UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
City to change process of mailing water bills
By Todd Selfert
Kansanstaffwriter
Lawrence residents could see a change in the way their water bills are designed and mailed by the time school begins in August.
The city of Lawrence plans to mail bills with a return envelope enclosed, instead of the current postcard form.
"By using the envelopes, instead of postcards, we can provide more information to our customers," said Ed Mullins, finance director for the city. "The stubs customers send back will be larger, so instead of cramming more information on such a little piece of paper, we can provide our customers with some historical data that they will be able to use."
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Mullins said that the new bills would include the amount due for the month and possibly the amount the customer paid for the same month last year. The total amount paid in the past 12 months also could be included.
Mayor John Nalbandian said that the information on the bills would not be restricted to issues related to water.
We can put messages on there that have to do with recy
cling or reporting potholes," he said.
Providing so much information on the postcards was impossible because of the small space, Mulins said.
Kevin Hiskey, assistant director of finance, said the city also would change the way bills were collected and processed. Bills will be mailed to a post office box where a bank hired by the city will pick them up and process them using automated equipment.
The new system will not require additional staff, Hiskey said.
"Actually, what we were facing was having to hire more people," Hiskey said. "Right now, we still open letters with letter openers and type in everything on a computer by hand. Banks have the automated equipment that cuts down on the number of employees needed and saves a lot of time."
The city currently is taking bids for the job.
The city will hire outside firms to print the new bills. The city currently prints its own bills.
Mullins said the change would not affect the price of water services because the change already was included in the city's budget.
Lawrence choir to entertain pope
Catholic Center to sing for one million at youth conference
By Lauren Bone Special to the Kansan
It's not every year the pope comes to the United States.
It's even more rare to be asked to perform for him.
For Lynn Trapp, chair director at St Lawrence Campus Catholic Center, and 95 members of its choirs, this rare opportunity will happen in August in Denver, when Pope John Paul II attends the World Youth Day conference. The conference will be attended by high school and college students from around the world.
"I really came totally out of the blue," Trapp said. "It was, to me, an overwhelming feeling of humility to be asked."
The students going to the international event from St. Lawrence are in the center's three student choirs. The St. Lawrence Collegiate Choir is a touring chapel choir. The other two choirs perform at different Masses on Sundays.
The choirs of St. Lawrence are one of nine groups in the nation that were selected by the United States Catholic Conference to sing at the palac Mass.
About one million people are expected to attend the event.
Trapp will be co-conducting a choir of 800 people with a Corpus Christi, Texas, choir director, and playing the organ.
Trapp was also asked to compose part of the liturgical music. He will translate the music into 11 different languages, including French, Italian, Korean, Polish, Vietnamese, Tagalog
— a South Pacific language — and Lakota. Trapp said he would have help from linguistic professors.
Trapp, 29. is an energetic, enthusiastic man who jokes with his choir members.
Ben Nguyen, Wichita sophomore and a choir officer, said he felt Trapp was a wonderful motivator.
"He doesn't only teach us music," Nguyen said. "Lynn gives us a reason why we're singing."
The invitation is the latest accomplishment in Trapp's career, which has been studded with them. Trapp studied music at Southern Illinois University, the University of Notre Dame, the Eastman School of Music and the University of Kansas. As an undergraduate at Southern Illinois, he won a national competition for organists.
Trap still is active nationally as an organist. He has had numerous recitals at many famous locations, including St. Thomas Church and St.
Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.
Patrick's Cathedral in New York City. Even though the trip is near the beginning of the fall semester and many will have to make special arrangements to get to summer rehearsals, chair members are excited about the event.
"This is a once-in-a-lifetime event," Trapp said. "For most, nothing is stopping them."
Amy Saylor, Morrill freshman, will commute to Lawrence for the rehearsals. She said she was surprised that the choirs were chosen.
Ngyen will be staying in Lawrence this summer for the rehearsals. He said he was not worried about the extra work the trin would require.
"I thought a bunch of world-famous choirs were going to be there," Saylor said. "I never imagined people from Lawrence being there."
Another choir member, Lea Pech, Prairie Village junior, said she was excited about the implications the trip would have for young people.
"It's a chance to come together," she said. "This is going to be a feel-good thing."
With Trapp in charge, Peck said she did not feel too intimidated by the prospect of performing in front of a large crowd.
"He'really prepared us," Peck said. "We're prepared to be prayer-makers, not performers. I feel like we'll be given so much by the whole thing."
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No doubt that everyone of us is touched by the turmoil in Bosnia. It is also more true for the Muslims here and around the world. Muslims sense the betrayal by the West and by those who fought on Muslim soil not long ago in the Gulf under the "new world order" slogan. It is a pity that the West and the United States committed a million soldiers to fight for oil but find it hard to justify even one soldier to do so for Bosnia when not only the Bosnians are at stake but also the human soul.
We Muslims are deeply touched and angry at the West for their reluctance to stop the mass killing and the mass rape against our Muslim brethren in Bosnia. The house of Bosnia is burning, their women have been violated and their children and men are massacred and the West is still "formulating policy" against the victimizer.
Not only has the West done nothing to stop the Serb brutality against the Muslims, but they have given assurances to the Serbs that they can't intervene. Leaders of this country, including Bush and Baker, said that intervening in Yugoslavia would be like Vietnam and that "we have no business in ancient ethnic conflicts in the former Yugoslavia." These remarks gave the Serbs the green light to finish off the Muslims. Now the Croatians are doing the same thing against the Muslims because they are an easy target and because it is tolerated. Serbians have not been as harsh on the Croats as they are on the Muslims. Perhaps they know it would not be tolerated by the West.
Muslims are wondering what happened to the lesson of World War II. What right does one ethnic or religious group have to terminate another and decide where it should live? We are questioning Western intentions toward the Muslims since there are many recent events that make us worried. The West has gotten into the habit of punishing Muslims no matter how big or small their act might be. The U.S. and Europe almost destroyed Iraq because of oil and actually exceeded the UN mandate in punishing this country. Severe economic sanctions were imposed from day one of the crisis until today. The U.S. carried out an air strike against Libya and is maintaining restrictive sanctions against that country.
However, Serbia is committing far more crimes against Muslims and humanity than the other previously punished countries. What has the West done? Next to nothing. They have imposed an arms embargo against the victims, the Bosnians, and the Serbs who have been making their own weapons since as early as the 1950's.
The current U.S. administration has just started to talk about military strikes against the Serbian forces. That could have been far more effective a year ago. The Bosnians should be armed and given logistic support along with an air strike.
Finally, we think that if the West is letting ethnic cleaning and another holocaust to take place, then conventional wisdom says that we all, especially the West, have no right to condemn Nazism anymore! After all, Europeans massacred the Jews in the 1940's, and they are massacring the Muslims in the 1990's. Nothing has changed.
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