University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 26, 1986
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Senate OKs half of election bill
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
Student Senate on Wednesday tackled about half of a 12-page bill that would amend the rules governing Senate elections but decided to delay action on the remainder of the bill until next week.
The Senate split the bill into two separate bills and approved one of them. The second bill will be considered at an emergency meeting Wednesday, said David Epstein, student body president.
The original bill rewrites the section in the Senate regulations that stipulates how the Senate Elections Committee operates elections.
Epstein said he had called for the additional meeting because the Senate had to leave the Kansas Union
by 11 p.m. and because the bill needed to be approved before candidates started campaigning for the November Senate elections.
"The way it looks now, the campaign will be in full swing by October," Epstein said. "I want this bill passed by Oct. 1."
The Senate elections are scheduled for Nov. 19 and 20.
Glenn Shirtlife, chairman of the Elections Committee and the bill's sponsor, said he had coaxed the Senate to finish debating at least part of the bill Wednesday so his committee could start to apportion Senate seats to schools this week.
The bill approved by the Senate specified that 20th-day full-time enrollment figures be used to determine how many Senate seats each
Another part of the bill approved by the Senate stipulates that every school in the University receive at least two Senate seats. The previous rule gave at least one seat to each school.
"It was important to get those parts passed last night, so we'd know whether we were going with the old system or the new system," Shirtliffe said yesterday.
school receives. Before, the Senate's rules did not say which enrollment figures to use.
school. Shirtliffe said he hadn't decided how to carry out the new rule. Representatives from the schools in the university receive 57 of the 66 Senate seats. The other seats go to representatives from various student organizations.
The requirement probably will reduce the number of seats given to Nunemaker senators and to other large schools, he said. Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
But. Shirtliffe said the requirement would guarantee adequate representation for smaller schools.
Epstein said he thought senators might have misunderstood the requirement and assumed the number of Senate seats would be increased from 66.
When senators discover that the number of Nunemaker seats might be reduced, Epstein said, some might want to overturn the two-seat requirement.
Professor predicts more homemade texts
By COLEEN SIEBES
Staff writer
Economic pressures have forced book publishers to discontinue printing many books, and professors may have to begin manufacturing their own or resort to using second-rate texts, a professor of history said recently.
the professor, Lewis McKinney, said publishing companies could only afford to publish books that were in high demand.
They have stopped printing books in low demand or are only printing them in hardback versions, which students can't afford, he said.
Professors want to give students
the best reading materials possible,
he said, but hate to ask them to pay
$30 for material that, if available in
paperback form, would cost $4.
McKinney said professors might have to use inferior material or begin to manufacture their own textbooks. Manufacturing a text is usually done by binding photocopied articles from various authors.
This is inexpensive, but the homemade books lack continuity and appropriate illustrations, he said.
Manufacturing texts also raises problems concerning copyright laws.
Kurt Coeign, Kinko Barbara, Calif,
said Kinko's had tried to increase
He said Kinko's had made publishers aware by constantly checking with them to make sure their copyright standards were being upheld.
David Woody, employee of Kinko's, 904 Vermont St., said the number of professors manufacturing their own textbooks increased every year.
McKinney said professors could write their own textbook and have it published. But, he said, it takes five years of intense labor to produce a
good text, and even then a publisher might discontinue it a year later.
Fred Woodward, director of the University of Kansas Press, said publishers had been hurt by the increased market for used books.
Photocopying also has caused a strain, he said. Photocopying materials lessens the demand for books, he said.
But, he said, because the KU Press was a scholarly press, its publications were specialized and not the type used in undergraduate courses.
Woodward said the KU Press had increased its production of paperbacks to accommodate the budgets of professors and graduate students.
Turnpike stations to lower gas costs
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
Commuters and travelers who drive the Kansas Turnpike may not have to leave the highway to find low gasoline prices, starting next month.
Eddie Watson, Arkansas City senior, said that he never bought gas from the turnpike but that he would if the prices were lowered.
"Now I won't take back roads to go home," Watson said. "I can get gas cheaper on the turnpike."
The Kansas Turnpike Authority announced Tuesday that, in an effort to provide better service to its customers, it planned to lower its gasoline prices at service areas to off-turnpike levels.
Under new guidelines, KTA will rent the six turnipke service stations to the gasoline retailer who guarantees customers the lowest price. In the past, KTA awarded contracts to the highest bidder, causing higher fuel prices.
William Jackson, a turnpike toll collector, said he thought many people left the turnpike just to find a town with lower gas prices.
Jackson said the change would make the turnipke service areas competitive with other gasoline services.
Peter Cannistra, Houston sophomore, said the lower prices would allow him to visit his
The new policy will go into effect Oct.27.
girlfriend in Junction City more often.
"Last Monday night she called me and said she had chicken pox and needed me to drive her home," he said. "Now I will be able to afford to visit her more."
Andrea Richard, Laramie, Wyo., junior, is a KU debater. She said she didn't think the change would have an effect on the extensive traveling the debate team did
"I don't think saving a few pennies would lessen our disastrous financial situation," she said, iokingly.
Cannistra said he thought the lowering of prices would affect Lawrence gasoline stations and other businesses.
"People would wait to fill-up because they know they could get cheaper gas." Cannistra said. "It might even affect other Lawrence businesses because people would be encouraged to do their shopping out of town because it would be cheaper."
But Bill Pennewell, manager of Ramada Standard Service, 2216 W. Sixth St., said he doubted the lower prices at the turnip service area would have any effect on his business.
In addition to lowering prices, KTA also will upgrade the service stations by adding new pumps, overhead canopies and new storage tanks. The changes will be made at KTA's expense.
Stories about Stephan linked to his opponent
United Press International
TOPEKA - Two women who told a newspaper that Attorney General Bob Stephan engaged in sexually suggestive behavior had ties to Stephan's opponent in the race for Kansas attorney general, a news service reported yesterday.
Harris News Service reported that one of the women, Topeka attorney Rene Netherton, said she told the story to a reporter for the San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News "as a favor to Dennis Moore," the Democratic candidate for attorney general.
The other woman who talked to the Mercury News reporter was identified by HNS as Judy Hunter, a secretary in Moore's office. Moore is the Johnson County district attorney.
Stephan's campaign for an unprecedented third term in office has been plagued by controversy surrounding his secret settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed against him by a former employee, Marcia Tomson.
In a story published less than a month ago, the Mercury News detailed the history of the lawsuit and described three incidents where Stephan allegedly engaged in sexually suggestive conversation or actions with other women. The sources for the alleged incidents were not named.
Moore told the news service he had nothing to do with the stories, but a spokesman for Stephan accused Moore of engaging in gutter politics.
Hunter told HNS she had discussed the Stephan incident with Moore the day it occurred.
"I said to Dennis what happened, and that I did not want my name used or identity revealed." Hunter said. "Dennis didn't either way say anything (about going to the media)."
count, Hunter introduced Stephan to her physician at a political gathering last March. According to the story, Stephan responded by saying to the physician, "Oh, God, so you're the one who gets to spread her legs."
According to the Mercury News ac-
HNS, quoting unidentified sources,
said the physician was Henry
Bishop, an Overland Park
gynecologist. Bishop did not return
calls placed to his office yesterday.
Netherton told the Mercury News that Stephan, while at a Topeka establishment where she formerly worked as a waitress, grabbed at her and other women in the area.
Netherton's identity was provided to HNS by Marge Phelps, the attorney for Tomson in her sexual harassment suit against Stephan.
Phelps said she wants the incidents revealed because they relate to Tomson's claims against Stephan, HNS said.
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Moore told HNS he does not know Netherton. He said he has heard similar rumors about Stephan but does not think they should detract from questions he has raised about Stephan's handling of the sexual harassment suit.
Neil Woerman, Stephan's spokesman, issued a statement to HNS concerning the sources of the stories.
"Given the position of one individual as an employee of Dennis Moore and the other who said she did it as a favor to Dennis Moore, the credibility of the remarks is zero and, of course, the credibility of anonymous statements is always highly suspect," the statement said.
When questioned by United Press International, Netherton would neither confirm nor deny the Stephan story as told to the Mercury News.
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