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The Inside Front
Friday February 13,1998
News
from campus, the state. the nation and the world
Student Union Activities has a special schedule for the unlucky in love and those who are sick of Valentine's Day.
On CAMPUS
In the STATE
University of Kansas students are moving forward in the College Bowl competition, a national trivia contest.
The Kansas Senate failed to send Gov. Bill Graves a bill regarding late-term abortions yesterday.
A federal judge declared President's Clinton new line-item veto authority unconstitutional.
SUA offers alternatives for the 'Unlucky in Love'
Student Union Activities has a special schedule for the unlucky in love and those who are sick of Valentine's Day.
Today, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the lobby of the Kansas University SUA will present its annual Unlucky in love, a Valentine's Dav open house.
Roses and carnations will be on sale. The roses will be $2 and the carnations will be 50 cents. Balloons also will be available for 25 cents.
A card-making table where students can produce their own Valentine's card will also be available.
Personalized heart-shaped cookies will be on sale for $1.50.
Couples can take their picture with Cupid or Condom Man or compete in the worst date essay contest.
Katrina Widholm, marketing promotions coordinator for the KU Bookstore, said the store would be offering 20 percent off all merchandise and would award a $250 gift package for the 100th anniversary of Kansas basketball.
Students who want to take an alternative spin on Valentine's Day can check out local talents at the SUA's first Amateur Night, 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Lied Center.
Kielyn Scott, Wichita junior and SUA special events coordinator, said the best act could capture a spot at the upcoming music festival Day on the Hill.
Scott said the best act of the night would receive $150, and second and third place would be awarded $75 and $50 respectively.
—Marcelo Vilela
Pearson team moves its brain power forward
University of Kansas students are moving forward in the College Bowl competition, a national trivia contest.
Out of 18 teams participating in the contest, the team from Pearson Scholarship Hall won at the KU stage of the competition, which was sponsored by Student Union Activities last Saturday in the Kansas Union.
The Pearson team will compete on Feb. 27 and 28 at the University of Missouri for the regional installment of the College Bowl. If they win the regional competition, they will move to the national competition in Dallas.
The students in the winning team are Matt Judd, Tecumseh junior; Peter Shenk, New Orleans junior; Eliah Bures, Garnett freshman; Chris Sayles, Iola senior; and Clair McCluistion, El Dorado freshman.
Judd said he had no idea what was waiting for them in the regionals,but he expected tough competition.
"Most of us had done something like this in high school, so we thought it might be fun to do it here," Judd said.
Second place went to the team from Beta Theta Pi fraternity . The Delta Force team placed third.
Marcelo Vilela
Kansas Senate rejects partial-birth abortion ban
TOPEKA — The Kansas Senate failed to send Gov. Bill Graves a bill yesterday that would have significantly toughened the state's abortion law
The vote was 19 for and 21 against. The bill remains in a conference committee and could be voted upon again.
The bill would have banned the specific procedure commonly known as partial-birth abortion.
The House amended it to prohibit all abortions after 24 weeks of pregnancy, except to save the life of the mother.
Graves supports the ban on the specific abortion procedure, but in 1997 resisted expanding it to cover all third-trimester abortions.
Graves said he had not decided what to do if the House version of the bill reached his desk, because it did not seem likely the bill
Graves: Concerned about late-term abortions in Kansas
was going be approved by the Senate.
"We think there should be some emphasis put into a partial-birth ban bill, especially the bill Tim Emert's come up with, and we hope that by putting this procedural vote behind us, we can get to work on something a lot of people agree on, can get done and ought to get done." Emert, B. Djendeno-
dence, the Senate majority leader, has introduced two bills.
One bill would ban the specific procedure, but make an exception to save the mother's life or protect her from physical injury. It would punish abortion providers, not the mother.
The second bill would ban abortions after a fetus is viable, with an exception to preserve the life or health of the mother. It would strike an exception made for fetuses affected by severe deformities.
The governor acknowledged he had concerns about the state being nationally known as a place where women can get late-term abortions.
President's line-item veto authority challenged by judge
WASHINGTON — A federal judge declared President's Clinton new line-item veto authority unconstitutional, casting into doubt the historic power Congress ceded to the president in 1996.
"The Line-Item Veto Act is unconstitutional because it impermissibly disrupts the balance of powers among the three branches of government," said U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Hogan.
trot court Thomas Hogan. Hogan said the act crossed the line between acceptable delegations of rule-making authority and unauthorized surrender to the president of an inherently legislative function, namely, the authority to permanently shape laws and package legislation.
Hogan's ruling, while important, likely will not be the final word in the case. Utl-
mately, the issue will be decided by the Supreme Court. Clinton exercised the veto power 82 times last year, striking $1.9 billion in spending projected for five years. When he used it for the first time, on August, 11, by killing three items in budget-balancing and tax cuts bills, he declared, "The Washington rules have changed for good,
Clinton: Judge says Line-Item Veto is unconstitutional
and for the good of the American people."
In the good of the American people. He vetoed 38 military construction projects in the first annual spending bill for 1998. In response, angry lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to restore them and expressed serious doubts about the merits of the veto authority.
The case acted on yesterday was initiated by New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, challenging the president's unprecedented authority to reject specific sections of spending bills without vetting the entire measure. He vetoed Congress not yet delegates
Hogan ruled Congress may not delegate its inherent lawmaking authority.
New York City maintains it was unfairly targeted by Clinton when he canceled a section of the federal budget bill that would have let the city and state raise taxes on hospitals and pass those charges along to the federal government in the form of Medicaid billings.
- The Associated Press
Stolen permits have KU police seeing red
By Laura Roddy
lroddy@kansan.com
Kansas state writer
The University of Kansas police department is still investigating the theft of eight red parking permits from Parking Services.
"It's a personnel issue and a police matter still," she said.
The red permits — valued at $95 per year or $55 per semester — give anyone with faculty or staff IDs access to coveted campus parking places.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of parking, said the department could not comment on the specifics regarding the investigation.
KU Police Sgt. Chris Keary said the police have been investigating the permit thefts since Feb. 6 and have recovered three of them.
"At this point, we're still checking to see who all is involved in the situation," Keary said.
In one of the recoveries, the police issued a ticket for possession of stolen property.
he said police had talked to two other suspects for possession of stolen property, but tickets had not been issued.
Both incidents are still under investigation. One of those permits was recovered between 8:10 and 8:16 p.m. Tuesday in Lot 19, west of the Burge Union.
Keary said there was a distinction between being charged for possession of stolen property and being charged for theft.
People can be charged with possession of stolen property if there is reasonable belief that the item was stolen by another person, Kearv said.
"We're still investigating the theft itself," he said.
Possession charges indicate that an individual may have been selling the permits, Keary said.
One person wouldn't use eight," he said. Hultine reported to the KU police the parking permits were taken from Parking Services between 8 a.m. Oct. 21 and 5 p.m. Jan. 29.
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Stereo equipment was taken from a vehicle between 3:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in lot 112 north of Oliver Hall, KU police said. The equipment was valued at $345.
A vehicle belonging to the Kansas and Burge Unions was damaged between 5 p.m. Tuesday and 3:58 a.m. Wednesday in lat 104 west of Ellsworth Hall, KU police said The damage was $150.
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ON THE RECORD
Looking for a
cheap date
on Valentine's Day?
Well, you don't have to spend the big bucks.
has the answer for you.
The Amateur Talent Night
It's in the Lied Center of Kansas (very nice - it's got cusby chairs!)
It's from 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. (enough time for dinner before and a lot of fun after)
it's FREE!
(bere's the secret, lie and say you spent a lot on tickets)
Pick up vouchers at the SUA Box Office, Level Four. Kansas Union