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University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 26, 1990
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Debate exposes similarities
Barbara Ballard. left, answers questions during a debate with Sandy Reaper. John McIntosh, middle, Tulsa junior, moderated.
By David Roach
Opponents in the state representative 44th District race found themselves agreeing more than disagreeing last night at a debate sponsored by the cultural affairs committee of Student Senate.
Kansan staff writer
Democratic candidate Barbara Ballard and her Republican opponent, Sandy Praeger, fielded questions from a three-person panel and about 20 audience members for about 16 hours at the Dole Human Development Center.
The candidates found broad areas of general agreement and for the most part quibbled only about
Both candidates said they supported financing the third year of the Margin of Excellence in any way possible, though Ballard said she preferred using a tax on cigarettes and alcohol, while Praeger said she thought the money should come from the state's general fund.
details.
The Margin was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
"You would have to review almost everything you could in order to find new funds," Ballard said.
taxes netore making a decision about how to finance the Margin.
Praeger said she did not like the idea of enarming cigarette and alcohol taxes to finance the Margin.
"The state general fund is money that is always there throughout the years," she said.
Both candidates opposed parental notification measures and restrictions on abortions, though Prager said she would support a ban on third-trimester abortions because they endangered the woman's life.
rights of the woman," she said. "I think any choice to have an abortion is going to come much earlier in the process."
"It's not taking away from the
The candidates did diverge on the issue of qualified admissions for Board of Regents institutions.
Ballard said she did not support qualified admissions because the state should provide everyone with the opportunity for an education.
"We provide an opportunity, but we don't allow students to just come and founder around," Ballard said.
Education promotion becomes fiscal policy defense
Praeger said she favored qualified admissions because it would help raise standards in high schools.
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — What began as a promotion of Gov. Mike Hayden's proposed educational policy turned into a defense of the state's fiscal situation during a news conference yesterday.
Hayden proposed high school reading, math and science competency tests within an education plan that was combined with public policy suggestions by the Governor's Composition on Public Agenda for Kansas.
Hayden said he wanted to stress testing in math and science.
"If we do concentrate on math and science, on areas where we're really lagging from a competitive basis, then I think we'll have a lot more support in the Legislature." Hayden said.
He said the Legislature had not supported competency testing when it dealt with testing a broad range of subjects.
Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence,
said she did not agree that narrowing
the subjects in competency testing
was a solution to better education.
"We are going to make it a budget priority," Hayden said. "There is not
"Let's try innovations at the level element rather than trying to catch mistakes we made in education at high school," she said.
Hayden said the cost of the educational reform would come from the state's general fund. He did not mention much the plan would cost the state.
The general fund holds revenues that are not earmarked for specific state programs.
going to be a tax increase to fund this."
Hayden said his proposals for financing property tax relief and refinancing the Margin of Excellence would relieve the general fund. He has suggested that he sell all in cigarette and sales taxes to finance the Margin and tax relief.
"If that passes, it will take a lot of pressure off the general tund and allow us to do some of these things," she said. "It's an educational improvement program."
Hayden said the state's general
fund was not in a financial bind.
"There is some growth in the general fund," he said. "Everybody acts like this state is in some kind of financial crisis." It simply isn't true.
"We have $254 million in the bank today, and you would think we're on the way to the poor house."
Hayden said people had been misinformed about the state's financial situation by the Democrats.
The state will have about $140 million for the fiscal 1991 budget, he said.
researcher, had estimated that the government would be at least $50 million short in the general fund.
Richard Ryan, a legislative
Mark Schmeller, for Joan Finney,
said he thought the governor did not want the state to estimate next year's
income until after the election in November.
"Governor Hayden likes to say we're blowing it out of proportion." Schmeller said of the fiscal estimates. "But he has no estimate of his own right now as to what kind of shortfall we're going to have."
Falsified IDs not worth the trouble, student says
Bv Debbie Myers
Kansan staff writer
Cheri Christiansen wanted to go to bars with her boyfriend and her friends, who were 21 years of age or older. She was a minor.
Soon after spring break last semester, Christiansen, 20, Overland Park junior, decided to alleviate her problem. After doing some careful planning with a friend, Christiansen took her friend's birth certificate to the driver's license examiner in the National Guard Armory building.
It would be easy - her friend's age. Christiansen's face.
Or so Christiansen thought. It turned out that she needed a picture identification to get a driver's license.
In Strong Hall, Christiansen signed the haistick signature of her life on a piece of paper that included the penalties involved with falsifying a
But she wanted to go to bars badly enough that she did not let that slight hitch stop her. She decided to use her hand to pick it up. A KUID with her own picture on it.
Christiansen handed the form with her friend's biographical information to a woman working at the window and began to get nervous as the woman turned away from her counter screen and began asking questions.
Christiansen ended up going straight to the Dean of Student Life's office.
She shared this experience with about 20 Gertrude Sellards Pearson-Corbin Hall residents last night Christiansen and her friend were put on probation and were required to do a job to make resitance to the University.
Christiansen said her presentation was part of that restitution. She appeared by herself last night because her friend was away and would serve her probation next semester. Her friend stopped speaking to her shortly after the two were caught.
Darlene Hayes, residence hall director at GSP-Corbin, said she was contacted by the Office of Student Services and could be Christianess's probation officer.
Hayes said she was pleased with Christiansen's presentation.
"I think it was very well thought out," Hayes said. "She had alternatives to drinking."
Some of Christiansen's alternatives to drinking and going to bars were renting movies, going to the theater and going to parties.
"If you can have a good time without drinking, you feel better about yourself." Christiansan said. "You should not be because you know you don't need it."
Michele Kessler, Legal Services for Students attorney, attended the program to give the legal aspects of the fraudulent use of identifications
Kessler said that fraudulent use of an identification violated a state statute, which carries a stiffer penalty and a violation of a city ordinance.
Possession of a fake identification is a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $1,000 fine and six months in jail, Kessler said.
She said lending a fake identification was a misdemeanor punishable by up to a $2,500 fine and one year in jail. Lending an identification to an underaged person so that person can be caught for their own penalty for both people involved.
She said underaged students were asking for trouble if they went to a bar with older friends and sat at a table covered with alcoholic drinks, even if minors were let in and they did not consume alcohol.
"If you get caught doing that, it's a felony and you're going to have a hard time getting a job with a felon," Kessler said.
Kessler said that making fake identification was punishable by up a $10,000 fine and five years in prison.
Elderly appreciate living morale-boosters
By Elicia Hill
Kansan staff write
The Persian kitten was purring loudly as it cuddled on the lan of Marv McCalla.
McCalla and 23 other residents of the Brandon Woods Retirement Community, 1501 Inverness Drive, were smiling as they watched the antics of a rabbit and two rabbits, a German shepherd and an guinea.
The animals were brought by two local veterinarians, Philip Bradley and Kevin Kuzeni from the Bradley Animal Hospital, 435 E, 23rd St., as part of a new program called Vet Pets.
The program is the brainstem of the Brandon Woods activities director. Diane Nall.
"Pets have a way of bringing out the best in people," she said. "These animals bring smiles to their owners."
Margaret Arnold, a Brandon Woods resident,
said she had always had cats in her life.
"I look forward to this time so much," she said as the amy kitten played with her fingers. "This is a fun game."
Not only did the people warm up to the animals, but the animals were relaxed by the calmness of the animals.
A frightened rabbit was placed in the arms of Albert Torneden, a Brandon Woods resident. Within five minutes it was resting quietly as he stroked it behind its ears. Torneden has a lot of experience with rabbits because he raised them while he was growing up.
Felicia Brown, an activities assistant, said that last month the veterinarians brought a hasset bound puppy and a mother cat with four nursing kittens.
"The residents loved watching the kittens nurse," she said. "And the basset hound puppy was cute because it kept tripping on its ears, they were so long."
Thirty-eight bedridden patients yesterday asked to have a few minutes with a kitten, so Nail took it.
Although some nursing homes allow pets on the premises, Brandon Woods does not, Brown said.
"Some of the patients have had strokes so I held their hand to the kitten, and other patients are blind but they love to feel the kitten's fur," she said. "They're the kitten even if they are narvalized or blind or dead."
She jokingly told Kuenzi that the veterinarians would have to take a head count of the animals to
"It's been shown that petting an animal lowers blood pressure and gives people a sense of being loved," he said. "That's what we're talking about here — love."
Bradley said medical studies had indicated that owning pets had health benefits.
Mary McCalla, Brandon Woods Retirement Community resident, holds a Persian kitten.
ensure that none were smuggled into the home.
Arnold tried to do just that as she had a kitten named
Molly.
Kuenzi, as he gently took the kitten away, said
The bad part is the leaving because I have to take
the kitten home.
Residents looked sad as one by one the animals were taken.
"Don't forget to come back," Arnold said softly as Kuenzi put the kitten back in its box. "I'll be waiting for you."