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Friday, February 12, 1993
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Tribal gaming hidden among casino issues
Kansan staff writer
By Ben Grove
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 number of proposals are in to hurt the prospect of Indian gaming," said Lance Burr, a Lawrence attorney who represents the Kickapoo nation.
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 just against the issue,' " Burr said. "Well, why would they be willing to support other projects when there aren't Indians involved?"
Despite the resolution's defeat, the
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.
Senate yesterday reconsidered its motion and restored the resolution to its debate calendar to be considered again later.
"It would start a little boom, hopefully," she said.
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-Wichita, said defeated the nurnose 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 Rlggs
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
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," Kaisersaid.
John Altevogt, graduate senator,
said Senate also wanted to remove
the administrative representative
Romance comes back in style
Since the '40s and '50s, romance has changed,but it is still popular
By Chad Lawhorn Special to the Kansan
Mary McLees, a 35-year-old veteraninthe counseling field, said romance suffered during the 1960s.
"I think romance almost went into a total eclipse because everybody got so realistic in the '60s and '70s."
But McLees, clinical therapist for Christian Psychological Services, 944 Kentucky, said that today's youth is leading romance back to the forefront.
Romance was in critical condition not long ago, according to one area romance watcher. But today, young eyes twinkle, and strong hearts pound, because romance is not only alive, it's prospering.
McLees believes that social changes during the '80s and 70s provided a poor environment for romance.
"I have a lot of confidence in today's youth. The "baby buster" generation, people under 28, are going back to romance. These young people wish to have love and romance. They're just more touchy, feeling type of people I think.
"Theseyoung people wishto have loveandromance. They'rejustmore touchy,feelingtype of peopleIthink."
MaryMcLees Clinical therapist
"It was an age where they (students) thought everything in the past was bad," she said. "They just didn't have enough
confidence in people or the world to feel romantic."
As a result, more middle-aged people are now looking for romance. McLees said. She believes people are feeling that they missed out on romance during their younger days.
McLees said that romance has evolved from the '40s and '50s. "Back in the '40s or '50s women were expecting to be taken care of," she said. "So they were looking for a knight with a white horse and shining armor. Back then there really wasn't any way to be a real person basically, except to get married and live happily ever after."
She said their relationships were not expected to follow such a fiery tale script.
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McLees said that changes in the roles had created more equal relationships.
Wilson said he thought the audience for romance songs had grown.
Wilson said that 10 years ago "only a certain select people would buy romance records." Today the audience has grown to include "all age groups from grade schoolers to someone who's 60-years-old," Wilson said.
Wilson said music, in fact, might be partially responsible for the resurgence in romance. Wilson said he thought people
were looking for more positive themes in their music.
"People are trying to find happiness. There are a lot of bad things happening in the world, and people need an escape. Music is always an escape. Now, here we are near Valentine's Day and people need that love, romance escape. That's what music does."
Wilson said recording artists also were responding to the increased demand for romance. As music fans, he said, "We want that romance back."
One thing that hasn't changed in years is the thrill of a good paperback-romance novel. Kris Learned, book buyer for Town Crier Bookstore, 930 Massachusetts, said that romance novels still were popular items. In fact, Learned said she had a hard time keeping them on the shelves.
Learned said each Wednesday a crowd of women regularly stalked the store searching for the new book arrivals.
Learned said if she did not get the books out on the shelves quickly enough, the women would let her know about it by storming her office and invading the boxes of new books in search of their favorite authors.
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