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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 9, 1996
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Coalitions tackle enrollment issue
Cesar Millan
Cesar Millan, Kansas City, Mo., senior Voice coalition candidate for student body president:
"What we need to do is get student voices back in Topeka to work hard to get funding from the Legislature for distributed enrollment. We need a better enrollment system to move us into the next century, and we need to make that a priority."
KU's registrar says plans have problems
Student Senate candidates and KU students agree on at least one thing: Enrollment is a hassle and needs to be improved. But the question of realistic goals for improving enrollment is another issue altogether.
By Colleen McCain
Kansan staff writer
Cesar Millan, presidential candidate for the Voice coalition, has promised to help make on-line enrollment a reality and to develop a computer-based system for faculty evaluations.
Millan said that a strong student voice in Topeka could lobby the Legislature for funds for an on-line enrollment system, which would allow students to enroll from computers across campus.
"There's no guarantee that this will happen unless students make their voices heard," Millan said. "It's possible to do fund raising for a particular capital improvement — we just need to lobby."
Millan said that a year from today, he hoped to have money from the Legislature allocated, an on-line enrollment system selected and a plan for implementing the system in place.
Grey Montgomery, presidential candidate for the Vision coalition, said that a distributed enrollment system was desirable but that it was a not a realistic goal for next year.
Montgomery said he planned to improve enrollment by making advisers and representatives from parking, libraries and other departments available in Strong Hall to deal with enrollment holds.
"This is realistic proposal that improves upon what exists now," Montgomery said.
Richard Morrell, University registrar, said that while the coalitions had good ideas, problems existed in both platforms. Nearly $1 million is needed to realize distributed enrollment, and the systems the University is considering will not be ready for more than a year.
Morrell said that finding space for extra people and tables would be difficult.
"The coalitions have very good ideas and know what the students want, but probably both coalitions don't understand the high cost or complexity of what they're proposing." Morrell said.
Grey Montgomery
Grey Montgomery, Junction City senior, Vision coalition candidate for student body president:
"We're proposing a real solution that can be accomplished in one year. We want to set up tables in Strong Hall with representatives from departments such as parking and libraries. That way, students can take care of their holds without having to walk all over campus. We would also like to have representatives from each academic department available to do advising in Strong."
Gina Thornhurst / KAMSAM
Diane Magnuson, Center for Educational Testing employee, watches as Jon Beardley, Kansas Blood Service phlebotomist. takes her blood. The Kansas Blood Service will be at Allen Field House today and tomorrow.
Blood drive draws student interest
T-shirts and stickers lure donors to give
By R. Adam Ward
Kansan staff writer
won't be a chicken, give blood.
Don't be a chicken, give blood. That's one of the stickers the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation is giving out to promote the Kansas Blood Services and the Topeka Blood Bank blood drive. The drive started yesterday and continues from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and tomorrow at Allen Field House.
T-shirts that read "i bleed crimson and blue" also are given to blood donors.
But for Elizabeth Hogan, Overland Park sophomore, it wasn't about getting a free shirt. She said she decided to donate because her grandfather was a doctor and her parents had always emphasized
the importance of giving blood.
She said this while she had an ice pack on her arm, because the person who inserted the needle could not find a vein. Even after the failed attempt to draw blood, she said she would donate again.
"Bloody movies bother me, but it doesn't bother me to see blood in real life," she said.
Jerry Rogers, Mulvane law student, said, "I don't need all the blood I have so 1 decided to let other people borrow it."
It's easy to visualize oneself in a car wreck and needing a blood transfusion, he said. Because of that, he likes to help insure that there is a blood supply available.
The organizers hope to get at least 100 donors a day for the three day drive. Anyone can donate who is in good health and not in a high risk group, she said.
The blood will stay in a nine county area, which includes Douglas County and Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Evans said.
That was a factor in KUAC's involvement. The importance of having blood available in case any student athlete or other personnel needed blood transfusions made KUAC an ideal partner for the drive, Evans said.
Jean Wulfkuhle, assistant director of facilities for KUAC, said staff, coaches and student athletes had signed up to work at the canteen. The canteen is where the free shirts, pretzels and cookies, and various drinks are given to donors during their recovery. They also donated autographed balls from several sports for a drawing that donors enter.
Coalitions debate future of KU parking, recycling
By Nicole Kennedy
Kansan staff writer
Vision and Voice coalition candidates for Student Senate squared off in a debate at 8 last night in the lobby of Ellsworth Hall.
About 40 students attended the debate, which centered on two main campaign issues, recycling and parking/transportation.
Cesar Millan, Voice coalition candidate for student body president, and Samantha Bowman, Voice coalition candidate for student body vice president, both said the coalition planned to create an office in the Organizations and Activities Center in the Kansas Union where students could coordinate their recycling efforts.
Stevie Case, Vision coalition candidate for residential senator, said the recycling program already in place in the residence halls should be expanded to involve the entire campus.
Annie McElhany, St. Joseph, Mo,
sophomore, and environmental
chairwoman in Ellsworth, said sne would probably vote for members of the Vision coalition because Case had been actively involved in the recycling program on Daisy Hill.
"I heard a lot of good things I didn't expect to hear from Vision," McElhany said. "Voice ignored what happened with recycling this year."
Mandy Dye, Independence sophomore, said she planned to vote for Voice coalition members because she felt that Vision didn't focus on the issues.
Both coalitions addressed the transportation issue.
Grey Montgomery, Vision coalition candidate for student body president, said he planned to coordinate the efforts of the parking and transportation boards.
"In the long term, we'd like to see the parking board begin to subsidize the transportation system," Montgomery said.
Millan said he planned to lobby the city commission for citywide transportation.
"We're not going to get anything done on city transportation if students don't become politically active in this city," Millan said.
James Parker, Lawrence graduate student, attended the debate and said he didn't believe either coalition had responded to his belief that the bus system should be free for students to use.
"Nobody wants to look how you could implement that," Parker said.
The candidates will participate in a second debate at 7:30 tonight at 3140 Wescose Hall.
A four-member panel of three faculty members and one law student will ask each coalition two questions, and each coalition will respond to two questions from the audience.
Second Student Senate debate
When: 7:30 tonight
Where: 3140 Wescoe Hall
East Lawrence route may be cut
Transportation board discusses bus options
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
The transportation board met at 5:30 p.m. yesterday at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union to discuss the possibility of changing and cutting bus routes.
The board is examining routes that cost more than 70 cents per passenger to operate because of its financial situation.
The board received a $140,000 loan from Student Senate earlier this semester to pay for the system's operational costs.
Yesterday, the board discussed the possibility of changing the East Lawrence bus route so that two buses would go to that area each
The bus currently picks up and drops off East Lawrence passengers once each hour.
hour.
Chris Ogle, owner of the Lawrence Bus Company, said the board had three options when examining the East Lawrence bus route.
Ogle said the board could delete it, change it or ignore it and that ignoring it was out of the question.
He also warned the board to consider the social impact of changing or cutting the East Lawrence route.
"I think East Lawrence has been our, quote, city route that we have, and it's been a very political route," Ogle said.
Grey Montgomery, transportation board member, asked Ogle if changing the East Lawrence route would improve revenues from that route.
Ogle said he was not sure how changing it would affect ridership.
"When we start dealing with the
low income area and the East Lawrence routes, it's not just a statistical issue, it's a social issue," Ogle said.
The board also discussed the Saturday routes that run to the South Lawrence shopping areas.
Ken Martin, transportation board member, said the board should cut the Saturday shopping route.
Ron Vanderslice, transportation board coordinator, said the philosophy of KU on Wheels had changed and that its primary purpose was to provide transportation to students for academic reasons.
"We need to get back to that priority, "Vanderslice said.
The board went into executive session at 6:30 p.m. to discuss contract negotiations.
No decisions were made about changing or cutting routes.
The next board meeting has not been scheduled.