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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.
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?"
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 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 commit-
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
KC couple proves love can last
Husband and wife say they'll spend their 51st Valentine's Day together
By Vikki Tobias Special to the Kansan
Merle, 70, said, "I was madly in love with her in second grade. . . I loved her little brown socks down around her ankles."
Merle Arnold and Maro, "Marguerite," Storum were childhood sweethearts and now, 63 years later, they are still in love.
On Dec. 12, the Shawnee couple celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary.
With half of all U.S. marriages ending in divorce, the Arnolds are a reminder that, for some, "Til death do us part" is still a sacred commitment.
They had just finished Sunday dinner with Marguerite's parents when they heard about Pearl Harbor on the radio.
Merle gave Marquette an engagement ring after she graduated from high school. But it was the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that prompted their wedding.
Merle, who had joined the Naval Reserve after graduation, knew that this event meant that he could be called to active duty.
"So,' he said, 'What are you doing next
"You're going to hit snags and you have to try to work at it like a job. . . You should try
to live your commitment."
"Marguerite" Storum Speaking about making a marriage last.
week? How about getting married?" said Marguerite. 69.
Merle explained, "I was sitting there in my dress blues, I heard about Pearl Harbor and I knew I was going, so I thought, 'What the hell. Why not get married?'
that one day," Marguerite said.
The couple was married five days later in the parsonage of the Country Club Methodist Church in Kansas City, Mo.
"A lot of people had their plans changed on
In October 1943, the Navy sent Merle to Morocco. Merle and Marguerite wrote to each other every day of the 15 months he was gone.
"We've still got the letters," Merle said, as he smiled lovingly across the room at his wife.
The Arnolds have one son, Lynn, 45, and three grandchildren.
Their son, who has been married for 25 years, said that his parents' example had been a strong factor in the success of his own marriage.
"The main thing they taught me was communication," Lynn said. "If they had a disagreement, they emphasized talking things over to work on your problems. That was the biggest lesson."
The Arnolds agree with their son that communication is their key to a successful marriage.
"I know what makes it work," Merle said. "We talk."
Marguerite added. "We always try to rectify anything before we go to sleep."
She said another key to keeping their love alive has been to treat each other well.
"If this is the person you want to be with,
you need to be decent to them. . . . I think you
have to like each other as well as love each other," Marguerite said. "He's my friend." Lynn attributes his parents' successful marriage to the work that each puts into it.
"We've gotten to the point where we've just about gotten everything we want for each other." Merle said.
"They're compatible and compassionate," he said. "They care for each other and put a lot of effort into a successful marriage."
The Arnolds don't have any special plans for this Valentine's Day.
He usually gets her flowers, and she usually gets him a card.
The couple agrees that every marriage experiences rocky times.
Merle said, "My mother used to say, 'If you don't have rainy days you won't appreciate the sunshine.'"
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The Arnolds think most marriages fail because people are more self-invaded and less committed to each other.
"We're in the 'me' generation. It's not 'we' anymore." Merle said.
Marguerite added, "You're going to hit snags and you have to try to work at it like a job. ... You should try to live your commitment."
The real secret to a long, successful marriage like the Arnold's may lie in the message they have in a frame in their living room.
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