University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, March 6. 1991
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Student Senate passes bill
Media bill, thought dead, is resurrected
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate adjourned abruptly last night when it failed to reach a quorum after too many senators had left.
Before the adjournment, however, the media bill that seemingly was defeated last week was ruled passed, and the bill to reckon on its hidert for the next week.
Senate also passed a bill restructuring graduate representation in Senate.
The bill makes Graduate Representative Assembly the head graduate organization, consolidating power that before was distributed among three groups, Graduate Student Council, the Graduate Representative Assembly and the Senate Graduate Affairs Committee.
The proposed media bill, which was thought voted down last week, was actually approved, Senate members were told.
Aimee Hall, student body vice president, said she had been given incorrect information regarding the required vote for approval.
requirement last week, Hall ruled.
Senate also began to hear the budget recommendations for next year, but could not vote, because of the lack of a quorum.
The bill only needed a simple majority to pass and it met that'
It did, however, vote on several amendments to the budget proposed by the finance committee while senators were present to vote.
Senate voted to raise the proposed allocation of $184,116 to Legal Services for Students by $2,600 so the could inquiry could buy another computer.
Senate is scheduled to finish debate on the proposed budget tomorrow.
Motor-voter forms face House
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Voter registration forms could be attached to driver's license renewal and application forms, or could be filled out on election day if two bills before a House committee become law.
Lobbists and state officials told House Election Committee members yesterday that both registration processes would increase voter registration and participation in the state. The committee took no action on the
Rep. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said Colorado, Arizona and Michigan already allowed people to register to vote when they apply for or renew their driver's licenses. Hensley said this "motor-voter" process had increased voter turnout in Michigan from 41 percent in 1974 to 60 percent today.
Some may argue that the new process will make lines at driver's license stations longer. Hensley said. However, he said people actually would save time because they can make one trip to register to vote and to receive a license.
Ron Thornburgh, representing Secretary of State Bill Graves, said Grayes opposed election day registration
because it would delay release of election results.
"I hate to put a time on it, but there would have to be about a week's delay in knowing what the results are until we could verify that the people who registered live here live they live and are who they say they are." Burton said.
Connie Stewart, representing the Kansas AFL-CIO, said some people argued that allowing election day registration would increase incidents of voter fraud. But statistics from Maine and Minnesota, where election day registration is allowed, do not support that argument, she said.
Rep. Sherman Jones, D-Kansas City, said he was concerned that election day registration would lead to special interest groups driving people to the polls and convincing them how to vote on certain issues.
But, Rep. Elizabeth Baker, R-Derby, said she drove people to the polls during every election and tried to convince them to vote for her.
"If I could get people registered to vote on election day, I would get buses and pass out my literature coming and going," she said. "And I can't imagine anyone not doing that."
Lectures recount schools' histories
Kansan staff writer
By Benjamin W. Allen
Professors of law and engineering recounted the histories of their schools last night during the penultimate lecture of the KU Heritage Lecture Series.
The lecture series is a celebration of the 125-year history of the University.
Michael Davis, professor of law, and James Maloney, emeritus professor of chemical and petroleum sciences, will be among people at the Spencer Museum of Art.
In his lecture, Davis concentrated on how the development of the law
school mirrored that of the state and the law profession.
He also talked about the first dean of law, James Green, whose personality still permeates the school.
Davis said the loyalty Green engendered in law students could be seen in the law school's athletic gymnasium, where the Green Machine, and the statue in front of Lippincott hall, which shows Green pointing the way for a student.
Davis said the early integration of Kansas could be seen in the early graduates of the law school.
The first African-American graduate from the law school received his
degree as early as 1887, nine years after the law school was founded.
Maloney wondered aloud how professional schools such as law and engineering had been added to the University.
"I often thought it was a subterfuge when people in the liberal arts weren't paying attention to their business," he said.
He said engineering was a newcomer among the professional schools and traditionally had reflected the practical needs of soci-
Maloney extolled the quality of engineering students, faculty and alumni in his lecture.
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