CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 12, 1995
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Polls open today for campus elections
KIM COCKS
Kim Cocks is running for student body president.
Age:22
Hometown: Lee's Summit, Mo.
Majors: Education and English
Senate Experience: Education senator for two years; University Council member for one year.
Three main issues:
■ New bus route in West Lawrence
■ Improved advising
■ Redirection of the focus of Student Senate from financially oriented to policy oriented
Poll will be open today from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Cast your ballot at any of the following locations.
1. Kansas Union
2. Burge Union
3. Robinson (north entrance)
4. Strong Hall Rotunda
KANSAN
5. In front of Wescoe Hall
Noah Musser/KANSAN
DAVID STEVENS
David Stevens is running for student body president
Age: 20
Hometown: Wichita
Major: English
Senate Experience: Nunemaker senator for one year, co-coordinator of the Student Legislative Awareness Board.
Three main issues:
Cooperation with the City of Lawrence and KU On Wheels
Stronger student voice in the Kansas Legislature
Refocus president and vice president's duties by having the president lobbying in Topeka and the vice president running Senate on campus
KANSAN
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Kansan selects top positions for fall and summer staffs
Kansan staff report
The editors and business managers for the summer and fall University Daily Kansan were chosen yesterday.
Gerry Fey, Omaha, Neb., senior was named summer editor, and J.J. Cook, Phoenix junior, was named summer business manager
Colleen McCain, Salina junior,
was named fall editor and
Stephanie Ulley, Iloa senior, was named fall business manager
The editor and business manager are chosen by the Kansan board, a six member committee that includes three journalism faculty members, a Student Senate representative and the current editor and business manager.
The editors and business managers will assemble their staffs during the next two weeks.
Kansan staff report
College Assembly is accepting applications for representatives
courses and course changes.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has 117 vacancies for students interested in serving as representatives on the College Assembly for the next academic year.
The College Assembly is the governing body of the college. It sets policy for all degrees and majors and approves new
Nomination forms are available in 109 Strong Hall. They are due by 5 p.m. Friday.
All students in the college are eligible to apply. Applicants will become representatives unless the number of applicants exceeds the number of available seats.
Assembly meetings are the first Tuesday of every month at 4 p.m. in Alderson Auditorium.
Write-in files for Senate race
Kansan staff report
A write-in candidate for Student Senate filed his candidacy Monday. Scott Bevan, Lawrence graduate student, is running for a graduate senator position in today's and tomorrow's Student Senate election.
Bevan said that he was concerned with looking out for the needs of graduate students and making sure that their best interests were represented.
“There are graduate seats available,” he said. "I believe that the graduate students haven't had much of a voice in the way Student Senate is run."
Senators say minorities are needed for the right reasons
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
On both the REAL and United Students coalitions, there are several minorities running as senators.
But with this year's campaigning, the old complaint arises once again: Minorities are used to promote a diversity that doesn't exist in the coalitions or in Student Senate.
But whether they're used as a ticket to get elected, some minority senators see their role as vital to creating a better and more diverse campus.
Arthur Chiu, off-campus senator, defines the role of minorities in Senate with a simple formula: The more diversity there is, the better Student Senate will be.
"Diversity allows Student Senate to create new ideas," Chiu said. "Student Senate's main concern is not only to deal with student money, but it is also to make the University of Kansas a better institution by addressing culturally related issues."
For Chiu, the only way to deal with culturally related issues is to have minorities represented in Senate.
have as many experiences as possible represented."
But, Pierce said, leadership in Senate is more important than simply being a member of a minority group.
Octavio Hinojosa, holdover senator, said that as a Hispanic, he liked to help Hispanic, Latin American and international groups to deal with Senate.
"Minority senators are in Senate because they are experienced and not because they are minorities," he said.
"I identify myself with these groups because I am Hispanic," he said. "I tried to represent
"Minority senators are in Senate because they are experienced and not because they are minorities."
Alan Pierce non-traditional student senator
"The necessity of minorities in Senate is overwhelming," he said. "Minorities bring a whole new experience to Senate. It is good to
"We need to have proper representation to address minority problems," he said. "I can't speak on behalf of Native Americans or African Americans because I don't know a lot about their problems."
Alan Pierce, non-traditional student senator, agreed with Chiu that minorities bring diversity to Student Senate.
them in Senate. If these organizations need to introduce a bill, I tried to be their voice to make the whole process easier." Hinojosa said that working for minority groups motivated him to become a senator, but he also has learned the importance of working for non-minority students. Hinojosa is a former president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization.
"I became a senator because HALO
needed someone to address our problems in Senate," he said. "But I also consider it important to work for all those who elected me and not only minorities."
Gustavo Alvarado, International Council senator, said that working for minorities in Senate was not difficult because of non-minority senators' support.
"There is some ignorance in Senate about minority issues," he said. "But I always tried to help minority groups by explaining to non-minority senators how these groups' efforts bring cultural diversity to KU."
BUSES: Study looks at new busing system
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McClatchey said it costs $1.2 million each year.
David Stevens, presidential candidate with the REAL coalition, said that since two of the transportation board members who suggested the study were on the United Students coalition, the study
was a display of abused political power.
AllI'msaying is the system we have now is efficient."
Dan Hare candidate for Student Senate vice president
"Several of their coalition members who are currently transportation board members used their power as transportation members to encourage the production of an inaccurate and untenable supposed policy statement from an official arm of Student Senate," Stevens said.
But Hare said that the four coalition members who were members of the campus transportation board were not involved in assembling the information in the study.
He said that he still supported the current busing system because a cooperative system would allow the city to determine bus routes.
"All I'm saying is the system we have now is efficient," Hare said.
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