Big Job Running Council
By Stephen Russell
Second in a Series
Behind the scenes of every organization there lies a group of people who perform the tedious task of keeping the organization alive. KU's All Student Council, too, has its behind the scenes men.
In the form of five administrative legislative committees, these people keep the legislative body running. They sustain its physical growth (the Elections Committee); guide as a nervous system, its legislative muscles (the Committee on Committees and Legislation); store, as a memory, its decisions (the Constitutional Committee); provide for it an internal communications system (the Secretarial Committee); and, pump through its organizational system monetary lifeblood (Finance and Auditing Committee).
ASC Chairman Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., junior, called these committees the "internal affairs" committees of the Council and said they keep the Council functioning actively and up to date.
The Elections Committee, according to McNally is temporarily defunct. He said he neglected to appoint anybody to the committee when he reappointed the membership of the committees last Dec. 14 because of a proposal of the Council to investigate its entire election system. He plans to appoint a special committee at the next ASC meeting to investigate the feasibility of everything from the use of voting machines to the "Hare System" of counting ballots now in use.
The Committee on Committees and Legislation, said committee chairman Jim Prager, Annandale, Va., junior and recently elected ASC Vice-chairman, is designed to review legislation brought up by individuals of the ASC. It investigates proposed legislation, discusses the implications the act will have in the area to be affected, and informs the council of its findings.
Prager explained that all bills and amendments introduced to the Council have to go through this committee. Although the committee cannot kill a piece of legislation, it must, in a report to the Council, turn in either a recommendation for or against passage or no recommendation at all, and explain its decision. If necessary, the committee can appoint a subcommittee to study a piece of legislation and report back its findings.
He said Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe has requested that they meet with him to discuss all proposed legislation. In this way, he said, the returning of a lot of legislation from the Chancellor after it passes the Council, because of minor errors is prevented. In addition, the committee obtains the Chancellor's viewpoint to incorporate with their own findings.
Prager said he will make an attempt to hold regular open meetings next semester and he encourages everyone, both Council members and students, to attend. He especially wishes to induce the authors of legislation under consideration to be present to explain anything in their acts that is unclear to the committee.
The Constitutional Committee, according to committee chairman Dick Darville, Shawnee Mission junior, is responsible for keeping up-to-date copies of the ASC Constitution and Bill Book, incorporating into them all changes passed by the Council.
He said this has been especially difficult in the past few years because of the large amount of legislation the Council has passed.
Darville said the committee is presently working with the Secretarial Committee to update the present edition of the Bill Book and to furnish copies for all of the newly elected Council members.
It is also presently planning to go through the procedure of examining each of the bills and discussing with the chairman of the committees or departmental secretaries it affects to find out if the bill is still sufficient in providing for its original purpose, and if not, to seek suggestions for change from the chairman.
Janet Anderson, Prairie Village sophomore and ASC Secretary, said the Secretarial Committee, which she chairs, is a center of communications, correspondence, and information for the Council and the students it represents.
The ASC Constitution lists the duties of the Secretary and her committee as the following:
- Recording the minutes of every ASC meeting,
- Notifying ASC members of special meetings,
- Aiding the Constitutional Committee in revising and publishing copies of the ASC Constitution and Bill Book.
- Providing what information the ASC office may have on a certain subject to students and faculty members who request it, and.
- Maintaining a filing system so that information coming into the ASC office may be retained and easily located.
Appointing the assistant chairman of the Secretarial Committee to serve as secretary to the Committee on Committees and Legislation to keep permanent records of its meetings.
Miss Anderson said the committee is a "catch all" body that is charged with a lot of work. Because of this she hopes to involve more people from the Council into the work of the committee thus providing for more efficient service and also for better informed representatives.
Chairman Dan Vossman, Lawrence senior and ASC Treasurer, said the Finance and Auditing Committee supervises the financial records of all student organizations which receive funds from the University through the ASC.
Vossman said the committee is part of the system of checks and balances the KU's student government imposes on itself to protect against corrupt practices, in this instance over financial matters.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
LDS Institute of Religion, 4.30 p.m.
Kansas, Union
Popular Film, 7 and 9:30 p.m. "Cat on a Hot Tin Trap" Dyche Aud.
on its Foreign Films, 7:30 p.m. "Woman in the Dunes." (Japanese.) Hoch
Schreibung.
Hulley Friday Night Services, 7:30
Community Center, 917
Highland Dr.
Western Civ Exam, 8 a.m.
SATURDAY
North CV 11, 504-3260
9 a.m.
Lawrence Post Office, 7th and
Vernon St.
Swimming, 2 p.m. Nebraska. Robinson Pool.
Popular Film, 7 and 9:30 p.m. "Cat on a Hat Tin Tin." Dyche And.
Basketball, 8 p.m. Iowa State. Allen Field House.
International Club, 8 p.m. Final
curses for all students only. Kansas
union only.
SUNDAY
Catholic Mass, 8 a.m. St. Lawrence
Channel, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Hoch.
Lutheran Services, 9:45 Bible study;
11 worship. University Lutheran Church, 15th and Iowa. Narrative communion
Oread Friends Meeting 10:30 a.m.
Danforth Church meeting
meeting with
the community, welcome
Duplicate Bridge-Master Point, 1:30 p.m. Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union. Carillon Recital, 3 p.m. Albert Gerken.
University Chorus, 3:30 p.m. Hoch Auditorium.
Lutheran Student Association, 5:30 p.m. Prof. Paul Hasvass will speak on Religion at KU. Alcove 6. Kansas Union.
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