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CONTROVERSY CONTINUES
Student body vice president-elect May Davis, left, president-elect Mason Helman, center, and Chris Kaufman listen to Hearing Board Chairman Alex Hermen respond to Kadairm's motion to dismiss a complaint against Students Sunday evening in the Kansas Union. The complaint alleges that two members of the United Students coalition attempted to buy votes by offering free beer in students. At the Watch during last week. Student Council
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United Students fined $350
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
Though the Student Senate elections ended Thursday, the complaints continued among coalitions as the elections commission hearing board met Sunday night to hear multiple charges filed against United Students.
Alex Porte, Great Falls, Va., junior and former Envision vicepresidential candidate, filed four violations against United Students last week. Two of the four charges were dismissed by the hearing board and the remaining two
resulted in a total of $350 in fines for United Students.
"I wanted to have the elections commission know that United Students was attempting to steal and hijack the election," Porte said. "That was my main goal for filing the violations."
The first complaint claimed several United Students members had purchased a keg at The Wheel, 507 W. 14th St., and were urging students to take free beer and then vote for United Students on laptops that were present.
In the complaint, Porte said this was a violation of the election code, which states that no candidate is
permitted to view a computer screen while a student is voting on that computer. The code also states
that candidates are not allowed to knowingly campaign or communicate with anyone in the process of voting.
Two students testified that they had seen United Students members, with
actually seen students voting, the elections commission found that there was not sufficient evidence
"I wanted to have the elections commission know that United Students was attempting to steal the election."
ALEX PORTE Former Envision candidate
laptops and a keg at the bar, but because they said they hadn't
provided to convict United Students of coercion.
Thomas Knutzen,
Lawrence thirdyear law student
and hearing board
member, moved to
dismiss a second
complaint that three
members of United
Students solicited
votes dear to dear in
Oliver Hall, which is not allowed in Senate campaigning.
The commission voted 3-1 to dismiss the charge because of a stipulation in the elections code, which requires the presidential and vice-presidential candidates know and approve of the actual offense in order to be held liable.
Alex Herman, Hays second year law student and hearing board chairman, said the commission believed Mason Heilman, student body president-elect, and May Davis, vice president-elect, should be held liable for the actions of members of their coalition, but
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HEALTH
Event to discuss female orgasms
Educator presents for SUA on sex's pleasurable side
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Whether you're straight, gay, lesbian or bisexual, Marshall Miller thinks he can tell you a thing or two about the female orgasm.
Miller, a sex educator from Albany, N.Y., travels around the country with his wife, Dorian Solot, and fellow sex educator Melissa Lopez to discuss sex topics. Miller and Lopez will be presenting their program "I Heart Female Orgasm" at 7 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
"Students are sometimes surprised that we really cover it all," Miller said. "The G-spot,
multiple orgasms, how to have your first orgasm, how to help your girlfriend — and it's really funny too."
Miller said "I Heart Female Orgasm" presented both a male and female perspective.
and female perspective by presenting
Student
Uni on
Activities
hadinitially
scheduled
"I Heart
F emale
Orgasm" for
March during
National Women's
by presenting information with a female educator.
Jenna Morgan, SUA member and Wichita sophomore, said SUA
history Month, but scheduling conflicts didn't keep SUA from making sure "I Heart Female Orgasm" came to the University.
wanted to bring the program to the University because it wanted to influence healthy sexual relationships.
"I feel like this is a topic that wouldn't have been talked about
National Women's History Month.
in high school," Morgan
said.
She said she thoughtthetopic oforgasms was an appropriate subject for college-aged students.
W e believe being knowledgeable about sex is a good thing," Lopez said, "Some students
Miller said high school sex education programs usually discussed anatomy, reproduction
will wait until they're married to put that knowledge to use and others are hoping to put it to use right away."
and disease but rarely addressed pleasure.
"That's pretty sad, given that pleasure is a core part of sex for most people," he said.
Miller organized the program, when he and his wife visited campuses to talk about sex and received an overwhelming number of questions about orgasms.
"It ites like people are starving for honest, down-to-earth information," Miller said. "Not the impossible acrobatic sex positions you see in magazines."
The "I Heart Female Orgasm" program addresses how to make healthy sexual decisions and covers a variety of subjects related to female anatomy, media messages and societal pressures about having orgasms.
"Orgasms are probably part of your life, or will be in the future, and we'll have tips for you," Miller said.
Edited by Liz Schubauer
Photos courtesy Sexualityeducation.com
Marshall and Dorian Solot travel
and teach about the female orgasm.
Marshall will lecture on campus
tonight.
PHILANTHROPY
Will be homeless for food and funds
BY KAYLA REGAN
kregan@kansan.com
As rain fell early Sunday morning, six members of Tau Kappa Epsilon sat inside a makeshift cardboard shelter listening to music, drawing on the walls and chatting with each other. It was their way of raising awareness of homelessness.
From noon Friday to noon Sunday, 26 members of Tau Kappa Epsilon accepted food and monetary donations while staying in a cardboard shelter they built outside of the Hy-Vee at Kasold and Clinton Parkway.
Kris Nielsen, Leawood junior and Tau Kappa Epsilon member, said they received approximately 500 cans of food and $400 in donations. The food and money will go to Harvesters and the Lawrence Community Shelter.
Nielsen said the fraternity had never done a project like this and was happy with the turnout. He said the fraternity would probably hold the event every semester. Members took eight- to nine-hour shifts staying in the box, with five or six people on each shift.
"After being in there for eight or nine hours, it started setting in there was nothing to do," Nielsen
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CRIME
BY ALEXANDRA GARRY agarry@kansan.com
Sunday morning sees series of incidents
Lawrence police were called to Burrito King, 900 Illinois St.,
at about 2 a.m. Sunday after an altercation in which two students
were victims of battery.
The victims and suspect approached each other in the restaurant's parking lot after the victims' vehicle was bumped in the drive-thru lane by the suspect.
The suspect got out of his car and punched and knocked to the ground the first victim, a 24-year-old male student, according to a statement from Capt. Paul Fellers Sunday morning.
The suspect then removed a handgun from the waistband of his pants and hit the second victim, a 19-year-old female student, in the face.
The suspect fired one shot "in close proximity to the victims," Fellers said, but did not shoot either victim. He then fled the
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