Daily hansan
LAWRENCE. KANSAS
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 1964
62nd Year. No.19
Athletic Seating, Election Place on ASC Agenda
By Susan Hartley
Plans to build KU school spirit and to capitalize on national political spirit were laid at the All Student Council meeting last night.
The ASC tried to take advantage of the spirit created by the national Presidential election this fall, and hold its living district representative elections the two days following the national election on Tuesday, November 3. The bill was submitted by Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior. Schrey said the interest of the student body will be at an all time high due to exposure to the procedures and theories of voting on the national level.
BUT THE ELECTION date is not yet final. The ASC will hold a special meeting this Thursday when opponents of the bill will attempt to repeal it, and hold the election at its formerly scheduled time—November 13 and 14, immediately preceding Thanksgiving vacation.
To create school spirit, the ASC passed a resolution designating the current week from October 12 to October 19 "Boom-the-Sooners Week," in honor of the KU-OU football game this Saturday.
The festivities during the Boom-the-Sooners Week will include a school parade and rally Friday to send off the Jayhawk football team to Topeka for their customary night of rest before home games.
MIKE LEMOINE, Leawood senior, and chairman of the ASC Traditions committee which, along with the three pep clubs: The Frosh Hawks, the Jay James, and the KuKu's, is sponsoring the rally, encouraged the ASC representatives to go out to their constituencies and personally publicize the rally. Lemoine said to bring a friend with them to the football practice field Friday near Allen Field House and join the crowd and move onto the field itself during the middle of scrimmage.
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Red Tape Slows Action
Members of the All Student Council had to be experts in parliamentary procedure in order to keep up with the action at the ASC meeting last night.
The Council undoubtedly set a record for the most times adjourned and reconvened in one night and for the most committee on committees and legislation meetings in one night. Political parliamentary procedures were used so often that they may have set a record; too.
The committee reported the bill with two votes in favor of the bill, and two votes against the bill, with one member of the committee absent.
At this time, Mr. Grace proposed the council adjourn for 10 minutes during which the committee on committees and legislation would meet.
THE COUNCIL resolved into a committee of the whole to consider how often ASC meetings should be held. It adjourned 3 times: once to allow a bill enlarging the ASC Hosting and Hospitality Committee to be passed so the committee could go into effect immediately instead of waiting two weeks until the next regular council meeting; once to allow a bill moving the fall ASC elections up a week so they coincide with national elections; and once to genuinely close the meeting.
The committee on committees and legislation met after each adjournment to discuss the bill introduced immediately prior to the adjournment, and make recommendations to the council.
Typical of the parliamentary procedure loopholes found by the various ASC members to gain political advantage from the measures before the council was the decision to hold ASC elections one week early.
Brian Grace, Lawrencia second year law student, pointed out that the resolution was out of order because its provisions did not fall under the specifications of the ASC bill on elections. Therefore, Mr Schrey withdrew the measure and rewrote it into the form of a bill instead of a resolution, and presented it to the council.
After Hugh Taylor, Stoke-on Trent, England, graduate student.
This action required 20 different rules of parliamentary procedure before it was passed, and it wasn't even amended!
THE MEASURE, introduced by Leo Schrey, Leavenworth junior, began its long journey when it was introduced as a resolution (meaning it would be acted on immediately by the council).
had presented the report, T. J. Snyder, Independence senior, issued a call for a quorum count, in the hopes that the necessary quorum of ASC members might not be present and the bill which he opposed would not be voted on for lack of proper representation of the student body on the council. The number of members present necessary to constitute a quorum is 20 members. The roll call was answered by 21 members, Mr. Snyder not among them.
Immediately following the announcement of the roll call results, Brian Grace requested that the quorum be nullified because the person who called for the count was not technically present at the meeting because he had not answered the roll.
"So far this year the students have been good at criticizing, but bad at constructing," Lemoine said. "Let's get the ball rolling and show how school spirit can function at KU in a big way."
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The marching band, along with the cheerleading squad and the pep clubs will turn out to hear head football coach Jack Mitchell speak.
MIKE MINER, Lawrence senior and ASC chairman, decided the quorum was valid because the member had to have been there in order to call for a quorum count, although he was not present at the actual count. An appeal was registered, but before action could be taken, Mr Snyder announced that he had arrived at the meeting late, and now was present. (It should be noted that he was present at the meeting the full time, sitting only four chairs
"ACTION SUCH AS this will point the way to the revival of old campus traditions which many people feel are dead at KU because of lack of student interest," Bob Stewart, Vancouver British Columbia senior and student body president said.
Amendments to the Athletic Seating bill of the ASC were passed making it unlawful for any student to sell his student reserved seat ticket at football games or his ID card at basketball games, under penalty of possible ejection from the game and possible revoke on the privileges accorded the student regarding KU sports events.
The amendment also provides that ushers may remove people from seats they are not authorized to sit in with the support of the campus police who have the authority to eject a person from a game if he is being unco-operative about obeying the rules.
MARY RUTH LANNING, Lawrence Junior, was elected secretary of the ASC to complete the term begun by Sandee Gravey, St. Louis graduate student, who resigned from the council last week.
Four appointments were made to the council. They were: Ted Dickey, Louisville, Ky., junior, fraternity district; Mike McNally, Bartlesville, Okla., sophomore, fraternity district; Karen Hicks, Basehor junior, large women's residence halls district; and Ali Hassan, Hyderabad, India, junior, unmarried, unorganized district.
Dickey, McNally, and Miss Hicks represent Vox Populi and Mr. Hassan, University Party.
Weather
The weather bureau predicted fair skies through Thursday. Temperatures will be a little warmer tonight with the low temperature between 40 to 45 degrees.
Grid Seating Change Part of Vox Platform
The Vox Party platform for the upcoming elections was passed and announced last night at a party meeting in the Kansas Union. The platform was billed by party leaders as a strong one.
IT CONTAINS the following planks:
Vox suffered heavy losses in the spring election of 1964, losing control of the student body presidency. Their majority on the All Student Council was trimmed to one.
Jim Frazier, Topeka pharmacy student and president of Vox, called the platform "vigorous" owing to "a change of attitudes of student members."
Delbert (Dee) Gerstenberger, Park Forest. Ill., senior, and chairman of the Vox platform committee, submitted the platform to the general assembly.
- Enforcement and implementation of the ASC Human Rights Committee and the ASC human rights legislation now on the books.
- A system of activities organizations for getting new students into campus activities.
- Reforms in the present university grading and GPA system.
- Extension of the student flight plan to include the Far East.
- Funds providing traveling expenses for student delegations.
- Revisions in the football seating policy changing the basis for seating to the number of years the student has attended KU.
- Sidewalks for Daisy Hill.
Sidewalks for Daily Vox will announce its slate or candidates in a meeting to be held tomorrow.
Vox also announced a plan for providing rides to eating places for freshman women on Sunday evenings. However, the girls are to go "Dutch treat."
Chancellor Wescoe The law building will be totally inadequate. . .
Dean Logan
Dean Logan
. . Classrooms needed for 125-150 students.
Growing Pains Hit Law School
By Robert Henry and Susan Tichacek
Green Hall, home of the School of Law since it was built in 1904. is currently bulging at the seams.
If projected enrollment increases are correct, the building will be totally inadequate in several years, Chancellor W. Clarke Wescoe said yesterday.
The chancellor said current plans call for the new building to be constructed on another site, leaving Green Hall for some other purpose.
The decision indicates a departure from the University's master building plan, formulated in early 1962. Under this plan, Green Hall was marked for a complete renovation, but it was to continue as the law building.
BECAUSE IT IS A CHANGE from the master plan, the building would be far down the priority list and would have to be put off for several years if money from the state building levy is used, Wescoe said.
Both Chancellor Wescoe and James Logan, dean of the school of law, expressed the hope that a private donor can be found to provide the money and allow construction in the more immediate future.
Even though construction plans are up in the air, Dean Logan is determined to get this project underway. Today he was to appoint a law school faculty committee to draft a version of the building.
CAUSE OF THE CONCERN over a new law building is a major enrollment jump in the law school. Fall figures show an increase in enrollment of 28 per cent over the 1963 fall total, Logan said.
Currently there are 227 students enrolled in the law school, compared to 139 in the fall of 1961. Projected enrollment for the fall semester of 1965 is 278, or a 100 per cent increase over the past four years.
Dean Logan termed Green Hall's interior as "unattractive and inconvenient."
THE INCONVENIENCE EFFECTS BOTH STUDENTS and faculty. Most serious inconvenience is to the students. This year's first year class of 113 had to be split into sections. "Our largest classroom holds 80," Logan said. This places an additional load on the faculty, he explained. Also, faculty offices now occupy two basement floor seminar rooms. These seminar rooms were constructed in 1957, when the building underwent a partial remodeling.
"We should have classrooms which would handle 125-150 students," Logan said. These rooms should be structured like an amphitheater, he continued, in order to allow the easy exchange among students and faculty during class sessions.
The ratio of students per professor could go up if we had adequate facilities, Logan said. He indicated that the lack of classroom space in Green Hall would necessitate adding two new professors for the 1965-66 school year. This is caused by having to section classes which could be taught in one section if the space were available, he explained.
THE LACK OF AIR CONDITIONING in Green Hall is a fringe reason for a new building. Last summer, law students swaltered in un-air-conditioned rooms. The lack of temperature and humidity control also caused extensive damage to the law school's library. Logan said a recent investigation revealed damage to book bindings will cost $8,500 to repair.
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