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University Daily Kansan/Thursday, October 17, 1991
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Senate considers new rules
Student Rights Committee revises removal procedure recommendation
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
Explicit procedures to remove Senate officials may soon be added to KU Student Senate Rules and Regulations.
During a meeting of the Senate's Student Rights Committee last night, committee members reviewed and amended a removal procedure for Senate officials that was drafted by the Ethics Subcommittee.
The committee was prompted to draft a removal procedure after Darren Fulcher, student body president, said that Senate did not have the authority to remove him from office. Sent 12.
Senate, which does not have removal procedures in its rules and regulations, relied on Robert's Rules of Order tooust Fulcher.
After several revisions, the procedure recommendation was tabled to follow.
Jason McIntosh, co-chair of the Student Rights Committee, said the body's primary concern was to make appropriate procedures more clear and efficient.
Nevertheless, Daron Sinkler, Shawnee junior and co-author of the recommendation, said he was confident that a study on his recommendation in two weeks and
Senate would make it a law a week after that.
However, questions were raised about whether the recommendation could be used as evidence during the KU Judicial Board review against Senate's motion to remove Fulcher.
The Judicial Board is reviewing an appeal of the removal motion.
Fulcher was charged with battering his ex-girlfriend, a KU student, in a domestic dispute in February, according to Lawrence police and court reports.
Questions raised about his credibility after the charge was made public led to Senate's removal motion.
The removal motion was based on a procedure in Robert's *Rules of Order*, a book on parliamentary procedure. Senate rules and regulations recompense the speaker in order to the book for cases in which its rules and regulations do not apply.
John Robertson, graduate senator,
said he feared the removal recommendation might be perceived as an acknowledgment of Fulcher's argument that Senate did not have the authority to remove him. Robertson is the Senate representative to the Judicial Board for the Fulcher case.
inctntohsh said the removal procedure recommendation did not confirm Fulcher's argument but recognized the inefficiency of the procedure.
Recommended Student Senate removal procedures
After two weeks of research, Daron Sinkler and Jean Stall, members of the Ethics Subcommittee of Student Senate, arrived at a nine-point recommendation for Senate official removal. The recommendation is a compilation of removal proceedings used by the University of Notre Dame, Emery University, Washington University, Iowa State University and University of Indiana.
and the university of manhattan
These are the key points of the recommended procedure:
1. Senate will have power to impeach and remove an official from office.
2. Senate can impeach and remove an official for misconduct or corruption in office.
3. Actions by the official preceding the term in office can be perceived as misconduct harming the integrity of Senate and therefore an impeachable offense
4. The Bill of Impeachment must include the specific charges against the accused official,
5. The Bill of impeachment must be signed by one-third of the Senate, and the accused and Senate must be informed of the Bill's existence within five days of its completion.
6. A committee composed of the Student Senate Executive Committee and five senators chosen by lottery will investigate the charges and report back to Senate within 15 days unless Senate votes otherwise.
7. Within five days of the investigation completion, the investigation committee will present its findings to Senate. At this point, Senate can, with a two-thirds vote, suspend the official until it reaches a judgment.
8. Senate can conduct a trial within one week of the investigation presentation. A two-thirds vote of the Senate at this point is required to remove the official from office.
9. Judgment of the official will not extend beyond removal.
Notes left in Danforth Chapel puzzle janitors and KU police
By Melissa Rodgers
Melissa Unterberg / KANSAN
Kansan staff writer
Custodians have found strange notes at Danforth Chapel every morning for the last month.
They have been left there every morning for at least the last month, Hundt said. She decided Tuesday to file a police report.
The notes, found hanging from the altar, were held in place by a hymn book lying on top of the altar. The ministerian antitonial supervisor at the chapel.
Hundt said that the notes started to bother her, and that she thought they demeaned the chapel.
Danforth Chapel, just north of Fraser Hall, is a non-denominational place of worship.
The notes always are the same and seem to be taking a bizarre poll. The notes, written with three colors of ink, are divided into three parts asking people to vote about divorce.
"Whoever is leaving the notes is disturbed," she said.
"Non-Christians vote 'yes' to divorce by removing this from here," the note said. "Christians vote 'no' to divorce by leaving this here."
The bottom part of the note explains that it is a survey to determine the number of Christians and non-Christians visiting the chapel.
One note asked whether the mirror in the chapel was used to catch thieves or people kissing in the back pews like those mirrors in grocery stores used to spot shoplifters.
The mirror is used by the chapel organist to time music with processions.
Hundt said two additional notes were left Friday.
The other note asked whether someone had left divorce money on the Bible near the altar.
"Divorce money is unacceptable to Christ — so take it away from here," the note stated.
On Monday, the note writer left notes on the student prayer book, she said. That afternoon, Hundt returned to the chapel, and the prayer book had disappeared.
Hundt said someone had been leaving about $2 on the Bible for the last seven or eight months.
Health officials say alcohol isn't answer to student stress
KU police representative John Mullens said yesterday that the matter was under investigation but that there were no suspects.
KU offers many options to drinking
By Kerrie Gottschalk
Kansan staff writer
He said alcohol was a complex drug that primarily acts as a depressant.
"Alcohol acts like a tranquilizer for stress," said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
Many students drink to relieve the stress from a hectic week, but counselors and doctors caution using alcohol as a permanent stress reliever.
Alcohol depresses the nervous system by reducing alertness, coordination and ability to hear. It also alters depth perception and sense of balance.
"When you are drinking, you think you are doing things better and better." Yuckev said.
Prevention Center, a program of Douglas County Citizen's Committee on Alcoholism, 2200 W. 25th St.
Many students drink alcohol at social events because it relaxes them and allows them to feel uninhibited, he said.
"Most people drink as an automatic response and are not usually drinking out of a physiological addiction," said Linda Carver, the East Central Kansas Regional
Ross said that students usually drank alcohol to feel good and that they associate drinking with friendship.
For many students, how much they drink is a lifestyle choice, she said.
But if drinking becomes their main stress-reliever, they should re-examine how alcohol fits into their lives, she said.
"A lot of our counselors work on stress reduction to help our clients," Ross said.
Clients learn to identify other things they enjoy doing, such as bicycling, painting, music or any alternative activity that makes them feel good about themselves, she said.
Ross said that students had plenty of groups and alternative activities on campus to choose from.
Student organizations offer a wide variety of activities for students to participate in. University-sponsored events range from live music concerts to chess tournaments.
Julie Dolan, president of Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students
Caution...
You may be suffering serious stress overload if:
- You feel a growing need for food, tobacco, alcohol, tranquilizers, sleeping pills or other drugs
* Your behavior (such as driving too fast, vandalizing school property or practicing unsafe sex) puts you or others at risk.
* You are making plans to harm yourself.
- Friends keep telling you that you seem stressed out.
Speak with a counselor to find some healthy way to unwind Source: American College Health Association
College Health Association
Molissa Unterberg 1948&HU (BACCHUS), said, "We have especially offered alcohol free events to give students a chance to have fun without alcohol.
From noon to 4 p.m., Sunday BACCHUS is sponsoring an alcohol-free dance with the theme "Dance Until You Karaoke" at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union.
Dolan said she hoped students would take advantage of the alcohol-free event.
The shining
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Clint Hutchins, left, and Wayne Page dust trophies and the glass display cases in the east lobby of Allen Field House in preparation for Friday night's Late Night with Roy Williams. Doors will open at 9 p.m.
Students' expensive cars, conducive campus location draw attention of thieves
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansanstaffwriter
KU students with expensive cars are drawing out-of-town car thieves into Lawrence, said Lawrence and KU police representatives yesterday.
ers of Lawrence police.
A high percentage of students' cars are expensive stereo systems and radios.
Early yesterday, Lawrence police stopped three Topeka men who were driving away from the parking lot near 125th and Naismith streets. Police suspected that the men had been breaking into cars.
A Slim Jim is a tool used to open a locked car.
Inside the men's car, police found a gym bag with a wire cutter, bent between two walls.
KU police representative John Mullens said that many car thieves came from out of town or were local teenagers.
No arrests were made.
It is more efficient for a thief to steal in Lawrence than in other cities because students' cars are concentrated in small areas, Mullens said.
Thieves prefer breaking into cars that are parked in lots because they can survey and break into cars without attracting attention, he said.
Thieves consider Lawrence and the campus an easy place to work, he said.
Mullens said parking lot 110 on the east side of Javhawk Towers often
was a target for car thieves because its walls shielded it from outside view.
According to police reports, three cars there were broken into last week.
This month, about 75 cars have been broken into or vandalized in Lawrence.
From the beginning of the semester through Oct. 2, about 35 cars had been
From January through Oct. 2 of this year, 82 cars on campus were broken into, 72 cars have had outside attachments taken, and 89 cars have been vandalized, according to KU police records.
burglarized or vandalized on campus. Ten of those incidents occurred last week.
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