Monday, March 13, 2000
The University Daily Kansan
Section A • Page 5
Delta Force unveils campaign platform
Off-campus center union input top list
By Erinn R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
An off-campus housing resource center, improved residence hall recycling and the banishment of credit card companies from the Kansas Union highlight the Delta Force campaign platform.
Delta Force revealed its plan for campus earlier this month. Ben Burton, presidential candidate and Ocean, N.J., junior, said the coalition's strength was its accountability.
"Our blanket theme is that long-term change requires long-term commitment," he said.
The 4-year-old coalition's commitments include improving student experiences on- and off-campus.
Burton and Justin Mills, vice presidential candidate and Lansing junior, said the following about campus issues:
"Our blanket theme is that long-term change requires long-term commitment."
Ben Burton
Delta Force presidential candidate
An off-campus resource center could operate out of the Student Senate office, possibly expanding to the Student Organizations & Leadership Development Center in the future. The center would help students get information about moving off-campus and asking tenants for feedback about where they lived. The center would be student-run at first, possibly financed later by a student fee and would include a paid employee.
"Most of it concerns back to the landlords and not having any idea of who they are," Burton said. "Sometimes you get shown a place and you get stuck with it."
"It's one of those things you just don't need to worry about," Mills said.
- Delta Force also would like to change a city ordinance limiting
the number of nonrelated people living together to four.
Problems with student-run residence hall recycling would be easy to fix, Mills said.
"You walk by them, and they're overflowing," Mills said. "But you have the problem of one RA doing all the work."
Improvements could include having residence assistants make sure the bins on their floors are kept sorted, and having the custodial staff take the items to a central location in each building where KU Recycling would collect them.
One problem has been that recycling programs won't get moving until October, making it harder to get people interested.
"The key is to get it ready to go when students move in," Burton said.
The unions do not have enough student input, and changes occur without student involvement, according to the coalition. Changes to the unions would be brought
before Student Senate for approval.
"We put money in to it, we should have a say what goes in there."
Mills said.
Burton said that although he was against corporations in the unions, the ultimate decision should be up to the students, not the Memorial Corp.
Moreover, credit card tables sponsored by student organizations should be moved out of the unions. Burton said they overshadowed important student groups with tables there.
The Student Legislative
Awareness Board should focus more on the awareness aspect than lobbying in Topeka.
"I think a lot of that is more executives on Student Senate hobnobbing with legislators for intern-
snips,
Burton said.
"It has to be
refocused on
the student
body."
Mills said this could happen in three ways. The first would be to actively enroll students to vote. Secondly, political issues could be presented to students through forums,
speakers and columns in The
University Daily Kansan. Finally,
the Student Legislative Awareness
Board would need a plan to get people out to vote.
Burton: Stresses need for off-campus resource center
Burton said he also would like to see more aggressive tactics taken with the state legislature, like protests on the Capitol steps in Topeka.
New dance space glides into view
Club to use shop's floor, instruction
By John Audiehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
With yesterday's opening of the Flamingo Dance Academy, 1117 Massachusetts St., the KU Ballroom Dancing Club could have a new place to practice.
its owner, Wade Gandil, has offered both his dance instruction and the use of his $42,000 hardwood floor.
Bogdan Pathak, the club's president, said that although no plans had been finalized, the club would take Qandil up on the offer.
"This is a great opportunity, so we're going to find some way to use it," said Pathak, Albuquerque, N.M., senior.
Qandil said he would give the group a reduced instruction fee.
nights occasionally.
"Right now it's still open," he said. "I gave them a very good discount, and I don't charge them for the room at all."
Qandil charged members of the club $5 to get into last night's live-band swing set. The regular price was $10. The academy plans to hold open dance
Nicole Bauer, club member and Lawrence graduate student, said that the club had practiced at the ballroom in the Kansas Union but that it was often rented out and not available.
"We looked all over for space," she said.
Bauer was dancing with Michael Moore, club member and Lenexa graduate student, and both said they were impressed with the dance floor and the building.
"It would be a very good place to come and learn and teach," Moore said.
They said that swing dancing required a lot of space for each couple and that the circular floor, with its 40-foot diameter, provided just that.
Qandil said that about 225 people attended yesterday afternoon's ballroom dance and that about 200 were at the evening show. Each show featured a live band, he said.
Last night also featured a swing contest, he said, with one couple winning a trip to Cancun, Mexico.
Qandil said his dance academy was no-smoking both to protect the floor and to maintain a
healthy atmosphere.
He said his academy also did not have an open bar because excessive drinking was unhealthy. Instead, Qandil said he served two complimentary drinks to dancers of legal age.
Sabra Volek, Lawrence junior, said she was not a member of the ballroom dancing club but was an avid swing dancer.
"The day I turned 18, I started going to the Bottleneck swing set," she said.
She said that after The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St., stopped holding its Sunday night swing sets, she went to the sets at Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second St.
Volek said if the Flamingo Dance Academy offered swing nights, she definitely would attend.
"It's a beautiful room," she said. "Good floor. You don't see good floors very often."
Irene Ratzlatz, Moundridge teen, said her sister Sonia Ratzlatz had been one of the ballroom dancing club's founders and that the academy filled a void in the area.
"I think Lawrence has been due for a place like this for a long time," she said.
Nicole Bauer and Michael Moore, Lawrence graduate students, join other couples dancing at the Flamingo Dance Academy, 1117 Massachusetts St. The academy had its grand opening celebration last night, and couples from the area came to dance and compete for a trip to Cancun, Mexico. Photo by Carolyn Mooltle/KANSAN
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