THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2005
Kansas is now the 18th state to amend its constitution against same-sex marriage and is the first state to do so this year. More than 60 percent of Douglas County voted against the ban. PAGE 1A
Same-sex marriage ban passes in every county but Douglas
Speaker shares story
Gianna Jessen told students and Lawrence residents about her life after being born despite her mother's intention to abort her. She spoke out against abortion and addressed other hot-button topics during her speech in the Kansas Union Ballroom. PAGE 1A
School of Pharmacy feeling squeezed
The KU School of Pharmacy may be getting a new building to accommodate the school's growing number of students. The seven-building scramble for professors and students may become a thing of the past. PAGE 1A
Residence hall parking lot violence increases
Police are still searching for a suspect in a battery case in the parking lot behind Oliver Hall. Composites of the suspect have been posted throughout the residence hall, and KU students are becoming more aware of parking lot crimes. PAGE 1A
KUnited goes green
Nick Sterner, KUUnited's candidate for student body president, said that one of KUUnited's platform issues would be the implementation of a green-tag system. The system would use renewable energy sources to power student-funded buildings on campus. PAGE 2A
'Princess Bride' actor goes inside KU's acting studio
Former University of Kansas student and film actor Mandy Patkinin will return to Kansas Saturday for a fundraiser sponsored by the KU Friends of the Theatre. PAGE 2A
INSIDEOPINION
Column: Science doesn't always prolong life worth living
Austin Caster talks about the strange coincidence of how death seems to come in three and the right-to-die debate. The deaths of Terri Schiavo, Johnnie Cochran and Pope John Paul II have received big play in the news recently, but only Schiavo's death was drastically prolonged by science. Caster says that she is now in a better place.
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Column: He ain't heavy: He's my brown brother
Andrew Fray, guest columnist, rehashes Ann Coulter's visit to the University last week. He says that liberals started protesting before they listened to Coulter's words. At one point specifically, Fray says liberals became confused when she referred to Iraqis as brown brothers, thinking she was referring to minorities. PAGE 9A
INSIDEKULTURE
SUA keeps the activities rolling
Since 1939 Student Union Activities has been bringing big name entertainment to the University as well as everyday activities, such as Thursday afternoon tea. The organization takes suggestions from students on what activities to provide. PAGE 10A
INSIDESPORTS
Junior pitcher throws perfect game
Take me out to the ball game
The jayhawk softball team defeated the UNKC Kangaroos yesterday at Arrocha Park 8-0.
Junior pitcher Serenita Settlement's perfect game. PAGE 1B
Jayhawks coach Ritch Price calls the rivalry between Kansas and Wichita State "unparalleled" in baseball. Tonight the teams face each other at Hofgold Ballpark. PAGE 18
Column; Self will rise above doubters
Bill Self will get his time in the National Championship spotlight, Caleb Regan predicts. On his way, he will prove to skeptics that he is a better man than Roy Williams to lead the Jayhawks. PAGE 1B
On top of the leaderboard
Sophomore Amanda Costner feels good about the choice she made in high school to compete in golf rather than softball. Costner has posted the top score for Kansas in every tournament except one, where she placed second. Right now, she's focused on the lavihawks' goal to reach the regionals. PAGE 1B
Nebraska on six-game winning streak
Things have been going well for the Cornhuskers. Alissa Bauer and Matt Wilson have
the weekly wrap-up of the Big 12 baseball teams. PAGE 68
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KUnited puts renewable energy plan on platform
STUDENT SENATE ELECTIONS
BY DANIEL BERK
dberk@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
If everything goes KUinited's way,
campus will become a healthier place.
If everything goes KUnited's way, campus will become a healthier place. One of the main issues on KUnited's platform is to purchase energy from renewable sources for all student-funded buildings through a green-tag system, which produces clean and healthy energy, instead of energy produced with fossil fuels.
The green tag is simply a paper certificate an energy company gives after the purchase of energy. The certificate says how much energy has been purchased and for what purpose.
Green tags relay energy from windmills to other locations to provide energy that is not harmful to the environment. The energy gets relayed by purchasing energy from a company and reserving it for a certain building, Jason Boots, Plano, Texas, junior said. One such company is Pristine Power, the company that made the initial green-tag presentation to Student Senate.
The only student-funded building on campus now is the Student Recreation Fitness Center, but the new Multicultural Resource Center would also fall under that category.
Boots, who has been working with green tags for Senate, said that the company that would supply the energy has a power grid, and the one closest to campus would be used for the Student Recreation Fitness Center.
Nick Sterner, presidential candidate for KUnited, said right now the program is in the research phase, and KUnited is trying to gather as much information about renewable energy and green tags as possible.
Boots
There was supposed to be a proposal for a $1 fee to fund green tags at the Senate meeting tonight. Jeff Dunlap,
student body vice president, withdrew the bill from Senate, and said there had to be more research done before a fee was proposed to the student body.
Sterner
Sterner agreed with Dunlap and was involved in the decision to withdraw the bill. Sterner said there was a task force that was just formally put together to look into bringing green tags to campus.
"Right now, the task force is talking to different companies about prices," Sterner said. "They are also looking into what type of power, either wind or
solar, that the campus would use."
Sterner, Shawnee junior, said green tags could be either wind powered, solar powered or hydrogen powered. If it is decided not to build windmills in the Flint Hills area, then Sterner said a likely choice would be to go to solar-powered green tags.
There has not been a decision about how renewable energy would be paid for. Dunlap said he thought a change to student fees would be necessary to fund it.
Sterner said that it was too early to determine how much the project would cost, and that there might be enough money in either the Senate's surplus funds or reserve funds to pay for it.
There are two options that Senate could pursue to bring green tags to campus. Sterner said they could either do a pilot, which is a one-year trial program or fund the project long-term.
Either way, the first priority, Sterner said, is to bring renewable energy to the Student Recreation Fitness Center.
"We want to do everything we can to fund the buildings that students already pay for." Sterner said.
Eventually, Sterner said KUnited would look into bringing green tags to the new Multicultural Resource Center.
Sterner thinks this is one of the bigger issues on the KUnited platform, and thinks it could benefit students.
- Edited by Jennifer Voldness
Actor Mandy Patinkin to appear at University Theatre fundraiser
ARTS
BY NEIL MULKA
nmulka@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Members of the KU Friends of the Theatre decided they needed some star power to help raise money.
FUNDRAISER
"A Conversation with Mandy Patinkin" will be
So they asked Mandy Patinkin, known for playing the death-avenging Inigo Montoya in the 1986 film, "The Princess Bride," to come by for an interview.
Patinkin
- WHAT, A Conversation with
Mandy Patinkin
modeled after the Bravo show "Inside the Actors Studio."
♦ WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday
"It's an in-depth interview without the actors promoting anything," said Kip Grosshans, president of the KU Friends of the Theatre.
♦ WHERE: Crafton-Preyer Theatre, Murphy Hall
Theater and film students will have an interest in asking Patinkin about the film industry, Grosshans said.
"I need to come up with some good questions to ask him so I don't look like an idiot," Eric Avery, Topeka junior, said.
♦ COST: $40 for general public,
$20 for students.
Tickets can be ordered at the University ticket office, 864-3982, or at www.kutheatre.com.
Source: University Theatre
In addition to the interview
Grosshans wrote a musical medley that will be performed by three University of Kansas students highlighting aspects of Patinkin's career.
The performance features musical blurbs from "Evita," "Sunday in the Park with George," "Dick Tracy" and "Fiddler on the Roof," which Patinkin performed in while he attended the University from 1970 to 1972.
The group will have only three group rehearsals before Saturday's performance because all of the performers are in shows or have other commitments, Avery, who is singing in
the performance. said.
"It's a challenge." he said. "It goes from one thing to another and the music is complicated in structure."
Matt Jacobson, associate professor of theatre and film, is constructing a film montage of Patinkin on stage and on screen. The montage will show the breadth of his work. Jacobson said.
"Everyone remembers him from "The Princess Bride," but not everybody knows him from the Showtime series 'Dead Like Me' or Broadway," he said. "He's been in everything from 'Alien Nation' to 'Sesame Street.'"
Proceeds from the benefit will go to help fund a scholarship for theatre and film students and an installation of a digital personal sound amplification system, which helps hearing-impaired patrons by giving them receivers that pick up transmissions from the theater's sound board.
The KU Friends of the Theatre do a fundraiser like the one scheduled for Saturday night about once every three years.
— Edited by John Scheirman
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