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State Supreme Court hears census count case
The state Supreme Court on Friday heard a case that would allow Douglas County to count out-of-state KU students as residents of Kansas when state House and Senate districts are reapportioned this year.
By Andy Taylor
Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Commission and five other county commissions filed a lawsuit against the state in 1988 that would allow counties with colleges and military bases to use federal census numbers rather than state adjusted numbers during reapportionment.
Nonresident college students and military personnel are included in the federal census, which is taken every 10 years and is used to reapportion U.S. House of Representatives' districts.
State adjusted numbers, established by a 1987 state law, use federal census findings but do not include nonresident college students and nonresident military personnel counted in the federal census.
In-state KU students may decide whether to be counted for the state census in their home county or Douglas County. In the federal census, people are counted according to where they are living at the time of the census.
Patti Hackney, a Lawrence attorney who represents the counties, said the purpose of the lawsuit was not only to determine the correct number of people living in the state but also to give the residents of the counties with military bases and colleges the constitutional right to fair representation.
The commissions appealed to the state Supreme Court after the Shawnee County District in July 1991 ruled for the state.
"This is a dilution of representation not just for the military or the college students but for everybody." Hackney said. "When the state does not count the military personnel or the college students, then your vote means less."
wits the Douglas County Commission wins its lawsuit, the state will use federal instead of adjusted state census numbers for state legislative reapportionment. The state adjusted numbers do not include KU students.
SEATTLE — Sen. Brock Adams, D-Wash., abandoned his re-election campaign yesterday after a news report surfaced with claims from eight unidentified women that he sexually abused and harassed them.
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"This is the saddest day of my life," Adams said at a news conference.
"I care for people and I have never harmed anyone. But I find now that it is not worth it to continue this campaign."
Because of an earlier sexual-misconduct accusation, Adams already was rated among the most vulnerable of senators whose terms expire this year.
The lawsuit also was supported by the commissioners from Riley, Leavenworth, Geary, Ellis and Crawford counties, which also have military bases or colleges.
Hackney said if the court decided against the commissions' lawsuit, Douglas County might lose one of its three legislative seats.
"It's devastating," said Karen Marchiori, who heads the state Democratic Party. "It was bad before, but now I think Brock's position is untenable. This is a very, very serious hit on a person who was not in that strong a position anyway."
State party leaders said the articles were ruinous regardless of whether the women were telling the truth.
Martha Snyder, a Kansas assistant attorney general representing the state in the lawsuit, said the issue was not about representation but about census numbers.
State Democratic leaders had urged Adams to resign from his Senate seat after the Seattle Times report appeared, but he refused to step down.
Marchioro said dropping his re-election bid was the least Adams should do. She said there was no indication that any Republican opponent was involved with bringing forth the story
"This is not a voting rights case or equal representation case or a reapportionment case," she told the court. "This is a census case."
Snyder said counties with military bases and colleges were not treated any differently than other counties.
The court is expected to make a decision on the case within the next two months.
"In Kansas, the individual is given the option of changing permanent residency." she said.
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accusing the first-term, liberal Democrat.
Former Rep. Mike Lowry, who had all but formally announced that he would oppose Adams for the Democratic nomination, did not immediately return telephone calls to his newly opened campaign headquarters or his office.
The Times story said reporters began hearing accusations of sexual misconduct against Adams in the 31/2 years since Kari Tupper, a former congressional aide and family friend of Adams, claimed Adams drugged and molested her at his Washington, D.C. home in 1987.
State Sen. Patty Murray, the only Democrat now campaigning for Adams' seat, said she would not alter her campaign strategy.
The Times said that in ensuing months, people contacted the paper to report information or personal experiences suggesting Tupper was telling the truth.
Its articles quoted eight women as saying that Adams had fondled and kissed them at various times in the past two decades.
One woman, described as a Democratic Party activist, said that in the early 1970s Adams gave her pills that drugged her, then raped her at her home and left $200 as he departed.
None of the women, who were unwilling to be identified, ever took her allegations to police.
ON THE RECORD
An unidentified person entered Rudy's Pizza, 620 W. 12th St., between 9 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Friday and took $27. The door to the business was pried open. Lawrence police reported.
A book bag containing Rock Chalk Revue tickets, valued at $300, was taken between 11:15 p.m. and 11:20
p. m. Wednesday from the second floor of Watson Library, KU police reported.
A pay telephone worth $2,500 containing about $30 in quarters was taken between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. Thursday from Kwik Shop, 1714 W. 23rd St., Lawrence police reported.
ON CAMPUS
The Tae Kwon Do Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. today and Wednesday at 207 Robinson Center.
The Archaeology Club will meet at 4 p.m. today at the Seminar Room in Spooner Hall.
■ The English Alternative Theatre will sponsor a staged reading of a series of dramatic monologues from "A Woman Alone" and other plays by Franca Rame and Dario Fo at 8 tonight at 100 Smith Hall. The event is free.
The Dr. Seuss Club will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Oread Room in the Kansas Union.
The Office of Study Abroad is sponsoring an information session for Fulbright and other grants for graduate study abroad at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Regional Institute Room in the Kansas Union.
The Office of Study Abroad will sponsor an information session about studying in Spanish-speaking countries at 4 p.m. Wednesday at 4039
Wescow. An information session about studying in French-speaking countries will be at 4p.m. Wednesday at the French department library.
Environs will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday at parlors A and B in the KansasUnion
Academic Computing Services will sponsor the seminar, "Introduction to UNIX" at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the PC lab in the Computer Center.
The Flying Club will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Walnut Room in the Kansas Union.
Support Group for Individuals with Eating Problems will meet at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Conference Room in Watkins Memorial Health Center.
- Women's Concerns Committee of GLSOK will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
GLSOK will meet at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union.
Poor ventilation of crematorium causes smoke problem in Malott
Kansan staff report
The smell of smoke on the sixth floor of Malott Hall about 8:30 a.m. Friday prompted a woman on the floor to call KU police and the Lawrence fire department.
The smoke was coming from the creatureatorium, where dead animals that had been used for scientific projects
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are burned, according to KU police reports.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police representative, said that the area where the crematorium was situated was ventilated properly but that down drafts of air could push smoke out of the vents and back into the building.
Mullens said that there was no fire outside the crematorium.
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