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Higher education funding on docket for ASG

Written by Sarah Shaw
Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:10
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ASG President Jonathan Krueger presents a resolution in support of higher education Thursday the 21st in the memorial Union Kansa Room. Kenny Thompson/The Bulletin

A resolution to support higher education in light of a new round of budget cuts this year was composed by Associated Student Government President Jonathan Krueger, senior political science major, and passed by ASG Senate last week in their first meeting of the semester. Krueger said it is just the beginning of a “campaign for higher education.”

“I think the theme of the resolution was intended to be whatever it takes, no more cuts,” Krueger said. “Higher education has sustained more than its fair share of cuts over the last 20 years and we cannot go any further.”

It was reported in the resolution, higher education in Kansas has faced a 20 percent decrease from $7,779 per full-time student in 1988 to $6,256 per full-time student in 2008.

As stated in the resolution, “ASG believes that a healthy local business community thrives on a healthy university community and vice versa, that students and local businesses are interdependent, and that Emporia State University students economically support the Emporia area businesses and contribute to their financial success.”

The resolution was proposed to the Emporia Chamber of Commerce on Monday where Krueger hopes it will be passed in mid February after its distribution to their member businesses.

“The chamber already has a statement on higher education,” Krueger said. “However, it’s a pretty broad statement, basically the resolution itself is asking for something more direct.”

By gaining support of businesses, Krueger hopes to make the possibility of more cuts from higher education less likely.

“The entire house of representatives will be up for reelection again and we need them to know that the business community supports higher education in order to get their vote as well,” Krueger said.

As part of the movement in support of higher education, businesses that adopt the resolution will likely hang some sort of sign at their location, issued by ASG. However with only a limited amount of time before the Kansas Congress passes more bills with budget cuts, ASG plans to get as many people involved as possible to present a stronger message to legislators.

“What we’re also doing is encouraging all ESU organizations to consider some sort of action,” Krueger said. “It will be our job to seek out their assistance and use whatever resources they have.”

In addition, ASG plans to man stations around campus where students can write personalized postcards to legislators.

“It’s often said that if a legislator receives five contacts from within their district, that’s enough to sway them,” Krueger said. “And if those are five personalized contacts especially from the business community and students that’s going to be a huge impact in the situation.”

With support of businesses and all regent schools, Krueger hopes that this “campaign” will make a difference in the decisions of legislators. He said this issue is not just at present, but one that the state will face for years to come.

“This is something that I’m really passionate about because education just isn’t about us, it’s not about the people who are here today, it’s about everybody for tomorrow,” Krueger said. “We are really building our future; we are trying to become leaders of tomorrow for things we don’t even know are going to happen, for jobs we don’t know will exist, for technology that hasn’t be created yet. We are supposed to be those people, but how can we do that if we keep losing jobs, if we keep increasing our class sizes, if we keep making public education inaccessible to the students in our state?”

ASG Legislative Director Caroline Ewing, sophomore English major, said that message will be delivered by representatives of the six regent schools and Washburn to the legislature at Higher Education Day on Feb. 16.

“This year our message at higher education day is going to be kind of exactly what’s on the resolution,” Ewing said. “That we can’t afford to take any more cuts from higher education.”

Krueger hopes that by spreading the message, more support for higher education will influence legislators decisions.

“We’re not asking for all the funding that we’ve lost over the past twenty years to be back,” Krueger said. “We’re just asking that there are no more cuts, and these businesses can certainly help us achieve that goal because it’s a ripple effect. If one person talks to two people who talk to four more, suddenly you have a whole group of people who are all advocating for the same viewpoint.”

ASG re-recognizes RSOs, remembers Williams

Written by Sarah Shaw
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 03:54
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Associated Student Government had a large agenda last Thursday in its sixth meeting of the semester that included the appointment of Sen. Jennifer Cheray, sophomore business marketing major, the passing of SR 09002, a resolution in remembrance of Samuel Jacob Williams and the discussions of various bills, many to re-recognize student organizations that had been previously rescinded.

While some of organizations that wanted to be recognized were new to campus, others wished to be re-recognized after their rescission earlier this year.

“We have noticed that there are a few RSOs that are going to continue their status by being re-recognized,” said Jonathan Krueger, senior political science major and ASG president. “I’m not sure what percentage of organizations that we rescinded have applied for re-recognition, a lot of those groups are actually new.”

Krueger said that it is typical for some groups to apply for re-recognition after a rescission bill.

“If there is a recension bill, there’s always going to be a couple groups that didn’t realize what was happening,” Krueger said. “So obviously we want to be there to help them get back on their feet.”

While the recent number of recognition bills seems high, Krueger said it is fairly normal and that ASG expected some of those to be bills for re-recognition.

“To some extent, I think we expect at least one or two that would like to continue or someone else would like to pick them up,” Krueger said. “Some of the groups we rescinded hadn’t been active in several years. We’re seeing that some people who would like to see them back on campus are new students.”

Bills that were introduced at this meeting for recognition will be moved to general order for a vote at their next meeting and concern Sigma Gamma Rho, ESU Ultimate, the Rehabilitation Club and the ESU Recreation Club.

Composed earlier that day, SR 09002 was moved to general order so that it would be passed and could then be presented later that evening at the Candle Light Vigil, which was held in memory of Williams, who was found dead on Wednesday evening.

“ASG commemorates the memory of Samuel Jacob Williams and extends deepest sympathies to his family, friends, teammates, and coaches,” said Sen. Anna Altwies, senior secondary education major, as she read the resolution to the Senate.

Krueger said that ASG presented the resolution at the vigil because it was the “fitting thing to do.”

“Sam was a wonderful person, I don’t think that there were enough kind words that we could have put in there to describe him,” Krueger said. “We felt that we had an opportunity to take a moment to recognize his contribution to the school athletically, as a student and as a person.”

While this resolution was in memory of a student, Krueger said that a resolution can serve a variety of purposes.

“Typically we pass a resolution in support of a cause or in response to some action that we would like to see taken,” Krueger said. “We could use a resolution to show our support for a group, an individual a policy, something of that sort, as well as to show opposition.”

Unlike a bill, a resolution is passed by unanimous consent, or without a hand vote.

“When we do resolutions, we always like to pass them by unanimous consent,” said Whitney McGinnis, ASG graduate assistant. “Since this is in honor of the memory of somebody, we would just like to show our unified support.”

ASG prepares student leaders and advisers for new year

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Wednesday, 02 September 2009 15:32
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On Tuesday and Wednesday, Associated Student Government hosted the Jump Start workshop for Recognized Student Organization student leaders and the Adviser Retreat in the Flint Hills Room in the upper level of the Memorial Union.

“Jump Start is typically a kick-off workshop for organizations at the start of each fall,” said Jonathan Krueger, senior political science major and ASG president. “These workshops allow the members and advisers of the organizations to become familiar with ASG policy and discover how they can become more effective as a group.”

The workshops cover a variety of topics that students and advisers alike can find useful for their respective organizations.

“Each workshop is slightly different, and it varies as to what we do during the retreat,” said Whitney McGinnis, graduate adviser for ASG and RSOs. “Mainly we’re here to open dialogue between ASG, RSOs and advisers.”

Krueger and McGinnis distributed handbooks at the retreat that outlined information what is expected of advisers and some ideas on different advising styles. The handbooks also give information on what advisers should expect of the students within their group.

“As a new adviser, I am happy to know that there is an organization available to provide support and assistance to the advisers of these groups when we have questions,” said Concha Dikin, adviser for the Hispanic American Leadership Organization.

Student organization leaders receive a similar handbook that provides information on being a team leader and planning out the academic year. Both handbooks also have a calendar for the 2009-10 school year.

“Last week we held the Jump Start Retreat for the student leaders, and we really tried to focus on goal setting and officer preparation for their organization,” Krueger said. “It is important that the students, leaders, and advisers communicate with each other.”

McGinnis and Krueger had also planned to demonstrate the new ORGSYNC program to the advisers, but the site was down for maintenance.

“The ORGSYNC program will eventually become the main method for submitting forms to ASG, but it will still be up to the officers to relay information to the other members of their organization,” Krueger said. “The website will allow for groups to more easily communicate to their members, as well as providing a portal where members can access documents or send texts to all of the members at once.”

More opportunities to attend workshops could bring different speakers and topics, McGinnis said.

“Hopefully in the future we will be able to have other speakers or facilitators come in for these Jump Start workshops,” McGinnis said. “For now, we are looking at potentially holding workshops that are more focused on allocations around the first part of November.”

Both Krueger and McGinnis look forward to talking with student leaders and advisers at these workshops, and both emphasized that these workshops are highly beneficial for all of the RSOs.

“I would definitely recommend this program to others who did not attend,” Dikin said. “Emporia State is all about teamwork, and this is a great way to promote that team effort as a benefit to campus and the community. Jump Start is a great way to get different groups to share ideas through a network.”

Though the Jump Start Retreats for student leaders and advisers have passed, McGinnis recommends keeping an eye out for other workshops or training sessions in the future.

“It is very important that students and advisers alike be ‘in the know,’” McGinnis said.

If student leaders or advisers have questions about their organizations or the informational handbooks, they can contact ASG through the Center for Student Involvement at 620-341-5481.

LAST NIGHT; A bad day at Bangkok for rookie Excise man.(Features)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) January 29, 1999 | Fulton, Rick THE KNOCK (ITV) POOR old Alex Murray, the Customs & Excise rookie, had a bad night last night.

First he thought he was going on a slap and tickle junket to Bangkok, only to find the drugs courier he was following was gay.

So rather than being surrounded by lovely young Thai ladies, it was young men in thongs winking at him.

Then he lost the drug courier who could lead him to Mr Big and got a massive dressing down from his boss Ancrom (Mark Lewis Jones).

Returning exhausted and ear bitten to his girlfriend, he hoped for some cosy comfort, only for her to produce a condom and accuse him of sleeping with prostitutes.

All the way through, Scots actor Daniel Brown looked like a big Andrex puppy. His great hound dog face kept registering disbelief that it was all going wrong.

Daniel added some light relief to this gritty thriller, which just gets better and better.

Cherie Lunghi was the guest actress in the first of a new three-parter.

She played Toni Maxwell (yes, I know she’s the face of Kenco coffee but even The Knock has an ounce – or should that be a teaspoonful – of humour) who had taken over her jailed husband’s business.

Wearing leather trousers or silky undies, she oversaw her minions – two dogs, a girlfriend and some heavies.

Toni gets Thai women to smuggle heroin concealed in breast implants.

Alex was trying to pin the smuggling on her, but by the end of the first part had botched the job, arrested the courier and lost any leads to her.

Meanwhile, Barry Christie (Steve Toussaint) was made to go undercover cleaning buses.

Someone is smuggling drugs through Customs and Excise in the buses and he gets a job as a cleaner.

He’s not happy, thinking that it is because he’s black, but uses a racist attack to get in with the smugglers.

After a shaky start this series has found its form. But it will have to keep up to the standards of last night’s show to match the sheer power of The Vice. this web site brier creek movies

SOAPWATCH BROOKSIDE (Channel 4, 8.30pm) THE friendship between Sinbad (Michael Starke, left) and Mick could be at an end as the rape continues to rip Brookside Close apart. The truth could soon be revealed after victim Nikki sees a familiar face in a flashback which could be the rapist. Ron has to decide between Bev and Anthea PICK OF THE BOX COMEDY: Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (BBC2, 9.00pm) STARS Kathy Burke and James Dreyfus manage to steer this sometimes- wayward comedy into funny waters. web site brier creek movies

Kathy just looks and acts brilliantly as Linda La Hughes. Dreyfus’ character Tom is slightly boring and one-dimensional, but he still has some withering lines.

Tonight, Linda’s long-lost sister comes to stay and Tom is suddenly inundated with offers of television work. Dale Winton makes a guest appearance.

DOCU-SOAP: Vets In Practice (BBC1, 8.00pm) VETS Trude Mostue, Hannah Pollard and Sam Robinson all reflect on their social lives this week.

Trude thinks her new boyfriend Patrick could be Mr Right, then has to worry about a dog’s possible pregnancy.

Hannah has a new look after losing three stones and takes it out on an overweight rabbit that she puts on a diet.

And Sam, who has little time to socialise, has to castrate a young stallion.

SITCOM: Frasier (Channel 4, 10.00pm) THE pompous brothers Niles (David Hyde Pierce) and Frasier (Kelsey Grammer) are red faced when they can’t get tickets for the hottest new theatrical show in town.

Could they be losing their status within Seattle society?

Meanwhile, the wonderful Daphne Moon (Jane Leeves) becomes a minor celebrity when the local newspaper shows a whole new side to her.

CHAT: Parkinson (BBC 1, 9.30pm) PARKY is joined by Mo Mowlam, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, in what promises to be a great show.

The MP has battled against a brain tumour and lost her hair. But she refuses to be vain and simply ties a bandana around her head.

They are also joined by Alan Davies, the stand-up comedian and star of the quirky comedy drama Jonathan Creek.

MOVIES BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL (Ch4, 1.45pm – 3.30pm) Bigoted Southern boy Robert Wagner learns tolerance when serving in the Pacific. Soapy war drama. 1956 FOR THE FUTURE: The Irvine Fertility Scandal (BBC2, 3.30pm – 5.00pm) Marilu Henner given dubious treatment in another true-life story. 1996 TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT (Ch5, 3.30pm – 5.20pm) Struggling actor Robert Urich tries to revive his career and his marriage in hollow comedy. With Meredith Baxter. 1982 A PROMISE TO CAROLYN (Ch5, 9.00pm – 10.50pm) Abused sisters seek vengeance on wicked stepmother in true-life teledrama. 1996 LOCK UP (BBC1, 10.25pm – 12.05am; Scotland, 10.55pm – 12.35am) Saintly Sylvester Stallone at his most humourless as a framed convict transferred to a hell-hole run by vicious warden Donald Sutherland. Manipulative melodrama. 1989 WITH A VENGEANCE (Grampian, STV, 10.30pm – 12.15am) Melissa Gilbert in tele-dramatics. 1992 THE WIZARD OF LONELINESS (BBC2, midnight – 1.50am) Young Lukas Haas is despatched to his grandparents during World War Two. Poignant drama with many memorable touches, impeccably acted. With John Randolph. 1988 THE HAPPY HOOKER (Ch5, 12.30am – 2.20am) Lynn Redgrave unhappily cast as New York madam Xaviera Hollander. 1974 STEEL JUSTICE (ITV regions, 12.35am – 2.15am) Lame robot monster cop thriller with Robert Taylor. 1992 BLUE CITY (BBC1, 1.05am – 2.25am) Cynical drifter Judd Nelson attempts to solve his father’s mysterious murder in routine Ross McDonald yarn. 1986 THE DEMOCRATIC TERRORIST (Ch5, 2.20am – 4.05am) Trashy Euro-action drama. 1992 THE IRON CURTAIN (Ch4, 3.25am – 4.50am; S4C, 3.45am – 5.20am) Dana Andrews in dull defection tale. 1948 Fulton, Rick

Mini-Big Event takes ESU students to William Allen White Elementary

Written by Josh Johnson
Monday, 24 August 2009 10:46
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Student volunteers, Emporia Freemasons and Center for Student Involvement staff members donated time last Friday at William Allen White Elementary School to host a series of activities called “The Mini-Big Event.”

“It’s kind of a great way to start off a new year – for the kids and us,” said Taylor Relph, school counseling graduate student. “ I think it’s been pretty good for our first Mini-Big Event, but there’s always room for improvement and more organization.”

The Mini-Big Event consisted of seven different activities for the children that participated, including hula hoops and a bean bag toss. Each activity was lead by a student volunteer or CSI staff member.

One of the seven activities was registering children with the Child Identification Program. CHIPS gathers physical information on a child so that if the child goes missing, there is a collection of material that may aid in the search for the child. The information in the CHIPS kit includes DNA, a video recording of the child, finger prints and voice recording.

Freemasons from Emporia Lodge #12 ran the CHIPS station.

“The CHIPS program was put together by the Grand Lodge of Kansas,” said Robert Nelson, master of Emporia Lodge #12. “We gather all the information and give it to the parents, then all the data is wiped from our computer. We can gather the information for 25 children in an hour. Over 6,000 children in Kansas have had these kits made for them, with 800 coming from Emporia.”

Jonathan Krueger, senior political science major and ASG president, organized the collaborative event that included the participation of 300 elementary school students.

“This was probably about a 15 to 20 hour ordeal to get ready,” Krueger said. “I would describe it as organized chaos. There were kids here from kindergarten through fourth grade, and any time you can get them outside and engaging in team building activities, you’ve done something good.”

Since this was the first year for the Mini-Big Event, it was unknown how the event would flow in comparison with the normal “Big Event” which is held later on in the year, Krueger said.

“This was on more of a small scale than the normal ‘Big Event,’” Krueger said. “The main purpose of this ‘Mini-Big Event’ was to get college students interacting with service organizations and the community.”

Volunteers and organizers agreed that future Mini-Big Events would run more efficiently with even more planning.

“With more planning and organization in the future it will run smoother,” Relph said. “It’s still an effective way to get college students to get involved and be role models.”

Krueger said he believes ESU students participating in this event made a difference to the elementary students.

“Though our numbers were smaller than the normal ‘Big Event’ I think we made a difference here,” Krueger said. “We can show future generations that college is always a possibility and that they can have fun while learning about one another and interacting.”