University Daily Kansan / Wednesday September 12, 1990
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KANU airing week of cultural reports
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
KANU radio will air local and national programming this week targeted at making listeners more sensitive, the director of KANU's radio.
KANU is supplementing local reports with a National Public Radio report called "Class of 2000: The Prejudice Puzzle," which focuses on the lives and beliefs of young people and how they interact with prejudice and discrimination. Howard Hill, director of KANU.
The national program gives a voice to a group of young Americans rarely heard from in the media, including children of Blacks, Hispanics and American Indians, Hill said.
"The group that is in junior high and high school now is the first generation in this country in which, when they graduate, there will be more minority students. Caucasian students." Hill said.
Hill said that when he heard about the national report, KANU
decided to supplement the program with a series of local reports to emphasize that problems exist here.
Hill said local reports included in deep interviews with people in Lawrence who have experienced some sort of discrimination.
A report about American Indians was broadcast yesterday, and a segment about the Univer- sity of Kansas was broadcast Monday.
Vance Hiner, news director at KANU, said that Thursday's segment would be a personal account of racism from a local Black community. Today's report will be about the psychological aspects of prejudice.
Hiner said the local reports were eight minutes long and could be heard between 5 a.m. and 9 a.m. during the "Morning Edition," and also between 4 p.m. and during "All Things Considered."
Hiner said the local programs and the best of the national reports would be rebroadcast at 1 p.m. Saturday.
KU groups begin election campaigning
Abortion tough issue in governor's race
By Carol Krekel
Kansan staff writer
in governor's race
The KU Democrats and the College Republicans are hitting the pavement to rally support for their respective candidates in November's election, officials from the organizations said yesterday.
their groups would be going door to door in Lawrence to inform the public about the issues in this year's campaign.
tions said he will be
Pam McElwee, president of KU
Democrats, and Lisa Hicks, chair-
person of College Republicans, said
McElwee and Hicks said abortion was one of the most difficult issues to confront.
Republican Gov Mike Hayden is pro-choice, and his Democratic opponent, State Treasurer Joan Finney, is anti-abortion.
"For a lot of people, that is the issue in the governor's campaign," Hicks said. "But I have not heard of more than a handful that want to
cross over and support Joan Finney."
McElwear said that Finney's anti-bortion stand had been a detractor to some members of KU Democrats. "As a group, we support her." McElwear said. "But as individuals, we make our own choice."
McEwlee said members of KU Democrats could either campaign for Finney or help with campaign finance. And many dates who have a pre-choice stand.
said.
"We're optimistic that the issue is not going to be too bad," McElwee
Hicks said College Republicans had focused most of the group's energy on Scott Morgan, the Republican, who was a candidate for Rep. Jim Stlater, D-2nd District.
"Scott is the candidate that could pull an upset," Hicks said. "He needs the votes, and everybody believes in him so much."
McEwlee said KU Democrats was campaigning vigorously for Barbara Ballard, Democratic Statehouse candidate of one of the three districts in Lawrence.
Kansas auto tax unconstitutional, Stephan says
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan warned legislators yesterday that he would file an action asking the Kansas Supreme Court to strike down the state's vehicle property tax collection system.
Stephan told the Legislature's assessment and taxation committee that the procedure violated the law. Stephan asked the U.S. Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
"It causes taxpayers with surnames at the end of the alphabet to pay significantly more taxes than identically situated taxpayers with
Stephan told the committee that a person with a last name beginning with "T," for example, would pay $236 more in property taxes than a person with a last name beginning with "A" if both people bought identi- mobiles, registered them on July 1, 1898, and sold them on July 1, 1994.
surnames at the beginning of the alphabet," he said.
Stephan said he would file the action by the end of the week.
He urged the committee to prepare legislation that would correct the situation and warned the committee that if the Supreme Court struck
down the existing scheme, counties would be without motor tax revenues until a new tax method was enacted.
Stephan told the committee that the court would not issue substitute provisions that would enable counties to continue collecting vehicle taxes.
Stephan did not present an alternative tax collection system.
Chris McKenzie, Douglas County administrator, said that if the Supreme Court declared the tax scheme unconstitutional, it probably would allow the Legislature enough time to remedy the situation.
Stephan also reminded the committee of a class action lawsuit filed
in Shawree County seeking refunds for past inequities caused by the existing tax collection system, which was enacted in 1979.
"The damages are going to be less if this is taken care of before they mount up as a result of that class action," he said. "There's more likelihood for a judgment for taxes paid once it been made known to the Legislature and no action has been taken"
McKenzie said that if the court ordered refunds, it would have a severe financial impact on every vehicle purchase and would drive up vehicle taxes.
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