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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS
MONDAY, APRIL 4. 2005
INSIDENEWS
Pope John Paul II dies at 84
Lawrence residents gathered Friday night at the St. Lawrence Catholic Center to pray for the pope. He died in his Vatican apartment Saturday, PAGE 1A
Same-sex marriage ban on ballots
Tomorrow the Kansas ban on same-sex marriages will be up for a vote along with city commission elections, school board elections and other issues. The Student Senate opposes the ban on the grounds that it threatens students' rights. PAGE 1A
Phi Kappa Theta's charter revoked
The national fraternity for Phi Kappa Theta announced it will no longer recognize the KU chapter of the fraternity. PAGE 1A
KU loss turns bars bottoms up during games
Kansas' early exit from the NCAA Tournament has negatively affected the business at local bars. If Kansas had made it to the national championship, some bars could have made $10,000 more in revenue. PAGE 1A
KUnited fined for door-to-door campaign
Two members of the coalition went door to door handing out campaign material in the residence halls. The Elections Commission ruled Thursday that this was illegal and issued KUnited a $25 fine. PAGE 2A
Student housing running out of room
Not all returning students will be treated the same as they have in the past by the KU Department of Student Housing. An increase of the freshman population and the loss of Hashinger Hall for renovation has left first choices as only suggestions. PAGE 3A
INSIDEOPINION
ing nasty split in competition of sports
Face-off: Steroids creating nasity spit in competition of sports Athletes have been doing everything they can to gain an advantage in sports. It started with relatively harmless practices like the pitball pitch in baseball. Finnish distance runner Lasse Viren then started blood-doping and won several Olympic gold medals. Now it's moved into full-fledged steroid use, most notably in baseball where Congress has threatened to intervene. Guest columnists Paige Higgins and Matt Hoge explore the yin and the yang of steroid use in sports. PAGE 5A
INSIDESPORTS
Varsity rowers claim four victories at final home meet
The Kansas rowing seniors received recognition from coaches at their final home meet this weekend. Because several away races remain seniors say they aren't feeling sentimental just yet. The team races again Saturday in Manhattan. PAGE 1B
Despite a strong effort, the jayhawks lost twice to the Aggies on Saturday. The team hopes to end this trend when it plays UMKC tomorrow. PAGE 1B
Column: Don't go. Alex Galindo!
Freshman forward Alex Galindo has a big decision to make: to leave Kansas basketball or to stay. Ryan Colalanni gives the player more than one reason to stay in a letter of endearment. PAGE 18
Crew and rowing teams compete together
The kansas rowing team came together with the crew team for the spring opening regatta on the Kansas River. PAGE 2B
Women's tennis defeated by Baylor
THE Jayhawks fell in all three doubles matches and earned one point from freshman Elizaveta Avdeeva in singles. Avdeeva joined the team in January and has won six matches.
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Baseball drops series after first game victory
Kansas dropped to 22-12 overall and 2-4 in Big 12 after finishing 1-2 in the three-game series against Texas A&M this weekend. The Jayhawks play Wichita State Wednesday at Hoglund Ballpark. PAGE 6B
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KUnited campaign fined
ELECTIONS
BY DANIEL BERK
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Student Senate candidates have been campaigning on Wescoe Beach for the last two weeks, and have now taken it one step further and started campaigning door to door in some of the residence halls.
Two members of the coalition went door to door handing out KUnited campaign materials to people in the residence halls. The Elections Commission ruled Thursday that this type of campaigning was illegal and required a $25 fine.
"This has been a problem in the past, but when the coalition gets off like they did, they will continue to do it all day," Connor said. "I think the commission should have sent more of a message."
Jack Connor, member of the Student Voice coalition, filed the complaint against the KUnited members and thought the punishment the coalition received should have been stricter.
Shelly Roben-Lojka, the complex director for Lewis and Templin halls, said that the policies on campaigning in the residence halls had not changed from past years.
Roben-Lojka said that signs were hung in the lobby of Lewis and Templin halles every year to help reinforce their policy. Roben-Lojka said people who do not live in the residence halles should always be accompanied by someone who does live in the residence halles.
"In the four years I have been working here, I have seen no change in the way people campaign." Roben-Lojka said. "We put signs up and that
is the best we can do."
Roben-Loika said it was not up to the residence halls directors to decided what the punishment should be for people campaigning in the residence halls and said it should be left up to the elections commission.
The complaint that Connor filed was against a specific member of KUnited, Lance Mall, Clay Center freshman. The commission ruled Mall was not guilty for his campaigning, however, it found KUnited as a whole guilty for supporting Mall in something they knew was against the rules.
Mall and Nick Sterner, presidential candidate for KUnited, had no comment on the commission's decision and said the coalition had not decided whether they would appeal the commission's decision.
Edited by Lori Bettes
Mourn
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callousness.
tion, abortion, euthanasia, divorce, sex outside marriage, homosexual relations and same-sex unions.
He demanded celibacy of Roman Catholic priests and said yet again that the priesthood was not open to women. He did give in to the demands of liberal Catholics to allow altar girls.
A man who had lived under both the Nazis and the Soviets, he loathed totalitarianism, which he called "substitute religion." As pope, he helped foster Poland's Solidarity movement and bring down Communism. Once it was vanquished, he decried capitalist
During World War II, he appeared on a Nazi blacklist in 1944 for his activities in a Christian democratic underground in Poland. B'nai B'rith and other organizations testified that he helped Jews find refuge from the Nazis.
While the pope championed better relations with Jews — Christianity's "older brothers," as he put it — the Vatican formally recognized Israel in 1993. John Paul was intent on improving relations with Muslims. On a trip to Damascus, Syria, in May 2001, he became the first pope to step into a mosque.
As John Paul's death neared, members of the College of Cardinals were already headed toward the Vatican to prepare for the secret duty of locking
themselves in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope. Tradition calls for the process to begin within 20 days of death.
Among possible successors are German Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — one of the pope's closest aides and the Vatican's doctrinal watchdog. Others mentioned include Brazilian Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga of Honduras, Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Vatican-based Nigerian, Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Austria and Cardinal Dionigi Tettmani of Italy.
— Kansas staff writer Nate Karlin and The Associated Press contributed to this article. Edited by Austin Caster
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