TUESDAY,APRIL1,2003
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Automated phone calls raise concerns, questions
By Lauren Bristow
lbristow@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Several KU offices, including Student Senate and the Center for Community Outreach received automated phone calls from city commission candidate Greg DiVilbiss yesterday.
The call, a recorded message urging the phone answerer to
vote for DiVilbiss, left employees at the Center for Community Outreach questioning the legality of the solicitation.
"I think it's kind of wrong for these calls to be coming to University offices," said Brian Thomas, Plano, Texas junior. "One, it's work and no one wants to be bothered by city commission candidates and secondly, it's the University and it shouldn't be
a tool for anyone's election."
Thompson answered the call at the Center for Community Outreach yesterday morning.
Jeanette Johnson, assistant to the provost, spoke with the University Counsel's office and determined that KU's solicitation policy did not speak specifically to incoming political solicitation.
"The University's solicitation policy prohibits political solicita-
non from on-campus phones and e-mails, but we cannot control incoming calls," Johnson said.
Johnson said that during last November's general election the provost's office received complaints about these types of phone calls.
DiVilbiss said that the automated phone system used phone numbers that voters had given on their voter registration card.
"I apologize because I didn't
want to bother anyone, it was intended to call their homes," he said. "But election records are public records and if someone gave that number as their phone number when they registered to vote, that is the one on record."
DiVilbiss received the addresses and phone numbers from the Douglas County election office and consulted that office, as well as state ethics officials prior to
the phone calls,he said.
The Douglas County election office was unavailable for comment yesterday evening.
"If the person receiving the phone call feels it's inappropriate and if an actual person is on the other line, then they should tell them they think it's inappropriate," Johnson said.
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give something back to the community he has called home with his wife for the last 16 years their longest stay ever.
Gerhard's position on the single-family housing ordinance:
"I have told the neighborhoods that for the time being, we should keep the ordinance as it is with respect to the number of renters, see how it works, and begin to bring the three stake holder groups together to air their differences, sort out the misinformation from the real issues, and determine if there is a common course of action. Failing that, then choices will have to be made. Students have other choices in multifamily neighborhoods, the present home owners have fewer options."
THE CANDIDATES
Dennis "Boog" Highberger
Background: Goodell has lived in Lawrence for 32 years. The former director of Housing and Neighborhood Development recently retired from city government but decided he wanted to serve the public again after doing it "behind the scenes" for 24 years.
David Schauner
Lynn Goodell, 66
Mike Rundle
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Goodell's position on the single-family housing ordinance:
"If housing conditions are truly the public concern then it sounds like we should be inspecting all the houses in those neighborhoods, if that is not the public concern then that should be taken out of the ordinance. The other side of this, of course, is what do the neighbors think? The efforts on this ordinance seemed to be to form some sort of a compromise for the parties involved, something that would make both sides happy."
Mike Rundle,49
Background: He is the lone incumbent. From his position on the city commission Rundle sees Lawrence as, "vibrant, healthy,
growing city," but admits the city has "not been able to come together as a community and work consistently for positive change."
Rundle's position on the single-family housing ordinance:
"The commission was aware that an inspection department would take some time to build, and we expressed our interest in starting a program with the single-family neighborhoods and expanding it over time. There have been concerns about search warrants. We need to address inappropriate language regarding search warrants."
David Schauner, 57
Background: As an attorney with the National Education Association in Topeka for the last
Schauner's position on the single-family housing ordinance:
28 years, Schauner fought many court battles on behalf of educators. Schauner vows to work just as hard for the working people of Lawrence and their neighborhoods. Schauner moved to Lawrence from Topeka in the summer of 2000.
"The city ordinance restricting the number of unrelated persons living in the same household in an area zoned for single family is an attempt to protect the integrity of single family neighborhoods. I support the attempt. There is a legitimate question about the inspection process. It should be reviewed. I believe that the ordinance should have a better enforcement mechanism."
Doty
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"The thing that sticks out in my mind was when I told her this was the last class I needed to graduate," Blakeslee said. "She let out a cackle, because she knew my fate was in her hands."
Blakeslee said he would always remember Doty's sense of humor.
"I was the sixth person she let do a directed study with her this semester," Blakeslee said. "She said I would have to shovel her driveway."
Chelsea Covington, December 2002 graduate, said Doty's death was hard to take.
"She was someone who was so full of life," Covington said. "To me, 60 is still so young."
Blakeslee said Doty would have enjoyed the tone of the service, which included a three-piece jazz band performing a bittersweet rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
Speakers at the service read selections from Doty's novels, including one piece she had
"The thing that sticks out in my mind when I told her this was the last class I needed to graduate. She let out a cackle, because she knew my fate was in her hands."
Chris Blakeslee,
Overland Park senior
written for a friend titled "Marty." The story was about Doty's cat that thought its reflection was another cat lurking inside the oven.
Valk said students and colleagues would always remember Doty's advice, both professional and personal. He said Doty was always willing to give her time to friends and students.
"We will remember her extraordinary generosity," he said, "And we will remember that she loved her cats."
—Edited by Leah Shaffer
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