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Wednesdav. October 3, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Keith Thorne/KANSAN
In search of the great pumpkin
LOWER LEFT: Pumpkins lie waiting for harvest at Schaake's pumpkin Patch, Route 2, Lawrence. As Halloween approaches, Janet Schaake, owner of the farm, expects hundreds of jack-o'-lantern fans to visit in the patch search of the perfect pumpkin. Schaake said the 12-acre patch east of Lawrence had thousands of pumpkins ready for picking.
"They're coming in real well," Schaake said. "The rains in early summer really helped."
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
ABOVE: Sixteen-month-old Scott Ollilia of Lawrence finds a pumpkin just his size among hundreds at Schaake's Pumpkin Patch.
UPPER LEFT: Ollilia pleads with his mother, Lynn Ollilia, for a small pumpkin.
City bans skateboards on campus
By Elicia Hill
Kanean staff writer
Lawrence city commissioners last night unanimously approved an ordinance that prohibits skateboard riding on the KU campus. Beginning this morning, skateboard riders on campus can be fined up to $25.
The commission heard discussion and voted on the ordinance at its Sept. 18 meeting. Last night was the final hearing of the ordinance.
The skateboard-riding ordinance was proposed after an accident last month in which a KU student was hit in the head by a skateboard while she was sitting in a cafeteria area behind Wesco Hall.
senior, spoke against the ordinance at the meeting.
in the meeting He said KU students used skateboards for transportation to classes
Carl Cavallaro, Kansas City, Mo.
In other business, the commission,
unanimously approved a taxabac fare increase requested by A-1 City Cah
Company Inc., 735 E.2nd St.
Paul and Shirley Hackleford, owners of A-1 City Cab, requested a 25-cent fare increase. Taxicab fares within city limits now are $4.25 for the first passenger and 75 cents for each additional passenger.
Paul Shackelford said his business would not be able to continue if it could not raise fares to offset rising gasoline costs.
"My concern is to be able to run my
business," Shackelford said. "I don't want to take my business out of Lawrence, but I will if the situation doesn't get better."
A-1 also operates Secure Cab, a free taxicab service for KU students who have had too much to drink or do not feel safe walking home at night.
Secure Cab rates will not change for at least a year and they will not rise at all if fuel costs go in upcoming months. Shackelford said.
Student Senate allocated $32,000 this year from student activity fees for two semesters of Secure Cab service.
The commission also heard a request from David Longhurst, manager of the Lawrence Riverfront
Plaza, asking the city to place two signs to direct traffic to the mall.
"We have estimated we will bring in 496,192 cars a year to the downtown area, and many of those people are hardly difficulty finding the job," he said.
Mick Braa, Lawrence resident, registered opposition to the sign request.
He said a better alternative would be a sign that promoted all of downtown.
Commissioners voted 5-0 to table the request until next week to allow time for city staff to recommend a generic name that would recognize the Riverfront Plaza and other area businesses.
Local leaders unsure about home rule
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - City and county officials in Kansas are confused about how much separate authority they have from the Legislature, Jim Kaup, member of the League of Municipalities, said yesterday.
Kaup said he was displeased with the Kansas Supreme Court decision in July that altered municipalities' home-rule powers.
He also said that he was unhappy with trends in the Legislature that led up to the Supreme Court decision.
"We think it would be an understatement for us to say that we think that the Legislature was wrong," he said before the legislative Special Committee on Local Government, referring to the Legislature's position in home rule. "It is flat out wrong."
Blevins vs. Hiebert, the Kansas Supreme Court case that made the alterations, limited cities' and counties' power of home rule, or self-executing authority, to matters that do not fall under state law.
Kaup said he would not endorse Attorney General Bob Stephan's opinion released almost two weeks
ago that stated municipalities had a right to mandate laws on the legality of abortion.
Kaup said he was not sure how much power municipal police had under the new home-rule policy.
Stephan said in a statement that the court decision allowed cities and counties to regulate abortions under current laws, which powers, which includes health laws.
Kaup said that he did not have any specific suggestions on how to change home-rule power but that the home needed to find a better solution.
"The League is not in any position to advocate a position to the Legislature because of the confusion over the Supreme Court case," he said. "I guess this is more your problem than though it's certainly come to bounty us."
Becky Floyd, assistant attorney general, said the state had to put together a "patchwork" of legislation because many municipalities were confused about what powers they had.
"My recommendation is to continue to study this matter before we seek legislative action," Floyd said.
2 Live Crew lyrics make jurors yawn
The Associated Press
A sound system and a pair of speakers were brought into the courtroom Monday where Charles Freeman, 31, went on trial for selling "As Nasty They Wanna Be" on June 8, two days after a federal judge pronounced the record obscene.
FORT LAUADERALE, Fla — Lyrics about intercourse and sodomy produced blank stares and yawns from jurors at the obscurity trial of a record store owner arrested for selling an album by the rap group 2 Live Crew.
The sound quality was muddy and jurors seemed to strain to make out passages amid the thumping drums and electronic sounds. Mostly they stared straight ahead. At least two jurors were yawning by the end of the record.
Broward County Judge Paul Backman refused to give them a transcript of the lyrics.
Earlier Monday, an all-White jury was chosen to hear the case, over defense objections to the jury's finding in the pool, which had only one Black
Black rappers smacks of censorship and racism. Freeman is Black.
Supporters of the Miami-based rap group say criticism of the
Sheriff's deputies arrested Freeman at his E-C Records store for selling the album to an undercover officer. On June 6, U.S. District Judge Jose Gonzalez ruled the record obscure. This is the first obscurity trial involving the record.
If convicted of selling obscene material, Freeman could get up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine.
Backman told the jury it should find the album obscene if it appeals to "morbid, shameful interest in sex" and violates the standards of the average residents of Broward County. Prosecutors are barred from referring to Gonzalez's ruling.
Assistant State Attorney Leslie Robson told the jury that the album violated community standards by making explicit and sometimes violent references to sex.
"I would urge you to listen to the evidence," she said in opening arguments. "When you have listened to this, you will know that it is open offensive to the average person in this county."
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