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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Robert Shelton, University ambudsman, speaks in memory of Martin Luther King Jr. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries. Shelton presented a series of slides of King's life and events in the civil rights movement yesterday. Photo by Tara Kraus/
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King's ideals live on
Former professor remembers nation's civil rights leader
By Ryan Blethen
writer@kanson.com
Kansas son staff
A police officer shocks a demonstrator with a cattle prod. Little girls are killed in a Birmingham, Ala., church bombing.
IRA Dibingham, Alicia; Catherine Sondang.
These images and many more flash through the mind of Sam Adams, associate professor emeritus of journalism, on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. These are
some of the images that were burned into Adams' head when he covered the civil rights movement for The St. Petersburg Times in the 1960s.
Adams said the principles under which America was founded made Martin Luther King Jr. Day a day for all Americans to celebrate.
The holiday hits closer to home for Adams, though—King was a friend of his. The two met in the mid 1950s at the King family home in Atlanta. Adams was working at The Atlanta Daily World, a newspaper for African Americans, and King was a student at Boston University. He had never met King before, but he had heard of him. His wife had gone to high school with King, and his godmother introduced King to his wife. Adams
said he was impressed with King but could not have foreseen him becoming only the second American to have his birthday declared a national holiday.
As the spotlight focused on King and America took notice of the young preacher from Georgia, Adams said he did not always agree with him. When King moved from Georgia to Alabama, Adams did not think King was going far enough to push his message. That soon changed. In 1958, Adams took a job editing the Black page at The St. Petersburg Times in Florida. At the time, the only way newspapers covered African Americans was if they had a Black page. Part of the reason Adams took the job was to help
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Lawrence's newest adult store opened its doors during the winter break. Naughty But Nice, 1741 Massachusetts St., across from Dillons, has received criticism from some nearby neighbors. Photo by Shelby Smith/KANSAN
Lawrence city ordinance proposed to regulate adult-oriented stores
By John Audlehelm
By John Audleheir
Kansan staff writer
There's a new adult store in town, and some Lawrence residents and city officials don't like it.
Naughty But Nice, 1741 Massachusetts St. opened for business Dec. 17.
The store and its signs, which depict two women in angel and devil swimsuits, have drawn complaints from residents who say such a store should not be located near homes, schools and churches.
Mayor Erv Hodges said such an ordinance might regulate how close adult stores could be to homes and schools. The ordinance also could control hours of operation, signs, age of patrons and visibility of items from the outside of the store.
Some city officials agree. The city is planning to draft an ordinance regulating adult stores' locations, which could affect Naughty But Nice.
If passed, the law may or may not apply to Naughty But Nice. But, officials said, the ordinance would almost certainly affect new adult stores.
affect new Richard Osburn, one of the owners of Naughty But Nice, said that if the city commission limited future adult-themed stores, it would be doing Naughty But Nice and Priscilla's, 1206 W.23rd St., a huge favor.
"There's nothing better for Priscilla's and myself than to know for all eternity that we only have each other as competitors," he said.
only have each other as
As for the sign, Osburn said complaints
"It's really nestled in the heart of neighborhoods," he said. "A store like that attracts healthy and unhealthy people, and it's the unhealthy people we don't want to be hanging around our neighborhood."
Paul Dietz
about it were motivated by the nature of his store.
He said he might change the signs in the future, but he would not change them now because he had paid $3,000 for them.
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royally.
David Corllis, director of legal services for Lawrence, said that many communities had laws that dealt with adult stores and that the city was looking at them for ideas.
City manager Mike Wilden said the city regulated things such as signs' height and distance from the street but not their content.
"You can go to the public pool and see more arousing things in real life," he said.
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Paul Dietz, a Lawrence nontraditional student who lives near Naughty But Nice, said that he was not opposed to the store's existence but that it was poorly located.
law could force Naughty But Nice and Priscilla's to change locations or close.
Neighbors and students had mixed reactions.
"It's really nestled in the heart of neighborhoods," he said. "A store like that attracts healthy and unhealthy people, and it's the unhealthy people we don't want to be hanging around our neighborhood."
Melanie Leatherman, Kansas City, Kan., senior, said she had a problem with the sign but not the store or its location. She also said people had a stetovtype that erotic stores were found in bad neighborhoods and only fit for decent citizens.
If adult-themed stores are signs of declining neighborhoods, he said, people who lived near Priscilla's should be complaining louder than they were.
Dietz said he had read studies that showed adult-themed stores were signs of declining neighborhoods.
"The stereotype is essentially a self-ful-
filling prophecy," she said.
Leatherman said neighbors forced adult stores into had neighborhoods.
Because of a 1 percent budget cut by the state, the University of Kansas will raise tuition to meet its budget. The raise in tuition will generate about $5.4 million and will affect both in- and out-of-state students.
She said that the location of the store did not matter and that the city's potential regulations were silly.
"People are going to do what people are going to do, no matter where the store is located," Leatherman said.
Tuition increases as of July 1,2001
□ out-of-state □ in-state
current rate/hour new rate/hour percent increase
$69.65 $74.59 7.1%
$289.75 $300.19 3.6%
current rate/15 hours new rate/15 hours percent increase
$1,044.75 $1,118.85 7.1%
$4,346.25 $4,502.85 3.6%
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Tuition raised again by Board of Regents
By Doug Pacey
By Doug Pacey
writer@kansan.com
Kansas reporter
Tuition costs are rising.
Tution costs are rising.
The Board of Regents in December approved a $3.20 tuition increase per credit hour starting next fall because the state issued a 1 percent budget cut for the fiscal year of 2001, which starts July 1, 2000.
This increase is on top of the 2.5 percent increase that the Regents approved last spring.
"Through the last fall semester, it became clear to the state budget director that it wasn't going to take in enough money to reach our budget," said Kim Wilcox, Regents executive director. "All agencies, the Regents included, were spending their budgets, and it became apparent we weren't going to have enough."
The tuition increase, which will affect all of Regents institutions, will generate about $5.4 million. This is roughly the amount that was cut from the Regents' budget.
For a student paying in-state tuition and taking 15 hours, this translates to an extra $74.12 per semester. An out-of-state student taking 15 hours will pay an extra $156.68 per semester.
This is a 3.5 percent increase for students paying out-of-state tuition and 6.6 percent increase for students paying in-state tuition.
The tuition increase came a few weeks before Gov. Bill Graves presented his budget for fiscal year 2001.
it was speculated that if the Regents did not raise tuition, the governor would not be as receptive to its budgetary requests. Chancellor Hemenway saw it differently, though
"I don't believe that there were any deals," he said. "I think what the Regents felt was if they reached out in an act of partnership, the governor would respond to that act. He clearly has done that with this budget. He wants to act in part with the Board of Regents to get a path for higher education in the future."
Part of that $8.4 million will go to give faculty at the University a raise, but Rein said he didn't know how much money the University would receive.
Graves' budget designated an additional $21.9 million for higher education in Kansas in the coming year. Community colleges and Washburn University would receive $13.5 million, leaving KU and the other five schools in the Regents system to divvy up the remaining $8.4 million.
"We haven't run the numbers yet," said Marlin Rein, director of the budget for the University. "But based on the number of teaching faculty that we have, they should see a 5.9 percent increase in pay."
Classified and unclassified staff also should see a raise. Hemenway said.
The Regents said that they did not get all they had requested but that they were pleased with what they were given.
"The budget recommended a staff increase of 2.5 percent for classified and unclassified staff," he said. "It'd be nice if it were more, but at least they won't be hurt by inflation."
"We hoped for more support for state technical institutions and more funding to begin implementation of a statewide database and coordination to track the progress of students among the universities, community colleges and technical schools," said Bill Docking, chairman of the Regents. "But I'm quite pleased and appreciative of what the governor gave higher education."
The 2001 budget did not call for any increase in operational costs, which is similar to a budget cut because of inflation. Hemenway said.
Rein said he did not think that Graves' higher education budget surprised many people.
"I think that there weren't very many surprises in the KU budget," he said. "Obviously, there were some disappointments, but in a tight budget year, Gov. Graves tried to protect higher education."
Campus water safe to drink student analysis confirms
By Mindie Miller, Jim O'Malley and Ryan Blethen
Kansas staff writers
"I think it's wretched," said Lindsay Porter, Prairie Village junior. "I don't know what's in it, but it can't possibly be good for me."
Campus drinking water might not taste good, but it won't kill anyone.
Negative student reactions to campus drinking water quality might be common. But despite its often cloudy appearance and poor taste, the water is safe to drink, according to a study conducted last semester by a University of Kansas chemistry class.
Professor George Wilson's analytical chemistry students devoted part of the fall semester to analyzing campus water quality. They tested for atrazine, nitrate, chloride and water hardness in water samples collected from 22 campus sites. The city runs these same
Lindsay Porter
Prairie Village junior
"I think it's wretched, I don't know what's in it, but it can't possibly be good for me."
tests and many others. However, the chemistry class lacked the resources to run such comprehensive tests.
Atrazine and nitrate are two compounds that are not detectable with the senses, but which pose serious threats in Lawrence — a town surrounded by farmland. Farmers use atrazine to kill weeds, and fertilizers can produce nitrates.
Anne Arnott, Bonner Springs junior and analytical chemistry student, said that while KU students could think unsafe water smells, tastes or looks bad, many chemicals with harmful health effects are not apparent by smelling, tasting or looking at a water sample. In fact, water that smells, tastes or looks awful may be perfectly healthy.
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