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THURSDAY
September 23
The School of Business will host mock interviews with employers all day in Room 125 at Summerfield Hall.
What's going on?
Student Union Activities will host "Tea at Three" from 3 to 4 p.m. on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union. Tea and cookies are free.
FRIDAY September 24
Student Union Activities will host Tunes at Noon, featuring Quiet Corral, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Plaza outside of the Kansas Union.
Student Union Activities will show the movie "Sex and the City 2" at 8 p.m. in the Woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
MONDAY
September 27
SATURDAY September 28
Ben Eggleston, professor of philosophy, will lead a "Lunch and Conversation" session on managing grade expectations, which will focus on helping students appreciate the realities of grade distributions in large classes from noon to 1 p.m. in Room 135 at Budia Hall
■ Former KU quarterback Todd Reesing will sign copies of his new book in the KU Bookstores at the Kansas Union from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
Student Union Activities will host free Cosmic Bowling from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. in Jaybowl at the Kansas Union.
TUESDAY September 28
September 28
The School of Music will host the KU Symphony Orchestra from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Lied Center. Tickets cost $7.
Dole fellows Kevin Jackson and Joseph Phillips will host a Conservationism in America study group at the Dole Institute of Politics from 4 to 6 p.m.
SUNDAY September 26
There will be a carillon concert from 5 to 5:30 p.m. at the Memorial Campanile.
The KU School of Music Student Recital Series will feature Zach Bachtert and Justin Davidson on alto sax from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall at Murphy Hall.
WEDNESDAY
September 29
STUDENT SENATE
■ KU Army ROTC and the School of Engineering will host Race Day at the Burge from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Burge Union parking lot.
New position extends graduate student representation
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BY MICHAEL HOLT7
Student Body President Michael Wade Smith said he expected to
Student Senator Bryce Myers sounded cautiously optimistic when he spoke about the soon-to-be-appointed graduate affairs director. Senate voted to create the position earlier this semester in an attempt to increase its representation of graduate students.
"Its a risky move that has great potential," Myers said. "Whether or not it succeeds turns on the notion that they'll appoint the right person to the job."
make the appointment by the next full Senate meeting in two weeks. His pick will need approval from two-thirds of the Senate.
The graduate affairs director will be a voting member on five boards and committees and a non-voting member on two, according to the bill. This also marks the first time a graduate student representative will be a paid member of the Student Executive Staff.
Myers, who has applied for the position himself, said his ideal candidate for graduate affairs director was someone who represented the interests of all graduate students, not simply the interests of his or her
department.
Despite his apprehensions, Myers said the new position could strongly benefit graduate students and open new doors of opportunity.
Senate gained the attention of graduate students when their travel funds were cut two years ago, said
"It means a better chance of us being able to directly influence the legislation and the functioning of the government," said Myers, a first-year senator from Overland Park. "It's an idea that may well work."
It's also an idea popular among graduate students. For some, improved representation in Senate has been a long time coming.
Robert Topinka, co-president of the Student Association of Graduates in English.
"There was some animosity between undergraduates and graduates before," said Topinka, a graduate student from Madison, Wis., and a former senator. "Graduate students didn't think of Senate in the same way and didn't realize how it affected what they do."
Having recognized graduate students' frustrations with Senate, both coalitions promised improved graduate student representation during last spring's election. After winning the election, Smith made the issue one of his earliest priorities.
During the summer, he coauthored a bill aimed exclusively at graduate students that outlined the new position. The bill's approval earlier this semester was a sizeable victory for graduate students, a "historically underrepresented" constituency with opinions and viewpoints "valuable to the formation of good and effective policy," according to the bill.
Student Body Vice President Megan Ritter helped write the bill. She said she hoped it would better connect graduate students with Seante.
"I feel like right now they see Student Senate as an undergraduate
entity and we really do represent the entire University of Kansas," Ritter said.
In addition to the newly created position, the bill requires the addition of funding guidelines for graduate student organizations. It also calls for the removal of the Graduate and Professional Affairs Committee, one of five standing committees. The graduate affairs director will assume many of that committee's responsibilities.
"It's not a silver bullet," Myers said of the new legislation. "If it works it will be brilliant, and if it fails it will be a bone-headed mistake."
Edited by Dana Meredith
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