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University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1984
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Under the bill, the state would regulate, license and tax the ractetracks, which could not operate for a profit.
The bill also contains a clause that would allow each county to decide whether it wanted paid time off.
KAREN TOLLE, a KPM member, said that tax money collected by the state from the ractracks would keep property taxes low and help finance schools. KPM has estimated that the ractracks would create 8,000 jobs statewide, she said.
Group leaders said the Legislature should pass the measure this session so Kansans could vote on it.
"All we are asking from them is to put it before the people and let them decide," said Dick Teichgrabe, a member of the KPM board of directors.
ARLEN MITCHELL, a KPM member, said a recent Wichita State University study found that the state would collect $15 million in taxes during the first year of legalized pari-mutuel betting. In five years, the state could collect as much as $200 state taxes and money out of out-state bettlers, he said.
Almost all Western states have legalized pari-mutuel betting he said.
Teichgrabeer said Missourians would flock across the border to bet in Kansas if the Legislature adopted the bill before the Missouri statute adopted a bill now under consideration.
But critics of the bill warned that it might attract organized crime along with big money.
"IT WOULD CREATE a law enforcement problem," said State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains. "You always have crime associated with these affairs."
Ruling
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should be decided on who gets money," she said "it think it is an incredible erosion of civil rights. It means that one's ability to get recourse against discrimination is vastly reduced."
In some KU financial aid programs, research and instructional training projects receive
Carolyn Cross, director of the office of research support and grants, said that the University received $13 million to $14 million in fiscal year 1983 for research and instructional projects that were sponsored by about 100 departments and research units.
apply to these projects because the Court's definition of 'program' was unclear. Research and instructional projects have never been considered programs.
She said she wasn't sure how the ruling might
SOME OF THE instructional training programs that receive federal money are in the department of psychology, the School of Social Welfare and in special education.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said that three financial aid programs were now financed by the federal government.
program and $450,000 each year in-supplemental grants.
The University spends about $3 million in Pell grants each year, Rogers said. KU also receives between $500,000 to $600,000 for the work study
The federal government originally financed National Direct Student Loans, Rogers said, but now most of the money for the loans is generated by collections.
He said the ruling would have little effect on financial aid programs because the financial aid program is not mandated.
The work-study program could be more vulnerable to discrimination, he said, but the office of financial aid only determines eligibility and is not involved in the hiring process.
Title IX
University regulations would ensure that discrimination didn't take place despite the absence of Title IX guidelines.
He said that the University was committed to women's athletics and that the court's ruling would not change that commitment. He said, "If anything, the ruling would have a wide range of implications."
"If what I read is true, it pretty much takes Title IX out of the athletic area," Rose said. "There are some schools out there that will say, 'Hey let's cut women's sports because they don't make money.'"
RUTH BERKEY, assistant executive director of the NCAA, said that the decision was limited in scope and wouldn't seriously damage women's athletics. She said that the NCAA already protected women's sports through its
own regulations, such as the rule that requires Division 1 schools to maintain programs in eight women's sports.
Berkey said that she doubted that many athletic departments would take advantage of their new powers and reduce financing for women's sports.
In 1980, however, the NCAA filed suit in federal court to obtain the same ruling that the Supreme Court delivered Tuesday. The NCAA asked the court to exempt major college athletic departments from Title IX regulations because they didn't directly receive federal funds. The NCAA dropped the suit last year after a three-year battle.
A 1979 Education Department Title IX ruling required that athletic departments spend the
same amount, on a per capita basis, for men's and women's athletic scholarships.
IN MARCH 1982, the Office of Civil Rights ended a two-year investigation into KU's Title IX practices. The OCR recommended several steps to improve KU women's athletic programs.
The OCR's report asked the University to close the gap between the average $781-scholarship that women athletes received and the average $2 466-scholarship that male athletes received.
The plan recommended that the athletic department increase spending for scholarships, cosmetics and apparel.
The University submitted a 13-point plan, which the OCR approved.
The Supreme Court's ruling exempts the athletic department from having to follow through on the plan.
ON CAMPUS
TODAY
THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER will have a preview of artwork to be auctioned through Saturday at Ninth and Vermont streets. The auction will be Saturday at 8 p.m.
"VISIONS OF QUIXOTE," illustrations from 38 editions of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra's novel "Don Quixote," will open at 3:30 p.m. in the main gallery of the Spencer Library.
LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES Brown Bag Lunch presents a Spanish conversation with Julio Muñoz, a Guatemalan exile living in Costa Rica from noon to 1:30 p.m. in 109 Lippincott Hall
ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS On Campus presents the Rev. John Platko on "The Seven Ecumenical Councils" at 7 p.m. in the Regionalist Room of the Kansas Union.
CANTERBURY HOUSE will sponsor an Episcopal Eucharist at丹店 on nondoor Chapel.
KU SWORD & SHIELD will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the Walnut Room of the Union
PROSE AND POETRY Reading will be sponsored by the Women's Studies department.
DUNGEONS & DRAGONS will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Union
TOMORROW
"THE BUSINESS OF AMERICA," a film on corporations, communities and industrial change, will be shown at 7 p.m. in the Jayhawk Room of the Union.
UNDERGRADUATE BIOLOGY Club will meet at 4 p.m. in the Sunflower Room of the building
A FACULTY RECITAL will be performed by Susan Hicks on the oboe at 8 p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall.
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