Goering says 'involvement educates'
By MIKE FREDERICK Kansan Staff Writer
Involvement in campus politics began last spring for Joe Goering. Moundridge senior and vice president of the KU student body. He was prompted by a friend who suggested that he get involved before he graduated.
Goering said he believes education comes from involvement. A student must know what's going on around him and actively support
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programs for legitimate change, he said. This not only increases the student's awareness and understanding, he said, but also contributes to the betterment of society.
Last spring semester, Goering and Clif Conrad, Bismarck, N.D., senior, ran for president and vice president of the student body. Goering said he had originally planned to run for president, however he said he decided not to because he felt he could accomplish more as vice president.
The office of president is surrounded by too much time-consuming ceremony, Goering explained.
Goering and Conrad won, but once in office they were faced by "crisis." Student Voice, later Peoples Voice, threatened a sit-in at Strong Hall for student government reform, including 50 per cent student representation in the University Senate.
"I didn't know what to think at first," Goering said, "but after a while I realized that they wanted the same things we wanted on a larger scale." Both wanted, he said, a more relevant, socially responsive University.
In reaction to Student Voice's demands, the administration set up a 12-member committee to study the demands during the summer. Goering was one of six student members of the committee.
All committee members worked on the so-called majority report, Goering said. He also helped to organize the "minority report," even though he said, "I could not sign the minority report. I couldn't agree with the clause that said all University committees should be made up of an equal number of students and faculty."
Goering said committees made up this way would create two opposing factions. The faculty has more experience with University policy and is better suited to deal with it, he added.
"I don't think there are going to be any changes brought about by the new University Senate Code itself, now that it has been passed," he said, "it will be no better than the people in it." He said the new code has more potential than the documents it replaces, but he still thinks the majority of the students are too apathetic to make it work.
An official of a little-known Indian religious sect will speak at 7:30 p.m. March 6 in the Kansas Union Forum Room.
Vedanta philosophy to be discussed
Swami Ranganathananda, a monastic member of the Ramakrishna order in India, will discuss "the Appeal of Vedanta to Modern Man." Vedanta is a monastic philosophy in India.
"I don't know what you have to do to get people involved," he said. "I'm not in favor of upsetting the campus, yet it is necessary to make people uncomfortable." He said when people are uncomfortable, they try to change things to their satisfaction.
William J. Moore, dean of the School of Religion, said the Ramakrishna Mission is similar to Buddhism and Christianity in that its members "withdraw from the mainstream of life and live in isolation."
Pianist will give recital tonight
Figler is a teacher at Fort Hays State College. He studied for two years at the Bavarian State Academy of Music in Munich, and has performed in Germany and on Radio Paris.
Pianist Byrnell Figler will give a recital at 8 p.m. tonight in Swarthout Recital Hall.
Goering said he is currently working with several friends in a group known as the "KU Rational Street Theater."
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New parking site Photo by Joe Bullard
Graders are working to level this area east of Memorial Stadium for a new practice athletic field. The area, formerly used for tennis courts, will double as a parking area during football season, Keith R. Lawton, vice chancellor for plant development said yesterday.
"We feel that if we confront
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This, then, is Joe Goering, the student politican.
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