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Kansan
Thursday
September 18, 1997
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Vol. 104 No. 20
Inside today
A Kansas graduate student received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study and rename several species of sea anemones.
Sports today
SEE PAGE 6A
Vol. 104 - No.20
Enrique Abaroa and other members of the Kansas tennis teams will travel this weekend to play in their first competitions of the season.
SEE PAGE 1B
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Student Senate begins term
(USPS 650-640)
Emotions high; funding bills pass
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
The mood of Student Senate's first meeting last night varied as the session's relatively routine proceedings provoked a wide spectrum of emotions from the senators.
Setting the tone was John Colbert, engineering senator, who arrived at the meeting in face paint reminiscent of KISS' Gene Simmons before his sans-makeup comeback in the early '90s.
Colbert ran as an independent candidate last year and made a campaign promise to attend the first Senate meeting in full KISS garb.
His promise went only partly fulfilled as no platform shoes, leather apparel or metal studs were to be found on his person.
As for the meeting that followed, Scott Sullivan, student body president, having spent the day with the Board of Regents, relayed news to the rest of Senate.
Sullivan's main concern dealt with a proposal to the governor's office regarding the formation of a single Kansas state health care policy for all state university faculty, including graduate teaching assistants and graduate research assistants.
A forum for discussion on the issue will be open on Oct. 20, in room 108 of the Landen Building in Topeka.
Sullivan urged senators to research the matter.
"Either way we're going to have a voice at this forum," Sullivan said. "The GTA's and the GRA's make up a large part of our constituency."
Three of four funding bills passed without discussion. A fourth, which concerned a Center for Community Outreach program for $307, met with unusual resistance but then passed after a tearful defense by Erika Nutt, social welfare senator.
Nutt said she had been a long-time supporter of CCO and benefited from their programs in the past.
The final item of new business on
the Senate agenda was a resolution forwarded by Senate vice president Mike Walden, calling for a change in The University Daily Kansan policy.
The resolution concerned the On Campus section of the Kansan, which used to offer student organizations a free forum to advertise events but has since been discontinued by the Kansan.
Citing that Senate allocates $58,300 to the Kansan each year, and that student organizations paid $18,394.17 last year in advertising to the Kansan, Walden's resolution called for the On Campus section of paper to be reinstated.
The resolution was passed but has no binding power in relation to the Kansan.
John Colbert, Lenexa senior, talks with Sam Pierron, Olathe junior, at the Student Senate会议. Colbert dressed like a KISS member as a campaign stunt for the organization's first meeting of the year yesterday. Photo by Tara Bradley/KANSAN
Sittin' and waitin'
Ruben Mendaza, Lawrence resident, fishes at Potter Lake. but was not getting any bites. Photo by Dave Mendza hoped to catch bluegills yesterday afternoon
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Students wanting Student Senate info can now go online
E-mail subscribers can find meeting times, agenda items
By Tim Harrington tharrington@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
KU students that receive e-mail can now subscribe to an online mailing list which includes updates on meeting times and Senate agenda items. Senate also plans to eventually launch a web page.
Online is now an option for University of Kansas students looking to keep track of what goes on in Student Senate.
"Hopefully, in the future it will be used as a forum for discussing issues," said Mike Walden, student body vice president.
Students interested in receiving the mailing list should e-mail Walden at walden@ukans.edu.
"We want to see as many people as possible sign up," said Walden. "The more subscribers we have, the better service we're providing."
Walden said the service, which had its first posting last Wednesday, was set up through the Computer Center at no cost to Student Senate.
The service is also free for students.
Walden said that the list server is the beginning of a program which was started in the spring of 1986 called Student On-line Outreach Program, or SOOP.
"Last year one of the issues that (student body president) Scott (Sullivan) and I ran under was student outreach," Walden said. "We've made it a priority to get with the times."
Walden said that Student Senate is working on expanding from just the list server to a Senate web page allowing for more comprehensive coverage of Senate affairs.
"Right now it's under construction," said Kelly Huffman, senate executive committee chair. "Very under construction."
"Hopefully it will include information about senators, upcoming bills, past minutes and general student information on how to get involved," Huffman said.
Huffman said that a communications board will be appointed which will then appoint a subcommittee dealing solely with the web page.
Student Senate is providing an online mailing list to students at no cost to Senate or to students. The list includes:
Senate information
- Updates on meeting times
- Senate agenda items
Updates on meeting times
Federal grant gives Med Center $790,000 in funds
Community projects to receive money through family medicine
To subscribe send e-mail to: walden@ukans.edu
By Sarah Chadwick
schadwick@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Community projects done through the University of Kansas Medical Center have just gotten better upon receiving a $790,000 grant.
The three-year federal grant, the first of its kind awarded to the Med Center, was awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said Jane
Murray, chairwoman of family medicine and project director for the grant.
"We're not proposing to start a lot of projects." Murray said. "We're proposing to communicate better and make the relations between us and the community better. This is trying to bring together the community groups so
The grant went to the family-medicine department, which will use the it to develop projects to work closer with the community and to attract medical students to careers in primary care practices. Murray said.
The $790,000 grant is the first of its kind given to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Med Center grant
The money was given to the family-medicine department.
The grant will enable the department to strengthen community outreach projects.
developing an inner-city family practice residency continuity clinic at Douglas County Community Health Center in Lawrence.
we're getting the most out of our relationships."
- working with at least 10 agencies in Wyandotte County, the Kansas City metropolitan area and Kansas to provide community-oriented services to better meet community health needs
- A few proposed projects, according to the Med Center, include:
- initiating at least three significant research projects focused on community health needs and potential effective interventions; the projects will be linked with strengths in research in the schools of Nursing and Allied Health and the Center on Aging
Bonds lowered, continuance granted to men connected to gang-related fight
providing leadership for coordination of the family medicine department's community outreach partnerships with other areas of KU Med Center.
a seven-member Med Center team will work to meet the program's goals. The first step is to collect information on what programs exist and to see where the group can be most beneficial. Murray said.
"I think it's an excellent opportunity for us at the Med Center to focus our efforts of community outreach," Murray said.
Mary Corcoran
mcorcoran@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Five Lawrence men who were arrested in connection with what Lawrence police call a gang-related fight earlier this month came before a Douglas County judge yesterday.
The men were scheduled for their preliminary hearing yesterday, but a continuance was granted at the request of Assistant District Attorney Rick Trapp. Judge Michael Malone scheduled
Judge Michael Malone rescheduled
the preliminary hearing for 9 a.m. on Sept. 25.
Trapp asked Malone for a two-week continuance on the grounds that a major witness for the state was in the hospital and could not attend the hearing. The witness, a victim of the fight, had suffered multiple stabbing wounds and is now partially paralyzed in both legs. Trapp said.
Trapp also said that Lawrence police had not completed their investigation and that the state did not have all the
Attorney for defendants Richard Jarrett, Skyland Love and Michael Blank opposed the continuance on the grounds that the defendants were still in custody. Malone granted the continuance, but heard defendants' arguments regarding their bonds.
police reports.
After hearing the arguments, Malone lowered the bonds of the four men in custody - Jarrett, Love, Jason Freeman and James Vick. Blank, the fifth man arrested in connection with the fight, is
no longer in custody after paying his bond.
Jarrett's bond was lowered to $5,000,
Freeman's to $75,000, Love's to $50,000
and Vick's to $25,000.
Malone said he thought the bonds were appropriate for the charges surrounding the men and their circumstances.
The disparity in the defendants' bonds results from charges ranging from aiding and abetting aggravated battery to aiding and abetting second-degree murder.