CAMPUS Prayer, dancing and drums all are part of Native-American powwows. Page 3A FEATURES The Melvins will bring their music to Lawrence tonight. Page 8A AAAAAHHH PLEASANT High 76° Low 56° Weather. Page 2A tonight. Page 8A THE UNIVERSITY DAILY Weather: Page 2A KAN KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY 100% TOPEKA, KS 66612 VOL.104.NO.136 一 THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1995 ADVERTISING: 864-4358 (USPS 650-640) NEWS:864-4810 1995 Election Results PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT A United Victory F PRESIDENT AND VICE PRESIDENT Kim Cocks and Dan Hare, United Students 2,106 David Stevens and Stephanie Guerin, REAL 1,706 NUNEMAKER — 14 SEATS NUMBERMAKER — LEE SEARS Ward Cook, United Students 722 Rebecca Kelley, REAL 678 Samantha Bowman, REAL 673 Jamie Partridge, United Students 662 Adam Mayer, United Students 661 Bobby Schwartz, United Students 654 Heather Austin, United Students 653 Chelsi Hayden, United Students 646 Shelly Mudd, United Students 644 Kelly Huffman, REAL 643 Scott Sullivan, United Students 641 Pat Strubbe, United Students 640 Jamie Johnson, United Students 638 Rachel Schwartz, REAL 636 LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES — 11 SEATS Liberal Arts AND Sciences Cesar Millan, REAL 415 Sarah Phillips, REAL 410 Jeff Livingston, REAL 409 Emily Unruh, United Students 406 Melanie Zack, United Students 404 Kevin Olson, REAL 403 Gabrielle Segura, REAL 402 Ken Martin, United Students 398 Sossina Negash, REAL 392 Lucy Ridgway, REAL 390 Yero Hilts, REAL 387* Elleen Force, United Students 387* OFF-CAMPUS — 5 SEATS OFF-CAMPUS — 5 SEATS Scott McDaniel, REAL 849 Julie Moser, United Students 840 Dorian Beasley, REAL 838 Erika Oliver, United Students 838 Julie Harris, United Students 835 GRADUATE — 13 SEATS Rina Bansal, REAL 179 Kelly McDonald, REAL 176 R. Mizrak Gusroy, REAL 173 Ozel Soykan, REAL 167 Jeff Jarman, REAL 163 Stephen Macell, REAL 163 Jason Angilan, REAL 159 Jason Graff, REAL 158 Rod Phares, REAL 154 Andy Theroff, REAL 154 Arthur Yudelson, United Students 88 Scott Bevan, write-in 10 ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN — 2 SEATS Marshall Butler, REAL 79 Chiw-Awe Loo, REAL 67 ENGINEERING — 3 SEATS Katrina Stillken, REAL 196 Mark Johnson, United Students 136 Rashed Haque, United Students 135 EDUCATION 2 SEATS Susan Anderson, United Students 89 Sarah Ventola, United Students 82 JOURNALISM — 2 SEATS John Karpinski, United Students 95 Lance Hamby, United Students 94 PHARMACY — 2 SEATS Ashish Dhingra, United Students 54 Scott Ravis, United Students 51 See ELECTION RESULTS,Page 6A Dan Hare, new student body vice president, and Kim Cocks, new student body president, celebrate together at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity. Cocks and Hare run with the United Students coalition. Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN United Students win top spots in election; REAL takes more seats Bv Ian Ritter Kansan staff writer Kim Cocks never worried about the results of the Student Senate election. Last night, she found out that she had no reason to be worried. Cocks, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, who ran with the United Students coalition, is the new student body president at the University of Kansas. She and her running mate, Dan Hare, Olathe junior, won by about 400 votes. Until the election results were broadcast on KJHK radio, Cocks was pacing outside the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house, nervously patting her right leg. But before the results were broadcast, it was never a matter of tension, said Cocks. "I'm not nervous," Cocks said before the results were announced. "I'm uncomfortable." Once the results were final, Cocks rode on the shoulders of student body president Sherman Reeves and the student body vice president Eric Medill. But Cocks wasn't the only person in the United Students coalition to win Student Senate elections. Erika Oliver, Overland Park senior, who has been a student senator for two years, won an off-campus seat. After she heard the election results, Oliver said she was glad to have a female president. "I feel like something different is to happen." Oliver said. Julie Harris, Mission Hills senior, also won an off-campus seat with the United Students coalition. Ken Martin, Bloomington, Minn. junior, won his fourth Senate campaign last night as a liberal arts and sciences senator. Before his name was called on the radio, he wasn't sure he would win. "When I first heard that the REAL coalition had taken the first four seats, I was a little concerned," he said. But after he found out that one of the liberal arts and sciences seats was his, he was jubilant. "It's time to party," he said. Andy Obermuller, Liberal freshman, did not win the Nunemaker senator seat that he ran for. "It was a good race all-around," said Obermueller. "But there are other avenues for participation." Kathleen Driscoll / KANSAN Kim Cocks is hoisted on the shoulders of Sherman Reeves, student body president, and another supporter after hearing she had been elected the new student body president. REAL vows to keep watch over Senate Bv Paul Todd Kansan staff writer Gabrielle Segura, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, sat on the steps of the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity house and hugged her knees, waiting for election returns. She quietly said 'ooh' after each name. When they announced her name as a new senator, she covered her eyes. "The REAL coalition worked together," she said. "I tried to get everybody elected, not just myself." It turned out, however, getting everyone elected was too much to ask. David Stevens and Stephanie Guerin lost their bid last night to become next year's student body president and vice president. After the announcement on KJHK radio, Both candidates agreed that the REAL coalition helped get more students interested in the election this year and that the coalition would be an influence in Student Senate next year. Stevens took a walk with a friend, and Guerin hugged fellow coalition members. Stevens said the kind of campaign REAL waged would change Senate campaiguing — and Senate itself — in the future. "We ran a reformed campaign, so there will be more reform in Senate—in trying to reach out to the student body," Stevens said. "It was a grassroots campaign," he said. "The whole purpose of our campaign was to get people to run who hadn't run before from communities that had not been represented See REAL, Page 6A David Stevens, Wichita junior, consoles running mate Stephanie Guerin, Lenexa senior, after learning that the United Students coalition won the presidential and vice presidential offices for student body. The REAL coalition, however, won a majority of the Student Senate seats. The REAL coalition party was at the Tau Kappa Epsilon house. Lisa Perry/ KANSAN Kansas senior Manny Ortiz is the heart and soul of the Kansas men's tennis team, but his four-year career as a Jayhawk has been turbulent. Page1B Effect of GTA union remains topic of debate By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer Election to determine future status of GTAs Health care, free education, contract negotiations, limited working hours and higher salaries may sound too good to be true for graduate teaching assistants at the University of Kansas. But some KU GTAs think that these can become reality. Dan Murtaugh, Lawrence graduate student and leader of the GTA unionization movement, says that a union could bring all of these benefits. On Monday and Tuesday, GTAs will vote on whether to affiliate with the Kansas Association of Public Employees/American Federation of Teachers. If a majority of GTAs vote for the union, the association will represent the GTAs for bargaining purposes. This means that the union would negotiate for GTA benefits. Every GTA would be represented by the union, but individual GTAs could decide whether they wanted to join the union. Murtaugh said the union would give GTAs a needed institutional voice. "We want a place at the table," he said. By gaining a voice, GTAs also would have input on health care, child care, how many hours they work and the level of work that would be expected of them, he said. The union would give GTAs a voice at But administrators say that GTAs are looking at the issue through rose-colored glasses. David Shulenburger, vice candleholder for academic affairs, said a union likely would be ineffective in getting GTAs what they wanted. the legislative level as well, Murtaugh said. A strong lobbying group such as KAPE/AFT could help to pressure the Legislature to increase funding to the University, he said. Unionizing also would cool the working atmosphere at KU, Shulenburger said. GTA contracts from universities that have unions are full of individual rules that take extra administrators to enforce. With all those rules, the give-and-take relationship between GTAs and their supervisors would be impaired, he said. In fact, a union may even hurt University funding. Shulenburger said the current Legislature probably would receive union requests coldly, he said. Andrew Debicki, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, agreed. Even now, Debicki says he feels as if he should consult his lawyer before saying something to his graduate students. This is not the best way for a university to operate, he said. "Look at it now," he said. "We're already in an adversarial relationship." If departments lose control over GTAs, education will suffer. Debeck said. 1. 2. Jon Curtiss, president of the Graduate Employee Organization at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, disagreed with Debicki. Michigan GTAs have been represented by a union for about 20 years, and collegiality has not been affected, Curtiss said. "Collegiality assumes a certain level of equality," Curtiss said. "It's a ridiculous argument." But Shulenburger said there were bet- See GTA,Page 5A