University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, April 15, 1992
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Kickapoo chief blasts Legislature
State is slowing drive for casino speaker says
By Andy Taylor
Kansan staff writer
American Indian tribes are being denied economic development because of state politics and differences in cultural philosophy, the chief of the Kickapoo tribe said last night.
Steve Cadue, tribal head of the Kickapoo Tribal Council in Kansas, told about 20 people last night at Haskell Indian Junior College that the tribe's effort to implement casino gambling on its reservation was being stalled by the Kansas Legislature.
"The state legislature cannot deny the
establishment of casino gambling because of treaties and constitutional law," Cadue said. "Indian tribes can engage in some type of gambling if the state has a law that provides it."
Cadue, who was elected last week as an officer to the National Indian Gaming Association, also had harsh words for state lawmakers.
"I have found that their knowledge of self-government is nearly total ignorance," he said. "What I'm hearing from them is that this is a morality issue. But morality is something that it immeasurable. I'm also hearing that it is all right for white men to gamble, but it's not right for Indians to gamble."
Kansas: the Kickapoo, the Sac and Fox,
the Iowa and the Potawatomi.
Cadue and other officials from the Kickapoo tribe currently are battling the Legislature on a bill that would prohibit casino gambling on any of the four American Indian reservations in
He also said that American Indian tribes could open casinos because the Indian Gaming Regulation Act of 1988 stated that tribes could offer any gambling if the state had existing gambling laws. Kansas currently has pari-mutuel betting and lotteries.
The Kickappo casinos would create about 1,500 jobs and bring millions of dollars to the reservation, Cadue said. Thecasinos would be Las Vegas-style andwould require approval fromthe Department of the Interior.
Using her executive authority, Gov. Joan Finney signed a compact with Kickapo leaders in January that would let the tribe build casinos on its reservation in Brown County, about 50 miles north of Lawrence. But the compact was rejected last month by
U. S. Secretary of the Interior Manuel Luian.
"To Indian tribal leaders, it was wrong for Secretary Lujan to concede to state power." Cade said.
He said he thought that this issue was a continuation of domination by a man.
"We are like the coal miner's canary," he said. "We are the first to smell the poisonous gas, and we are also the first to be denied our rights."
Don Bread, a Haskell professor of tribal law, said he had seen legislators' ignorance when they debated the gambling issue.
"I witnessed several debates by the state senate," Bread said. "And some of them even admitted on the Senate floor that they thought the state had higher authority over the federal government. They don't know about tribal self-determination."
Justin Knupp / KANSAN
Julie Denesha/KANSAN
Atan Easter party for children at Head Start, Alica Thomas, Lawrence sophomore, smiles at the reaction of four-year-old Kristina Krones, second from left, as she opens the plastic egg Thomas gave her. The
Easter surprise
Easter party was part of the Adopt-a-Holiday program the All Scholarship Hall Council conducted as a community service project before the Easter holiday.
Drinking alcohol causes body to burn fat slower
Steve Cadue, tribal head of the Kansas Kickapoo Indian tribe, talks at Haskell about issues ranging from gambling to tribal sovereignty.
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
Some college students may learn the unfortunate lesson that not everything they do in college goes to their heads.
An average college student drinks 34 gallons of beer, wine and hard liquor every year. Those empty calories can go straight to the stomach, thighs or hips.
Drinking alcohol makes the body burn fat slower, according to research published last week in the New
Consequently, students could face extra pounds and flabby bodies if they drink alcohol and do not compensate for that in the amount of fat they eat.
Janine Demo, health education coordinator for Watkins Memorial Health Center, said college students drank more than their noncollege counterparts because alcohol was an expected part of many college
traditions.
According to a Board of Regents systemwide committee on substance abuse survey, college women tend to drink more hard liquor but college men tend to drink more beer.
"Men drink more than women, but women are quickly catching up to men in terms of alcohol consumption," Demosaid.
"Protein is usually found, unfortunately, in fatty foods," Demo said. "What you need to do pick lean or low-fat protein products if you're trying to watch the fat consumption."
Demo said that foods such as turkey and low-fat mozzarella cheese were smart protein choices, but that people should avoid peanuts and other foods high in fat content if they are concerned about gaining
She said that it was not a good idea to drink on an empty stomach and that foods high in protein would help to absorb some of the effects of alcohol.
weight because of drinking alcohol.
But women still store their hairy, sheared "Women tend to store more fat on the hips," Demo said. "I imagine that's where you'd see it first on a woman."
Adrienne Moore Baxter, registered dietitian with Food Talk nutrition hotline in Kansas City, Kan., said the recommended guideline for fat intake was 30 percent of total calories. She said that average college students received 40 percent of their daily calories from fat.
When men gain weight from drinking alcohol, they tend to develop beer bellies, which are a result of extra fat stored in the stomach, Demo said.
But women store fat differently, she said.
"We're not expecting someone to eliminate alcohol from their diet, but if you're going beyond three drinks a week and you want to account for the extra effect of the alcohol, you can do it by reducing your fat intake," Moore Baxter said.
Finney seeks opinion on abortion measure
The Associated Press
TOPEKA—Gov. Joan Finney says she wants to know whether an abortion regulation bill sent her by the Legislature is constitutional before she decides whether to sign or veto it.
Finney wrote Attorney General Bob Stephan on Monday asking whether the measure violated the state constitution's prohibition against a bill containing material relating to more than one subject.
Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta,
raised the issue when the Senate first
killed a House-passed abortion bill.
Provisions of that bill later were
amended into another bill in House
debate.
Ann Cook, Finney's special assistant, said the governor received the bill Monday. Finney has 10 days to sign it, veto it or let it become law without her signature. Her letter asked Stephan to give her his opinion by Monday.
Activists on both sides of the abortion issue have urged F雷逊 to veto
the bill. She personally opposes abortion and has said she would sign a constitutional bill that restricts abortion.
Some anti-abortion groups say the bill basically would codify Roe vs. Wade, the federal case that ensured women's right to abortion, in state law even if the U.S. Supreme Court reverses Roe.
Some pro-choice advocates say the bill sent to Finney would give Kansas one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation, so they oppose it, too.
In her letter, Finney told Stephan she was concerned because the bill addressed two policy areas: regulation of abortion and criminal trespass.
A provision in the bill would make blocking entry to a health-care facility criminal trespass.
The governor said she wanted to know whether there was sufficient relationship between abortion regulation and criminal trespass to justify both subjects being in the bill.
Kansan staff report
M.I.T. microbiology prof will deliver lectures today
His public lecture, called "Science and Politics: Do they Mix?" will be at 8 tonight in 1005 Haworth Hall.
Herman Eisen, professor emeritus of microbiology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be giving two lectures on campus today.
The lecture is about a current scientific-misconduct investigation. Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, former president of Rockefeller University, and Imani Kari, president of Tufts University, wrote a research paper about immune-system responses in mice while at M.I.T. Their data is under investigation by a government committee because of allegations that data from the experiment is wrong, because of either falsification or misinterpreting by the authors.
Eisen was the director of M.I.T. when allegations of misconduct arose against Baltimore and Kari.
Charles Wood, KU associate professor of microbiology, said that the result of the investigation was important to scientists and professors at all levels. Any research done with government money would be made subject to more stringent government restrictions on researchers' behavior in laboratories if the investigators of the M.I.T. report find evidence of misconduct.
Eisen will give a scientific lecture on immunology and the research he has done on the topic at 3 p.m. in 2092 Dole.
Kansanstaffreport
New Kansan editors,managers named
The Kansan Board announced the new editors for summer and fall of the University Daily Kansan on Monday.
The board comprises journalism professors, advisers, the dean, a Student Senate representative and the current editor and business manager.
Summer editor will be Justin Knupp, Ellinwood junior. Fall editor will be Eric Nelson, Omaha, Neb., senior.
The board announced business managers last week.
Summer business manager will be Kim Claxton, Hutchinson senior. Fall business manager will be Scott Hanna, Prairie Village school.
All of those selected are majoring in journalism.