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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.100.NO.130
THE STUDENT NEWSAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY APRIL 13,1990
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Top spots go to YOU by 45 votes
Almee Hall, left, student body vice president-elect, and Mike Schreiner, student body president-elect, of YOU coalition, celebrate their victory at the Sigma Nu fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place.
Election results:
Teacher results:
YOU: Mike Schreiner, Aimee Hall 1,525 22
Fast Break: Greg Hughes, Pat Warren 1,480 13
Real Representation: Todd Boerger, Mike Thomas 1,384 27
Jayhawk Pride: Jeff Milligan, Marc LeBeau 589 2
New Blood: Brad Sanders, John Fawcett 507 2
Ballot problems add seats
By Eric Gorski
Kansan staff writer
Because of inaccuracies in Student Senate election ballots and inconsistent polling procedures, eight additional Senators will serve on Senate next year.
One candidate's name was left off the ballot, and three other candidates were listed on the wrong ballots. Also, many students did not receive resident-at-large ballots because they failed to Jo Hardesty, chairman of the elections review board.
In an emergency meeting last night, Hardesty said, the board decided that all affected candidates automatically would receive seats. These seats are an addition to the 66 Senate seats expected to be filled by the elections.
Kathy MacNaughton, Fast Break candidate for a College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seat, was left off the ballot. She left the coalition's party at Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity before she learned of her unusual victory and could not be reached for comment.
Stacey Cook, Fast Break off-campus candidate, was listed incorrectly on the liberal arts ballot. Shelly Fraga, Fast Break candidate for a Nunemaker seat, was incorrectly listed on the off-campus ballot.
Fraga said she was approached by Pat Warren, Fast Break vice-presidential candidate, after spring break. She said she was to become a Nunemaker candidate and Cook was to become an off-campus candidate to accommodate a switch by MacNaughton. MacNaughton was originally a Nunemaker candidate.
William Sanders, Student Senate Executive Committee Chairman, said the necessary changes on the ballots were never made. The error went unnoticed when Senate approved the ballots.
Hardesty said all five resident-at-large candidates were grenied seats because of polling errors.
THE YOU coalition won the student body presidency and vice presidency by 45 votes in last night's Student Senate election.
By Matt Taylor
Kansan staff writer
Mike Schreiner, president-elect, and Aimee Hall, vice president-elect, received 1,525 votes to win the election. Fast break candidates Greg Hughes and Pat Warren finished second with 1,480 votes. Real Representation Ben Berger and Benjamin Thomas finished third with 1,384 votes. Pride Rider Milligan and Marc LeBeau finished fourth with 1,989 votes; and New Blood candidates Brad Sanders and John Fawcett finished fifth with 507 votes.
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Tom Poe, vice chairman of Senate's Election Committee, said 5,156 presidential/vice presidential ballots were cast during the two days of balloting, compared to the 2,575 cast in last year's election and 3,878 ballots of 1988. Election figures are unofficial until April 17. The election review board will meet that day to confirm the results.
There were more ballots cast than votes counted. Some of the 31 unaccounted for ballots may have been cast without the voter's selection being marked or more than one coalition being chosen.
YOU coalition, which won a total of 22 seats, did not win the most Senate seats in the election. Of the 74 seats to be filled, Real Representation took 27. Fast Break won 13, Jayhawk Pride two, New Blood two and independents two. There were three ties, and three Graduate School seats will be filled later.
The Graduate School, which had only nine candidates on the ballot to fill 12 seats, will be filled by three replacement senators, said Eleanore Macnish, chairman of Senate's Election Committee. The senators will be
see related stories pp. 5, 14
appointed by the new Senate administration.
Ties were reported in the races of Architecture and Design, Engineering and Nunemaker, Poer said. Candidates will be contacted today to set up a time to flip coins in the race to determine the winners in accordance with Senate rules.
Real Representation made a strong showing in the two largest voting categories, with 11 of its 11 candidates winning Liberal Arts and Sciences seats and eight of its 13 winning Nunemaker seats.
B. Jake White, student body president, said the heavy voter turnout was because of strong candidates. He commended all students who voted.
committed all students who voted.
Because of the close results, a recount is possible.
"It close enough that we'll probably have a recount." Macnish said.
Any enrolled student may file a written complaint requesting a recount with the Senate office by 5 p.m. today, Macish said. The Elections Review Board also may request a recount.
Jo Hardesty, chairman of the Elections Review Board, said there were technical problems with some ballots and
In a prepared statement released early this morning, Hardesty said the board had an emergency meeting last night to discuss three problems; a candidate's name had been left off the ballot, some candidates had been listed on the wrong ballot and some students who were eligible to vote for Resident at Large did not receive that ballot.
"After analyzing the situation and considering possible options, the Elections Review Board granted all affected candidates their appropriate seats in Student Senate." The vote will be announced and will be added to the total number of elected seats."
Another election problem occurred because of the unexpected heavy voter turnout. Extra ballots were printed to accommodate the turnout and had to be counted by hand, which slowed the tabulation of election results, Poer said. All the other ballots were counted by a computer in Bailey Hall. The final results were announced about 2 a.m.
Kansas reporter Pam Sellars
Coalitions express joy, frustration at results
Kansan reporter Pam Soliner contributed information to this story.
YOU coaltion members consoled each other and cried. They thought it
Then the announcement came on the radio. It took about three seconds to sink in. Devastation turned to jubilation. Mike Schreiner and
tors represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. The coalition won 22 total seats.
Schreiner stood in the corner of the packed room at the Sigma Nu fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, accepting
"I'm ecstatic.
Ecstatic and surprised," Hall yelled, her shirt soaked with champagne. "We thought we lost. When they read the Nunemaker results, we thought
'There should be some differences of opinion in Senate. You want people to challenge you. Nothing is ever going to get done if everybody agrees with everybody else. That's not Senate. It's a fan club.'
results, we thought we lost."
— Jeff Miligan Jayhawk Pride presidential candidate
The coalition won only two of 16 Nunemaker seats. The Nunemaker sena-
congratulations and hugs from a steady stream of supporters. "It's incredible." Schreiner said.
"It's the best feeling of my life. It just shows how hard everybody worked."
Schreiner he wasn't surprised by the election's close finish and gave credit to off-campus campaigning and a clean campaign for the victory.
Hall said, "Our slogan was, 'Kill them with kindness,' and we did just that. We had nothing negative about our campaign."
At another election party at 824 Indiana St., Real Representation candidates and supporters fell silent at the announcement that their coalition had not won the Student Senate presidential and vice-presidential seats.
"I don't think it was important that Mike and I win," said Todd Boerger, Real Representation presidential
See REACTION, p. 14
Gov. Hayden willing to begin negotiations on 1991 state spending
The Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK — Gov. Mike Hayden said yesterday that he was in a compromising mood and ready to implement 981 state budget with the Legislature.
However, the Republican governor
ference that he also was fully prepared to call a special session if lawmakers overspent his budget or failed to pro-verb property tax levy in a wrap-up session opening April 25.
"I certainly am in a compromising mood and hope that a final compromise can be reached." Hayden said.
"It would be willing to support spending at some reasonable level even above my recommendations," Hayden said.
"But I would not be willing to
Yesterday's conference was the second in a planned series of three designed to take his budget plan to the people. He plans a third news conference this afternoon in Wichita, after taking his tour in Topeka on Wednesday.
support it at 70 or 75 million because that pushes our cash balances down so low that cash flow problems really start to plague the state," he said.
"But I want legislators to know that in fact, I am open to negotiating. I would hope that they would be, too, because they were not, at least in the closing moments of the House of Representatives."
Hayden said he had not yet decided on a specific amount of spending above his budget recommendations that he would accent.
He referred to the House refusal Sunday morning to approve a Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services appropriations bill that was $42 million above his recommended spending, but $48 million less than the Senate version of the SRS bill.
"I want them to know I'm willing to come to the table," Hayden said. "This issue needs to be resolved, and I willing to give, even on some of our priority programs. But I'm not health of the state."
He thought a compromise package of tax relief must include a classification amendment similar to one approved by the Senate April 8, and a property tax rollback.
Officials meet with minority leaders Black Men of Today,SCAD discuss recruitment,campus climate
Bv Pam Sollner
By Paul Solmer and Jonathan Plummer
Kansan staff writers
University officials met privately yesterday with two student minority groups to discuss demands for improving the climate for minorities at the University of Kansas.
Chancellor Gehe A. Budig, Judith Ramaley, executive vice chancellor, and David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, met for about an hour yesterday morning with two members of Black Men of Today to discuss minority concerns at KU.
"The basic sense I had is that we had a lot of common goals." Ramaley said. "I felt good about the meeting. I felt we were open and honest, and that's the first step in understanding."
In the afternoon, Ramaley and Ambier met with three members of Students Concerned乳尔
The meetings were in response to a march and protest that packed the Strong Hall rotunda Wednesday afternoon.
Ramaley said yesterday's meeting was just one of several to discuss the issues and approaches to solving discrimination problems.
Mark McCormick, who with fellow Black Men of Today member John Lewis met with the administrators, said that he was encouraged by their talk about recruitment but that he still thought not enough was being done in the case of Ann Dean.
A member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity struck Dean, St. Louis sophomore, and uttered a racial insult to her while she was
'I think our administrators were hearing and listening and were trying to come up with a mutual understanding to the problems.'
GLSOK representative
delivering pizzas March 30 to the SAE house, 1301 West Campus Road, according to police reports.
“As far as recruiting,” McCormick said, “I was encouraged by what he (Budig) said. They made some strides, but we think our plan is doing a lot ofilling to work with our plan, so I'm pleased.”
McCormick said his group's plan was to make the percentage of Blacks at KU equal to the percentage of Blacks in Kansas.
McCormick said that the incident could hurt future recruitment until prospective students were sure that such a thing would not happen to them.
"As far as with Ann Dean, we're not satisfied," he said. "We want action now. Let me reiterate; we want action now."
Andrea Katzman, facilitator of SCAD, said that she was encouraged by her meeting with Ramaley and Ambler but that meetings were not the only answer.
"We are here to create programs and take action on what our problems are," she said.
Katzman said they discussed several programs, including action teams that could be used to respond to racial incidents quickly. She said students were uncomfortable dealing with the administration during the incident at SAF
SCAD and other minority groups are expected to meet next week with Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, to discuss a mandatory class about different cultures, Katzman said.
"It is unfortunate that minorities are left out of the curriculum," she said. "You learn history from a white, Protestant point of view. America is much richer than that."
Katzman said that campus minority groups had the administration's immediate attention but that constant support was needed.
"I think we need action from the administration even when these events don't occur," she said.
Liz Tolbert, Gay and Lesbian Students of Kansas representative for SCAD, said she also was encouraged by the meeting.
"I think our administrators were hearing and listening and were trying to come up with a mutual understanding to the problems," she said.
She said Ramaley and Ambler explained the programs the administration already was working on and requested the students' input for new programs.
"I think the administration can do nothing but act," she said. "I think they're trying to do that quickly but not just through short-term goals. The agency is open. There's no place to go by forward."