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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 23, 1996
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Student Senate Week to kick off on Monday
Dissenting senator financing can't come from Senate money
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
In an effort to inform students about the legislative process, Student Senate has declared next week Student Senate Awareness Week.
Sean Haley, nontraditional senator, said the week's events were planned to provide students with a complete exposure to Senate and everything the Senators
everything the Senators did.
Haley said Senators would be available at tables at Wescoe Hall and the Kansas Union to provide information to students about how to get involved in Senate committees and about current
legislative issues such as the coming student referendum.
Senate will hold a town-hall meeting to discuss the issues, including the recreation center, at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday in Amini Scholarship Hall
"We're trying to change our approach," Haley said. "Generally, your more active students tend to be in the scholarship halls."
However, he encouraged all students to attend the meeting.
Senators voted to declare next week "Awareness Week" at the last full Senate meeting on Feb. 13. They decided to finance the week from the Senate's unallocated account.
Amy Turnbull, social welfare senator, voted against the bill to finance the week because it didn't meet the
finance committee guidelines for special projects.
Guidelines normally would allow $122 for this special project. However, the Senate allocated $392 for the week.
"I feel as though if Student Senate wants to have an Awareness Week, they should hold the same guidelines for themselves as they would for any other organization," Turnbull said. "One other concern is that in my perspective, Student Senate should have an Awareness Year."
She said part of a constant Senate awareness promotion would require more town-hall meetings and more open communication with students.
"It's more about getting outside of the office and discussing issues and being more accessible about going to students instead of asking students to come to us," Turnbull said. "I do support the week, I'm just concerned
about the fact that we didn't meet guidelines and that we should have Senate awareness all the time."
However, Allen Pierce, finance committee chairman, said the financing guidelines were flexible.
"We create guidelines and if the organization shows reasonable cause, we can go over guidelines," Pierce said.
He said the senators sponsoring the financing bill showed a legitimate need for more money than the guidelines allow.
"It's so hard to get people involved in Senate and realize what it is that we do," Pierce said.
However, Kristina Ochsenhirt, Topeka graduate student, said she wasn't sure if she agreed with Senate's decision to finance the week.
"I suppose if it helps create a little bit more awareness, maybe, but otherwise, I can think of better places our money could be going," she said.
But Jim Meyer, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said he thought holding the awareness week was a good idea.
"I feel like the more information that's available, the better off society is," Meyer said.
Schedule of Events
Monday
Table at Daisy Hill Dining Commons, 4-6 p.m.
Tuesday
Table at Gerturde Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, 4-6 p.m. Town-hall meeting at Amini Scholarship Hall, 6:15 p.m.
Wednesday
Flint & Steel Interview on KJHK with Kim Cocks, student body president, and Dan Hare, student body vice president High School Leadership Day, 3-6 p.m.
"Bring a Friend to Senate Night," 6:30 p.m.
Senate mixer at Dos Hombres, 815 New Hampshire St., after Senate meeting
Thursday
Thursday
Student Senate Open House,
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Friday
Friday
Student Senate Open House,
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Emerging poet speaks
Writer introduces her new book in first of four talks
By Jason Strait
Kansan staff writer
Other events featuring Patricia Spears Jones
Patricia Spears-Jones will present more than her poetry to the KU community in the next two days. But last night, she introduced her poetry first.
Reading poetry from her new book, The Weather that Kills, Jones spoke to about 50 people in the first of four area presentations.
Jones' poetry ranges from serious topics, such as Vietnam and
"Certainly Patricia is one of the up-and-coming African-American poets," Smith said. "She is an emerging voice, and we will try always to foster artists and education in this way."
Inis Smith, assistant professor of English, said the series was sponsored by the department of English in an effort to bring a variety of speakers to educate the community.
■ Jones will speak informally on contemporary American poets at 2:30 p.m.today at 4064 Wescoe Hall. A dialogue with the audience will follow.
■ Jones will hold a poetry meeting at 8 tonight at The Writer's Place, 3607 Pennsylvania St., Kansas City, Mo.
Christopher Columbus, to humorous pieces describing a Sly and the Family Stone concert.
Jones will show a video of her play Mother at 4 p.m. tomorrow at 2092 Dole Human Development Center. "Male revolutionary fervor is matched by feminist activism," Jones said about the play.
All events are free
Between readings, Jones likened poetry to conversation, saying that it was like opening up a dialogue with yourself. She also had a brief message for the aspiring artists in attendance.
"For the people who are thinking I can't do this, well you can," she said. "But it takes the hell out of you."
Jones was born in Arkansas and has lived in New York City, and briefly Boston, since the 1970s. She said her experiences growing up learning about life in volatile New York was reflected in her poetry.
Jones said that much of her poetry was influenced by past music artists such as Billy Holiday, Jimi Hendrix and Robert Jones.
Smith said that it was a mission of the departments to sponsor educational events such as this one,where students can interact with professionals from outside the University.
"Part of the monies we use, and I will add they are very limited, is put to very good use," Smith said. "This kind of thing is the best buy the University can get."
She also said that the educational value of this event was well worth the money it cost.
Take it all off
Steve Puppe / KANSAN
Terry Frankenfeld, a Lawrence resident, gets his hair cut by RC Pewtress SR, at RC's Stadium Barbery. Frankenfield is in the cast of A *Few Good Men* and has to get a Marine haircut with the rest of the cast.
Punk is substance, not surface
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KU students share in the community spirit of alternative crowd
By R. Adam Ward Kansan staff writer
Matthew Chapman, Wayne, Neb., freshman, looks like a normal KU student, wearing his standard jeans and T-shirt.
Of course, most students don't wear thick silver choke-chains around their necks as Chapman does.
Chapman said he considered himself part of the punk scene in Lawrence. It helped him find friends with similar ideas and attitudes in Lawrence.
One of the friends that Chapman
made here was Anna Oyler, Topeka freshman. She said that specific clothing and Technicolor hair were not necessary to be a punk.
She said most punks wore handmade patches symbolizing their ideas or their favorite bands, but there was no set fashion. Instead, it was their sense of community that was important.
But for punks, finding a place to hang out in Lawrence can be difficult, Chapman said.
Most punks go to each other's houses to socialize, while some go to the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St.
"I usually can't get in there, though, because it's 21 and older," he said. "That tends to suck the fun out of the place."
And, Replay Colburn, employee at the Replay Lounge, said he agreed that
the lounge tended to attract an older crowd.
A lot of people 25 and older go to the Replay Lounge who were originally involved in the Outhouse, a defunct punk club in Lawrence, Colburn said.
He said he thought that touring punk bands that used to play at the Outhouse now play at the Replay Lounge.
"It's a place to stop between Kansas City and Colorado where bands can make gas money," he said.
But Colburn said he did not think that the loss of the Outhouse had diminished the number of punks in Lawrence.
He said he thought that the number of punks in town had remained constant or might actually have grown as the population of the town increased.
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