Thursday, February 21, 1980
University Daily Kansan
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Annual ASK mass lobby raises drinking age issue
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — The prospect of a raised drinking age allowed to dominate the talk at a recent conference in Kansas "Mass Lobby Day" in Topeka yesterday. The drinking issue is scheduled for a hearing in the House Federal and State Affairs committee office.
Approximately 60 students participated in the ASK lobby, which was designed to acquaint students informally with legislators and issues.
ASK "has a good track record in the Legislature," according to Gov. John Carlin, who addressed the group at a 7 a.m. breakfast. However, Carlin admitted to being an outsider. He was voted ASK's number one priority in its Legislative Assembly this month.
put your neck out on the line when you have to, "Carlin said. "I let the wisdom of the Legislature prevail until I have to make a decision.
"If you think I am dodging the question, that is exactly what I'm doing."
CARLIN WAS NOT the only legislator who supported Bill Ritchie. Bill, Bill Merritt. Wichita, reportedly joked, "some friends are for it, some are against it, and on this issue I am going with the bill."
ASK bobylats newly initiated into the legislature, the so-called thiasitic although nonnequipped by the legislator meetings. But the experienced ASK bobylats slipped easily into legislative power.
"You'll make a good impression if you're a constituent, but if the legislator can call you by your first name that is a real plus."
also," said ASK lobbyist Gary Mignano,
from Kansas State University.
"Legislators are not hard to talk to. They don't sit there and quite you," he said.
Mignano said student opinions were welcomed in the Leiislature.
"You would think that legislators obviously feel overrun and overpassed, in these days of apathetic politics, student demographics is considered refreshing," Muriado said.
ASK MAY have the edge over other lobbyists because it is student-run, according to Brant Tidwell, an ASK lobbyist from KU.
"The legislators listen whether or not they are totally for us," Tidwell said. "Maybe the fact that we're students helps because a lot of them have kids our age."
He said ASK should concentrate on directing student interest on such volatile issues as the drinking age through the legislative system.
"You hear a lot of people talking about the
drinking issue, a lot of people think it is too bad, but they don't know exactly what to do. They aren't fully aware of the legislative system," Tidwell said.
Craig Templeman, chairman of ASK board of directors, said ASK should not block off other issues in the rush to halt the drinking age legislation.
"The beer issue is the big issue, but we've got to get that stopped by this Monday. But I don't want to see us forget about other issues," Templton said.
ASK LOBBYSTS also solicited legislative opinions on student funding of university buildings, the possibility of increasing state scholarship money from $80,000 to $85,000, and the possibility of 100 percent graduate tuition, the possibility of the Landford-Tenant Act amendment.
The Landlord-Tenant Act amendment would penalize negligent landlords who failed to keep their rental property up to
building codes or rental agreements. The amendment was voted out of the House Judicial Committee, but was returned because of mechanical errors.
The drinking age bill will be considered in the Federal and State Affairs Committee. However, ASKJobsthers said they planned to ask the bill before it made it out of committee.
TEMPELTON SAID rationality was the ASK strategy.
"If we can reach the right members of Senate, and are rational enough, the drinking bill can get killed in committee," Templeton said.
"We need to attack the drinking issue with maturity, we need to sound rational. Taylor plays off of emotions arguments ... we need to attack the students of getting into an unreal," he said.
The Rev. Richard Taylor of "Kansans for Life at its Best," has led the support for increasing the ageing support.
Bren Abbott, ASK lobbyist, said students could not afford not to act on the drinking issue.
"If students would write their legislators,
they would feel the pressure. After a sage
speech, they would have been ahead
was already passed before they get upset about
it. Students don't see how much of a threepoint
reason for it."
ASK ITSELF is taken seriously, according to Abbott. He said ASK was now "building toward its potential" but that it past had an unhallowed record in the past.
Robin McCilean, KU campus director for ASK, said that she was "amazed" at the number of ASK lobbies who turned out for her presentation. But as she said with busy legislators we face frostation
"It is frustrating, you have to accept that it is what you're getting into," McClellan said. "The legislators aren't there to talk to him." He refers to the phone, in hearings and meetings."
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