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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2000
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Lobby for more state aid begins
Many express concern with Maxwell's proposal
By Katrina Hull writer@kansan.com Kansas staff writer
Korb Maxwell, student body president, started the fight for more student financial aid dollars yesterday in the House Education and Legislative Budget Committee.
He proposed that legislators use $3.6 million from the December tuition increase for state financial aid, because financial aid has not increased with tuition. Maxwell said that figure represented student need that will go unmet in the 2000-01 school year.
the 2000s and year.
"The need is real, the need is serious," Maxwell said. "It's not going to go away if we don't do anything about it."
Maxwell may have to fight more than legislators in a tight budget year to gain support for his idea.
Ed Hammond, president of Fort Hays State University, said Maxwell's plan would take money away from the universities' base funding.
"I knew from the onset that I was going to be in a fight with the administration at Regents schools," Maxwell said.
He also said he spoke on behalf of all college students when he requested that tuition dollars go toward state financial aid.
go toward state financial education. But Molly Bircher, Fort Hays State University student director of legislative affairs, said she wasn't even aware of the proposal until yesterday and didn't support Maxwell's plan in its entirety.
"These kinds of changes are risky," she said. "There's an important balance to maintain between financial aid and university funding."
Maxwell's plan uses tuition money from the Regents universities for Kansas Comprehensive Grants. Kim Wilcox, Board of Regents executive director, said 65 percent of state grant money goes to independent colleges such as Baker University.
Bircher said this meant tuition from the Regents universities, would support
financial aid for students who chose to go to a more expensive private university.
Maxwell said he was an advocate for all students and because students would generate $5.5 million with December's $3.20 per hour tuition increase, that money should go back to the students — no matter where they choose to go to
"I knew from the onset that I was going to be in a fight with the administration at Regents schools."
student body president
school.
"It's important for the students to get out in front and show how important this is," Maxwell said. "Financial aid is about access and students having a choice."
State Rep. Richard Reinhardt, D-Erie, and member of the budget committee, said he understood Maxwell's concern, but the tuition increases offset budget cuts and using the money for financial aid could cause problems.
"If you take that money out of the base general budget, we run the risk of cutting classes or classes won't be offered at the appropriate times and so forth." Reinhardt said. "It's a double-edged sword."
However, legislators said they were aware that the state is slacking in providing financial aid.
"We need to focus some additional resources on financial aid," said State Rep. David Adkins, R-Leawood and member of the budget committee. "I believe it's appropriate to have equivalent increases in tuition and financial aid."
Digging into the past
Kindergartners from Hilltop Child Development Center excavate near the Natural History Museum to unearth fossils. The warm weather and sunshine allowed the kids to stay outside for much of Tuesday. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Six-year-old Peter Cooney points out some crystal flecks in a rock dug up near the Natural History Museum. Cooney and his Hilltop Child Development Center classmates had a little free time and sunshine after touring the museum Tuesday. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Smoking cessation kits and condom-grams will be handed out on today and tomorrow for Save a Sweetheart and Protect a Sweetheart Week. Photo by Melissa Thornton/KANSAN
Sweetheart Week promotes safer sex, quitting smoking
By Warisa Chulindra writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students have the opportunity to give their sweethearts gifts that could help them live healthier and safer on Valentine's Day — smoking cessation kits and condom-grams.
The smoking cessation kits and condom-grams are a part of Save a Sweatheart and Protect a Sweetheart Week. They will be available from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. today and tomorrow at information tables at the Kansas Union and the Strong Hall rotunda. Between classes, the smoking cessation kits and condom-grams will be available at Wesco Beach.
Save a Sweetheart week encourages students or someone they love to quit smoking or using tobacco products. Protect a Sweetheart week aims to educate students about sexual issues such as date rape, the role of drugs and alcohol, the importance of communication in relationships, HIV and sexually-transmitted diseases.
"A lot of the students think that STDs and HIV are not an issue on campus. It does happen here. Just because they look clean doesn't mean they're clean. It's out there," said Hope Bruce, coordinator for the Center for Peer Health Promotion and Shawnee sophomore.
This is the first year Save a Sweetheart week and Protect a Sweetheart week have been combined. The health promotions and education department at Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Center for Peer Health Promotion organized the program.
Janis Ellis-Claypool, health educator at Watkins, said that by combining Save a
"We want to encourage healthier lifestyles for college students, We're zoning in on two important issues." Janice Ellis-Claypool
Watkins health educator
Sweetheart week and Protect a Sweetheart week, two relevant issues concerning college students could be discussed.
"We want to encourage healthier lifestyles for college students," she said. "We're zoning in on two important issues. If we make someone think about changing their lifestyles, we have reached our goal."
Kyle Waugh, Kansas City, Mo. junior, agreed.
"If it helps just a few people, it's a good thing," he said. "Promoting good health is always a good thing."
The smoking cessation kit has a toothbrush, a mint, an "I'm kissable, I don't smoke button," a sticker that says "I'm quitting today," a coupon for a free smoking-cessation appointment and a pledge not to use tobacco products on Valentine's Day for students to sign.
In addition to the condom, the condom-gram includes a coupon for $10 off an HIV test at Watkins and a risk factors scale with places that offer HIV testing.
Students at the Center for Peer Education offered to speak to groups about sex education, but no dates were set. Also, a display board competition is going on between students in the residence halls. Judging will be Monday, and the winners will receive movie passes and a pizza party.
Gray areas in city's zoning proposal may raise legal questions for sex stores
By John Audlehelm
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Lawrence's aggressive proposal to impose zoning ordinances on sex stores might stir up legal trouble — probably not on grounds of the First Amendment, but on the rights of property owners to profit from their businesses.
The city commission voted unanimously Tuesday to submit the proposal to the planning commission, the first step toward becoming law.
The proposal would limit sex stores to some heavily traveled commercial areas of the city and require that they be certain distances from churches, schools, homes and each other.
homes and each And in keeping with it's aggressive nature, it includes an amortization period, a period of time for the business to abide by the zoning requirements. The time period has not been determined yet.
That means Priscilla's, 1206 W. 23rd St., and Naughty But Nice, 1741 Massachusetts St., would eventually have to comply — and move. At the commission meeting, David Corliss, director of legal services for the city, said Priscilla's was too close to residential property. Naughty But Nice is near Cordley Elementary School, 1837 Vermont, and is not on one of the streets that the proposal
Tom Stacy, professor of law, said similar ordinances had been challenged on the grounds that they violated free speech and the
not on one of the two would allow to have such businesses.
Supreme Court had upheld the ordinances.
"The court has been fairly indulgent in giving cities leeeway," he said.
Even so, the city's proposal designates
some stores as protected by the First Amendment. The proposal would not include sole bookstores/video stores that do not have sex-oriented clothes, gadgets, etc.
Richard Levy, professor of law, said even though the Supreme Court had allowed restrictions on adult bookstores, the city might be trying to maximize First Amendment protection or minimize the possibility of a constitutional challenge by allowing such stores to be exempt.
"Nobody likes to defend against litigation." Levy said.
However, he said the proposal's classification of stores by their percentage of floor space or inventory devoted to sex material might raise legal questions.
"This particular proposal has some interesting wrinkles that I don't think have been litigated before," he said.
That leaves the proposed amortization period, which Levy said might be constitutional.
"This particular proposal has some interesting wrinkles that I don't think have been litigated before."
Richard Levy professor of law
"You've got clear statutory authority to do that." Corliss said. "We're usually talking in terms of years, not months."
He said the usual practice in such a situation — when a governing body passes a law that affects an already existing business — is to grandfather in the business. But grandfathering is not required by the Constitution, Levy said.
Corliss said a 1997 Kansas law provided explicit authority to phase out sex stores, but the city would not abuse that power by forcing the stores to move too soon.
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Corliss said the statute had not been litigated in any Kansas courts but similar statutes had been upheld in other states.
However, Levy said this was where property rights entered the equation.
Property owners have the right to use their property in profitable ways, he said, and zoning ordinances could be too onerous.
Also, Levy said, stopping an existing store is more burdensome to the owner than preventing a store from opening.
"From property owners' perspective," he said, "that may make a huge difference."
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businesses by giving owners time to conform.
"It may nonetheless present some issues if the cost to the property owner is sufficiently great," he said. "The law in this area is pretty messy, so it's hard to predict."
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