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Bonnie Augustine, Lawrence mayor, congratulates Brenda McFadden, who captured the most votes in the Lawrence City Commission primary election. McFadden received 2,904 votes. Photo by Michael Kelly/KANSAN
Six candidates advance to elections
Lawrence City Commission Primary Election Results
√ Brenda
McFadden:
2904
James R.
Henry: 2786
(USPS 650-640)
✓ Mike Rundle:
2438
√ David Dunfield:
2369
Denise
Gibson: 2146
√ O. Scott
Henderson:
1225
G. Wayne Parks:
730
Paul Bryant: 571
David McKinzey
175
Total Votes: 15.344
By Heather Woodward
Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission primary election last night narrowed the field of candidates from nine to six, with all but Paul Matthew Bryant, David McKinzie and G. Wayne Parks advancing to the April 6 general election.
Lawrence residents could vote for three candidates. Three city commissioners, Bonnie Augustine, Bob Moody and John Nalbandian are not seeking reelection.
Rundle, membership services coordinator and newsletter editor for Community Mercantile, 901 Mississippi St., said he had mixed feelings about last night's results.
brenda McFadden, C.P.A. and owner of McFadden & Associates, came out as the front runner to win a commission seat in the April election. McFadden captured 2,904 votes out of 15,344 total votes cast.
"I'm extremely surprised and thrilled by the outcome," McFadden said. "I'm happy with my broad-based support. I think people have responded to my open-mindedness and fairness approach to government."
better job of letting voters know that there are clearer choices."
McFadden said she was facing a pile of tax returns at her office at 825 Vermont St., leaving her little time to devote to the campaign during the next few weeks.
"I'm pleased on one hand, but of course I'm concerned," Rundle said. "I think I need to do a
James R. Henry, retired associate placement director for the University of Kansas, came in a close second, only 118 votes behind McFadden.
"I'm delighted," Henry said. "The people who have been supporting me have been outstanding, I'm going to be trying to meet as many people as I can and asking their opinions about where they'd like us to be in the next couple years."
Dunfield, architect for Glenm Penzler Living-
good Architects, 1001 New Hampshire St., said
The race for the final city commission seat may be a heated one between third and fourth place candidates Mike Rundle and David Dunfield. Rundle came in only 69 votes ahead of Dunfield.
See ELECTIONS on page 2A
White editorial garners Top-100 honors
Kansan staff writer
By Chris Hopkins
William Allen White, the namesake of the University of Kansas School of Journalism, had a piece listed on the Top 100 examples of 20th century American journalism.
White was one of the most influential journalists in the Midwest during his four decades running the Emporia Gazette. The editorial, "To an Anxious Friend," which placed 82nd, received a Pulitzer Prize in 1922.
Mary Turkington, president of the William Allen White Foundation wasn't surprised at the nomination.
"He was a great country editor whose reputation became world renowned," she said.
Topping the list was John Hersey's "Hiroshima," a story told from the perspective of six survivors of the atomic bomb, which filled an entire issue of The New Yorker.
The list was released by the journalism program at New York University, and voters included its faculty and a panel of other experts including David Brinkley and George Will.
Other journalists on the list were Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, Edward R. Murrow, Tom Wolfe, W. E. B. DuBois, Norman Mailer, Hannah
Arendt, Truman Capote, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway, Betty Friedan, Ralph Nader, A. J. Liebling, Murray Kempton, Ernie Pyle, H. L. Mencken, Walter Cronkite, J. Anthony Lukas, Joseph Mitchell, Jane Kramer and Hunter S. Thompson. Associated Press photographs from World War II and Vietnam also were included in the Top 100.
Mitchell Stephens, chairman of the NYU department of journalism, said he got the idea for the list from top-100-of-the-century lists in other areas.
"I thought that in some ways it was even more important in our field," he said.
Stephens said while a lot of people made up their own lists of top literature or music, very few did the same for journalism. One of the purposes of the list was to show journalism students good examples, he said.
He said that White was on the list because of the impact and quality of his writing and because White was symbolic of the important small-town journalism to which he devoted his life.
"I probably would have placed him higher if it were my own list," he said.
"I thought it would not only be fun but also useful." Stephens said.
dited by Steph Brewer
"To an Anxious Friend"
Pulitzer Prize Winning Editorial
By William Allen White
The Emporia Gazette, July 27th, 1922
The Emporia Gazette, July 27, 1922
You tell me that law is above freedom of utterance and I reply that you can have no wise laws nor free enforcement of wise laws unless there is free expression of the people and also their faith with it. But if there is
And peace without justice is tyranny, no matter how you sugar-coat it with expedition. This state today is in more danger from suppression than from violence, because, in the end, suppression leads to violence. Violence indeed is the child of suppression. Whoever
freedom, totally will die of its own poison, and the wisdom will survive. That is the history of the race. It is proof of man's kinship with God. You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress is freedom of utterance in danger. No one questions it in calm days, because it is not needed. And the reverse is true also; only when
when it is needed, it is most vital to justice.
Peace is good, but if you are interested in peace through force and without free discussion-that is to say, free utterance decantly and in order-your interest in justice is slight.
free utterance is suppressed is it needed, and
pleds for justice helps to keep the peace; and whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. When that is killed, brute meets brute on each side of the line. So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly bush-
ness of life will go forward if only men can speak in whatever way given them to utter what their hearts hold-by voice, by posted card, by letter, or by press. Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
Professors claim racial, sexual discrimination in suit
Kansan staff writer
By Chris Hopkins
Two KU professors claiming racial and sexual discrimination have filed a lawsuit against the ecology and evolutionary biology department.
Ray Plierotti and Cynthia Annett, assistant professors of ecology and evolutionary biology who are married and have been at the University since 1992, are seeking $400,000 for civil-rights violations. Plierotti also is an assistant professor of environmental studies
Annett said that they were discriminated against in several specific instances as a direct reaction against their beliefs.
Pierotti is a member of the Comanche nation and one of eight Native-American members in the KU faculty.
Pierotti said he and Annett had been targets of discrimination because they opposed a change in department policy that they thought would hurt minority recruitment.
Thomas Taylor, chairman of the ecology and evolutionary biology department, said he could not comment on the lawsuit because it was a personnel issue.
"We feel that these actions are, at heart, reactions against us for our actions in minority recruitment," she said.
"KU officials do not agree with the allegations made in this suit," he said. "However, because it is a personnel matter, I cannot discuss details of the case. Those details will be the subject of a University response in the forum selected by the complainants, the courts."
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, issued a prepared official statement.
The suit was filed at the U. District Court in Kansas City, Kan., in late February. Evidence will be presented within the month, and the trial should begin sometime next year.
Annett said that she was denied tenure for her stance against the department policy change and that she thought her qualifications were equal to those of the white male candidates who had received tenure.
Pierotti cited two specific instances of discrimination, the first of which involved unequal resources.
She said that now she was working with a termination notice and would be fired if she did not pass her tenure review.
"My laboratory research station was removed," he said. "This was done while I was out of town. I'm the only faculty member in my department without research space."
Annett, who is not Native American, said her husband's ethnicity was an important factor in their decision to come to the University.
Pierlot said that some of his students' work was destroyed in the process and that despite the department official's claim that there wasn't enough room, he thought the space his station used to occupy wasn't being used.
"The reason we came here was because of our desire to work with Haskell and the Native-American community," she said.
Annett said she had heard other stories of women being discriminated at the University and wanted to bring them to light during the trial.
"We're in it because there's a suspicion of a wider problem here," she said.
Annette said she and her husband weren't just suing for compensation.
"I look forward to the opportunity to hear other stories from around the University," Annett said.
Edited by Duane Wagler
Two crimes questioned for racial motivation
By Katie Burford
Kansan staff writer
following two recent crimes that were offensive to students, KU authorities find it difficult to determine whether they were intentionally motivated by hate.
An African-American resident who lives McColum Hall had a note with a racial slur slid under his door last month. Last weekend, an Asian-American resident who lives in Oliver Hall had a swastika burned onto his door. Although the KU Public Safety Office is investigating the incidents, officials don't know if the crimes were racially motivated.
To prove that a crime was provoked by hate, police have to determine the motivation of the person who committed the offense, said Sgt. Troy Malen of the KU Public Safety Office.
Mailen said two other Oliver Hall residents' doors were defaced the same night the swastika appeared.
"We have to consider that it may have been a random act of vandalism," Mailer said.
The residents who lived in the other rooms were Caucasian, and the markings on their doors were illegible, Mallen said.
Fred McElhenie, associate director at the Department of Student Housing, said he didn't consider the two incidents to be an indication of a rise in racial tensions at the University of Kansas.
"At the moment we think it's a random event," he said.
Ten core volunteer members comprise the Diversity Peer Education Team, which offered forums on topics related to diversity.
McElhenie said the number of crimes motivated by racial hatred was relatively low given the significant portion of minorities who live in student housing.
But he said sensitivity remained a priority for the Department of Student Housing officials.
Gloria Flores, associate director of the Office of Minority Affairs, advised a team of students that was involved in providing these programs.
McElhenie said that resident assistants were given special training in diversity and that they were required to provide their residents with programs that addressed diversity. Race, sex, culture and sexual orientation are among the issues in these programs.
Flores said the purpose of the team was to promote understanding among groups and to diffuse tensions before they escalated.
"I don't think any community as large as KU is going to be entirely free of discrimination." she said.
Flores said she thought the recent occurrences on campus most likely were isolated incidents.
Two other crimes occurred in 1998 that police thought may have been motivated by hate, Mailen said.
On Nov. 9, 1998, the McCollum Hall room of two African-American students was broken into and a checkbook and $300 was stolen.
'the checkbook appeared later in the day in a men's bathroom sink. One of the checks had a racial slur written on it, and it was taped to the mirror.' The owner of the checkbook was the same individual who received a racial message under his door last month.
The other crime occurred Nov. 1, 1998 when an anti-homosexual message was scrawled on a Gay and Lesbian Academic and Staff Advocates poster.
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