UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, September 5,1996
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Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
Jade Shopp, Estes Park, Colo., senior and Student Senate treasurer, talks about the Senate's financing process. Student Senate had its first meeting of the year yesterday at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union.
Committee gets recycling bill
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate committee orientation culminated with the introduction of a bill by Grey Montgomery, student body president.
At the first meeting of the student rights committee last night, Montgomery introduced a bill creating a student environmental advisory board.
"A task force has to be put together every year for this," Montgomery said. "If recycling and the environment is going to be an ongoing concern, then this is a step we need to take."
The bill establishes an environmental board, consisting of students and faculty, that would assist campus recycling efforts, pollution control, waste minimization and other environmental concerns.
The introduction of Montgomery's bill came at the end of an evening aimed at familiarizing committee members with their roles.
The finance, University affairs, students' rights, multicultural affairs and graduate affairs committees held orientation last night. Each committee, which consists of student senators and students, walked through the committee process.
The committees' roles include generating legislation, determining how student fees are spent and deciding on University improvements.
The members studied finance rules, examining parliamentary procedure and looking at the University governance structure.
Then committees met and elected chairmen. The finance committee elected Kelly Huffman chairman and Michelle Dennard vice chairwoman. The multicultural committee elected Ron Chen chairman and Amanda Martinez vice chairwoman. Scott Sullivan was elected University affairs chairman, and Jeff Morrison was elected vice chairman. The student rights committee elected Chelsi Hayden chairwoman and Ryan Vanmeter vice chairman.
Panel talks technology
Professors, guest discuss future of high-tech politics
By Eric Weslander
Kansan staff writer
Technology plays a major role in the political process. Whether that role is positive or negative has yet to be seen, said members of a panel discussion last night at the Spencer Museum of Art.
The panel, which featured Paul Kirk, co-chairman of the commission on presidential debates, examined the ways that technology can endanger the political process.
"I think that we're right on the edge," Kirk said to an audience of more than 200. "If we keep going the way we're going, we're not going to help this process a bit with technology."
Kirk, a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Law School, was chairman of the Democratic Party of the United States from 1985 to 1989. He came to Kansas at the invitation of the Hall Center for the Humanities.
Other panel members included Diana Carlin, associate professor of communication studies; Allan Cigler, professor of political science; Alice Lieberman, associate professor of social welfare; and Lloyd Sponholtz, associate professor of history. The discussion was titled "Technology, Public Debate and the Electoral Process."
Carlin said television in particular had distanced citizens from the political process by reducing thoughtful debate to 30-second sound bites, and people would rather see sparks flying than an honest exchange of ideas.
"We see debate as arguing as opposed to making arguments." she said.
Another problem discussed was politicians' increasing involvement with the Internet. Lieberman said there was a danger of becoming too involved and leaving certain groups behind.
"The Internet community is dominated by higher-income, well-educated people, and the
Lieberman said the story of poor, undereducated people was in danger of being ignored by the Internet community.
gap between users and nonusers is growing," she said.
"The people who can best tell that story aren't sitting at a computer building web pages," she said.
Cigler associated 30 years of increasing technology with 30 years of turning the electorate off to politics. He said technology had the potential to include everyone in politics, but it also had the potential to undermine and debase the political process by making voters passive observers.
"Information has to be received, not just sent." he said.
Kirk said the ultimate decision about how technology would affect politics would be left to the people.
"Parties don't really write platforms; people write platforms," he said. "Congress doesn't write laws; people write laws. If technology is not serving the process well, there will be a reaction."
Geoff Krieger / KANSAN
Paul Kirk, co-chairman of the commission on presidential debates, says technology soon could be a hindrance to the political process. Kirk was part of a panel discussion attended by more than 200 people yesterday at the Spencer Museum of Art. He spoke about the effects of technology in the presidential election process.
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