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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Elections commission decides outcome of campaign complaints
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
(USPS 650-640)
After four hours of deliberation last night, the elections commission's hearing board dismissed complaints against the recreation task force and the YOU coalition.
The board decided that it was not in its jurisdiction to rule on a complaint filed by J.D. Jenkins, Nunemaker senator, which was filed Thursday before election results were tabulated.
He claimed that the recreation task force committed several elections code violations, such as leaving pro-recreation center materials unattended in classrooms, writing pro-recreation center slogans on classroom chalkboards, having materials visible from polling sites and posting more than one poster on campus bulletin boards.
Jenkins said that the task force's violations might have influenced the success of the student body referendum for a new $16-million campus recreation center.
"I'm frustrated that this group of people is above the law," he said. "We can debate whether it passed by a large margin because the students want it or because they were misled."
Jenkins said that he would discuss the task force's alleged violations with
Chancellor Robert Hemenway.
In a separate decision, the board ruled that there was not enough evidence to prove that
YOU had created a brochure that claimed Delta Force coalition was "not for greeks."
Partha Mazumdar, graduate senator, filed a complaint yesterday alleging that members of YOU were responsible for a brochure distributed on campus that contained anti-greek quotes from five individuals identified as Delta Force members.
"I'm a monkey's uncle if they didn't do it," he said. "It's more likely to be
someone who has a vested interest in YOU winning the election."
Mazumdar said that the brochure, which was released last Wednesday, was libelous and might have had an effect on the outcome of the elections. He said that Delta Force did not have time to respond to the brochure's false information.
"If we lose in a fair fight, we lose," Mazumda said. "But if we lose in this way, it's not fair."
At the hearing, Scott Kaiser, student body vice president and recreation task force chairman, dropped the complaint against Delta Force that the coalition was distributing filers with allegedly misleading information about the task force's proposal for a new $16-million campus recreation center.
Also last night, Liz Wristen, Leawood junior and Sigma Kappa resident, dropped a complaint against YOU that coalition supporters had harassed her
"The votes were already in, and they had a long agenda," he said. "We dropped it as a measure of good faith."
and her roommates by knocking on residents' doors at her sorority Thursday.
Deliberations on a complaint filed last week by Amy Cummins, graduate senator, against YOU concerning campaign doorhangers were not available at press time. Senate has a no-soliciting policy in apartments.
Nick Owings and Enjoli Dixon, former YOU candidates for architecture and urban design senators, and Randy Foster, YOU fine arts senator-elect, were each fined $5 for distributing food on campus without the permission of the University Events Committee.
- Sonya Mohseni, YOU engineering senator-elect, and Becca Synhorst, YOU Nunemaker senator-elect, were each fined $10 for standing with campaign attire within 100 feet of polling sites.
- Mazumdar said that YOU was fined $35 for exceeding the coalition's $1,500 campaign spending limit. Other deliberations regarding YOU's spending limits are still under way.
Edited by Jodi Smith
Young Democrats talk with Moore
Kansas congressman outlines goals, describes first days in Washington
By Chris Hopkins chopkins@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Dennis Moore, D-Kan., answered questions from the KU Young Democrats yesterday about the trials and tribulations he has faced as a freshman in Congress.
Moore told about 18 students that during the first day of his orientation, he saw the Lincoln Bedroom and met President Bill Clinton, former Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Dick Arney, R-Texas.
Arney recognized Moore as the candidate who beat incumbent Republican Vince Snowbarger and greeted him with a nudge on the jaw.
Rep. Dennis Moore speaks at the Centennial Room in the Kansas Union. Moore spoke and answered questions from the KU Young Democrats for about one hour yesterday. Photo by Augustus Anthony Pizzach/KANSAN
"He said 'You took out one of my guys,' and said 'I sure did', and I got the impression that Dick would have liked to have hit me harder than he did." Moore said.
Moore said another memory from the first few months of his first year in Congress was a trip to Selma, Ala., with 18 other members of Congress.
The visit was to commemorate Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s march from Montgomery, Ala., to Selma and was led by John Lewis, D-Ga., who went on the original march and received a concussion from the police.
He later went to the 1668 Democratic Convention, known for the riots which broke out, despite similar warnings from his father.
Moore said that he had the chance to go on the original march but chose not to because his father warned him that he would get in trouble.
Moore also outlined his plans and goals for the rest of his term, which included saving Social Security, helping education and campaign finance reform.
"I didn't get in much trouble, at least not that he found out about." Moore said.
One point Moore emphasized was that the budget surplus wasn't a true surplus and that any money saved should go to either Social Security or to cutting down the national deficit.
Maxwell to push for academic improvements
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By Chris Hopkins
chopkins@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate always has not been as successful as it would like in improving the academic life of KU students.
Senate to take on course-retake policy
A push for open faculty evaluations ended
with a compromise - a
Still, Student Senate hopes to accomplish a lot in the coming year.
progress toward implementing online enrollment and the date which was recently set for its completion is more than two years away.
sors can list the content of their courses.
Jason Williams/KANSAN
Also, there has been little visible
Korb Maxwell, student body
Korb Maxwell, student body president-elect, said that he would like to see the course content Web site, www.ukans.edu/~content, developed further. He said, however, that there was little chance open evaluations would be approved.
"The faculty are so jaded on that it's not going to happen," he said.
Sarah Schreck, College of Liberal
She said that she and the Student Senate subcommittee associated with the Web site would keep working hard but thought that open faculty evaluations still were possible.
Arts and Sciences senator, runs the Web site, which now contains descriptions of 200 to 300 courses that were submitted by 200 professors.
"It was kind of rushed," Schreck said, referring to when Scott Sullivan, former student body president, attempted to pass the evaluation proposal through University Council. "I think it could have been dealt with differently."
Maxwell said that the YOU coalition polled students about what
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Fake licensing equipment found in KU fraternity
By Katie Burford
kburford@kansan.com
kburford staff writer
Equipment for manufacturing false driver's licenses was confiscated by police early Sunday morning from the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house, 1100 Indiana St., Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department said.
The information police received led them to the Phi Kappa Tau house, where they found equipment, including a laminating machine, laminating paper and photo paper. Police also recovered at least a dozen partially completed driver's licenses.
Police began their investigation after questioning an individual who was caught with a false driver's license at 11:50 p.m. April 1 at the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St., during a routine bar check. Wheeler said.
No arrests have been made, but Wheeler said that police had a suspect.
"We have a list of names," Wheeler said. "We will be interviewing those people."
Kelsy Simcox, president of Phi Kappa Tan, said
that he wasn't sure what had happened.
"We're still trying to get the whole picture," he said. "But action will definitely be taken."
Wheeler said that the people whose names were on the driver's licenses that police found also could face charges.
Bill Nelson, director of greek programs, said that he would have to wait until he had more information to say if Phi Kappa Tau would experience consequences through the school.
Simcox said that the fraternity's national chapter had been informed about the incident.
"We need to do some fact finding and looking into the situation," he said. "For me to make comment at this point, would be inappropriate."
"We're still in early stages of this investigation," he said. "We're trying to identify all the players and what laws may have been broken."
This is the second time this semester that a fraternity house has been investigated by police for manufacturing false driver's licenses. Laminating supplies, computer equipment, glossy computer paper and Polaroid photographs were found Jan. 15 at a room in the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity house.
Police were originally called to the house because of a break in that had occurred during winter break. While looking through the house, the police officer noticed several Kansas driver's licenses that appeared to be false and equipment for making them.
The Lawrence Police Department investigated the case and sent the report to the Douglas County District Attorney's office, where it is currently being reviewed for potential prosecution.
Edited by Jodi Smith
Proposed plan would sacrifice lone bike lane
By Jennifer Roush
jroush@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Officials in the KU housing and parking departments are considering a proposal that would increase the number of parking spaces for scholarship hall residents by eliminating the only Lawrence bike lane.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said that administrators hoped to have a solution to the scholarship hall parking shortfall by Fall 1999, when the second Amini Hall is scheduled to open. The scholarship hall parking lots now have 246 spaces available, but 274 permits were sold.
Don Kearns, director of the parking department, said that when he spoke with residents of Battenfeld Scholarship Hall April 12, he discussed a proposal to eliminate the bike lane on Louisiana Street
between 13th and 14th streets.
He said that once the bike lane was removed, the area would be converted to allow parallel parking. Between 30 and 35 new spaces would be created.
Ken Stoner, director of the Department of Student Housing, said that the proposal was nothing new. In fact, it has been considered periodically since 1991, when the City of Lawrence gave jurisdiction over that section of Louisiana Street to the University.
Jim Long, assistant provost of planning and facilities management, said that this proposal was one of several being considered.
"Options are being looked at to give the best results given the space available." he said.
Long also said that research needed to be done to make
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