6A • THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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TUESDAY,MAY 6,2003
Yellow bike participation dwindles
By JJ Hensley
jhensley@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Only a handful of students are using the yellow bike program for cheap and easy campus transportation, said David Mitchell, graduate senator. Many users are senators or their friends, he said.
"The bikes shouldn't be used just so senators can ride bikes around campus," Mitchell said. "There should be a more valuable use of that student money."
The money amounts to nearly $6,500, appropriated by the Student Senate in March to fund a trial run of the program.
According to the proposal, members of Your Elected Leaders Loaning Out Wheels (Y.E.L.L.O.W.), up to 90 randomly chosen student applicants would pay $10 to participate in the program for the rest of the semester.
Participants get a key that's
capable of unlocking any bike in the program to ride between campus buildings.
The proposal calls for the Senate money to be used to advertise the program, pay for maintenance and purchase locks and 30 yellow 12-speed bikes.
As of yesterday, about only 20 students had paid to participate in the program, which was created to solve on-campus transportation problems for all students, said Y.E.L.L.O.W. president Kyle Johnson, Wichita junior.
But low participation isn't the only problem plaguing the program.
As of April 18, only half of the bikes were on campus. The other 15 remained in Johnson's apartment until the yellow decals could be applied later that week.
Though the Senate money was to be used for equipment and promotional material, a delay in setting up the advertising account
contributed to the lean number of yellow riders, Johnson said. But that lean number of people who have already paid were enjoying the program, he said.
Johnson said next year the program would advertise more. He plans to include an option on the Organizations and Leadership survey to increase interest.
Also next year, the program will come under the control of the transportation board and receive funding from Senate's pool of student fees. That should make for more participation from the students, which will make yellow-ibing better in the future, Johnson said.
"The funding required from the Senate wouldn't be nearly as much as the first time around, since that was used to pay for a lot of the equipment," Johnson said. "But our goal is to make it self-sufficient one day."
Johnson estimates that if there were about 50 bikes in the program — enough for between 120 and 180 participants — the program could support itself.
After spring break, David Trotter, St. Louis junior, came out of Wescoe Hall to find a gleaming line of yellow bikes at the rack.
Intrigued, Trotter made his way to the Senate office where staffers helped him enroll in the program. He came out $10 lighter but had a master key to bikes all over campus.
"I use it all the time." Trotter said. "I always wanted a bike on campus and now I can have one for 10 bucks."
More riders like Trotter could quiet skeptics such as Mitchell, the graduate senator.
"By having a small group of students running the show, it doesn't give it the chance it deserves," Mitchell said. "I think it's important that it gets a fair trial."
Edited by Lindsay Hanson
Muslim rebels attack city, kill civilians
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine president yesterday condemned a terrorism attack by Muslim rebels that killed 27 people in a southern town, and officials placed $96,000 bounties on the heads of several guerrilla leaders.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front took 57 hostages in an attack Sunday on Siocon, seized the town hall, a hospital and torched a market. The government regained control of the town later that day, and all but three hostages have been released. Philippine military representative Lt Col. Daniel Lucero said.
The hostages were "evidently to be used as human shields," said Lt. Gen. Rodolfo Garcia, the military's vice chief of staff.
Government troops on Sunday regained control of Siocon, a predominantly Christian town on Mindanao. Island after an attack by the separatist rebels.
Lucero said 11 soldiers and police and 10 civilians were killed as army troops backed by helicopter gun ships fought off about 100 rebels. He said six rebels were killed.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo warned rebel leaders they would be held responsible for the attack.
"The attack on a civilian community is an act of terrorism," she said.
Her government approved rewards of $96,000 each for the capture of several known MILF leaders, including chairman Hashim Salamat.
Arroyo called on the rebels to turn over the perpetrators, adding that she had instructed government negotiators to raise the issue with leadership and demand that it renounce terrorism when the two sides meet tomorrow in Malaysia for preliminary talks aiming to restart formal peace talks stalled since last year.
Formal peace talks would remain suspended because of the fighting, chief government negotiator Jesus Dureza said.
Rebal representative Eid Kabalu said the attack was directed at an army battalion headquarters as part of the guerrillas "active defense posture" in the face of a continuing military offensive.
"We are trying to avoid these collateral damages, but it's diffi-
"We are trying to avoid these collateral damages, but it's difficult to avoid because the civilians are mixed with the military in the same area."
Eid Kabalu
Rebel representative
same area."
cult to avoid because the civilians are mixed with the military in the same area," Kabalu said.
He vowed the rebels would keep attacking unless officials meet their demands, including returning a captured rebel camp and withdrawing criminal charges against rebel leaders.
Herman Leon, professor emeritus of school of social welfare, has befriended Dailey for 30 years as well as worked alongside him.
Dailey CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
Dailey is outspoken but respected among faculty and colleagues, he said.
Dennis Dailey
As a faculty adviser, Leon
Dailey's credentials include a bachelor's degree from Hamline University in St. Paul, Minn., and a master's degree from the University of Missouri - Columbia and a doctoral degree from Washington University in St. Louis, both in social work.
He was an adjunct
He was an adjunct clinical professor and instructor at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, Center for Sexual Health, in Topeka. He is certified by the American Association of Sex
Association of Sex Educators, Counselors
sand students came to him saying that Dailey's class had changed their lives.
"KU students know when they've got a professor talking in class," he said. "And he's a real professor."
Since the investigation began, Leon and Borniger said the at-capacity class of 500 students had dwindled in numbers.
- Edited by Jason Elliott
and Therapists as a sex educator, sex therapist and supervisor. He is also certified by the American Board of Sexology as a sex therapist and clinical supervisor.
His honors and awards at the University include the HOPE award in 1993, Outstanding Educator Award from the Mortar Board College Senior Honor Society in 2002, the Chancellor's Professorship for Excellence in Teaching in 1990 to 1991, and the Outstanding KU Social Work Faculty Award in 1989.
Source: University Relations
Tornadoes CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A
A recording on the college's general information phone line told callers that despite significant tornado damage, no students, staff or faculty were injured. It also said final exams had been canceled and students were returning home.
"Although we don't have an official estimate yet, there is extensive damage," said Sandy Burke, the administrative assistant to the college's president.
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius declared seven counties in Kansas disaster areas including Leavenworth, Wyandotte and Miami.
Molita Anthony, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, received a call from his father about 9 on Sunday night. His home had received minor damage but homes nearby were destroyed, she said.
"I was in my room and my friend called because she knew we lived in Wyandotte county. I didn't even know a tornado had hit." Anthony said. "I was completely shocked when he called, but everyone is fine."
Edited by Jason Elliott
Representative Iraqi interim government to be formed soon
The Associated Press
BASRA, Iraq — A "nucleus of leadership" in Iraq may be in place within days to guide the country through the decisive selection of an interim government, the U.S. civil administrator said yesterday.
The five involved in the consultations are Kurdish leaders Jalal Talabani and Massoud
Iraq's third-largest city, Mosul, is already moving ahead. Representatives of its tribal and ethnic groups named a cross-section of residents yesterday to run municipal affairs alongside the U.S. military.
Facing a critical conference at the end of May to try to establish an interim national government, five Iraqi leaders in the fight against Saddam Hussein have been consulting in recent days.
"The five opposition leaders have begun having meetings, and they are going to bring in leaders from inside Iraq and see if we can't form a nucleus of leadership as we enter into June," said retired Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, the American civil administrator. "By the middle of the month you'll really see the nucleus of a temporary Iraq government."
Of the Iraqi presidency, Garner
Bazziam, Animal Cause of the exiled opposition Iraqi National Congress; Iyad Allawi of the Iraqi National Accord; and Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, whose elder brother heads the Shilite Muslim group Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
Garner said he expected the emerging leadership to include a former foreign minister, Adnan Pachachi, and possibly a Christian and a Sunni Muslim leader.
Some Iraqi politicians proposed that such a group form a collective executive, but Garner said he didn't know whether that would happen.
said, "I don't know if it will be one guy or five guys or three."
Garner also said he expected the newly appointed L. Paul Bremer, a longtime State Department official, to take charge of the political side of the U.S. postwar administration.
Garner, who arrived in Iraq two weeks ago as director of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, spoke with reporters during a one-day trip to the southern city of Basra, where he visited a hospital and oil refinery and met with local Iraqi leaders.
Since Saddam's ouster last month, opposition representatives have met twice under U.S. sponsorship to try to chart a political course for Iraq.
The largest such conference, of perhaps 500 delegates, is expected by late May and is intended to select an executive leadership for an "interim authority" that will govern while Iraqis fashion a new constitution and then hold elections.
If a collective executive evolves, as some propose, Garner said he didn't know how it would work. "We've got to let the emerging leaders set a pattern," he said.
As for Bremer's appointment as a civil administrator, a position
Bremer will focus on the politics and Garner on the rest of the reconstruction efforts, Garner said. He said he expected Bremer to arrive in Iraq by next week.
"I'll stay awhile. There's got to be a good hand off." he said.
No time limit has been placed on the reconstruction office's role in Iraq.
Some believe a freely elected government could be in place in two years; others think it will take longer.
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