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The University Daily Kansan
Thursday, September 23, 1999
Bill benefits non-Senate members
By Chris Borniger writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Student Senate committees unanimously passed a bill last night that would allow non-senators to write and co-sponsor legislation.
Both the University Affairs and Student Rights committees passed the bill with overwhelming support and without having to go to a vote. Full Senate will vote on the legislation on Wednesday.
Senate rules and regulations restrict sponsorship privileges to senators. Dede Seibel, student body vice president and the bill's co-sponsor, said she didn't feel she had had much of a voice in Senate as a non-senator committee member her freshman year.
"I've always kind of felt like
committee members don't have the chance to empower themselves on committees," she said. "This will afford you the opportunity to, if want to be a student senator, know how the legislation works beforehand."
Jessica Bankston, Nunemaker senator and another co-sponsor, said the legislation also would benefit senators by keeping them more in touch with their constituents.
"I can't possibly gauge my entire constituency accurately," she said. "With more non-senators involved in the process, I'm able to be that much more fair and accurate to the people I represent."
Bankston said the legislation also could help committees retain their memberships.
they have more ownership of the whole process," she said.
"Hopefully people will feel like
Eric Snider, chairman of University Affairs and a member of the committee for the past three years, is a non-senator. He said bringing more committee members into the process would make the Senate a more representative body.
"It's a step in the right direction," Snider said. "The heart and soul of what people care about comes out in committees. This is opening the door of opportunity to them."
In other business:
Committees passed a resolution that would petition the parking department to issue two-for-one parking passes to students living in married housing at Stouffer Place and Sunflower Apartments.
Committees tabled bills to
fund the KU Medical Ethics Club and the KU Sociology Club.
Committees approved bills to allocate:
$952 to the American Red Cross Blood Drive.
$105 to the Taiwanese Student Association.
$247 to the American Institute of Architecture Students.
$279 to the KU Psychology Club.
- $343 to Amnesty International.
- $188 to the Women's Empowerment Action Coalition.
$312 to Students for a Free Tibet.
$362 to the KU Campus Internet Association.
Internet Association.
$143 to Music Mentors.
—Edited by Kelly Clasen
$418 to the KU Pre-Nursing Club.
Building bridges
Paul Frederick, Yates Center graduate student, discusses job opportunities with Lesley Walters, a University of Kansas alumnus representing the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The Business Career Fair was held in the Kansas Union yesterday. Photo by Tara Kraus/KANSAN
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