University Daily Kansan / Friday, April 12, 1991
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Who voted
3,778 students voted. The breakdown of each Senate category:
Nunemaker: 1,388 for 15 seats
Fine Arts: 167 for 2 seats
Graduate: 360 for 12 seats Journalism/Mass Communications: 214 for 2 seats
Law: 37 for 2 seats
CLAS: 1,056 for 11 seats
Pharmacy: 40 for 2 seats
Off Campus: 1,744 for 5 seats
Social Welfare: 22 for 2 seats
Architecture/
Urban Design: 123 for 2 seats Non-traditional: 173 for 1 seat
Residential: 1,128 for 1 sec.
Education: 149 for 2 seats
Students received multiple ballots based upon their voting qualifications, such as school and housing type.
Impact claims top spots
Source: Student Senate Election Committee
By Benjamin W. Allen
Kansan staff write
A high percentage of for the Student Senate elections boosted the impact coalition to 51 Senate seats and vice presidential and vice presidential offices.
Darren Fulcher and Alan Lowden garnered 2,221 votes, or 59 percent, of the 3,778 valid votes cast.
Impact received half of its seats by sweeping both the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Nunemaker seats.
Tom Poer, elections commissioner, said he thought the turnover was high considering the cold and windy second day of the election.
He said that about 2,100 votes were
Jason McIntosh and Giles Smith, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Facts coalition, received 1,575 votes.
cast Wednesday and about 1,400 yesterday but that the commission did not know exact numbers for each day. The commission last night and early this morning.
Facts won 11 of the 64 Senate seats, with six of its seats won by graduate students.
Its other seats were in the Schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Business, Fine Arts and Pharmacy.
David Suroff and Marcia Quiros, two of four independent candidates, womens seats in the engineering and graduate schools, respectively.
Election results are unofficial until the election commission investigates reported infractions in the campaign. The commission must to complete the investigation today
Announcements of returns from some of the professional schools were slow because the ballots had to be printed by machines and machine could not read the ballots.
Another factor slowing the returns was that the press center had to be moved from Bailey Hall, where the ballots were counted, to Strong Hall after KJHK sound equipment activated the fire alarms in Bailey.
Election officials shuttled between the buildings to deliver the results.
Senate president-elect Darren Fulcher is overwhelmed by his victory and Impact's success in the election.
KU grads speak of world's future
By Eric Nelson
Education and media have important roles
Paul Ehrlich, Bing professor of population studies at Stanford, accepts the KU Alumni Association Citation for Distinguished Service.
Kansan staff writer
Television and the environment were the two areas of focus last evening when two nationally known KU graduates gave their insights about the future of the world and the role higher education can play.
Paul Ehrlich. Bing professor of population studies at Stanford University and an internationally recognized authority on the environment, joined Bill Kurtz, Emmy award-winning journalist and co-anchor of CBS "Mornings" show, in addressing challenges for the future.
About 130 people attended the seminar, commemorating the 125th anniversary of KU, in woodcraft Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
Before addressing the audience, Ehrlich was presented with the KU Alumna Association Citation for Discipline presented with the citation in 1985.
the environment a constant without really noticing its problems.
Ehrlich, who earned master's and doctorate degrees at KU in 1955 and 1967, stressed the importance of environ- mental factors. He said that may people considered
"That sort of thing has got to be the mission of educational systems and the media in the immediate future." he said.
There needs to be a new perception in which unseen environmental problems, such as global warming and population, take precedence over more visible threats such as national defense. Ehrlich said.
He encouraged the audience members to make a change and spread awareness in the University setting.
"If you aren't going to put that kind of time in," Ehrlich said, "then your grandchildren are going to be very unhappy."
Kurtis, a 1962 KU graduate and 1965 graduate of Washburn University's school of law, described how he changed vastly since its conception.
With increased technological capabilities, television has become a player in the political situation of the Persian Gulf War. Kurtis said.
But he said TV's current role had led to some manipulation of television news. Other problems include lavoffs in the profession.
Kurtis was optimistic about television's endless potential for use as a communicator in the midst of this information explosion.
He said that many people at KU realized the important purpose television could serve as an educational tool.
"But there is no central position or department that can service these needs," he said.
Kurtis suggested a statewide television education system that would include the sharing of facilities among state institutions. With this, the best classes could be transmitted by satellite to other institutions.
"Television would be a benefit to the entire state education system," he said.
Pets' therapeutic value used at KU Med Center
Bv Amv Francis
Kansan staff writer
The patients sat in the room uncomfortable. Some looked around, trying not to make eye contact,Focuses ocused their gaze upon the floor.
All eyes turned instantly to the hallway when the sound of a jingling chain was heard. It was Charea, a black poulce. She was one of the students in the night at the University of Kansas Medical Center's rehabilitation unit.
Pets for Life, an organization that brings pets to places such as hospitals and nursing homes, arranged for Charlee, three other dogs and two rabbits to visit some of the patients in rehabilitation and child psychiatry units.
"It's wonderful," said Delphin Tucker, whose husband Harold is in the hospital. "I had heard of it but had never been exposed to it."
Harold Tucker did not mind being exposed to the animals either. He held almost all of the animals that were there. He also talked to them.
Pam Wing, recreation coordinator for the Med Center, said, "Everybody usually wants to come and see the pets."
Karen Witt, a nurse at the Med Center, described Pets for Life as "bringing people back into reality through pets."
Many times patients who had shown little or no response to people would react to the pets, she said.
But the Med Center is not the only place the pets go.
Mary Buford, director of Pets for Life, said the group usually visited more than 40 area facilities a month. Last month it visited 52 facilities.
The group is financed completely by contributions from the community, she said. The help of about 60 staff members annually operating costs below $25,000.
Some of the volunteers bring their pets with them when the group makes a visit, but not every dog, cat or rabbit can be a Pets for Life pet, she said. Most of the animals used are dogs.
An animal must be in good health, get along with people and other animals, be comfortable in strange situations, have all of its shots. Burford said.
The group's volunteers also must have qualifications. They must go through an hour of orientation, she said.
"We use a gradual approach.
We're not here to push animals on anyone." Buford said. "Sometimes the pets are put back in or open up. Sometimes they aren't really interested in the pets. They want to talk to the volunteers."