THE FAR SIDE
University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, September 9, 1987
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By GARY LARSON
GradEx adopts laws
By a Kansan reporter
The Graduate Student Executive Committee announced yesterday the passage of a new Graduate Student Council constitution.
By a vote of 43 to 2, graduate students passed the new constitution using mail-in ballots, said Mike Anderson, GradEx member. A majority of votes was needed to pass the constitution. The previous constitution was approved in 1978 with 31 votes.
There are about 4,000 graduate students, Anderson said.
The new constitution differed from the old one in two ways, said GradEx member Ted Vaggalis. The new constitution creates a representative assembly and makes the resolution of conflicts within the Graduate Student Council easier to resolve.
The entire text of the constitution was published last month in the graduate student newspaper, which is sent to all graduate students.
Vaggaila said the committee used a mail-in ballot because it was the most efficient way to conduct a vote. The ballot deadline was Sept. 1.
"They just felt that was the best way to get the constitution implemented before the fall semester started." Vaggalz said.
Statifying the constitution involved counting the ballots and accepting them as counted.
GradEx also considered where to place people who had volunteered to be on one of three committees: the University Council, the KU Task Force on AIDS and the Faculty Senate Executive Committee.
Campus/Area
Reservationist juggles union rooms
Union reservationist Hallie Nations juggles appointments for space at the Kansas and Burge unions.
By STACY FOSTER
Special to the Kansan
Scott Carpenter/KANSAN
Hers is a little-noticed job, but without Hailie Nations, many of KU's 300 clubs and organizations would be meeting in the streets.
cars. Recently, her job has been complicated by the renovation of the Kansas Union. Because fewer rooms are available this year, Nations is juggling meetings between both unions.
Nations takes reservations for groups that want to meet in the Kansas and Burge unions. Every day, she juggles dozens of requests from students wanting to use the unions for all kinds of activities from prayer group meetings to rock concerts to lectures.
"The potential for craziness is unbelievable, but I enjoy what I do, so it makes it easier," she said. "I'm on the phone constantly — it grows out of my ears."
Nations' tenacity and her accessibility have earned her the respect of the students she works with.
Nations wants the unions to be accommodating and she doesn't like it when conflicts cant be worked out.
"Hallie is the easiest person in the world to work with," said Stephanie Quinicy, student body vice president. "She'll bend over backwards to help us." Quincy, who arranges Student Senate meetings, talks to Nations at least once a week.
For the first Senate meeting of the semester, Quincy notified Nations just two days in advance, but Nations had a room for the meeting.
Quincy said, "I told her we wanted our meetings in the same room, too, so people weren't getting lost and she worked that out, no problem."
"When a band such as X, the Rainmakers or the Violent Femmes came to play at KU, they would have specific requirements, and Hallie was always very accommodating," Rainmaker said. "Would we be conflicts in scheduling, but Hallie would always work those out for us."
Steve Traxler, Student Union Activities president, worked with Nations for three years scheduling concerts for the University as a special events board member.
"We're here to serve the University community, that's our primary goal, but when I have to tell a group I'm sorry, I've got no space," that's a hard thing for me to deal with," she said.
But that's something that rarely happens because Nations has many years of experience dealing with student activities.
While attending Mesa College in Grand Junction, Colo., Nations spent many hours in the student union at meetings, parties and other extra-curricular activities.
"I got involved in everything," Nations said. She was on the yearbook and newspaper staffs. She was involved in student government and was the vice president of the college's Clubs and Activities organization.
university community. She found it
She loved the college atmosphere so much that when she graduated, she began looking for a job in a
While job-searching in Lawrence in 1983, Nations saw the perfect prospect in a newspaper ad. The University of Kansas was looking for someone with a liberal arts degree who had experience in and knowledge of student unions.
"Having practically lived in the student union for all those years, doing all the work that I did, I thought this was perfect," Nations said.
Nations said she thought she was well-qualified for the job because she was then in the process of looking for a job and planning her wedding. If she could juggle those two successfully, she thought, then she should have no problem juggling appointments and room reservations.
Nations' first interview for the job seemed a success but she had to wait anxiously for a reply, she said. "Then I didn't hear anything forever, it
seemed like," Nations said.
seated here, When Nations did hear from KU, they wanted to interview her a second time — on her wedding day.
"I didn't have time to be nervous about the job interview because I was thinking about the wedding and I didn't have time to be nervous about the wedding because I was thinking about the job interview, but it worked out great," she said.
Although Nations said she does not plan to be reservationist for 17 years, as her predecessor did, she does plan to stay in a university setting. She wants to continue taking classes at a university after finishing her master's degree in higher education at KU.
KU "I will always want to take classes because there are so many subjects that I haven't even tapped," she said.
"I love being at KU. I'm career-oriented and the University is full of opportunities." Nations said.
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