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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103,NO.124
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
FRIDAY, MARCH 18.1994
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Gender equity bill passes Senate
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$3 student fee increase to help sports programs
By Heather Moore Kansan staff writer
Student fees will be increased by $3 next year in order to fund women's and non-revenue sports.
In a 26-13 vote Wednesday night, Student Senate ended the month-long process that the gender equity bill has gone through. The passage of the bill provides funding intended to help the University of Kansas comply with Title IX, a federal requirement for all universities to increase the opportunities for women to participate in sports. The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation requested in February that Senate help fund the addition of women's crew and women's soccer as intercollegiate sports.
The bill will raise student fees by $3 each year until 1996. The fee will be added each year to the current women's and non-revenue sports fees of $14. By 1996, when the program will be re-evaluated by a panel of senators and student representatives, students will pay a total of $20.
The bill had been amended since it failed in Senate on March 2. The original bill would have raised the total fee to $20 for the 1994-1995 school year. The new bill spreads that cost over a two-year period.
John Shoemaker, student body president and sponsor of the original bill, said he was happy about the bill's passage.
Lisa Golzar, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, said Senate should support the fee increase because Senate needed to continue its responsibility to support zender equity.
"We made a commitment to pay 20 or 25 years ago when this first came up," she said.
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the vote had been difficult and divisive.
Kim Cocks, Education senator, said she thought
"If the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation isn't going to fund it, students should," she said. "But the KUAC needs to be more dedicated to gender equity."
At the meeting Wednesday night, Alan Pierce, non-traditional senator, said that gender equity was important, but that students shouldn't have to pay for it.
Paul Wolters, Engineering senator, said he thought some senators weren't aware of their responsibility to the students.
"The University has an obligation to gender equity in every aspect," he said. "But who should be forced to pay for it?"
The KUAC should take more responsibility to implement gender equity, Wolters said.
"Everyone agrees that gender equity has to happen," he said. "The difference in opinions is who will deal with it."
How they voted
Wednesday night a roll call vote was taken when senators voted for the funding of women and non-revenue sports. Twenty-five senators were absent from the meeting.
John Altevogt — favored
Gustavo Alvarado — favored
Jessica Bobker — favored
Jeff Bottenberg — opposed
Toya Bowles — favored
Catherine Bubb — opposed
Kim Cocks — favored
Tonya Cole — opposed
Matt Cowan — opposed
Patrick Eagleman — opposed
Peter Falt — favored
Jon Foral — favored
Barbara Gelb — favored
Lisa Golzar — favored
Bob Grunzinger — favored
Dan Hare — favored
Julie Harris — favored
Travis Harrod — opposed
Gretchen Havner — favored
Ami Hizer — favored
David Hull — favored
Keisuke Imai — favored
Andrew Inwin — favored
Jennifer LaMell — favored
Phillip Mabry — favored
Ken Martin — favored
Eric Medill — favored
Eric Mersmann — opposed
Nikki Millard — opposed
Shannon Newton — favored
Ann Perry — favored
Alan Pierce — opposed
Hillary Price — favored
Sherman Reeves — opposed
Trevor Thompson — favored
Alan Tikwart — opposed
Kuo-Jen Tsao — favored
Paul Wolters — opposed
Art Yudelson — favored
Parade brings out green in Lawrence
Nice weather pulls largest crowd ever
By Angelina Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Kelly Harmon / Special to the KANSAN
Parents pushed strollers, couples held hands and students played hackey sack.
But the people who were enjoying the 70-degree weather in the park on the corner of Sixth and Tennessee yesterday had one thing in common.
They all wore green. Green T-shirts, green dresses, green suspenders and even a green diaper protected those who came out to enjoy the St. Patrick's Day parade from pinches.
As the parade passed by on Sixth Street, the crowd got a chance to see beauty queens, a National Guard tank and men in kills playing bagpipes. Jennifer Rolleg, Overland Park sophomore, sat in a convertible as the new Miss KU-Lawrence and waved at the crowd. Jay Charles, a disc jockey for radio station KLRZ, was crowned the "Alternative Queen" and sat in a convertible wearing a pink dress and a string of pearls hanging from his neck.
Other participants included Lawrence restaurants, merchants and other community organizations.
The crowd cheered as the honorary grand marshal of the parade, Keith Loneker, passed by. Loneker, a former KU football player who finished his rookie season as a starting offensive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams, responded with a big thumbs-up.
**Above:** Community Mercantile employees dance with shopping carts on Sixth Street near Buford M. Watson Jr. Park during the St. Patrick's Day parade.
The lack of flashy, decorated floats seen in past parades was disappointing, said Rita Mahoney, rural Douglas County resident. Mahoney, her husband, Michael, and their children, Erin and Mickey, have
Right: Jay Charles, a KLZR disc jockey, waves to the crowd. Charles was crowned "Alternative Queen" of the parade.
made coming to the parade a family tradition.
however, they said that the fewer number of floats was a fair exchange for the nicer weather.
Hank Booth, the announcer for the St. Patrick's Day parade, said the wonderful weather had made this year's event the biggest ever.
The parade has been an annual event for seven years, he said, but the past six parades always have been struck with horrible weather.
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Graduate assistant's hearing moved to April 14
By Frank McCleary
Kansan staff writer
The preliminary hearing for Jeff Shanks, a KU graduate assistant football coach charged with two counts of rape, was moved yesterday to April 14.
District Court Judge Ralph King granted Shanks' attorney, Halley Kampschroeder, about four weeks to prepare for the April 14 hearing. Assistant District Attorney Frank Diehl did not oppose the action.
Shanks, Garden Grove, Calif., graduate student, was arrested and charged Tuesday. He was arraigned Wednesday afternoon in Douglas County District Court, where bond was set at $10,000. Shanks posted bond and was released that night.
At that hearing, the district attorney's office will present evidence to determine probable cause that the crimes occurred and that Shanks committed those crimes.
Shanks has worked since last spring as an assistant for the KU football team. He received a bachelor's degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, in May 1991 and played defensive end and defensive lineman for the Texas A&M football team in 1988 and 1989.
According to KU police department records, the alleged raped occurred within
Betsy Kittel, assistant district attorney,
said Shanks could receive from 68 to 154
three weeks of each other and took place in Shanks' apartment. The reports stated that both victims knew Shanks.
months in prison if convicted on one count of rape.
Douglas County District Court records since 1989 show that Shanks has no prior convictions.
The sentence would depend on his criminal record, she said.
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Group to ask city to prohibit discrimination
By Denise Neil Kansan staff writer
Nothing in Lawrence's current city code prohibits someone from being fired or denied housing on the basis of sexual orientation.
But an activist coalition, called Simply Equal, is trying to change that. The group, which has been meeting since early fall, is trying to gain the support of individuals and groups interested in petitioning the Lawrence City Commission to have sexual orientation added to the Human Relations Ordinance in Lawrence's city code.
The proposed amendment would empower the Human Relations Commission to act on complaints of discrimination based upon sexual orientation.
Maggie Childs, representative for the group and head of the department of East Asian languages, said the group had the support of several Lawrence and KU organizations, such as the Lawrence chapters of Amnesty International and the human services committee of the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center.
"Most people in the country think they should be able to keep their job if they're good at it," Childs said. "But as long as it's legal to discriminate, and some people do discriminate, we have a problem."
Childs said that about six years ago interested citizens tried to get the same proposal added to the Human Relations Ordinance. But pressure from religious groups and an explosion of media attention before the vote caused the commissioners to get cold feet. They tabled the discussion, she said, and it has not been brought before the commission since.
Ben Zimmerman, a member of Simply Equal and former professor of social welfare, said the members of the organization had not yet planned when they would approach the City Commission with their request. They want to gain support and more signatures on a petition that they are circulating around Lawrence, he said.
"We're not at the end of the campaign," he said. "We're still at the beginning of the process."
Wednesday night, the Student Senate passed a resolution summing Simply Equal's efforts.
Zimmerman said that about 140 cities in 8 states currently included sexual orientation in their city codes.
Alan Pierce, off-campus senator, introduced the resolution. He said he thought the amendment to the city ordinance was needed in Lawrence.
"Every year, more and more gays and lesbians are discriminated against in the areas of housing and employment," he said. "Friends of mine have been evicted or not allowed to live in certain areas simply because of their homosexuality."
Jo Andersen, city commissioner, said she would welcome discussion on the issue.
"I'm aware there will be discussion in this area, and I'm open to it," she said. "It's an important point of discussion before the whole country. I've always supported human rights regardless of anything."
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Kansas freshman center Scot Pollard scored 17 points in the Jayhawks' 102-73 vic tory against Tennessee Chattanooga. The Kansas freshmen combined for 37 points.
Settlement reached to 'open up' Sarajevo
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The Associated Press
SARAJEWO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Serbs and Muslims signed an agreement yesterday to ease the stranglehold on Sarajevo for the first time in the 23-month siege.
The U.N. brokened accord calls for opening a bridge and key roads linking Serb and Muslim sections of the Bosnian capital to civilian traffic, and frees a route from Sarajevo to central Bosnia. It is supposed to take effect Wednesday.
But officials on both sides warned the city was far from being free or united. And some residents expressed the skepticism borne of nearly two years of bloodletting among neighbors.
"The siege will not be over until all citizens can be transported freely," Hasan Muratovic, the Bosnian government's minister for relations with the United Nations.
But, he acknowledged, it was "the first very small step toward the opening of Sara- jevo.
said after signing the agreement at Sarajevo airport.
Momcilo Krajiasnik, speaker of the self-styled Bosnian Serb parliament, said the agreement would improve conditions in the city. But he refused to say whether and when Sarajevo would be united.
The agreement does not permit commercial or military traffic on the road leading from Sarajevo to Visoko and on to Zenica in central Bosnia, but envisages free passage of civilians in buses or cars under U.N. escort.
The accord also does not permit unlimited travel. People wanting to cross military lines have to apply 24 hours in advance, and permission can be refused. Still, if honored, the deal would open a route out of
The agreement is the latest and perhaps most symbolic sign that the Bosnian war in which at least 200,000 people are dead or missing is winding down.
Sarajevo for people who have been trapped since the war began.
It follows the Serb withdrawal of artillery from around Sarajevo, which came about from pressure from NATO. The agreement also follows a tentative agreement between the Muslim-led government and Bosnian Croats to stop fighting, reform their alliance and create a federation.
The successes reflect increased outside pressure on the warring parties, including an active U.S. and Russian role in mediating agreements. But it also appears to be recognition by all sides that little more is to be gained by fighting, either politically or territorially.
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