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Friday, February 12, 1993
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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.
"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 Kickapoonation.
Those advocates say their interests have been slighted by legislators who have focused this session instead on other gambling legislation.
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.
“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?”
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.
Despite the resolution's defeat, the
"It would start a little boom, hopefully," she said.
Supreme Court that it was serious about addressing reservation casinos.
Last week, members of the the House hurriedly passed a bill on to the Senate in an effort to show the Kansas
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 Stuil, 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
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 Senate also wanted to remove
the administrative representative
because the senators thought the
board should be autonomously run by
Lingerie sales peak during holiday
By Jake Arnold Special to the Kansar
If flowers are not your style, chocolate makes your loved one break out, and you think card companies invented Valentine's Day just to get your money, try a gift like lingerie. It's a little different and a lot more personal.
Undercover and Maidenform Outlet Store, Lawrence's two lingerie shops, offer a variety of ideas for both men and women. And the popularity of lingerie as Valentine's Day gifts is growing.
"I've been in retail for many years," said Bev Temple, coowner of Undercover. "Years ago candy and flowers were the big Valentines thing. Now people are buying a lot more personal items."
Temple said she felt that there was a reason for this. An unofficial slogan for her business is "Flowers wilt and die, candy makes you fat. Come to Undercover and keep your love life."
Diane Bannen, assistant manager of Maidenform, said Valentine's Day business especially was brisk from Feb. 8 up to, and including, Valentine's Day.
"It is largely men," she said. "I think they don't realize it is close
to Valentine's unless someone mentions it."
Bamen said she had a few customers who picked out all of their wives' lingerie, but most men are first-time buyers and have trouble picking out sizes. She said that finding the proper size was usually no problem, though. Men indicate their loved one's height by measuring a point on their own body and make weight comparisons with other ladies in the store, she said.
"They can always tell you if one area of a lady's anatomy is out of proportion to the rest of her body," Bannen said with a faint smile.
Samantha Klema, a St. Louis senior who works for Maidenform, said, "Generally, most men don't know what they are doing. We try to steer them toward stuff where size is not as important."
Temple had another solution for those who are ignorant of sizes.
"Many young men who are uncomfortable with sizes bring in their girlfriends' friends to help," she said. "When men are shy and uncomfortable, we really try to help."
Customers who might feel unnerved in Undercover's pink
building can call in their orders,
and Undecover will have it ready for them. The shy customer can then go in, pay, and be back out before anyone knows he was there. Temple said Undecover offered to giftwrap items because many men did not like to do it and many women did not have time.
Steve Julian, who was recently buying a gift for his wife for their 20th anniversary, said he occasionally went to Undercover and was not uncomfortable at all.
"This isn't a Frederick's. I like what they do here," he said.
Men are not the only ones who are picking up Valentine's gifts at lingerie stores, though.
"It itused to be a lot more males who came in around Valentine's," said Temple. "Recently, we have had a lot of females here formen's silk boxer shorts or silk jans, a longer type of shorts."
"Valentine's is on a par with Mother's Day and second only to Christmas in sheer volume of sales for us," Bannen said. "We sell more intimate apparel for Valentine's Day, though."
Maidenform offers the same items. In addition, the store carries men's robes, bikinis and briefs.
Photo courtsey Undercover
Renee Knoeber / KANSAN
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