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NEWS / WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 / THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN / KANSAN.COM
STUDENT SENATE
Beyond the banners and buttons, candidates advocate for students
BY HANNAH DAVIS
hdavis@kansan.com
As Wednesday and Thursday's Student Senate elections draw near, banners, chalking, buttons, T-shirts and enthusiastic campaigners urge students to vote for either KUUnited, the veteran senate coalition, or Renew KU, the political rookie.
When the last vote is cast on Thursday night and a winner emerges, what responsibilities will the student body bestow on either KUited or Renew KU? Besides decorating campus with campaign literature, what does Student Senate
"Student Senate follows a model of shared governance unique to the University of Kansas," Smith said. "On top of that, we allocate $24.5 million in student fees every year."
do? Michael Wade Smith, student
boss president, said "a great deal."
The $24.5 million comes from the nearly $1,000 in student fees that every student pays the University annually.
The University's model of shared governance dictates that 23 percent of KU committees be composed of students. Student senators sit on 43 committees, whose focuses range from setting the academic calendar to campus safety and student legal services. Smith said the student senators' role is to advocate for the student body.
Josh Dean, Renew KU's vicepresidential candidate, says that students need to take advantage of their influence over student senate.
nization that students would pay $1,000 and not want to know or have some influence on how that money is spent," Dean said.
"A few years ago University fac
"I don't know of any other orga-
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Legislative boards include:
Academic services
Campus fee review Campus safety
- Center for community outreach in UK
Legal services for students
Newpaper readership program
Recruitment
- Student environmental
- Student lecture series
- Student lecture series
- Student legislative awareness
- Student media
- Student media
* Educational opportunity fund
- Women's and non-revenue and intercollegiate sports athletics
The executive branch includes:
Student body president
Vice president
The executive staff.
Student executive committee chair
The assistant treasurer
The communications director
Legislative committees include:
The technology and advertising industry
The communications director The technology and advertising
The student legislative awareness and the director
Community affairs director
- Graduate and professional abroad
- University affairs
* Student rights
- Multicultural affairs
Finance
Joining a legislative committee:
Committees can be joined by anyone at any time
The first meeting you attend you can ask questions and debate, but can not vote on any issues Your second meeting you are considered a part of that committee and obtain voting power
The newest and smallest branch is the judicial branch.*
It includes:
Fourjudges
Four images
One chief justice
*Once elected, each member
remains in the branch for the
remainder of his or her time as a student.
Information provided by Student Body President Michael Wade Smith and www.studentsenate.ku.edu.
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