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Three candidates elected to commission
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By Heather Woodward hwoodward@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The upstairs gallery of the Douglas County Courthouse was packed with Lawrence City Commission candidates, curious voters and supportive family members last night.
Voters elected Jim Henry, Mike Rundle and David Dunfield to four-year terms on the city commission. The new commissioners will replace Bonnie Augustine, Bob Moody and John Nalbandian, who did not seek re-election.
Henry, 64, is a retired KU associate placement director. He said he thought it would be fun working with Dunfield and Rundle.
"I am going to learn a lot from them because they represent parts of the community that I don't know as much about," Henry said. "I'm primary feeling gratitude right now and appreciation for everyone who
COMMISSION RESULTS
Jim Henry — 5,092
Mike Rundle — 4,706
David Dunfield — 4,671
Brenda McFadden — 4,278
Denise Gibson — 3,977
O. Scott Henderson — 1,829
Total Yield: 24.51
Total Votes — 24,553
helped on my campaign."
Rundle, 45, is the membership services coordinator and newsletter editor for Community Mercantile Co-op, 901 Mississippi St. He said that the final hour of the election was a nerve-wreaking one and that he was glad it was finished.
"I am glad I have been elected to a four-year term so that I can have a long-term impact," Rundle said. "I am very pleased and honored that I came in second."
Dunfield, 46, is an architect at Glenn Livinggood Penzler Architects,
P. A. 1001 New Hampshire St. He said he was elated about winning a seat and excited to begin his work with the other commissioners.
"I would like to think that I got elected because of the fact that I can talk to people from a variety of viewpoints." Dumfield said. "I think this will be a really good group to work with on the commission."
Brenda McFadden, who is 35 and owns McFadden & Associates, B25 Vermont St., came in fourth in the election after coming in first in the March 2 primary election. She said last night that she could not predict whether she would run in 2011 when Mayor Marty Kennedy and Commissioner Erv Hodges are up for re-election.
McFadden said she was disappo-
luted that she lost.
"I don't think it was me. I think it was apathy," McFadden said. "A lot of my constituency is pretty happy."
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Jim Henry, former job placement director at the University of Kansas and city commission candidate, acknowledges the cheering crowd as he arrives at his election party at Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. 2nd St. Henry came in first in the balloting with 5,092 of 24,553 votes. Photo by Graham K. Johnson/KANSAN
Coloring hippie-style
Elise Barker, Oliver, Mo., freshman, pours yellow dye on a T-shirt that she is tie-dyeing. "Super Hippie Freak Fest" was held yesterday in front of Hashinger Hall. Activities included listening to music and drawing on the sidewalks with colored chalk. Photo by Matt J. Daugherty KANSAN
Band selection up in the air
By Dan Curry
By Dan Curry
decurry@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
KJHK must make hay before eight local bands shine at the Farmer's Ball, a three-night rock-off between local bands beginning April 20 at The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.
The eight lucky bands that will compete have not yet been selected, said Andrew Dierks, KJHK music director.
"We have a box of about 80 tapes," he said. "We're going to have to listen to all of them."
Dierks, Elena Abatigis, JKHJ program director, and a few other staff members will number each tape so that they can do a blind ranking. Dierks said.
said. The eight tapes with the highest rankings will play at the Farmer's Ball.
During the first two nights of the competition, the audience will vote for the best act, Dierks said. The winners of those two nights then will
Dierks said the event was the main fund-raiser for KJHK during the spring semester.
compete against each other on the third night.
The victor of the third night will receive free recording time at Red House Productions, 701 Maine St., and also will perform at Day on the Hill
a free outdoor concert sponsored annually by Student Union Activities.
Matt Dunehoo, SUA live music coordinator, said a headline act for Day on the Hill, which will be on May 1, had not been found.
"We were going to have the Flaming Lips, but we found out that they were on a European tour." Dunehoo said.
Dunehoo said he had been working around the clock trying to find a replacement by Friday.
Amid the uncertainty, one cow again may make himself available for Day on the Hill.
KU graduate Chad Saddoris, who danced across the stage during last year's concert in a cow costume, said it was very possible he would return.
"It's just a fly-by-the-pants sort of thing." Saddoris said.
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Late professor noted for special-education work
By Chris Hopkins
chopkins@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Chancellor Robert Hemenway, left, shakes Floyd Hudson's hand, while Dan Bolen from Commerce Bank looks on. Hudson, associate professor of special education, died of a heart attack Saturday. Contributed photo
Before arriving at the University of Kansas, Floyd Hudson was the principal at Swaney Elementary in Derby. His sister Doris Welch said that Hudson would meet his students at the door, put a star on their hands and congratulate each of them on something they had done well that day.
Hudson had worked at the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas Medical Center for 31 years.
everytime Hudson, associate professor of special education, died Saturday of a heart attack. He was 63.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at D.W. Newcomer's Sons Overland Park Chapel. Graveside services and burial will take place at Wesleyan Methodist Cemetery in Centerville.
"He found something good in every child," Welch said.
Tom Skirtle, chairman of the special education department, said that Hudson received acclaim for his work at the University and that he was known nationally and internationally in the learning disabilities field.
Hudson had served as the coordinator of the Learning Disabilities program since 1969 until he resigned earlier this year. He was replaced by Suzanne Robinson, associate professor of special education. It is not yet known who will take over the two classes that Hudson was teaching this semester.
Skrtic said Hudson was known for his push to incorporate students with learning disabilities into regular classrooms.
"He's largely responsible for shifting the focus from a medical model to an academic, remedial model," he said.
Skrtic said Hudson also was loved within the classroom, and he expected that a lot of former
students would come to the services.
Diana McKenzie, who runs the special education program for Lawrence high schools, said she had taken classes from Hudson as an undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate student.
"His funeral is just going to be an amazing event," Skrtic said. "People are going to come from all over the country."
Hudson won multiple awards during his career, including a 1998 Kemper Fellowship and the 1997 Award of Excellence from the Kansas Federation of the Council for Exceptional Children. He also was invited to speak as part of the White House lecture series in 1975. He served on the boards of eight different special education groups.
"I think he's one of the reasons that KU special ed is tops in the nation," she said.
"There wasn't another one like him," his wife, Betty, said. "He was loved by thousands for
his uniqueness. He was funny, and witty, and tender, and sensitive."
Hudson is survived by his wife, Betty, of Shawnee; two sons, Rex, Centerville, and Max, Pleasanton; two grandsons, Jesse, 17, and Dustin, 14, or
Pleasanton; five sisters; seven nephews; and three nieces. His family asks that memorial contributions be sent to Kansas Special Olympics, 5280 Foxridge Dr., Mission, Kan., 62020.
— Edited by Steph Brewer
YOU coalition cites evidence says decision was too hasty
By Nadia Mustafa
nmusfa@kaans.com
Kansas staff writer
Members of the YOU coalition who filed a complaint against Delta Force last week about alleged campaign abuses were disappointed by the election commission's Monday decision in favor of Delta Force.
Ben Walker, Hutchinson sophomore, and R.J. Woodring, Lisle, Ill., freshman, incumbent YOU candidates for Nunemaker senators, were upset that the commission already has completed its investigation into allegations that Delta Force consulted with a nonstudent for campaign advice.
Woodring said he had hoped the commission would conduct a more in-depth investigation.
student for campaign drives.
Delta Force had consistently denied the allegations,
and the commission's hearing board cleared Delta
Force of all charges at a hearing Monday night.
Induct a note if he thought evidence, including e-mail messages, indicated that Delta Force had in fact committed violations.
mitted violations. "It was a very, very hasty decision," he said. "They were blinded by allegations that this was politically motivated."
Despite his disappointment, Walker said they would not look into the possibility of an appeal and would not actively nurse further evidence.
notice that Jennifer Watkins, elections commissioner, would not comment on the board's decision. But she said that she would not take any punitive action against Walker and Wooding.
Walker and wooding In their complaint, Walker and Woodring claimed that Delta Force did not include a fair market value salary on its initial expense report for alleged consultation with Jason Fizell, 1988 KU graduate and former Delta Force president.
They alleged that Fitzell, research director for the Associated Students of Madison at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, yelled about campaign issues in the Student Senate office and spoke with Seth Hoffman, Delta Force candidate for student body president, and Partha Mazumdar, incumbent Delta Force candidate for graduate senator.
In addition, they said, Fitzell was in a photograph at the Delta Force kickoff party and was listed as a "friend of the force," or a supporter of the coalition, on the Delta Force Web site, www.ukans.edu/~dforce.
The elections code requires that coalitions pay out for commision and help report it to the commission.
The elections code requires that council members payiders for campaign help and report it to the commission. Fizell had denied that he was involved with the Delta Force campaign.
maguadar, who refuted the charges at the hearing, said many non-students were included in photographs and as "friends of the force" on the Delta Force Web site. He admitted that Fizell had been in the Senate office when he was in Lawrence during spring break and had spoken with himself and Hoffman, but he said that was no proof of Fizell's alleged involvement in the Delta Force campaign.
"I think it's a 100 percent political." Mazumdar said.
"They do this every year. They file all these complaints against us, and we always win. I don't want to
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