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Saturday, October 23, 2014
ELECTION GUIDEF
KANSAS CONSTITUTION CHANGE WOULD ALLOW NONPROFITS TO HOLD RAFFLES
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BY ALLISON KITE
@ALLIE_KITE
Kansas voters will decide Nov.4 whether charitable organizations should be able to hold fundraising raffles
An amendment to Article 15 Section 3 of the Kansas Constitution, introduced by Kansas Senator Jacob LaTurner, that would allow charitable organizations to conduct raffles, must be approved by referendum before it can be passed.
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According to LaTurner, who serves Kansas Senate District 13, the new law would be helpful for organizations like his hometown volunteer fire department, which raffles off a car each year as a fundraiser. LaTurner said he wanted to make it legal to protect the fire department, fundraisers to fight cancer and other nonprofits.
"I mean, these are not criminals," he said. "These are wonderful people, and we just need to make sure that what they're doing is within the law."
If it passes the general election, the law could provide a new form of fundraising for Greek organizations on campus, which Dustin Struble, assistant director of Student Involvement and Leadership Center and Greek Life, said he believed could only help.
No one is publicly endorsing the 'no' vote on this issue. LaTurner said if the law passes the general election, the legislature will have to clarify implementation components with statute in the next session.
"It seems to me to be a win-win situation to be able to do something like this as long as people are being ethical about their fundraising" he said.
However, she added that for it to be beneficial for nonprofits, she believes the legislature should avoid taxing the income from raffles and placing restrictions on the process.
- DUSTIN STRUBLE
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF SILC
- EDITED BY EMILY BROWN
Joan Schultz, executive director of the Willow Domestic Violence Center, said she supported the legislation assuming that the intent of the bill is to help nonprofits fundraise without taxation.
It seems to me to be a win-win situation to be able to [hold raffles] as long as people are being ethical about their fundraising.
fundraise without taxation
"When you allow nonprofits to expand their way of gaining donations and funds, that's always a good thing," she said. "Since all nonprofits 501(c)3 are not subject to tax, those donations go straight to — in my case — survivors of domestic violence. That's always a good thing. It then becomes a public-private partnership, so to speak."
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were nowhere to be found.
The Humanities and Western Civilization department is closely following protocol to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.
Once we determined nobody in the program had the exams, we notified the Office of Public Safety," said Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, director of the Humanities and Western Civilization program. "We're following
Quinn Kastner, a junior from Wichita, said that taking a replacement test was unfortunately the best option.
what's going to be done about their midterms. McWilliams declined to comment, but a student in the class has reported that the class has been given a take-home essay question to replace the midterm.
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Student Senate met Wednesday night to discuss a multitude of issues including upcoming projects and resolutions.
ATHLETE SEMATORS
Senate voted to approve a bill that would allow mandatory events for athletes to count as excused absences within Senate. The bill's main purpose is to engage more of the student-athlete population and allow for them to have more leeway to get involved in the Senate process.
I'm a member of student-athlete advisory committee, so I'm excited I get to go back and tell them they actually get to join and be a part of Senate," Templin said.
or the authors of the bill. She said she is thrilled with the bill's approval. Templin said many student-athletes have said they felt left out of last year's women's and non-revenue fee vote.
BULLIED BUS DRIVERS
ice, students have been bullying bus drivers. She said there was at least one report of a student threatening to or actively spitting on a bus driver, as well as students kicking doors open. Erice condemned these actions and said it was unacceptable.
Jenny Erice, a junior from Falls Church, Va., and senate's parking
"The [route] 43 bus drivers were subjected to such hostile bitter verbal harassment that many threatened to quit," Erice said.
Erice said the time point will remain at McCollum. The full Student Senate hasn't decided how to handle the issue yet.
Senate also voted to pass the resolution on the Student Health Services name change. Student Health Services can move forward with the name change to Watkins Health Services.
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tive. Student Body Vice President Miranda Wagner said during a meeting with the city, she learned that the particular section of Louisiana Street with the dimly lit parking lot will be redone in coming years, and the best option would be to research short-term solutions.
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