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Senate debates new representation
By Andy Marso amarso@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Two housing senators lobbied for new Student Senate seats for Stouffer Place and Jayhawker Towers residents last night.
After an hour of debate, the Stouffer Place seat was approved, but the Jayhawker Towers seat was denied.
Lase Ajaji, residential senator, and Kristan Seibel, Association of University Residence Halls senator, wrote the bill. It would have added the two new seats to five pre-existing housing seats and also provide for a Residential Housing Board made up of on-campus housing senators and three appointed students.
Before the bill, there were appointed housing senators representing the All Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of University Residence Halls, the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Association and the National Pan-Hellenic Council.
National Seibel and Ajayi said Stouffer Place and Towers residents had needs that the existing senators couldn't adequately address.
"Some of the most under-represented places on campus are Stouffer, where it's generally families, and the Towers, where there's a wide array of residents," Seibel said.
Student Body President Andy Knopp argued against the bill as written and proposed it be broken into three parts. The merits of the Stouffer Place seat, the Jayhawker Towers seat and the Residential Housing Board were
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debated separately.
debated separatism Knopn then said he was in favor of the the Stouffer Place seat if one of the three non-traditional student seats was eliminated so that the total number of senators wouldn't increase.
"It's a zero-sum thing, and I think it's definitely a good way to get non-traditional representation." Knapp said.
Knopp argued against the Towers' seat saying it could set a bad precedent. If the Towers were given a seat, he said other living groups such as Naismith Hall might also request seats.
Angus Mugford, president of the Jayhawker Towers Tenant Association, spoke in favor of the Tower's seat.
"We have a fairly unique population at the Towers in that we're on campus but we have a lot of upperclassmen, international students
and graduates," Mugford said. "We're not the same as the res halls, and I think more representation is good representation."
Four senators, including Seibel, gave speeches in favor of the Towers' seat, but it failed to gain the two-thirds majority vote it needed to pass. The final vote was 21 in favor, 22 against.
After the meeting Delta Force presidential candidate, Blake Swenson, said he was disappointed.
"I think it's a shame JTTA's voice was stifled," Swenson said. "They're an on-campus living organization with a unique living situation that deserves representation."
Knopp said he was considering the future when he argued against the seat.
"In a way, the precedent's already set, but I think it could really snowball into a lot more groups asking for additional senators." Knopp said.
The Residential Housing Board section of the bill passed.
Other Senate news:
Senate passed a petition to insist that a voting student member is included on the restructured KU Athletic Corporation Board. The student body president currently serves as a non-voting member. Students pay a $20 fee per semester that is distributed at KUAC's discretion, called the Women's and Non-Revenue Intercollegiate Sports Fee.
Two new replacement senators were appointed. John Wilson, Lawton, Okl., sophomore, was appointed to a Fine Arts seat. Brandon Heavey, Overland Park
A bill that revised the replacement process passed. The bill provided for the first eligible applicant to be immediately nominated for Senate approval if no applications were handed in during the open applications period. Before, a new open application period would be set with the replacement committee judging applications at the end of the period.
The Ethnomusicology Student Association received $10,000 to bring a ballet troupe from the Republic of Guinea, Africa, to Lawrence April 4. The troupe, Les Ballet Africanis, will perform at Liberty Hall, 642 Massachusetts St.
Senate voted to allocate $6,300 for KU Queers and Allies' Pride Week activities.
The KU Hillel Foundation and Hispanic American Leadership Organization both were allocated $3,000 for special events. Hillel's event will bring Israeli singer David Broza to campus May 4. The HALO event will bring retired Lt. Col. Consuelo Castillo Kickbush to campus as a guest speaker April 10.
gues speaker The KU Ballroom Dance Club was allocated $1,950 for its annual *End of the Year Swingin'* Ball, scheduled for May 15.
But, scheduled
Eleven campus organizations were allocated $431 in general funding. Other allocations: $378 to fund advertising for the Multicultural Faculty Award and $200 for a club called the Fellowship of the Ring.
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'Brown v. Board' decision basis of class
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By Rupal Gor rgor@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Keiv Spare, Parsons senior, originally joined the class because his friends did. He said he's glad he enrolled because he has learned interesting facts, such as the Constitution was written to accommodate slavery.
My ultimate concern is not that students necessarily leave the class with a specific understanding of legal cases," Yetman said, "but with the general sense of that very notion of how American institutes operate to the benefit of some people and not the benefit of others."
Yetman covers how society is
He said the primary point of the course was about white institutions that created segregation and the inequalities between black and white people. Yetman emphasizes to his class of about 300 students that the course is about white privileges maintained throughout history.
Supreme Court recently noted, with regard to another pressing civil rights issue — gay marriage — separate is almost never equal," she said.
Brown v. the Topeka Board of Education was undoubtedly the most important Supreme Court decision of the 20th century, said Norman Yetman.
today because of the case's decision. Society is diverse in terms of different races, but social inequalities are still pronounced in some areas, he said.
That's why Yetman, professor of American studies and sociology, teaches a class on the 1954 Brown v. Board decision at the University of Kansas. The course focuses on history, cultural differences, the background and cause of the case. Beyond that, it focuses on how the impact of the decision has been a catalyst for change within American society.
Yetman said there was no simple answer to the question of whether America has changed since the decision. But there was a greater degree of white acceptance and the notion of equality, he said.
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Caminero-Santangelo said it was important to remember the logic — the concept of separate but equal — that drove the Brown decision in terms of the events happening today.
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, assistant professor of English, teaches a class on blackness and whiteness in U.S. literature.
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"planned this course with the conference in mind," he said. "I thought it was important that students had the opportunity to go to this conference and get credit."
The Brown v. Board decision was ultimately a means for civil rights issues, Yetman said.
The concept of civil rights, background and consequences of the Brown case will be discussed at the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board conference March 14 to 17 at the University, which Yetman helped organize.
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