Pearson Hall were under consideration for use as child-care facilities. Senate also is considering a structural expansion of Hilltop's building.
Also, locating accessible offices has been a chore for a Senate research committee examining KU's grievance process.
"A lot of students don't know anything about the process and are just told, 'I don't worry about it, go home and sleep it off.'" Garlinghouse said
He said the group would consist of students familiar with the grievance process, and they would advise their peers through each procedure.
Carlinghouse said getting students
more involved in Senate's work was the key to his plan. He also said that when students supported Senate and became involved in its programs, the administration paid more attention to Senate's needs.
"Obviously, not everyone can talk to an administrator of a university with 29,000 students, but we can," Wright says. "The president's ear very readily when we want it."
Garlinghouse said he and the other senators would try to speak to every living group and organization on campus this semester to get input about students' problems.
"Student Senate is the primary communication link between the administration and the student body," he said. "The more input we get from students, the more effective we'll be."
Other issues that Senate will address at their biweekly meetings beginning Sept. 9 include allocation of student fees, student advising, minority affairs, transportation and campus lighting.
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