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University Daily Kansan / Friday, March 1. 1991
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Use of University money for lobby trip challenged
By Eric Nelson Kansan staff writer
The use of University money for a Washington trip by KU officials seeking a change in ROTC's exclusion of homosexuals and bisexuals was questioned at yesterday's University Council meeting.
Clay Belcher, assistant professor of architecture engineering, raised the issue of spending University funds on research.
"I'm concerned about the use of University funds for political lobbying." he said.
Frances Ingemann, SenEx chairperson, who will go to Washington with Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that she and Shankel were not going to attend the graduation of Dr. William Read would express University viewpoints to legislators.
The policies of the Department of Defense, which administers ROTC, contend KU's anti-discrimination laws.
Ingemann said meetings in Washington would include those with higher education representatives, Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., Rep. Slim Jaltery, D-2nd District, and staff from the office of Sen. Bob Dolle, R-Kan.
Although the Washington trip will not focus on finance ing, Chancellor Gene Budig's trips to Topeka for financial purposes should be paid for by the University. Ingemann said
"It is his responsibility to go over there and represent the University," she said.
Ingemann also said that the University already had employees working in Washington for the needs of KU.
"We do have people who are in contact with people in government and working for the benefit of the University."
Ingemann said it was important to let the needs of the University be known.
"I don't see anything really wrong with that," she said Greg Hughes, SenEx member, the use of University medical change could be advantageous, especially in light if budget cuts proposed by the Legislature this week.
He also said that the Council already had voted to seek a policy change and that it was now time to work toward the change.
"The only way to do it is to lobby the Department of Defense," he said.
Ted Frederickson, associate professor of journalism,
agreed with Hughes and said the Council already had
decided to continue the investigation.
Frederickson made the motion to table the issue. He said that because it was not officially on the agenda, he thought it would be unfair to exclude Council members who would like to contribute to the discussion of the issue.
Student Senate refuses funds to Helping Hands Child Care
By Nedra Beth Randolph
Kansan staff writer
Helping Hands Child Care was refused financing for next year during this week's Student Senate budget budget.
Carl Damon, Senate treasurer, said Senate viewed Helping Hands Child Care, in Stoffler Place apartments, as a duplication of services. Services provides for the Hilltop Child Development Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd.
"it's not that we don't want to fund them," he said.
"It is just that we don't want to use student money to fund them."
Senate law states that two organizations that provide the same services cannot both receive Senate medals.
"We fund Hilltop at a minimum level, and Helping Hands wanted us to totally fund them. It would be discriminatory to Hilltop if we completely funded the school," he added. "We requested was half of the student organization bidnet."
Senate has financed Helping Hands since it opened in February, allocating $8,797 to the center for this semester. The center requested $19,800 for the 1991-92 semester and requested a hilton. Hilton requested $13,494 for next year.
Melissa Gratton, president of Helping Hands, said that Helping Hands was not a duplication of services and that it deserved the money
Our curriculum is based on diversity and on "parent activity," she said. "We are not like Hilltop."
Joan Reiber, Hilltop director, agreed that the two centers were not alike.
Hilltop mostly cares for children who need full-time child care, Reiber said. Preference is given to children of faculty, staff and students.
Helping Hands caters strictly to full-time students who need only part-time day care for their children. It also caters to students who need inexpensive child care.
A child can stay at Helping Hands for a maximum of 20 hours a week. The charge is 50 cents an hour, up to a maximum of $10 a week. The Hilltop center's care costs $15 a day.
Daniel Martin, Kansas City, Mo., graduate student, said that he planned to take his 2-year-old son, Joey, to Helping Hands but that he was afraid he might have to send Joey to a more expensive day-care center.
"If we have to go elsewhere, we will spend more money and be less satisfied with the child care," he said.
Piano man
Tom Eversole, co-owner of Eversole & Cragg Piano Shop, 1910 Haskell Ave. fine-tunes an 1920 Steinway piano. Eversole said he
had worked to restore the piano since August and needed to work at least two more weeks before it would be finished.
Bill to reorganize Graduate Council on way to Senate
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
Although a bill that would restructure the Graduate Student Council has not yet reached the Student Senate, the bill's authors are planning revisions that would take into account the concerns of graduate students.
Pat Warren, Senate Executive Committee chairperson and Carl Damon, Senate treasurer, began working on the revisions after members of the Graduate Representative Assembly expressed concern that too much power was being taken away from graduate students.
Graduate Representative Assembly is scheduled to meet today to discuss the bill and decide whether to support it.
Dan Murtaugh, chairperson of the Graduate Representative Assembly, said he was concerned about the elimination of at least one paid position of the executive committee and the possible loss of the graduate newspaper.
"Quite frankly, without it, many of the concerns of graduate students would never be voiced, or we'd never get any feedback," he said.
Graduate students are busy and do not always have time to follow the goings-on of graduate governance, he said.
Warren agreed to table the bill for a week so concerned graduate students would be able to discuss it and
so everyone could understand the changes.
"We want the graduate students to like this," he said.
The bill originally called for the Senate graduate affairs committee to handle the annual budget requests of graduate organizations. Presently, the Graduate Student Council, which is independent from Senate but receives all its money from Senate, handles those requests.
The revised bill calls for the Graduate Representative Assembly to handle budget requests and for the Finance affairs committee to be dissolved.
The assembly is a body of graduate students, one from every graduate program at the University of Kansas.
In short, the Graduate Representative Assembly would be the head of graduate organizations.
"Graduate Representative Assembly is the best body at the moment to handle this and the most democratic right now," said Oscar Quiros, Graduate Student Council executive coordinator.
Arlan Maltyb, Senate graduate affairs committee chairperson, said the willingness of the bill's authors to elect a senator showed that Senate was responsive.
Conference will give students a vision of global job market
By Sarah Davis
Kansan staff writer
Mark Pischke could not get his fill.
Last year he spent the summer in Europe
their economy, and now he wants to
learn even more.
Pischek, Mission Hills graduate student, will have that chance tomorrow.
Students at the University of Kansas are
invited to attend the fifth annual International Careers Conference to gain understanding of the global job market. It will take 3 weeks, from m. to 4 p.m., tomorrow in the Kansas Union.
tion."
"I'm looking forward to it," Pischke said. "I think it's a great opportunity for KU students to learn a little more about international careers. This is a real-to-life situa-
Lisa Harris, conference coordinator, said the conference would help make students more aware of international career opportunities.
"We're trying to reach students who are undecided about pursuing an international career and also those who have decided to pursue an international career but need
practical advice on how to do that," she said. "It gives students the opportunity to hear firsthand accounts from professionals working in the field."
Two prominent professionals, David Seal, international business consultant and former U.S. Consult General to Milan, Italy, and Jim Beckley, director of trade development at
Other speakers will include KU faculty and professionals working in the international field.
Kansas Department of Commerce, will speak during the conference.
The six areas of international interest that will be discussed are business, law, government, education, journalism and communication, and social and health services.
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