UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, December 4, 1996
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Student senators OK with extra meeting
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
To complete unfinished business, the University of Kansas Student Senate will hold a meeting tonight that was not on Senate's original schedule.
Senate will hold an emergency meeting at 6 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. The emergency meeting has been called by the Senate executive officers.
"It was something we felt needed to happen," said Jamie Johnson, student body vice-president. "There
was some business that needed to be dealt with before the end of the semester."
Kevin Yoder, Interfraternity Council senator, said senators' reaction to the meeting had been positive.
Senate meetings are held every other Wednesday night, and the last meeting was held two weeks ago. Because the emergency meeting is on a Wednesday and is two weeks since the last meeting, it isn't a big deal, Yoder said.
"It doesn't make a difference to me." he said. "I don't really think that people seem to mind. They are
Jordan McKee, holdover senator, said senators understood this was part of the commitment.
willing to do what needs to be done."
"I think that it is just part of the job," McKee said of the meeting. "We know when we take on this responsibility that there are going to be some things we have to do that we might not want to. I really don't think this is all that big of a deal."
Senate will review four pieces of legislation that they did not get to in the last meeting. Kevin Lafferty, University Senate Executive Committee chairman, said that the legislation
needed to be dealt with now.
"There are some things that need to be worked on over the break." Lafferty said. "If the Senate did not vote on them, then they could not be worked on. This way things will be done by the time everyone gets back."
Johnson and Lafferty said they expected strong attendance at the emergency meeting.
The final meeting of the year was called when, five hours into the last meeting, only 35 of the 67 senators remained.
School of Education awards mini grants
By Stephanie Fite Kansan staff writer
Nine Kansas elementary, junior high and high schools are getting by with a little help from their friends at the University of Kansas.
A $25,000 mini grant fund was created this semester by the KU School of Education to help schools with a high minority or poor population. Forty Kansas schools submitted applications in August, and nine were chosen in September to receive $2,500 each.
This Friday, the schools will have
the opportunity to discuss their progress with educators in the School of Education.
"This is a wonderful opportunity for educators, together, to understand what each other is doing," said Jerry Bailey, associate dean of education administration. "This is worth a lot to the School of Education, to be able to help other schools in Kansas who need it."
The $25,000 budget came from the $1 million Eisenhower Grant the School of Education was awarded from the state last semester. The money from the grant was subcon-
tracted into teacher's organizations like the Teacher's Development Coalition, which heads the mini grant award.
The mini grant was created this year by Martina Thompson, project coordinator for the Eisenhower Grant at the University. The nine schools competed on their ability to communicate the importance of technology in the classroom and to prevent low student attendance. The topic for the competition was the importance of technology in the classroom.
Melisa Hancock, sixth grade
teacher at Woodrow Wilson Elementary School in Manhattan, is the director of the Project for Success in math and science seminar.
Hancock said the $2,500 the school received went toward teaching parents to tutor their children in math and science.
"We conducted a survey and found that parents wanted to help, but didn't know how. We now have a seminar once a week for parents and kids to sit down together and go through their homework," she said. "This buys all of us time to learn new things to help our kids."
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