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KANSAN.COM/NEWS | MONDAY, APRIL 10, 2017
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Create a physical space for all students to go to in order to access student services.
KUNITED
STUDENT SUCCESS CENTER
WHAT IT TAKES
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Hold focus groups in order to identify barriers to accessing resources.
Get funding
Work with campus offices to establish the services the center will offer
Identify a place for this center to be housed
Plan and coordinate a site for a pilot success center
ONEKU
PROJECT CALLISTO
This platform proposes bringing the app Project Callisto, which offers a venue for reporting sexual assault, to the University.
Work with Project Callisto to implement on campus
WHAT IT TAKES
Make an implementation plan with IOA and SAPEC
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Bring the app to campus
SAFEBUS EXTENSIONS
Work with KU on Wheels to establish cost
TRUEKU
Add additional buses and bus stops to the already functioning SafeBus program through KU on Wheels.
Get funding
WHAT IT TAKES
Purchase new buses and add them to already working routes
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to be approved by the chancellor, a position that will be changing this summer.
Their other platform proposes a music festival be held at the University yearly. The festival, though no extensive planning has been done, would be held over two days and feature local and national artists, Maginness said.
According to members of Student Union Activities, a student group that has experience organizing multiple music event each semester, the idea is feasible.
KUNITED
"These programs are already working, they already exist," Green said. "They're a great asset to the University, but students may not really know about them or how to access them."
Presidential candidate for KUnited Tomas Green said that the platforms he considers most important to the coalition were inspired by policy and with the success of all students in mind. The first of these platforms is that of a student success center.
According to Green, this platform is proposing a physical place be built on campus that houses services, some already functioning, to students all in one place. This would make it so that the large amounts of services already available to students be put in an easy-to-access one-stop shop.
The provost's office would not comment on the feasibility of this center. However, according to Harrington, it would "depend a lot on where they want to do this."
"It's a massive undertaking but it's a fairly simple idea, to just welcome graduate students to campus and connect them with the resources that they need," Green said.
The second platform important to KUnited is a graduate student orientation. This platform calls for an orientation that would provide resources, tips and assistance to University graduate students through an orientation before they start their classes.
The University already has a functioning orientation for freshmen and new students, so this platform is possible.
ONEKU
One of the major platforms of OneKU, according to presidential candidate Mady Womack, is implementing the mobile app Project Callisto.
The app is an already functioning entity that operates at many universities around the country. The app allows anonymous sexual assault reporting, data from which would be made available to the public and administration.
The Kansan reached out to the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access (IOA), which handles sexual assault complaints, for comment regarding feasibility
but they declined to speak on the subject.
Funding would arguably be the most important part of this platform's success.
If the app is not funded by donors, it would be a student fee, likely housed under IOA. This is similar to the implementation process of another platform, a campus partnership with Uber. The coalition says this will bring free and discounted Uber rides to students at the University.
"We would prefer this did not come out of students' pockets, so we are pursuing money from donors and other grant-based efforts," Womack said.
Womack said this partnership would subsidize SafeRide on some nights of the week, ideally popular ones like Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.
Wichita State University has a similar partnership with Uber. It operates on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. and is free, up to $14, for WSU students.
"Ideally, they would start out with implementing the Beak 'Em Bucks for Uber. That would be the first step and take place in the fall," Kelsay said. "Then, after that they have no intention of replacing SafeBus, only phasing out or maybe subsidizing the safe ride."
According to sophomore Zachary Kelsay, Student Senate transportation coordinator for KU On Wheels the proposal would be modeled after the one being used by WSU.
TRUEKU
TrueKU's paramount platforms, according to presidential candidate Chancellor Adams, are expanding SafeBus and SafeRide, as well as creating a multicultural union fest.
The platform proposing an expansion to safe services offered by KU on Wheels was created with student safety and University jobs in mind, Adams said.
"We don't have to go out and find privatized companies and take jobs from other people. All we have to do is work with what we have. It's about making it better and more efficient," Adams said.
This platform would mainly focus on adding a safe bus to already existing routes. According to Kelsay, the platform is feasible through funding.
"If they're willing to advance those policies and do decide to implement that legislation, I think that adding a safe bus, they're perfectly capable of doing that if they increase the right amount of funds," Kelsay said.
The second platform lays out a Multicultural Union Fest. According to Adams, this event would be similar to the already functioning Union Fest during Hawk Week.
"It's designed for multicultural and marginalized groups. Their organizations and scholarships and opportunities that are given toward them can be all in the Union and it's not con-
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due to personal conflicts, according to Maginness.
"Logan had a personal reason for not being here tonight. I accepted that reason as legitimate," Maginness said after the debate.
The vice-presidential debate was focused mainly on platforms and saw little discussion or argument between candidates. However, the candidates running for vice president appeared through their answers to
be willing to admit some faults within the chambers of Student Senate.
"I think we all need to own that Student Senate has some major issues in the way it runs, way it functions, way it works," Carter said during the debate.
During the final debate, candidates rearticulated many of the points made prior by their running mates. One main difference came in how the vice-presidential candidates not only provided platforms but also cited which issues these
The answers provided in each segment of the debate served the purpose of not only educating the student body as a whole but also keeping the people seeking office accountable, Farlow said.
platforms address and the communities they hope to serve.
"I'm very impressed," Farlow said after the debate. "I have a very positive outlook in regards to what Student Senate will look like next year with all of our candidates that are
"I hope anyone was able to walk away feeling more informed and more comfortable with their decision as they move forward and vote next week," Farlow said.
running."
The debate was made available via livestream by the Elections Commission, who also made a poll available on its Twitter in order to take the temperature of where voters stand now before the elections on April 12 and 13.
voluted with all of the 600-plus opportunities and organizations here that students get told about during Union Fest," Adams said.
Similar but smaller versions of this have been done in the past, usually occurring at night after the Union Fest.
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