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Monday, August 22,1994
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Student Senate
Student senate president Sherman Reeves said his agenda included better student influence on the educational legislation in Topeka and improved recycling efforts on campus.
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Student Senate begins work
Campaign goals will be reached president says
By James Evans Kansan staff writer
804 Mass
Last April, Student Senate presidential candidate Sherman Reeves made lots of promises.
Reeves pledged to have more student influence on educational legislation in Topeka, better recycling on campus, improve economic conditions for students in Lawrence, and change some of the revenue codes that allot funds to organizations funded by Student Senate were high on Reeves' agenda.
Four months later, Reeves hopes to implement his campaign promises.
Gaining a better lobbying influence will be a very gradual process, Reeves said. Student Senate two years ago had a student lobbying influence in Topeka with the Associated Students of Kansas (ASK), he said. But during the fall of 1993, Attorney General Bob Stephan ruled that no student funds could be used for lobbying in Topeka.
"So what we've done over the summer is we've taken a cursory look at the situation, and I've appointed two task force chairs," Reeves said.
Along with addressing student representation in Topeka, the new Student Political Awareness Task Force will be setting up debates between all the major candidates in state races and organizing voter registration drives on campus and in the next couple of weeks in the hopes of giving students a greater political voice, Reeves said.
expand newspaper recycling on campus in the next year. The big snag in implementing the newspaper program, he said though, is that Facilities and Operations will not take up any recycling project that is not self-fundable.
To enhance recycling efforts on campus, Reeves said that he hoped to
"We're hoping that we can get something worked out with F and O, so that we can get a pilot program started," Reeves said.
The program would be similar to the aluminum can recycling effort already implemented, he said.
The push for better economic conditions for students will be Reeves' pet project. Last year as the Chair of the University Affairs Committee, he said he helped the $*Student Dollars Task Force* conduct a survey of local businesses to see if they offered discounts for students.
He said that he is planning to do the survey again this year, and will use the information compiled to create placards that will be displayed in merchants' windows to identify "student-friendly businesses."
Eric Medill, student body vice-president, said he would work on improving the process of allocating money to organizations funded by Student Senate.
"In the past, the way things have gone has been cumbersome," Medill said. He said that they will be looking at moving several organizations, such as LesBiGays OK and the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, from having to reapply for funds every year to gaining revenue code status, which only makes organizations have to reapply every two years for funding.
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He said that they will also be looking at improving the hearing and deliberation process for allocating funds, so every organization is looked at fairly. "No group deserves to be cut, if we don't know why we're doing it," Medill said.
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