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May 1,2003
Vol.113.Issue No.146
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Wagle focuses aim on sex class
By JJ Hensley
jhensley@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Dennis Dailey's class is temporarily safe, but State Sen. Susan Wagle is trying a different approach to end funding for his class.
Wagle (R-Wichita) dropped her efforts yesterday to overturn the governor's veto of an amendment to cut funding to the School of Social Welfare. Instead, she said in an interview with the Lawrence Journal-World she would target Dalley's class specifically.
Wagle needed 27 of 40 votes in the State Senate to overturn Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' recent vet of her proposal to deny
funding for departments that used materials considered obscene by Kansas statutes.
"I had a sense that I wasn't sure we had the votes to overturn that veto," said Sen. Mark Buhler (R-Lawrence).
Wagle stopped her campaign just one day after appearing on a nationally-televienced cable-news talk show.
In response to that appearance, a group of KU students from the Student Legislative Awareness Board visited the offices of senators and representatives at the capitol yesterday.
their goal was to get information in front of the legislators before they reconvened at 2 p.m. for a possible vote on the
"Our goal was to let them know all these people supported academic freedom and that it's not something that should be legislated."
Nick Sterner SLAB community affairs director
veto, said Nick Sterner, SLAB community affairs director.
The group visited legislative offices and distributed handbills reiterating Student Senate's support of academic freedom.
"In conversation we noted that everyone from the Board of Regents to the Lawrence City Commission passed resolutions supporting academic freedom," Sterner said. "Our goal
was to let them know all these people supported academic freedom and that it's not something that should be legislated."
Wagle
Last week, Wagle made requests to the
While the first battle may be over, Wagle's war is not.
School of Social Welfare for records related to the class, its curriculum and Dailey's qualifications.
This move could set the stage for another fight over Dailey's course somewhere down the road.
Buhler was disappointed the academic issue was brought up in the State Senate to begin with. Now it looks like Wagle is going to go through the process available from the University of Kansas, he said.
"It definitely could be back next year," Buhler said. "I don't think this is the last we've heard of this."
Edited by Andrew Ward
Low-income companions supplement money flow by recycling aluminum, cardboard
Ray Williams, Lawrence resident, tosses cans aside while Dumpster-diving in the alley between the 1200 Ohio and Tennessee streets. Williams searched for cans for his friend John Chafin, Lawrence resident, who did not go collecting with him last weekend.
Story by Cate Batchelder Photos by Eric Braem
en LaRue lives with eight girls in one of the nicer houses on the 1200 Ohio Street block of the student ghetto of the Oread neighborhood. She doesn't consider herself living in the student ghetto. She didn't know there was one.
"I really enjoy being close to campus—and all the bars," LaRue, Minnetonka, Minn., junior, said with a laugh.
When the bars close, the girls play host to "after-hours" where their friends spill out to the back open-air deck. If the hangovers aren't too bad the next day, the girls will clean up the mess, throwing out aluminum
cans and bottles from beer, wine and champagne — if it's a birthday — in the Dumpster in the alley.
They don't recycle. They're too busy.
But LaRue said it would be a good thing to do. "We could have used it for party money or something," she said.
Even if LaRue and her roommates don't recycle, somebody does for them. The homeless and low-income dig through their trash in the alley Dumpsters looking for corrugated cardboard and aluminum cans. Later, many take their cardboard to the Lawrence Paper Company, 2801 Lakeview Road, for
$30 a ton and their cans to Lonnie's Recycling, 501 Maple St., for 25 cents a pound.
John and Ray
John Chafin is one of Lonnie's best customers. He collects cans once, twice, sometime three times a day. Once a month, he cashes in the cans, roughly making $100 to $125. He cashes in cardboard less often.
He uses the extra spending money to supplement his $545 monthly disability check from Social Security.
SEE CANS ON PAGE 6A
Sandcastle contest provides fun in sun
Builders apply creativity, burn away some calories in effort to win $100 prize
Lauren Bristow
lbristow@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The warm, spring breeze. The cool, wet sand. The sound of waves crashing on the beach? Well, almost.
Student Union Activities hosted its annual sandcastle building tournament yesterday on Wescoe Beach with 15 contestants and 11 entries seeking the $100 grand prize.
"It's a day of fun in the sun," said Aaron Mesmer, SUA vice president of membership development. "We wanted people to get out and enjoy the
great spring weather."
Friends Jessica Eales, Lawrence sophomore, Casey Weas, Lawrence freshman, and Erin Schultz, Lawrence freshman, wanted to build a resort with their allotted sand.
Ten blue baby pools filled with sand lined the sidewalk along Jayhawk Boulevard while students sculpted works of art.
"We were going to build a casino resort complete with a tunnel, moat and brewery," Schultz said. "But we only have an hour over lunch; we'll see what we end up with."
Schultz and Weas create sandcastles each summer at Bloomington Beach at Clinton Lake and took time during their lunch break to complete their entry.
Lindsay Gold/KANSAN
SEE SANDCASTLES ON PAGE 9A
Lawrence sophomore Jamie Labrier creates a sandcastle on Wescoe Beach for SUA's Annual Sandcastle Building Contest. Ten sandboxes, an assortment of molds, and water guns were offered to participants free of charge yesterday. The prize for first place was $100, second, $50, and third, $25.
New dean of fine arts returns to University
By Kelley Weiss
kweiss@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The new dean of the School of Fine Arts is returning to his alma mater.
Steve Hedden, who was born in Colby, is the dean of fine arts at Wichita State University. He will come to the University of Kansas July 1 to replace Toni-Marie Montgomery, who will become the dean at Northwestern University.
Heddensaid his experiences at the University were special to him, and he was excited about the opportunity to return as dean. He also said fine arts students made remarkable accomplishments.
Hedden has three degrees in music education from the University and served as the vice dean for academics and research at the University of Arizona from 1987 to 2000.
Vickie Hamilton-Smith, communications director for the School of Fine Arts, said Hedden's experience would help him perform his duties as the dean.
Hedden
"I was very impressed with his experience and comments," Hamilton-Smith said. "He has experience in everything from academics to fund raising."
Some of Hedden's experience includes having more than 50 published articles in professional journals, including chapters in the Psychology of Music Handbook and The Hand
SEE HEDDEN ON PAGE 9A
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