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Wednesday, June 28, 1989 / University Daily Kansan
KJHK board, StudEx compromise
by Charles Higginson Kansan staff writer
The final link apparently has been forged in an agreement that will allow continued Student Senate financing of radio station JKH-FM.
The KJHK board of directors last night voiced approval of changes in its own structure and in policies regarding student participation at the station. The chairman was part of the commission hammered out last week by Senate leaders and representatives of the radio-television faculty.
"It was to the credit of the Student Senate leadership that the door was opened and a case made that the station could comply with our request," said Mike Kautsch, dean of the School of Journalism and JKHK board chairman.
Under the new terms, the student station manager will become an ex-officio, non-voting member of the board. A representative appointed by the Senate will replace the manager as a voting member. This change requires an amendment to the KJHK constitution.
constitution The board cannot propose and adopt constitutional amendments in
une same meeting, so it will meet again at 2:15 p.m. today to actform a board members' committee favorably abovethe amendment at last night's meeting.
"It appears this will be a unanimous vote in favor of the change," Kautsch said.
Mike Ulin, "KIJH station manager, said, "I personally relish the opportunity to steer out of the spotlight. I want a pure ombudman for the station."
The agreement was announced in a press conference Monday. The Student Senate Executive Committee accepted it Monday night.
"I'm completely happy and I hope the faculty is too," said William Sanders, a conference chairman, at a conference, endorsers helped develop the agreement.
It modifies policies proposed June 13 by the journalism faculty, which administers the station. Senate financing totaling $36,000 had been appurposed apparent conflict between Senate rules and the proposed policies.
prior experience.
Senate rules prohibit organizations with a primarily academic purpose or with academic requirements for
participation from receiving Senate money.
"At this point, I think we've achieved a strong compromise," said Aaron Ritmaster, off-campus senator, during Monday's StudEx meeting.
Currently, the board is composed of Ulin. Kautsch; Senate representative Dawn Abrahamson; Janet Ciniella, radio-telence senior; elected by students in that sequence; John Katich, assistant professor of radio-telence; and Max Utlser, associate professor and chairman of radio-telence and interim KJHK faculty adviser.
The board last night unanimously accepted an element of the agreement that would limit station staff to three semesters in a single job.
The guidelines established June 13 required students who sought KJHK management positions to have taken, or to be enrolled in, journalism management courses. A provision of the guidelines stipulated that all students who have completed at least one semester of "high-quality work" at the station to be considered for
management positions
In accepting the agreement, StudEx affirmed that a part of the faculty guidelines, a participation contract for non-journalism students, satisfied its concerns about broader student involvement in the station.
Radio-TV faculty welcomed that affirmation.
"What makes the difference to me is recognizing that the participation contract should be drafted to professional standards, job codes, or radio-television, said Monday. "That's a key to the whole operation."
The agreement also reiterated the importance of maintaining the station of Federal Communications Commission license and its function as an academic laboratory for broadcasting students.
Nonetheless, some StudEx members Monday questioned the propriety of Senate's financing academic activities.
"To the Student Senate, this is not an academic lab," said Bill Muir, graduate senator. "It's a student radio station."
University stations face similar crises
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ernment allocation had been cut recently.
"Student government had a personal problem with our past station manager." he said.
KRN-MF in Lincoln, Neb., has avoided that possibility by avoiding that source of money. Larry Walkin, chairman of the University of Nebraska's a broadcasting department, said, the station was an academic laboratory and relied entirely on funds from academic departments.
"Our mission, basically, is that we operate very much in an experimental teaching mode," Walkin said. "We deliver news and information function."
Walklin said KRNU had broadcast live coverage of courtroom proceedings and meetings of the state legislature and board of regents. The station also carries entertainment programming.
programme. He said KRNU had academic requirements for participation, and that students in news reporting and
other broadcasting classes were required to work there.
"When you are dealing with students you are in an instructional mode," he said. "It's like a giant classroom."
Walkin said the university held KRNU's FCC license. The station has a full-time faculty advisor with no other responsibilities, and only students are allowed on the air, he said. KCOU-FM in Columbia, Mo., operates with money from the university's music director, said the University of Missouri's residence hall association held the station's license.
The 430-watt station's budget comes mainly from residence hall fees, he said, but student government, sponsor underwriting and law firms, also contribute. He said student government was a reliable source.
"Technically, we're owned by the students," he said.
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