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Wednesday, March 16, 1994
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Lawrence, KS 66044
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A Confederate flag provokes attackers
KU police said a KU student who lives on the third floor of McCollum Hall was attacked Sunday by four men because he had hung a Confederate flag in the window of his room.
Police said the four males, all African-American, had been outside McCollum after 2 a.m. when they had seen the student's flag in the window. The student told police that they had come up to his room and had asked that he remove it. The student refused, and one of the men struck him, he said. Police said that another had thrown a trash can at him and that a third had stolen his wallet. No arrests have been made, police said.
Jennifer Ford, Lawrence junior, won a 1994 Harry S Truman Scholarship yesterday.
KU junior is Truman scholar
Ford will receive up to $3,000 for her senior year and up to $27,000 for graduate study. She was one of about 200 finalists. Ford is the 10th KU student since 1981 to receive the scholarship, which is rewarded based on academic records and commitment to public service.
A political science and religious studies major, Ford is the elections commissioner for Student Senate. The Truman Scholarship is awarded each year by the Harry S Truman Scholarship Foundation in Washington.
LesBiGay Weektops agenda
Tonight in Student Senate the following issues will be discussed:
- A bill to revise and clarify the replacement senator process.
A resolution offering Senate's support for LesBiGay Awareness Week on April 11-17
A resolution to add sexual orientation to the Human Rights Bill of Lawrence
Approval of the budget for next year.
Compiled by Kansan staff reporters.
House advances bill to make motor vehicle taxes uniform
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Legislation that would cut property taxes on about half of the motor vehicles registered in the state won tentative House approval yesterday.
The House advanced a bill that would make the taxation of motorcycles, cars, vans, light trucks and pickups uniform across the state. Representatives also advanced a bill that would change how the state taxes recreational vehicles and trailers.
Both bills are designed to address complaints about the state's vehicle taxes, which are the nation's highest.
The first bill proved more controversial because the overall vehicle taxes in a majority of the state's 105 counties would increase. However, supporters said the bill would make the tax system more fair and would encourage the sale of new cars.
The taxes on a vehicle now are based on 30 percent of its appraised
value, multiplied by an average property tax mill levy in each county.
Thus, vehicle taxes vary widely from county to county. Last year, the owner of a 1990 Ford Taurus four-door sedan paid $126 in Coffey County, $384 in Sedgwick County, $444 in Shawnee County.
The bill would create a uniform tax schedule for the entire state. The owner of the Ford Taurus would pay $192, no matter where the vehicle was registered.
Overall, counties would lose $11 million, about 4 percent of the amount they now collect.
The bill drew opposition because taxes in 55 counties would increase under the bill. In four counties — Haskell, Kearry, Linn and Stevens — the increase would be more than 50 percent.
Rep. Ed McKechnie, D-Pittsburg,
said his constituents wanted vehicle
taxes reduced, not shifted from vehicle
owner to vehicle owner.
"I didn't have anybody say,' Go to Topeka and rearrange my motor vehicle taxes," he said. "They said, 'Go to Topeka and cut my motor vehicle taxes."
The bill on recreational vehicles was less controversial, and a version of it already had passed the Senate.
Under the measure, taxes would be based on a recreational vehicle's age and weight.
If the vehicle was 5 years old or less, the owner would pay a $70 base tax, then 90 cents for each 100 pounds of weight.
If the vehicle was from 6 to 10 years old, the owner would pay a base tax of $50, and 70 cents for each 100 pounds of weight. The tax on the 12,000-pound vehicle would be $134.
If the vehicle was 11 years old or older, the owner would pay a base tax of $30, and 50 cents for each 100 pounds of weight. The tax on the 12,000-pound vehicle would be $90.
History bill stirs debate in House
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Legislators were told yesterday that a measure encouraging teachers to use "original sources" for history in their classes was a way to promote Christianity as an official state religion.
"It ites to override the constitutional principles of separation of church and state and would make clearly illegal actions have the appearance of legality," said David Goldstein, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Bureau in Overland Park.
State Rep. Bob Mead, R-Pawnee sponsored the proposal and won approval of it in an amendment added to another bill during a House debate. He said it was designed to encourage teachers to use original documents in teaching American history. An example would be the Declaration of Independence.
"Specifically, the amendment permits school district certified employees ee to read and post in a school building or classroom, at any school event, certain historic documents relating to our American heritage." Mead said.
Janet Hammeke of Great Bend, who made the original request for the "history bill," told the committee that the bill would authorize — but would not require — teachers to use documents, "central to an accurate understanding of American history."
Hammeke said the bill was an attempt to counteract a trend to eliminate parts of American history or to portray the nation's past inaccurately.
However, opponents contend that supporters of the measure have a hid den agenda and want to allow teachers to sponsor prayers under the guise of American history.
"Teachers are already authorized to read and even post documents from American history," said the Rev. Harold W. LeMert Jr., a pastor of Presbyterian church in Prairie Ville. lage.
He told the committee that the bill would encourage teachers to use the classroom as a place to indoctrinate students in particular religious traditions.
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The United States Post Office, KU Kansas Union will be closed during Spring Break Week. Limited stamp sales will be available at the Kansas Union Information Counter.
Post Office services will resume Monday, March 28th.
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African Awareness Week'94
LECTURE: "The Democratization of South Africa" D. Surendra Bhana, Professor of History, University of Kansas Time: 7:00pm; Place: Parlors A,B,C,Kansas Union; FREE
Monday.March28
MOVIE: "SAARABA"
Time: 7:00pm Admission: FREE Place: 2092 Dole
Wednesday, March 30
PANEL DISCUSSION; "African & African-American Relations"
Time: 7:00pm Place: Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM)
Admission: FREE 12th & Oread
Thursday.March31
FORUM: "Female Circumcision; Mutilation or Culture"
Time: 7:00pm Place: Ecumenical Christian Ministries (ECM)
Admission: FREE
12th & Oread
Friday, April 11
LECTURE: "Africa in the New World Order"
Time: 7:00pm Place: Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union; FREE
Saturday, April 2: CULTURAL & FASHION SHOW and DINNER
Time: 4:00pm Place: First Christian Church Fellowship Hall
Paid Admission 1000 Kentucky, Lawrence, KS
PARTY: 9:00pm-2:00am Paid Admission
Place: The "School House." 1510N. 3rd St. Lawrence, KS
Sponsored by the KU African Affairs Student Association & Student Senate
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