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University students and faculty will attend a hearing on Senate Bill 53, which would allow for some buildings to be exempt from the campus carry law, Thursday morning.
Faculty to testify for new campus carry bill
► NOLAN BREY
@NolanBrev
A hearing on a bill that would allow the University to exempt certain buildings from the campus carry law will take place Thursday at 9:30 a.m.
Several University faculty and students will attend the hearing for Senate Bill 53. Ron Barrett-Gonzalez, professor of aerospace engineering and president of the Kansas Chapter of American Association of University Professors, plans on speaking.
Barrett-Gonzalez believes that the campus carry bill which would allow guns in dorms, libraries and lecture halls threatens the lives of students and faculty.
"If somebody is being threatened or exposed due to the threat of violence, then there is no academic freedom in that environment," Barrett-Gonzalez said. "It stifles discussion. It ends debate. The GTAs, faculty members and students are no longer free to discuss what they want the way they want, and that runs counter to the founding principles of the AAUP."
Under SB 53, a post-secondary institution's governing body — or, the chief administrative officer, if no governing body exists
then notifying the Kansas Attorney General of the reasons.
- could exempt buildings from the campus carry law, by explaining why the exemption is needed - such as inadequate security at public entrances - and
The bill was introduced Monday, but has not left the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee.
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Barrett-Gonzalez has delivered letters of testimony from both University students and faculty, and said that some faculty members will join him tomorrow. He also encouraged students to attend, though he predicts that the discussion tomorrow will be "quite contentious" due to the presence of advocates from both sides of the campus carry debate.
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The hearing will be open to the public.
► MCKENNA HARFORD
@McKennaHartford
The input from the forum will be used to make a job description for applicants, which should be out next month, according to David Dillon, the chair of the search committee. This is the second public forum where the committee has solicited input from the community.
About 20 students gathered in the Union on Monday night to share their thoughts with the search committee representatives about what they wanted to see in a new chancellor. Students expressed a need for a chancellor who would focus on issues of diversity and innovation in the University's future.
Students present chancellor wishlist
Edited by Allison Crist
Multiple students spoke about the need for a chancellor who would recognize and support the issues of underrepresented and marginalized students. One student specifically addressed access to education due to rising tuition rates.
Brittney Oleniacz, a Ph.D. student from Phillipsburg, New Jersey, said she hopes the new chancellor will address graduate student issues, especially first generation students transitioning to graduate programs.
10,886 students and faculty were surveyed in 2015 about their opinions on concealed carry laws on campus. Source: Kansas Board of Regents Employee Gun Survey and Kansas Board of Regents Student Advisory Committee Gun Survey.
"I would be shocked if we were to pick a candidate to recommend to the Regents who didn't share the overall view of free speech and free thought that is the basis on which universities were founded," Dillon said. "But any president, any chancellor is going to feel strongly about being respectful to other people in the community."
ability to go approach the legislature in a meaningful way," he said.
Dillon also said the committee will be looking for candidates who are respectful of the University as a space for freedom of speech and expression, but who could balance that with maintaining a safe campus.
["The] chancellor is looking to maintain an ecosystem that's modular, where the schools are separate, or are we looking to create a future that resembles the actual workplace where things are cross-functional and interdisciplinary," Donaldson said.
Brylan Donaldson, a senior from Wichita, said he hopes the next chancellor will create a more entrepreneurial campus and help the University continue to innovate.
Faculty Students
Would be okay with additional security fees from KU
Do not want concealed carry handguns on campus
"Graduate students have become islands and it's detrimental to the graduate student experience," Oleniacz said. "We need a chancellor that will force the offices across campus to recognize the needs of the 20 percent of the student body who are graduate students."
Would let concealed carry affect their decision to attend or work at KU
Jonathan Ehrlich, a second-year law student from Creston, Iowa, said he also hopes the next chancellor will "build morale," and move the University forward.
Dillon agreed that candidates would need to consider diverse student populations when addressing issues like tuition, retention, and access to resources.
"We want to pick someone with a sensitivity to those issues and has the
The committee is made of 25 members, including three students. They will recommend three to five candidates to the Board of Regents, who will make the final decision before Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little leaves in July.
- Edited by Casey Brown
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leum engineering, said she was informed about the policy change last semester.
"Most undergraduate students who I have talked to, or if not all of them, do not necessarily agree with it, because all of us are used to not having the plus/minus grading policy within the School of Engineering," she said.
Students are concerned that with the new grading system being implemented they may not be able to keep their engineering scholarships, Jeffries said.
Maletsky said he understands students' concerns, but thinks the change will allow faculty members that choose to use the new grading system the opportunity to distinguish performances among students.
"I don't expect the students' GPAs to go down overall," Maletsky said. "There will certainly be individual cases where a single student's GPA will go down. But I expect that there will be just as many students' GPAs will go up as result of this."
Maletsky said there is no A+ on the grading scale. He said he thinks that it will effect the B and C students as their GPAs may shift a little.
Most undergraduate students who I have talked to ... do not necessarily agree with it."
Maletsky said a faculty member presented a proposal for the plus/minus grading system to the Academic Standards committee.
"Unfortunately, for our top students, our A students, I understand their complaint that it is sort of unfair because there is no A+; they would only go from an A to an A-," he said.
Aubrey Jeffries Engineering Student Council president
"I didn't initiate this, the administration didn't initiate this, nor could we institute it," Maletsky said. "This came up through the faculty and was discussed at the faculty level, and ultimately voted on [at] the faculty level."
"Many faculty who don't like the plus/minus system, and there are a number of faculty who were vocal about not liking that, felt like they just wouldn't use it, but they didn't want to stop a fellow faculty member from using it if they thought they would get benefit from it," Maletsky said.
Even though it was passed to include the plus/minus grading within the school, not all faculty approves of it, and may not use it.
Maletsky said it is unknown how many faculty members will end up implementing it within the school.
Jeffries said that students like herself are just waiting to see which faculty decide to implement the new grading policy.
Students that are unhappy or are concerned with the new grading system are strongly encouraged to talk and express opinions to the faculty members who are going to teach the courses in the fall, both Maletsky and Jeffries said.
"It's a waiting game," Jeffries said.
"This is another great talking point to bring up to professors because in the end, they are the ones who are solely affected by this change, and they're going to do what they end up wanting to do," Jeffries said. "But
if they have [the students'] views on the policy, they can take those factors into account when they decide whether or not they want to implement the policy in their grading system in their classroom."
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