THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2007
NEWS
》 STUDENT SENATE
3A
Barnes re-elected despite voting dispute
BY ERIN SOMMER
esommer@kansan.com
Rachel Barnes was approved to the position of the Community Affairs Director of the Student Legislative Awareness Board last night at Student
Senate's first full meeting of the academic year despite a dispute about the accuracy of the vote.
Barnes,
Hutchison senior
and junior/senior
College of Liberal
Arts and Sciences
Barnes
senator, said she was excited be reafirmed to the position. The position serves as a lobbying effort to protect the interests of KU students in the city of Lawrence.
Hannah Love, Dodge City senior and student body president, presented Barnes for approval last spring, but the appointment was denied because of speculation that Barnes forged signatures on the petition to apply for the position.
"If you find inaccurate votes, there's no point in Senate being here," Morgenstern.
Eventually, Love was able to approve Barnes on an interim basis for the summer. Last night's vote approved Barnes to continue her job through the academic year.
The number of votes for Barnes' approval exceeded the two-thirds vote required for Senate appointments, but a dispute about vote totals caused a delay in the appointment's passage. Jarrod Morgestern, Overland Park senior and School of Journalism senator, said that the votes were counted inaccurately. He said he found two votes that he knew where marked wrong when a roll call was taken to count the votes.
Morgenstern said he also was concerned by a large number of senators left immediately after Barnes approval.
"it's embarrassing how many senators left after one vote," Morgenstern said.
Senate took a 10-minute recess to review the parliamentary procedure when a vote was counted inaccurately. After the recess, the Senate decided that the original vote would stand.
Before her reappointment was voted on, Barnes presented information about what she did as interim Community Affairs Director. She said she attended city commission meetings, worked to register University students to vote and planned Civic Engagement Week.
She also fielded questions from student senators regarding her interaction with the city commission and financial decisions she made during the summer.
Love and Ray Wittlinger, Olathe
senior and student body vice president, both defended Barnes' reappointment. Love and Wittlinger also presented what Barnes had done throughout the summer.
"She really is a part of this community. It's not just a job for her, it's a lifestyle," Love said. "She's so much a part of the community; this is the perfect job for her."
Morgenternst voted against Barnes' approval. He said he didn't think she had performed her job to the best of her abilities. When she spoke before Senate, Barnes said she had missed two of this summer's eight city commission meetings and left early from another.
After the vote, Love said that she was relieved Barnes' approval was passed.
"The way the questions·were coming in, I was surprised," Love said. "I'm really excited about it."
Edited by Dianne Smith
》 ABU GHRAIB
Military jury spares Lt. Jordan prison time
ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT MEADE, Md. — A military jury recommended a reprimand Wednesday for the only officer court-martialed in the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal, sparing him any prison time for disobeying an order to keep silent about the abuse investigation.
The jury had acquitted Army Lt. Col. Steven L. Jordan a day earlier of all three charges directly related to the mistreatment of detainees at the U.S.-run prison in Iraq.
Those acquittals absolved Jordan, 51, of responsibility for the actions of 11 lower-ranking soldiers who have already been convicted for their roles at Abu Ghraib. The allegations surfaced after the release of photographs showing U.S. soldiers grinning alongside naked detainees
held in humiliating positions at the prison.
Jordan was convicted of a single charge: disobeying a general's order not to discuss the abuse investigation. The defense conceded that Jordan e-mailed a number of soldiers about the investigation after meeting with Maj. Gen. George Fay in spring 2004.
Jordan could have been sentenced to up to five years in prison, though prosecutors had recommended a reprimand and a fine of one month's pay, about $7,400.
The reprimand was the lightest sentence the jury could have recommended.
Major Kris Poppe, Jordan's attorney, said Jordan would remain on active duty with the Intelligence and Security Command at Fort Belvoir, Va., through February, then consider
retiring from a military career spanning 28 years.
Jordan, a reservist from Fredericksburg, Va., never appeared in any of the inflammatory photos, but as director of the prison's interrogation center, he had been accused of fostering a climate conducive to abuse.
a military police reservist from Buckingham, Va., who is serving an eight-year sentence. A number of officers senior to Jordan were reprimanded administratively — but not convicted of crimes — for their roles at Abu Ghraib.
The jury found Jordan not guilty of the three abuse-related charges: cruelty and maltreatment for subjecting detainees to forced nudity and intimidation by dogs; dereliction of a duty to properly train and supervise soldiers in humane interrogation rules; and failing to obey a lawful general order by ordering dogs used for interrogations without higher approval.
"None of the cases brought to date has given the systemic accounting the nation needs of what happened, why and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies," Shamsi said.
Those acquittals suggested that criminality went no higher than former Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick,
Jordan was the last of 12 defendants to go to trial. Of the 11 enlisted soldiers convicted of crimes, the longest sentence, 10 years, was given to former Cpl. Charles Gruner Jr., of Uniontown, Pa., in January 2005. Lynndie England, the most recognizable face from the Abu Ghraib photos, was sentenced to three years.
PEACE CORPS
Peace Corps series on the lunch menu
BY SARAH NEFF
Heather Sutter spent two years in West Africa with the Peace Corps teaching English. She shared her experience with students at the "Around the World with the Peace Corps" brown bag series held Wednesday.
sneff@kansan.com
said. "But now I'm sure that I do."
"They are happy with what they have, they don't need all the material things."
Chris Wright, Topeka junior, said he was not sure about joining the Peace Corps, but it was an interesting option. He said the lecture was very informa-
Patrick, a Spanish major, said she would like to go anywhere in Latin America and volunteer in education or youth development.
Sutter, the University of Kansas Peace Corpsrepresentative, said her mom told her about the Peace Corps when she was young and that was when she decided she would eventually join. Sutter volunteered for the Peace Corps two years after graduating from the University of Oregon.
Sutter served in Burkina Faso, West Africa, from 2003 to 2005. She said living with the nationals helped her to understand the culture of Burkinabe life.
"It's so different from what we experience," Sutter said. "It's not even possible to sum it up."
CHRIS WRIGHT Topeka junior
Elizabeth Patrick, Lenexa senior, said she attended the lecture to learn more about the Peace Corps.
"Before this, I thought I wanted to do the Peace Corps," Patrick
tive and that it opened his mind to life in developing countries.
"Here we have very busy lives and over there it's very simple." Wright said. "They are happy with what they have, they
don't need all the material things."
Sutter said she started her position at the University two weeks ago. This was her first time running the monthly series. She said she would like to bring in other returning Peace Corps volunteers in the coming months. She said the series was not just about the Peace Corps, but also about the countries where the volunteers serve.
The next scheduled lecture will be Sept. 26 at the Kansas Union and will feature a volunteer who worked with the Peace Corps in Guyana, South Africa.
- Edited by Meghan Murphy
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Undergraduate Business Council
sted in a progressive rituality and faith.
Wednesday Ecumencial Located at
Freshman/Sophomore Business School Orientation When: Thursday August 30th 2007 from 2-5 p.m.
Open to anyone in perspective on
KU
Enjoy free food and enter a drawing to win great prizes!
Why: Talk to Business School faculty members in a casual setting. Get information about what the business school has to offer you!
Where: Koch Commons in Summerfield Hall.
s 6-8pm at ECM,
Christian Ministries
12th and Oread
Who: Any freshman or sophomore who is considering a major within the School of Business.
Theme: "Living the Questions" with short video presentation by recognized theologians and scholars.
Faith Forum: A Liberating Take on Christianity
Interested in Law School?
ФАΔ
Join Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity
Gain insight on law school and meet other pre-law students. Applications Online. Come to the first open meeting Tuesday September 4th, Parlors ABC, KS Union
funded by:
STUDENT
SENATE
August 30,2007
PAID FOR BY KU
Located at 12th and Oread
KU Pre-Law Day
September 5th,2007 Law school fair 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Ballroom，Level 5，Kansas Union
o Law School Admissions Representatives
o University of Kansas Pre-Law Office
o KU Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity
o Cambridge Pre-Law Institute
o LSAT Preparation Services
• Kaplan Test Prep
• Princeton Review
Sponsored by the KU Pre-Law Office and KU Phi Alpha Delta Pre-Law Fraternity
Questions? Preston Nicholson, J.D. prestsn@ku.edu (785) 864-2896
University Forum, "a tradition since the 1940's," is open to students, staff, faculty, and community at ECM, Ecumenical Christian Ministries.
University Forum
Wednesday, August 29th 12-1pm (optional lunch $3.50) "How is the Brain Involved in Learning and Memory?"
Presenter will be Dr. Joseph Steinmetz, Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences,KU
SLAB
STUDENT
LEGISLATIVE
AWARENESS
BOARD
MAKE IT YOUR MISSION. Interested in politics?
Get involved with the leading political advocacy organization on campus, the Student Legislative Awareness Board. Officer applications are now available in the Student Senate office located in room 410 of the Kansas Union. Positions available include:
- Special Events Coordinator Press
• Public Relations Coordinator
• Legislative and Policy Assistant
• Deputy Community Affairs Director
• Deputy Legislative Director
Applications are due by 5:00 pm on Friday September 7 in the Student Senate office in the Kansas Union
contact: alextre@ku.edu