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yet, but Alcorn shared some of the conversations that have been included in the committee's work, including funding sources, security measures, policies and communication.
"I think the primary goal that we stressed was safety across the board," he said.
As one of two students on the board, Alcorn said he tried to represent student voices as much as possible, but said he struggled with doing so, given that student opinion was so strongly against allowing concealed carry on campus.
Last year, we administered a survey to students Regents-wide about their opinions and preferences about concealed carry on campus and overwhelmingly, the answer was that students did not want guns on campus," he said. "Now it became, while still representing what KU students and students across the state said, now how do we make sure that student safety comes first?"
In trying to implement safety measures, however, Alcorn said funding has become another concern. The required equipment and personnel required to secure a building under the law do not come cheaply.
Alcorn said the proposal tries to account for student safety by creating secured zones where safety would be a large concern, such as at sporting events or buildings in which certain research is being done.
"It's almost as if we were
One of the committee's proposals was that any department or unit that wanted to secure their building would have pay for it themselves, rather than drawing that funding from the University or the state, Alcorn said.
being tasked to pay for safety," he said. "So I really focused on making sure that students don't have to pay for their safety. That was definitely difficult having to work through."
Michael Williams 2015-16 University Senate President
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One of the things
we were trying to do is set up an awareness that we do still care about people's safety."
2015-16 University Senate President Michael Williams co-chaired the division of the committee that addressed communications, campus locations and legal issues (all of which were separate from the policy decisions).
"The main thing that was really the most critical was the communication stuff. The second and third things were locked up with the University's rules and the state law," Williams said.
Williams' committee provided specific recommendations for using social media and other forms of communication to provide current and future students
with information about the law change, resources and even problematic situations once the law goes into effect.
"One of the things we were trying to do is set up an awareness that we do still care about people's safety," he said. "We're trying to do that in the framework of what the state law allows."
Texas recently enacted a similar law in which state universities were required to allow concealed carry on their campuses.
The implementation of these types of laws can have a large impact on how students feel about their safety, said Kevin Helgren, the student body president at the University of Texas in Austin.
Missy Minear/KANSAN Members from Kansas Coalition for a Gun Free Campus, gather on Wescoe Beach.
Texas' law allowing concealed carry on campus, which they call "campus carry," went into effect Aug. 1.
Helgren, who served on UT's implementation task force, spoke to the Kansan shortly after the law went into effect and he said he felt just as safe on campus after Aug. 1 as he'd felt before, even though he is opposed to campus carry itself.
"The silver lining to it was that if campus carry has to be implemented, I find an immense amount of assurance in knowing that my voice was heard and accounted for as much as possible," he said. "I don't believe that campus carry will manifest itself in concrete daily changes in our daily lives here."
UT's plan creates gun
exclusion zones in buildings like the student center, Helgren said. It also allows faculty members in single-occupancy offices to give oral notice prohibiting guns.
Helgren said he wished the plan would have been a little more exclusive by prohibiting guns in large lecture halls or the communal living areas of dorms, but he knows that the plan was unlikely to satisfy all the stakeholders.
Although the two laws bear similarities, Texas and Kansas are not exactly in the same situation, because of their state concealed carry laws.
doesn't require training or a license to conceal a weapon. Texas also allows their universities to exclude buildings from campus carry without Kansas' strict security requirements.
Overall, Alcorn said he was happy with the process the University committee went through and hopes the implementation of the conceal and carry law will still allow students to feel safe on campus.
Unlike Texas, Kansas
"I think there will be a lot of preparation for this to happen and I just want students to know that their safety is the primary thing," he said.
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"They've been doing what they can," Beckloff said in a crowded Oread Lobby. "I was hopeful about moving in on Thursday, but when I saw the buildings I figured there was no way."
inconvenience, but HERE was very accommodating.
Residents and family that arrived at the Oread on Thursday were provided complimentary services including; open food services tab, a reserved lounge ballroom and valet car service.
according to a HERE email.
HERE was able to obtain a temporary certificate of occupancy from the city later Thursday evening, allowing residents with units on the first six floors to finally move in the next day. Those living in the penthouses on the seventh and eighth floors had to wait until Sunday, City Communications Director Megan Gilliland said.
"We didn't issue the temporary certificate of occupancy until Thursday because there were still issues of safety that needed to be
taken care of. Once those were addressed, we were able to issue the certificate," Gilliland said. "On Thursday they were still working on things like fire-suppression measures, emergency access and some general electrical issues."
Gilliland noted that the temporary certificate was issued with deadlines for other ongoing projects. A city document with the conditions for a full certificate of occupancy listed deadlines including; Aug. 23, Sept. 1 and Oct. 3.
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Residents of HERE apartments finally got into their building Friday afternoon. The move-in date had been delayed for over 10 days as the luxury complex struggled to be approved for an occupancy permit from the city.
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Gabby Naylor and Stephone Alcorn celebrate after last year's election.
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year centers on the relationship between Student Senate and members of the Multicultural Student Government, which was vetoed by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little in May.
"Following the chancellor's decision and the chancellor's veto, we reached out and have tried to meet with them multiple times, and we haven't heard back. We haven't stopped trying to focus on those same issues, and there are definitely common goals we had," Naylor said. "We kept those in mind all summer, and with the legislation that we'll be passing in the next few weeks, we hope it is something they are willing to work with us on."
The first Student Senate committee meetings of the 2016-17 school year will take place Aug.31,and the first Full Senate meeting will take place in Alderson Auditorium Sep.7.
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