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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Monday, October 16, 2000
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Sports: The football team beat Missouri 38-17, providing the teams' first conference road win in Terry Allen's tenure.
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Inside: Student Senate may have to help fund religious organizations.
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(USPS 650-640) *VOL. 111 NO.35 For comments, contact Nathan Willis or Chris Borniger at 864-4810 or e-mail editor@kansan.com
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Student health fees could rise
Bv Melissa Davis
by Michelle Davis
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Students may be paying more for health care next year.
The University Student Health Advisory Board, a Student Senate subcommittee, along with Watkins Memorial Health Center, is proposing a price increase from the current student health fee of $69.50.
Jacob Eastman, Mission senior and advisory board chairman, said the amount of the fee increase had not been decided because the committee didn't want to increase health fees, which are included in students' campus fees, without looking at future needs for the health center.
"We are still in the early stages, so there is no exact number," he said. "We want to create a long-term plan."
Eastman said the increase would be decided within the next month and it was necessary and overdue.
"The last increase was in 1990," he said. "And I give credit to health center officials that they have gone this long without an increase."
WHAT IT MEANS
What's happening? The University Student Health Advisory Board and Watkins Memorial Health Center are proposing an increase from the current student health fee of $69.50.
What it means: Students will soon be paying more for health care costs. The amount of the fee increase will be decided within the next month.
What's next: The fee would not go into effect until next year. It would need to be approved by both the Senate Finance Committee and Student Senate as a whole. It would then go before University officials and the Board of Regents.
Eastman said Watkins did not receive state money and without an increase, Watkins would exhaust its reserve funds.
Randall Rock, Watkins chief of staff, said since the last fee increase in 1990, the increasing cost of providing health care had surpassed the amount of money coming in from student fees.
"In general, our income depends on the number of people enrolled," he said. "That hasn't changed enough to keep up with the cost of providing services."
Eastman said the increase would not take place until next year at the earliest because the proposal had to go through a series of approvals Senate Finance Committee, Student Senate, University officials and the Board of Regents.
Eastman said the money would finance services already available.
"The last couple of years, Watkins has been operating at a loss," Eastman said. "An increase is needed to continue to provide quality services."
Lea Martinez, Salina sophomore, said she didn't think a fee increase would turn students away from Watkins.
"I don't think students would notice an increase because Watkins is a primary source for us and it is convenient," she said.
Eastman said he had studied other health centers and the University of Kansas had more staff than both Nebraska and Kansas State, and was cheaper than both. He said he thought an increase was appropriate for what students received.
"Our health center is one of the best in the country for what students get," Eastman said. "We have it amazingly good."
— Edited by John Audlehelm
Source: Watkins Memorial Center study
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Play challenges students' ideas of AIDS, religion
By Meghan Bainum
writer @kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University Theatre production Angels In America Part 1: Millennium Approaches is an in-your-face look at a controversial topic usually left in the closet and out of the spotlight.
Tony Krushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is about the 1985 AIDS epidemic. It confronts the audience with a raw look into the lives of people struggling to understand AIDS, homosexuality, death, religion and politics.
Rebekka Brossemer, Emporia sophomore, said all students needed to think about the topics, and although the play was set in 1985, the issues still affected the lives of people today.
"The reality of the themes of the show really set it apart from any America has ever experienced," she said. "I applaud KU for taking a step forward when there's so many people that are prejudiced against the homosexual community."
ANGELS IN AMERICA
Jeffrey Brown, Lenexa senior,
plays Joe Pitt, a married Mormon man struggling with his homosexual feelings.
"It's been a challenge, not necessarily the gay thing because I consider myself a pretty open
Next showing of Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches:
7:30 p.m. Thursday
7:30 p.m. Friday
7:30 p.m. Saturday
2:30 p.m. Sunday
All shows will be in Murphy Halka's Crafton Prever Theatre.
- Student Tickets are $7 or $9 and can be purchased at the Murphy Hall Box Office, or by calling 864.3982. Tickets also are available online at jubbatram.com
Students are required to present a current KUID for admission.
Prior Walter, right, and Harper Pitt meet in a fantasy world in Angels in America, a controversial play that opened at the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall this weekend. Clancy O'Connor, Smolan freshman, plays Walter, and Kristen Bush, Sterling senior, plays Pitt. Photo by Selena Jabara/KANSAN
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A couple will speak tonight at the Leid Center about the impact HIV has on their relationship.
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person," he said. "It's a meaty role. Every role in the play is extremely challenging."
Brown said many people would find themselves challenged and possibly offended by the play, but it was something people should be exposed to.
"It even has a male sex scene on stage," he said. "That's not something the mass public have wilt
A panel discussion after the play was composed of religious studies and political science professors, representatives of the Douglas County Aids Project, 2518 Ridge Court, play director Jack Wright, who is also a professor of theater and film, and
nessed or seen for the most part."
members of the cast.
Panel members discussed how far the fight against the disease had come, but also told a group of about 30 people that 49,000 people were infected with HIV last year.
Brown said he hoped audience members realized AIDS kills heterosexuals and homosexuals alike.
"People have started to be less safe these days because they're like, 'we have all these treatments, all these cocktails,'" he said. "You have two people in the show you know of that have AIDS and are suffering from it. You really see the horror of it."
— Edited by John Audelhelm
Businesses can't find sidewalk cleaners
By Matt Merkel-Hess writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
It's late night on Massachusetts Street. As the bars close, the outside vending window of Pyramid Pizza becomes a magnet for the swarm of revelers on the street.
Pyramid, 1016 Massachusetts St., is one of the few food establishments open for the after-hours crowd, providing take-out slices on paper plates.
It's these paper plates, beer bottles and cups littering the street that have drawn complaints from other businesses and have brought Pyramid's vending window and bars such as the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., and Fatso's, 1016 Massachusetts St., under city investigation.
Owners of these establishments have said they cleaned the streets at closing time, and it was the crowds after 3 a.m. causing problems.
Last Tuesday's City Commission meeting ended with an agreement that the bars would hire a service to clean before businesses opened the next morning.
Kathryn Dodson, owner of Pyramid, said of the 10 cleaning services she contacted, none would clean streets in the morning.
Three of the five late-night businesses in the 1000 block — Granada, Fatso's and Pyramid — had agreed to pay for the possible cleaning, she said.
The owner of Harbour Lights, 1031 Massachusetts Street, told Dodson he would not contribute any money, she said. Louise's Downtown, 1009 Massachusetts St., had not responded by early westerday.
Until owners find a cleaning service, Dodson is cruising the streets and alleys until 3 a.m. around her business, picking up trash. She said not all of the refuse was from her business.
"I picked up five paper plates and four armloads of other people's stuff," she said of her sweep last Friday
Dodson said that she and her staff always cleaned their side of the street and until two weeks ago, she was not aware of any complaints from other business owners.
"I agree that I'm obviously a minor part of the problem," she said. "I want to prove to everybody now that I am aware of the problem, and I'm going to do everything I can to solve it.
"So far it's just a one-man army."
"So far it's just a one-man army.
At Einstein Brothers Bagels, 1026
Massachusetts St., the morning
always began with cleaning the sidewalk and dining patio, said Jessica Dumler, Toppea senior and morning shift manager.
In addition to paper plates, bottles and fliers, Dumler said she had found vomit on the patio.
"Somebody needs to clean that
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Mud gymnastics
Jennifer Hoffman, Overland Park freshman and Pi Beta Phi member, and Taylor Williams, Dallas freshman and Lambda Chi Alpha member, perform mud gymnastics at the annual Watermelon Fest fund-raiser. Although it was intended for watermelon games, yesterday's event turned into an afternoon in the mud. Photo by Ashley Bonebrake/KANSAN
Caller ID likely for student housing
By Jason Kral
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Students are looking forward to the convenience and administrators are touting the increased security that caller ID would provide in KU student housing next fall.
The Student Housing Advisory Board will hear a proposal Thursday to introduce the service for $8 a year in University residence halls, scholarship halls and Jayhawk Tower.
Marliu Goodyear, vice chancellor for information services, said besides the convenience of caller ID, the service offered students security from harassing phone calls. Administrators were attracted to the idea after a man in New York made threatening phone calls to residence halls and scholarship halls last October. The man also had made calls to university campuses in South Dakota, Tennessee and Washington and was prosecuted by the FBI.
Sarah Homan, Overland Park sophomore, said she would like to have the service to screen her calls.
Anna Hines, assistant director of Networking and Telecommunications Services, said NTS could provide caller ID display units for a slight additional charge. However, students would be encouraged to bring their own units.
Sgt. Troy Malien of the KU Public Safety Office said caller ID would make investigations on prank calls easier because officers wouldn't have to search phone logs to find a call's origin.
"Being in college, it's a very social environment, and you get people calling you who you really don't want to," she said. "Especially since it's so easy to get someone's number."
To pay for the service, the annual cost for phone service in the halls would rise from $64 to $72. The fee, now included in student housing payments, would be separated on students' bills next fall, Goodyear said.
— Edited by Clay McCuistion
INCOMING
WHAT HAPPENING
University officials are considering installing caller id systems in University hallways, scholarship halls and Joyawater towers next year.
WHAT I NEEDS
Caller ID would allow students to ignore calls from people they didn't know or who had placed a harassing call to them in the past.
WHERE MESSY
The service would raise the annual cost for phone service in the halls from $64 to $72.
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