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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, February 8, 2000
Students get picked up by a KU on Wheels bus in front of Learned Hall. Thanks to an excess in Student Senate money, the Learned Hall stop and other bus stops may receive new bus shelters.
Proposal may add campus bus shelters
By Erin R. Barcomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Students using KU on Wheels don't always have a great place to wait for the buses, especially when there is rain, sleet or snow.
But the bus stops in front of Stauffer-Flint and Learned halls could get new shelters, thanks to $300,000 in extra Student Senate money.
Korb Maxwell, student body president, said he wanted to see leftover money go toward capital improvements at the University.
"I want to do a big project," Maxwell said. "I don't want to parcel it out to one group at a time."
The proposal asks members of the American Institute of Architecture Students to submit possible bus shelter designs for the Learned Hall stop. The architecture students also would build the stops.
Holly Krebs, transportation coordinator, said the open space near Learned would make construction of a shelter easier. Any additional bus shelters, except for the Stauffer-Flint shelter, would be more difficult because of a concern for open space on Jayhawk Boulevard.
The shelters also would incorporate bulletin board space because non-University advertising was restricted to designated areas.
Maxwell said the idea would be proposed to the administration first and then taken to Senate for finance approval. Senate would have to provide money for capital expenses, such as a cash prize for the best design submitted by students at the conference, he said.
Allison Beck, Overland Park senior and architecture senator, said the KU chapter of AIAS wanted to build them.
Beck said she expected about 10 to 15 universities to participate in the design contest. Students would be encouraged to submit designs in groups, which means schools could have more than one entry, Beck said.
"I think this will be a big draw to the conference," she said. "Everyone seems really excited."
Krebs said that because the city of Lawrence was showing a greater interest, shelters would boost a city-wide transportation system.
"If these two projects work,we'd like to see them in other places," she said.
City may limit sex-themed shops
By John Audelehme
writer@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
The City of Lawrence may decide tonight if and how to regulate sex stores in Lawrence.
The City Commission will receive a proposal to limit the locations of adult-themed stores to commercial districts and certain streets, and to keep them designated distances from schools, churches, residential districts and each other.
Recommendations to the commission also include an amortization period, which means that existing businesses not conforming to the
city's laws would have to conform after a certain period of time.
Mayor Erv Hodges said he was pleased with the proposal and expected a good debate at the meeting.
"I think the principles set
Hodges said those principles included not restricting free speech but also not disrupting churches and schools.
forth in that are what we're looking for," he said.
Hodges said he liked the proposal because it differentiated between stores that had a limited selection of adult materials and stores whose sole business was sex and pornography.
The manager of Naughty But Nice, 1741 Massachusetts St., could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Sherri Quick, manager of Priscilla's, 1206 W. 23rd St., said she did not want to comment.
David Corliss, director of legal services for the city, said the proposal divided businesses into three categories.
Businesses with as much as 10 percent inventory or floor space devoted to sex-oriented materials, would have no restrictions, he said.
Those with 10 to 40 percent must have the materials blocked off, Corliss said, and businesses with more than 40
According to the proposal, stores would be limited to 23rd Street east of Iowa Street and Iowa Street south of Sixth Street. In North Lawrence, stores could be on North Second and North Third streets.
percent would fall under the city's location restrictions.
The stores also would have to be at least 500 feet from schools and churches, 50 feet from residential property and 600 feet from each other.
The proposal could affect both Priscilla's and Naughty But Nice.
Naughty But Nice would violate the code because it is on Massachusetts Street and is close to homes and Cordley Elementary School.
Priscila's is on 23rd Street but might still be affected, Corliss said.
"The issue is whether or not they would meet the residential setback requirement." he said.
Corliss said he did not know of any businesses that would fall in the 10 to 40 percent category.
"There might be some video stores," he said.
PROPOSED REGULATIONS
The Lawrence City Commission will receive a proposal to limit the locations of adult-themed stores tonight. The proposal divides businesses into three categories by percentage of floor space or inventory devoted to sex products and limits the locations of the third category.
10-40 percent: sex-oriented materials must be blocked off
materials must be blocked on 40 percent or more: limited to the following locations:
0-10 percent; no regulation
40-60 percent; oriented
Street in city limits Sixth Street
23rd Street east of Iowa Street
Iowa Street south of Sixth Street in city limits
North Second and North Third streets in North Lawrence
commercially zoned property 500 feet from churches and
500 feet from churches and schools
50 feet from residential property
Source: memo from David Cortliss, director of legal services for the city
600 feet from other sex-oriented businesses
Delta Force candidates join race for top Senate posts
By Erin R. Barmomb
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Despite the coalition's setbacks in previous elections, two Delta Force candidates announced their intention to run for student body president and vice president yesterday.
Ben Burton, Ocean, N.J., junior and former senator, will run for president with Justin Mills, Lansing junior and residential senator, running for vice president.
Burton, who had said earlier he did not know if he would run. said
They will be up against Ben Walker, Hutchinson junior, and Marlon Marshall, St. Louis junior, of United Students and Sam MacRoberts, Leawood junior, and Carrie Depenbusch, Columbus junior, of Students 1st.
Burton also said he thought Delta Force had done more in four years of losing the presidential and vicepresidential seats than winning
"Three coalitions will be quite interesting," Mills said. "Voters will have a wider selection."
he changed his mind when he read a Kansan article yesterday.
coalitions had done.
"The statements made by the other two candidates that they had no issues really pushed me," he said.
Although he said he did not represent the entire coalition, Burton said one issue he was concerned with was the Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition's attempts to get health benefits and better pay.
For example, Delta Force supporters spearheaded efforts to get a fall break and a Daisy Hill polling site, he said.
"These have been the changes that have made the greatest impact on the University." Burton said. "Compared to what (other coaltions) have done by winning every year and Delta Force by losing, Delta Force comes out the clear winner."
Burton said he would like to see more accountability from coalitions that had the same people involved under a different name, and he said they should take responsibility for their successes and failures.
Mills said the coalition already had some senatorial candidates lined up, but he did not know exact numbers. He said that numbers could change by mid-March when elections became official.
"In mid-March you have papers to
worry about and your GPA," Mills said. "The numbers will change, but I'm really sure we will have a full coalition."
Burton said he did not want to finalize numbers until the coalitions held an open meeting for all interested students Thursday.
"I really hope people come out of the woodwork." Burton said.
Mills said he thought it was common for students working inside the Senate to rise to the presidential administration but that more students should get involved.
"Not that the power structure has not done good things in the past, as far as president and vice president go." Mills said. "But as senators, myself included, I think we get hooked on 'We are Student Senate, and we are going to work on stuff we think the students want.' I think we need to get more people involved in it, and Delta Force has been one of the most open coalitions."
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