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Foubert's principles create mixed emotions in Senate
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documents, which he uses to back up his arguments.
Michael Foubert, graduate senator, has been involved in Student Senate for four years. Foubert is known for his participation in controversial issues
"No one will ever say to you that Michael Foubert is not one of the brightest people they have ever met. He's one sharp cookie."
When Foubert speaks from the floor, it is in a soft voice, barely above a whisper, but the other senators will become quiet. His questions to senators about their pet proposals resemble a game of cat and mouse, with Foubert asking seemingly innocuous questions that senators sometimes find difficult to answer without looking foolish.
when ne speaks from the lectern, he pushes aside the microphone, because the feedback interferes with his hearing aid, and begins a forceful, impassioned speech for or against a proposed motion.
The question on the minds of many is why Foubert, who says he does not like "linear thinkers," has devoted his life to studying the twins. He to 22-year-old undergraduates.
Stanton said, "He's an old debater, and I think debaters simply enjoy the sport of arguing."
But Foubert said the age of the senators made no difference to him.
"I see no difference between a
student and a teacher,
duplicate student who doesn't vote, and
an 18-year-old who yells 'faggot' at a group of people," he said.
Epstein said, "Three words that Michael Foubert has never heard and is not interested in hearing are 'efficiency in government.' No matter what policy it is, he believes it deserves a thorough hearing. And if that means that the crew issue takes four Senate meetings, then that's what it takes."
This semester, a large portion of the Senate wanted to approve the finance committee's student organization budget recommendations as one action. But it was Foubert who voted to consider each of the 42 student groups individually.
His stand this semester against granting revenue code status to the Black Student Union has earned him and two other senators an Affirmative Action complaint from BSU. He has opposed granting amounts of more than $37,000 and $25,000 to the Kansas Crew. He also has protested the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies doing business in South Africa.
Besides serving as graduate senator, Foubert is chairman of the Minority Affairs Committee and is a member of the Election Review Board and the Student Senate Executive Committee.
In addition, he is carrying six hours of classes and has a one-night-a-week job at Pizza Hut, 1606 W. 23rd St.
when asked how he managed all these responsibilities, he laughed and said. "Have you seen my schedule book?"
But Foubert said that this was his fourth and last Senate term. He plans to enter the Peace Corps soon.
"I sure will need to be other people who will raise legitimate issues." pt 5a.
"I need to do something with my life, and that something is not Student Senate, that something is not this university. That something is to go somewhere on a small scale and really make a difference."
Part of his desire to help other people comes from his background, where he was raised. When he was born in 1956, prejudice against racially-mixed children was
strong in Korea, a country still suffering from the Korean War.
"I was taken from that, out of thousands and thousands of children who either died or were lost or abandoned," he said. "I don't know whether you can call it a sense of honor or obligation, but I feel that I owe somebody, somewhere, something."
Foubert was adopted as an infant by a farming couple and grew up in the small Montana town of Haver. He won a National Merit Scholarship in high school and went on to attend Gonzaga University, a private Jesuit college in Spokane, Wash. he gra
duated in 1978 with majors in political science and communication studies.
His two years as a law clerk in Haver during high school made him decide to enter the Gonzaga law school.
"I thought the law transcended everything; it was my ideal," he said. "I had this romantic, Western idea that the law meant you go in, you see something wrong, and you say that it's wrong."
But Fouber became disenchanted with the law and left after his first succession.
"The vast majority of lawyers are mediocre people, like any other profession," he said. "Most of them were just concerned about their fees. They weren't really concerned with equity or justice. None of them wanted to become a public defender, which is what I wanted to do."
For the next few years, Foubert worked as a field researcher for a credit bureau, a job he enjoyed because he got to travel. But in 1980, he came to the University of Kansas to pursue a master's degrees in urban planning and public administration.
He didn't become active in Senate until 1982. He had worked for a short time in high school and undergraduate student government groups, but eventually lost interest because he thought they were irrelevant.
"I'm interested in just about everything," he said. "I go to learn what's there and what interests me."
But when he read that Steve
McMurray, the director of KU on Wheels, had been arrested Sept. 15, 1982, for embezzling $257,651, he decided to get involved
"I suddenly realized that more than a quarter of a million dollars was gone, and I had contributed part of that," he said.
He went down to the Senate office and applied to run as an independent graduate senator. The ballot wasn't read, so Poubert was guaranteed a seat.
He is perhaps best known for his knowledge of and devotion to the Senate's rules and regulations, a code of eight articles that sets procedures for everything from the financing of student organizations to the running of elections.
"Senate changes not from term to term but from meeting to meeting," he said. "There's got to be a structure. Sometimes you can't do what you'd like to do on a whim, because the structure says you cann't."
He criticized Epstein for burning the rules and regulations at the end of his term and faulted those senators who found no time to read the rules.
So what does Foubert do when the committee meetings are finished, and the Senate isn't in session?
"I go home and I read the rules and regulations," he said, smiling. "No. I like to go to auctions. It's a great opportunity to pick up some odds and ends, and you see such a cross section of people there: country people, struggling young couples, college students, the affluent."
Faculty unionization pros, cons debated
"I love to people-watch."
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AAUP would easily surpass 30 percent.
Any group that collects 30 percent of the faculty's signatures can be included on a ballot as a candidate to represent the faculty bargaining unit in negotiations.
The board will validate petitions and then decide when and where to hold an election. The board also will post notices and sample ballots around campus at least seven days before the election.
The election would determine whether KU's faculty wants to form a union, and if so, which group would represent the union. The group that captures a simple majority of the votes would win. If no group receives more votes than the opposition with his best votes is dropped and another election is held.
The ballot would automatically include a "no union" option.
brothers don't. They can fight their own battles."
Jan Roskam, Deane A. Eckers distinguished professor of aerospace engineering, said earlier this semester, "The weak brothers always need that kind of crutch. The strong
Those who favor the latter option have said that a union would promote mediocrity and threaten collegiality between the faculty and the administration. They say unions have no place in academia.
But proponents say an organized faculty could give faculty members leverage with the administration, the Board of Regents and the Kansas Legislature. Some proponents say a faculty would pay faculty salaries and faculty morale.
Clifford Griffin, professor of history and an organizer for KNEA, has said an organized faculty would be "prepared to pegging" with collective bargaining.
KU administrators, meanwhile, carefully sidetheel the issue. James Scaly, assistant to the chancellor, said last week that the administration would continue to maintain a policy of silence on the issue.
If KU's faculty votes to organize, other universities will probably take notice. Organized faculties are relatively rare in the Midwest, and few "flagship" research universities such as KU are organized.
Pittsburgh State University is the only organized campus in Kansas.
Nationwide, faculties are organized at about a sixth of the nation's 3,200 institutions of higher education.
University governance, in an attempt to answer questions about the faculty union issue, will hold a collective bargaining forum on Thursday at a Faculty Senate meeting.
Baha'i faith's road map for peace earns praise
By a Kansan reporter
A commendation by the Kansas House of Representatives on the Baha'i religion's road map for world peace will help educate people unfamiliar with the faith's teachings, a local Baha'i administrator said yes-erday.
"We're hoping people will be encouraged to read this document and think about what we as human beings can do to bring about peace on this planet," Lawrence resident Ed Thornton said.
Thornton said many people think of world peace as disarmament and think human nature would prevent world peace. But the statement says that through education and encouragement, world peace and a world government can be achieved, he said.
Thornton is a member of the Lawrence Baha'i community, which has about 20 members, he said. Other Baha'i groups are active in Kansas and around the world.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, co-sponsored a resolution commending "The Promise of World Peace" statement by the Universal House of Justice, the governing body of the international Baha'i faith.
Mike Meyer, adviser to the KU Baha'i Club, said that lasting peace required an end to economic, social and religious turmoil. The agreement recognizes that goal, he said.
Thornton said the statement mirrored the teachings of the Baha'i faa.
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But at the lake, visitors were enjoying the hot weather while they could. Lawrence residents John Breston and Mark Gentry robed themselves on the barbecue before they kicked back to catch some sun.
The sun was great, they said, but they could do without the wind.
"Paper plates just don't work in this kind of weather," Breston said. "We got barbecue sauce all over us."
An underwater sidewalk in the park led to a water pailpast the parking lot. The fountain, about 70 yards out into the lake, wasn't being used by the children who splashed around it.
Gentry said, "It's never been this high, and I've lived here all my life. When you can pull up your hood and your衣 and fish, the lake's high."
The carp fishing wasn't bad, Topea resident Stuart Border said. He has been coming to Clinton Lake for a few years.
"It helps when the water's up," he said. "They usually lie so low, you can't get at them."
The water would have been fine for boaters Ken Clark and Rick Langley, if it wasn't for the wind.
"We could tell by looking at the white caps, it's not our day," Langley said.
Clark said, "Anybody that's had to live in Kansas has to learn to live with the wind."
They sat in front of the boat Langley bought Saturday, which never left its trailer. They were playing it safe.
"We couldn't get the boat in the water," Langley said. "It's just too rough."
It wasn't too rough for David Irvin, Lawrence sophomore, and his windsurfing board.
The red danger flag was flying over the dam, so he had most of the lake to himself. Because of the high wind, his board would touch the lake only on the very back, he said.
"Today, I'll be surfing," he said. "I won't be touching the water much."
Kansan staff member Alison Young contributed information to this story.
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