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VOL. 101, No. 127
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Student coalition presidents debate
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
Last night, the two coalitions for Student Senate debated in front of about 100 students at the Kansas Union.
Alan Pickert, of Associated Students of Kansas, asked both presidential candidates how they would ensure that they played an important role in student issues at the state level
Jason McIntosh, Facts presidential candidate, said he would use the Student Advisory Committee, which comprises student body presidents from each of the seven Board of Regents institutions.
McIntosh said the KU student body president historically was more powerful than other schools' presidents. He added that the school should motivate their students, he said.
Darren Fulcher, impact presidential candidate, said he would work to
Louis Leopre, president of the Hispanic American Leadership Organi-
ans asked how many Hispanic Americans serve on each coalition.
Student Senate presidential and vice-presidential candidates field questions during a pre-election debate.
Alumni also must get involved because they have influence at the state level, he said.
involve leaders of student organizations in issues by communicating more with them.
Fulcher said that Impact had two candidates who were Hispanic-American but that that was not sufficient representation.
McIntosh said that Facts had one Colombian student and was committed to representing other international students but that his coalition did not have any Hispanic-American students.
"We want to put our hands out to all student organizations," he said.
"We're not going to involve ourselves in tokenism." he said.
Darren Fulcher and Alan Lowden of Impact.
Impact aims for diversity
Giles Smith and Jason McIntosh of Facts.
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Kansan staff writer
Julie Jacobson/KANS^*
Daren Fulcher and Alan Lowen, Impact presidential and vice president candidates for next year's student body, said that issues were important in campaigns but that the campaign itself was the campaign were important too.
Impact's leaders can handle issues that may come up in next year's Student Senate. Lowden said.
"We have proven leadership," he said.
'We have to work with the administration.'
Impact's coalition includes nine presidents or vice presidents of living organizations, the president of the student alumni association, three Student Union Activities board members, one of the founders of Women's Student Union, two members of Black Men of Today, the founder of the Organization of Adult Knowledge Seekers, a resident assistant, two members of the Hispanic American Leadership Organization, two Senate committee chairpersons and current senators.
Pulcher said Impact had been committed to the issues in its platform before the campaign.
"Commitment begins before the campaign starts." he said.
Impact has proposed a program to recruit and retain minority students at the University of Kansas.
Darren Fulcher Impact presidential candidate
According to the plan, KU minority students would return to their high schools or hometowns to recruit other minority students.
Freshman minority students at KU would be assigned to junior and senior minority students, who would advise and act as mentors, Fulcher
"We have to work with the administration." Fulcher said.
If salaries were not financed by the administration, Fulcher said Impact would work to find alternate sources of income, such as alumni support.
The mentors would be paid for their work, either through work-study programs or as student employees.
Impact also has addressed environmental issues.
The coalition has arranged for barrels to be placed on campus during the few days so filters that are used out can be recycled, Lowden said.
Impact will continue to promote Secure Cab, Lowden said. He recently sponsored legislation in the Senate that would advertising Secure Cab on KUIDs.
Impact already has plans to continue to promote paper conservation and recycling, Lowden said.
Impact wants campus lighting to be a priority, but Lowden said that more police and security personnel were needed.
Impact plans to work with the
Associated Students of Kansas and the assembly can combine their efforts at the state level to benefit the University, he said.
restructured Graduate Representative Assembly and address graduate concerns. Fulcher said.
Impact proposes the formation of a new presidents' round table that would be made up of all student organization presidents and all living group presidents. The Presidents' student representation. Fulcher said.
Fulcher also said that child care was an issue with immediate needs and that it was important for Senate to lobby legislators, because the issue could not be solved at the university level.
"This is just our way of reaching out to the campus," Fulcher said.
Other issues Impact would like to put on the state-level include campus safety, graduate teaching and research-assistant fee waivers and accessibility for students with disabilities, Fulcher said.
Facts nails down platform
By Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writer
Jason McIntosh and Giles Smith, Facts' presidential and vice-presidential candidates for Student Senate, said that the principle of their decision was that any interest students had was that any interest student government.
If tuition increases reach a certain level, Facts advocates a lower percentage of increase for juniors and seniors.
"We are afraid that the increase will be something that a student who has spent three years here will not be able to perform well," he added it trained for K." McMahon said.
Another plank of Facts' platform is greater attention to graduate student interests, including lobbying for 100 university programs and champions for graduate teaching assistants.
"Freshman and sophomore students basically rely on TAS," McIntosh said. "We need quality graduate students."
To intensify the lobbying pressure, the group proposes establishing a Graduate Professional Association, which has engaged citizenized Students of Kansas, he said.
To increase student power. McIntosh said, students must be aware of what is happening in student government.
To strengthen ties between students and government, the coalition advocates placing bulletin boards in living areas and professional schools. Although he has not contacted housing officials, McIntosh said he thought the cost of the program would not be prohibitive.
Just as students need to be aware of state government, he said, so does the Board of Regents need to know what is happening with students.
To increase student input, the coalition would like to place a student on the Regents as a novoking member.
'When the engineering fee was being discussed, once it got to the Regents, student comment stopped, and students wanted to say more.'
Jason McIntosh Facts presidential candidate
a task McIntosh said he knew would be tough to complete.
"When the engineering fee was being discussed, once it got to the Regents, student comment stopped, and students wanted to say more."
Smith said that as Senate sought to increase its power with the Regents, it should cultivate the resources at KU and in the Lawrence community.
Facts proposes the creation of a multicultural coordinating committee that would present cultural groups' agendas to Senate.
could solve the problem.
"In any group, there will be people who are willing to work with other groups, and you have to seek those people out," he said.
Although other programs trying to bring these groups together have been stymied by animosities and infighting, Smith said leadership
Smith also said that KU should make more attempts to reach out to Haskell Indian Junior College and enlarge the American Indian studies program.
Although Smith acknowledged that the ties between the Lawrence American Indian community and KU were strained, leaders of the two schools and American Indian groups at KU could be the key to better relations.
Smith said that the increase in knowledge that would come from such a union was one of the coalition's strongest planks.
"The there is animosity between groups. Look at some of the stuff that has happened between African-Americans and European-Americans, he said. "The people have to step heeled and heeled and cut this out. That takes leadership."
Senate approves bill compelling NCAA to change its conduct of investigations
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Kansan staff writer
A bill that would force the NCAA to change its investigation and hearing procedures passed quickly and easily before the Senate yesterday with no debate.
If the bill becomes law, the NCAA would have to conduct open hearings, allow the cross-examination of witnesses by the counsel of the accused and subject findings to review in the district court.
"It if we a sporting match, it would have been a rout, 36-0," said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, author and main proponent of the legislation. "I was a little surprised, but I think it's consistent with what I've seen and heard around here."
The bill would require the NCAA to abide by the due process and equal protection guarantees of the U.S. Constitution, guidelines that it does
Other states with colleges and universities in the NCAA have adopted or proposed similar legislation to protect the schools within
"The bill would regulate the activities of the NCAA all over the country with respect to every single member institution," Winter said. "The bill proposed it, which the NCAA proposed it, what it can create an uneven playing field."
However, because the NCAA headquarters is in Kansas, this bill would remove the need for further legislation in other states.
those state boundaries.
"Under principles of constitutional law, the state does have a right to regulate fairly and evenly the conduct of its citizens, including corporate or organizational citizens who are located here, as is the NCAA.
Winter said there were two reasons why the bill would affect every member of the NCAA
"More fundamentally, the NCAA enjoys tax-exemption privileges in the state of Kansas which are thought to be less costly than only educational institutions," he said.
"This bill is all or nothing. The field will be even and it will be fair."
Winter said that the Kansas Suurre Court had sided with the
NCAA when it claimed it was an educational institution and thus exempt from taxes, contrary to the Department of Revenue's claim.
"This bill seeks to be consistent with that by recognizing that it does have that special tax-exempt status, that special status by its own argument, that it's a school," he said. "And the bill simply says, 'Fine, since you have tax-exempt status you have to comply with the other requirements afforded government organizations. And one of those requirements is to abide by the Constitution.'"
Winter said that if the NCAA failed to abide by the bill, it would lose its tax-exempt status.
David Berst, assistant executive director of enforcement for the NCAA, said the association would fight the bill.
"What happened was not unexpected, but we'll be working for the bill's defeat," he said. "We're taking the position to change our enforcement practices, and that alone would defeat the bill."
Kansas basketball coach Roy Williams topped off his 1991 basketball recruiting class yesterday when Eric Pauley, a 6-foot 10 center from Cypress Point Community College in California verbally committed to sign with the Jayhawks. The signing of Pauley fills Kansas' basketball scholarship limit.
See story on Page 9
Kurdish refugees flee brutal Iraq crackdown
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Iraqi helicopter gunships have been firing on Kurdish refugees as they try to flee, a Kurdish rebel group said. A Kurdish militant leader said a whole village had been wiped out by Iraqi forces
The Associated Press
Foreign governments and aid groups have mounted a huge relief operation to save the hundreds of thousands of refugees, many of whom are sick, hungry and suffering from exposure in the cold of the mountainous border region.
"These people must be free from the threats, persecution and harassment that they had been subjected to under the regiment in Baghdad," he said.
In northern Iraq, Kurdish rebel leader Masoud Barzani charged
Secretary of State James Baker, who toured refugee camps near the Iraqi border yesterday, praised relief efforts but said that hope must be given to the refugees for a return to home.
The report could not be confirmed independently.
that Iraqi troops had ramaged through Kara Henjir, a village near the northern oil center of Iraq. The population of 2,000 to 3,000 people
However, Associated Press reporter Alex Etty said thousands of Kurds, fearful of government reprisals, were joining in the flight even from traditional rebel strongholds.
In Rawandiz, Efty reported,
terrified residents fled in the
middle of the night toward the
Iranian border, spurred by
reports that Iraqi forces were
pushing northward.
Both Iran and Turkey said they could not handle the huge influx of refugees, who fleed their homeland after failed rebellions by Kurds and Shia al-Maliks against President Saddam Hussein. Both continued to allow the Kurds to camp inside their borders.
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