FRIDAY,OCTOBER11,2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Shallenburger to speak
By Aaron Passman
apassman@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Republican gubernatorial candidate Tim Shallenburger will speak Wednesday night at the KU College Republicans meeting, but few students may be here to hear him with Fall Break beginning Thursday.
Erin Blocher, KU College Republicans Chair, said she was not worried about Fall Break affecting the turnout.
"We're hoping to fill Alderson," said Blocher, Colorado Springs, Colo., senior. "We're planning for at least 60 students, plus members of the community."
Blocher said her group had been trying to get Shallenburger
to speak at one of its weekly meetings for quite a while. She said he would speak on Oct. 16 because he would already be in the area for an event in Kansas City that night.
Marc McMiller, Chanute junior, said he was a Republican and would be interested in hearing Shallenburger speak, but did not want to miss out on Fall Break.
"If everybody is going to be leaving, it doesn't make much sense for him to talk to us then," McMiller said.
Nicole Leiker, Great Bend freshman, said she wasn't going home until Thursday evening and planned to attend Shallenburger's speech.
"I think it says a lot that he's coming and speaking to students
at the University," Leikers said. "It shows that he actually cares about our votes."
Robin Anderson, KU Young Democrats president, said her group had no plans to bring Democratic candidate Kathleen Sebelius to campus.
"It will be interesting to hear how Shallenburger is going to try to appeal to a college audience," Anderson said. "I don't think he has much in common with young voters."
Shallenburger will be joined by Scott Stewart, College Republican National Committee Chairman. The two will speak Wednesday night at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
- Edited by Amanda Sears
Bv Erin Beatty
Kansas residents tired of phone solicitation can still register for the Kansas No-Call list.
Mark Ohlemeier, public information officer for Kansas Attorney General Carla Stovall, said 397,697 residents had registered by the first No-Call registration deadline, which was Sept.23.The list goes into effect Nov.1.
The Kansas No-Call Act was introduced to legislature in 2001 and approved by Governor Bill Graves on May 29, 2002.
valid for five years.
The act creates an "off limits" list that must be used by any person or business calling residential phone numbers for the purpose of soliciting a sale or extension of property or services. Under the act, a consumer's registration is
Persons and businesses that violate the act can be penalized under the Kansas Consumer Protection Act up to $10,000 per violation, according to the Office of the Attorney General.
Donna Bell, executive director at Brandon Woods Retirement Community, said at least 35 residents at Brandon Woods assisted living had signed up for the service.
Lauri Hoffman, Brandon Woods activity director, said she encouraged residents to sign up because of the amount of phone calls the seniors were receiving.
"It's frustrating watching them rush to answer the phone when it's just a solicitor," Hoffman said.
Ohlemeier said Kansas residents with a residential phone number could register for the list, which is updated every three months. The next deadline is Dec.23.
Daina Joblonski, Overland Park junior, said she would register for the service. She said she had had problems with credit cards companies.
To add a number to the list, residents may register online at www.ksag.org or call 1-866-362-4160.
Ohlmeier said he wanted to stress that the service was free. He said there were a lot of scams that offered a spot on the list for a fee.
He said people who were scammed should get all the information possible about the person or company making the offer, including a name and a phone number. Then report the incident to the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at 785-296-3751 or 1-800-432-2310.
— Edited by Nicole Roché
Aaron Showalter/Kansan
A house that was formerly in the location of the Jayhawker Towers now stands at 2424 Orchard Lane. It was moved away from campus in the 1960s after the Endowment Association acquired the land the house occupied.
House survives off Hill
By Matt Stumpff
mstumpff@kansan.com
Kansan stuff writer
Gov. Bill Graves recently approved the demolition of three houses in the Oread neighborhood to make room for two scholarship halls. But University of Kansas expansion into neighborhoods is not a new practice.
Sally Postma, 1946 KU graduate, said the Jayhawker Towers were located where her college home used to be.
However, her old house remains intact, but in a different location at 2424 Orchard Lane.
"When I was young, I
Postma has lived in Lawrence her entire life. She said the landscape of the University had changed more than just the Towers being in her old neighborhood.
belonged to a bicycle club and we biked out there from KU," Postma said. "It was way out in the country, believe it or not."
Postma said her mother had the seven-level house built in 1941, right before the start of World War II.
"The house was almost not built." Postma said. "We got the materials right before the war. Otherwise, we wouldn't have been able to get the materials."
The war effort would have put a hold on citizens' abilities to get materials such as copper because the United States needed the materials for the war effort.
No residence halls were anywhere on campus when Postma attended the University. She lived at home while attending the University.
Steve Jansen, Lawrence historian, said the neighborhood
looked like it would be a mainstay until the Endowment Association acquired the land the house occupied in the 1960s. The University finished work on the Towers in Sept. 1969.
Postma said she had thought the neighborhood would have lasted longer. Postma said her mother sold the house before the University made the decision to buy the land.
She said she was glad the people who owned the house moved it to its current location after her mother sold it.
"I was married in that house;" Postma said.
Jansen said the University had to run itself like a business so it could grow, and sometimes the University had to infringe on neighborhoods.
Edited by Matt Norton