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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday,August 29,1996
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Senators practice jobs
A mock meeting helps students learn procedures
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
Hoping to make things run smoothly this year at University Student Senate meetings, senators held a mock meeting last night.
In the Jayhawk room of the Kansas Union, student senators ran through a fake agenda to learn how meetings shouldrun.
Then senators debated two mock bills.
One dealt with providing money to a fan club of the television series Saved By The Bell, and the other bill asked senators to approve funding for the purchase of nine Harley Davidson motorcycles for the senators to use.
None of the proposals were meant to be taken seriously but gave senators an idea of how a meeting should operate. Sixty of the 75 senators attended.
“This is an informal meeting,” said Jamie Johnson, student body vice president. "We want everyone to try to get an idea of the process and get a feel for how everything works."
Although the mock legislation was for laughs, the procedures were real.
"Hopefully this will help senators so that we don't start out the year with a lot of problems," said Johnson, who leads the meetings.
To help new senators understand the process, Kevin Lafferty, a returning senator, paired new senators with returning senators.
"There are 17 returning senators," Lafferty said. "We are paring up three new senators with each returning senator to help the new members out. For the first few meetings hopefully these people will work together."
After debating the mock bills, the senators discussed more procedural motions.
The first real senate meeting will be held in two weeks.
Lafferty said he thought the mock meeting would benefit the senators when the real meetings started.
"This meeting should work in everyone's favor," Johnson said. "This is a good way to start out the year ahead."
Tyler Wirken/KANSAN
Kevin D. Lafferty, Student Senate member, begins a mock Student Senate meeting. Student Senators gathered last night in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union to practice procedures for regular senate meetings.
Free parking on campus won't last forever
Parking police residence hall lots, on Tuesday
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
Students parking in certain areas won't find pink parking tickets stuffed under their windshield wipers for the rest of the week, courtesy of the University of Kansas parking department.
department. "We have not been ticketing the yellow zones or dorm lots," said Don Kearns, director of the department. "We are giving students time to buy the permits."
free parking, however, will not last forever. On Tuesday, people who park in yellow or residence hall lots without the appropriate permits will be fined $10.
That's a steep price for students like Alvin Mora. Longer junior.
"That's a lot of money for one ticket," Merz
said. "I think it could be a little lower. I guess I'll just have to buy a permit."
The $10 fine was created by the University parking board, which is comprised of faculty and students. The fine was passed by Student Senate.
To avoid tickets, students must buy permits from the parking department. Permits valid from August 1996 to August 1997 are $53 for yellow lots and $50 for residence hall lots.
The department started selling permits during enrollment. Kearns said he did not know exactly how many permits had been sold.
"We have not started putting any of that information into the computer yet because we don't have enough manpower to enter the information," he said.
Profits from permit sales go into the parking fee account, which helps finance maintenance, lighting, everyday operations and other costs.
sold than spaces available. There is no limit on how many permits the department will sell.
Because the information is not in the computers, Kearns was also unsure how much revenue would come from permit sales.
Of the 11,400 parking spaces on campus. 7.632 are for students.
Kearns would not release the number of permits sold last year. He did not want people to see the large disparity because, he said, they would读 it the wrong way.
"I won't give that information because it is erroneous," Kearns said. "It's a large number that shows we oversell. But what people need to realize is that not everyone is on campus all the time. Some people are only here for a few hours, so of course we are going to oversell. People use different spaces at different times."
The fact that the number of student parking permits is larger than the number of available spaces angers students like Amy Evers, San Diego senior. She said she spent at least 15 minutes a day searching for a parking spot.
Kearns did say that there were more permits
"They are selling too many permits," Evers said. "It's frustrating to search for a spot every day that anyone on campus has a permit for."
Cars without permits got tickets at Fest, ranger says
Kansan staff report
Clinton Lake State Park officials reported that the 125 cars that received $9 tickets at the Jayhawk Music Festival on Sunday night were not ticketed for failure to park in designated areas but for failing to purchase a $5 parking permit.
"There were 4-by-8-foot signs on the way into the park that said, '$5 parking,'" said Jerry Schecher, Clinton Park ranger. "Everybody knew they were supposed to pay," he said.
About 2,700 cars carried concertgoers to the park on Sunday. The number of ticketed vehicles was a small percentage.
Schecher said the event ran smoothly for the number of vehicles that were in the park.
Money from the tickets goes to a fund to operate state parks. It is divided among all of the parks in Kansas.
Although some park patrons would prefer the Jayhawk Music Festival were held elsewhere, it benefited the park financially.
More than 8,500 tickets were sold at $15 and $18.
Schecher said half the money went to MTV's Rock the Vote and half went to Clinton State Park.
Men treated for dizziness after unloading truck near Oliver Hall
By Andrea Albright Kansan staff writer
Authorities don't know what made three men sick yesterday afternoon near a loading dock at Oliver Hall.
Douglas County Ambulance Service transported two delivery drivers and a kitchen supervisor after the three men complained of dizziness and throat irritation.
KU police said a driver for Lady Baltimore Food Company was emptying his truck when he began feeling ill. A second driver, called to help finish the job, also became sick.
KU police and the Lawrence Fire Department responded to the call at 1:20 p.m. with a hazardous materials truck.
Authorities investigated inside, outside and around the truck but could not find the source of the irritant.
Don Newsom, the second delivery driver, had no explanation for his illness.
While authorities were on the scene, Richard Schian, a food service supervisor in Oliver, also became ill.
"All I know is I was light headed and got bad real fast," Newsom said. "I felt like I was going to pass out."
All I know is I was light headed and got bad real fast. I felt like I was going to pass out."
Newsm, Schian and the first driver, Richard Thompson, were transported to
Don Newson delivery driver who became ill
Thornton, were transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence Memorial Hospital. A hospital representative said the men had been treated and had left the hospital in good condition.
Paul Roth, driver supervisor at Lady Baltimore, said both drivers were back at the plant last night and seemed fine.
Roth said he hadn't heard of many incidents similar to this in the 50 years that the company had been in business.
because no one found the cause, he said. "I didn't like laying on the hot sidewalk next to a dumpster," Newsom said. "Especially on a day like that."
"They inspected the truck and can't find anything wrong with it." Roth said.
Fred McElhenie, associate director of student housing, said he could not remember a similar emergency. Newcomer
similar emergency.
Newsmot was afraid people would think he was crazy the cause he said
Students participate in exchange program between Haskell, KU
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
Although Haskell Indian Nations University is only about a mile away, it is a campus completely unfamiliar to many KU students. But this may be about to change.
A joint initiative between Haskell Indian Nations University and the University of Kansas now gives KU students the chance to attend classes at Haskell, and Haskell students the chance to attend KU classes.
The program, now in its second semester, is called the Haskell/KU student exchange program.
This semester, there are only two KU students enrolled in Haskell classes. One Haskell student is taking a KU class.
"We've been disadvantaged this year by the fact that classes don't have a common starting date," said Carol Prentice, assistant to the provost. (Classes at Harvard.)
Classes at Haskell start today.
Haskell has set aside 48 credit hours for KU students, which means that up to 16 KU students could each take a 3-hour class at Haskell.
Prentice said KU students could still enroll for this semester's Haskell classes. Malekis Daniel, instructor of
Melanie Daniel, instructor of
"Many KU students may not think of Haskell as a university." Daniel said. "But when they come here they realize we are doing a lot of the same things as them."
Indian legislation and law at Haskell, said the exchange was helpful in eliminating some of the misunderstandings between the schools.
Daniel said the exposure to KU classes was also good for Haskell students.
Deborah Wetsit, dean of instruction at Haskell, said that she hoped to have next semester's schedule ready for KU students by late September.
"It its rid of a bit of the mysticism of what goes on up on the Hill," she said.
Although the program is still very small, organizers said they hoped it would grow in coming semesters.
"Ideally we'll have it out early," she said. "But this program is new enough that we're being a bit hesitant until we work out all the bugs."
KU students must be in good standing and receive permission from the Provost to participate in the exchange. Participating students pay KU tuition and receive KU credit. Anyone interested may pick up course descriptions at 132 Strong Hall.
Haskell classes open to KU students
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Cherokee language II
Contemporary Issues: American Indian
Ethnobiology
History of Native-American Tribes
Chemical Dependence and the Native American
Indian Law and Legislation
Tribal and Federal Relations
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