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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 102, NO. 112
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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Six advance in commission primary
Bill Bell, left, of Lawrence removes ballots from a sealed box at the Douglas County courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St., while ballot judge Laura Kimbal, right, and Linda Long of Lawrence look on.
Candidates look to general election
By Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
Only 7,336 of the 45,000 registered voters cast their ballots yesterday for Lawrence City Commission and Lawrence School Board candidates in the city's primary election.
But the low turnout and rainy weather did not dampen the spirits of Bob Moody, president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association. Moody finished first out of 13 commission candidates with 2,818 votes.
Mooody, Bob Schumm, Jolene Andersen, Doug Compton, Sam Shepley and Milton Scott all advanced to the April 6 general election. Voters will select three of these candidates to fill the available commission seats.
"This is where we hoped to be," Moody said. "Historically, primaries are a good indicator of the eventual outcome, but we'll have to wait and see about that."
"I'm just pleased with the percentage of voters that felt comfortable choosing me as their candidate."
Schumm, an incumbent commissioner, finished second with 2,717 votes.
"I'm very pleased with the position I finished in," he said. "I'm very thankful for being there. I don't know if we even worked as much as we could have. We'll definitely be working more hours for the election in April."
Andersen, an office manager for Ron Turner's American Family Insurance Co., said she was not going to change her campaign strategy despite finishing just ahead of Compton by 36 votes.
Compton, owner of Compton Rentals, said he also had no plans to change his strategy.
"Why change something that's working?" Andersen asked. "We're not going to do any negative campaigning. I respect my opponents, and I even have a fondness for them."
Down to the final six . . .
"We're just going to keep working hard and doing the same things we've been done," he said. "We've run a strong campaign so far. We came from people not knowing our name to people recognizing it. I think that says a lot for our campaign."
Shepley, owner of Shepley Insurance Agency, said he expected to finish higher in the April election because he would be more prepared for the general election.
said. "We only spend about $500 on our campaign while the other candidates spent about $4,000. It will be a challenge to move up to the top three, but we knew it was going to be a challenge when we started."
"I think we definitely have a chance," Scott
"We didn't really get organized until three weeks before the primary," Shepley said. "We'll definitely start working sooner for the election in April."
Scott said he would continue to campaign door-to-door and meet the people in the community.
That is one area where Chander Jayaraman, Prairie Village senior, said he could have done better in. Jayaraman finished 11th in the voting with 358 votes.
"I think the field is wide open. That's not to say that we don't have our work out for us in the next election, though."
Scott, a KU graduate student and assistant director of student housing, said his only goal in the primary election was to advance to the April 6 run-off.
"If I would change anything, I would have campaigned more in the community," Jayaramaan said. "I campaigned a lot on students, but they didn't show up to vote.
The results are in from yesterday's primary election. The top six candidates will proceed to the April 6 general election, where three candidates will be elected to office.
"In a way, it's kind of a victory because I think what I've done is plant a seed for others and shown them that they can get involved."
Scott Dalton, Pratt junior, who is taking a semester off from classes, finished last in the voting with 253 votes. He could not be reached for comment.
Lawrence City Commissioners
USD 497 Board of Education
| | Votes | Percent |
| :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Bob Moody | 2,818 | 17.14 |
| Bob Schumm | 2,717 | 16.53 |
| Jolene "Jo" Andersen | 2,679 | 16.30 |
| Doug Compton | 2,643 | 16.08 |
| Sam Shepley | 1,572 | 9.56 |
| Milton Scott | 840 | 5.11 |
| Roger L. Browning | 696 | 4.23 |
| Fred M. Markham | 654 | 3.97 |
| Richard Payton | 564 | 3.43 |
| Ken Wilson | 361 | 2.19 |
| Chander Jayaraman | 358 | 2.17 |
| Dolly L. Gasser | 280 | 1.70 |
| F. "Scott" Dalton | 253 | 1.53 |
| | Votes | Percent |
| :--- | :--- | ---: |
| John A. Tacha | 3,152 | 20.07 |
| Renee Karr | 3,028 | 19.28 |
| George Crawford | 2,886 | 18.38 |
| Gene Ramp | 1,706 | 10.86 |
| William Skepnek | 1,703 | 10.84 |
| Michael Heffner | 1,438 | 9.15 |
| William Kipp | 924 | 5.88 |
| Carlton R. Lartigue | 863 | 5.49 |
Voter turnout
Primary - Feb. 1993
Primary - Feb. 1991
General - April 1991
Source: Douglas County Clerk's Office
Voters / Registered
7,936 / 45,000
7,071 / 24,939
12,628 / 25,074
Dave Campbell / KANSAN
Low voter turnout reported at Allen Field House
Bv Will Lewis
Kansan staff writer
Kansas men's basketball coach Roy Williams would have been disappointed yesterday with the crowds at Allen Field House.
Of 1,147 registered voters in the 4th
Precinct of the 2nd Ward, only 28
pulled the curtain of a voting booth
and marked their ballots.
The crowd that voted in the Lawrence City Commission's primary election, that is.
The non-voters missed out on homemade cookies baked by Mildred Clodfelter, precinct clerk.
"It's a recipe I've had for years," she
Patty Jatimes, county clerk, said two KU students running in the election, Chander Jayaraman and Scott Dalton, requested that she open the polling place.
seated, seated behind a registration table. "I thought I'd bake them and have something for them to nibble on."
All University housing, except for scholarship halls and GSP-Corbin Hall. is included in the district.
Voter Melissa Vaskov, Albuquerque, N.M., sophomore, said it was important for KU students to
"I just feel like we do live in Lawrence nine out of 12 months of the year," she said. "It's good for students to have a voice in the city. Even though it was only a primary, there were a lot of students or former students that were running who could make a difference."
The last time the field house was opened for a city primary election was 1987, when 18 voted.
vote in the election.
Jaimes said she would decide after the general election in April whether to keep the field house open for future elections.
"We wanted all the voters to participate," she said. "But I do think we have to consider the cost element also."
workers.
when they arrived at the field house at 6:15 a.m., Clofdelter and her three co-workers each guessed how many voters would show.
About $200 was spent on the four
"I made the lowest with 150," Clodfelter said.
Only two voters had come by 10:30 a.m. One was in the wrong precinct.
Jayaraman, Prairie Village junior, said he was disappointed after hearing about the low turnout.
"Twenty or so people showing up to vote at the field house is pitiful," he said. "That just shows that students don't care."
"I thought they'd respond in a much larger way than they have," he said. "I figured about 30 percent or so would be the minimum."
Clofdefer said somebody joked to her that she brought her homemade cookies to bribe students in the district to vote.
thy than he had anticipated.
Les Blevins, a precinct judge, said there was a higher level of voter apa-
"I don't think we've bribed anybody," she said, looking down at the nearly blank registration sheet.
She then returned to the newspaper puzzle she was working on, while Janie Harris, supervising judge, embroidered a square for a quilt she was making for her grandson.
Bill would help needy students Funds would come from tuition increase
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A Senate bill that would create a $2.3 million grant program for Regents university students passed the full Senate yesterday.
Money for the program would come from an 8 percent tuition increase that the Regents have proposed. A quarter of the increase would pay for the tuition grant program.
If the bill is passed, the Regents would distribute the money to needy students.
The proposal will be considered next by the House Education Committee.
The bill would require that students receiving grant money not receive more than half the average of in-state tuition costs at the Regents institutions. That means about 2,400 students could receive $960 each year.
State Sen. Audrey Langworthy, R-Prairie Village, a member of the Senate Education Committee, spoke in favor of the bill. She said that if the Legislature was preparing to increase tuitions, it should approve a bill that aided students who could not keep up with the increases.
"It has been this legislature that has encouraged the Regents to increase tuition over the past three, four and five years," she said.
State Sen. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee,
spoke in opposition to the bill. He said
he was not in favor of a grant program
financed by a tuition increase.
Bogina said that if legislators wanted to increase the amount of money going to Regents school students, they should simply give them more from the state's general fund rather than create a separate grant program.
State Sen. Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson and head of the Senate Education Committee, responded by saying that there were endowment funds and federal funds available for Regents students but no grant program like the one outlined in the bill.
The grant program would be what the bill calls a "supplemental" grant program because there already is a state grant program that provides money for private school students.
The Legislature established the private school tuition grant program several years ago to close the gap between tuitions at the Regents schools and the state's private schools.
The 17 private schools in the program split $5.5 million each year.
Several other bills that originated in the Senate Education Committee passed the committee Monday, including a qualified admissions bill and bill that would establish minority graduate student fellowships.
The qualified admissions bill would require high school students seeking entrance to a Regents university to have either a 2.0 grade point average, have a composite ACT score of at least 23 or be in the top third of their high school class.
The qualified admissions bill is scheduled for full Senate action today.
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Students, staff like opportunities Clinton program offers
By Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
President Clinton's community work program is being met with guarded optimism by students and employees at the University of Kansas.
"It sounds too good to be true," said Amie Kuhn, Topeka senior. "I'm curious about how they will get it to work."
The plan would allow college students to repay federal loans by working in community-oriented jobs like inner-city health clinics and tutoring in literacy programs. Students could perform one year of service to repay two years of loans.
The program would begin with a test program of 1,000 students in the summer. The test program would cost about $15 million. The plan would expand to 100,000 or more.
"It sounds too good to be true."
Amle Kuhn
Athire Kulmi
Topeka senior
students by 1907 at a cost of about $7.4 billion.
Greg Mehojah, Pairfax, Va., junior, said he thought the program would allow more people to attend college.
Any plan would have to be approved by the U.S. Congress before any action could be taken.
"A lot of people can't afford to pay for loans to go to school," he said "A lot of people have parents that make too much
"I think the program is really meant to get students involved in government and to get them involved in areas where our country has a need for participation." <u>Clinton</u> cites
money for them to get the financial aid they need. This would help those people get money for school."
Mehojah said he thought he would consider enrolling in the program if he had the opportunity.
Allan Cigler, professor of political science, said he also thought the program would allow more people to attend college, but said that was not the real intent behind the program.
Melanie jenney, a public affairs specialist for the Peace Corps, said she hoped more students would get involved with community work if the proposal passed the Congress.
"I think this provides good incentive to work in areas that aren't necessarily financially rewarding," Jenney said. "There has to be some incentive because the types of jobs he's talking about don't pay the bills."
Diane Del Buono, director of the office of student financial aid, said too little was known about the proposed program to know if it would help students obtain loan money for school.
"It doesn't sound like they know if the program will even get off the ground," she said. "It does sound like it will be on a very small scale. When you consider that 6,000 to 7,000 students receive financial aid at KU through federal loans, and the test for this program will only be 1,000 students, you can see that this won't really help too many, at least not at first."