University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 6, 1988
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Committee says 9 Senate candidates ineligible
By Jeff Moberg
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Elections Committee voted last night to declare ineligible nine senatorial candidates from two coalitions because they filled out forms incorrectly.
The decision, however, may be disputed at the elections committee meeting tomorrow night, because Senior rules and regulations were not followed, according to members of the two coalitions. Focus and Top Priority
The decision to declare the candidates ineligible was made by only three members of the committee. According to Senate rules, the elections committee membership
must be set at 13, 15 or 17, and for the committee to operate it must call a quorum, which is one half of the committee members plus one.
Stephanie Quincy, student body vice president, said that decisions like this had been made in the past by only the elections committee chairman. However, she said the committee should not operate unless a quorum was present.
She said she would understand if members of the two affected coalitions had grievances.
In the place on the application form in which the candidate is asked what seat he is running for, four candidates from the Top Priory coalition and five from the Focus coalition mistakenly wrote "liberal arts and
sciences" when they should have written "Nunemaker." A liberal arts senator represents juniors and seniors in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. A Nunemaker senator represents freshmen and sophomores.
sciences" when they should have written "Nunemaker."
Steve Dixon, elections committee chairman, said that the form clearly specified that a candidate must fill in what he is running for and that it was the coalition's responsibility to make sure forms were filled out correctly.
Members of the Top Priority coalition said that the forms were unclear and vague because under the blank in question are the words "college/school/other." Pam Siemon said she was not sure if the forms she sent to the elections committee had those
sehators listed as running for the Nunemaker seat.
"It doesn't ask what seat they're running for; it just asks what school. There is no Nunemaker school," she said. "Because it's merely a gray area, these people should be allowed to run."
Sixteen Nunemaker seats are at stake in the election. Top Priority will now have 12 Nunemaker candidates, and Focus will have 11. All Nunemaker candidates from the Integrity coalition filled out the forms correctly.
Frank Partnoy, presidential candidate with the Integrity coalition, said, "It's the technical issues that need to be decided. We would not have gone out and checked every senator if we didn't think the rules were important. That's a pain."
Forrest MacDonald/KANSAN
Light up
Senate committee OKs forum costs
City workers install stop lights at 14th and Kentucky streets. The Power & Light connects the power lines later this week. Lights are also put up yesterday but won't be operational until Kansas also being installed at 14th and Tennessee streets.
Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night voted to send to the full Senate a bill that would pay security expenses arising from the free speech forum involving the Ku Klux Klan last month.
By Jeff Moberg
The bill, however, will be sent without the committee's support.
Slightly Older Americans for Freedom, the group that sponsored the March 7 forum, was charged $3,208.06 by KU police after the forum. The group asked Senate for help to pay the bill because it said the event was unique and because it not only provided security for the speakers, but also for KU students. The group said it could not pay the bill now.
The bill asks that Senate suspend a section of the Student Senate rules to pay for the security expenses. The rule states that Senate will not reimburse student organizations for events that have already occurred.
"Finance committee should be more concerned with the application of rules and regulations for the funding of groups," said Glenn Shirtliffe, finance committee member.
The finance committee deferred action on the plan because it thought that the full Senate should determine whether regulations should be suspended.
Shirlife proposed that the committee finance the bill at $0 and pass it onto Senate with no recommendation. He said that the forum could have been postponed until a full assessment of potential security expenses was made.
"This group could have come though the committee system when it found what the costs would be." Shirtlite said. "As a committee, we can't OK end runs around the committee system. At the time this took place, there was still more than a month left in the semester."
Jason Krakow, student body president and one of the bill's 13 sponsors, said that Senate should pay the bill. He said the forum was a unique event and he didn't want the administration to be able to threaten cancellation of a similar event because a student organization was unable to pay for security.
Responding to Shirtliffe, Krakow said that the group could not have initiated legislation for Senate because the University community expected a quick resolution to the issue of the Ku Klux Klan's visiting campus. That left the organizers little time for an assessment of costs.
Pamphlets to help foreign students
Office of residential programs to mail its orientation information abroad
Many committee members said that if the finance committee gave the bill a favorable recommendation, it would set a precedent for other organizations.
"I want to see this bill paid," said Tom Moore, a member of the committee. "But I don't want other people coming back to us to pay for things after they happen."
Bv Debbie Gruver
Special to the Kansan
When British exchange student Justin Stevens arrived at his residence hall last fall, he was confused about the dining arrangements.
"Nobody told me that my food was paid for," Stevens said. "I ate out for three days because I didn't realize there was a cafeteria in McCollum Hall."
"When David Crowder arrived at the University of Kansas from England, he was also assigned to McCollium Hall but was never told how much housing would cost. Crowder didn't realize how much the hall's monthly payments were until well into the semester." "I would have preferred to have lived in an apartment." Crowder said. "I wasn't really offered a choice." He has since moved into an apartment.
Crowder and Stevens did not receive any information about enrollment and registra-
tion.
"I didn't have a clue as to what was going on." Crowder said. "I can imagine how bad it would be if you could hardly speak English." To prevent similar problems, the office of residential programs will send detailed pamphlets in English this summer to foreign
students who have been admitted to KU. It is the first time such information will be mailed to foreign students.
The pamphlet will contain a schedule of the housing calendar. It will include the dates that the Jayhawker Towers and the residence halls open, when the first meal is served and the dates when the halls are closed. There is also general information in the pamphlet about what facilities and services the residence halls provide.
The foreign student services staff said that they hoped the information would help but that they realized the difficulty in relaying information to those abroad.
"Foreign students don't receive information until they're admitted," said Pat Willer, assistant director of foreign student services at the University in detail to students when they're abroad."
Betty Soppela, director of the applied English center, said she was concerned about the general lack of information available and the number of foreign students who arrived in the country.
Willer said that housing at KU was geared to the traditional, degree-seeking, U.S. student population.
Soppelsa said that most foreign students
"Last year, a new African student arrived in January before the dorms opened." Soppsela said. "The student paid $5 a night to stay in a hall. It was freezing outside, and the thought of walking to 23rd and Iowa streets for food was ridiculous. Starting out at KU like this isn't good."
Because of this problem, Soppela proposed a plan last year to the office of residential programs research to find out how much it would cost to keep a residence hall open all year.
had to arrive two days before the halls opened so they could take English tests.
Residence halls are open during breaks only if enough students request housing. Even when the halls are open during breaks, food is not served.
Soppela said the general reaction of the housing officials was that the plan was too expensive and risk because there would be students who should students sign up for a 364-day hall.
"I know I was being a little push, but I wanted numbers," she said.
Sopelsa said that under the plan, foreign students, as well as native students who didn't want to go home, would know where they could stay during breaks.
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By Rebecca J. Cisek
The amendment would have established a drop period of three weeks and an add period of three weeks and two days that all schools would have had to follow.
Sandra Wick, administrative assistant to the Senate Executive Committee, reported that out of 1,235 ballots sent to members of the University Senate, 344 voted against the amendment and 168 voted for the amendment. All faculty members and student senators make up the University Senate.
Kansan staff writer
By voting against the amendment, members of the University Senate left intact the current system that sets the add period at four weeks and the drop period at five weeks. In addition, schools are able to set shorter add periods. This year, most schools went to an add period of two weeks.
An amendment that would have established a University-wide add-drop policy failed, leaving KU with the present system for adding and dropping classes.
The amendment was approved by University Council in February and was sent to University Senate for consideration in March. Because a quorum was not met at that meeting, a mail ballot was sent to senate members.
Dave Shulenburger, associate dean of business, said that staying with the current add-drop period kept the pressure on the University to improve availability of classes. Because many schools have gone to a two-week add period, long lines at the enrollment center will make the low availability of classes very apparent to the University.
He also said the defeat of the amendment would help both faculty and students to get settled into their classes early.
Many faculty members said yesterday that they were pleased with the results.
"I think it a shame," said Amy Randle, liberal arts senator.
But some student senators were dismayed by the results.
Laura Amber, off-campus senator,
wasn't surprised by the results. She said
that students were outnumbered 19 to 1 on
University Senate.
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Kansas University Music Therapy Student Association presents
Symposium 1988
Topic Issues: Terminally Ill Deaf-Blind Traumatic Head Injury Physically and Mentally Disabled
Date: Saturday, April 9, 1988
Time: 8:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m.
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