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MSG requests 13 University Senate seats
▶ CHANDLER BOESE
@Chandler_Boese
The University's Multicultural Student Government (MSG) group's new request would put them at the same table as Student Senate — literally.
At a Senate Executive meeting Tuesday, representatives from MSG presented their new proposal for being recognized as a governance organization. The organization wants 13 seats at University Senate, the same number of seats currently held by Student Senate representatives.
MSG's struggle for recognition has been going on since November 2015, when the student group Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk demanded a separate, equal governing body for multicultural students, along with other requests for a more equitable University.
At the last full University Senate
Trinity Carpenter the chair of MSG, which is currently a student organization, said the group had talked and decided that motion wasn't really what they wanted.
meeting earlier this month, MSG representatives presented a proposal to create an ad hoc committee within University Senate that would focus on multicultural issues and report to the body.
"A committee, to me at this point, would not fit our purposes," she said. "We don't need to discuss feasibility at Multicultural Student Government, because we're already functioning, so we decided that maybe we didn't present ourselves in a manner that actually articulated what we came to University Senate for."
In their new proposal, which SenEx gave verbal feedback on, MSG wants to be given equal status with the current Student
Senate, which would mean adding 13 seats to the 64-seat body.
Currently, University Senate includes 39 faculty members elected from Faculty Senate,12 staff members elected from Staff Senate,and 13 students elected from Student Senate, according to its code.
"I would hope University governance, in light of the last week, would be willing to take a position of supporting multicultural students," Carpenter said.
Brittany Oleniacz a graduate student on SenEx, said too many student seats might hurt the other groups represented in University
Though SenEx couldn't take any action for or against MSG's motion, some members of the organization expressed concerns with imbalance of student representatives on University Senate and with the relationship between MSG and Student Senate.
Senate.
"I do agree that you should have a seat at the table," she said, speaking to the MSG representatives.
University governance, in light of the last week,would be willing to take a position of supporting multicultural students."
Trinity Carpenter Chair of MSG
"However, increasing the number of students, I'm afraid, would quiet the voices of faculty and staff in University Senate."
In response to these concerns, Carpenter said she would be willing to work with Student Senate to cut down the number of overall student seats.
"We're willing to have that discussion," she
said. "Equality is the main thing here."
Some SenEx members, like faculty representative Pam Fine, for example, asked about what MSG has already pursued within Student Senate.
"The question is, can the existing body open themselves up 'legally' to give students more representation," Fine said.
Carpenter also explained to the SenEx members why getting their voices heard through Student Senate wasn't working. She said multicultural groups have been trying to get Student Senate to be more inclusive for four years.
"It's been attempted numerous, numerous times, but it continues to be a white Greek, patriarchal organization," she said.
MSG's updated proposal will be voted on during the next University Senate meeting Dec.1.
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being so close in proximity to each other, really had their trust destabilized and didn't feel that they were part of their community," Chavez said. "I brought materials so people could express themselves non-verbally and peacefully and inclusively."
Then the messages flooded in. He still has a bag full of Post-it notes, and even more stacks litter the table he originally used to hold conversations over.
"The world changes by your example not your opinion," is written on a soft pink note. "We can still choose love,"
on a blue one. "This is not normal!" another pink one said. "Tell your daughter she can still be whatever she wants to be," was written on a white note.
On Monday, one child, who Chavez had met before, came by to help him post notes. His mother looked over his shoulder as he spread the notes down the subway tunnel, sticking them on one-by-one.
"I want him to feel like he's a part of this," Chavez said. The mother turned to him, then looked back at her son.
"He has to be," she replied.
Later, other children stopped with their parents and wrote
notes. One talked about Pokémon with Chavez — his favorite Pokémon, he said, is Blastoise.
Right now, what I'm staring at is beautiful."
Magaly Guerrero Waitress
"Fear is something that can paralyze people, and stop us from moving forward," Chavez said. "I want them to know that, yes, things happen that destabilize stress. And yes, things happen that cause us to be fearful. But also, yes, overwhelmingly, there's a community
of people that wants to support each other."
To Chavez, what has been lost more than anything in the days after Trump's election is a sense of community.
Chavez doesn't sit in a subway tunnel with stacks of Post-it notes because he thinks it will make people comfortable with Trump as their president, because they will never agree with Trump or because he wants them to. But rather, it's because it can make people feel more at home again despite their future president, and so people don't let their stress fester into hatred or broken relationships.
"People tell me all the time, 'Oh my gosh, thank
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vid Dillon, is the former CEO of Kroger, Inc. who stepped down in 2013 after having worked for the company since he graduated from the University in 1976, according to a press release from the company.
Breeze Richardson, communications director for the Regents, said the Board took special care in choosing Dillon for the chair, believing he understands the University well enough to steer the committee in the right direction.
As the Kansan reported in October, documents from the Regents indicate that the search will be conducted by a committee of 15 members from faculty, staff and student body of the University.
"They don't like to pick favorites,but much of the board comes from KU in one way or another, so some,like Regent Mullin,paid really careful attention to making sure they got the best for KU,"she said.
The University Senate passed a resolution earlier this month asking that
Richardson said the process is underway to identify the full membership of the committee. She said the board has received the University Senate's memo and is considering it.
the representatives from the University be chosen from the faculty, staff and student senates.
"We typically offer a place on the committee to the presidents of the University (although that's unique to KU), Student and Faculty Senates," she said. "However, the board is not committed to to the committee members being exclusively from those bodies ... They feel like they do a good job at identifying the people who will be best for these committees."
She said the board plans to vote on approving the membership of the search committee at the December meeting if at all possible.
Concealed carry policies move forward
The University's draft policy for implementing concealed carry on campus was approved by the
governance committee of the Board of Regents at its meeting Wednesday.
The draft policy, which includes measures about guns being holstered and creating restricted access entrances, was released by the University in early October as its response to a 2013 law that will allow concealed carry on all public facilities. Kansas universities have been under an exemption since its passage, but that exemption expires on July 1, 2017.
to pick favorites, but much of the board comes from KU in one way or another."
don't like
Breeze Richardson Board of Regents communications director
Policies from each of the six Regents universities were passed by the committee in Wednesday's meeting, and the University's was the only one passed without any suggested amendments.
The University's policy did not generate much
Pottorff talked about the habit of faculty members to require students taking a test to put their possessions, especially bags, in the front or back of the room to guard against cheating. That conflicts with the policy's requirement that all concealed weapons (or the bag which they're in) be in the vicinity of the carrier at all times.
discussion in the governance meeting. One item of note that University general counsel Jim Pottorff highlighted, however, was a provision of the policy that will affect the way students take tests.
"So students will need to either leave their weapons at home or locked up in their car for test days," Pottorff said. "Otherwise, they certainly can carry their weapons as required by law."
Lawyers for the Regents, Wichita State and Kansas will likely look at the issue for its legality, and the committee passed their policy hinging on that approval.
The draft policy will go before the full Board of Regents during the board's December meeting.
you — I was having the worst day of my life and I saw this, and now I'm doing OK," Chavez said with a smile. "It may not be good, but just OK."
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