Tomorrow's weather
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
kansan
Mostly cloudy skies tomorrow.
Tuesday
April 14, 1998
Section:
A
Vol. 108 • No. 136
Are you interviewing for jobs for after graduation? This site has a plethora of great tips.
Online today
http://www.ukans.edu/cwis/units/coms
2/via/index.html
Sports today
Vol. 108·No.136
Former Texas player Luke Axtell prepares to transfer to Kansas. He said he was excited about playing for a highly structured Kansas team.
SEE PAGE 1B
Contact the Kansan
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
News: (785) 864-4810
Advertising: (785) 864-4358
Fax: (785) 864-5261
Opinion e-mail: opinion@kansan.com
Sports e-mail: sports@kansan.com
Advertising e-mail: onlineads@kansan.com
WWW.KANSAN.COM
Coalitions contrast about debate issues
Kevin Yoder, Hutchinson senior and Campus Cause presidential candidate, speaks at the debate while Matt Dunbar, Overland Park junior and Delta Force vice presidential candidate, and Emily Heath, Topeka junior and Delta Force presidential candidate, observe. The debate took place last night at the Big 12 room in the Kansas Union. Photo by Augustus Anthony Piazza/KANSAN
(USPS 650-640)
By Aaron Knopf
aknopf@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The leaders of the two coalitions running for Student Senate used last night's debate to re-emphasize their platforms and to point out how the coalitions differed.
Campus Cause and Delta Force candidates for student body president and student body vice president answered questions for about one and one-half hours at the Big 12 Room in the Kansas Union. About 120 people attended the debate, which was sponsored by the elections commission.
The dominant topic of the evening was how to increase KU students' involvement with Senate.
Emily Heath, Delta Force candidate for student body president, said students had told her that Delta Force's commitment to the issues was increasing student interest in Senate.
"Students are looking for something new, and we're giving that to them," Heath said. "We're giving them passion, we're giving them energy and we're giving them beliefs."
"We're not here for a revolution," he said. "We feel KU is pretty good, and we want to make it even better."
Kevin Yoder, Campus Cause candidate for student body president, said his coalition wanted to make sure Student Senate represented all of the students' needs. He said Campus Cause candidates had been involved in many leadership positions on campus, showing a commitment to the University.
Scott Kaiser, Campus Cause candidate for student body vice president, said the issues that Campus Cause covered were campus concerns, not merely coalition concerns.
"We got together to think of ways we can solve problems and make
Senate more effective." Kaiser said.
Matt Dunbar, Delta Force vice presidential candidate, said Delta Force had been working for the past year to better represent students at the University through Senate.
"I think it's wonderful that we're willing to stick around and be held accountable." Dunbar said.
Another highly discussed topic of the evening was campus safety.
Heath promoted Delta Force's initiative to sponsor a safewalk program in which teams of students would serve as nighttime escorts for people on campus.
Yoder said safewalk programs had not worked at other campuses.
"If someone is burglarizing your car, an escort won't be able to help you," he said.
Yoder said a Campus Cause Senate would work to expand the role of Saferide as well as increase the number of police on campus, noting the low police-to-student ratio at the University compared with other universities.
Paul Kim, Springfield, Mo., freshman, said that he did not support either coalition entirely and that he attended the debate to hear both sides' positions.
"They've both got great ideas," Kim said.
More information
Student body president Scott Sullivan has voiced his support for one of the coalitions.
See page 8A
Advisers arouse party dispute
By Marc Sheforgen
msheforgen@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Last year's Student Senate elections were clouded with controversy concerning a campaign adviser.
Scott Sullivan and Mike Walden, who won the student body president and vice president positions with the Unite coalition, each paid $230 in fines for receiving campaign advice from former student Travis Harrod without reporting it to the elections commission.
This year's elections hold no secrets as to who the advisers are, but some members of each coalition think the presidential and vice president candidates are only puppets, with advisers calling the important shots.
Delta Force does not have any official campaign managers, while Campus Cause has two. None of the positions are paid.
Scott Merchant and Tom Moore are the campaign managers for the Campus Cause coalition, working in different capacities to ensure victory for Kevin Yoder. Scott Kaiser and the other 60 some candidates.
Yoder, Campus Cause candidate for student body president, said Merchant has helped his coalition
See ADVISERS on page 3A
Remembering a friend
"You are with me for eternity. You are and always will be my best friend for life."
- Rachel Assal, Overland Park resident, in a letter to Rosel
Lori Ravis, Overland Park freshman, and Rachel Assel, Overland Park resident, led a memorial service for Lise Rosel in front of the Campanile. People shared their favorite memories of Rosel and sang songs. Photo by Roger Noman/KANSAN
Rosel's memory remains
Friends and family remember victim
By Laura Roddy
lroddy@kansan.com
Kansan staff.
As the sun faded yesterday, friends and family gathered at the base of the Campanile to share memories of Lisa Rosel.
The 19-year-old Overland Park freshman was fatally injured March 31 when she was struck by a vehicle in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street.
About 60 people attended the 7 p.m. memorial service, organized by Lori Ravis, Overland Park freshman. The memorial was informal, and anyone was invited to share thoughts, poems or memories of Rosel.
"Lisa Rosel was a beautiful person, inside and out," Ravis said.
Rachel Assal, Overland Park resident, wrote a letter to Rosel and asked Keily Keirsey, Overland Park sophomore and Rosel's friend, to read the letter during the memorial service.
"You are with me for eternity," Assal wrote. "You are and always will be my best friend for life."
Rosel, a Gertrude Sellards Pearson resident, loved to be surrounded by friends and family.
"Anytime I needed to talk about anything, she was there," said Keirsey, Rosel's roommate at the residence hall. "She touched my life so much. There're just so many memories."
Friends told stories of a fun-loving and caring person and laughed upon remembering Rosel's light-hearted nature.
"Truly, she was one of the nicest people that's ever been a part of my life," Ravis said.
Ravis asked her friend Scott Goodman, St. Louis junior, to play
his guitar at the service. Friends and family stood and swayed with their arms around each other while Goodman played *Brown-Eyed Girl* and *You've Got a Friend*.
Rosel's father, Walter, said his home always would be open to his daughter's friends. He also asked them to treasure life.
"Time goes swiftly," he said. "Make the best of everything, and do it well."
As the crowd began to disperse and the sun went down, supporters burned candles in Rosel's memory.
"Life is precious," Walter Rosel said. "Life is short. Life is wonderful. Use Lisa as an example if you can."
More about this issue Lawrence police said they did not plan to increase the monitoring of underage drinkers. See page 3A
Legislature doles out $4.5 million to University
By Brandon Copley
bcopple@kanson.com
Kanson staff writer
For the University of Kansas, the session could have been worse. The University of Kansas likely will receive everything that Gov. Bill Graves had recommended in the budget he submitted in January.
Chancellor Robert Hemenway said that it was not quite satisfactory but that it did show an increasing recognition among legislators that higher education needs greater financial support.
The smoke that arose during the final battles of the 1998 legislative session is clearing, and from Mount Oread, the victories are becoming apparent — as are the casualties.
The Legislature approved a technology funding increase, gave faculty and staff a modest raise, provided $3 million for the Dole Center and gave the go-ahead for privatization of the University of Kansas Medical Center Hospital.
"I think the governor made a sincere effort to help higher education, and the Legislature responded," he said.
Marlin Rein, director of the budget and governmental relations, said the University had only a few minor issues to watch in omnibus. Graduate teaching assistants, on the other hand, will be watching carefully as legislators continue to debate a bill that would allow the University to provide health insurance for GTAs. However, the bill also would strip GTAs of their status as full-time state employees.
day. Next week, it will reconvene to wrap up the session with omnibus appropriations legislation — the catch-all spending bill that covers any state spending not agreed upon in previous appropriations bills.
Legislators finished the regular session Fri.
Technology funding passed the Legislature without a hitch. The University will receive $1.45 million of the $5 million allocated to Regents schools. That money will be applied to the University's technological infrastructure.
In addition, legislators promised to double instate funding every $1 of student fees dedicated to technology. That money would provide an ongoing source of funds for upgrades and purchases.
The Graduate Teaching Assistant Coalition opposes the bill. GTAC president Mark Horowitz could not be reached for comment.
The University also will receive a 4 percent increase in the money it uses for faculty and staff salaries. Raises will be given on the basis of merit.
Hemenway said that the raise was not enough but that it was better than nothing.
"It is an increase in excess of inflation, and that is better than we've seen in the past few years," he said. "Unfortunately, we're still lagging behind our peer institutions, and we have to be concerned about losing our faculty to those institutions."
The Dole Center funding came through Friday at the last minute. The $3 million recommended by Graves was left out of the original House budget package, but it wound up in the final bill that both chambers passed Friday.
The Med Center Hospital is making the transition from state-agency to its new status as a public authority. Legislators approved the transition in January after compromising on abortion restrictions. Abortions will be prohibited on Med Center property except to protect the mother from death or serious injury.
Miteneway said the transfer to a public authority would be complete by the end of the year, possibly by October.
Andrew Rohrback / KANSAN