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VOL.104.NO.52
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1994
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Child care committee gains new member
Student voice will be vital in finding location for the new University child care center
By James Evans Kansan staff writer
A student voice will be added to the input process of planning the building of the new child care center.
Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor and coordinator of the project, said yesterday morning that he would add a student and a faculty member who was a parent to the 12-member Child Care Users Planning Committee, which is helping locate a site for the new center.
The planning committee is a subcommittee of the 24-member Child Care Task Force, which makes administrative recommendations about the center. The task force has four student representatives, but the planning committee has no student representatives.
"I have no problem with more student representation," Meyen said. "I just need to know you want it."
Prior to the 7:30 a.m. meeting, student leaders had voiced concern about the lack of student input on the project.
David Ambler, vice chancellor of student affairs, said that issues often came up that were not communicated as well as they should be between administrators and students. He said the problem was most noticeable when new Student Senate administrations stepped in each year.
"We're often a little insensitive to making sure the link is made to the next administration," he said.
Sherman Reeves, student body president, said that the administration should take the initiative to inform members of
But Kim Cocks, Student Senate liaison to the task force, said she was pleased that the administration was interested in obtaining student input on the issue.
student government on the issue.
"It's just student government's responsibility now to make sure all students know what is going on in the process," Cocks said.
Meyen also said that the planning committee had looked at three proposed sites for the new center. They included the grounds of Stouffer Place Apartments
between 19th Street and Irving Hill, which mainly houses married students; the first Southern Baptist Church at 19th Street and Naismith Drive; and the football fields behind the Anschutz Sports Pavilion.
Meyen said that Stouffer Place was the most promising site for the new center.
He said that the center might also be used as a community center with meeting rooms, offices and a small computer center.
Jav Thornton / KANSAN
JLawrence High School students crowd the halls between classes. Supporters of a bond issue to build a second high school say such overcrowding reduces students to mere numbers. Opponents say the campus can be enlarged.
Loss of education a worry with a second school
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
It's the political issue in Lawrence.
Supporters say Lawrence is long overdue for a second high school.
On Tuesday, voters will decide whether to approve a $36.9 million school bond issue that would be paid for by raising property taxes. The lion's share of it, $25.8 million, will be used to build a second high school, thus keeping up with the city's growing population.
But wrapped up in the high school proposal are fears of diluting education, of being unfair to the city's poor and minority populations, of duplicating services and a host of other problems. Both sides dismiss the idea that Lawrence's success in high-school football is an issue, but it symbolizes the additional fear that the one-school community would be divided into two camps.
The need for a new high school is based on an estimate of Lawrence High School's future growth, said Bob Johnson, president of Keeping the Promise, the pro-second high school group. He said estimates showed the school would have 2,500 stu-
See CAUSE, Page 8A.
Dividing Loyalties
If the bond proposal passes and a second high school is built, the Lawrence School District will send all high school students living north of 15th Street to the new school. Many of the students on the east side of the city are minority, and many of them are poor. By dividing the east side between the two schools, district officials hope the 15th Street division will make their populations ethnically and culturally diverse.
Krista McGlobon/ KANSAN
KU students may be affected by bond issue
By Carlos Tejada
Kansan staff writer
The school bond issue on Tuesday's ballot will affect KU students more than they might think.
Should the $36.9 million bond issue pass,
property taxes will be raised by 6.5 mills, or
$6.500 for every $1,000 worth of estimated
property value. In that case, the Lawrence
School District would be raising its total
levy from 56 to 62.5 mills.
So a property owner with an $80,000 building would have to pay $5,000 a year to the school district. But a student renting an apartment owes nothing because he or she doesn't actually own anything, right?
Wrong.
If the property that an owner is paying taxes on is an apartment building, students living in those apartments will see a rent
See EFFECT,Page 8A.
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Eileen Stevens, founder of the Committee to Halt Useless College Killings, speaks to a crowd of about 1,200 students at the Lied Center. Stevens's son, Chuck, was killed in a hazing accident 16 years ago.
College hazing issue addressed at Lied Center
Kansan staff writer
By Ashley Miller
Stopping fraternity and sorority hazing begins with the organizations.
"It seems to me that you would want to strengthen the program and go forward," said Eileen Stevens, founder of C.H.U.C.K., the Committee to Halt Useless College Killings. "You cannot be silent if you witness such behavior."
Stevens spoke to about 1,200 people at the Lied Center last night about hazing in the greek community. She formed the organization after her son was killed in a fraternity hazing accident in 1978 at Alfred University in New York.
"Hazing is illegal in Kansas," Stevens said. "And to me hazing is a sign of weakness, not strength. It defeats the spirit of brotherhood and sisterhood and violates the premise on which you were founded."
As an alternative to hazing, she said fraternities and sororities needed to start more educational programs that avoided alcohol and drew new members together, such as blood drives, projects to help the homeless and inviting speakers to campus.
Although Stevens addressed the greek community, she said it was not the only place hazing occurred.
Hazing occurs in the military, high schools and even college marching bands, she said.
"I am not opposed to fraternities and sororities," Stevens said. "You know and I know that hazing exists elsewhere. I am opposed to hazing."
There has not been a hazing death at the University of Kansas, said Bill Nelson, assistant director of the Organizations and Activities Center and coordinator for greek programs.
En garde!
Kansas basketball legend James Naismith had another love — fencing. Since then, the Kansas fencing club has seen its ups and downs, but the sport remains. Page 18.
Slattery: Opponent doesn't have right experience
"I am absolutely amazed when newspapers say there aren't any differences between Bill Graves and me," said Slattery, the democratic gubernatorial candidate. "We look a little alike and we both have wives named Linda, but that's where the similarities end."
Job requires big decision-making
Jim Slattery cannot believe that the public perceives little difference between the Kansas gubernatorial candidates.
By Colleen McCain Kansan staff writer
This perception has made campaigning in a traditionally republican state an uphill battle. Slattery said.
"In Kansas, if there are no differences between candidates, the republican
wins because there are that many more republicans," he said.
Consequently, Slattery draws constant comparisons between himself and Graves in an effort to solidify the candidates' differences. The most important difference is their preparation for the job of governor, he said.
Graves has worked for his "daddy's" business and as Secretary of State, Slattery said. Slattery has been president of a real estate and development company in Topeka and is serving his sixth term as a Congressman from Kansas' 2nd District.
"The Secretary of State doesn't have to make tough decisions, and you need
that experience to be governor," Slattery said. "You need agricultural experience, and Bill Graves has no agricultural experience. He has no policy-making experience and no work experience in the private sector, except working for his daddy's company."
But Slattery must convince voters that he is the better man for the job.
See SLATTERY. Page 8A.
Slattery said his career, both in public service and in the private sector, has thoroughly prepared him to be an effective governor.
"I think people who look at the two candidates and ask themselves who understands them best will find that Jim Slattery has a lot more in common with them than Bill Graves does," he said.
Slattery, who grew up in Good Intent, a city in northeastern Kansas, said his
Paul Kotz / KANSAN
Jim Slattery is the Democratic gubernatorial candidate.
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