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Senate hopes review will be a 'collaborative' effort
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@Elle Clouse
Last week, the University Senate voted to place Student Senate under review to examine its structures and processes. Pam Keller, faculty senate president, said the ad-hoc committee will be looking at certain aspects within Senate.
Senate Rights Committee meets at the Kansas Union in September.
The decision to form a committee is a result of a request by the DEI Advisory Group, which released a 28-page document last semester that recommended changes to the University to make campus more inclusive. One of those proposed changes is taking a hard look at how Student Senate includes - and excludes - minority students.
"The committee is charged at reviewing specific things, the structure of representation, the elections process and then also looking at the coalitions process," Keller said.
"What the committee is doing is implementing a recommendation of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion advisory group, that we review certain specific aspects of the representative structure in student government," Keller said.
The committee is charged at reviewing specific things, the structure of representation, the elections process,and then also looking at the coalitions process."
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Pam Keller Faculty Senate President
According to Keller, the committee will consist of representatives from several groups, which will include two senators from Student Senate.
"What we're trying to do is get representatives from each of the parts of governance to take a hard look at governance itself, but at these specific issues," Keller said.
During last week's University Senate meeting, several senators voiced concerns that the creation of a review committee doesn't acknowledge the efforts the body has made to be more diverse and inclusive. However, Keller said that Student Senate's work in these areas has not gone unnoticed.
"The Student Senate has been working itself to address diversity and inclusion issues," Keller said.
"They've worked very hard, the current leadership, to put initiatives in place."
concerns, and will work with the process.
A statement from Connor Birzer, Student Senate's communications director, said Student Senate is optimistic despite the initial
"We value the importance of placing Student Senate under review and look forward to a collaborative effort," Birzer said.
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"I think they'll be able to get things done and avoid some of the gridlocks that we've had in the past couple of years," she said.
Despite the GOP's victory in the presidency and Congress, the party that usually dominates Kansas saw a few slips in its hold on the state. A moderate candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives won a traditionally conservative district in Kansas, and Democrats and moderates gained several more seats in the Kansas state legislature.
"There were a few disappointments more locally... but many of the candidates we personally advocated for like Rep. Lynn Jenkins or (Michelle Derusseau), a Republican running for a
Douglas County Commission seat, won their races," Steinhill said.
Some Republicans, like Snitsar, believe the shifts in the statehouse are likely to cause conflict in the upcoming term.
"I definitely think we're going to see some backlash against the executive branch," she said.
Within the legislature, though, Steinhilber believes
that the moderates and conservatives will be able to work together successfully, as seen in the fairly balanced votes for legislative leaders that were held earlier this week.
Although it's still pretty early, the surprises in the election might be subtly changing Republican groups as well.
Snitsar said she's seen a definite excitement among
the Republicans she knows in regards to what can happen during the upcoming two years.
"We know that we have a chance to get things done," she said.
tion's social media.
The College Republicans group at the University hasn't had a meeting since the election was concluded, but Steinhilber said he's seen an escalation in the success of the organization.
"I'm not sure it's tied to the election, though, as people always want to know what we're saying on stuff," he said. "We're pretty much the only established conservative group on campus."
- Edited by Christian Hardy
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