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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103.NO.127
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
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Health secretary discusses reform at Med Center
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
A good health-care team is like a good football team, said Donna Shalala, secretary of Health and Human Services.
"The way you put together a champion athletic program is not much different than what you do when you're putting together a health-care strategy," said Shalala. "You hire first-rate people, you
make sure they develop strategy and you give them the resources they need to move forward."
Shalala — who used to be the chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, winner of the 1994 Rose Bowl — compared notes with Chancellor Gene Budig on college football programs last night at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan.
Donna Shalala
It was the first stop of many during the congressional recess for Shalala, who said she wanted to better understand the national consensus on healthcare reform.
"The main thrust of my visit is to come and listen, to sit next to the congressmen and listen," she said. "I really want to hear what people's concerns are."
She also fielded questions from doctors and health-care professionals at the request of Rep. Jim Slattery, who is a founding member of the Rural Healthcare Coalition and the chair of its task force on health-care reform.
"If they don't buy into the program on the takeoff, they won't be on the landing," he said.
Shalala is in charge of coordinating welfare reform and health-care reform, the two initiatives topping President Clinton's agenda. She said she planned to pay particular attention to rural concerns on her swing through Kansas. She said health-care reform would not be considered successful unless it maintained biomedical research programs and rural outreach projects.
Shalala said the administration was considering increasing programs such as the recently reinvigorated National Health Service Corps, which encourages young doctors to practice in rural settings. The programs would try to make the salaries of rural doctors more competitive and to help them pay off medical school debts.
But, disincentives to rural practice are as much psychological as they are financial, Shalala said.
To combat the sense of isolation some rural doctors feel, fiber optic technology would make them part of a health-care network. With "Tele-Medicine," rural doctors and patients would be able to consult with larger health-care facilities such as the Med Center.
Football assistant arrested again
Third rape charge made by KU woman
By Angelina Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Jeffrey E. Shanks, graduate assistant football coach, was arrested yesterday on a third charge of rape.
Shanks was incarcerated in the Douglas County Jail with a $12,000 bond, corrections officer Ron Rice said. As of last night, the bond had not been posted.
Shanks also was arrested March 15 on two counts of rape, but a $10,000 bond was
posted, and he was released.
Details about the latest rape charge were unavailable from the Douglas County District Attorney's office at the time of publication.
The description of Shanks in the March 15 arrest report shows the deceit.
Jeffrey E. Shanks
tion of a suspect in two rape reports filed with the KU police.
The suspect in both reports is described as a 27-year-old white male, 6 feet 4 inches,
215 pounds, with black hair and brown
eyes. Shanks' March 15 arrest report, filed in Douglas County District Court, describes him as a 27-year-old white male, 6 feet 4 inches, 215 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes.
One rape report, which was filed yesterday with the KU police, said a rape had occurred between 9:30 and 11:30 a.m. July 4 at 602 W. 25th St. The victim was a 26-year-old white female and a KU student.
The second report, which was filed March 17, said a rape had taken place between 10:30 and 11:15 p.m. Feb. 3 at 1603 W. 15th St., Apt. 508 D, which was the address of Shank's apartment in Jayhawk Towers. The victim was a 22-year-old white female and a KU student. The offense of aggravated criminal sodomy
also was included in the report.
The Kansas Criminal Code describes aggravated criminal sodomy as sodomy with a person who does not consent to the act or who must be overcome by force or fear to perform the act.
Julie Francis, health educator at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said the definition of rape was forced penetration of the vagina. Sodomy, she said, was oral or anal sex.
Tom Hutton, director of University Relations, said that Shanks was no longer a resident of Jayhawker Towers.
The KU Athletic Department declined to comment on whether Shanks was still employed by the department.
Heather Lofflipl/KANSAN
Speed Racer
Steve Bond, Wichita senior, and Jared Klein, Overland Park senior, work on the seat belt system of their mini formula-one race car. Thirteen students have been working on the $15,000 project since the fall semester, building the car from the ground up in the basement of Learned Hall. They will race the car the weekend of May 20 in Detroit in the Society of Automotive Engineers competition.
Free-speech defender speaks at University
By Denise Nell
Kansan staff writer
John Frohnmayer describes himself as a First Amendment moderate turned free-speech radical.
Frohmayer, who once worked as a trial lawyer and as the chair of the Oregon Arts Commission, said his attitude had changed after he had been fired from his position as the chair of the National Endowment for the Arts in 1992.
He will talk about his experiences and his theories about First Amendment rights during a speech at 8 tonight in the Lied Center.
Frohnmayer, who also spoke to
media law and fine arts students during his visit to the University of Kansas, was appointed in 1989 as chair of the endowment. He was fired $2 \%$ years later amid controversy surrounding the
financing of Robert Mapplethorpe's sexually explicit and homoerotic photographs.
"When I got to the NEA, I found I had the power to control people's free
Frohmayer said the Bush administration, which was pressured by traditional values proponents such as Jesse Helms, had wanted him to deny grants to artists whose work it considered offensive.
speech rights," he said. "That was a sobering reality."
But Frohnmayer said he had felt that denying certain artists funds because their art could be considered offensive violated their rights.
"They wanted me to be the guy that said no to those applicants," he said. "I thought I could run a course up the middle."
"What really happened was that we had a referendum on tolerance, and it
Frohnmayer is now a visiting professional scholar at the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., where he studies the First Amendment and freedom of expression. He has written a book about his experience as chair of the endowment. He also travels throughout the nation speaking on the issue.
didn't pass," he saif. "It's not so much about obscurity or censorship in my view, but about whether we in this country are able to tolerate differences."
Tonight's speech will include a slide presentation of an art show that was displayed in 1992 in Anchorage, Alaska. The 60 pieces of art all have been censored in some way in the last 20 years, Frohnmayer said. He will discuss the 75 letters to the editor an Anchorage newspaper received about the show.
Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism, said that Frohnmayer had been chosen to speak in honor of the opening of the Lied Center. The School of Journalism is co-sponsoring the event.
"We felt it would be worth having him here to speak about issues of concern to journalists, artists and others who depend on a full opportunity to exercise their rights to freedom of expression," Kautsch said.
Parents seek to legalize their rights
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A highly charged and emotional debate gripped the Kansas House yesterday as an attempt was made to add parental rights to other rights guaranteed in the state constitution.
The resolution was sent back to the judiciary committee to work on its wording after it had been changed on the House floor.
Supporters of the resolution said that a movement within society was eroding the tenet that parents had the primary responsibility for raising their children. They said that the state government had not protected parents' rights and often was expanding children's rights at the expense of their parents.
State Rep. Tim Carmody, R-Overland Park, said ideas like the American Bar Association committee's proposal to issue "parental licenses" as a qualification to have children were eroding support for parents.
"This is not Germany in 1933 or the Soviet Union," he said. "This is the American Bar Association family law section suggesting policy for the United States."
Carmody said he also was concerned about a proposition forwarded by the National Education Association, a teacher's union, to keep student records from parents.
State Rep. Darlene Cornfield, R-Valley Center, said that parents were the only people who should be concerned about their children.
"If not parents, then will be the primary controller of the lives of children?" she said.
Cornfield said that although the U.S. Supreme Court had advanced the idea of primary parental rights, its action had no effect on the state. She said that many states had allowed children to have rights that competed with their parents' duties.
"Children aren't mature enough to have their own rights," she said.
Opponents of the resolution said that it did not accomplish anything that did not exist in state government.
"The Legislature can only go so far in mandating fundamental rights," said State Rep. Stephen Wiard, D-Council Grove. "I think this idea lags merit."
The resolution was sent back to the judiciary committee after an amendment unacceptable to most supporters changed much of the wording. Yet supporters say it will return this year for vote in its original form or will not return at all.
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Student Senate candidates tackle the issues
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Coalitions disclose goals for their possible agendas
By Heather Moore Kansan staff writer
Candidates for the Student Senate elections are pounding the pavement and discussing their positions on student issues.
Daron Sinkler, candidate for student body president, and Jon Gerner, candidate for Senate vice-president, are running with the A.S. W.E.GO! coalition, which also is sponsoring 14 senator candidates.
A. S. W.E.GO! stands for "Arts and Sausages With Eggs," which is a name borrowed in part from a coalition at another university. Gerner said.
One of the issues that the coalition is confronting is the fiscal irresponsibility of Senate. Sinkler said.
"Student Senate and the Finance Committee need to be a catalyst for start-up organizations, not a big funding thing," he said.
The University of Kansas also should be better represented at the state level, Sinkler said.
"We would like to start a committee dealing with the Legislature at the state level," he said. "Student Senate should take an active leadership role in higher education."
Gerner said Senate should work more closely with the student organizations that it finances.
"We want to work with student organizations personally to find out what they need to meet their goals," he said. "It takes more time and work, but it's less money."
"Regardless if students aren't full-time residents, KU is a huge part of this community," he said.
The University should have a good relationship with the Lawrence community, Gerner said.
The coalition would like to improve the recycling efforts on campus, Reeves said.
See ELECTIONS, Page 5.
"Our vote has been silenced, which is not acceptable." he said.
Sherman Reeves, candidate for student body president, and Eric Medill, candidate for Senate vice-president, are running with the YOU coalition, which is sponsoring 52 senator candidates.
Reeves said one issue was making sure that the Legislature hears the University's problems.
The coalitions
Four coalitions are running in Student Senate elections April 13-14
IGNITE
Independent
IGNITE
President: Chad Taylor
Vice-president: Tonya Cole
President: Bill Gist
Vice-president: Scott McDaniel
YOU
President: Sherman Reeves
Vice-president: Eric Medill
AS WE GO!
President: Daron Sinkler
President: Daron Sinkler
Vice-president: Jon Gerner
KANSAN