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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Jayplay: Male students live en vogue.
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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2000
Inside: Kansas softball team defeats Wichita State in two games last night.
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(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 110 NO. 131
Recent Kansan thefts fuel new complaints
By Katie Hollar
By Katie Hollar
writer@kansan.com
Kansas campus editor
Two elections code violation complaints to be filed today raise further questions about the United Students coalition's involvement in Tuesday's paper caper.
Delta Force and Students First representatives are submitting violation complaint forms to the elections commissioner against Ben Walker, United Students candidate for president, and the coalition as a whole.
Four students confessed to stealing 6,000 copies of Tuesday's University Daily Kansan.
The students said they went to the Laurence Journal-World, 609 New Hampshire St., where the Kansan is printed, to look at the opinion page endorsements and a story about Intrafraaternity Council complaints against Walker. They said after reading the IFC story, they got upset and stole bundles of papers, which they later trashed at several downtown locations.
Two of the students involved, R.J. Woodring and Drew Thompson, were running for Senate with United Students. Two others, Lindsay Gaston and Jameson Jones, are associated with the coalition. Woodring and Thompson have withdrawn from the race.
Woodring, Thompson and Gaston admitted stealing the papers Tuesday. Jones came forward yesterday.
All four emphasized that their actions were not endorsed by Walker or by the coalition.Walker said the complaint was politically motivated.
But Partha Mazumdar, Delta Force candidate for senate and author of his coalition's complaint, said he found inconsistencies between the students' and Walker's accounts of the incident.
Walker told the Kansan Tuesday that some people on the coalition had joked about stealing the newspapers when they heard about the IFC article Monday night. Walker said he discouraged them from doing so.
"[The four students] said they were shocked and upset at the loading dock," Mazumdar said. "But Walker said members of his coalition are joking about stealing papers the night before. How can you be joking about something you don't know about? Their stories don't match. If you're going to lie, at least match your stories."
Students First candidate Eric Snider agreed.
"It doesn't make sense," he said. "They say it just happened. You can look at the Kansan online at 2:30 in the morning. These guys have been around enough elections to know that."
Mazudar said those inconsistencies pointed to a larger problem.
"Either Walker is an unmitigated liar." Mazudmara said, "or he is an incompetent student leader who can't get members of his coalition to listen to him."
Mazumad said if Walker was elected, he should be invalidated.
"Fines won't do it. They don't care about fines. I want them to pay," he said.
Mazumdar said other United Students candidates should not be punished.
However, Snider and Sam MacRoberts. Students First candidate for president, said the entire coalition should be held responsible.
MacRoberts and Snider said they could not recommend any specific action against the coalition, but that the elections commission should decide — after it reviews the Journal-World dock's surveillance tape.
Last night Walker dismissed the claims of election code violations.
"This is clearly not a coalition violation," he said. "It was a couple of individuals who have since removed themselves from the coalition. They have removed themselves, and I would not allow them to come back if they wanted to."
Walker said he and his running mate, Marlon Marshall, knew nothing about the newspaper theft.
"Again, they're trying to drag us down into the mud," he said. "It was not Marlon and I and clearly. I do not think there is any basis whatsoever for a violation complaint. It is clearly politically motivated."
Zora Mulligan, elections commissioner, said she could not comment on the pending complaints.
Mulligan said four minor election code violation complaints were submitted yesterday. She could not disclose which coalitions they were against.
No action had been taken yesterday, but Mulligan said hearings will be scheduled next week. The deadline for all complaints is 5 p.m. Monday.
Election results are considered unofficial until all complaints are heard by the commission.
Senate election poll worker, Alex Doll, scans a student voter's KUID in the Kansas Union. The voting process was halted yesterday morning for several hours when the ID scanners stopped working at all eight voting booths. Photo by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
Computer glitch stalls voting
Election delayed until afternoon
By Erinn R. Barcomb
Kansan staff writer
When students went to the polls yesterday morning, they may have found that voting for their favorite Student Senate candidates was a little tricky.
The machines used to scan KUIDs did not operate until about 12:30 p.m. because of a computer glitch.
"We'll do the best we can today and deal with long delays if they occur." Cain said.
Michael Cain, Lawrence law student and a member of the elections commission, said students could not vote on the scanable cards without swiping the students' KUIDs first. Otherwise, he said, students could go to another site to vote again.
But the hold up did not affect turnout at the Haworth site, said Christy Suber, a Lawrence resident who was working the polls outside Haworth.
"It was morning, so people were sleeping," Suber said. About 20 students were turned away because of the malfunctioning scanners, Suber said, but by 3 p.m. about 75 ballots had been turned in at the site.
By mid afternoon lines had formed at the Strong and Wescoe halls sites. But traffic at Burge Union and Haworth wasn't as busy.
Diane Goddard, comptroller, said the glitch happened during a routine upgrade of the computer system.
"We have a fairly routine process to update the database from the student records system so we can add students that just enrolled and students who have just dropped or withdrawn from the University." Goddard said.
Minor changes to the program were made that worked during tests, but Goddard said that during the transfer of
"We'll do the best we can today and deal with long delays if they occur."
Michael Cain
elections commission member
information the program moved 23,000 students to ineligible status to vote.
"We feel extremely badly that this happened," Goddard said. "We know how important these elections are."
Goddard stressed that the system is working again and that the security of the votes was not breached.
Although about 75 students voted on paper while the system was down, Goddard said their votes will count and they will not be able to vote again.
Tomorrow will be the final day for students to cast their votes. The sites will be open from 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m. except for the* Oliver and Grace Sellards Pearson halls, which will be open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
By Mindie Miller
Fourth student confesses to taking newspapers
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The fourth student who helped steal 6,000 copies of the University Daily Kansan Tuesday morning confessed yesterday to his part in the theft.
Jameson Jones, Dallas freshman, admitted that he helped steal the papers from a loading dock at the Lawrence Journal-World, 609 New Hampshire St. He corroborated the story by the three other students involved in the theft — R.J. Woodring.
Lisle, Ill., junior; Lindsey Gaston, El Dorado senior; and Drew Thompson, Wichita sophomore.
All four students were associated with the United Students' Student Senate campaign. Woodring, Gaston and Thompson were already senators but said they would resign. Woodring and Thompson were running for reelection on the United Students ticket but withdrew from the race because of the incident
Jones said he didn't come forward on Tuesday because he was scared.
"I had no idea what to do," he said. "I
Jones said that he was not a Student Senate candidate or a student senator but that he served on the University Affairs Committee.
decided it was the best thing to come out and sav who I was."
Tom Eblen, Kansan general manager, said the paper would not press charges as long as the students agreed to cover the cost of the stolen papers and the 7.500 papers printed to replace them.
He and Ralph Gage, Journal-World general manager, were working together to resolve the matter, Eblen said.
One-ply toilet paper branches out
Grounds maintenance employee Skyler Adamson, 17, removes toilet paper from a redbud tree. Scholarship hall residents have recently made a plea for two- toy toilet paper, and yesterday trees at scholarship halls were blanketed with toilet paper. Photo Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Sexual anxiety may lead to sub-par performance
By Warisa Chulindra
Kansan staff writer
For college students, psychological reasons rather than physical problems are usually the source of sexual performance anxiety.
Randall Rock, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said both men and women experienced sexual performance anxiety, whether it be the inability to be aroused or not being able to have sex for as long as they desired.
He said medication for hypertension, stress, anxiety or depression could cause sexual performance anxiety or prolong or delay ejaculation for men.
Instead of discussing their concerns with doctors, students sometimes rely on advice from magazines that claim to know the secrets on having the best sex, Rock said.
"There's a public yardstick to which each individual tries to measure," he said. "Performance anxiety isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can keep you out of trouble."
For college students, the biggest factor in sexual performance anxiety is not necessarily physical, but the psychological aspects of intimacy, he said.
"Forcing intimacy into a timed event when your head isn't in it is more likely to fail." Rock said.
He said when time and place were the only criteria for sex, the chances of performance anxiety increased.
Dennis Dalley, professor of social welfare,
sex therapist and sex educator, disagreed.
He said people were more likely to experience sexual performance anxiety in committed relationships.
He said worrying or thinking about not being erect or not having an orgasm alone created anxiety.
The demand to perform and the fear of
People do not feel as pressured to perform and please their partner in unemotional involvements, such as superficial relationships and one-night stands. Dailey said.
failure contribute to sexual performance anxiety.
Alcohol also may impact sexual performance. While alcohol may allow those who are sexually oppressed or shy to become less inhibited, it also may cause problems.
"It's difficult to have sex when you're drunk off your ass." Dalley said.
College students experience sexual performance anxiety as often as the general population and possibly even more because sex might be new to them.
Premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction and the inability to have an orgasm are problems people may encounter. If it occurs frequently, therapy is needed to stop the reoccurring problem.
"The simple passage of time does not mean the problem will go away," Dailey said.
And if the problem still doesn't go away, medication may be necessary.
A Food and Drug Administration medical advisory group recommended earlier this week that a new drug — Uprima — be approved for men with erectile dysfunction.
If approved by the FDA, Uprima would most likely be a prescription drug that takes effect quicker — 15 minutes compared to the hour for Viagra. Side effects include nausea and vomiting.
Although impotence does not affect men until their 60s, the incidence of impotence among younger men is 7 percent, according to the Endocrine Society.
Alternatives to Viagra include penis injections of Alprostadil, Paperine or Prentolamine, which can cause 10 to 60 minute erections. The FDA also approved a topical formulation of Alprostadil in November. Penile implants and a pellet-like form of Alprostadil that is placed on the tip of the penis also are options.