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Monday, April 15
CALENDAR
**WHAT:** International Food Court
**WHERE:** Kansas Union Plaza
**WHEEN:** Noon to 2 p.m.
**ABOUT:** Come try free food from local restaurants including La Parilla, Aladin Cafe, Oriental Bistro and India Palace. International Student and Scholar Services sponsors the event.
WHAT: Caleb McGinn with Adam Case and Lonnie Fisher
WHERE: Jackpot Saloon
WHEN: 9 p.m.
ABOUT: Kansas native performs. Cover is $5 for 21 and over and $7 for ages 18 to 20.
Tuesday, April 16
**WHAT:** Resumes for Interviews
**WHERE:** Pearson Hall, Room 204
**WHEN:** 9 a.m. to noon
**ABOUT:** Free resume workshop to make sure your resume is updated and focused on helping you achieve your career goals.
WHAT: Celebrating Ronald Johnson and Poetry in Kansas
WHERE: Spencer Research Library
WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: Information of National
WHEN: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
ABOUT: In celebration of National Poetry Month, the Spencer Research Library will display the work of Kansas native Ronald Johnson. There will be a cocktail reception at 5:30 p.m. and poetry readings at 6 p.m. The event is free, but RSVPs are requested.
Contact Rachel Karwas (rkwas@ku.edu) to RSVP.
Wednesday, April 17
**WHAT:** Screening of "Corporate FM"
**WHERE:** Woodruff Auditorium
**WHEN:** 7 to 9 p.m.
**ABOUT:** KJHK and SUA will host a screening and discussion of the documentary "Corporate FM," directed by KU Alumni Kevin McKinney.
WHEN 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: Dole Institute of Politics
ABOUT: The Dole Institute Advisory Board hosts a discussion on gun control. President of the Kansas Rifle Association Patricia Stoneking and Former Senior Staff Attorney at The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence Allen Rostron will speak.
WHAT: Gun Control; Freedom vs. Safety
WHEN: 7:30 o.m.
Thursday, April 18
STUDENT SENATE
WHAT: Tea at Three
WHERE: 3 p.m.
WHERE: Kansas Union
ABOUT:
WHAT: African World Documentary Film Festival
Film Festival
WHEN: 7 to 10 p.m.
WHERE: Wescoe Hall, Rooms 3139
and 3140
ABOUT: The Kansas African Stud-
ies Center hosts screenings of film
selections for the African World
Documentary Film Festival Thursday
through Saturday. Thursday's films are
"Woodstock in Timbuktu-The Art of
Resistance" from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and
"War Don Don" from 8:35 to 10 p.m.
The Elections Commission
Ad Astra and KUnited face multiple campaign violations
EMILY DONOVAN edonovan@kansan.com
Armed with the 21-page 2013 Election Code handbook, the Student Senate Elections Commission is considering alleged campaign violations after Sunday night's hearing. The unprecedented 25 percent voter turnout made for a competitive campaign season where each coalition watched the other for possible infringements of election protocols.
Ad Astra and KUnited coalitions collectively face 29 alleged violations. Last year, only 4 violations were reported.
"Both the coalitions were very competitive and very serious," said Caleb McIntosh, the Elections Commissioner and a sophomore from Carney. "We expected this."
"Ultimately, two groups of students wanted to win over the student body and both groups felt that breaking the rules wasn't the way to do it," said Mark Savoy, the KUited School of Law Senator Elect, from Overland Park.
The extensive reports on alleged violations included blurry camera phone photos, Facebook event screenshots, forwarded emails and official meeting minutes.
read each alleged violation's incident report, clarified details and allowed representatives of each coalition to respond and plead to or frequently refute the complaint.
Many of the above listed alleged violations were thoroughly refuted; some were plead. Both coalitions and all individuals specifically involved attended yesterday's two-hour hearing panel to be adjudicated or acquitted.
"It was a necessary evil to make sure that the integrity of the election was followed through," said Marcus Tetwier, the Ad Astra Student Body President Elect, a
For example, Emma Halling, Ad Astra Vice Presidential Elect, spoke in front of one of her classrooms to announce that voting was open and all students should participate in the election. While this announcement was non-partisan, she was wearing an Ad Astra T-shirt. The KUnited incident report argues that the announcement qualifies as campaigning for her coalition, breaking Election Code 409.A.3, which bars campaigning inside university-owned buildings.
"If wearing a T-shirt is to be considered campaigning, then we have several thousand violations that happened last week that we need to pursue," said Halling, a junior from Elkhart, Ind.
junior from Paola.
"If everyone is going to be looking at what you've done, it's going to make you be more consistent with how the elections code forces you to be," McIntosh said. "The more violations creates an incentive for you to act according to what the code tells you."
Violations in years past have been punished by fines against the coalition, such as a $25 fine for violating chalking codes. Both coalitions will be notified within 48 hours of the meeting on the verdicts of the cases and the sanction recommendations by the panel.
Edited by Tara Bryant
While the list of alleged violations is extensive, both coalitions expressed that policing each other is exclusive to the campaign season.
"The campaign is over," Tetwiler said. "We're going forward. We're looking forward how we can actually get these jobs done."
Violation reports, McIntosh said, help to fulfill and validate the democratic process.
ALLEGED CAMPAIGN VIOLATIONS
AD ASTRA VS KUNITED
- chalking on a stairway
- failing to wear the Elections Commission-appointed,
nonpartisan "Vote" button that denotes the wearer as a
- candidate while campaigning
- distributing handbills that did not have the URL of the Elections Commission website
including
adastraku.org on a white board reminding residents to vote and repeatedly obscuring opponent chalking
- using an academic group email list to campaign
- public displaying of campaign posters in Lewis Residence Hall without permission from the complex director
- distributing campaign materials at The Grove and The Legends Apartment Complexes without approval from the owners
- holding a campaign event at Crawford Community House — a university-owned building — without approval from the University Events Commission
- intimidating a student who had previously filed a complaint and nominating a graduate senator candidate who had been accepted into but not already a part of his graduate program
CONSTRUCTION
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tion that's underground."
"When we first talked about this master plan, we realized we needed to make this happen quickly." Modig said. "What's going on underground is something in need of attention, and when you add in the possibilities for innovation on the street level, it just all comes together."
The water lines beneath the boulevard have not been replaced since they were first installed, underground access tunnels are in danger of collapsing on workers and accessible ramps constructed near buildings years ago are not currently up to code.
The plan met some initial financial hardship after it was first hatched. Besides a limited source of funding, the Construction Management Team was unsure of whether its purpose should be to maintain the internal functioning of buildings or whether the department should extend its responsibility to campus beautification projects.
Since then, an inflow of cash and
"We're also studying the potential for putting a bike path down the center of the Boulevard," Modig said. "When buses load and unload, they have to pull over to the side where bikers usually are in their blind spots."
a recent reassessment of departmental priorities have allowed the University's project to finally take flight.
With a hefty load on the Construction Management Department's plate, including such projects as replacing McCollum Hall, constructing a new business school and expanding Learned Hall, the project ahead won't come without toil. But all parties involved are hopeful that their visions become reality.
The potential bike lane will be evaluated this summer and would be fully operational Fall 2015.
"I think we should build something that will make us proud of the University," Modig said. "That's why I'm excited about this project and am excited for the future it holds."
Edited by Julie Etzler
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