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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 write
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 Kickanoo 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 are 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
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 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 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 commit-
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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
Symbol has been long associated with emotions, especially passion
By Sarah Nagl
Special to the Kansan
The human heart is a hollow, muscular organ which, by expanding and contracting, maintains the circulation of blood.
Today, sweethearts exchange Valentines, pledging devotion from the bottom of their hearts. And unreciprocated affections might break someone's heart — they could cry their hearts out.
"The heart has historically symbolized the root of every human emotion, particularly those innermost feelings associated with passion," said Emily Nohr, a graphics artist who designs business mailings and makes art symbolism her hobby. "The heart lies at the center of life—it is vital."
Nohr said she embellished her Valentine's Day artwork for Resources and Development, a Lenexa, Kan., marketing firm, with traditional images, including flowers, doves, Cunid and cherubim.
"The expressions are full of anticipation for the upcoming season of spring, a natural period of rebirth associated with a surge in human emotions," she said.
The heart is the focal point of my holiday designs, Nohr said.
"No other figure is so instantaneously, universely recognizable," she said. "The heart conveys the craziest emotion known to man and defines a concept that, in reality, escapes definition."
Emily Nohr Graphics Artist
No other figure is so instantaneously universally recognizable; the heart conveys the craziest emotion known to man...”
Carol Kobza, head of Valentine's Day special products for the Ambassador division of Hallmark, said her artists also chose the heart as their primary decoration.
"Hearts and flowers are nonverbal communication devices," she said. "They remind consumers of grade school days, and adults want their children to have the same experiences."
The Old Testament refers to the heart as the seat of life functions, and Chaucer and Shakespeare used the word both as a synonym for courage and a term of endearment
Nohl said that other holiday figures, including blossoming flowers and mating birds, captured the parallels between nature and love.
Nohl said the heart first appeared in paintings during the Middle Ages as the Christian Sacred Heart, which resembles a real human heart. "The current, simple depiction of the heart as a perfectly symmetrical shape, and its corresponding romantic associations, developed only in the last several hundred years," she said.
"The rosebud is my favorite representation of affection, an enduring symbol of woman's sensuality," she said. "Those layers of delicate petals promise to blossom into both life and the fervor of love. And the rose's thorns accurately warn of potential sorrow and the pain of heartbreak."
And there is a valid reason Valentine's Day gifts aren't orange, green, or various other hues of the color spectrum.
"Red, as the color of blood and thus life itself, is synonymous with the extremities of the human soul — the fires of passion,
desire, infatuation, anger," Nohr said. "White, on the other hand, and the absence of all stains, connotes purity and hope. Pink merges the hues, consolidating the finest qualities of both."
But what of the winged baby, its chubby, naked body armed with bow and arrow?
"The Greek god of love was not a cute baby when he first appeared in literature, mentioned initially by Hesiod on 8 B.C. as Eros," said Oliver Phillips, professor of classical studies. "He was a sometimes vicious young man who embodied the irresistible power of sexuality, not in the least bit romantic or sentimental."
"He gradually degenerated into a cute child through Roman poetry and art. Only then did he assume the name Cupid, from Latin 'cupidero' meaning desire. They gave him a blindfold, stressing the notion that we fall in love quite blindly. He flits around with little wings, symbolizing the god's control over our lives — mere humans cannot choose to fall in love.
"Cupid's arrows consolidated the Roman perspectives of love — as fire in the bones, a sickness or a would in need of healing. We still say smitten, or struck, by love today."
So David Schoenfsch, Palatine Ill., junior,
who said Cupid's arrow was his favorite
Valentine's Day symbol, is in good company.
"That arrow takes control of your thoughts and emotions, hits and hurts you — just like love," he said.
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