The weekend's weather
10morrow: Periods of clouds and sunshine
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
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Sunday: Partly sunny
Karsan Election Edition
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Friday
April 16, 1999
Section:
A
Vol. 109 • No. 132
Saturday
& Sunday
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WWW.KANSAN.COM
(USPS 650-640)
Wandering the Web
Sunday marks the end of pride week celebrations at the University of Kansas. After the parties and rallies have ended, those interested in gay and lesbian issues can find scores of fun and informative sites on the World Wide Web.
www.planetout.com
PlanetOut is a full-featured online community for gay, lesbian and bisexual Internet surfers. There are chat rooms, opinion polls, discussion forums and links to similar Web sites. It's much too complicated to reduce to a one-paragraph blurb and must be seen to be appreciated.
This is the Internet home of The Advocate, a national magazine that addresses gay and lesbian issues. From health issues to politics to music and popular culture, The Advocate covers it. Past cover stories have included interviews with Tom Hanks and RuPaul. This Web site also includes links to other sites.
www.advocate.com
www.libertypress.net
www.ukans.edu/~ganda
This is the online version of Kansas' own contribution to the gay and lesbian press. This week's cover story is pride week at KU. There are also links to other sites on the Web.
This is the humble but well-produced and informative homepage of KU Queers and Allies. The page is regularly updated to reflect events on campus that are Q&A - sponsored or of interest to gay and lesbian students at KU. The page also contains links to homepages of gay and lesbian organizations at other Big 12 Conference universities.
CONCERTCALENDAR
Tonight:
Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St. - Sebadho, Verbena
Brown Bear Brewing Co., 729 Massachusetts St. Strickley Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St. Kid Rock, Staind
Bottleneck - Band that Saved the World. Dr.Jones
Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. - Ron Prince and Hard Time
Tomorrow:
Brown Bear Brewing Co.
Back Alley Blues
Jazzhaus - Boogie Chylde
Sunday:
Bottleneck - Swing Set
Index
News .2A
Nation .9A
Feature .10A
Horoscopes .2B
Apartment Guide .6B
Movie Listings .5A
Coupons .3B
Classifieds .8B
Elections belong to YOU
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Coalition takes 39 Senate seats executive posts
By Nadia Mustafa
nmustafa@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Champagne was flying at the YOU coalition's victory party last night after the last of the Student Senate election results were announced in favor of Korb Maxwell and Dede Seibel, student body president-elect and vice president-elect.
Eighteen percent of the student body voted Wednesday and yesterday, electing 39 YOU, 23 Delta Force and 2 independent candidates into senatorial seats. Maxwell and Seibel received 2,341 votes, while 1,508 students voted for Seth Hoffman and Mary Liu, Delta Force student body presidential and vice presidential candidates.
At the Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St., more than 100 YOU supporters chanted "YOU, YOU, YOU!" after hearing favorable results on KJK radio station throughout the evening.
Above: Korb Maxwell celebrates his YOU victory for student body president last night. Maxwell and Dede Seibel, student body vice president-elect, won the election with 2,341 votes. Photo by Rana Cline/KANSAN
Some people danced, played pool, shuffleboard or hung around the bar, but most hovered around a boom box on a table in the corner of the lounge — intently listening to coverage indicating YOU's constant lead.
YOU candidates stole back a majority of senatorial seats from the Delta Force coalition and swept seven categories—Nunemaker, non-traditional, education, fine arts, business, law and residential.
Fine arts seats traditionally had been dominated by members of Delta Force.
After being lifted on supporters' shoulders while popping the cork off of a champagne bottle following the announcement of his and Seibel's victory, Maxwell extended credit to YOU's 59 candidates.
Right: Becca Synhorst, Nunemaker senator-elect, Korb Maxwell, student body president-elect and Dede Seibel, student body vice president-elect, cheer during the announcement of the student senate winners at the Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. YOu coalition won the 39 student senate seats, Delta Force won 23 student senate seats and the Independents won two student senate seats.
Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza (KANSAN)
"I'm so proud of everyone on the coalition," he said. "I've never worked with a group like this. It's all hard work and dedication. We won overwhelmingly, and I feel that it's a mandate from the campus for our issues."
Maxwell said that the first thing he would do when he took office was to lobby the administration and state legislature about YOU's campaign issues.
Also, he
Also, because the student body passed the recreation center referendum, he proudly would begin work with that next year.
Seibel said that she felt amazing. "We swept the elections," she said. "And we totally deserved it."
Candidates and their supporters, most of whom had cups in hand, had to wait until 9:45 p.m.
before results began to be released.
R. J. Woodring, Nunemaker senator-elect, said that since off-campus seats usually were Delta Force's stronghold, he was glad that YOU won at least one.
YOU didn't win any architecture and urban design or social welfare seats, and only won one of five off-campus senatorial seats.
Michael Henry, non-traditional
senator-elect, said that he was happy that so many non-traditional students voted. He said that next year he would try to get dental health services at Watkins Memorial Health Center and improve parking at Stouffer Place Apartments.
Tanisha Jones, Nunemaker senator-elect, said she would continue to work on current projects.
"I'm so excited," she said.
"This campaign has been so fun and I'm so glad and proud that I won."
Sonya Mohseni, engineering senator-elect, said that she would be the best engineering senator — except for Marlon Marshall, another engineering senator-elect. She said that her first priority would be altering the University of Kansas' course retake policy to ensure that engineering students remained competitive.
"I've never felt so awesome before in my life," Mohsen said.
With tears of joy streaming down her face, Sarah Schreck, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences senator-elect, also said that she would work on a course retake policy that would allow students to substitute their new grades for their old ones if they retook classes.
"I'm amazed," she said. "They told me I couldn't do it, and I did it. This is my third year on Senate. baby!"
Students voted 2,817-1,238 in favor of constructing a new $16 million campus recreation center.
They also passed a referendum 2,993,1-051 that will encourage the administration to implement a zero-tolerance policy for hate crimes and sexual assault at the University.
In addition, the student body approved 3,714-340 a proposal that will request the administration, City of Lawrence and Student Senate work toward creating a joint citywide bus system between the city and KU on Wheels.
— Edited by Juan H. Heath
The road to equality
...
Sweating out the draft
For two former Kansas football players.
ers,the anxiousness of performing
for NFL scouts culminates
See page 1B
this weekend with a chance
for both to be picked up in the NFL draft.
Making KU safer
Student Senate looks at ways to improve campus safety, including expanding Saferide, improving lighting and creating a Safewalk program.
See page 3A
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