Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1965
University Daily Kansan
Page 9
Council Ready to Discuss Last Unpassed Bill
The presidents of two campus organizations will appear before the All Student Council tonight to discuss a bill concerning their representatives to the Council.
Sherry Whitcher, Prairie Village senior and president of Associated Women Students (AWS), and Walter Bgoya, Tanganyika senior and president of International Club, will speak to the Council concerning ASC Bill No. 27. Bgoya was elected to this post Saturday.
Under Bill No. 27, AWS and International Club are each allowed one representative to the Council. This representative has speaking privileges, but is not allowed to vote. The presidents of each club may appoint the representative.
Present representatives are Susan Hartley, Atwood junior, AWS, and Bgova. International Club.
These were the bills which the Council had passed, but had never sent to Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe for his approval or veto.
BILL NO. 27 was to have been one of 27 bills and amendments presented to the Council at its last meeting.
These bills were re-passed by the Council and were taken to the Chancellor this past weekend. He has two weeks in which to act upon them.
Bill No. 27 was removed from this group of bills at the meeting and tabled until the presidents of the organizations affected could be present.
ASC Health Committee Airing Students' Hospital Problems
The main reason for the tabling was that the bills had been reported from the ASC Committee on Committees and Legislation with a vote of one for and one abstention. The Committee suggested the Council consider this bill.
Students' misconceptions of the Student Health Service, which have presented problems with student-hospital relations in the past, are being cleared up by the All-Student Council Health Committee.
The committee will meet with the hospital staff next week to discuss the opinions and how student-hospital relations can be improved.
The Health Committee, headed by Tom Fisher, Kansas City senior, is presently taking a poll on students' opinions of the student health center.
ONE OF THE most frequent complaints voiced by students was the long wait before the student could see a doctor, even though the service was otherwise good. Fisher said.
THE COUNCIL passed a resolution by a voice vote to allow the present representatives to keep their seats and speaking privileges until the issue is decided. If the bill is not re-passed, both could lose their seats on the Council.
Students also felt, Fisher said, they would hesitate before going to the student hospital for anything serious.
FISHER WILL ask a student to pinpoint his complaint on the health center and then try to clear up the problem by explaining the facts about the hospital.
"We try to straighten out the students' misconceptions of the hospital," Fisher said. "We're a link between the students and hospital."
"There is a tremendous turnover at the hospital even though the students do complain frequently," Fisher noted, "I guess people have to have something to let off steam about."
One of the health committee's
projects to promote public relations is the passing out of pamphlets concerning the hospital to students who visit the health center.
"THE STUDENT does not have the respect he should have for the student hospital." Fisher said.
In addition to the pamphlets concerning information on the hospital, the health center will also supply a short autobiography on each doctor which will be distributed to the doctor's patients.
"If the patient knew more about his doctor." Fisher commented, "he would have more trust in the physician. He would see him as more than just a doctor."
University Will Offer Speakers to Kansas
KU will launch a new program to share its distinguished speakers and performing artists with the hundreds of communities, schools, and other organizations in the state, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe announced today.
"Faculty members of exceptional dramatic and concert talent and others who are expert in most forms of human learning and endeavor have been assembled at Lawrence to teach and do research," Chancellor Wescoe said.
"They are equally capable of taking their wisdom and their artistry to the people of Kansas in their own communities, and many faculty members have expressed to me their desire to do so," he said.
"They have gone out into the state in the past as requests have come to the various schools and departments and to individual faculty members, and programs have been set up to share professional information," he continued.
"Now we hope to develop a mechanism to achieve similar results on a broader scale and in a more thorough fashion. I have asked my administrative assistant for university
Students Take Series of Tests
Members of Sigma Gamma Tau, honorary aerospace engineering society, sponsor of the examination here, contacted students in high schools in Topeka, Olathe, Eudora, Ottawa, and Lawrence. Twenty-five have registered for the test despite short notice.
An examination to measure and predict engineering aptitude will be given to high school students in grades 9 through 12 Friday and Saturday at KU.
Prof. Ammon S. Andes of the mechanics and aerospace engineering faculty, said the testing program will be enlarged if this year's results are good. He is national executive secretary of Sigma Gamma Tau and instigated the examination in this area.
He described the response from high school students as "gratifying" in view of the limited notice in publicizing the test.
relations, James E. Gunn, to organize this new program," Chancellor Wescoe said.
High schools, junior colleges, and four-year colleges are expected to make major use of this new offer, Gunn said. Civic clubs, professional and special interest conferences, and other community gatherings also are expected to present frequent requests.
"For convenience, the program will be called 'Speakers/Performing Artists,'" Gunn said, "or 'S/PA' for short. We will begin by building, as soon as possible, a roster of potential speakers and performers from which individuals and groups can be requested."
The second step in our present plans," he continued, "will be the establishment of lecture and concert courses in communities of the state which indicate an interest in hearing a monthly lecture or a monthly concert from the University of Kansas. Hopefully this can be done as early as the 1965-66 academic year, which will coincide with the one-hundredth year the University has been in operation."
The University will not set up any new organization to handle the program, he said, nor will it charge for its services. Honorariums which a group customarily presents a speaker or performer will remain a matter between the group and the faculty member concerned. "Where funds are available for this purpose, it is expected that the group will recompense the faculty member for his time," Gunn said. "In all cases the group will be expected to defray the faculty member's direct expenses."
College Bowl Will Open January 22
Now is the time for potential participants in the College Bowl to begin brushing up on their factual information, because team lists are due in less than two weeks, and the first match is only a little over a month away.
Teams, consisting of four regular members and two alternate members, make application and $5 registration fee to the College Office by 5 p.m. January 22.
Each small living group may enter one team, but two teams allowed from the large residence halls. Students not living in organized housing may organize their own teams.
The first of four weekly sessions of the College Bowl will be held on Sunday, February 28.
The tournament will be single elimination until the quarter finals, and double elimination for the remainder of the competition.
Teams are matched at random without regard to living district within the separate men's and women's divisions. The two divisions will merge in the quarter final round of competition, and men's teams will compete with women's teams for the semifinal and final rounds of play.
"There is a possibility that a women's division winner and a men's division winner will be announced as well as the overall winner." Mary Ruth Lanning, Lawrence junior and a member of the College Bowl Steering Committee, said, "but final plans haven't yet been made."
Fraternity and Sorority Jewelry
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The Council also must take action on six bills which were presented to it at the last meeting. The bills and their sponsors, all members of University Party, and the districts they represent, are:
- Kings
- Mugs
- Pins
- A bill setting a maximum of $12,000 in the general publication reserve fund, and transferring any part of 25 per cent in excess of this limit to the ASC.
Sponsor: Lee Ayres, Park Ridge, ill., graduate student. (unmarried-unorganized.)
- Lavaliers
- Crests
- A bill providing for the appointment of a student body vice-president if the position is vacated. The president of the student body would have the power to fill this post provided the ASC ratified the appointment. This person, however, could not ascend to the student body presidency unless elected by the student body.
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"THE COLLEGE JEWELER"
Sponsors: Ayres and Janet Anderson, Prairie Village freshman (freshman women.)
ONE OTHER bill was presented which makes a minor change in the wording of ASC Bill No. 3, a bill concerning standing committees and executive appointments. The bill to delete several extraneous words was submitted by Ayres and Mike Johnson, New York City, N.Y., senior (married).
- A bill establishing the University Facts and Statistics Committee to assist the Statewide Activities program by providing information on KU to students, alumni and Kansas residents.
Sponsors: Ayres, Miss Anderson, and Mary (C.C.) Waller, Girard sophomore (sorority), and Roy Miller, Topeka senior (journalism).
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Sponsors: Russ Cummings, Topека graduate student (men's large residence halls), and Nan Johnson, Caldwell senior (education).
- A bill empowering the student Blood Bank committee with the organization and conduct of all KU blood drives. The student body president may appoint a council of five
The Council also expects to hear financial reports from several organizations allocated funds by it. A financial report as to how these organizations are using these funds is required every two months.
members who can recruit additional members when necessary.
This two-month period expired with the last meeting, but not all of the eight organizations sent financial reports. The Council voted to allow an additional two-week period for these reports.
Sponsors: Carl Lindquist, Prairie Village senior (college men); Conrad Wagenknecht, St. Joseph, Mo., senior (professional fraternities and co-operatives); Bill Henry, Leawood junior (fraternity); and Larry Geiger, Mission junior (men's large residence halls).
- A bill establishing an Information officer who would be responsible for posting all notices or information he feels is of interest to the student body concerning the ASC. This material would not include that of a political party or of a political nature. It would be posted in the glass-enclosed bulletin board on the south side of the Information Booth which would be designated the official Student Council bulletin board.
Organizations not reporting can have their funds frozen by the ASC.
Reports still must come from the Student Bar Association, the American Pharmaceutical Association, the Engineering School Council, the combined pep clubs, People-to-People and the current events committee.
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