Volume 124 Issue 58
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
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STUDENT SENATE
"At this point there is no representation for the students who live down here," student senator Aaron Harris said during a speech in favor of the change. "Whether you agree or disagree with the housing action, that is not our place."
Vote gives new housing group a seat
of the Stouffer Neighborhood Association in March. The SNA had previously represented Stouffer apartment residents.
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Senate voted 46 to 5 to change its rules and regulations to give an appointed Student Senate seat to the Stouffer Place Association. The SPA replaced the Stouffer Neighborhood Association as the student-housing-approved representative body for Stouffer Apartments, which provide residential housing for KU graduate students.
The housing action in question was Student Housing's decision to dissolve the executive board
Student Senate ensured that the 285 students living in Stouffer Apartments residential housing would still have senate representation yesterday evening. Even if the representation now goes by a different name.
Student housing director Diana Robertson
said in an email that housing chose to dissolve the Stouffer Neighborhood Association executive board, which it oversaw, because of "the group's inability to comply with very basic expectations that the Department of Student Housing holds for the organizations representing residential students."
However, Seeyol Oh, former
Among the requirements Robertson listed were coordinating with the SNA organization's housing advisor, as well as signing a signature card for the student organization fund.
SNA president, said that the organization tried to fulfill all housing requirements except for housing's request for access to the SNA email account.
Oh said Student Housing asked the SNA for passwords to their list serve and email account. The board refused to provide access because the University's standard business operating procedures for student government organizations did not require it.
After dissolving the executive board of the SNA, Robertson said student housing held open forums and conducted surveys to inform Stouffer Place residents of the formation of a new group. Robertson said that once the new group was formed it held planning meetings and decided to adopt the name Stouffer Place Association as well as rewrite the SNA constitution.
Those participating in the constitutional rewrite removed the SNA's president and vice president positions in favor of what Robertson said were flatter, less hierarchical roles.
The new SPA executive board will now have six members which
YOU ASK, THEY'LL TELL
SEEYOL OH
Former SNA president
include: secretary, student housing liaison, student senate representative, treasurer, event coordinator and garden manager.
Oh said in an earlier interview that he was OK
with the SPA gaining the appointed seat.
"I told somebody, 'I don't fight housing. I don't want to be against the SPA,' he said. "Whatever they want to do, let them go. It's OK."
Oh said that he plans to focus on improving the environment at Stouffer Apartments.
Members of the SPA attended the meeting but declined to make any statements about the situation.
— Edited by Alexandra Esposito
APPOINTED SEATS
While most KU Student Senate seats are elected, others are allocated to under-represented parts of the student population such as those living in residential housing.
Since the association that represented graduate students living in Stouffer Place Apartments was dissolved, the name of the appointed seat had to be change from the Stouffer Neighborhood Association seat to the Stouffer place association seat.
These groups are then responsible for either appointing or electing a person to represent the group to student senate. Last night's vote involved the seat previously allocated to the Stouffar Neighborhood Association.
Andrew Foster, a senior from Derby, talks to Paul Johnson, a sophomore from Wichita, about military life Tuesday afternoon on Wescoe Beach. Foster, who was Aegis Weapons Technician in the Navy said the military takes care of its veterans. "The University looks out for us," Foster said. "Being in the military had its ups and downs but getting to go to college was a plus."
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VOCAL VETERANS
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CROSSWORD 4
CODY KUIPER
CRYPTOQUIPS 4
OPINION 5
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"Do you think we should invade Iran preemptively," one student asked Scott Boland, a 29-year-old history major.
Boland is an Army Infantryman from Shawnee who spent six months in both Afghanistan and Iraq, and he hopes the table allows
Students have a chance this week to ask questions of veterans who have served the country overseas and now attend the University. Many have asked the run of the mill questions, some are not holding anything back.
Some students asked more mundane questions of the veterans, said Collegiate Veteran's Association spokesman Tony Pharsi.
University servicemen and servicewomen like Boland are manning the table, which includes free pins and information for Veterans Day activities. The table is open every day this week from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m., and will be offering refreshments on Thursday.
wood made misconceptions about veterans, one being they are constantly involved in Rambo-style fire fights. While being deployed is obviously dangerous, some soldiers, like Boland, are never even called upon to fire their weapons.
"I think it gives people an opportunity to realize vets are real people," Boland said. "Most people think being at war is like what they see in the movies, but it usually isn't."
students to see veterans from a more realistic point of view.
"They ask pretty simple questions, like, 'What type of gear is on the table?' he said. "Nothing really service related, I guess."
Boland said the Ask-A-Vet table wants to dispell some these Holly-
This is the second year students have been given a chance to Ask
A Vet, and it aims to become an annual affair. It is one of the many events leading up to Veterans Day on Friday, and it serves as a platform to bring attention to things like the Lawrence Veterans Day 5K run and the Memorial Vigil being hosted by Air Force ROTC. Boland said the table is not a recruiting tool and is only used to celebrate and inform others about those in the armed services.
Collegiate Veterans Association spokesman Clay Westerlung said the table offers a unique opportunity for students as well.
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IAN CUMMINGS
UNIVERSITY
Memorial fund honors former student
KU Endowment is planning to administer a memorial fund in the name of Drew Anderson, a University graduate who died Oct. 1.
Anderson, 22, from Kansas City, Kan., suffered from muscular dystrophy since childhood and graduated from the School of Journalism and Mass Communications in May. Although confined to a motor scooter as a student, he lived independently at Lewis Hall and served as a copy chief for The University Daily Kansan.
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According to Lisa Scheller, a spokeswoman for KU Endowment, the idea to establish the fund came from Macolm Gibson, general manager and news advisor of The Kansas. Gibson said Anderson, through his independence and refusal to complain, set an example to others. Gibson said he will have his annual donation directed to the Drew Anderson Memorial Fund.
"Drew truly was an inspiration for those who knew him, when you look at the things he had to overcome," Gibson said. "And he
Anderson's mother, Wendee, said the family was planning a softball tournament for the spring to help raise money for the fund.
same values as Anderson did.
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"Whatever I can do to keep this going it
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SUDOKU 4
How exactly the fund will be administered remains to be determined. It may be used to disburse awards to students or to provide scholarships, and the criteria for choosing recipients has not been decided. But Gibson said he hoped the fund would be used to help students who display the
was a hell of a good copy editor."
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