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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, April 4,1995
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City Commission Candidates:
three of the six candidates to fill three com-
mission seats. Allen Field House will not be open foren-
ces.
mission seats. Allen Field House will not be open for voting. Registered voters should call the Douglas County at 832-5287 to find out when they can.
Bonnie Augustine
Age:33
Occupation: executive vice president, University National Bank
Lived in Lawrence: since 1986
Does not support adding the words "sexual orientation" to Lawrence's human relations ordinance.
Supports keeping downtown as city's central business district
■ First priority is improving Lawrence's infrastructure by improving sidewalks and sewers.
■ Second priority is completing and implementing Horizon 2020, a developmental land use plan through the year 2020.
Jo Barnes
Age:59
Occupation: owner, Acres Realty
Does not support adding the words "sexual orientation" to Lawrence's human relations ordinance.
Does not support keeping downtown as city's central business district.
Lived in Lawrence: since 1966
■ First priority if elected is implementing Horizon 2020 as a flexible plan.
Second priority if elected is broadening the industrial tax base.
Doug Compton
Carl Burkhead
Age:34
Does not support adding the words "sexual orientation" to the city's human relations ordinance.
- First priority if re-elected is to follow through on property tax reductions
First priority if elected is relieving traffic congestion in Lawrence by constructing the East Lawrence Parkway.
■ Wants to protect downtown with encouraging growth elsewhere in the city.
- Does not support adding the words "sexual orientation" to Lawrence's human relations ordinance.
Supports keeping downtown as city's central business district.
Second priority if elected is improving communication and cooperation between city, county and school district officials.
Lived In Lawrence: since 1978
Occupation: president, First Management
promised with the one cent sales tax passed in November.
Age:59
Occupation: professor of civil engineering at the University of Kansas
Second priority if re-elected is to improve the city's infrastructure.
Lived In Lawrence: 1962-66 and since 1969
Age:29
Allen Levine
Occupation: membership coordinator,
Spencer Museum of Art
Lived In Lawrence: since birth
Second priority if elected is maintaining city ownership of Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Supports adding the words "sexual orientation" to Lawrence's human relations ordinance.
Supports keeping downtown as city's central business district.
First priority if elected is improving city's infrastructure by building more sidewalks and replacing old sewers.
John Nalbandian
Age: 51
Occupation: associate professor of public policy at the University of Kansas
Lived In Lawrence: since 1976
■ Is inclined to support adding the words "sexual orientation" to Lawrence's human relations ordinance.
Supports maintaining downtown as city's central business district.
■ First priority if re-elected is maintaining livability of Lawrence as it grows by planning development and anticipating consequences of growth.
■ Second priority if re-elected is promoting more cooperation between city, county and school district officials.
Kim Cocks
Kim Cocks is running for student body president with the United Students coalition. Her views on Student Senate's relationship with administration:
"I think we would like to make sure that Senate understands the governance of the University. We should use them (administrators) as a resource, but we also must assert ourselves and make sure that we will do what's best for students — even if that's not what they (the administration) want to see happen."
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
Not many students get the opportunity to talk to administrators on a regular basis, but for student senators, it's a part of the job.
Sherman Reeves, student body president, works with administrators every day on issues ranging from child care to emergency leave for students. Part of his job is to express student views—and his own—to administrators.
But student representatives do more than tell administrators what they think. They discuss issues with administrators, listen to administrators and work together to make policy.
Sometimes, however, relations between the two factions become rocky. Take the legal aid issue for example.
The Students Rights Committee of Student Senate this year passed a resolution that would have allowed students to seek help from Legal Services for Students in cases involving the University. Legal Services for Students is a free legal advice service based in the Burge Union. It had been prohibited from dealing with cases that involved the University. It is financed by Senate.
The resolution would have allowed students who were filing grievances against the University to receive counsel from the service and to take representatives with them to the grievance hearing.
Election information
But administrators didn't want to allow students to bring counsel to hearings, said David
Election dates: April 12 and 13
Debate date: 8 p.m. April 10 in Woodruff
Auditorium at the Kansas Union
Campaign spending limit set by the REAL coalition: $1.5 million
Campaign spending limit set by the United Students coalition: $2,950
Campaign spending limit suggested by the elections commission: $2,703.75
Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs. The University opposed the move because a grievance hearing is not a legal hearing. If students brought a lawyer, the University also would have to bring a lawyer — something it doesn't have the resources to do.
So the negotiations between student representatives and administrators began. Eventually, a compromise was reached. Now, a student with a grievance against the University can seek advice from Legal Services, but he or she cannot take a lawyer to the hearing.
"Those are pretty rare occasions," he said. "It's been a very good relationship over a long period of time."
Ambler, who has been at the University of Kansas for 18 years, said such disagreements did not occur often.
And when there are disagreements, they are friendly, Ambler said. Student representatives realize that even if administrators disagree with Student Senate, they will not put roadblocks in Senate's way.
Eric Medill, student body vice president, meets with James Kitchen, dean of student life, every two weeks to talk about bills coming before Student Senate and Senate issues.
Medill said that talking to Kitchen gave him the opportunity to hear an administrator's point of view. Administrators have a lot of institutional memory and can provide insight on an issue, Medill said.
"They respect us, and we respect them," he said. Even though administrators advise student representatives, administrators do not control Student Senate, Ambler said. As an adviser to Student Senate, he tries to keep the lines of communication open between Senate and the administration.
"We think we've been their advocates but not their blind advocates," Ambler said.
David Stevens
David Stevens is running for student body president with the REAL coalition. His views on Student Senate's relationship with administration:
"I think that there are a lot of issues that have been dealt with in a slow way by the administration. I'm going to make sure that I do some research and find out what the history is of a lot of the issues on campus, so I can be an educated representative."
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