Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Mason Heilman, student body president, has proposed a $1.70 cut to the campus media fee and suggested that Student Senate no longer allocate funds to The University Daily Kansan. The proposal would result in a loss of about $83,000 for The Kansan.
Heilman said the reduction is the only cut to the $423.35 student fee the Student Senate is considering at this time.
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The campus media fee is a $4 student-approved fee that Student Senate allocates to The Kansan, KUJH-TV, KJHK. Kiosk and KU Filmworks. Heilman said he wanted to cut out The Kansan because he was dissatisfied with the relationship between The Kansan and Student Senate.
“To me, this is one of the most inappropriate relationships Student Senate has with any other outside group,” Heilman said.
Heilman said he saw a conflict with an objective media outlet reporting on a legislative body that allocates its funds.
“There is a lot of potential for undue influence both ways,” he said.
For example, he said student senators could use their power over the allocation of funds to influence the type of coverage The Kansan provides.
“The fact that The Kansan endorses a student senate coalition each year, there is potential for student senators to be influenced by that, as saying, ‘Hey, I support The Kansan, you should support me,’” he said.
Heilman said that he wanted The Kansan to provide coverage of Student Senate to students, but that he was seeking to eliminate the financial relationship between the two. He said he hoped that would ensure that The Kansan remained unbiased and that Student Senate would not influence its coverage.
“The parallel to me would be if Congress stepped in and said The New York Times is about to go under and we think they are an important news source so we are going to fund them, but then we are going to expect them to provide unbiased coverage of us,” he said.
Malcolm Gibson, general manager of The Kansan, said the campus media fee served as a student subscription to The Kansan. The fee breaks down to 1.8 cents per issue that students pay to receive a copy of The Kansan every day.
“We have the smallest professional staff in the Big 12,” Gibson said. “And the lowest support from student body than anybody in the Big 12 by far.”
Gibson said that all of the money contributed to The Kansan from the campus media fee went directly to student salaries. Last year, The Kansan received $83,200 from the campus media fee to go toward the salaries of about 60 people on staff. The Kansan’s paid news staff includes designers, section editors, managing editors and photographers, who are paid per photo.
The salary for a paid position on the news staff at the Kansan is $7.50 an hour. That doesn’t include the advertising staff, which is paid on commission.
If the proposal passes it will go in effect for the 2010-2011 academic year. Stephen Montemayor, editor-in-chief of The Kansan, said that next semester’s editor-in-chief would have to reduce salaries and cut jobs if the proposal passed.
He said that several students on staff counted on their jobs at The Kansan for income, and that The Kansan also provided a professional working environment for journalism students.
“These are students who are getting real world application of what they are in school for right now,” he said. “It is very important that students have these opportunities and to take them away is just kind of mind boggling.”
Other Big 12 schools, such as Kansas State University and the University of Texas, fund their campus media with about $300,000 in student fees.
“The effects of this cut could really set us back and make us look pretty bad compared to other Big 12 schools and their newspapers,” Montemayor said.
Despite the similar setups at other Big 12 schools, Heilman said he stood by his proposal.
“I think that any legislative body appropriating funds to a media outlet that is going to provide coverage of them is inappropriate,” Heilman said.
Montemayor said the elimination of student jobs would negatively affect the quality of The Kansan’s news coverage.
“It would set us back in terms of resources,” Montemayor said. “We would adapt and find ways around this but it would cripple us in some aspects.”
A cut in funding for The Kansan would mean fewer resources, he said, and as a result some student groups would not receive the publicity they need. However, Montemayor said that coverage of breaking news and other important information for students would remain a priority for The Kansan.
“Our coverage of Student Senate will not change,” Montemayor said. “We will not be vindictive. We will not have an axe to grind. We will keep doing what we do. We cover the good and bad of Student Senate like nobody else.”
Gibson said he would recommend that Student Senate put the proposal up for a student body vote.
“I have no problem with them putting it up to a vote and letting the student body decide,” Gibson said.
Heilman said he would support Student Senate sending the proposal to a referendum, which is a student-wide vote, but that he would still support the cut.
“This is my time to do what I think is right,” Heilman said.
The Student Senate Finance Committee will vote on the proposal at a meeting tonight at 6 in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
If passed the proposal will go to full senate for debate March 24.
— Edited by Kirsten Hudson
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Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
...Wow. Just...wow.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
There seem to be a lot of holes in Heilman's alleged reasoning... what's his beef with the UDK?
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
I actually think he's right on this one. As much as I appreciate how difficult this is for the Kansan, I think that receiving funding from Student Senate creates a conflict of interest. Still, I have to wonder if there wouldn't be some way to create an endowment or something where the Kansan and other campus news outlets can function wholly independently while still receiving financial support from the student body.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
I can certainly see that argument, however Senate doesn't "fund" the Kansan. It simply happens to be the hands that our student subscription fees pass through when we enroll. Technicalities aside, Senate allocates funding to nearly every student organization on campus and many university organizations as well. You can always argue that each of these allocations open up potential for political sway. I don't think that should provide justification for overlooking what the Kansan is and what our student fees therefore support: a completely student-run organization that allows journalism and other students the opportunity to practice their education.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Isn't Mason Heilman the kid that cheated during his campaign last year? So he's basically mad about the coverage he received.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Erin, a few issues:
The fee funds the salaries of the editors, right? If so, why do you also claim that the fee provides a free copy of the Kansan to students? You'll want to run a correction in tomorrow's paper.
Why don't you give the same amount of coverage to all of the other fees that were cut last year as you do to the media fee? As I understand it, tons of important programs were cut, and yet I read hardly anything about those. You play right into the SBP's hands when you use your paper as a bullying tool to try and get Student Senate to keep the fee. No other organization/program has that type of influence, which is why their monies keep getting slashed while (until now) the Kansan has been immune.
The Kansan, whose editors' salaries are funded by Student Senate, is using their paper to influence the way Student Senate conducts their business. That's fine, but they shouldn't be able to use student fees to do it.
Good job, Mason. I'm sure the UDK will trash you for this, but every time they do, they just reinforce why this fee needs to be cut.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
“This is my time to do what I think is right,” Heilman said.
I wish it had been his time to do what he thought was right last year during the elections. Speaking of which: http://www.kansan.com/news/2009/apr/09/editorial_kansan/#c6508
You know who that is? That's the person that most people I talk to know as "The crazy Ron Paul guy" And he has more sense than the Kansan staff did.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
pmalevoli - Get some real arguments. A subscription fee (not some courtesy payment from SS) that pays the salaries of the people working for the newspaper? Isn't that what it is supposed to do?
The fact that Pres. Heilman doesn't understand this relationship is even more concerning I guess. Well, when you've had essentially no change in Student Senate for years, it is not surprising this is the kind of leadership you get.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Adoherty:
My argument wasn't that the fee should be cut because there are inconsistencies in what the Kansan says it's used for.
My argument is that the Kansan, which is subsidized by Student Senate funds, is abusing their influence with students to try and protect their fee. No fee should be used to try and influence the way Student Senate acts - and that's exactly what the Kansan is doing now.
Here's my question to the future journalists at the Kansan: In your heart of hearts, do you really think it's an acceptable practice to accept your salary from a governmental organization that you're supposed to cover?
The answer is pretty clear to me.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
The money isn't coming from a government... it's coming from tuition fees from students.
Every student newspaper in the country is funded by student fees. If they were based on subscription fees, they would die out.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
But the money is allocated by a government and that government has the responsibility to ensure that it's being used for proper purposes.
Heilman's NYT/Congress analogy is especially relevant. If Congress was funding the salaries of the editors of the New York Times, we'd all agree that it would be improper, ESPECIALLY since the funds used would be tax dollars. Similarly, Student Senate funding the salaries of the editors of the Kansan is improper, ESPECIALLY because the funds are coming from student fees.
Joe Davis: If the Kansan is truly the gem that they claim to be (and I think they are), they will manage. Every other department on campus has taken dramatic fee cuts, the Kansan should too.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Joe is completely right. The money isn't "coming from Student Senate" ... the funds come entirely from the students. And $1.70 is absolutely a fair price to pay for the value that the Kansan gives the student body, Lawrence community, and Student Organizations on campus.
This is a joke. As a former member of student senate I know it is easy to think that the nearly $20MM budget is "Yours" but in actuality it is the students, first and foremost.
Mason (and the finance committee), I strongly urge you reconsider your position. I know that the good people of the Kansan don't let these funds influence how they cover student senate, but if this is passed, the student body will be hurt severely.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Receiving this fee DOES influence the way the Kansan covers Student Senate.
Case in point: The finance committee will be hearing the bill that determines all fees. Apparently, the only part of that bill that the Kansan thinks is newsworthy is their own fee. Why aren't they covering what happens to every other fee?
The reason is simple: they're trying to put the heat on the finance committee and Heilman so that they don't get cut. They're using a bully pulpit. It's wrong and I agree with pmalevoli, it's exactly why this fee should be cut.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
"Enough" - They do plenty of articles on other fees, such as non-revenue sport fees (the boathouse, for example).
Heilman bringing this to a vote today is news worthy and it'd be negligent to not report it. After all, the Kansan is the voice of the student body and the fees come from the student's pockets, not just Heilman's. This is relevant and news worthy to students who probably want to know why a power-hungry student body president is cutting funds to an award-winning student newspaper.
Judging by the comments, I think everyone agrees that it is newsworthy.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Sure, they occasionally write about the athletics fee, but I want to know about all of the others.
Why aren't there articles about Heilman's thoughts on: the sustainability fee, safety fee, hospital fee, recreation center fee, recycling fee, newspaper readership fee, etc.?
Instead, all we get is an occasional jab at Athletics and a whole slew of articles with the Kansan trying to cover their own behinds.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
The NYT/Congress comparison doesn't work, though. The UDK has no competition and is a vital part of the campus community.
Beside every senator should support the UDK for what it is even if they have a personal beef with the individual writers because there is no better outlet for spreading information and ideas. The UDK is a translator for people (like me) who are bored to tears by the discussions and politics of the Student Senate.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
The real question is how much coverage does Senate need? I've seen a LOT of articles about Senate. There are dozens of student groups registered with SILC. I'm sure if you were to take a tally of groups that have representation in the UDK, Senate would be in the top three. No one wants to hear about how some committee passed some piece of legislation that only affects a student group with thirty members EVERY week. So much legislation goes through Senate every week, you'd need your own section of the paper to cover it.
This is bull. The fee that he wants to cut is directly related to student salaries. Last year, when Mason was running with United Students, his biggest pledge was to not raise student fees and NOT CUT fees that directly affected student salaries. And now the spin-off from his party wants to pay for feel-good initiatives like discount movies, instead of saving the UDK?
I think Mason fails to realize that he was endorsed by the UDK last year.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
It's not Student Senate or the fee committee advocating for this cut (yet, and I doubt they will). It's the President. I doubt very many senators would support this.
Instead of cutting, it seems to me the better idea is for the Kansan to stop endorsing (even if it's technically an editorial) any candidates/coalitions for Student Senate elections.
It's also ironic that the candidates that were endorsed last year were Mason and May.. Well, technically they only mentioned Mason (wonder why). Wouldn't it be more fair to run two editorials on why you should endorse Coalition X or Y?
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
"I think Mason fails to realize that he was endorsed by the UDK last year." - Happy
This is exactly what's wrong with this fee. The UDK expects that if they endorse coalition X or Y, that coalition should protect their fee.
Happy is right about something though: the UDK prints way too many articles about student senate. Instead, they should write fewer articles about a more diverse range of topics (i.e. not just about their fee and athletics).
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
An open email to Mason Heilman,
I find it completely unacceptable for you and the rest of U of Kansas's Senate to cut funding for the student paper.
Journalism is an integral part of our society and government. To deliberately eliminate or reduce it would be analogous to bulldozing the foundation of a building.
I realize you feel justified in this act because you want to avoid, "a lot of potential for undue influence both ways".
Your attempt to provide an unbiased, objective field for journalist to act upon is admiral. I appreciate and share your interest in keeping journalism objective and separate from those it covers.
However, reducing the funding for the student paper would only be detrimental to the community which you are elected to serve.
All investigating, reporting, and news coverage is going to need funding. Someone needs to pay the rent. If it isn't UK Senate, it will be more advertisers. There is the chance of "undue influence" no matter who is providing the funding.
You may respond to this by saying, "But it is most important that our media remain uninfluenced by our governing system."
To that, Mr. Heilman, I would emphatically agree. That is why it is the journalists' duty to remain unbiased towards their funders. It is the journalists' duty to act and report with the citizens as their first loyalty.
Please allow the student journalists at your university to continue to develop their skills as objective and unbiased reporters. It will benefit you, the students at University of Kansas, and once they reach graduation day, the world.
Please contact me if you'd like to discuss this further.
Mary Rochelle Undergraduate & student journalist University of Colorado-Boulder
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
"Journalism is an integral part of our society and government. To deliberately eliminate or reduce it would be analogous to bulldozing the foundation of a building."
They wouldn't be eliminating the Kansan, folks. It doesn't amount to much of their (the Kansan's) budget at all.
It would simply be making sure Student Senate, via student fees, isn't subsidizing a media organization that covers them and endorses them.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Three possible reasons why Heilman has made this faux-pas: 1. He has an axe to grind 2. He cares so little about the responsibility of his position that he's willing to risk damaging one of the university's highest-esteemed organizations. 3. He's had too many mid-terms to focus on to fully think through the logic of his folly. As an outsider to the University - 10 years removed from my Master's Degree, it is clear that the UDK is essential to the learning and development process of one of the nation's highest esteemed journalism departments. Should funding be cut to the med center, or the science department, or any other academic instituion for fear that the results of their research might be influenced by their funding source? Ask how many of the reporters or editors are biased by the funding and up until now you would have discovered that very few were even remotely aware of the specific details of any funding from the Senate. The integrity of the employees of the UDK has never been in question. Heilman has just wandered into a Philosophy 101 discussion that he's ill prepared to defend in the realm of overall perspective. While there are many good reasons to maintain the funding, the basic argument of covering the subscription cost is more than adequate. If you want to say that it covers computers, salaries, building heat or subscription fees, whatever you do don't damage the long-standing, nationally-reknowned quality of the University Daily Kansan by supporting this lark of an idea from a small-minded bully passing through.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
ShockHawkHornet,
Funding already has been cut from the med center, science department and virtually every other organization/department on campus. Why should the Kansan be immune?
The reason they were immune in previous years was because they put a full-on blitz against student senate until they forced their hands. The result? Other fees (like ones that offer scholarships to economically disadvantaged students) had to be cut because the Kansan didn't think they should be reduced at all. Talk about arrogance.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Boy, do I love election season! Time to pull out the lawn chair, head to wescoe beach and watch as people "passively table" by sitting out on the beach all week. Really, it's just a place for Envision and KUnited to sit around and talk about how awful the other party is and discuss how great the weather has been, and probably about how ridiculous it is that Mason Heilman is cutting the newspaper subscription fee to the UDK. Surely Mr. Heilman could propose a different means that students could fund the UDK besides the $1.70 student fee they pay each semester. Surely there has to be a way to make sure we get thousands of free UDK's delivered on to campus every day so that students are not forced to buy a 10000 Sudokus book or a cross word puzzle book. Seriously, is there any way to fund organizations on campus other than student fees?
Mr. Heilman and Co. (that includes you, Envision) need to come to grips with the reality that even though Student Senate does have some of the powers of a real government, it is still a student government, and is in charge of making sure our student fees are properly allocated as we the students see fit. Many years ago, we decided it was a good idea for all students to pay a "subscription fee" through student fees. If Mr. Heilman doesn't want the Kansan to have "undue influence" over Student Senate & Student Senate elections (which nobody really cares about anyways), then perhaps there's some mechanism that allows the Kansan to keep getting it's $1.70 out of everyone, and removes any ties that our student "government" has to it.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Not a bad idea, sjschlag. Maybe they could use one of those "optional" campus fees. I don't think they're controlled by Student Senate. Innovative. I like it!
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
The problem with optional campus fees are that they are OPTIONAL = less revenue and difficult to prepare a budget, not knowing exactly how much you'll get.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
jbr00ks9: it's true, they might have some trouble budgeting. But, that's preferable than having their funds come from a source that they shouldn't come from.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Woah kujayhawk, cool your jets. It's not like they're going to shut down the Kansan.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
You're silly...
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Maybe this will bring light on the fact that Senate does matter. It affects nearly every part of this university, from debating alcohol policy in the dorms and asking the chancellor to make sustainability a prime focus of the university's mission, to funding groups, the rec center, the UDK, etc.
Instead of people getting pissed and turning their backs on Senate, maybe they should actually vote this election and put the right people into office. People that will keep their promises, have a history of hard work in Senate (which is not always necessarily shown by offices held), and are right for the student body and university as a whole.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
I wish every other group that has had their fee slashed by Student Senate had the ability to create the fuss that the Kansan does.
Why is it that when all of those other fees got slashed (safety, educational opportunity, etc.), we didn't hear anything about it, but when the Kansan is on the line, suddenly it's all we hear about?
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Mason is clearly still sore that the comic strip "Nuclear Forehead" was dropped for absolutely no reason from the Kansan's comic strips. I mean that was seriously the only funny thing in that paper besides the countless spelling errors and needlessly split infinitives. I'm with Mason on this one. No one thinks Little Scottie is funny. No one. It's time someone addressed this injustice. Thank you Mason. Thank you
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
I think it's also important to realize that the Kansan is staffed by reporters, photographers, designers and copy editors who are all in classes at the Journalism School that feed into the newspaper. If the Kansan cuts back its operations, where does that leave the students? Would those classes eventually be eliminated? What about those teachers?
As a professional photojournalist, I wouldn't where I am now if it weren't for my experience working at the Kansan. This is about more than losing a student newspaper, it's about losing a vital part of the journalism curriculum. Without outlets such as the Kansan, it sure makes it hard to attract the best journalism students to KU.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Lets stop wasting paper with the UDK and make it completely online. Printed media is dead anyways. Then we'd have a lot less journalism students running around and correcting our English.
but for real I am a bleeding heart liberal and I am somehow incredibly offended by whatever is going on. I think we should stage a sit in on WEscoe beach. I'll bring my guitar. It's got nylon strings so you know i'm good. We can play Koombayah or I could butcher some overrated Bob Dylan songs. Whatever people request.
His New York Times analogy is extremely incorrect. I lived with Mason in Stephenson and he once said that Flavor of Love was the "Dumbest show ever." How can we take his word for truth!?!? he clearly never watched Grey's Anatomy or that Saved by the Bell: The New Class Spinoff. Mason is so prone to making ridiculous claims that he stands by 100%. What a republican. The republicans are ruining everything. Is this keyboard organic? I refuse to type on a keyboard that is not organic.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
You people are ridiculous!!! The Kansan is one of the top paper in the NATION!! Includes over a hundred and fifty STUDENTS, who get REAL WORLD experience running a newspaper. I can understand a budget cut, but cut the Kansan out completely? Call up an Kansan Alum, I'm one, and we will ALL tell you that we would not be where we are without the Kansan. I don't know this Mason guy, but I do know this, NEVER trust a politician, especially when they're thinking.
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Luckily this stupidity probably won't get much further (because it's, you know, illegal), but that it was even brought up at all is a slap in the face to the student journalists who rely on the Kansan for both a job and learning experience and the student body as a whole for whom the Kansan is produced. Speaking of the student body, students just voted to KEEP the media fee! Most positions on the Kansan aren't paid, but the ones that are — management and section editors, primarily, and also photographers — are filled with experienced J students who help mentor younger ones and do most of the day-to-day heavy lifting on the paper. Eliminating those positions will certainly affect the quality of the Kansan, which, as has been pointed out, has consistently been recognized for both its print and online products. NATIONALLY recognized. That we're able to do so much with so much less compared with other Big 12 schools really speaks to the talent and dedication of the staff. And to the person who suggested making the Kansan online-only, that doesn't diminish the need for reporters, copy editors, photographers, management and other bread-and-butter positions. Do you think the Web site manages itself?
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there is no need to cover other fees that have been cut because as it has been said in the article......this reduction "is the only cut to the to $423.35 student fee the Student Senate is considering at this time."
Proposed cuts would limit Kansan's budget
Ridiculous! It's called "Student Senate" for a reason.
The Kansan and the Journalism school are both nationally recognized! It's such a great forum for all opinions. I personally think it was one of the greatest things about KU.
If cuts are deemed necessary by the school, then they should be made across the board, including sports. Cuts shouldn't be made to student resources just because some Student Senate political science student decides to voice his partisan and immature ideology on the rest of the school.
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