University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1985
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Jessica Kleinaum, Oshkosh, Wils., freshman, left, and Paula Bloom, Liberal freshman, intently watch Ricky Walters, Roofland Park senior, as he directs them in close order drills. Naval ROTC Drill Team members Kleinaum, Bloom and Walters, the team captain, practiced yesterday in the parking lot south of the Military Science Building.
Kansas may get voter initiative
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — In some states liquor by the drink, pari-mutuel gambling and other proposed constitutional changes, not have to run the game.
In Missouri, Oklahoma and more than 20 other states, voters can initiate their own changes in state constitutions and laws.
The resolution would allow the state's voters to initiate proposals to amend the state's constitution.
Kansas could become the first state since 1972 to allow voter initiative if a proposed constitutional amendment is ratified.
To propose an amendment, voters would have to present a petition signed by at least 12 percent of those registered in the last gubernatorial
Proposals could then be included on the ballot in the next state general
election. Only five voter-initiated amendments could be on the ballot in each general election.
ANY AMENDMENT PROPOSED by the initiative process would have to be approved by a majority of the state's voters to become law.
The Kansas Senate Elections Committee yesterday heard testimony from Secretary of State Jack Brier and a representative of a Colorado group that studies state laws on the proposed resolution.
The committee took no action on the resolution. Committee Chairman Francis Gordon, R-Highland, said hearings would continue March 6. He said it could be two weeks before the committee decided on the resolution.
If endorsed by the committee, the bill would need the approval of two-thirds of both the House and the Senate before it would be put on the ballot for a general election. The resolution needs the two-thirds majorities for passage because it would amend the constitution.
Brier, who requested that the committee introduce the resolution, told the committee that voter interest was the main element in participation in the government.
BRIER SAID VOTER initiative would not become a tool of single issue or special interest groups or clutter the constitution with useless amendments, as opponents claimed.
"For those of you who fear that initiative will clutter our constitution, I can only remind you the word bingo is more important. Bingo said, "and we can also find such impressive legal terms as the 'open saloon.'"
Sue Thomas, of the National Center for Initiative Review, an Englewood, Colo., group that examines the initiative process, spoke for a Kansas utility lobby that opposes the resolution.
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Merchants want meters to go
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
Some downstreet merchants think the time is right to remove parking meters there, the chairman of the government movement Committee said yesterday.
"I think many downtown business merchants think the greatest day will be when the meters are gone," Hank Booth, DIC chairman, told the committee during its meeting yesterday.
He said the perception among
making money belonged to the business.
"Yellow parking tickets are like little red flags to the people who get them." Booth said. "They transfer
BUT CITY MANAGER Buford Watson said that one of the functions of the meters was to encourage customer turnover. He said insufficient turnover was a problem in the 800 block of Massachusetts Street.
their anger to the businesses, not to City Hall."
Committee members discussed the possibility of establishing a business improvement district to replace the existing facility and lose through removal of the meters.
A business improvement district is an area of businesses that is assessed by the city to pay for special services. In improvement districts, business owners are assessed, rather than the property owners.
WATSON SAID AN improvement district could allow the meters to be removed. But he said the city was using revenue from the meters to help pay off $500,000 in industrial revenue bonds.
The city used the money from the bonds to pay for some of the parking lots built downout a few years ago, and then to charities, city management analyst.
Dean Palos, city planner, said Lawrence must make an application for funds by July 31.
In other business, the DIC heard a report on the chances of Lawrence getting an Urban Development Action Grant to help Town Center Venture Corp. pay for its proposed downtown mall.
Student defaulters may face suits
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Loans are made with the intention that they will be repaid, and federally insured student loans are no exception. People who fail to pay back their student loans may find themselves involved in a lawsuit.
According to the Department of Education in Washington, more than $2 billion in federally insured student loans are in default. And the government is cracking down on collecting loan payments.
student loan defaults totaling $70,000 were now filed in Kansas.
Ben Burgess, U.S. attorney for the district of Kansas, said earlier this week that 22 lawsuits involving
cases are referred to the Justice Department.
The government guarantees federally insured student loans. Students must begin student loan payments six months after they leave school, graduate or are no longer enrolled as a half-time student. If students fail to repay their loans, the government reimburses the lending institution and starts the process to recover the money.
When banks and savings and loan associations cannot collect the money, loans are referred to the Department of Education.
If they cannot collect, Alleen Castellani, assistant U.S. attorney for the district of Kansas, said the
THE SHE SAID THE JUSTICE Department was making a 'concerted effort' in collecting final defaults, installmentals and other liabilities to repay their loans for various reasons.
"Some don't pay because they are sick and can't find work or they don't have the ability to work," she said. "Some go out and buy a car instead of paying it. Some pay other debts first. Some simply don't pay it."
Castellani said the lawsuits usually required people who defaulted on loans to repay them immediately. Some information for this story was provided by United Press International.
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