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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAS
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2009
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VOLUME 120ISSUE 108
CAMPUS
Senate reviewing fees for next year
LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX
BY BRIANNE PFANNENSTIEL
hfppanner.wikepaes.com
bpfannenstiel@kansan.com
While the University of Kansas is in the midst of cutting its budget to meet state mandates, Student Senate is in a budget crunch of its own.
This time, it's not because of overspending or government requirements. It's an attempt by Senate to prevent an increase in the required campus fees paid by every student.
Some organizations such as the Watkins Memorial Health Center and the Ambler Student Recreation Fitness Center will need an increased budget to maintain the same level of services they currently provide to students. Adam McGongile, Wichita junior and student body president, said in order to provide those organizations with an increased budget while keeping student fees the same, Senate must cut funding to other areas.
McGonigle said Senate was more interested in cutting fees that did not have jobs tied to them. He said there are also certain fees that cannot be cut because they are tied to different bond programs that need continued payments.
McGonigle initially issued a typed recommendation, which he said was only a draft, to the Senate executive staff. He recommended the elimination of the campus safety and campus media fees, which would cut funding to KJHK, The University Daily Kansan, Kiosk Magazine and KU Filmworks along with various campus safety projects. Those cuts would save $5.75 per student per semester.
That same memo allowed for increased funds in the Student Activity Fee, currently $17.50 per student per semester, to finance "minimal salary increases" for senators. He then amended that statement and recommended to the fee review subcommittee that the campus media fee be reduced and the campus safety fee be "retired" for three years with no increases made to the Senate Activity Fee.
However, Brian Hardouin, Broomfield, Colo., law senator and member of the finance committee that heads up the fee review subcommittee, said all fees would be under close scrutiny and warned senators against making the process political as the election process begins.
"This is very serious," Hardouin said to the Senate Finance Committee at its meeting Wednesday. "I take this process very personally. If we screw this up people get pink slips and lose their jobs."
The subcommittee has broken down all student fees into three groups: bonds, funding boards and services.
The review subcommittee will meet several times during the next month to determine which fees will need increases and which fees will be cut.
Jason Hornberger, senior budget
Not stopping at abstinence
Photo illustration by Ryan McGeeney/KANSAN
Pub crawl held to gather signatures on petition for comprehensive sex education
Caleb Sommerville/KANSAN
Corey Flanders, left, Dr. Alesha Doan, Holly Weatherford, Vanessa Sanbun and Samantha Snyder discuss issues regarding sex education Monday. The panel, sponsored by the Commission on the Status of Women, discussed the accessibility of birth control and the kind of sex education in public schools. The event was a part of CSW's sexual awareness week.
BY BETSY CUTCLIFF
brutcliff@lanscap.com
SEE FEES ON PAGE 5A
bcutcliff@kansan.com
To close this year's sexual awareness week, the Commission on the Status for Women will sponsor a pub crawl to collect signatures for "Prevention First," a petition to demand Kansas to tighten its regulations for sexual education.
The petition is also aimed at forcing legislators to grant access to reproductive health care.
Elise Higgins, Topeka junior and president of CSW, said awareness of Kansas procedures and sexual health in general was the goal of the activism week.
"If we can get the student body engaged in getting the best education they can, we'll know we can do it nationally," Higgins said.
The week also included a panel of experts and a booth on Wescoe beach.
During the past 30 years, women and men have had more options concerning sexual awareness, including more methods of birth control and more access to information about prevention of pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Higgins said although the KU student body may have been up to speed on the dangers of unprotected sex, they should be more aware of the politics involved with sex education.
Kansas law requires public schools to offer comprehensive sex education, also referred to as abstinence-plus education, but fails to define what that type of
education entails. The state leaves the content of sex education up to the school districts, which Alesha Doan, assistant professor of political science, said caused an inconsistency in what Kansas children learned.
Since Congress authorized funding for abstinence-only education programs in 1996, Kansas has received more than $300,000 per year for community groups and educators, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
"It would be nice if everyone would be abstinent until they are married, but that's just not the case," Higgins said.
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CAMPUS
Students look forward to donating in spring blood drive
BY LAUREN HENDRICK
lhendrick@kansan.com
Kirsten Devin, Omaha, Neb,
sophomore, has waited four years
to donate blood for the first time.
Devin serves as the KU Panhellenic Association's blood drive officer and is one of 36 volunteers on the blood drive committee, but she keeps being rejected because of a month-long vacation to China she took during her junior year of high school.
Bev Kerbs, donor recruiter for the American Red Cross Central Plains, said she hoped to collect at least 1,000 units of blood to supply most of Kansas and Northern Oklahoma.
"They concluded that it was too big of a risk to take and turned me down," Devin said. She said she still tries to stay involved in
"There is always an ongoing need for blood," kerbs said. She said the average human body contains 10 to 12 units of blood, and one unit collected from a donor
Her committee has been working since the beginning of the semester to organize this spring's blood drive, scheduled to run March 2 through March 6.
community blood drives by volunteering
could save up to three lives. There are two cups, or one pint, of blood in a single unit.
Kelly Unger, Overland Park sophomore, president of the blood drive committee, said she donates blood whenever she can.
Emma Graves, Lee's Summit, Mo., freshman, said she thought donating blood was important. She said the encouragement of the medical staff and volunteers was a helpful distraction.
"It saves lives and it's an easy way to give back," she said.
"I'm afraid of needles but I still
dorote." Graves said.
Leann DeLong, donor recruiter
Where to donate
Monday, March 2 to Friday, March 6
Kansas Union
Oliver Hall
Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity
Hashinger Hall
Lied Center
GSP Hall
McCollum Hall
Robinson Gymnasium
11 a.m. to 5 p.m.Monday-Friday
1:30 to 6:30 p.m.Monday
1:30 to 6 p.m.Monday
1:30 to 6:30 p.m.Tuesday
1 to 6 p.m.Tuesday
1 to 7 p.m.Wednesdays
1 to 7 p.m.Thursday
10 a.m. to 2 p.m.Friday
for the Community Blood Center, said she thought fewer students donated in the spring because
the weather was nicer and people
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