Controversy continues over vote

Kelsey Ryan (Thursday, April 10)

The Faculty Senate will meet from 3:30-5 p.m. Tuesday in the Kanza Room.

During the General Education Council meeting yesterday, Gerritt Bleeker, associate dean of liberal arts and sciences, said President Michael Lane is looking into many options regarding the secret ballot.

According to Adam Goldstein, attorney advocate for the Student Press Law Center in Arlington, Va., said the secret ballot, and the destruction of the ballots afterwards, may have violated the Kansas Open Meetings Act and the Kansas Open Records Act by the Faculty Senate in last week’s senate meeting.

Bleeker said that he and Rod Sobieski, interim vice president for academic affairs, met with Lane on Tuesday to discuss the secret ballots in a 45-minute meeting. Amy Webb, first vice-president of the senate, and Harvey Foyle, president of the senate, met with Lane on Monday.

Lyon County Prosecutor John Marcus Goodman is seeking a statement from the university.

Tracy Greene, university counsel, did not return calls seeking comments.

1 Response to "Controversy continues over vote"


S.A.G.
April 14, 2008 10:52 pm
There should be a student organization wholly committed to pointing out just how worthless Tracy Greene really is. It is official, I am organizing S.A.G: Students Against Greene!!

She is a horrible addition to this university for two reasons: 1) she can't keep the university from breaking the law; and 2) she is too damn chickenshit to give the Bulletin an interview. If most lawyers have guts then Tracy isn't like most lawyers. She hides from a second rate rag like the Bulletin? Pathetic!