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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 12. 1993
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Tribal gaming hidden among casino issues
By Ben Grove Kansan staff writer
As the Kansas Senate yesterday voted down a resolution that would have paved the way for a colossal $300 million casino and entertainment complex in Kansas City, Kan., American Indians continued to wonder when legislators would get to them.
American-Indian casino gambling advocates in Kansas are in their second year of a legislative struggle to make casino gaming compacts legal between the state and the four tribes in Kansas.
Those advocates say their interests have been slighted by legislators who have focused this session instead on other gambling legislation.
"They view it as a form of discrimination that the Legislature didn't deal with it last year when they had a full session, and now a number of proposals are in to hurt the prospect of Indian gaming," said Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney who represents the Kickapoo nation.
"It's really popular for legislators to say, We're not against Indians, we're just against the issue," Burr said. "Well, why would they be willing to support other projects when there aren't Indians involved?"
Burr and American Indians have said that a casino and entertainment complex such as the one proposed for Kansas City, Kan., would have hurt reservation casino businesses if both were permitted by law.
Despite the resolution's defeat, the
Senate yesterday reconsidered its motion and restored the resolution to its debate calendar to be considered again later.
Lori Learned, co-president of the Native American Student Association, said American-Indian reservations in Kansas needed the revenues from the casinos, which would generate funds for health care and education improvements.
"It would start a little boom, hopefully," she said.
Last week, members of the the House hurriedly paid a bill on to the Senate in an effort to show the Kansas
Supreme Court that it was serious about addressing reservation casinos.
Recently, American Indians called upon the court to decide whether the Legislature was dealing with the tribes in bad faith.
The court could decide as soon as today to take steps to remove all regulatory control from the state's hands
— control it possesses despite the fact that the four tribes in Kansas are sovereign nations.
The bill moved through the House so fast it did not define an age limit for gamblers and the word 'casino' was
removed, something House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, said defeated the purpose of the bill.
Donald Stull, professor of anthropology, who sometimes teaches a Native American Affairs class, said he no longer thought the Legislature's foot-dragging was a political power struggle.
"The fact that the state was able to hold off the compact for as long as they did was very detrimental," he said. "People are scurrying around the Legislature to enact something. I think that the issue of discrimination cannot be dismissed."
Administrator opposes bill on Legal Services
By Brett Riggs Kansan staff writer
Student Senate saw it as a symbolic move to strengthen student advocacy. The administration looked at it as a severing of communication.
Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that pushed for the removal of the administration's representative from the Legal Services for Students advisory board.
Legal Services, financed by Senate,
employs three full-time professional
attorneys who provide free legal
counseling for KU students.
Under the proposal, the board would be made up of four undergraduate students, one law student, one graduate student and one member of the Senate university affairs committee.
Chancellor Gene Budig must sign off on the bill before it is implemented.
The administration representative, Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, is a nonvoting member of the board. He said that he disagreed with Senate's decision.
"It was unfortunate that Senate wanted to sever that communication link," Kaiser said. "I think they wanted to send a message to the administration."
Jason McNoltsh, head of Senate's university affairs committee, said the move was one step toward reaching the goal of having Legal Services representing students who had grievances against the administra-
tion, which the administration curently does not allow.
Kaiser said the administration based its stance on the fact that the service's attorneys were employees of the state, like members of the faculty and administration.
"I think students need advocates, but I think it would be a conflict of interest," Kaiser said.
John Altevogt, graduate senator, said Senate also wanted to remove the administrative representative because the senators thought the board should be autonomously run by students.
He also said he thought students could voice their grievances better without an administrative presence.
"It would reduce the possibility and potential for conflict." Altevogt said.
John Shoemaker, head of the board, said that even though the administration position on the board would be removed, the administration would be welcomed at the meetings.
Kaiser said that he did not think that would make for effective communication.
"First, you slap the administration in the face, then you invite them right back," he said. "I don't know how to take this."
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
Flowersgalore
Cindy Tucker, an employee at Owens Flower Shop, B46 Indiana St., prepares a special tropical arrangement for Valentine's Day. The shop had about 100 orders placed by yesterday but expected a couple hundred more today. The store orders flowers from places as close as Kansas City and from as far away as Colombia, depending on the type and season of the flower.
University enrollment increases
Total University enrollment Including the Regents Center and the University of Kansas Medical Center increased by 236 students this year.
Source: KU Student Affairs
Distribution by school
Nursing, social welfare, education, the Applied English Center and journalism experienced high fluctuations in spring enrollment.
Andrew Hodges / KANSAN
school 1993 1992
Nursing +9% 301 275
Social Welfare +21% 615 510
Education -11% 904 1,012
Applied English Center -36% 59 92
Journalism -9% 767 847
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Field house to open to students for city vote
By Todd Selfert
Kansan staff writer
Allen Field House will be open as a city-election polling place for the first time in six years for the March 2 primary election.
Students living in Oliver Hall, Stouffer Place Apartments, Jayhawk Towers and residence halls on Engel Road now can vote on campus instead of traveling to Schwegel Elementary School, 2201 Oushald Road, said Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk.
The population of the second ward's fourth precinct, the area the field house serves, is about 88 percent students.
The field house has not been used for city elections because of the low turnout in the past, Jaimes said. The field house last was used for a city election in April 1987, and 18 of the precinct's 927 voters cast their votes.
"It just wasn't very cost efficient for us to pay five people to sit there and not have anybody come and vote," she said.
James said she decided to open the field house after two candidates running for the Lawrence City Commission — Chander Jayaraman, a KU student, and Scott Dalton, a former student — expressed concern about the building being closed to students.
"Those two candidates seemed to think that student interest would be higher than it was the last time the field house was open," Jaimes said.
She said the turnout for the national election in November also played a part in her decision to open the field house.
"We had 1,034 vote in Schwegler School and another 1,023 vote in Allen Field House," she said. "If there is that kind of turnout for
the local election, then we would have about 2,000 people voting in a place that can barely handle 1,000. Another factor was that, as of Jan. 27, there were 1,165 people registered in that precinct."
Jayaraman said he thought the decision was long overdue.
"I think it was unfair of them to make students go to another district to vote," he said. "I think more students will vote now that the field house is open to them."
Students who do not live in the precinct, bordered on the north by 19th Street, on the south by 19th Street, on the west by Iowa Street and on the east by Naismith Drive, must vote in their regular precincts.
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