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CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, September 11, 1995
3A
STUDENT SENATE
Student Senate process is navigable
Bills can be approved quickly if students understand structure
By Sarah Wiese
Kansan staff writer
From idea to actuality, getting a measure approved in Student Senate is a complex process, involving many layers of consideration and decision making.
Pushing legislation through Student Senate
But complicated as it may sound, any student can learn to get a measure through Senate, said Kim Cocks, student body president.
It's just a matter of knowing how the system works.
Senate passes two types of legislation: bills and resolutions. Senate bills are either requests from registered student organizations for funding or requests to change the Student Senate Rules and Regulations.
For example, the International Students Association recently requested money to cover expenses like duplicating, advertising and postage.
For example, the idea for the Multicultural Resource Center, which opened Wednesday, originated as a Senate resolution several years ago, Martin said.
Senate also passes resolutions that express its stand on an issue.Many bigger ideas start out as resolutions, said Ken Martin, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee.
"It sends a strong message to the community that students are concerned about the issue," Martin said.
Although much legislation comes from senators or Senate committees, Cocks said any student or student organization could propose a bill or resolution. The first step is to contact Martin in the Senate office at 864-3710.
"He will match them with a senator who will sponsor their legislation and help them write the bill," she said.
The sponsoring senator then submits the bill to the executive secretary by the legislative deadline, which is the Friday before committee meetings.
Dan Hare, student body vice president, decides which of Senate's five committees — finance, University affairs, student rights, multicultural affairs and graduate affairs — the bill or resolution will go through.
Committees are made up of of students and senators. They debate legislation and pass their recommendations to
the Senate.
Martin said a bill or resolution usually was assigned to two or three committees. All committees, except finance, make their decisions based on the legislation's purpose alone. Finance is the only committee that can scrutinize the amount of money a bill requests. Any bill or resolution pertaining to money must pass through the finance committee last.
Aside from voting on legislation, committees also investigate problems or needs at the University of Kansas, which are called charges.
"Committees are places for us to tackle larger issues and look into programs." Martin said.
For example, one of the University affairs committee charges this year is to work with the Office of Admissions to enhance recruitment of students and assist KU in its student retention efforts.
After the committee phase, the legislation moves to Senate, which meets every other Wednesday evening. The sponsoring senator gives a speech in favor of the bill and then other speeches for and against the bill follow. Then, senators vote on the legislation. If the vote is close, a roll-call vote may be necessary, which means that each senator's name is called and senators vote one by one.
From start to finish, Senate's legislative process can take as little as 2 1/2 weeks, Martin said.
Task force appointed to suggest cost cuts
Kansan staff writer
research and service."
Chancellor Robert Hemenway last week appointed a 21-person task force to recommend ways that the University can streamline administrative costs in a year of budget cuts and concerns about sub-par buildings and laboratories.
The group will focus on ways to re-engineer and streamline the University. Re-engineering makes processes less costly, more efficient and more student-oriented. Streamlining is the assurance that KU serves its employees, students and the public more effectively at less cost.
By Josh Yancey
"This year of budget reductions should make clear to us the need to streamline our administrative structure and re-engineer various University processes," Hemenway told the group. "The reason for doing so can be simply stated. We must cut costs so that we can reallocate resources to our basic missions: teaching,
Budget cuts of $3 million for fiscal year 1996 have forced KU administrators to look for ways to trim the University's operations costs. The task force has a Jan. 1, 1996, deadline to make recommendations for administrative restructuring and a June 1, 1996, deadline for recommendations on re-engineering possibilities.
The group is made up of KU professors, administrators and two students, including student body president Kim Cocks. It will meet Thursday to begin organizing its work.
"Given the fact that this is such an enormous task, we need to get together and find out what exactly we will be doing," said Norman Yetman, acting chairman of the American Studies department.
Stephen Schroeder, director of KU's Institute for Life Span Studies, and Deborah Teeter, director of the Office of Institutional Research and Planning, will serve as the group's co-chairmen.
Task force members
William Andrews, Hall distinguished professor of American literature Mike Auchard, mason, student housing department
Daryle Busch, Roy A. Roberts distinguished professor of chemistry
Christine Cameron, graduate student
Christine Cameron, graduate student
Kim Cocks, student body president
Joseph Collins, zoologist/editor, Natural History Museum
Victor Frost, associate professor of electrical engineering
Chico Herbison, director, McNair Scholars Program
Douglas Houston, professor of business
Diane Hoose Goddard, associate director, comprollers office Don Green, Conger-Gable distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering
O. Maurice Joy, Joyce Hall distinguished professor of business
James Long, director, Kansas Union
Mary Michaelis, professor of pharmacology and toxicology
Food Additives, associate professor of curriculum and instruction
Fred Rodriguez, associate professor of curriculum and instruction
Elaine Sharp, professor of political science and government
Ann Weick, dean of social welfare
Norman Yetman, professor of American studies
Technology no longer foreign to lab
Computers to be installed at Wescoe's language center
By Craig Lang
Kansan staff writer
A new world soon will be open to foreign language students who use the language lab at 4085 Wescoe.
Huy had the opportunity to examine hundreds of programs last year while working for the U.S. Department of State.
"This is a step in how we might introduce computers into the foreign language curriculum." Huv said.
A full-range of software will be offered at the resource center, from programs that feature simple fill-in-the blanks to fully interactive programs in which students must guide themselves through the streets of Paris, he said.
By mid-November, six computers will be installed at the lab and access to the Internet will be possible, said John Huy, director of the Academic Resource Center. Huy said this would allow foreign language students to use multi-media programs as part of their studies.
State at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center in Washington, D.C. He trained teachers and students on how to use foreign language programs and brought some of those programs back to the University of Kansas.
Karin Pagel,
assistant professor of German.
"We will be able to access entire textbooks via the World Wide Web."
director, Academic Resource Center
"It's like a computer game, but you're learning German," she said.
said she had talked to students who have used interactive games in the past. She said they really seemed to have fun with it.
David Dinneen, professor and chairman of the department of French and Italian, said that because only six computers would be offered, the department would not be able to use the programs as part of its curriculum. The computers will be useful in letting the departments know what kind of programs are on the market, he said.
"I think it will be very helpful to see what is available," he said.
Huy said the computer programs probably would not replace the audio and video tapes offered at the resource center because most students had easy access to cassette players and videocassette recorders.
In addition to the programs, the computers would have access to the Internet and the World Wide Web, Huy said.
"We will be able to access entire textbooks via the World Wide Web," he said. "Students can also visit the Louvre."
Shaking the blues is getting easier with the help of local society
By Brenden Sager
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence is once again getting the blues, and some people think it's about time.
"This is something that wasn't on going before," said Bill Maxwell, Lawrence resident and member of the Lawrence Blues Society.
The burgeoning blues phenomenon in Lawrence is spreading to local clubs and restaurants, and now bands are organizing their own
group.
The Lawrence Blues Society's mission is to promote local bands and find audiences for them. It produces a newsletter and tries to stay in contact with acts in the Kansas City and Topeka area. To discuss its plan of action, members have sporadic meetings at Teller's restaurant, 746 Massachusetts St., Maxwell said.
The society was started by Cait Wisler, who helped start the Western Kansas Blues Society in Garden
City.
But the society does more than just talk about the blues at Teller's they play the blues.
He said artists such as Lee McBee and Lonnie Ray played regularly at the blues jams on Monday and Thursday nights at Teller's, but anyone who had the blues — and an instrument to play them on — could join in.
"I'm the guy who organizes the blues jam," Maxwell said. He also plays blues guitar occasionally.
"I'd like to see it the way it used to be," he said. "But some new music is turning to the old stuff."
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, nearly every venue in Lawrence had blues regularly, Maxwell said. In popular spots these days, alternative rock has pushed the blues away. "That's about all the Bottleneck necks anymore," he said.
At Teller's though, the blues is making green.
"It draws quite a crowd for a Monday night," said James Truscolli.
general manager at Teller's. "Anyone walking in with a guitar is allowed to come in and play."
Another hot spot for blues in Lawrence is the Full Moon Cafe, 803 Massachusetts St.
"I Love the blues," said Lynn Abrams, who organizes a blues jam at the Full Moor Cafe.
A greater variety of people has been attracted to the cafe since the jams began in April, she said.
She is not a member of the Lawrence Blues Society but works
"I think the word is starting to spread," she said. Full Moon also allows anyone to play in their blues iams.
"I think we get some really talented people," she said. She said that in Kansas City, a band had to know someone in upper management before they would ever get the opportunity to play in their venues.
"You can be anybody here," she said.
with local blues bands to promote them.