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University Daily Kansan / Monday, September 16, 1991
OPINION
Helping students get involved
SUA needs to accommodate volunteers
Student Union Activities does a great job of programming. It also does a great job with publicity—with one exception Not enough students know they can volunteer their time and talents without applying to be a committee member. Officially, all meetings on campus are open. Present members need to ensure that non-members know they are welcome at meetings, as students are the most valuable resource available to SUA.
SUA does make a huge effort to incorporate student input into their programming. Surveys are taken. A liaison program, consisting of SUA volunteer representatives, keeps residence halls
and student groups informed. Applicants who do not get committee positions are kept on file to be called as needed.
Admittedly, a committee chair and a small group of reliable members is necessary, but a limited committee is not. Volunteers should be incorporated into the committee system, instead of being put on hold on the sidelines until a big event.
Students need to know that there are alternatives to being a committee member. Those who do not have the time, or perhaps the confidence, to apply to a committee, should be given the chance to participate, however small the contribution. This way, students would not have to work a certain number of hours each week or be confined to one committee. Then, if they decide to apply to a committee the next year, they will be knowledgeable about how SUA works, and which committee is best suited for their strengths and needs.
Students should not be discouraged if they are not assigned to a committee, but should continue to be involved and support SUA's programs. And SUA needs to take a more active role in making volunteers feel like a valuable part of the organization.
Safety on campus
Ellen Kuwana for the editorial board
Added phones, lights mean a safer campus
A step recently was taken to help make this campus safer. The step was made when it was announced that 13 new emergency telephones would be added on campus, increasing the total number of phones to 27.
The phones, expected to be installed in certain campus buildings during mid-November, are the result of about two years of work by the KU department of telecommunications and the KU police department. Appreciation should be given to both for their efforts.
The emergency phones, sometimes called blue phones because of the blue boxes and lights above the phones.
immediately connect the caller to the KU dispatcher, and the origin of the call can be determined.
In addition, Student Senate is helping make the campus safer by working closely with campus departments such as parking and housing to improve lighting campus wide.
As anyone walking after dark from Wescoe Hall down to the parking lot behind Robinson Center knows, more campus lighting is much needed.
While it is understood that budget restraints make finding money for campus lighting difficult, the issue should continue to be a priority.
In addition, individuals also have a responsibility for their own safety. We should all try to make intelligent decisions when leaving campus after dark, such as walking with friends, avoiding dark short cuts, and we should be aware of the locations of the blue emergency phones.
Most of us learn basic safety rules when we are young,but sometimes age can make us forget our vulnerability.
Play it safe.
Amy Francis for the editorial board
LETTERS to the EDITOR
Fulcher used in unfair game
Of course football players love inclement weather. It takes their mind off the pain. After getting clobbered, they're more worried about removing a huge chunk of sod blocking their airways. Fans are just the opposite. They
First of all, I would like to congratulate Matt All on his political victories, both being quoted from the senate meeting regarding Fulcher and getting a guest columnist article in the *Kansan*. It is nice to see him getting his political career off to such a great start. However, All seems to feel that the University Student Senate is a practice ground for political games where no one loses or gets hurt.
Eventually they took on a slow-motion fluidness. Their faces wined with power and concentration while spirals of cool water streamed off the
Have you ever seen things that people do in the rain, especially those engaging in athletic activities? Know that some sporting events are made for the rain, but I also know that some are not.
I have an idea for someone to make a few million dollars. A few more lines from now, and you too can be one of the rich and famous.
Though historically nearly nonexistent, what about a woman in elective office who battered a man? A woman who battered another woman? A man who battered another man? By dealing the case in question in an ad hoc manner, and not attempting to draw any general conclusions from it, we are left unsure what the senate believes the character of an elected official on this campus should avoid. Battery certainly can't be the only disqualifying flaw. The senate would serve its own diminished reputation as well as the electoral process of future student senates if it could devise a code of ethics to serve as a standard for those who are contemplating a run at office. Everyone without the convenience of amnesia would know at a glance whether their past had been sufficiently Lancelotesque for the moral responsibilities and tempations of campus electoral offices.
Tennis players traditionally play in pleasant weather ... if not indoors. Had a real problem with rain when I played tennis in high school, but I couldn't tell that the pair I saw enjoying a shower.
I took a drive around campus the other night during a rain shower to see if there were other rain lovers.
All claims that he "understands) (a)
that this situation must be hard on
Fulcher. If All truly feels this way,
why does he continue to do all he can
to hurt Fulcher? This false compas-
sion character in question with me,
enjoy watching pain on the field, which takes their minds off the downpour soaking their hot dog.
Student Senate must define ethical standard
Let's go further. By making the Fulcher decision themselves, rather than calling for a student body referendum, the senate claims that we should not even be allowed to vote for someone this degenerate. The implication to be drawn from this is that persons guilty of past instances of this type offense should not even be allowed on the ballot. That's fine. But they need to supply us with an investigative capacity in order to weed out the moral mutants before we might be tempted to elect them. The tardy, and consequently overzealous, reporting of this affair by the Kansan may indicate that the senate cannot depend on the campus newspaper to fill this investigative
The Student Senate has left itself a lot of unfinished business. By expelling an elected official for a specific action, it seems to be claiming that it is one of a class of actions that mark one as a person so morally deprived as to disqualify one from elective office at this University. I assume that they are stating that battering a woman is the class of actions. It is not necessary to be奏请 only if Darren Fulcher commits that act is it one which warrants removal. The senate now needs to announce what other offenses in one's past make the offender ineligible for elective office on this campus.
I'm writing my view regarding All's attitude on the Fulcher issue in hopes that the and others will begin to see Fulcher as a fellow student, not as a target toward which to shoot political arrows.
tennis ball into their eyes. Who needs squeegees?
It is time for games to stop and constructive government to begin.
Shawn P. Schwartz Lawrence sophomore
Dan
Janousek
Staff
columnist
Basketball players were out that evening too. Fans of Michael Jordan, no doubt. Everyone is a fan of Mike Kane. He has not played basketball. But would he approve of such
One final comment about the unseemly hastе of the senate's action. If the charge were embezzlement, or ongoing moral turpitude, a quick removal would be justified. No one claims Darren Fulcher is continuing this activity, (as I hope) no one is claiming that it is an activity which should be ignored or treated as inconsequential. Troy Radakovich was quoted as saying that he looked at the situation from a "business standpoint." Has it been alleged that Fulcher was incapable of performing the "business" of being president? If anything, the senate seems to have been incapable of doing anything but remaining fixated on this issue. The charges against Fulcher are not business charges, but ones pertaining to his moral character. They should be settled using moral criteria and judgments. They should not be settled under methods, motivations or pressures of "business." While that certainly seems to be the American way, it does not excuse it. If anything, it makes it worse.
With an all-weather, steel-belted, radial shoe, endorsed by Quayle, everyone could enjoy rainy days
Dennis Lowden Guest columnist
function.
- Dennis Lowden is a Lawrence philosophy graduate student.
Which brings me to the million-dollar idea.
Once the current list of removable or excluding offenses is arrived at, the current senate members should make a gesture of good faith by revealing their past inquiries publicly, a la St. Augustine. Of course, there's a danger in letting sinners define sin. If Senator X (not his real name) takes his pleasure from frogs and ferrets, it is reasonable to expect ferret-fondling to be absent from the list of actions too heinous to be tolerated by a decent community of scholars. Unless, of course, that same Senator X has undergone ferret-fondling rehabilitation.
rough treatment of the tennis shoes he endorses. You won't see him on television promoting Nikes while standing in five inches of muddy water.
Joggers pray for rain. When it arrives, they flock to the streets. While I was out, I almost ran one over at an intersection. He stopped. His face beaded with water that couldn’t be distinguished as rain or sweat. His eyes were wide open, wired from the rush of the run, and he stopped and looked at me as if to ask, "What are you doing out in this kind of weather?" "I’m mime!"
With all the folks out there exposing themselves and their footwear during bad weather, someone should introduce a shoe that's made for it. With an all-weather, steel-belted, radial sole complete with rubber uppers. Install a pump, and it would be the rage of millions.
Hype could be gained, as with any new product, by having an endorser that everyone could identify with. Who could that be? Bo Jackson wouldn't work. He only runs in hot weather during the middle of the day under ael
like Dan Quayle's. We haven't heard much from Dan lately, and this could be his chance to steal the limelight again.
He's young, blond and full of vigor. He's the perfect person to endorse the all-wheather shoe. He's been through every type of storm imagined. Dan should get out of politics while he can and make a few millions for himself
What we need is a fresh face. A face
Maybe he wasn't such a bad pick after all, George.
Dan Janousek is a Dodge City junior majoring in journalism.
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