THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAN Comment
New Senate proposals
The brand-new revised edition of the Senate Code is out.
But, by now, the reaction of the majority of KU students to what was once a hot issue will probably be, "What Senate Code?"
The Code, once hopefully scheduled to be voted upon before Christmas or at least semester break, will now possibly be delayed until the spring student election.
And many of the students who were most instrumental in the code's beginnings won't be around to see if the proposal works effectively to increase student participation in university administration.
Committee meetings, revising and rewriting take time as anyone who worked on an organizational committee (or even on a high school senior prom) knows. But nevertheless the changes in the Senate Code are in language and procedural matters, not in concept or even detail.
One of the more noticeable changes is that the presiding officer of the Student Senate will be the President of the Student
Body and not the Dean of Student Affairs as the first Code provided.
Meetings of both the Faculty Senate and the Student Senate will be open to non-members except by majority objection but the University Senate will be open to non-members only by two-thirds consent of its members. This, therefore, only opens up the Faculty Senate to non-members.
And although the revised Code includes non-tenured professors in the Faculty Senate, faculty members under this rank are still not directly represented.
The proposals of the dissenting report calling for equal representation, and social responsibility, didn't make so much as a dent in the previous Senate Code and nothing in the revised edition even alludes to the dissenting proposals.
So, at this point the most obvious problem for All-Student Council members and proponents and opponents of the Code is to reaquaint the student body with the Code, what it involves and how its proposed government would work. (AMS)
Off the Walls
"God is alive for $15 a lid."
"Howard Hughes is a corporate myth."
"Opiates are the religion of Timothy Leary."
"Beneath every Spiro T. Agnew there is a Harold Stassen trying to get out."
"God is Love.
Love is blind
Ray Charles is blind.
Ray Charles is God."
--know because we were spinning our tires while we were waiting for help which never came.
"Richard Nixon smokes Virginia Slims-You've come a long way baby."
"Kate Smith is alive and well, singing lead for the Cream."
Letters to the editor
Of snow and ice and money
To the Editor:
Two months ago, i.e., 61 days i.e., last year, we cancelled our dorm reservations to move to an apartment after having made a $90.00 payment. The promised refund has never come! We have just been brushed off by pseudo-cooperative, pencil-pushing, administrative puppets with vague promises of payment possibly in another month.
As second year students in the University, we have always complied promptly and willingly in accordance with University deadlines despite personal inconvenience. We have found that the bureaucratic process does not seem to impede quick collection of our now scarce resources.
However, in our long and patient quest for our overdue refund, we have become repeatedly snarled in an administrative quagmire of dead ends, curt replies, and vague promes.
Alex Button,
Down and almost out.
Washington, D.C., sophomore
David Morgan.
Kansas City, Mo., sophomore
To the Editor:
I want to vent my anger at three KU students who supped last Friday noon (Jan. 31) at King's Food Host on 21st Street in Topeka.
I left the cash register for the parking lot shortly before they did. As my car approached the exit leading to a side street covered with ice, I spied a young woman spinning the wheels on her car which was facing uphill. I stopped and lent a shoulder, but the car was not to be budged.
A few minutes later, the car containing the students approached the scene and stopped. The driver obviously was assessing the situation. This only took a few seconds. He drove past us and away.
Finally, a man about 45 years of age lent his shoulder. After about 25 minutes of heaving and perspiring, the two of us shoved the car free.
To the students who ignored us with their noninvolvement, I ask: why not lend a hand to your fellow man? Isn't that what it is all about, Alfies? What good is being all hung up with your "thing" when you have no thing to give? Craig Channel
Craig Chappell Topeka
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As a self-appointed spokesman for the residents of Stouffer Place, I wish to thank you, on behalf of the Stouffer residents, for the fine job you did in having the snow and ice removed from Ellis and Anna Drives. It certainly was a mammoth task which was miraculously completed in only ten days. I know it must have been terribly difficult to get in some tractors or even some sand. We all
An open letter to the Director of Housing:
Dear J. J. Wilson:
A number of the residents who have responsibilities outside of the campus were forced to buy chains (myself included). However, $15.00 is a small price to live in a low-rent district.
If the Department of Housing's apathy continues I suggest that you purchase 336 show shovels for us so that we can do the job ourselves.
By the way, the warm weather which you ordered has certainly done the trick. We knew that with perseverance and persistent effort the drives would be cleared.
James E. Kunce Shawnee first year law
Wouldn't it be strange if they gave a war and nobody came?
Reporters Notebook
Among other computer foul-ups during enrollment, the machine allowed one coed to take 16 hours of pass-fail credit.
"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
Chancellor Wescoe didn't sound too optimistic about the basketball team's future after being presented with the game ball after KU's 1,000th victory. The Chancellor said he hoped everyone would be at Allen Field House Saturday Feb. 15 to see victory No. 1,001. The team plays two games between now and then.
Pepper Rodgers says he would love to recruit Jim Ryun for the football team. The coach said he could use Ryun on "those third down, a mile to go plays."
Jo Jo White closed his KU basketball career last Saturday with a personal high of 30 points. One can only wonder why there were individual photos in the program of Dave Robisch, Rich Thomas, Phil Harmon, Bruce Sloan and Roger Brown, but no picture of Jo Jo or mention of his last game.
Mark Twain
John Hill, senior class president, reports that one of the official senior class gift suggestions he received called for fast draw holsters for the campus police.
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