CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, January 30,1995
3A
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
Troy Maton, a sophomore from Emporia State University, and Hillary Meyer, Emporia junior, enjoy bagels with cream cheese at Uptown Bagels, 8,18 Massachusetts St.
Low-fat and carbohydrate-filled, bagels are popular with students
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staffwriter
The bagel business is booming in Lawrence.
And bagel sellers have people like Tara Fitzpatrick, Evergreen, Colo. sophomore. to thank.
Fitzpatrick, who was dashing out of Wescoe Terrace cafeteria Friday with a garlic bagel in her hand, said she rarely missed her daily bagel.
"I like them for their taste, not for their nutritional value," Fitzpatrick said.
But for other students, the low-fat factor makes bagels even more appealing.
Kevan Long, Topeka senior, said
bagels boosted his energy.
"They're better for you than a doughnut," Long said. "Sometimes I eat one before a track meet because of the carbohydrates. But I also like them because they're good when they're warm."
Bryan Daffer, owner of Uptown Bagels, 818 Massachusetts St., said bagels were low in fat and calories. The bagels at his store have less than one gram of fat and between 135 and 150 calories, he said.
Bagels made from scratch have less fat than grocery store bagels because fresh bagels do not have added preservatives, he said.
"They fill you up, and they're good for you," Daffer said. "They're chock full of complex car-
Daffer said that Uptown Bagels had 12 different varieties of bagels and sold about 1,500 of them a day.
At Wescoe Terrace, bagels are the second-best selling food, said Denise Svaglic, manager of the cafeteria.
"They're one of our biggest items, right after taco salad," she said.
Wescoe Terrace sells more than 300 bagsel a day, she said.
Tara Andrews, Eudora junior,
said that she knew bags were low
in fat but that she ate them because
they tasted good.
"I eat one every day for lunch," she said. "I like them with cream cheese or toasted with cinnamon and sugar."
StudEx receives criticism for overruling committee decision
Some senators say group went too far with symposium bill
It's the group that sets the agenda and serves as a check and balance for Student Senate, but some senators think that it has overstepped its bounds.
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
The Student Executive Committee's function, as stated in Student Senate Rules and Regulations, is to make sure that Senate carries out its duties expeditiously and within the rules and regulations and to "bring before the Student Senate all matters that should be the concern of the entire Student Senate."
StudEx has 11 voting members: the chairwoman, the student body president, the student body vice president, the heads of the five Senate committees and three representatives from the Senate Executive Committee. Ex-officio non-voting members are the chairman of the graduate representative assembly, the Senate treasurer and the Senate executive secretary.
Before Wednesday's Senate meeting, StudEx voted 6-4 to bring a law symposium bill to the Senate floor after the Senate finance committee had voted against the symposium. The majority of StudEx members believed that the finance committee was unfair when it didn't approve the bill last semester.
An example of StudEx's duties is to correct mistakes made by a particular committee in dealing with a bill. But senators do not always agree about what constitutes a mistake.
day debate on the issue lasted nearly two hours. Although senators voted against allowing StudEx to put the bill on the agenda, the bill eventually was passed by Senate.
Since the finance committee already had made its decision, many senators thought that StudEx disregarded the responsibility of the finance committee by overriding its
Many senators were upset with StudEx's decision, and the Wednes-
"I think in that particular case, StudEx made a mistake," said David Stevens, Nunemaker senator. "Unless a committee violated rules and regulations, they can't bring a failed bill onto the Senate floor, and they did."
Ami Hizer, offcampus senator, said that the finance committee's decision should have been respected.
the finance committee's decision, she said.
"My personal opinion is that the argument went too far," Bechtel said. "They were simply trying to act in the best interest of everyone."
StudEx member and head of the finance committee, Stephanie Guerin, said that she wasn't aware that the law symposium bill was going to be brought up at the meeting. She wasn't given the proper amount of time to prepare to defend
"StudEx themselves admitted that finance did nothing wrong," said Hizer, who has been a senator for three years.
The head of StudEx, Jill Bechtel,
said that Senate rules and regulations could be interpreted in many different ways.
"In my three years with Senate, I've seen Stud Ex go farther and farther from what it was intended."
Guerin said that it seemed like StudEx members intentionally avoided telling her.
Stevens said that such action made it appear that StudEx practiced
"I didn't even have the information that I needed to present to the body," she said.
Ami Hizer off-campus senator
favoritism by working harder to pass funding for certain groups than others.
"That's what it looks like, and they should avoid doing that," he said.
Guerin said that StudEx often was mis-informed about what happened during finance committee meetings. She said that Sherman Reeves,
student body president, and other StudEx members rarely attended committee meetings, making them less knowledgeable than they should be about the issues at hand.
"He's the student body president, and I don't think that that's a very good precedent to set," she said. "If he can't be there, he should at least be reading the minutes."
Reeves admitted that he was not at the finance committee meeting when the law symposium was discussed, but he said that StudEx made the correct choice in appealing the committee's decision.
Reeves said that kinks needed to be worked out in Senate rules and regulations with regard to StudEx's role in Senate.
New class about natural disasters is timely after earthquake in Japan
Course intended for non-science majors
By Virginia Marghelm Kansan staff writer
Don Steeple, professor of geology,
wants students to take his geology
571 class for the same reason they
would choose a certain kind of candy
— because it looks interesting and appealing.
"I'd like it to be kind of neat," Steeples said. "I want it to be a candy-store type course."
But Steeple's class, called Earthquakes and Natural Disasters, is more than an interesting class for non-science maiors. It's timely.
After the earthquake in Kobe, Japan, students in the class spent about a half hour discussing the disaster, Steeples said.
This is the first time the course has been offered at the University of Kansas. Steeples said he planned to teach the class during spring semesters.
About 30 students on the Lawrence campus are enrolled in the course along with six students at the Regents Center in Overland Park. Steeples
uses a two-way audio and visual system in Strong Hall to teach both groups simultaneously.
Half the time is spent on earthquakes, Steeples said. For the remainder of the class, students learn
about floods,
tornadoes, hurricanes,
volcanoes and other natural disasters.
The class studies the technical aspects of each disaster, including its size, frequency and distribution. In addition, the class looks at
of geology, said the class was good for non-majors to take.
Students should take classes outside their areas to make them more
"Students have a responsibility to know about this," McKenna said.
Larry McKenna, assistant professor
"I don't start out and explain the scientific method," he said.
how disasters affect humans. Steeple also addresses public policy for dealing with disasters and how the effects of disasters can be lessened by human preparation.
Because the class is geared toward non-science majors, the only prerequisite is one other science class. This ensures that the students have some knowledge of basic science, Steeples said.
vauable to society, McKenna said. He said the class gave students practical knowledge that could be applied to real-life situations such as the earthquakes in Los Angeles and Kobe.
Steeples' candy-store theory held true for at least one student who enrolled in the course. Vanessa Vanek, Lawrence senior, said that she had enrolled in the class because the title sounded interesting and because it fulfilled a requirement for an upper-level natural science course.
"It's just not something I've ever learned about before," Vanek said. "I'm fascinated with the whole idea of the earth and its behavior and things we can't control."
Hearing postponed for Kansas fullback charged with rape
Sophomore football fullback Scott Smetana, whose preliminary rape hearing was postponed Friday, will return to Douglas County District Court Feb. 23.
The hearing will determine whether there is enough evidence for a trial.
In August, Smetana was charged with raping a 19-year-old female KU student.
According to court documents,
Smetana's attorney, Michael Ril-
l
Scott Smetana
Riling, who had been on jury duty, requested more time to prepare.
"I was a juror until 12 o'clock the night before," Riling said.
The prosecution did not object to the continuance. This is the second time Smetana's preliminary hearing has been postponed. A hearing date had been set for
Dec. 1, but the hearing was moved to Friday after Rick Trapp, a Douglas County assistant district attorney, and Riling agreed to postpone the hearing.
Watkins gets good report
Watkins Memorial Health Center has all but received reaccreditation.
David Stonington, surveyor for the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, said that Watkins achieved substantial compliance in all standards examined by the association.
He said that greater than 80 percent of compliance was met.
Stonington said he would make a recommendation to the accreditation committee, which makes the final decision. The committee usually agrees with the survivor. The decision is expected in April.
Watkins excels in the quality of its staff, Stonington said.
"They are superly trained, carefully educated and reviewed on a regular basis," he said.
Stonington said that space and privacy were areas that could be improved.
Jim Strobl, director of Watkins, said he was confident about reaccreditation.
Being a surveyor myself, I was 99.6 percent sure," he said. "We've done well in each of the other years. I knew we'd do it."
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