THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101, NO.125
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY,APRIL3.1992
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Senate's stricter abortion measure may pass
By Greg Farmer
By Greg Armmer and Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA - The Senate yesterday tentatively approved by unrecorded vote an abortion-related measure, just two weeks after senators dodged debate on a less restrictive House abortion bill.
The Senate will take a final vote on the bill today.
State Sen. Bill Morris, R-Wichita, offered the measure as an amendment to a bill that would make slight changes in the state's *spurjury* law.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-
Lawrence, carried the bill, House Bill 2846, and was instrumental in forming the coalition that devised the compromise.
"Today was very important for the sake of the Senate, which rose above the dark day of two weeks ago when we didn't vote on this issue." he said. "Today's debate was much better than the debate that would have taken place two weeks ago. And I think we produced a better product. There was just far too much emotion two weeks ago."
The bill included many provisions similar to House Bill 2778, which the Senate killed March 18. But the new law (further in its restriction of abortion)
The hill would:
Keep abortion legal in Kansas if Roe vs. Wade were overturned. Roe vs. Wade is the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Prohibit late-term abortions unless the mother's life is in danger, or the fetus has a severe or life-threatening deformity. A physician not financially related to the physician who performed the procedure agree that one of these conditions exists.
■ Require that a woman seeking an abortion give informed consent, meaning the physician must provide the woman with information concerning abortion and alternatives at least 8 hours before the abortion.
■ Require a woman younger than 18 to seek counseling and notify at least one parent before an abortion. The minor may petition the court for a waiver of this requirement. The bill also requires post-abortion counseling for minors.
- Prohibit blocking access to and from health care clinics that perform abortions.
"The bill is not as I would write it, and it is not like anyone else in this house would write it," Winter said. "But it represents a significant move toward better abortion policy in Kansas."
Winter voted March 18 to repeal House Bill 2778's enacting clause,
which is necessary to make a bill law.
Winter said after the March 18 vote that House Bill 2778 did not have enough restrictions.
The Senate amendment passed yesterday added parental notification and informed consent restrictions and increased the age definition of a minor from 16 to 18.
After today's vote, the bill will go back to the House. It can agree or not agree with the Senate amendment. If the House does not concur, the amended bill will go to a conference committee, where representatives from both houses will try to reach a compromise
If the House does concur, the bill will go to Gov. Joan Finney. She had
promised to veto House Bill 2778, but Winter said he expected she would OK this bill.
State Sen. Ed Reilly, R-Leavenworth and anti-abortion supporter, said he voted against the bill, because the Senate already had dealt fairly with the abortion issue.
Christine McFarlane/KANSAN
Look what I made
Picking up his 6-year-old daughter, Rachel Hillmer, from Hilltop Child Development Center, Steve Hillmer, business of business, gathers her belongings. Rachel stays at the center five days a week. See relat- ed story on Page 3.
Residence hall costs on the rise in Big 8
By Erik Bauer
The University of Kansas is not alone in the residence hall budget crunch.
Kansan staff writer
Once boasting the second lowest residence hall rates in the Big Eight, KU student housing slowly is joining the ranks of midwestern universities with costly student housing.
Student housing costs at KU remain slightly lower than those at the University of Missouri and slightly higher than those at Kansas State University.
Carol Twenter, administrative associate of residential life at Missouri, said student housing rates would increase 5 percent for the 1992-93 academic year. A double-occupancy room with a meal plan currently costs $3,004 per year.
Twenter said rates had increased approximately 5 percent on an annual basis. She cited higher operating costs as the reason.
Like KU, Missouri is experiencing a steadily decreasing occupancy rate due to a decrease in incoming freshman. Twerter said.
But Missouri has a plan to draw students back to the residence halls.
"it's basically close to the same as it' been every year." she said.
"We're starting a whole new marketing campaign," Twenter said.
She said 88 percent of Missouri's 18 residence halls were filled. Five thousand three hundred students live in the halls, while 5,000 are projected for the
She said residential life sent current hall residents, students who live off-
campus and incoming students information about changes in the residence hall system.
Four of the 18 halls will change their criteria for the type of residents that stay there.
An additional hall for graduate professionals, a hall for juniors and seniors and a hall for students 21 and older will be available.
Donald Graham, assistant director of residential life at Missouri, said the department had closed four halls to stay within the budget. Two more halls will close and one recently renovated hall will re-open in the fall.
Proite said the increase was due to decreased occupancy and increases in the cost of living, food costs, overhead, utilities and salaries.
"That's obviously going to have an effect on all the campuses in the state of Kansas," she said. "The figures at this point look like there may be a small increase in graduating seniors in the future."
The hall for students 21 and older will permit the consumption of alcohol in a responsible manner.
Rosanne Proite, assistant director of housing and dining at K-State, said the decrease in high school graduates was not just confirmed in KL or K-State.
The rate for a double-occupancy room in one of K-State's 11 residence halls will increase almost 7.6 percent in the fall. The annual rate will be
She said rate increases had fluctuated between 3 and 9 percent in the past five years.
How much does it cost?
Residence hall rates are increasing at most Big 8 universities. KU is no longer one of the best buys in the Big 8 schools. Here's a look at what it costs to live in a residence hall in the Big 8
'91-'92 '92-'93
K-State $2,640 $2,840
KU 2,684 3,080
Nebraska 2,820 2,915
Iowa State 2,850 not available
Missouri 3,004 3,154.20
Oklahoma State 3,134 no increase
Oklahoma 3,172 3,358
University of Colorado 3,540 not available
Source: KU department of student housing, departments of student housing at Rice University
Almee Brainard. Daily Kansan
Residence halls for clean living are available at many colleges
The Associated Press
CHICAGO — No booze, no blaring music, no tobacco — chewing or otherwise. It's the new generation of college residence halls.
Northwestern University in subur ban Evanston, Ill., this week began accepting applications for its first "Wellness Dorm," where students will live quietly, free of alcohol, tobacco products and illicit drugs.
Here's the surprise! It's not parents pushing for the new residences, but the shingles.
More than 55 schools, including
Boston University, the University of California at Irvine and Lehigh University in Bethelhem, Pa., now offer such housing for students, according to the Institute for Wellness in Muncie, Ind.
Committee passes fee-waiver increase
Officials said students — not parents pushed for an alternative to traditional schooling.
But the new residences aren't for everyone.
"Is life more fun in a frat?" he asked.
"Oh veah."
After a year in a clean-living dorm, 19-year-old Ball State sophomore Sean Bond moved into a fraternity house.
Senators agree on 87.5-percent waiver
By Greg Farmer and Gayle Osterberg Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA - Members of the Senate Ways and Means Committee yesterday financed an increase of the fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants at Board of Regents universities from 75 to 87.5 percent despite continued opposition from State Sen. Gus Bogina, the committee head.
Bogina, R-Shawne, was the only committee member to oppose the 87.5-percent fee waiver for GTAs, which was proposed as a compromise between the current 75-percent level and the Regents request for a 100-percent waiver.
The committee included in the bill a provision that would allow each university to finance the remaining 12.5 percent from its operating budget.
One day after Bogina said he refused to succumb to threats that GTAs at the University of Kansas would form a union, he continued to oppose any fee-waiver increase.
"We seem to have plenty of applicants at the 75-percent level," Bogina said.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said 14 of 21 neighboring institutions, which included Big Eight Conference universities outside Kansas, Big Ten Conference institutions and peer institutions of Kansas University and Kansas State University, offered their GTAs a 100-percent fee waiver.
But Bogina looked at the list and said, "North Carolina, which is the flagship university of all those you've listed, doesn't offer any fee waiver. Do those numbers prove your point, Senator?"
needed the fee waiver to remain competitive.
Winter said Kansas universities
"There's some reason administrators keeptelling us that this fee-waiver increase is important." Winter said.
Bogina said, "Those administrators would spend every dollar they could milk from the taxpayers of Kansas if we would give it to them."
In the end, Winter said he was pleased with the 87.5-percent fee waiver.
"I would have liked to have had the 100 percent, but this is the first time since I've been here that we've gotten above 75 percent," he said.
Ten members of the Unless coalition for Student Senate were present for the committee's debate and said they were pleased with the increase but would continue to lobby for more.
"It a little disheartenting to see with all the work Wint Winter put in that we didn't get the whole 100 percent," said presidential candidate.
Kristin Kostlan, Unless coalition liberal arts and sciences candidate, said, "We have to fight for every cent we can get and make them realize how important higher education is."
KU GTAs said in Lawrence that Bogina had proven there was a need for them to unionize.
"He treats us as children receiving an allowance from Daddy," said David Reidy, GTA in philosophy. "We are employees providing services, and we are getting less than market-wage compensation."
Bogina said Wednesday he would support a decrease in the fee waiver for medical services.
Reidy said Bogina was hurting Kansas's higher education system by not treating GTAs as valued state employees.
Kansan staff writer
By Michelle Betts
Student plays will hit the stage this weekend
This weekend's performances by the English Alternative Theater could be considered the Final Four of one-act plays.
Four plays from Paul Lim's fall semester begin playwriting class will be performed at 8 p.m. tomorrow at Downtown Audiolorum in Dyche Hall.
Two plays will be performed tomorrow, two plays will be performed Sunday, and members of the audience will vote each night on which play they think is better.
The two winning plays will be performed Monday night, and the audience will vote for a winner.
Lim, assistant professor of English, said the plays would be performed as stage readings rather than as regular productions. The actors will carry their scripts on stage. There will be few costumes and stage sets.
"It's not meant to hide the inherent flaws of the script," Lim said. "It's meant to be a learning process for the playwright."
Lim chose the scripts from about 19
scripts in his class. Though he only
chose four, he said they were not the
only good plays in the class.
Kim Hewett, Silver Lake senior,
DanCasey, Lawrence senior, Melinda
Weir, Iowa City, Iowa, senior,
and Mike Brandon, Lawrence senior, wrote
the scripts that will be featured this
weekend.
The audience will vote for a winner by a ballot that will be inside the programs for each show.
Hewett's play, "Chastity's Birthday," will be in competition with Casey's play, "Boy Talk, Or I Fraternize Regard You," tomorrow night.
Hewett said she became involved with the theater when she took Lim's playwriting course last semester. "Chastity's,Birthday"is her first play.
"I think it is great that I'm going to get an audience, especially for my first play, so I am really excited about that," she said.
Casey's play is set in the early evening on the rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona and is based on observations about male friendships and bonding.
"I wanted to present, to some extent, a non-stereotypical view of guys," he
Weir's play, "The Virtue of Nothingness," will be in competition with Brandon's play, "Footprints in the Snow." Sunday night.
The setting of Weir's play is inside the scenic-view car of an Amtrak train going from Boston to Utah.
Bonnie Cauble, College Station,
Texas, freshman, will act in Brandt's
play.
She said the play was about an actor who spoke in monologue about his life experiences in the past, present and future.
"There's a lot to it," Caublesaid. "He makes you think about things and experiences."
Lane Czapinski, Kansas City, Kan., senior, also in Brandon's play, said the play cleverly used separate dream sequences to enhance the main character's monologue.