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Tuesday, May 8, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Summer means work for Berlin, Gomez
Staff Reporter
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
The student body president and vice president look back on the first two months of their term with a general feeling of satisfaction as they look forward to a hectic summer schedule of time-consuming projects.
"We've gotten a lot accomplished," Margaret Berlin, student body president, said. "I was pleased with the committee chairs, and I was pleased with the fact that most of the senators take an interest in the Senate."
However, Berlin said, there were some assets of the term that did not please her.
"I not totally satisfied with some of the student senators' attitudes," she said. "Some of the senators came into the Senate with an attitude that couldn't be bent."
These attitudes created some conflict this spring, especially among graduate student senators. This conflict may lead to a graduate student secession from the Senate, which Berlin and George Gomez, student body vice president, will study this summer.
"WE WILL HAVE a committee of seven discussing the benefits for the graduate students and how the student activity fees will be divided," she said.
Gomez said he had been researching the possibility of a graduate student secession. He said he had found that the graduate students would have less money if they apportioned their funds from only the graduate students' fees.
Berlin said she did not consider the problem with the graduate senators un-
"The way I perceive it is that some people have really rebuilt it up," she said. "They don't think they're being represented. Well, they don't think they're being represented is to be present at meetings."
BERLN AND GOMEZ said the merger between the men's and women's athletics departments was a concern that took up a lot of their time this spring.
"We've had quite a few 7:30 a.m. meetings about the merrier." Gomar said.
He said he was worried about the implications of the merger as far as board members were concerned. The women's advisory board had 16 members and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation held a separate meeting on the two boards, four members were students.
Under the merger proposal, which is to take effect in July, the board would have is to decide whether or not the merger will proceed.
one of the student members would be a member of the K-Club, which consists of
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Funding also was a main issue in this term as the budget hearings took up most of the day.
Berlin said that although a lot of time was spent on the budget hearings this year, she did not think they were different from other budget hearings that she had participated
However, Melanie Andersen, business senator and co-chairman of the Student Services Committee, said she thought the budget hearings encountered more problems than she had seen during her last two years as a senator.
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"I THINK IT'S been unusually long," she said. "There were so many meetings. We were plagued with parliamentary problems, so that the parliamentary rules ran the meetings. I think it was a lack of organization."
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She said the disorganization extended to the Senate office.
"Part of the fault was with the committee chairs and part was with the staff," she said. "There were problems with organizing meetings." She noticed notices and having special late meetings."
Matt Davis, Nunemaker senator and chairman of the finance and auditing committee, he said he thought the budget hearings went well with one exception.
"THEY WENT WAY too far into unallocated," he said. The unallocated fund is money left over after the funds are allocated. Davis said he was glad the senate had approved a provision in the Senate to allow the next year's unallocated fund until Sept. 30.
"I think things started out a little
organized, David said, "but they
shaped."
He said he thought the Senate resolution to increase the privilege fee by $2.50 a semester to expand the KU transportation service an important accomplishment of the Senate.
The Senate would add an east Lawrence route, lengthen the night route, increase the service for disabled students and cover inflation with the $2.50 increase.
HOWEVER, CHANCELLOR Archie R. Dykes decided during the weekend to recommend only a $1.50 increase to the Kansas Board of Regents. Berlin said the transportation board would have to drop the east Lawrence route from its expansion plans if the Regents approve only a $1.50 increase.
She said the service for disabled students would not be affected because she considers it an area of special need.
Gorme said he also considered the service for disabled students essential to KU, and he said that if the Regents did not approve any coursework, they would be responsible for the University could be harmful.
"I think we will see a lawsuit to the University," he said.
THE THREAT OF a lawuit is possible if the increase is not approved because every KU student on the Lawrence campus pays $3.50 a semester for a transportation fee. Without the bus service, the disabled student pays the fee without benefiting it from.
Berin said that if the increase were not approved, the transportation board would look for another way to fund the service for disabled students.
"We still don't know exactly how," she said. "We're still working on that."
Dykes will take his recommended increase to the Board of Regents May 17. If the board does not approve the increase, the transportation board will spend the summer working on ways to increase the bus system on the current budget.
GOMEZ SAID KU's participation in the student lobbying group, the Associated Students of Kansas, would be an important event this spring.
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The Senate decided to join ASK on a full membership basis April 10. KU had been on a one-year provisional membership at a reduced rate.
Gomez said he thought the one-year membership was an assuction to KU.
"The year allowed us to see how the organization works," he said. "Also, we got to work with the other schools in the state. We don't assume we are all snobs anymore."
He said he hoped that Concerned Students for Higher Education, a KU lobbying group that was inactive this year, would be able to work with ASK.
"I HOPE we can we have the Legislative Assembly work in CSHE," he said. "Why train two sets of lobbyists in two separate ways?"
Berlin said she thought CSHE would be revived.
"I think we need CSI to help for issues directly concerning KU." she said.
Members of ASK also will be busy this summer research issues that would be pertinent to students when the Kansas resume its session in January 1980.
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Berlin and Gomez can look at their accomplishments with a feeling that the accomplishments will bring them more work during the summer and into the fall.
Student mystified by expensive water bill
"We still have to bring it to the Student Senate for approval," she said. "The board will make a decision, which will go to the student body president. The student body president will sign all policy decisions but does not have the power to veto them. The Student Senate executive committee will have the power to vet."
"I think that I'm just ready for a vacation," he said.
"We formed committees to do research this summer." Robert Bingaman, executive director of ASK, said. "We've never done it in our field, and idea because it gets the students involved."
By ROBIN SMITH staff Reporter
Two months ago, a KU student received an abnormal expensive water bill of $118.
Gomez said he doesn't look that far into the future.
Bernil will be working on coordinating the off-campus housing board and shaping the campus layout.
The mystery continues as the plot thickens.
Last month, the student's water bill was $27, plus the balance from the month before it had been paid.
This month, Rasat Ansari, Karachi, Pakistan, graduate student, received a corrected water bill on May 2 that stated he paid $170.00 for the amount due from the March bank.
Ansari did not pay his water bill but his water service was not cut off.
Stamped on the new water bill in red ink was. "Water service will be discontinued on June 30."
The corrected bill stated that Ansari owed the water department $127.57, instead of $166.
"I WENT To Legal Aid and asked for their help," Ansari said yesterday. They gave my case to the judge. Aiken and he has been given his permission to ask him given him their guarantee that they will not
turn my water off until the matter is resolved."
Ansari said, "Aiken, employees of Stouffer Place and employees of the water department are negotiating the situation with us." He'll all up to them now. I'm just the victim."
Aiken would not comment on how the conflict would be settled.
Aiken, Lawrence law student and an employee of the Douglas County Legal Aid Society, said, "We are in a negotiation stage and we are moving toward a satisfactory result."
Alken asked Anarii to pay his $2 water bill and Anarii agreed but said he would not pay the bill.
ACCORDING TO AIKEN, the water bill of $27 was a 'clerical error' but he doubled it to $50.
"I still don't know why the bill was so high in the beginning, but the mistake seems to have corrected itself because my bill is now down to normal.
Asari said, "This may take a couple of weeks to settle because it's the end of the week."
"I'm a little calmer now and I think that the settlement will work out for the best."
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN On Campus
TODAY: A COLLEGIUM MUSICIUM last-day-of-classes concert will be at 3:30 p.m. in the Spencer Museum of Art. A COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTITUTION SEMINAR will be at 4 p.m. in the Computer Services Facility Auditorium. George F. McCleary will speak on "TIPS: A Diagnostic Tool to Instructure in the Large Class."
TONIGHT: THE PHI LAMBDA UPSILON DINNER will be at 6 p.m. in the Kansas Room of the Union. E.C. FRANKLIN MEMORIAL LECTURE on chemistry will be in the Forum Room of the Union at 6 p.m. Thomas C. Bruce of the University of Texas will present the Diapsides of the Epoxides Derived from Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Carcinogenicity."
TOMORROW: An EXHIBITION of work done by outstanding senior students in design will open at 8:30 a.m. in the Art and Design Building Gallery. THE COLLEGE CHARPERSIAMS will meet in the Centennial Room of the Union at 3:30 p.m. THE KU GUNG FU CLUB will meet in 172仁庐 at 7:30 p.m.