Tuesday, February 27, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Berlin makes plans, may face opposition
Off-campus proposal
By CAROL BEIER
Staff Representer
Staff Reporter
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Margaret Berlin, student body president, said the night she was elected that she was the first woman to lead the city.
She intends to have at least one of those promised programs, an off-campus housing board, operating by spring break, which begins March 10.
The board, which would deal with problems of off-campus students, would be staffed as the standing committees of the Senate are staffed.
Berlin said she and George Gormez, student body vice president, would appoint the board's members by spring break. They plan to advertise openings on the board, which Berlin said will be limited to seven or eight persons.
If, however, Berlin should decide to make the housing board a standing committee of the Senate, approval of the full Senate would be required.
But Senate critics of the housing board have said that its proposed services, such as communication with off-campus students and lobbying of the city council for stricter enforcement of housing codes, would duplicate the activities of existing organizations, such as Consumer Affairs and the office of residential programs.
ONE OF THESE critics, Craig Templeton, Senate administrative assistant, said yesterday that Berlin would have some problems setting up the housing board.
However, Susie Hanna, campus director of Consumer Affairs, said that any kind of effort to help off-campus students was "definitely needed."
"I'm pleased that the new student body president has placed housing at the top of her priorities. The majority of students that us as have problems with housing," she said.
Hanna said she planned to talk to Berlin sometime this week about the board.
Fred McElhenean, director of the office of residential programs, has already spoken with Berlin about the role of his office in relation to the housing board. The office of residential programs is in charge of conference university residence and scholarship halls.
"A significant number of our students do live off campus and they have the same needs and wants as the students who live in campus buildings and other campus housing," he said.
MEHLENIE SAID plans for his office's involvement with the board were not final.
that someone from his office would be a member of the board.
"Off-campus students tend to get isolated," he said. "We want to make them feel like they have some way of plugging into what is going on at the University."
Steve Ruddick, attorney for the new legal services program, also favored the initiation of a housing board such as the one Berlin has promised.
"Any cooperation between interest groups on campus is going to be helpful. I'd be happy to help."
RUDDICK SAID the housing board could refer students with housing problems to his office. However, he said, he does not know how much work would be involved with lobbying the city council).
Ruddick plans to have his office in operation by late March.
"At this point, I don't know how we will be involved in the lobbying part of it," he said. "Once we're serving the students, perhaps we can take up some other causes."
Craig Templeton, Student Senate administrative assistant, said yesterday that Margaret Berlin, student body president, could have trouble working with the imagination coalition, which holds more Senate seats than her own coalition.
"There could be some problems," Tempton said. "The housing board that Margaret wants could meet with some problems."
Templeton, who Berlin reappointed as administrative assistant last week, ran for student body vice president with Clair Keizer on the Imagination coalition. They supported his campaign and George Gomez, student body vice president, who ran on the Porch Steep coalition.
However, Imagination took 35 of the 101 Senate seats that were open in the election and Porch Step took 20. Most of the Senate seats were won by write-ins and independents.
was in its organization, which would help its senators work for their campaign goals. He said this organizational strength also could work against the Porch Seventen senators.
"WE ARE a very tight organization," he said. "I didn't see Parch Step as a tightly-knit organization during the campaign. I wanted to be a leader, we won 78 percent of their Senate seats.
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"What we really have here is a two-party system, and I think it's healthy," he said. Berlin said she did not want to think of the Senate as a two-party system.
Templeton said Imagination's strength
"We're no longer coalitions," she said.
"We're all a Student Senate. They were elected as student senators, not as coalition members.
She said she had heard rumors that imagination would try to take control of the world.
"EVEN IF THEY WANT to, they can't",
said Ramsay. "If you ask the numbers, they hold 10 seats out of 11. They're not going to accept."
By CAITLIN GOODWIN
Threats of opposition
senators. Many of the things Imagination stood for I agree with."
"I don't expect division among the
She said she supported improving the drop-add policy of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, one of Imaginations main campaign goals. Although she does not think the Senate has authority to change the laws, she believes it is work toward changing the policy later.
Berin also said she supported Imagination's goal of building a clubhouse on the Adams campus, property near Clinton Dum that is owned by the Kansas University Environment Association. The clubhouse, a long brick building for student retreats and parties, she said.
Berlin said she reappointed Templepo, because he had the Student Senate experience that was needed in the position. He also said with Imagination would pose no problems.
Templeton said his appoinment would be beneficial to the Senate.
"I think this will balance things out," he said. "I can fill tubes into the office from the hall."
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