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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Sports: The seniors on the women's basketball team went out with a 71-60 win against Texas A&M.
Inside: KU's first vice chancellor for student affairs died.
(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 110 NO. 108
THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 2000
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Dos Hombres, formerly located at B15 New Hampshire Street, closed its doors Tuesday as the lease on the building ran out. The closing came as a surprise to many employees and patrons. Photo by Justin Schmidt/KANSAN
Dos Hombres says hasta luego for now
Lease runs out on eatery
By John Audlehelm writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Adios. Dos Hombres?
The popular restaurant at 815 New Hampshire St. closed Tuesday, the last day of its lease.
Mike Riling, a member of Cinco Hombres Limited Liability Corporation, which owns the building, said he did not know why the restaurant closed.
Riling said there may have been a miscommunication in the negotiation process.
"We were in negotiations about extending a lease," he said.
He said that Dos' owners faxed him something last Tuesday, but that they did not call to ask if he had received it. Riling said the fax stated that the restaurant owners did not want to pay
"I didn't realize they were responding with a fax." Rilling said. "I was unaware they were responding at all."
The fax went unnoticed in his office, Riling said, and did not come across his desk until yesterday morning.
more rent.
"We're going to review what they faxed us," he said. "There's still a possibility they might come back in."
Bob Lastilce, owner of the Dos Hombres restaurant, said in a previous article that, in any case, the rent would go up in the new lease.
Riling said that the increase in rent was reasonable from his point of view and that a business would occupy the building for that price.
He said he already had received requests from people interested in the building.
Jeremy Shepard, Ottawa junior and cook and occasional bouncer at the restaurant, said the employees were surprised the store had closed.
"Nobody ever really told us," he said. "They actually told us last Thursday they had remember of Cinco Hombres Limited Liability Corporation
"I didn't realize they were responding with a fax. I was unaware they were responding at all."
Mike Riling
signed the lease."
Shepard said the rumor was that the restaurant's owners did not want to pay the increased rent and did not re-sign the lease.
Shepard said he would look for another job.
"I pretty much have to," he said. "I've got to support myself somehow."
Katie Flaspohler, Lenexa sophomore, said she went to Dos Hombres about every other Wednesday last year. With its quarter-draw special, Wednesday was a popular night
'ednesday was a popular night
"I think it's too bad because I think it had a lot of potential, and I think a lot of people liked to go there," she said.
Mindy Berns / KANSAN
Source:Journal of Student Aid
More aid money based on merit, new study says
As deadline for applications of financial aid and scholarships come closer, students and parents may be surprised to find who will be getting the money.
By Doug Pacey
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Released Feb. 18, the survey said this occurred because colleges were throwing more money at merit scholar s than in recent years, in hopes of making their school look better.
A study by the Journal of Student Financial Aid found that colleges and universities are giving more and more money to upper-income students.
Cerveny; says KU offers merit and need-based money
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Cerveny, director of admissions and scholarships, said this wasn't necessarily true at the University of Kansas, but he could see how some schools might be doing this.
KU has a generous endowment so it can offer merit scholarships," he said. "Other schools that are trying to compete with us may not have the same amount of endowment and they say, 'With us, it's either merit or need.' They do this to keep up
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"Other schools that are trying to compete with us may not have the same amount of endowment and they say, 'With us, it's either merit or need.' They do this to keep up with the KUs of the world."
with the KUs of the world. They have to look at how to spend their money best."
Alan Cerveny director of the office of admissions and scholarships
Korb Maxwell, student body president, said he thought it was wrong for universities to fight
"Merit-based aid is about getting the merit scholars to come to KU instead of MU," he said. "I don't care where they go. They're going to be good, productive citizens
Maxwell: thinks KU should give money based on need
for the best students.
Student group to lead off jazz festival
M-PACT, an a cappella jazz group, will headline the opening performance at the 23rd annual Jazz Festival tonight in the Lied Center. Contributed photo
By BriAnne Hess writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Three days and nights of jazz mark the 23rd annual KU Jazz Festival that begins today and runs until Saturday evening at the Lied Center and Swarthout Recital Hall.
Tonight's headliner is the allmate, a cappella group M-PACT. The University of Kansas Jazz Singers will open for the fiveman group based out of Seattle at 7:30 p.m. in the Lied Center.
Kerry Marsh, Great Bend senior and jazz tenor, said he heard M-PACT perform in Lawrence last fall.
He said that it was a nice opportunity to open for such a talented group.
He said that their vocal jazz sound transferred well into pop music, but the group didn't resemble the Backstreet Boys or other popular boy bands.
"They're killer," Marsh said. "They are doing a lot of things that other groups aren't doing, which is refreshing."
The Jazz Singers, directed by Mitos Cox, Seattle graduate student, will perform five pieces. Only their closing song, by Duke Ellington, was not arranged or composed by a member of the group.
"These guys haven't foregone musical complexity and ideas for the sake of their listeners," Marsh said. "The thing that makes them interesting and energetic is that they do vocal percussion."
Marsh composed the piece, Five After Never, at the piano and computer. Marsh said he just sat down at the piano and goofed around with ideas then expanded on those ideas to create themes. He said he let his computer program, Finale, annotate the music.
Cox said Marsh's composition featured the piano and had vocal background.
Cox arranged two of the pieces the group will perform: the swing tune by Cole Porter, You'd be so Nice to Come Home to, and a blues ballad titled Blood Count.
This is her second year directing the singers.
Cox said the group's performance would offer a variety of music — from pop to blues to swing.
Dan Galley, director of jazz studies, said that scheduling the
evening shows for the festival was just the tip of the iceberg for planning the festival. Gailey also coordinated clinics for almost 70 high school and college jazz bands and choirs from several states in the Midwest.
Gailey said the entire festival was non-competitive and gives fledgling jazz groups a chance to
perform in front of nationallyrenowned jazz musicians and then be able to work with them.
Reserved tickets for the concert are available at the box offices at the Lied Center, Murphy Hall and the Student Union Activities Office. Tickets are $8 for students and senior citizens and $12 for the public.
Senate adds nontraditional seat
By Erinn R. Barcomb
Kansan staff writer
A third nontraditional seat was added to Student Senate last night with ease — the first time around. But when the bill was brought back on the floor for further debate, the atmosphere changed.
The bill passed with a verbal majority after a speech was given by the bill's sponsors. Korb Maxwell, student body president, wanted to speak against the bill, but the question was called before he had that opportunity.
Although the bill passed 40-19, supporters and opponents passionately debated the necessity and validity of an additional seat.
"It's the only time I've seen bills of this importance go through this quickly." Maxwell said.
Supporters argued that nontraditional students needed more than two senators because they represent 20 percent of the campus population.
Shyra McGee, nontraditional senator, said she and Michael Henry, nontraditional senator, had
brought at least five bills with nontraditional-student issues before Senate, and only one had passed.
J. D. Jenkins, holdover senator and one of the bill's sponsors, said adding a seat was a step in the right direction.
"It's reaching out and saying we want nonrands on Senate." Jenkins said. "They want to get involved, and we need to give them that opportunity.
Maxwell argued that nontraditional seats were meant to bring issues to Senate and convince other senators to pass those bills. Moreover, he said adding more nontraditional votes was more about politics than hearing nontraditional voices.
Other Senate News:
The Red Cross Blood Drive received $954 for advertising expenses so long as the Student Legislative Awareness Board lobbles the Food and Drug Administration to change donor screening questions. Questions singling out homosexual practices were seen as discriminatory by some senators and committee members.
Faludi speaks about men
Pulitzer-Prize winning author Susan Faludi signs copies of her new book, Shifted: The Betrayal of the American Man. Last night at 120 Budig Hall, Faludi addressed an audience of about 500. During her hour-long lecture, "The Crisis of Masculinity," Faludi discussed both feminism and the changing role of men in American society. Faludi's visit was sponsored by Student Union Activities, the School of Journalism and the Panhellenic Association. Photo by J.M. Dailey/KANSAN