CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, April 4, 1984
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Design for memorial faces one committee before final approval
By the Kansan Staff
The design for KU's Vietnam Memorial will go before the University Arts Committee tomorrow as the final step toward its approval.
If the design is approved, the memorial will be built in Chandler Court, south of the Frank R. Burge Union.
Also this week, which has been dedicated POW/MIA Vietnam Memorial Awareness Week, the Vietnam Memorial Committee will send brochures to Lawrence-area businesses asking them to donate part of the $14,000 still needed to pay for the memorial, which is estimated to cost about $8,000. The memorial will be the least expensive KU memorial ever built.
Memorial Stadium, commemorating World War I, was built in the 1920s and cost about $1 million.
The Campanile, which honors KU students and alumni who died in World War II, was built in the early 1950s for the U.S. Army.
The Campanile's construction stirred controversy at the University of Kansas. But controversy is not expected to hinder the construction of the Vietnam Memorial, said Lisa Ashner, Mission senior and a member of the committee. Construction is scheduled to begin early this summer, she said.
The Campanile created a debate because it was the first structure on campus that was not built for a specific use.
Campus living groups and the Student Senate have already donated $16,000 to build the Vietnam Memorial.
To help reach the $30,000 goal, MIA bracelets, honoring eight former KU students still listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia, and KU Vietnam Memorial buttons will be on sale this week at the Kansas Union.
Asher said that the committee decided to incorporate part of the second-place design, drawn by Bud Bortner, Overland Park senior, into the memorial's plan.
Bill to raise drinking age is shelved for third day
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — For the third day in a row, the Senate yesterday delayed a decision about whether the drinking age for 3.2 percent in Kansas would be raised from 18 to 19.
would be dismissed.
The bill, which would take effect July 1, was shelved by the Senate, which again spent all day debating less-controversial bills.
Senate Majority Leader Robert Talkington, R-Iola, gave no guarantees that the bill would come up for a vote today. But he said the Senate probably would vote on the issue before the midnight session.
Legendary U.S. Presidents Yesterday Senate President Ross Doyen, R/Corndicia, predicted that the legislators would recess on Thursday, as scheduled.
OPPONENTS OF the drinking-age bill charged that the Senate Republican leaders were stalling because they had not gathered enough votes to approve the measure. A majority of senators must vote for the bill to send it back to the House for final approval.
State Sen. Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth, an opponent of the raising the drinking age, said the bill's supporters were trying to sneak the Senate through a bill that did not appear on the Senate calendar for debate.
The bill passed out of conference committee Thursday. Bills usually are filed with the Senate clerk the day after they pass out of conference committees.
the conference committee report on the drinking a bill had not been filed as of yesterday after
"Nobody knows where it is," Reilly said. "It's the open meetings question all over again."
On March 28, Reilly was one of three senators who sent letters to Attorney General Robert T. Stephain asking that he investigate a possible threat of open Meetings Act by the conference committee.
CHARGES OF IMPROPIETY by the committee were first voiced by State Sen. Richard Gannon, D-Doodland, a member of the committee. Gannon said that some members of the committee met is secret to finalize the drinking-age bill before the first conference committee meeting.
Yesterday, Neil Woerman, special assistant to Stephan, said that the attorney general probably would announce tomorrow whether he would investigate the committee's actions. Yesterday, Stephan was still analyzing the results of a preliminary inquiry.
State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, a leading supporter of the bill on the Senate floor, said the conference committee's report on the bill was in Doven's hands.
He rejected the idea that he and other supporters of the bill were stalling because they were in the process of striking deals with other senators and members of the House.
Hess said that the bill's supporters wanted to make sure they had enough votes before offering the bill on the Senate floor.
"THERE ARE NO GAMES being played with the House of Representatives," he said. "This issue is not being used for trading stock anywhere."
After word circulated yesterday that the Senate would not act on the bill, Reilly withdrew another drinking-law bill from the Senate floor and sent it back to the Senate committee he presides over.
The move drew deers from Hess and Senate Vice President Charlie Angell, IR-plains, anotherSONG leader.
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