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Wednesday
January 14, 1998
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Vol. 108·No.79
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The Kansas women's basketball team erased a 15-point halftime deficit to defeat Texas 76-71 last night in Allen Field House.
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Elections Commission OKs polling sites
Students to vote at three dining center locations
By Melissa Ngo Kansan staff writer
The Elections Commission voted last night to set up three polling sites at residence hall dining centers during the April 1989 Student Senate elections.
The polling sites will be at Oliver Hall, Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall, and Ekdahl Dining Commons at Lewis Hall, as suggested in the compromise resolution, said Brad Finkeldei, commission member.
The tentative times that the sites will be open are from 4 to 7 p.m. the first day of elections and from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. the second day of elections, Finkeldei said. The commission will confirm the times at a later meeting.
R. J. Woodring, Association of University Residence Halls nurse who helped draft the compromise resolution, said he was excited about the commission's decision.
"I think it's definitely laying the groundwork for full-time polling sites at all three locations for next year," Woodrood said. "It's good to see they're taking an active role in increasing voter turnout."
Both the original Daisy Hill pollling site bill and the compromise resolution will be discussed at Student Senate committee meetings tonight. Meetings will start at 6
p. m. in the Kansas Union.
The commission's decision came after debate about whether setting up the site at Ekdahl Dining Commons would violate the commission's directive to ensure free and fair elections.
Audrey Nogle, elections commissioner, said one problem with setting up a site at the cafeteria could be that Lewis residents might put campaign fiers in their windows. This would violate the rule against campaigning within 100 feet of a pollling site.
Nogle said her concern was that the commission would have trouble enforcing this rule because it might not ensure that residents remove the campaign material.
Other commission decisions regarding the elections code included putting the code into Senate candidate packets and clearly discussing it at mandatory candidate workshops.
The commission also decided that candidate eligibility would be determined by both official enrollment records and a dean's stamp. This decision stemmed from a problem with a candidate running for a Nunemaker seat last year, Nogle said.
The candidate's hours were in question because he had Advanced Placement hours that pushed him over the 60-hour limit imposed on Nunemaker senators.
The commission also ruled that during the 1998 elections, presidential and vice-presidential candidates would need 500 signatures before they could be put on the ballot.
All other Senate candidates have the choice of filing a $10 fee or getting 100 signatures, the commission ruled.
The commission will make a final decision after presenting the first draft to Senate on Jan. 21 and receiving feedback on it, Finkeldei said.
Who voted where
Number of voters at each polling site in last year's Student Senate elections:
Burge Union: 262
Andrew Rohrback / KANSAN
Desktop casinos
By Melissa Ngo
Kansan staff writer
Wanna bet on tonight's Kansas-
Texas A&M game? Just log on to the
Internet, place a bet, sit back and
watch the game on TV.
The growth of online casinos — gambling through the use of a computer without leaving the house — has allowed more and more students to gamble in the comfort of their easy chairs.
But what many students don't know is that online gambling is illegal in Kansas and Missouri. Jake and Sam, two University of Kansas students, didn't know.
Jake, 21, Wichita senior, and Sam,
21, Wichita junior, have been gambling online for more than a year.
The two asked that their real names not be used.
Jake said he liked online gambling because of the convenience.
"It's right here at home instead of having to drive 45 minutes just to play a few hands of blackjack," he said.
Sam found the "cyber casinos" after searching online for other games. He said he started playing a couple of years ago when online gambling was still new.
"I was basically paid to test out Island Casino's software," he said. "I made an initial deposit of $500 and they added another $500 to it. And they added 10 percent to all the deposits you made for the first year."
Forms of gambling other
than blackjack and sports betting include video poker, bingo, roulette and baccarat.
In Kansas, gambling that is not conducted on an Indian reservation has to be authorized by the state. Missouri law is similar to Kansas law but it is broader, including some exceptions for riverboat casino gambling.
Mary Horsch, spokesperson for the Kansas Attorney General's office, said that the office had not prosecuted anyone for Internet gambling.
But Missouri prosecutors are breaking new legal ground.
Missouri Attorney General Jeremiah "Jay" Nixon is prosecuting the Interactive Gaming Corp., which offers gambling online, and its president, Michael F. Simone, on the charge of promoting gambling in the first degree.
Missouri's case against Simone and IGC is the first criminal case of its kind in the country. It's the second case Nixon has brought against IGC. The first one was a civil lawsuit in April.
Scott Holst, spokesman for the Missouri Attorney General's office, said that in the April lawsuit, IGC was representing that their gambling services were legal for Missourians.
In the lawsuit's May ruling, a Missouri circuit judge ordered IGC to stop taking bets from Missourians and to pay $66,050 in penalties and costs to the state.
The latest charge against Simone and IGC of promoting gambling in the first degree is punishable by up
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AIDS expert says new drug halting virus
By Lisa Stevens John
Kansan staff writer
David Ho gives hopeful speech at Lied Center
The man who invented the AIDS cocktail told a Lied Center audience last night that HIV is no longer viewed as invincible.
David Ho, a physician/researcher, was named Time magazine's Man of the Year in 1997. He said that a new three-drug combination he developed gave hope to AIDS patients.
"For the first time in this epidemic in the U.S., we have turned a corner with the use of combination therapies," Ho said. "We have shifted HIV care from the inpatient setting to the outpatient setting."
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, Agouron Pharmaceuticals, the Kansas AIDS Education and Training Center and the Kansas City AIDS Research Consortium brought the SUA forum to the University of Kansas.
Donna Sweet, a Wichita physician and educator, introduced Ho to the crowd of about 2,000.
"The bad news is, AIDS continues to spread here and across the globe," Sweet said. "The good news is that now we can do something about it."
He gave a statistical overview of what he called a horrific disease. In 1983, there were 1,000 documented cases of AIDS in the United States, he said. Today the number of AIDS patients in the United States is close to 1 million.
Worldwide, the count totals 30 million. Each day, 16,000 people become infected with the AIDS virus. He said.
Howard Milton, SUA graduate adviser,
said the lecture cost $9,800, including a
$7,800 speaker fee.
"For most of them, the therapy is not available, so basically, this is a death sentence." Ho said.
He explained how the combination therapy of three drugs: AZT, protease inhibitors, and 3TC, work. Researchers have seen improvements in as many as three-fourths of patients who are compliant to the treatment regimen and who have no major side effects.
People everywhere must educate themselves about AIDS, he said.
"It's easy sitting here in Lawrence thinking this is not our problem, but our world is in effect becoming smaller, so this is everybody's problem." Hoasid.
"During treatment, the amount of the virus falls precipitously and becomes undetectable in the blood." He said.
This leaves researchers confronted with the task of flushing out residual HIV in the lymph glands, tonsils and gastrointestinal tract. Ho said.
"We can do a great deal to put out the fire, but we cannot stop the viral embers altogether at this point," he said.
David Ho spoke to the crowd last night at the Lied Center. He was last year's *Time Man* of the Year. Photo by Geoff Krager/KANSAN
Saferide in need of fuel from city
By Marc Sheforger Kansan staff writer
Saferide is a free driving service that provides University of Kansas students with a safe alternative to drunk driving. Scott Kaiser, transportation coordinator, said the $80,000 allocated by Student Senate for Saferide was $20,000-$30,000 less than the cost required to sustain the service.
Financial woes have Saferide facing a potential breakdown and the Student Senate facing choices.
"If we don't do anything, Saferide will run out of money in April." Kaiser said
The state attorney general ordered the city to use a portion of liquor sales tax revenue for alcohol awareness. The money can be used for prevention, education, detoxification or treatment, and Kaiser said the transportation board hoped Saferide would be considered a service of prevention.
Mike Wilden, city manager, said the money was to be used to prevent alcohol intake, not to drive drunk people around.
"Certainly it's good to have inebriated people off the streets, but why are they inebriated in the first place?" he asked.
Mike Walden, student body vice president, said that without funding from the city, Saferide had nowhere to turn.
"At this point in time, we've exhausted all of our options," Walden said. "We have to make a decision as to how we are going support Saferide."
Kaiser said options included cutting Saferide, reducing the hours of the service or taking $30,000 from the Senate reserve account to keep the service running full time for the rest of the semester.
Tom Preheim, Student Senate treasurer, said he hoped Senate would decide to take the money out of the reserve account because the money was available and the problem was temporary.
Last June, Senate's transportation board was forced to renegotiate its contract with the Lawrence Bus Company, which operates Saferide. The new contract raised Saferide's hourly service costs from $23.85 to $27, creating the funding problem.
Last semester, Senate raised student transportation fees from $14 to $16 per year.
SAFERIDE OPTIONS
- Cut Saferide for the rest of the semester
- Reduce the hours that Saferide operates
- Take $30,000 from the Student Senate reserve account
CURRENT SAFERIDE BASICS
Phone number: 804-SAFE
Hours of Operation: 11 p.m. to 3 a.m.