University Daily Kansan, April 2, 1985
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TO OVERRIDE A veto, both chambers would have to muster a two-thirds vote.
Supporters in the House would need 84 votes to override a veto. The House passed the bill 78-46. A two-thirds majority in the Senate is 27 votes.
Winter said the close vote on his amendment showed that the Senate would have a hard time overriding a veto by Carlin.
Even though Winter's proposal would have eliminated the death penalty, some opponents of the death penalty rejected the proposal. Bill Lucero, of the Unitarian Universialist Service Committee, called it a "death by imprisonment bill."
"We'd like to see the bill stopped." Lucero said. "If you want to do something, let's toughen up parole."
tongued up parley.
REILLY SAID THE Legislature had considered the bill, despite Carlin's promise of a veto, to give the new members of the House and the Senate an opportunity to register their votes on the issue.
Calling the bill a capital punishment bill instead of a death penalty bill, Reilly said, "The death penalty is the price 20,000 ordinary American citizens pay every year
for being in the streets, in their homes or in their businesses at the wrong time.
"Capital punishment is the mark of a society that holds dear the lives of its citizens. it is the society that thanks life chosen, imposes weak penalties for the tangle of life."
promised by death penalty for the SHE SAID THAT OF the 25 states with the highest murder rates, only two did not have a death penalty. And, she said, the nine states with the lowest murder rates did not use capital punishment.
State Sen. Norma Daniels, D-Valley Center, questioned the deterrent effect promised by death penalty supporters.
"If we're using deterrent as a reason for passing this death penalty bill, we haven't a leg to stand on," Daniels said.
State Sen. Eugene Anderson, D-Wichita, said he opposed the death penalty because it was applied unequally to blacks.
"Until our system of jurisprudence is changed so that it puts the same value on my life as it does on every other member of this body, then I do not think our system is worthy to impose the profound sentence of death." Anderson said.
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"It's what we do. It's how we get our message across. It makes people aware that we're here and that we are indeed like other KU students." he said.
In previous years, GALA Week has included a "Wear Blue Jeans if You're Gay Day." but Lichtwardt said GLOSK had coded it to be the day part of this year's celebration.
The Finance Committee last night also made first-round recommendations for seven of the 33 non-revenue code student colleges in which the BFA program year 1988, which includes the 1985-96 school year.
THE COMMITTEE CAN distribute up to $51,181 among the non-revenue code groups. small groups that request funds annually and generally promote special interests. The money comes from the $24 student activity fee students pay with their tuition each semester.
All recommendations made last night were
first-round drafts. The committee will discuss funds for each group again before it submits its recommendations for Senate approval. The entire budget must be submitted to the Senate by Friday. It then will go to David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, for approval.
The committee made the following recommendations:
- In the Streets — $3,664. The new student newspaper requested $5,586. This is the first year the group requested funds.
- Minority Business Student Council — $250. The committee had postponed recommending money for this group because committee members weren't sure whether the council received funds from the Black Student Union. Henderson said BSU officials told him that it did not distribute funds to the council. The council had requested $673.
KU program keeps peace in Costa Rica
By KEVIN LEATHERS Staff Reporter
The student exchange program between the University of Kansas and the University of Costa Rica has helped contribute to the peace between the two countries, Fernando Duran, chancellor of the University of Costa Rica, said last night.
Duran spoke to about 50 people in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union as part of the observance of the 25th anniversary of the exchange program between the two schools. His speech was followed by a series of events celebrating the anniversary.
Duran said he couldn't imagine the University of Costa Rica without the exchange program.
"I was just starting out as a student at the university when the program was first established," he said. "It's been a significant part of my life and also for the university. There has been at least one professor and two other outstanding administrators within the university who have been in the exchange program sometime during the 25 years."
DURAN ALSO SAID the program helped the Costa Rican government maintain stability even though much of Central America was unstable.
"Costa Rica is really the only democratic government still left in the Carribean," Duran said. "And that is due in large part to the open lines of communication between the two countries and agreements between the two countries that this program has helped to foster."
"HIS VISIT PROVIDED quite a message for Costa Ricans and for Latin Aericans in general." Duran said. "It showed that the United States had made a firm commitment to maintain the mutual respect between our two countries that this exchange program had helped to encourage."
He said President Kennedy had visited the university in 1963 and had helped affirm the United States' commitment to peace between countries and the areas of the area.
The program, established in 1960 with support from the U.S. Department of State, has allowed nearly 250 Kansas students to study at the University of Costa Rica. Each year since the program began, the two universities have exchanged about 20 students each.
State panel works on liquor agreement
By United Press International
TOPEKA — A joint conference committee on liquor by the drink yesterday inched closer to compromise on Senate and House versions of a bill that would significantly increase penalties for drunken driving.
The compromise group was created more than a week ago to work out differences in House and Senate versions of a constitutional amendment to end the state's ban on the public sale of liquor by the drink. In the process of forming an agreement on the liquor resolution, the committee also has to work with companies anti-drinking measures, a drinking age increase and a bill outlining how liquor by the drink would work if it were approved by voters.
program in lieu of conviction if the person was involved in an accident that resulted in injury or was caught with a blood alcohol level of more than 15 percent.
Despite a compromise offer from the House to raise the permissible blood alcohol level for entry into diversion programs to 20 percent, the Senate team did not budge from the two-week license suspension provision in the Senate version.
DURING A 30-MINUTE session yesterday, the main point of contention for Senate negotiators was a provision of the drinking bill amended by the House that would mandate automatic 30-day drivers license suspensions for all first-time drunken drivers. The House bill also would not allow first offenders to enter an alcohol diversion
ACCORDING TO Paul Burke, R-Leawood and Senate majority leader, mandating 30-day license suspensions for all first-time drivers could create a larger social problem.
The Senate refusal came in spite of a House suggestion that the 30-day license suspension might make the state eligible for up to $1.4 million in additional highway funding under a law known as federal law aimed at a drunken driver that enacted tougher drunk driving laws.
The plan presented to resume discussion of the trunken driving bill today at a meeting scheduled for Tuesday.
The Senate also refused to reconsider an earlier House offer that would set the cut-off
for diversion agreements at 175 percent
blood alcohol while mandated two-week
extended stay of time off of work.
During yesterday's meeting, negotiators also failed to agree on a bill that would increase penalties for juvenile drinking. The Senate team did not agree with a House plan to levy stiffer fines and penalties against juveniles who were caught trying to purchase alcohol than would be levied against those caught consuming alcohol.
ON THE RECORD
STRAWBERRY PLANTS, pine trees,
tulips and cottonwood trees, with a total value of $155, were eaten Sunday by loose goats on a residential lawn in Lecompton, the Douglas County sheriff's office said yesterday.
A COUCH, A LOVESEAT and a fire extinguisher, with a total value of $150, were stolen between 4:45 and 10:15 p.m. Saturday from an apartment in Jayhawer Towers, 1602 W. 15th St., KU police said yesterday.
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