Student Senate held committee meetings Wednesday at the Kansas Union. Four committees met, and next Wednesday full Senate will meet.
Committee passes resolution to notify students of grades
The student rights committee passed a resolution that recommended professors be required to notify students of their current mid-semester percentage grades by the end of the seventh full week of classes. The University Senate would have to approve the resolution to amend its rules and regulations, which do not require professors to notify students of grades until after the end of the semester.
Adam McGonigle, Wichita junior and student body president, said providing students with their mid-semester grades would help them know what to do to succeed in their classes. McGonigle presented the resolution and the committee passed it unanimously.
Senate will use clickers at next full meeting
The student rights committee voted to use Electronic Voting Devices, or clickers, for all votes during the full Student Senate meetings to provide a record of each senator’s voting to KU students. Student Senate purchased the clickers last year for $4,820. Libby Johnson, executive secretary, said that at the previous Senate meeting the clickers were used a total of four times: once to vote on a bill, twice for roll call and once to extend the time period of a speaker.
Johnson said it was wasteful not to use the clickers for their intended purpose, to provide transparency of the Senate to students and inform the student body of the actions of student senators. She said using the clickers would add about five minutes to each meeting and would allow senators to vote anonymously. The amendment passed unanimously and will be implemented at the next full Senate meeting.
— Haley Jones
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It's about time we put the near $5000 we spent on the damned things to work.
Now if only they put my voting record online.
I think I'll be the one guy who votes "no" on everything, just to be an ass.
Wow for all the negative feedback you gave Ian for taking you to town, you seem to be trying to save your asses now.
thats the ticket!
I vote that we...uh huh huh huh... remove Beavis from office there. Hey, why are you complaining so much?
Kansan senate reporters need to be reminded AGAIN, that bills that pass through committees must then be passed by full senate. The clickers bill would not go into affect for another few weeks IF full senate passes it. This is really just basic governance.
^^^ Sweet burn.
HAHA, Kansan writers giving anyone else tips on how to use the English language and errors! These are the same people who listed Alaska's population as 1,700 people two weeks ago when it's 700,000. I will start using the correct noun when you all stop disgracing a WWII memorials to our veterans.
If you want to be taken seriously covering student government just know your facts. It's not that hard but it hasn't happened in years.
Please note that it is not "these people" who make any of the given errors in any story in the Kansan. It is one person, or maybe a few. It is categorically untrue to presume that all Kansan staff members had even seen sex on the hill before it was in news stands (which everyone but the ad staff, photographers and designers had not). And it's even worse to assume that all Kansan writers support or agree with everything the Kansan publishes.
Be a little more careful about finger pointing.
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