Thursday, April 17, 2008
Committees vote for chair, vice chair
Each Student Senate committee voted on its new chair and vice chair for next year. The results are as follows:
Student Rights Chair: Mason Heilman, Lawrence sophomore
Student Rights Vice-Chair: Tom Cox, Shawnee senior
Finance Chair: Mark Pacey, Manhattan graduate student
Finance Vice-Chair: Jose Artiaga, St. Louis junior
University Affairs Chair: Emily Robbins, Overbrook junior
University Affairs Vice-Chair: Jay Benedict, Roseland junior
Multicultural Affairs Chair: Ben Cohen, Topeka junior
Multicultural Affairs Vice-Chair: Michael Wade Smith, Goodland junior
Each committee also chose a secretary and outstanding committee member of the year. The Graduate Affairs Committee also chose a chair and vice-chair.
Presidential veto power removal bill failed
Full Senate failed a bill that would have removed the presidential veto power on bills that require 2/3 of Senate to pass.
Hannah Love, student body president, said the veto power was important because it maintained checks and balances within Senate.
Ethan Zipf-Sigler, law senator, said 2/3 of Senate is required to override a veto already. He said a presidential veto shouldn’t be allowed because if one of the bills passes, it would already have enough voters to override the veto.
Senators allowed to receive gifts from Athletics
Full Senate failed a bill that would not allow senators to accept gifts from the Athletics Department. Senators cited many instances where people could be members of Senate and also could receive gifts for recognition or for achievement in other organizations.
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Student Senate notebook
"In addition to the new chairs, the Senate has chosen to accept gifts from the Athletic Department."
Now... I'm not gonna say I love the way Senate is doing things right now, 'cause I don't... but, um... that subtitle... uhhhh... there's no better way to put that?
Student Senate notebook
I agree with OldGoldLegs... How inappropriate for the UDK to suggest that Senate OK'd "gifts" from Athletics. Senate simply rejected a horribly written bill from the Rights Committee. The UDK often preaches about Student Senate funding 3rd party organizations and how wrong that is..... guess what? Student Senate funds the UDK! A third Party! I encourage all Student Senators to begin to question the funding of our government's "watchdog." I also encourage them to write legislation that would dramatically cut the UDK's funding from Student Senate. They may get it back when they write correct, honest, unbiased legislation.
Maybe the UDK Editorial Board should write something about their funding??? How's that for free speech???
Student Senate notebook
Tell your Student Senator.... Cut the UDK's funding from student fees! It's not fair! I shouldn't pay for it!
Student Senate notebook
That dirty rag the Kansan...
Certainly whomever edited this article would have accurately reflected the mood in the room last night, amiright? I guess it was not important. As stated earlier, we did not "choose" to keep receiving gifts. Rather, we failed a horribly written bill from the rights committee. I might add that several senators had proposed amendments that would have fixed this bill to a semi-passable state, but we decided to fail it instead, before we could hear their ideas.
I certainly hope that when the new senate deals with this in the fall, they have the time to examine this issue front to back and write a piece of legislation that holds all of us accountable. I don't think we need to ban gifts all together, but how about we have to report the gifts we receive?
Student Senate notebook
Cutting funding would accomplish what, exactly?
Student Senate notebook
I think one thing to remember is that Student Fee dollars do not work the same way as money from Senate Appropriation, Line-Item, or Reserve Account. The fees represent many different student services that might not otherwise be possible without student fees. They are also not required to conform to the same rules that govern those other accounts.
The media fee is always one that people want to cut. In fact it comes in about 3-5 year cycles that someone wants to eliminate it. This seems especially true in terms of Senate coverage. The last time, I remember someone from the Kansan informing Senate that it made up like 4-6% of their total budget. I am guessing it might be the same or less now. As a result, the message of we want change just means that the Kansan has to work slightly harder for ad revenue.
Student Senate notebook
I'm pretty sure that you can't cut the Kansan's funding from Student Senate because it doesn't have any. The UDK is funded by ad sales. They receive no money from the state.
Student Senate notebook
Here's the big problem I have with senate's intentions. If you were to destroy the paper -- but hermeschick has show that you can't (sweet burn hermes) -- you would be screwing over the students who work on the publication out of their careers.
Students show their UDK stories to employers when applying for jobs. As a former UDK reporter, that's how I got my first few jobs.
It's pretty arrogant for student senators to try to punish reporters for doing their job. Sure you don't like what's being said about your coalition, but a journalist's job is to report what's happening. Obviously senators in bed with KU Athletics (metaphor) or other organizations is something students should know about.
Please, senators, stop the petty whining about how you don't get portrayed as good guys all the time. Student senate isn't important enough to constitute trying to sabotage others' careers. Grow up and learn to take it in stride. If you get into actually relevant politics, you'll have to deal with being the hero and villain. Get used to it.
Senators, don't be a Hugo Chavez. Support your local paper.
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