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THE UNIVERSITY KANSAS
KS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA, KS 66612
VOL.104, NO.98
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1995
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LOVE AND LOATHING ON V-DAY
Noah Musser/KANSAN
Student pops question in newspaper
By Paul Todd
Kansan staff writer
When Angie Jantz looked through last Friday's University Daily Kansan and saw an ad proposing marriage to her, she was surprised. Not too surprised, however, because she already was engaged.
Kendall Warren, Goddard senior, placed an ad in last Friday's Kansan asking Jantz, a Lawrence resident, the big question, but it was only his back-up plan — just in case Warren got cold feet about popping the question the night before.
"That was my way out," Warren said. "If I didn't get enough balls to ask Thursday night, then she would see the ad on Friday."
Warren asked Jantz to marry him Thursday night while the two were watching a special hour-long episode of the TV sitcom "Mad About You." On the show, the two main characters, Paul and Jamie, were tying the knot. The time was appropriate for Warren, he said.
He knelt next to Jantz, who was sitting on the couch and did not at first notice what Warren was doing. He asked her to marry him then gave her a diamond engagement ring. She said yes.
"What he said shocked me," Jantz said. "I thought it was going to say 'will you marry me,' but it said a lot more than that."
Jantz said she did not see the ad until the next day while she was at work. She said Warren often brought things that he had read into her work so she could read them. On Friday, Warren brought the Kansan to her and showed her the ad.
ad because he wanted to do something different—something they both would remember.
Warren said he placed the $25
Warren said that on Friday he did not tell any of his friends that he had asked Jantz to marry him.
me," he said. "I was just like glowing everywhere."
He said that none of their friends knew about the engagement until Friday's paper came out.
Jantz and Warren had been dating for almost two years before the engagement. Jantz worked with Warren's mother in Wichita, and it was Warren's mother who fixed the two up for the first time.
"They were all excited," Warren said. "They all called me that night."
The wedding will be Sept. 23 in Wichita.
I knew that this time would come for us. Since the day we met, that feeling was there. I know we won't be good at this in the beginning. You must believe that my heart will always be there for you. Why do I ask this, because I Love You.
Angie Jantz, Lawrence resident, and Kendell Warren, Goddard senior, will be married Sept. 23. Warren popped the question the night before his ad asking her to marry him ran in the University Daily Kansan.
Matt Flickner / KANSAN
Pre-packaged holiday can be disenchanting
By Paul Todd Kansan staff writer
The Valentine's message on the answering machine delivers no warm fuzzies.
"Hi, you've reached Ben's room, and since I'm alone and bitter, I thought I'd drive a tank through this man's house, just to ruin his Valentine's floral display."
(sounds of a tank, walls crashing, a man screaming and classical music)
"Happy Valentine's Day."
Ben Langton, Littleton, Colo., sophomore, and owner of this answering machine, is one of many KU students who think the holiday devoted to lovebirds can be a source of bitterness for students who do not have that special someone with whom to eat heart-shaped chocolates.
For some students, Cupid is just a terrible shot.
Langan said Valentine's Day was just an excuse for people to do things that they normally wouldn't do in public.
"People get away with longer public displays of affection and make everyone else nauseous," he said.
Matt Roth, Manhattan sophomore, said the idea of the day for lovers was outdated.
"Romance is a nice idea, but it's rather quaint," he said. "I don't know how much is left in the world."
Roth said that Valentine's Day had become too commercial to have any meaning.
"Iinstead of having a sentiment of love and closeness, it has become a Wal-martized box-set of cheap little cards made in a faraway land." he said.
Greg Guenther, owner of The Palace card shop, Eighth and Massachusetts streets, said that Valentine's Day was usually a last-minute, chaotic occasion for shoppers looking for that special, mass-produced Valentine message.
"In the few days before Valentine's Day we pretty much triple our daily volume." he said.
But Julie Haest, Richardson,
Texas, freshman, said Valentine's Day gifts were the wrong way to express heart-felt affections to loved ones.
"It's stupid because you shouldn't have to buy something to show your love," she said. "It should be Valentine's Day everyday."
Dennis Karpowitz, chairman of psychology, said that a lot of people had a difficult time during holidays.
Shankel defends requests
Chancellor asks House to pass budget proposal
By Matt Hood
Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Del Shankel went to Topeka yesterday to defend the University of Kansas from the budget knife.
Shankel and Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor, tried to convince the Kansas House of Representatives Subcommittee on Education to approve KU's budget requests for 1995 and 1996.
"Kansas has a long history of providing adequate, but not generous, support for higher education," Shankel said in his speech.
Gov. Bill Graves recommended a budget that reflected most of KU's requests for money. The Appropriations committee will change the budget as it sees fit and recommend the budget to the House.
Shankel said one of the largest financial problems facing KU was a shortfall of about $3 million dollars in 1995 and a projected shortfall of $3.5 million in 1996.
Del Shankel
The shortfall was caused by a drop
in enrollment in Fall 1994 and Spring 1994. Another decrease is projected for 1996 as well.
Shankel said that fewer high school graduates in Kansas and dramatic increases in out-of-state tuition were reasons for the drop in enrollment.
Meyen and Shankel said that one problem with state university funding was that tuition money first went to a general fund overseen by the Legislature before being reallocated to the universities.
In the past, when lower enrollment has caused a decrease in tuition revenues, the Legislature has made up for the University's budget shortfall with tax dollars, said Barbara Allen, R-Prairie Village. Allen is head of the subcommittee on education.
But when enrollment is higher than expected, the increased revenues don't necessarily come back to the University. Shankel said that from 1991 to 1994, when enrollment was increasing, an increasingly larger portion of the University's budget came from tuition dollars, which meant that a smaller percentage of tax dollars was spent.
"Now, when the shoe is on the other foot, we hope they make up the shortfall." Shankel said.
"I think part of the problem was a little lack of education on the part of the committee members," Allen said.
Allen said the appropriations committee already had voted not to include the money for 1996, but the work of the subcommittee could change that.
Allen said Shankel did a good job of educating representatives about the needs of the University.
Shankel said that if the supplementary money wasn't approved, the University would be in a precarious position. He listed a freeze on the purchase of library resources and other equipment as one possible result.
Administrators also requested the following:
Approval of the 3.5 percent pay increase for all University employees proposed by the governor.
An increase in the money set aside for research overhead to 3.5 percent from the 1.5 percent recommended by the governor
A 2 percent increase in resident tuition that would pay for instructional equipment.
Trouble spot
The Kansas men's basketball team will play tonight at Devaney Center in Lincoln, Neb.—a place where the Jayhawks haven't won since 1990.
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Increase in recreation fees will pay for equipment, staff
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Deteriorating equipment and blotted intramural fees at Robinson Center prompted Student Senate last week to raise the student recreation fee from $9 to $13 a semester.
The higher fee will allow for improved equipment, repaired playing fields and more Robinson employees, said Mary Chappell, director of recreation services.
The fee was started by Senate in 1991 and had not been increased since.
Chappell said that if the fee had not been passed, Robinson's hours of operation would have dropped.
"That would've been a huge visual thing — to come up and see the doors not open." Chappell said.
Lucy Ridgway, liberal arts and sciences senator, said people often had
to pump up leaking basketballs in the middle of games.
"Basically, the services at Robinson will go down if the fee is not increased."
increased," Ridgway said.
Ami Hizer, off-campus senator, said that the increase in the recreation fee would lower fees for some services at Robinson. Hizer and Ridgway were among six senators who proposed the increase.
"Students are going to see a decrease in their intramural fees," she said. "They're going to see a decrease in what they pay for their aerobics classes."
Hizer said that travel fees for rugby and crew also would be covered more often.
"Nickel by nickel, it starts to add up for the students, and it stinks," he said.
The Big Eight school closest in fee level to KU is Iowa State University, where students nay $24.55.
Eric Medill, student body vice president, said the fee was a worthwhile investment for students but wasn't in support of fee increases in general.
The University of Kansas' $13 recreation fee is less than half of what students at most universities in the Big Eight Conference pay. For example, University of Missouri students pay $30.36, Kansas State University students pay $30.25 and University of Colorado students pay $61.
But Medill acknowledged that the increase was necessary for the maintenance of Robinson's activities.
But, Iowa State has 32 basketball courts compared to KU's six, Chappell said.
$ 2.75 - salaries, supplies and expenses, management of Shenk Complex at 23rd and Iowa streets, facility improvements
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Where the extra $4 goes
The $4 recreation fee increase that Student Senate approved Wednesday will pay for the following:
50 cents - student salaries,
tennis court and sand
volleyball court improvements
75 cents - competition expenses, major equipment purchases.
Noah Musser/KANSAN