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University Daily Kansan / Monday, October 29, 1990
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Finney says tax theory misconstrued by media
Bv Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney said Friday that statements she made while campaigned in Wichita last week about her property-tax relief proposal had been misunderstood by the media.
Finney was in Lawrence on Friday to speak to members of the National Association for the Advancement of Women at the University Center, 114 Massachusetts St.
She said it had been reported that she supported taxing some sales tax-exempt items 4.25 percent, which is the percentage taxed on items sold in Kansas, to roll back state property taxes to their 1989 rates.
Finney said that in a response to a question, she had said the Legislature might place a 4.25 percent tax rate on some items that are exempt.
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Joan Finney
"I have not proposed and will not propose such action," she said.
I have not proposed and will not propose such action.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate about applying a 4.25 percent sales tax to some now exempt items.
She said her proposal, which would place a 1-percent sales tax on some of the 56 items that the Legislature had exempted from sales tax, remained unchanged, says her plan to state about $400 million for property tax relief.
Finney also spoke about minority issues while visiting with NAACP members Friday.
George Lattimore, state communications director for Finney and a NAACP member, said Finney had been supportive of advancements for minorities.
she s 100 percent for minorities," he said. "She doesn't see color, she sees people."
Finney said she supported the federal Civil Rights Act that President Bush vetoted last week.
Finney said she had supported minorities as state treasurer by liquidating some state investments and giving the money in state minority programs.
"I think they've been treated unfairly," she said. "I support any legislation that will get them to include conditions for minorities eco-
"I think they've been treated unfairly," she said. "I support any legislation that will get them to attention for minorities eco nomically."
Former KU student gives $1 million for men's hall
By Tracey Chalpin Kansen staff writer
Kansan staff writer
A $1 million donation from a former KU scholarship hall resident will be used to build a new men's scholarship hall, officials announced Friday.
KU alumi Koli and Margaree
Amiri were recognized Saturday for the gift at Batterfield Hall's 50th anniversary. They were in a b仗场 in Batterfield from 1945 to 1948
Del Shankar, interim executive vice chancellor, told about 150 people attending the anniversary banquet that would be completed in fall of 1992.
Amii said that when he was visiting the University for the first time in 1945, he looked into scholarship opportunities and discovered that he had good enough grades to receive financial aid.
The scholarship hall contribution is the second contribution made by the Amnis, the other being a previously completed of the Vietnam Memorial.
Amini, who spoke little English
when he arrived at the University, befriended another KU student and moved into Battenfeld Hall.
"KU was the biggest break of my life," he said. "The people were very friendly."
Amini said that the reason he made the contribution to the University was that scholarship halls were the optimum academic atmosphere and that their atmosphere had changed little during the years.
"There's still that sort of unity of family, people helping other people," he said.
He said. Amini said he hoped that other KU alumni would donate money to build a women's scholarship hall.
Amiti said that another reason he valued the time he spent at KU was that he met his wife, Margaret, there. She was sports editor at the University Daily Kansan in Fall 1945 when she was assigned a story about Amiu, the first KU student from Iran.
In 1948 the two were married on the "Bride and Groom Show," a radio
show broadcast from Hollywood, Calif.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering, Koli Amini worked for several oil firms and established the Amini Oil 01
He established Sage Energy Co. in 1977 and is an independent oil operator in San Antonio, Texas.
The Aminis are members of the Chancellors Club, a KU donor organization, and the Mount Oread Society, which recognizes donors of $1 million
The scholarship hall donation will count toward Campaign Kansas, the University's five-year, $177 million fundraising drive.
Shankel said, "The scholarship halls are one of the most important forms of private giving at the University. This is truly a magnificent gift."
Brian T. Schoeni/KANSAN
Helping Out
One-year-old Ras Tafari helps David Lawrence play a drum during a performance of the Earth Healers African Roots Dancers. The group, sponsored by Student Union Activities, performed traditional African dances between the Kansas Union and Dyche Hall on Saturday afternoon. The Kansas City, Kan., group has been performing for about three years.
Robberies could be related, police save
Kansan staff report
A liquor store in the 800 block of Vermont Street was robbed Saturday by a man with a gun who matched the description of a man suspected of robbing four other Lawrence stores during the past month.
Chris Mulvenon, Lawrence police spokesperson, said the five robberies appeared to be related. A man described as 22 to 23 years old, about
5 feet 8 inches tall and weighing about 135 pounds with a mustache has robbed each store the same way.
First, the man set an item on the counter. Then, when the clerk's back was turned, the man pulled out a chrome revolver, pat it to the clerk's face when the clerk turned around, for the money in the cash register.
Mulvenon said the clerk in Satur
day's robbery told police that the robber left the store in a black, two-door ear with an undetermined weapon. The robber's robberies the suspect fled on foot.
A man fitting the same suspect description used the same method to rob four other stores in Lawrence:
Oct. 23, a man looks at $70 from a convenience store in the 1700 block of West 23rd Street.
- Oct. 15, a man took more than $100 from a convenience store in the 900 block of East 23rd Street.
- Oct. 5, a man took more than $180* from a convenience store in the 1900 block of West 25th Street.
■ Sept. 27, a man took an undetermined amount of money from a liquor store in the 2400 block of Iowa Street.
KU librarian preserves, indexes historic maps
The Associated Press
In keeping track of America's journey through history, the government has all but forgotten about it.
At the University of Kansas, Donna Koepp, maps librarian, has become involved in a $156,000 federal project to preserve, protect and index more than 12,000 historic U.S. maps.
"It's the history of our country." Koopp said of the collection. "They document the entire development."
Specifically, the maps come from a massive collection of books known as the U.S. Congress-
The text of the series is not rare. Many copies, including maps, are stored at libraries designated for the series.
The series also is indexed and preserved on microfilm. But except for a meager federal attempt to index the maps in 1941, most of them have been ignored.
sonal Series Set. The set, which includes more than 14,000 volumes and grows each year, covers all the business Congress has discussed and acted upon from 1789 to the present.
With the $16,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Koope's full-time
the RU indexing project is the second step in a process that began in 1967, when the University received money from the National Endowment for Science and preserve a copy of the documents in plastic.
project is to index and catalog the maps up to 1960.
Since then, the Congressional Information Service
was set up.
Sailed in clear polyester, the maps are expected to last at least 500 years without any weathering. Four full-time research assistants also are responsible over the maps for every detail, date and name.
KU Mortar Board honors five outstanding educators
Rv Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Five KU faculty members were honored yesterday as outstanding educators by the KU Torch Chapter of Mortar Board for 1980.
About 30 students, alumni, faculty members and administrators attended a reception at the Watkins Room in the Kansas Union, where they watched honorees receive framed certificates for the recognition.
Elizabeth Banks, associate professor of classics; Timothy Bengtson, associate professor of journalism; Saeed Farkhi, associate professor of aerospace engineering; Daniel Katz, associate biobiology; and Janice Kozma, associate professor of French and Italian, were the faculty members honored.
The KU Torch Chapter is part of the Mortar Board, a national senior honor society.
Jeff Wilson, Torch Chapter president, said faculty members were nominated by Mortar Board students.
"Individuals who are nominated have put forth the effort to be a real resource to KU students," he said.
Banks said, "This is a special honor because it is coming from the students."
Kozaim said the Mortar Board recognition was the most important thing that had happened to her since she had been at the University of California.
Farokhi said, "The gratitude of the students and recognition of this type is by far the most rewarding thing an educator can receive."
Bengston said that most of the educators honored yesterday were surprised to be recognized by the Mortar Board because there were many students at the University of Kansas that could have received the award.
Shankel said, "I'm past the stage of getting shook up, but I got a little shook up today. It was something very special."
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