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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, February 12. 1993
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Tribal gaming hidden among casino issues
By Ben Grove
Kansas staff write
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 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 committee.
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
Valentine's Day origin not clear to historians
Special to the Kansas
By Danielle Raymond
Uruch said when Chaucer finally connected him with romance in the late 14th century, he wrote that he had no doubt.
St. Valentine's Day is for the birds, literally.
St. Valentine was associated with love in the poem "Parlement of Foules," or "meeting of birds," by English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. According to Jack B. Oruch, associate professor of English, Chaucer was the first to make the connection between St. Valentine and romance.
In Orchut's study of St. Valentine and Chaucer, he said he found that there was no connection between St. Valentine and the ancient events because St. Valentine was "neither a patron of lovers nor a fertility figure."
Oruch said that the reason Chaucer associated St. Valentine with lovers was probably because the 14th Century calendar said that the birds began to mate on Feb. 12, close to the presumed date of Valentine's death.
After Chaucer's poem, people began to look upon St. Valentine's Day as a day for romance. Orchard said that after Chaucer's death his imitators, John Lydgate and Charles D'Orleans, furthered the new connection in the 15th century.
Lydigate referred to religious figures in his poetry as the "valentines". Orchud said that D'Orleans was the first to refer to women as "valentines" in the poems he wrote to his wife while imprisoned by the English after battle.
The legend of St. Valentine takes on many forms but the most common ones, those which most people connect with the holiday celebrated today, are about two men who were martyred because of their Christian beliefs.
One was a priest in Rome who cured his jailer's daughter of blindness and the other was a Bishop of Tern), not far from Rome, who cured a Roman scholar's son of a crippling disease.
One story that has persisted during the years, and which has been perpetuated by card companies, contends that at least one of the martyred priests was named Valentine, hence the title of St. Valentine.
Both men were beheaded on Feb. 14, around 270 A.D., and each was later called St. Valentine by the people of the church because of their sacrifices for the Christian religion. The similarity of the dates and stories has led many to believe that the legends refer to the same man.
Valentine's Day soon evolved into a day celebrated by many to show their love for others in the form of gifts and later cards.
How St. Valentine's Day became a modern celebration for lovers has been explained in a variety of ways.
Some historians attribute the connection to Laupercalia, an ancient Roman festival celebrating fertility. One theory is that because the festival was celebrated on Feb. 15, people began to associate St. Valentine's Day with fertility, and the tradition took off from there.
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