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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 could be 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 Indi
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.
Senate yesterday reconsidered its motion and restored the resolution to its debate calendar to be considered again later.
"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?"
an gaming," said Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney who represents the Kickapoo nation.
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.
Despite the resolution's defeat, the
Last week, members of the the House hurriedly passed 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-Witcha, 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
By Brett Riggs
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
tion, which the administration currently 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 Senato also wanted to remove
Nothing beats a gift of chocolate
Once only for kings, many people enjoy this sweet treat as valentines
By Chesley J. Dohl Special to the Kansan
Valentine's Day is when lovers deliver their sentiments with roses and cards. But for that sweet feeling inside, nothing beats chocolate.
Barbara Wood, inOWNER of "Ye Ode Sugerosa Shop," in downtown Lawrence and the Riverfront Plaza, said that Valentine's Day was one of the most hectic times of the year in the candy-making business because giving chocolates was a tradition.
"Only kings used to eat chocolate, so chocolate is considered somewhat of luxury," Wood said. "It has often been considered an upper-class type of treat, and it's a real palate please too."
Becky Bower, owner of "Bowers Penny Annie's," a popular sweet confectionery and soda shop in downtown Lawrence, says that chocolate had been a great gift for centuries.
"There used to be a lot of battling power in cocoa, so it was worth a lot at one time," she said. "If you gave it to someone back then as a gift it meant a lot and I think that tradition has hung on."
"You can give chocolates to someone you love and feel good about it because almost everyone loves chocolate."
Corinna Estep
St. Louis freshman
Bower's husband, Monty Bower, said he remembered that back in World War II there was a phenomenal price on chocolate because of the sugar ration. Chocolate was scarce overseas.
"It used to be that soldiers could trade a
Hershey's bar for all kinds of things," Bowers said
A heart-shaped box of chocolates used to be decorated with fancy foil, lace or a velvet bow was the traditional extravagant gift for a loved one on Valentine's Day. But not anymore.
Today, candy shops make a name for themselves by going the extra mile for their customers.
"Customers call orders in early and we work with them to create the gift that they ask for." Woods said. "They've come up with some real surprises in the past years. Usually it's the men that come up with something really different for their wives."
Wood said that last year she encountered an original Valentine's Day surprise gift given by a husband to his wife.
"A man brought a lap-top computer into us and had us arrange chocolates on the top, so it resembled a box of chocolate, she said. "When his wife opened it up she had a real treat."
Corinna Estep, St. Louis freshman,
received a personalized chocolate record
album for Valentine's Day one year.
"You can give chocolates to someone you love and feel good about it, because almost everyone loves chocolate," she said. "It's a symbol of love too, because it doesn't matter
what the box of chocolate does to them. If they end up putting on a couple of pounds you'll still love them anyway."
Dusty Decker, Desoto freshman, said that it was all part of the Valentine's Day tradition.
"It's also pretty basic and easy, and it's probably the only time you can buy your girlfriend something to eat without her getting mad at you," he said.
This year, some of the most popular chocolate creations on demand by customers are gift boxes full of Valentine truffles, mini-bite hearts, turtles candies, chocolate heart suckers, solid milk chocolate teddy bears, chocolate lips and edible chocolate Valentine's Day cards and records.
The Sugarosity Shop has one original way to package a Valentine's gift. It is an edible chocolate gift box.
"We stock up on tons of chocolates and sweet tart-type candies of all kinds for the Valentine's Day rush, but chocolate is the biggest item that sells," Bower said. "Business goes crazy in here for a day or two, and then it's gone as快 as it began."
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"Afew times we've even had customers put engagement rings inside small boxes, so that's really one of the best surprises we've had a part in." Wood said.
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