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Wednesday, August 31, 1994
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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Haskell wishes to withdraw from district
Kansanstaffreport
Haskell Indian Nations University has joined Baker University in motioning to be removed from the Wakarusa Haskell-Eudora Drainage District.
Last week, Baker petitioned the Douglas County Commission to be removed from the authority of the district because the district wanted to remove beaver dams in the Baker Wetlands. The district said the dams could block up Lawrence's drainage system and cause problems on city streets.
Baker officials had said the dams are were a vital part of the area and kept water inside the wetlands.
The Baker decision will be made at 6:35 tonight at a commission meeting at the Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St.
Hannes Combest, educational assistant to Haskell president Bob Martin, said Haskell would petition the county to be removed from the authority this week.
"We were wondering about any real benefit we were receiving from the district," she said.
The district filed suit earlier this month against Baker because the university wouldn't allow the dam removal. Exclusion from the district would make the lawsuit invalid.
Haskell owns parts of the wetlands just north of the waterway where the beavers are located. District officials said at a county commission meeting Aug. 24 that the area north of the waterway was mostly unimportant for drainage purposes.
KU Fulbright professor discusses Ukraine
By David Wilson Kansan staff writer
Reports of the Ukraine's death have been greatly exaggerated, said Paul D'Anieri, professor of political science, in a speech yesterday.
D'Anieri, a returning Fulbright professor, said that despite the country's economic and political problems, the endurance of the Ukrainian people would carry the country.
About 40 people squeezed into Alcove A in the Kansas Union to hear D'Anierl, who spent 10 months living in the Ukraine, talk about the country's political problems. The Ukrainia is a former republic of the Soviet Union that lies
The problems suffered by the Ukraine, which gained its independence from the Soviet Union in December 1991, are a result of the split between the country's eastern and western regions, D'Anieri said.
north of the Black Sea in eastern Europe.
People in the eastern region are more likely to look to Russia for guidance, while people in the western region are more nationalistic and reform-minded because of their proximity to Europe, he said.
For people in the western region, "keeping separate from Russia was priority one," D'Anier said.
But the recent election of Leonid Kuchma, a
pro-Russian president, proved that people in the western region weren't violently opposed to ties with Russia, he said.
the war was over.
Some analysts had predicted that the regional split might have sparked a civil war, but D'Anieri said that would not happen.
"They don't dislike each other," he said. "They just have different priorities."
But the problems in the Ukraine should not be underestimated, D'Anieri said. Inflation is rampant. The police take bribes. The rule of law is all but nonexistent.
"The stories you've heard about the Mafia are true," he said.
To elude the 50 percent tax on all business income, Ukrainians have set up a "gray market" where "basically honest people learn to disobey the law to run a business," he said.
Because of the gray market, small businesses flourish in the Ukraine. But D'Anieri said the leap to flourishing big businesses would take drastic economic reform, which is unlikely in the face of government paralysis.
Between the president, the prime minister and parliament, no one branch seems to be the clear leader, he said.
"They need a new constitution," he said. "In the end, that's the problem in the Ukraine."
Senate often attracts more apathy than attention
Students find little interest in proceedings
By James Evans Kansan staff writer
Jason Freeman has never had a real interest in Student Senate in his years at KU.
Freeman, Overland Park senior, said the only action he could remember Senate taking in the last four years was allocating more money for campus lighting.
"There's not been that many issues I've been interested in," he said.
Like Freeman, many students said they didn't care about Student Senate proceedings. They said they didn't have the time or interest to follow the body's actions.
Freeman said he had never put Student Senate high up on his interests in college. But Freeman said that if he knew more about Student Senate's powers, such as the power to allocate a budget of $1,291,300 to organizations and services on campus, he would "definitely be more interested."
Curtis Spencer, Topeka senior, said he also did not have time to follow Senate's activities. Spencer said he spent his spare time working and studying.
"I've been too busy," he said.
Spencer said that he was aware of the power of Senate had to allocate
his $28 student activity fee each semester. But he said he trusted the Senate would spend his money wisely.
"As long as they are productive, it doesn't bother me how they use the money," he said.
Student apathy toward Senate could be seen in April when Student Senate elections were held. Only around 4,000 students voted.
"I don't think students know the amount of input that Student Senate has in faculty governance," said Kim Cocks, education senator and Senate Executive Committee member. "That's why I think they may not care."
One student senator said that if students better understood the power of Student Senate, they would be more interested.
She said that if students knew how much input Student Senate had, they would care more. "They don't realize that we have as much voice as we do," she said. "Senate is looked at as the student voice."
Ken Marin, SenEx member, said that students often viewed Student Senate as a funding organization only. But he said it was much more than that.
"It also provides representative organizations to the different University governance boards and the state and local boards that Senate is represented on," he said.
Marine said that Sherman Reeves, student body president, had set an agenda to try to build students' awareness of senate's activities.
They've got the power
Student Senate had the power this year to allocate $1.29 million to organizations and services on campus.The following is a list of how the $28 student activity fee was distributed to organizations this year.
| | Activity fee breakdown ($) | Actual budget breakdown ($) |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Black Student Union | 0.38 | 16,793 |
| Campus Transportation | 7.63 | 332,950 |
| Chamber and Concert Music Series | 2.24 | 97,700 |
| Elections Commision | 0.16 | 7,200 |
| Graduate Student Council | 1.92 | 83,700 |
| Headquarters | 0.80 | 35,000 |
| Hilltop Child Development Center | 0.38 | 16,441 |
| K. U. Bands | 1.88 | 82,175 |
| K. U. Forensics | 0.25 | 10,800 |
| Legal services for Students | 3.12 | 136,000 |
| Additional Summer Revenue | 12.56 | 62,000 |
| Multicultural Center | 0.46 | 20,000 |
| Rape Victim Support Services | 0.55 | 24,000 |
| Student Bar Association | 0.14 | 6,320 |
| Student Senate | 1.73 | 75,515 |
| Additional Summer Revenue | 1.44 | 6,485 |
| University Dance Company | 0.16 | 7,200 |
| University Theater | 1.43 | 62,500 |
| Women's Transitional Care | 0.23 | 10,000 |
| Student Organizations | 3.57 | 156,000 |
| Unallocated Account | 1.43 | 42,521 |
**TOTAL** | | **1,291,3000** |
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Source: Student Senate
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