University Daily Kansan / Thursday, September 19, 1991
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Committee passes bill to finance fees for high profile lecturers
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee passed a bill for Senate's consideration last night to finance the new KU Student Lecture Series.
The bill requested that $20,000 be taken from the Senate Unallocated Account and put toward the lecture series.
the money is intended to pay for one high-profile speaker at the University of Kansas this year.
Along with the money not spent last year by organizations financed by Senate, the Unallocated Account is at 140,000. The student body Compart, student body treasurer.
Last year, Student Senate spent more than $30,000 financing speakers through honorariums, said Kurt L. Schmidt, professor of the Lecture Series Board.
Student Senate will probably be stricter this year with honorariums, which are payments to speakers for their engagements, if Senate passes the lecture series bill, Broeckelmann said.
The Lecture Series Board was established last year in a bill spons-
sored by Mike Schreiner, former student body president.
The Lecture Series Board consists of members from both Student Union Activities and Student Senate.
One of the board's responsibilities is to make sure the student body plays a role in the selection of the $20,000 speaker.
"The campus will choose who they want to see," Broeckelmann said.
SUA and Senate would review the possibilities and choose 10 speakers from the original list. The Lecture Committee, then choose the speaker from that list.
He said the board might first send letters to campus organizations requesting one or two suggested speakers from each.
In the future, when this thing gets well endowed, I'd like to see six or seven speakers a year," Broeckelmann said. "But with this year's time constraint, I don't see it happening now."
He said senators had been researching the possibility of establishing a lecture series for the past three years.
"It's something the University has wanted for a long time," Broeckelmann said.
He said his goal was to get $1 million in alumni donations. That money would generate approximately $20,000 a semester in interest.
Dean Newton, president of SUA,
said that if the lecture series was
successful, the program might receive
alumni support in the future.
Newton said former president Gerald Ford; Donald Regan, chief of staff during the Reagan administration; and Caspar Weinberger, former secretary of defense, were possible speakers for this year.
"Given the impact the lecture series could have on the University, the positive aspects of this bill are undeniable." Newton said.
Other bills passed by the Finance Committee last night for Senate consideration at Wednesday's meeting:
■ Abill to finance Pinch Magazine, a satirical campus magazine, with $2,050 from the Student Senate Unallocated Account.
A bill to finance the Vietnamese Student Association with $329 from the Unallocated Account.
A bill to finance a survey on child care needs at KU and the formation of an Ad Hoc Child Care Committee to evaluate the survey.
Residents of Pearson Scholarship Hall await company's choice of contractor to finish job
By Stephanie Patrick Kansan staff writer
The director of housing and the assistant director of facilities planned told Pearson Scholarship Hall residents yesterday that a contractor could be found within the next few weeks to finish construction on the hall.
"I would hope in the next two to three weeks we hope to know how the bonding company intends to finish the job." *I*
The American Bonding Co., of Tucson, Ariz., is providing insurance that the building will be completed.
The residents invited Riat and Ken Stoner, director of housing, to speak about the status of the scholarship hall, said Andy Taylor, All Scholarship Hall Council chairperson.
The men have been living on the second floor of Joseph R. Pearson Hall since August.
"Ihope Pearson guys realize housing and (facilities planning) are just as frustrated as we are," Taylor said.
The state fired the former contractor, Mckariel of Metro Construction in Oakley, Aug. 29 because he failed to pay his debt.
After trying to contact American Bonding Co. several times, Riat said he talked to the bonding company for the first time Sept. 12.
Riaat said he thought the scholarship hall looked like it was half finished and that residents could move in as early as December if the bonding company found a contractor in time.
He said the company had asked for a detailed list of everything that still needed to be completed before it could find a contractor.
Stoner told the 48 residents that there was a possibility that the contracts could be voided if construction plans were not made by October or November.
Kyle Thompson, Iola junior, was one of the students who wanted if he could terminate his housing contract if there were further delays in construction.
"It may be a moot point if they get the construction going," he said.
Stoner said the University was moving as rapidly as possible to finish the hall.
Stoner and the residents agree to have meetings every two weeks until the project is complete.
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