Campus campaign
Poll centers set for KU elections
Wednesday and Thursday KU students go to the polls to vote for Student-Senate president and vice president. Polls will be open in the following areas at the following hours:
On Wednesday, in the Strong Hall rotunda and the west lobby of,
Murphy Hall from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.; in the main lobby of the Kansas
Union from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.; in GSP, Oliver, and Ellsworth Halls
from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.;
On Thursday, in Strong and Murphy Halls, and the Kansas Union from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.
- The new Student Senate should begin efforts to revise the academic calendar to provide for completion of the fall semester prior to the Christmas holidays.
- In addition to voting for candidates, students will also be requested to vote yes or no on a referendum which features the following proposals:
- The new Student Senate should begin efforts to raise the percentage of students participating in the University Senate.
- The new Student Senate should revise the system of representation to provide for representation on both residential and academic bases.
- We, the associated students of the University of Kansas, want 3.2 beer in the Kansas Union.
ISP issues reply to GSA criticism
Independent Student Party (ISP) representative, Scott Nunley, yesterday denied the legitimacy of the recent Graduate Student Alliance (GSA) challenge of the ISP slate.
Nunley, Ashland, Ky. graduate student, responded to the challenge by pointing out ISP had 10 graduate students on its slate as well as four write-in candidates.
Calling the formulation of GSA "political vampirism," the ISP representative said he hoped students would not be tempted to "waste their votes" by voting for faction groups. He said such small factions would only impede the effectiveness of the Senate since they would not have enough support to push legislation.
Nunley also claimed GSA was being used by the Progressive Student Alliance (PSA).
The ISP man said PSA was "simply using an uncommitted group to fill an embarrassing gap in its slate."
Nunley said the PSA-GSA connection was evident in the GSA members campaigning for
the PSA and the GSA students drafting PSA papers concerning graduate students.
Nunley also explained that the PSA slate did not include graduate students. Therefore an alliance with GSA was necessary to appear more representative.
To demonstrate the relevance of the ISP position on graduate students, Nunley said a committee of the ISP graduate candidates met to formulate the policies which ISP adopted.
BSU endorses ISP
The Black Students' Union has officially endorsed the Independent Student Party's candidates
Explaining the BSU's decision to support ISP, Clarence Reynolds, Kansas City freshman and BSU president, said yesterday, "The ISP is working for change, and that is what this University needs.
"ISP policies are also directed toward the betterment of black students on this campus as well as students in general." Reynolds concluded.
Education candidates want communication; position of ombudsmar
The Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) education candidates have listed an eight point platform for their department.
Nancy Shorb, Liberal senior and spokesman for the eight candidates said the PSA representatives would try to facilitate communication specifically by dividing the living areas on campus into zones and appointing a representative for each zone.
Miss Shorb also mentioned the establishment of orientation to the pre-professional organizations in education, involvement of more students in actual teaching experience prior to student teaching, and extension of the pass/no credit system to the School of Education.
"We will also establish he position of an education ombudsman," Miss Shorb said, "who, working with the campus ombudsman, would serve as a liaison between students and administration."
14 KANSAN Apr.22 1969
Student campaigners who are debating the place of ROTC programs in the University may be interested in an ASC measure passed in May, 1944.
Debate on ROTC began with ASC as early as 1944
ASC also decided the men in the military who attended KU would vote at the same polls, and have the same voting rights as civilian students at the ASC elections that month.
Men in the armed forces were granted two seats on the ASC, to be elected by the men they were to represent.
The possibility of "toasting marshmallows over Strong Hall," elimination or reduction of credit for ROTC, and major problems facing KU were topics of discussion at a debate last night between the three candidates for Student Senate president.
Candidates debate on KUOK
Apparently, at that time, there was little question that the nation's military personnel belonged in the University.
but also in "the issues of our time." He said student government is a way to bring together all student interests and concerns to develop "positive action programs."
Another letter found in the yellowed files of the Kansan demonstrates that some KU students in 1944 may have been ahead of their time in criticizing the presence of the military on campus.
At the hour-long session, sponsored by KUOK, the three presidential hopefuls, Mark Edwards, Emporia junior, Progressive Student Alliance, Rusty Leffel, Prairie Village junior, Campus Coalition, and Dave Awbrey, Hutchinson junior, Independent Student Party, were asked questions on issues at KU.
The party in power on the ASC had attempted to block the measures, the letter said. That was "a discriminatory attempt to deny five hundred University students of their rights to vote," the letter writer complained.
One of the main questions was their attitude toward the University's decision to add three black members to the pompon squad.
But it took 25 years for the issue to come to a head.
Leffel said there is no real answer to the question, although it is a "very touchy problem." He said he believed programs should be developed 'to insure that there is no overt
Edwards said he thought the new Student Senate offered students a "chance to get something done, that they can affect their own lives."
discrimination or suble
discrimination," in the future.
Edwards believed if the action had not been carried out, either the white squad or the black squad would have been "bodily removed" by the police and Strong Hall could have been burned.
A member of ROTC himself, Awbrey urged elimination or reduction in the credit for the training course. Awbrey said he was confronted with many problems in ROTC, naming summer camp as one.
Carrying his opinion further, Edwards said he thought it was "unrealistic" to believe students are apathetic toward issues, and marches and the takeover of buildings were possible at KU.
When asked what he thought the biggest problem was at KU, Awbrey replied, "The student must take control of his own life. This means that student government must take stock of itself. It can sit out in Strong Hall or the Union and dictate anything they so desire as long as the students are not going to put a check on them."
"Summer camp prohibits me from taking summer school, and I feel that academically, ROTC is injuring my development," he said. Awbrey also said he felt the 16 hours credit could be used in other courses instead of ROTC.
Leffel responded to the same question, saying he believed the main problem at KU was student participation in the University, not just in classes,
Edwards was asked whether or not he believed campus police should be allowed to carry firearms. He replied that students should determine the policy on this matter.
PSA says grads deserve pay hike
Graduate students working as assistant instructors should have a salary increase immediately because they are being "squeezed" by the current inflation, Mark Edwards, Emporia junior and Progressive Student Alliance (PSA) presidential candidate, said yesterday.
Rick von Ende, Abilene, Tex. graduate student and PSA vice presidential candidate, commented, "There should be a blanket increase to $3,000, but we recognize that it may be impossible to get immediate appropriations from the legislature and propose to make
the remunerations received non-taxable."
Edwards added graduate assistants ought to be allowed to attend graduate school tuition-free and they be allotted some sort of cost-of-living salary increase.
Von Ende said the graduate assistant should also be represented in all departmental schools and staff meetings. "With this type of participation," he said, "the grads will be involved meaningfully in curriculum decisions, degree criteria, staffing and general policy."
"At athletic events, where you have 60 to 70 thousand people, there is no reason to have a 60-year-old officer carrying a sidearm that I frankly doubt he is qualified to use."
Edwards, however, said that police should be given access to firearms if they are on patrol at nights, but "this doesn't mean that they should carry them all the time."
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