MONDAY,APRIL29,2002
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN - 7A
LINDSEY KILIANY/KANSAN
Brian Kaylar, former KU student, tried salvia and introduced several of his friends to it.
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"You're pretty much immobile the entire time," he said. "If someone with a gun came to your door right then, yeah, you wouldn't be able to handle it; but, there's almost no way you could go looking for trouble."
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Siebert said that, if people used salvia responsibly and always had someone sober to keep an eye on them, the drug could actually have positive effects.
way," he said. Kaylar agreed.
"Psychedelics can change the quality of what consciousness is. They allow us to be human in a different way and experience new and exciting things," he said.
He said that he knew of therapists in California who had used salvia on people with severe depression.
"In most of those cases, it turned people's lives around," he said. "Salvia has a lot of value when used in the right context."
But Siebert doesn't think salvia will be legal for long. As salvia becomes more
popular, the chance that someone will hurt themselves while using it becomes greater.
"Every morning I expect to wake up and find it's been made illegal," he said.
"It's already become a scheduled substance in Australia," he said.
His fears aren't unfounded. The DEA is currently studying the effects of salvia on the brain. So far the agency has no evidence that it is physically harmful. While that remains the case, KBI agent Kyle Smith thinks salvia should still be legal. But, he said, it wouldn't surprise him if the plant became illegal within the next few years.
If salvia becomes illegal, Kaylar thinks its spread would come to a halt.
"I wouldn't call it a victory for the drug war," he said. "People who already know about it would probably continue to grow it and use it. But salvia isn't something that would have a black market. It is not popular enough yet to be worth a dealers't time."
Contact Koorth at mkoorf@kansan.com.
This story was edited by Andy Gassaway.
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Sellers said the council wouldn't have had the final count of how much was raised for the scholarships for another week or two.
The audience responded to the acts by clapping and cheering. All acts mixed stepping with R&B and hip-hop music from artists such as Busta Rhymes and Elliott.
Iota Phi Theta fraternity's act, Dion Jones and the Invisible Steppers, used members of the Boys and Girls Club of Lawrence.
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity drew a large audience response for its act when they made fun of the other council fraternities.
"I'm too old for this," Jones said after stepping briefly. He then introduced club members clad in black outfits, who received a standing ovation after their performance.
"I think it's kinda like when a team says they're No. 1. It's their way of saying they're the best fraternity," said Chris Lakin, Lake Quivira junior.
The group, wearing sweater vests and khakis also used canes in their act to pound the ground and opened their act with images from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Phi, Beta, Sigma members dressed in black tank tops, slacks
and black top hats and ended their act with a member throwing a whipped cream pie in a girl's face.
Sigma Lambda Beta members wore white Guayabera shirts and used cans of JuMex, a brand of juice, to make beats.
The members of Alpha Phi Alpha dressed in gold shirts and ties with black slacks. They started their act with a muscular man carrying away a girl asleep in a bed on stage like the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty."
Sigma Lambda Gamma members used the backdrop of a brick wall with their line names, or nicknames, spray painted on it and used the Latin sound of singer Angie Martinez in their act.
Alpha Phi Alpha won for best fraternity act, and Sigma Lambda Gamma, the only sorority to perform, won for best sorority act at the end of the show.
Jermaine Marshall, step leader for Alpha Phi Alpha, said his fraternity had worked on its act for five weeks.
"We've won that three years straight, ever since I've been a member of the fraternity," Marshall, Fort Worth, Texas, senior, said. "I'm graduating, so I'm happy to be able to go out on top."
Contact Boyer at cboyer@kansan.com. This story was edited by Anne Morgenmeier.
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the Elizabeth Miller Watkins trust fund. The residents are suing for more than $75,000 in damages to the trust they allege "as result of the the Bank of America's actions in misrepresenting or concealing material facts from the court."
The district court judge will rule on a motion for partial summary judgment to determine if the case will proceed to trial.
Lynn Bretz, director of University Relations, said the trial date was supposed to be in June but the University was notified that the date was reset for Aug. 27.
"We're confident the University handled the Watkins trust in full fulfillment of Ms. Watkins' wishes," she said.
David Brown, attorney representing the residents, said that what the students wanted was an interpretation of the legal jargon of the Watkins trust.
"We have asked the judge to review the will and testament of Elizabeth Miller Watkins and just let us know, 'are we right or are we wrong?' Brown said.
The trust fund was established in 1939 when Elizabeth Miller Watkins passed away. Under Watkins' will, she bequeathed $250,000 to be used for maintenance, upkeep and operations to the two scholarship halls. By 1999, the trust fund had grown to about $3.5 million.
The women have already won one related court decision. Bank of America originally argued that the women could not sue over the handling of the trust. The Douglas County District Court ruled in September 2000 that the residents were beneficiaries of the trust, so they could sue. The Kansas Court of Appeals denied an appeal from Bank of America and the state supreme court declined to review that decision.
Since the suit, both halls now have air conditioning, a fire sprinkler system and new toilets.
Combined, the two halls house 100 women. Originally, 26 of the residents signed the amended petition to take the matter to court. At the end of this semester 14 of the original 26 will remain in either of the two halls, said Sarah Jackson, Abilene senior and Miller resident.
"We're seeking to ensure that Mrs. Watkins' trust for Wattins and Miller Scholarship halls is administered according to her wishes," she said.
Contact Carr at mcarr@kansan com. This stor was edited by Sarah Warren.
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