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The University Daily Kansan
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Thursday, November 9, 2000
Jayplay: Kansan staffers critique the beers of the three Lawrence breweries.
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Sports: The men's basketball team prepares for its season opener tonight against UCLA.
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Local voters picked Gore despite state going to Bush
By Kursten Phelps
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
George W. Bush may have won Kansas, but unofficial results show Douglas County voters and Daisy Hill residents preferred Al Gore.
Voter turnout at the Allen Fieldhouse polling site, where residents of Daisy Hill, Oliver and Nismith halls voted, was 71 percent Tuesday, with 710 of the 994 registered voters casting ballots, said Jo Dalquest. Douglas County deputy county clerk.
Democratic candidate Gore won the fieldhouse vote with 339 votes, while Republican candidate Bush garnered 231 votes at the site. Green Party candidate Ralph Nader pulled in 117 votes.
Molly Gise, Tulsa, Okla., sophomore and Tempipl resident assistant, said she didn't mind the long line
LIBRARY HOURS
How Allen Fieldhouse voted:
■ 710 voted (71 percent of
registered voters)
Gore — 339 votes [47.7 percent]
percent)
Nader — 117 votes
Bush 231 votes (32.5)
Nader --- 117 votes (16.5 percent)
How Douglas County voted:
43,458 voted (82 percent)
Gore — 19,903 votes
(46 percent)
Bush — 18,583 (43 percent)
Nader — 4,158 (9.6 per cent)
(cent)
— Source: Douglas County Clerk's office
at the polls.
good for student voters
Four years ago, 702 of 1,399 registered voters cast ballots at the fieldhouse, an above 50 percent turnout rate. In that election, President Bill Clinton got the most votes with 341, or 49 percent of the vote. Bob Dole's 226 votes earned him 32 percent of the total votes.
"I'm sure some people were cranky," she said. "I imagine they thought they were going to just go in and leave pretty quickly. I was just happy to see a bunch of us out there."
Gise said a 70 percent turnout rate at the fieldhouse was
"I don't imagine that 70 percent of all registered voters voted yesterday," she said. "It's especially cool because students are known to be the most apathetic of voters."
Other polling sites serving student-heavy parts of Lawrence were the Central United Methodist Church, 1501 Mass. St., where scholarship hall residents and some Oread neighborhood residents voted. The South Park Recreation Center, 1141 Mass. St.; Plymouth Congregational Church, 928 Vermont St.; Lawrence Arts Center; 200 W. 9th St.; Hillcrest Elementary School, 1045 Hilltop St.; and the St. Lawrence Catholic Center, 1631 Crescent Road, also were polling sites that served student-heavy neighborhoods.
Voter turnout at the fieldhouse lagged just behind Douglas County's 82 percent turnout. Gore won 46 percent of the county's vote, logging 19,903 votes. Bush was not far behind, registering 18,583, or 43 percent, of the vote. Nader pulled in nearly 10 percent of the vote, receiving 4,158 votes.
Dalquest said the turnout in the county was average for a presidential election.
Travis Dowdy, Worland, Wyo., senior and Oliver Hall resident assistant, said he wasn't surprised the fieldhouse exit poll differed from the overall Kansas vote.
"I figured Bush would end up winning the state because Kansas is such a Republican state," Dowdy said. "But we have a lot of views on campus. We had people from all over country that went and voted, not just people from Kansas."
Florida still up in the air
Florida election officials from Dade County conduct a computerized recount of ballots. They recounted an estimated 6 million ballots yesterday in Miami after one of the closest presidential elections in U.S. history. KRT Photo
Campus political groups still eagerly awaiting election recount results
By Meghan Bainm
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
Though KU Young Democrats refused to give up hope yesterday that Al Gore could win the White House, College Republicans were certain preliminary declarations George W. Bush had wrapped up the presidency were on target.
In an election for the history books, Bush cautiously claimed victory yesterday, but Gore portrayed the outcome as uncertain and said Florida's crucial recount should be conducted "without any rush to judgment."
Democrats said it could be days or weeks before the nation knew its next president.
"It's surreal," said Julie Merz, president of Young Democrats and St. Louis senior. "I can't articulate it more than that. It's driving me crazy, and I think it's driving all the Young Democrats crazy. Not knowing kills you."
Election officials yesterday were reviewing vote totals that appeared to give Bush a narrow win in Florida. The state's 25 electoral votes remain the margin of victory as both Bush and Gore were agonizing close to the 270 required to win the White House. The Associated Press tally showed Bush leading by about 1,700 popular votes out of 6 million cast in the state.
"I think in the end he'll win," said Tim Burger, chairman of the College Republicans and Lenexa senior. "With the exception of the early news reports, which were totally inaccurate. Bush has been up in Florida since about 9 p.m. central time Tuesday. They never had a count that put Gore up."
first in more than a century — to win the presidency despite coming in second in popular votes.
Paul Johnson, professor of political science, said he was intrigued by the idea Gore could win the popular vote and not win the election.
If Bush wins Florida and Gore's lead in the national popular vote holds, Bush would be the fourth man in history — the
"I think it's neat," he said. "We've always talked about the possibility that the person with the most votes might not win. My prediction is that if it happens we'll see a constitutional amendment to significantly change or abolish the electoral college."
The vice president's aides were privately making the case that Gore's popular-vote lead gives him standing to contest the recount if state officials overlook voting irregularities. As Democrats searched for
More information For more election coverage See pages 3A and 5A
potential ballot abuses and questioned the motives of Florida's GOP secretary of state, Gore's staff said a legal challenge was one onton.
Bush's brother Jeb, governor of Florida,
said the recount would be completed by this evening, but Democrats suggested that might not be the end.
"I can't say for certainty when this will be over," said Gore campaign chairman William Daley. "This is the beginning of the process, not the end of the process."
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
Electoral Votes
Bush Electoral: 246 Popular: 48,783,510
Bush was up by about 1,700 votes — 2,909,465 to Gore's 2,907,722 — in Florida when officials stopped the recount yesterday evening (only 19 of the 67 counties had reported). The recount will commence this morning. Whoever wins the state's 25 electoral votes will become the next president.
Gore Electoral: 260 Popular: 48,976,148 Undecided
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University sees a drop in tenured female faculty for last year
By Jason Kraff
writer@kanson.com
Kansas staff writer
As the University of Kansas has worked to increase gender equity in faculty, growing numbers of women faculty members have not been accompanied by a jump in the number of tenured women.
In Fall 1999, the most recent year for which numbers were available, 203 of the University's 455 female faculty members were tenured, about 44.6 percent. In 1998, despite a net gain of 37 more women faculty members than 1997, just 45.7 percent were tenured.
But in 1989, when there were just 290 women, 137 of them, or 47.2 percent, were tenured.
Tenured faculty receive better benefits and higher pay. Normally, after serving for five or six years, assistant and associate professors apply for tenure status.
Danielle Dempsey-Swopes, associate director of equal opportunity, said that thus far, that office's recommendations to the University had focused on recruiting new women faculty members, which must happen before they could achieve tenure.
"Right now, we're getting more women in the pipeline," she said. "In many disciplines, we still struggle to get them into the University, particularly in some of the sciences, engineering and business."
Part of the reason may be that gender equity in faculty does not carry the incentives for student recruitment as other equal opportunity issues, such as increasing minority representation in faculty.
Stacey White is one of two female faculty members in the Urban Planning Program in the School of Architecture. With 15 total faculty members, the program is among the most heavily male-dominated on campus.
In her fourth year at the University, White said she didn't think her presence encouraged women to enroll in urban planning courses.
"I don't know if I could say that gender makeup of faculty is an important factor for students who come here," she said.
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Too cold for comfort
Mario Andrade of La Paz, Bolivia, sells a pair of gloves to Sarah Shannon, Albuquerque, N.M., sophomore. Andrade was selling sweaters, gloves and hats yesterday in front of Wescoe Hall. Temperatures are expected to remain chilly this week, with highs this weekend in the mid-40s. Photo by Justin Schmidt/KANSAN
Student Senate rejects funding bill
Bv Kursten Phelos
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate rejected a bill last night to fund LeaderShape, a leadership program, out of the Senate reserve account, making it unlikely that the program will take place this year at the University.
Revenues from the University's contract with Coca-Cola had financed the weeklong program during its first three years at the University. Last spring, the administration decided not to allocate that money to the program, and the KU Endowment Association could not find the $3,000 needed in time to sponsor it in January, said Ben Walker, student body president. The bill was reduced to $28,611 after the costs of food and T-shirts were removed.
The reserve account, which has a balance of $428,000, has money that student organizations are granted but do not use. That money comes from the student activity fee that students pay each semester.
Walker said he didn't like the idea of funding the program out of the reserve account but said keeping LeaderShape running this year was more important.
"This program has changed a lot of lives, more than any pencil sharpener or clock or bench." Fuchs said.
Erin Simpson, off campus senator, said it was the University's responsibility, not Senate's, to find new funding for the program.
"What kind of administrative incompetence are we subsidizing by funding LeaderShape?" Simpson said. "I'm sick of paying fees that we weren't supposed to, and I'm sick of funding programs the University says it's committed to. The Student Senate activity fee is not meant to subsidize University departments
But Tanisha Jones, holdover senator, said the program was too selective to use reserve-account money.
"I went to LeaderShape, and I'm not going to say it wasn't an amazing experience," Jones said. "But to pay $30,000 for 65 people for six days, you cannot say that's not selective. Are we going to spend 11.5 percent of the reserve account on 65 people?"
Kim Fuchs, Student Executive Committee chairman, said although only 65 people participated in the annual program, its effects were campus wide, making it a good candidate for reserve account money.
What's next: The KU Endowment Association will seek outside funding to finance the program in January 2002.
STUDENT SENATE MEETING
What happened? Student Senate rejected a bill that would have funded leader Shape, a week-long leadership program, with $28,611 by a 25 to 26 vote. Two senators abstained. What it means: The University likely will not have the program this year.
who have screwed up."
Walker said that the bill would have funded the program only for this year and that the program provided tools for students to be leaders that could not be provided by other leadership programs.
Ideas for programs such as Colors of KU, an upcoming diversity workshop, came out of orrior LeaderShape programs, he said.
.
But Mark Bradshaw, holdover senator; said it wasn't vital to have the program every year. "We don't offer valuable experiences like clockwork;" Bradshaw said. "We need to make sure we spend the money in the best way possible."
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— Edited by Shawn Hutchinson
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