University Daily Kansan/Thursday, September 12, 1991
CAMPUS/AREA
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David
Ambler
vice chancellor
for student affairs
"I'm impressed by (Fulcher's) resilience. But I've had the impression that it hurts. That is only human nature."
James Baucom off-campus senator
"I'm against this motion for one basic reason. Student Senate has not fully seen the whole issue."
Connie Burk
member, Students Against Violence Against Womyn
"Iam glad Student Senate supported the voice of the women."
Darren Fulcher student-body-president
"It is almost a sense of relief because it is over. But I am not one that will ever quit...I still have no intention of resigning."
John Robertson graduate senator
"Human beings offer forgiveness. Governing bodies make decisions.I think we all have the information we need.I think it's time to make a decision."
time to make a decision.
Senate motion elicits various reactions
Fulcher relieved but says he won't resign from office
By Rochelle Olson Kansan staff writer
Minutes after Student Senate voted to expel Darren Fulcher as student-body president, emotionally exhausted students and senators left the meeting with mixed reactions.
Fulcher sit on the steps outside Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union, calmly answering questions about the decision while supporters stoned to embrace him.
"His almost a sense of relief because it is over," he said. "But I am not one that would ever learn."
girlfriend, a KU student, during a domestic dispute, according to Lawrence of course and epiphany.
It is unfortunate that a person cannot make a mistake before he becomes a public official, he said.
Fulcher was charged with battering his ex
But Fulcher said it was more than a personal mistake that contributed to his downfall.
"I would hope that people could rise above that," Fulcher said.
He said that he thought people might have doubled his credibility too easily because he
"I don't think the newspaper would have pursued the way they did if I had been white," he
The motion expelling Fulcher from office passed 42-19 early this morning. At last Wednesday's emergency meeting, senators called for a delay in the nation by a 41-20 majority with one abstention.
Fulcher said he thought people might have doubted his credibility too easily because he was an African- American man.
David Ambler, executive vice chancellor for
student affairs, said the administration's position remained the same.
"We respect the right of the Student Senate to determine who their officers are," Ambler said.
He said that he was impressed with Fulcher's resiliency.
"But I've had the impression that it hurts."
Ambler said. "That is only human nature."
Leslie Lancaster, Nunemaker senator, submitted the resolution calling for Fulcher's resignation last week.
"I guess this is what we intended from the team, but I hope it is finally resolved. I hope this is."
But James Baucom, off-campus senator and vocal supporter of Fulcher throughout the last week, said he was very uncomfortable with Senate's decision.
"I feel Student Senate made a wrong decision." Bacom said.
He said that he did not know what would happen next but that he feared this morning's deci-
Connie Burk, member of Students Against Violence Against Womyn, said she was sorry that Fulcher had not resigned.
- "But I am glad Student Senate supported the voice of the women," she said.
Pat Warren, Overland Park first-year law
student and last year's Student Senate Execut
tive Committee chairperson, agreed.
"I think it is unfortunate Senate had to do this," Warren said. "I think Darren should have resigned prior to Senate being forced to react."
However, Tonya Sanchez, Brooklyn, N.Y., senior, said she thought the result of the vote was ridiculous.
"The whole thing was planned," Sanchez said. "I am very upset right now."
Mike Hybler, residential senator, said he thought the Senate should have voted by roll-call so that constituents would know how each senator had voted.
"It is not a time to be part of the crowd," he said. "It is the time to be a leader."
Troy Tadakovich, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, made the motion calling
"I did what I thought needed to be done," Radakovich said.
Fulcher ousted in secret-ballot vote
Alan Lowden, student-body vice president,
had no comment.
Student senators say confidential ballot curbs peer pressure
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
After a motion to vote on Fulcher's removal was approved, the Senate debated nearly an hour on the appropriate manner for the vote.
Citing fear of political reprisal and peer pressure within Student Senate, senators decided to vote by secret ballot to remove body president Darren Ehrenstein from office.
Senators approved a resolution by ballot last week asking Fulcher to resign. During the early-morning meeting, however, some senators contended that an anonymous letter received by Senator Kristin Lange offered evidence that political reeferals were possible.
Student Senate debated nearly an hour about voting procedure before choosing secret ballot.
At the beginning of the meeting Lange read from the letter, whose author accused Lung of being a drug addict in malicious intentions toward Fulcher.
Lange, an off-campus senator, said she thought she had received the letter because she had expressed opposition to her. She found the letter threatening.
Lange told senators that she had gone through drug rehabilitation
about two years ago.
- appointments of the roll-call vote said
  to be reviewed by a clerk or
  reprisals could influence the vote.
Senator Patrick Dilley argued for a ballot vote because senators might feel pressured to vote with the majority in a roll-call vote.
"I don't personally want to know how you vote." he said to the Senate.
Student Senate member Greg Hughes (second from right) raises a question of Darren Fulcher's credibility in the Senate and the student body. Kristin Lange (far left), off-campus senator, and Leslie Lancaster (seated next to Hughes). Nunemaker senator, listen as Hughes makes his point.
However, Toi Willis, Student Senate secretary, said that students would want to know how the senators they elected voted.
Many student organizations have
voted to allow senators how they
voted. Wallsilla县
Student Senator James LaSalle, proponent of the roll-call vote, also said the senators' constituency had a majority in the representatives had voted on the issue.
LaSalle also said every senator should have a strong enough opinion on the issue to withstand the peer pressure, and he has having to say one's decision publicly.
The motion for a roll-call vote needed a one-third majority to pass, but it failed 43-13.
Senator David Suroff then made a motion for a roll-ball vote. Had it passed, senators would have voted by ballot but would have had to put their name on the ballot for the Student Senate record.
Suroff said this would ensure senators' accountability to their constituency while helping them avoid peer pressure during the voting process.
However, opponents made the same objections that they did to the roll-call vote. Since every senator's vote would be documented, their decisions might be influenced by fear of reprisals, some said.
All the roll-ballot vote would do would be to remove immediate peer
pressure during the voting, some said.
But it only would postpone possible reprisals until publication of the report. The voter in voting would therefore remain
Suroff said that Senate should vote on the roll-ballot vote, despite the objections, to ensure that every position he had been discussed and voted upon.
There could be no doubt as to how the majority wanted to vote, he said.
A 34-25 majority of the senators voted against the roll-ballot vote. Since the motion did not get the support of the senate, Senate proceeded to vote by ballot.
Forty-two senators voted in favor of removing Darren Fulcher and 19 against him.
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