University Daily Kansan, March 10, 1983
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Tuesday last day to register
People who need to register for the April 5 general election have until Tuesday to do so.
Those who have not registered or have moved or changed their names can register at the Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets, today and tomorrow during regular business hours. Monday and Tuesday the courthouse will be open until 9 p.m., for voter registration.
THE APRIL.5 election will decide which three of the top six candidates
in last Tuesday's primary will win seats on the Lawrence City Commission. The three open seats are held by Mayor Marci Francisco and Commissioners Don Bimbs and Tom Glason.
The six candidates seeking commission seats are Binsn, David Longhurst, Ernest Angino, Mike Amy, Barbax Maxwell and Bonita Alen have announced plans to run as write-in candidates.
Open seating approved for next season's games
By ANDREW HARTLEY Staff Reporter
Student football fans will have a choice next season of sitting in either a reserved or an open seat on the east side of Memorial Stadium under a resolution passed unanimously by the Student Senate last night.
The open seating resolution recommends that the upper tier of seats on the east side of the stadium be an area that host holders can choose their own seats.
A section in the lower tier north of the 50-yard line will be set aside for reserved student seating. Those tickets will be sold by class rank as in the past.
THE RECOMMENDATION will allow reserved ticket holders to sit in the open seating area but will not allow an open seating ticket holder to sit in the reserved section. Students and their parents may attend at games in the open seating section.
Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant to the athletic director, said after the Senate meeting that the college did not print the tickets as soon as possible.
Prices of the tickets have not officially been announced, but the Student Sports Council, a 13-member advisory group to the athletic department, has recommended that the student receive a ticket and $23 for an open seat ticket.
The price for football tickets last year was $25.
LAST SEMESTER, a different open seating plan was voted down by the Senate. Opponents had said that the plan would not could not enforce an open seating plan.
"I think the Student Senate realized that the athletic department is getting some student input before they make a decision," Hamrick said. "They realize
sent this plan unanimously passed the
these Senate Sports Committee and the
Anne Stucker, chairman of both the sports council and Senate sports committee, said she thought the bill had been passed because changes had been made in the wording of the plan the Senate had earlier voted down.
"I think this bill is a lot more specific than last semester," Stucker said. "The last time this came up it was not long ago. I had to have flasco. He tells a lot of wounds."
DURING THE LAST football season, the athletic department experimented with open seating by letting parents sit with students on Parents Day. Athletic department officials said the experiment was not intended to ensure teachers did not know which sections were open and which were reserved
Athletic Director Monte Johnson told senators last night that the athletic department would be responsible for making sure that fans with open seating tickets did not sit in reserved seats.
He said that several additional ushers would be hired to help police the student section and that tickets would be printed in different colors.
JOHNSON SAID the purpose of the open seating plan was not to bring in revenue for the department but rather increase support for the football team.
Johnson said open seating would offer a better chance for living groups and members of professional schools to get to games early and sit together. He also said the seating system allowed only members of the same class to sit together.
Stucker said the sports council planned to go into organized living groups next fall and sell open seating tickets.
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TOPEKA — A local legislator said yesterday that if the interest some legislators have shown in redrawing state legislative districts results in action, she would lose precincts in the process.
"I've always felt it was a large district for a representative district," said the legislator, State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-D Lawrence. "It has more university personnel than any other district in the state."
But there is debate over whether transitory people, such as students and soldiers, should be included in population counts or determine the number of legislative districts.
According to 1980 federal census figures released this week by the Kansas Legislative Research Department, the population of Branson's district is 15 percent higher than the average or ideal district population.
DISTRICTS OF THE Kansas Legislature were last repositioned in 1979, but the repositionment was based on the cultural cultural census, not on federal figures.
The department estimated from the census information that the ideal representative district population should be 18,914.
"It is incumbent upon a representative to keep close contact with his or her constituents," Branson said. "The larger the district, the harder it is to maintain the close contact you want."
"But I would hate to give up any one of my precincts."
State Sen. Norman Gaar, R-Westwood, initiated the interest in reappointment when he introduced a resolution calling for a committee to determine whether the Senate districts met with apportionment standards set by the U.S. and Kansas constitutions. The Senate passed the resolution.
State Rep, Ron Fox, R-Priarie Village, said that Gaar's move prompted him to request the federal figures for House districts.
The population of the 66th House District, represented by State Rep. Ivan Sand, R-Riley, showed the greatest deviation from the ideal. The population of the district at 34,155, which is 90.6 percent greater than the ideal.
"We reapportioned the state in 1979 and we did it right," Sand said. "The state agricultural census counted people where their homes were. In the federal census, they count students and families where they are on the first of January."
SAND SAID THAT the high population figure for his district included 15,000 to 16,000 at Fort Riley, 13,000 to 14,000 at Prairie View and vote in their home districts or states.
"Thirty-four voted in the last election on local issues." Sand said.
The district of State Rep. Ambrose Dempsey, D-Leaveworth, is another that was shown to be too high, because it would have the Army base at Fort Leavenworth.
"I'm sure all those people aren't voting." Demrose said.
THE POPULATION of State Rep. Joe Knopp's district, which includes Kansas State University in Manhattan, was 36.9 percent above the ideal figure.
Knopk attributed the higher-than-average population figures to university students counted by the federal census
"I supposedly represent 18,000," Knopp said, "but only 3,500 voted in the last election."
Knopp said that he would probably support a move for reapportionment and give the union more control.
"My area would probably gain a senator and a representative," he said.
the state attorney general, said that State Rob. Robert Talkington, R-Iola, had requested an opinion from the attorney general on reapportionment.
Not all districts showed an increase in population as a result of the switch to federal census figures. The nine largest cities had a 13.5 percent decrease in population.
REAPPORTIONMENT is a complicated issue. Woerman said, but the attorney general considers the opinion to be correct and issues it before the end of this session.
State Rep. Joan Wagonn, D-Topneu,
and that Toppea would lose a represen-
tation.
"But it's my personal feeling that in redrawing those boundaries, the Democrats would not necessarily lose out," she said.
"If you have a good candidate, you'll get the votes. If the Democrats field good candidates, they have nothing to fear from reapportionment."
Designer says Lawrence must act to avoid blight
The designer for the proposed downtown redevelopment project told members of the Lawrence Downtown Association last night that Lawrence must take action to prevent downtown from deteriorating.
John Stainback, chief designer for the Houston office of Daniel, Mann, Johnson & Mendhail, the architectural firm working on the project, said. "If you want to convince I really don't want to see it down town a depressed downtown area."
DMJM is working with Sizerel Realy Co. Inc., Kenner, La., on the project. The Lawrence City Commission and the Downtown Improvement Committee will meet Monday to discuss plans for the project.
IN A SPEECH to the annual meeting of the downtown association, Stainback said that downtown would be hurt if a building was built in an outlying area of Lawrence.
A suburban mall would take away 50 percent of downtown's retail sales, he
Stainback said he had been in many of cities that he said had lost businesses from downtown because a suburban mall was built.
said, and raise the vacancy rate to 25 percent. The vacancy rate now is 3 to 5 percent.
He said that Lawrence had put a lot of work into downtown redevelopment.
Author to talk on intelligence
"I don't remember seeing this kind of enthusiasm anywhere," he said. "I don't want to lose the momentum."
A Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Douglas Hofstadter, will speak about human and artificial intelligence at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Woodruff Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
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Hofstadter, associate professor of computer science at Indiana University, will speak about the human mind and the possibility of creating computers with similar intelligence.
Stainback said that Scheme 4, the plan favored by the improvement committee, could be a landmark for other cities in this part of the country.
an Eternal Bread," won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.
HIS BOOK, "Godel, Escher, Bach;
The book reveals in layman's terms the secrets that may allow man to create machines of human intelligence, said John Snyder, a Houston graduate student who is studying the book in a seminar class at KU.
SCHHEME 4 WOULD have a one-story department store on the northeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets, would reroute part of New Hampshire Street east to run within 40 feet of Rhode Island Street and would use Eighth Street as a pedestrian walkway for its main entrance.
Hofstadter drew on Kurt Godel's math theories, M.C. Escher's art, Johann Sebastian Bach's music and works in writing the book, Snyder said.
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The development would be between the alley east of Massachusetts Street and Rhode Island Street, from Seventh Street to Ninth Street. The project would contain numerous stores and pedestrian walkways.
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He said that construction could begin in late 1985 and be completed in 1987.
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