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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Experienced Democrat emphasizes education
By Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
"I know the University, I know the district, I know the community—I've been here for 47 years," said Betty Jo Charlton, Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives 46th District.
Forty-seven years of political experience, a masters degree in political science and 14 years of teaching experience back her claim.
Charlton taught Western Civilization at KU as a graduate student and
continued to teach classes without pay for 28 semesters after graduation, until she was elected to the Kansas Legislature in 1980. She said teaching kept her in touch with the younger generation.
"Now I make the Legislature a full-time job," Chariton said. "I have no
Betty Jo Charlton
other duties."
When the Legislature is not in session, she spreads her time among four legislative committees: the energy and natural resources committee, of which she is vice chairperson, and committees for federal and state affairs, taxation and amortionment.
Through these committees, she has helped to form state water plans, strategies for solid waste management, and rehabilitation programs for wetlands and wildlife refuges. She has championed children's initiatives and property tax-reel measures, but
she says she keeps a careful eye on where tax cuts are made.
"The state of Kansas cannot run a deficit," she said. "But when they start to cut funding for education, you can bet I get involved."
Charlton said that she supported funding for public schools and that it was the state's duty to meet the Board of Regents' financial requests but not to dictate university affairs.
"I do not raise raising tuition just to save the state money," Charlton said. "These are state universities, and the state should fund them."
Independent opposes government interference
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Mr. Math, also known as Richard Small, is the only independent running for the House of Representatives 40th District. He calls himself a pro-environment, pro-freedom and antibig government candidate.
Small, a self-employed math tutor,
uses the nickname Mr. Math to advertise his tutoring service.
Small earned his doctorate in economics at KU in 1978. He said his experiences working with people as a
tutor, writing defense department software at Rockwell International and a six-month prison term made him an expert on the pressing concerns of Kansas government.
"People should Rite. be free to make choices in their lives," said Sma1 was imprisoned after being con
of growing and smoking marijuana. "I don't think there's any justification for the government to decide what I grow, dry, crumble up and smoke. When is someone who is using marijuana infringing on other people's rights anyway?"
Small said that the government should not waste time intruding on people's personal and business lives and instead should focus on building roads and improving public schools.
He said that he supported increased financing for public schools and that the government should pay its share
for Kansas state universities.
"Tuition is now supplying slightly more than its fair share the cost of a student's education," Small said. "We need to restore the balance between tuition and what the state nays."
Only when the environment is being damaged should the government restrict the actions of people and businesses, Small said.
"A person who poisons the water, the land and the air has infringed on the rights of everyone," he said. "That is real crime, as real as murder or theft."
Novice Republican takes on veteran politicians
Neva Entrikin, a first-time Republican candidate for the Kansas House of Representatives, said that one of the first things people from the 46th District wanted to talk about was their disgust with incumbent politicians.
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
"They just don't like the elected officials they have," she said. "So, it gives me an opportunity to say, 'Here's a new one. I'm a different choice, and I have different ideas.'"
Several of those ideas are aimed at reforming the Kansas Legislature, a place she said was beginning to look like the "Imperial Congress" in Washington, D.C.
"There are legislators in Topeka who have been
Neva Entrikin
there for 30 years, elected over and over and over," she said. "It's no wonder that they lose their responsiveness."
Entrikin said she supported measures to limit the number of terms a state legislator could serve.
"I realized we'd gotten away from our concept of a citizen's legislature," she said.
And to make it more difficult for legislators to raise their own pay, Entrikin said, she supported separate pay-raise bills for state employees and legislators rather than allowing legislators to couch their own pay raises within a general state employee pay-raise bill.
For the University, Entertik said she would work for fee waivers for research assistants. The Legislature passed fee waivers for graduate teaching assistants in 1992.
Entrikin worked in the University's history of art department as office supervisor from 1982 until last winter, when she retired to run for office.
She also served on the Board of Trustees for the Kansas Public Employee Retirement System from 1987 to 1992.
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Artists & Writers
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The Kansan's feature magazine, *K-youn*, will be profiling students' short stories, poems, illustrations, graphic designs, photographs and other artistic endeavors in the upcoming Arts & Literature edition
We're looking for artists and writers who are interested in being published. People with talent and ambition.
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Spend your Halloween Front and Center with the deliciously entertaining multimedia theatre adventure
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What's so Funny
Music by Philip Glass
Visual Design by Red Grooms
Written and Directed by David Gordon
Presented by the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts New Directions Series
Commissioned by Spoleta Festival and Serious Fun! at Lincoln Center
8:00 p.m.
Saturday, October 31, 1992 Crafton-Preyer Theatre/Murphy Hall
Tickets on sale in the Murphy Hall Box Office; KU student tickets available in the SUA Office, Burge Union all seats reserved; public $16 & $14, KU and K-12 students $8 & $7, senior citizens and other students $15 & $13; to charge tickets by phone, using VISA or MasterCard; call 913/864-3982.
This performance is partially funded by the KU Student Senate Activity Fee, Swarthout Society, and the Kansas University Endowment Association.
The 1992-93 New Directions Series is partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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