UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, January 11, 1994
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Legislators expect budget Washburn to be top issues
Death penalty discussions also anticipated in Statehouse
By Stephen Martino
Kansas staff writer
The last year of Gov. Joan Finney's term will see a flurry of activity for the Kansas Legislature, but some legislators hope it is not an avalanche.
"It is the budget, budget, budget," said State Rep. Betty JJo Charlton, D-Lawrence. "There will be a lot of things going on, but it all comes down to cost and money sources. It is always a problem."
issues Charlton and her colleagues will address.
The governor and the Board of Regents' proposal to introduce Washburn University into the Regents' system appears to be one of the first issues Charlton and her colleagues
In December, a proposal, introduced by the Regents and agreed to by Finney, scheduled Washburn's admittance into the Regents' system for 1997. The proposal also included adopting the Plan for Excellence, which would bring Regents professors' salaries equal to the average of the universities' peer institutions. The two plans are linked to the same proposal.
But Charlton said she questioned the wisdom of linking the two plans.
"The problem with the proposal is that it makes Topeka residents continue to pay property tax for Washburn even after it is brought into the Regents' system," she said.
Topeka residents pay an 18-mill property tax to support Washburn. The proposal to be introduced to the Legislature does not eliminate the tax.
legislators are more dedicated to their constituents and eliminating that tax in the regents' system," she said.
"I have a feeling that some Topeka
Charlton said that unless the plans are separated into two pieces of legislation, they might have a difficult time passing as one. She said she was opposed to Washburn becoming a member of the Regents and planned to vote against the proposal.
State Rep. Forrest Swall, D-Lawrence, said that when everything was done, not much would have been accomplished to prevent crime.
Crime and the death penalty are two other issues the Legislature will discuss.
"It is an issue that sounds impressive to the voters, but we constantly fall to look at the history of what we have done." he said.
Changes in sentencing guidelines have reduced Kansas's prison population, but plans floating around the Statehouse include building more prisons and still more changes to the sentencing guidelines.
"When the guidelines were first proposed they were considered as being hard on crime," said State Sen. Mark Parkinson, R-Olathe. "Now, the popular opinion seems to be that they are too soft."
Today, Parkinson and 14 co-sponsors plan to introduce legislation to reinstate the death penalty. He said that it was a necessary weapon prosecutors should have against crime.
"Some people have a problem with the state going around and killing people," he said. "Before the governor said she would support this legislation, I considered this issue a waste of my time, but it is not now."
Bills stalled by Student Senate; absences approved by StudEx
By Heather Moore
Kansan staff writer
Bills providing funding for Student Union Activities lecture series and for LesBiGay Services of Kansas Awareness Week were passed at an emergency Student Senate Executive meeting held Dec. 10.
The StudEx meeting was called after bills funding the events could not be passed at the Student Senate meeting on Dec. 8. At that meeting, 33 senators were present when a first
count was taken, but several left before the second count to call quorum. Because 32 senators must be present to call quorum and vote on bills, LesBiGaySOK and SUA nearly lost funding for their events.
Eric Moore, Lawrence senior and director of LesBiGay Awareness Week, said he was relieved LesBiGaySOK received $3,365 for the week.
"I was upset after the Senate meeting because we would have had to wait another four or six weeks," Moore said. "I was pleased that StudEx met to consider the bills."
Moore said the event would be held to educate the community and to reify the gay, lesbian and bisexual community.
Renee Speicher, Hutchinson graduate student, co-sponsored an SUA lecture bill that would bring Dr. Ruth Westheimer to campus before Spring Break. At the emergency meeting the group received $5,000.
SUA still is talking to Westheimer's representatives about details, Speicher said.
Speicher said she was surprised senators were not able to vote on the bill at the Senate meeting on Dec. 8. "I didn't realize there wouldn't be a quorum," she said, "I realize it was at the end of the semester, and as an exsenator, I understand the pressures they are under. We pushed it through StudEx anyway.
Absentee list
Out of 62 senators, 21 were absent or left without being excused at the Dec. 8, 1993, Student Senate meeting.
John Altevogt Afonso Canedo
Mike Gusemple Ovinio Hijinjo
Harybay Ken Martin
Kathrin McMichelle Ray
Kelly Staples
Left without excuse:
Left/wrong excuse:
Chaudi Booger Catherine Bubb
Mike Moyer Gonzales Redding
Mike Moyer Shannon Newton
Ann Perry Michelle Rofe
Brad Stasilius Trevor Thompson
Jill Tibbetts Andrea Toll
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"To be serious, I don't know if it would've passed because it is such a large chunk of money," Speicher said. "StudEx was much more approachable. The key is to know how the system works. Many people wouldn't have known to go to StudEx."
John Shoemaker, Senate president, said he was disappointed about the lack of attendance at the meeting on Dec. 8.
"I was upset that we didn't have a quorum," he said. "I thought that the senators were derelict in their duties. One hour a week is not a terrible demand. I didn't understand why people were gone."
"I hate to sound overly critical, but we need a system that requires members to go," he said. "I think that attendance should be mandatory or heavily emphasized."
David Stevens, co-sponsor of the SUA lecture series bill, said he thought senators had an obligation to perform certain duties.
Moore said he agreed that the senators should attend meetings.
"There is some irresponsibility involved." he said. "There are no time clocks to punch. Anyone who has attended a senate meeting knows it's not pleasant to sit there for a long time and not get the money you need."
Flu bug bites KU early and often
By Ashley Schultz Kansan staff writer
Asprin, fluids recommended
First the bad news: It is too late to get a flu shot. Now for worse news: Flu season struck early this year, and it will be sticking around through April.
So said Elaine Houston, immunization coordinator for the Lawrence Douglas County Health Department. She said that a Jan. 3 release showed that as of mid-December, 38 states had reported influenza type A, and 19 of those have isolated the type A Bearing strain.
Flu is a virus, not a bacterial infection and as such cannot be treated with antibiotics, Houston said. The virus is transmitted person-to-person often by coughing and sneezing or hand contact with germs. The increased amount of time spent with others in close quarters is one reason cases increase during the winter months.
The flu epidemic has not arrived on
"There's no question that as people come back to school, I'm sure they'll bring the influenza with them," he said. "There's no reason to believe that we'll escape what everybody else has seen in tremendous numbers. I suspect we'll see it before the weekend.
campus yet, but it will, said Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center.
"Influenza tends to be sort of like weather patterns," Yockey said. "They're predictable from year to year. In other words, what Europe had last year, the United States will have this year."
Last year, scientists were able to accurately predict this year's onslaught of the influenza A Beijing strain and make up the vaccine accordingly, Yockeysaid.
In part because of extensive press and early outbreaks, Watkins gave more flu shots in 1993 than ever before and ran out of shots around Nov. 10. Yockey said. Watkins gave over 1,000 flu shots at $6 a piece, three times more than it usually does.
Some patients who get the flu shot think they won't get sick all winter despite the hundreds of other flu-like
He said that students should get plenty of rest, fluids, pain relievers such as ibuprofen or aspirin and decongestants to fight the flu.
viruses. Yockev said.
There is a pill that students can take within 48 hours of getting hit with true influenza, Yockey said. Amantavine is an anti-viral drug that will cut symptoms and duration in half. The drug doesn't kill the virus, but it helps the body's immune system do the job. He said that all suspected cases of influenza reported within 48 hours are treated with the drug, which costs about $5.
The clinic usually sees the flu from about Jan. 20 until Spring Break, Yockev said.
Yockey advises students not to eat or drink after other people and not to share toothbrush holders or hand towels.
"People are contagious for about three days before they become ill," Yockey said. "So if you share a drink with a friend today who looks perfectly healthy, and she has the flu tomorrow, you'll have it on Friday."
He said that the average case has been running a four-to-five day course in other places.
It's Flu season
Janice Early-Weas, director of community relations at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said that both the number of patients being seen and the percentage admitted started rising right before Christmas. Admissions for the past two Sundays have been twice the normal rate of about seven patients.
"One of the emergency physicians I talked to said when he worked his shift Sunday, he would estimate two-thirds of the people had viruses or flulike symptoms," Early-Weas said.
Tom Leininger / KANSAN
Ready and reading
Philip Wells, professor of botany, read a book on Latin America yesterday at the bookstore in the Kansas Union. Wells said he was well prepared for the spring semester, which starts today.
Crimson Girls win cheerleaders place third at Nationals
The KU Crimson Girls took first place in the pompon division of the Cheerleading and Pompon National Collegiate Championship in Dallas last Wednesday.
Last year the Crimson Girls finished second and the cheerleaders fifth.
KU's cheerleading team, the other half of the spirit squad, finished third in the cheerleading part of the competition, which also was held in Dallas.
The ten-member team beat 15 other teams that qualified for the finals, said Elaine Brady, spirit squad adviser.
Brady said the two teams had been successful in the competition in the past.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Woman reports kidnapping, rape
A 21-year-old Lawrence woman reported that she was kidnapped and raped Jan. 6.
The woman told Lawrence police that at approximately 11 p.m. she went to her car near her home to get something. Three men wearing stocking caps appeared and forced her into a van.
She reported that the men drove her around Lawrence all night while one of the men raped her. They left the woman at her home in the 2600 block of Ridge Court the next morning, according to the police report.
No arrests have been made.
Ex-student charged in shooting
A trial has been ordered for a 23-year-old former KU student who has been charged with attempted first degree murder in a Johnson County court.
Caroline Castleberry is accused of shooting and critically injuring her father, Charles Castleberry, of Lake Quivira, a suburb of Kansas City, Kan., last September.
At the preliminary hearing Caroline's sister, Catherine, testified that their father was abusive to them, especially to Caroline. He refused to allow her to have any boyfriends at KU, forced her to spend every weekend at home and required her to give him lengthy massages in the bedroom that often lasted until 3 a.m.
Caroline is free on $100,000 bond and staying with friends in Lawrence.
According to testimony, the shooting occurred after Caroline informed her father that she was moving out of the house.
No trial date has been set.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports
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