CAMPUS AND AREA
University Daily Kansan, February 29, 1984
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Area schools seek computer grant
By ROBIN PALMER Staff Reporter
Lawrence schools would be able to buy about $140,000 of computer equipment if a grant is awarded to the school from a national computer company.
Commodore Computers will provide $70,000 worth of equipment for a proposed $140,000 purchase of commodore equipment, if the grant is approved.
Robert Taylor, assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction, said that the proposal for the $140,000 system, submitted yesterday to Commodore Computers by the Lawrence School Board, was granted, it said. The new microcomputers to Lawrence Unified School District 497.
He said that adding those computers would provide more computer time for the students and more educational information for the faculty.
Lawrence schools do not now have enough computers to adequately educate their students, he said.
School districts from across the nation will vie for a total of $1 million in funding.
or computer equipment A Commodore committee will decide which school districts will receive grants of equipment.
Taylor said that the Lawrence school district would have to match the $70,000 in equipment donated by Commodore with the purchase of the other $70,000 of equipment contained in the proposal.
federal money will pay for some of the $70,000, Taylor said. But most of the $70,000 will be paid out and of its own monetary and secondary school budgets.
Taylor said that although he hoped the district's request would be approved, Commodore might only grant part of the district's request. He said that Commodore asked how stiff the competition would be from other school districts.
The current computer system comprises more than 100 microcomputers. However, that number is not enough to adequately educate the students, said Bernie O'Graden director of federal programs for the school district.
Coleman said that because the ratio of students to computers was low, scheduling time on the computers created a problem.
created a problem.
The ratio is now one computer for every 30 to 200 students, according to the board's proposal.
The school district will know in April whether its proposal has been accepted, and the system could be ready for the upcoming school year
The proposal would bring 40 computer labs for students' use at both secondary and elementary levels.
The proposal also includes a network of computers that will be placed in 24 locations, including the elementary and secondary buildings, the Diagnostic Center, the Lawn School High School Extension Campus, 2600 W. 25th St., and the Lawrence Learning Resource Center, 1837 Vermont St.
The network will provide teachers and school district staffs with information and work with students in the school district's central office at 2017 Louisiana St.
Other school districts have until March 15 to apply for the grant.
TOPEKA — The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee yesterday left Kansans stumped about the number of days they might be allowed to stay.
By ROB KARWATH Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Bingo's days aren't numbered
The committee failed to vote on a bill that would regulate the game statewide and allow Kansans to play six days a week. The bill is an alternative to a measure that would permit bingo just three days a week.
The three-day-a-week bill passed both the House and Senate earlier this month. For the last four days, it was John Carlin's desk waiting to be signed.
Carlin must sign the bill before tomorrow or it will be vetoed automatically.
The committee was supposed to vote on the bill yesterday but instead got bogged down over the definition of a bingo card. The committee has been debating the definition because of recent changes in the game.
At many games, bingo is no longer played on the traditional cardboard square using beans or kernels of corn to
mark numbers that have been called. A pad of paper with a bingo grid printed on each sheet is now widely used. Players use a pen to mark off the numbers that have been called and discard their sheets after each game.
The bill on the governor's desk requires that players pay 50 cents for each bingo card. But at some games, the paper sheets are sold for 50 cents even though they contain more than one grid.
Phil Wilkes, a lawyer with the Department of Revenue, told the legislators that they would have to hold them accountable precisely to make the law effective.
"If we are going to enforce this, then I think we have to be specific," he said. State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, he said the thought the committee should use the definition set down in the first bill. If that definition is later questioned, he said, a court could decide the issue.
Winter also said he preferred the three-day-a-week proposal to the six-day proposal because it allowed churches and non-profit fraternal organizations to make bingo parlors. Limiting bingo to three days a week would force many
of the parlors out of business because they could not make enough money in those few days.
"In my personal opinion, that was the most important part of the bill," he said.
State Sen Jan Meyers, R Overland Park, said she could not decide which bill
"I're really tired on this," she said. "I don't necessarily want to go after the parrots. On the other hand, the parrot is fraternal groups that can't compete."
Joe Berger, a lobbyist for the Sunflower Association, a group that represents fraternal organizations such as the Elks Club and the Mooose Lodge, will probably profit bingo would disappear if Kansans were allowed to play six days a week.
"The big parlorers have the big rooms," they said. "They can seat 400 or 500 people. Small organizations that can seat 100 or 100 can't compete with that."
Committee chairman Edward Reilly R-Leavenworth, said the committee probably would vote on the bill today.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee also is considering the bill.
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