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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.103.NO.128
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1994
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Martin Alstaedten / KANSAN
Scott Slisi, Lawrence senior and manager of Meyers Retail Liquor, 902 W. 23rd St., fills a refrigerator with beer. If Gov. Joan Finney signs a bill recently passed by the Legislature, Slisi would be allowed to sell beer — and any other kind of alcohol — on Sundays.
Sunday liquor sales may be OK'd
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Kansas Sundays may become a little less bluesy and a little more boozy.
A bill in the Kansas Legislature would make fundamental changes in the state's alcohol policy. Among the changes is a proposal to allow the sale of liquor and beer on Sundays after 1 p.m.
The bill also would allow patrons to charge the purchase of alcohol on credit cards. Additionally, it would allow sales on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day. Thanksgiving and Christmas would be the only holidays on which liquor sales could not occur. A second bill would allow sales on election days.
State Rep. Lisa Benlon, R-Shawnee, said these two bills would remove some of Kansas' remaining blue laws legislation enacted based on religious or moral beliefs.
A patron, Benlon said, can go to a bar or a restaurant, drink alcohol and then charge it, even on a Sunday. However, that person then has to drive home. She said the new laws would allow people to buy packaged alcohol from a liquor store, take it home and drink it — reducing the possibility of driving drunk.
"Why not make it possible for people to buy alcohol at a point of distribution where it is packaged, and people possibly won't be driving off drunk?" she said. "I think that we are in sync with one law and not the other."
Additionally, Benlon said she was concerned that Kansans were driving to Missouri, where purchasing alcohol on Sunday was legal.
"Why should we losing out to Missouri?" she said.
However, though most legislators are supportive of ending the restriction on Sunday and holiday sales, some are less enthusiastic about allowing sales to be conducted via credit cards.
State Rep. Jim Garner, D-Coffeyville, said he was concerned that the state was encouraging some irresponsibility with credit purchases.
During a bankruptcy proceeding, credit card debt is dischargeable and not required to be paid to creditors, said Garner, who is also an attorney.
The Legislature should endorse personal responsibility and choice, said State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence.
Individual counties would be able decide whether they will allow Sunday sales of liquor in stores. That determination could be made through a popular vote or a decision by county commissioners.
encourage debt, and I don't believe that the state should set policy that way," he said.
Both the House and the Senate passed the bill allowing liquor sales on election day. It will soon go to Gov. Joan Finney.
"We are making it more attractive to
The bill allowing Sunday sales and eliminating the holiday provision is in a joint House/Senate conference committee, which met yesterday.
House rejects Regents budget
By Stephen Martino
Kaisan staff writer
TOPEKA — The House of Representatives yesterday rejected the Board of Regents $444.76 million budget by a vote of 73-48.
The House action also gave clear notice that the Partnership for Excellence was dead for this legislative session by rejecting two amendments that would have increased the Regents budget.
The great disparity in the vote apparently was based only partially on higher education issues. A number of conservative Republicans were vocal about their displeasure with the House for changing the wording of a proposed constitutional amendment Tuesday dealing with parents' rights. They were joined by 43 Democrats, many hoping to hold out for more money for the partnership.
House Majority Leader Vince Snowbarger, R-
Olathe, said that he had heard the rumors of discontent within his ranks concerning the parents' rights amendment but that he blamed Democrats for not supporting the measure and Gov. Joan Finney for linking Washburn University to faculty salaries.
"When the governor gives you this ultimatum that it's the Partnership for Excellence and Washburn or nothing, she is getting nothing," Snowbarger said.
He said he hoped that the House would take up the budget again today or tomorrow at the latest.
The failed amendments, proposed by State Reps. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, and Jim Lowther, R-Emporia, would have added a total of $4.3 million back into the budget, money that was removed March 24 by the House Appropriations Committee.
In denying the amendments, the House rejected additions to the budget that would have been paid for by the partnership.
The partnership is a Regents plan to bring university faculty salaries to 100 percent of the average of their peer schools and admit Washburn into the Regents system. Finney has said she would support both provisions of the partnership but not one without the other. The State Senate rejected Washburn's entry earlier this month.
Charlton said that the rejected Regents budget had been constructed differently this year than in the past. Previously, separate line items for exact spending were passed within the totality of the budget. However, this year, State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-Nodeshes and head of the appropriations committee, set the entire Regents budget under one line item, allowing the Regents to determine how to spend the money instead of the Legislature.
Charlton said that the partnership was dead but that it was not entirely due to the governor.
The University Daily Kansan wants to know what you think about the possibility of eliminating Stop Day. Some of the issues are:
No other Board of Regents universities have a Stop Day. Why should KU?
What are the benefits of Stop Day?
The University is attempting to rework its schedule to accommodate a 150-day instructional year. Two options administrators are considering are:
Plan A — classes would begin Jan. 12, classes would end May 4, and finals would begin May 5.
Plan B — classes would begin May 1, 13, classes would end May 5, a Friday, and finals
would begin Monday, May 8.
■ Which of those options is most favorable?
What other options might be considered?
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Stop Day may come to an end
Proposal will go to Council
By Jamie Munn Kansan staff writer
Students may have to take their finals the day after classes end next spring if a University calendar committee recommendation is approved.
In its meeting today, University Council will vote whether to accept the calendar committee's revision, which would eliminate Stop Day from the Spring 1995 semester.
Larry Maxey, head of the calendar committee, presented the schedule revisions yesterday to the University Senate Executive Committee, which passed them on to the Council for discussion without endorsing them.
Maxey, professor of clarinet, music and dance, said the changes would have to be made to comply with the Board of Regents requirements for the number of instructional days needed.
"Two years ago, they changed the number from 144 instructional days to 150 days," Maxey said. Changes in enrollment and final-exam scheduling had not been sufficient to solve the six-day difference. he said.
Because the fall timetable
already has been printed, the changes could not be implemented until Spring 1995.
Maxey said the main problem was that University offices had an insufficient number of work days between the fall and spring semesters to deal with probation and dismissal procedures. The addition of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday also affected the number of work days, he said.
"We think that the student reaction is not going to be good," Maxey said. "But we're the only Regents institution that has a Stop Dav."
Maxey presented two options for the revised calendar.
n in Plan A, classes would begin Thursday, Jan. 12, classes would end Thursday, May 4, and finals would begin Friday, May 5.
n In plan B, classes would begin Friday, Jan 13, classes would end Friday, May 5, and finals would begin the following Monday, May 8.
Although plan B would give students the weekend between classes and finals, it would move commencement ceremonies to Sunday, May 21, a week later than the current schedule for Sunday, May 14.
SenEx member and student representative Jeff Russell said he didn't think that students would like either plan.
"I think there's going to be a furor if there is no Stop Day," he said.
Here's the pitch.
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Cartoon exhibit comes to KU
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Humor blends with environmental disaster and electronics mix with recyclables in an exhibit on the fifth floor of the Museum of Natural History in Dyche Hall.
The museum rented "No Laughing Matter: Political Cartoonists on the Environment" from the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
Kathryn Wiese Morton, communications and marketing director for the museum, said the exhibit was expected to be a big draw for both children and adults because of its big, bold graphics and sophisticated humor.
"This exhibit uses humor to get a message across," she said. "It is a very political exhibit, but it looks at things in a humorous way. So what we're
Eighty cartoons are grouped according to environmental topics. Cartoons from international contributors also cover news events such as the Gulf War, U.S. pollution in the Gulf of Mexico and the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
One cartoon shows a skeleton in a suit shooting aerosol spray in through one ear hole and out the other.
hoping is that people leave with a laugh but think about this when they go home and do something about it."
"I think that's what cartooning is all about," said Tomas Swearinger, director of exhibits at the museum. "I think a lot of people get so tired of looking at disasters of one-type or another that creative minds like artists' come up with these funny, sarcastic ways of looking at these things."
The exhibit also features "Big Bang," an animated short film by Bruno Bozzetto about the earth being
Projects from a fine arts class called Problems in Industrial Design are featured alongside the cartoons. Seven students each contributed two projects showing ways to make compact disc players and fax machines more environmentally sound.
As temporary consumer products, electronics should be more recyclable, said Julie Johnson, who works as a student assistant at the museum.
overcome by trash.
The exhibit has been open to the public since Friday. Its official opening was Monday, and it will continue until May 8. Museum hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Suggested donations are $2 for adults and $1 for children.
One project, designed by Johnson, Wamego junior, encases a compact disc player in a fiber basket instead of the usual plastic case.
Shanks was arrested Tuesday by KU Police on a third charge of rape. He appeared in Douglas County District Court yesterday, where bond was set at $12,000 and a preliminary hearing was set for April 28.
Assistant coach released on bond
Kansan staff report
Jeffery E. Shanks, graduate assistant football coach, posted bond yesterday and was released from the Douglas County Jail.
Jeffery Shanks
Shanks posted a cash bond yesterday after the bonding company that originally had arranged for his release revolved his bond.
The football assistant also is awaiting a preliminary hearing on April 15 on two separate charges of rape.
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