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Committee reviews gambling
TOPEKA — Market protections for a proposed casino in Wyandotte County emerged yesterday as a key issue for a legislative committee reviewing a gambling compact between two Indian tribes and Gov. Kathleen Sebellus.
Sebelius' office and the Kickapoo and Sac and Fox tribes outlined the compact for the Joint Committee on Tribal-State Relations. The agreement guarantees the state revenues from a $210 million casino-and-hotel complex proposed by the tribes.
While Sebelius' office estimates the state could receive $50 million or more annually in revenues, the amount is tied to how aggressively Kansas limits gambling elsewhere. If the state permits too much other gambling, its share of revenues from the Kickapoo-Sac and Fox casino could drop to a few million dollars.
The state would face penalties if it permitted more than 500 non-tribal slot machines or video lottery terminals within 100 miles of the new casino and more than 1,500 such machines outside 100 miles. The state also would be penalized if it did not oppose other proposed Indian casinos within 100 miles.
Rep. Bill Mason, R-El Dorado, the committee's chairman, said he and others want even tougher market protections — to limit gambling elsewhere more. But Rep.
Committee members said they would discuss those market protections today before deciding whether to recommend compact changes.
Tom Sawyer, D-Wichita, questions why any restrictions are necessary.
BY LAURA FRANCOVIGLIA
lfrancoviglia@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WINTER
Student Senate committees begin Border War name-change battle
Freshman senator Dennis Chanay has heard only negative comments from students about the Border War's name change to Border Showdown.
Chanay, Paola freshman, brought forth a resolution — called the Resolution to Protect Tradition — to two Student Senate committees last night. The resolution would ask the University of Kansas and University of Missouri athletic directors to change the title of the Kansas-Missouri athletics rivalry back to Border War. The University Affairs committee tabled the item because it lacked supporting evidence about the importance of the name Border War.
Lew Perkins, Kansas athletic director, and Mike Alden, Missouri athletic director, changed the name out of respect and sensitivity for the war overseas. The Athletics Department announced the change on Oct. 7.
Chanay said university administrators should not change the title without student consent. The word "war" and other words implying a fight were often used in marketing, he said. Chanay cited the Ad War, the Battle of the Bulge and Battle of the Bands in the resolution.
"The fact that they would change it when there hadn't been any complaints made me angry." Chanay said.
He said the term Border War had deep roots. Because it was used to describe the athletics series during the Vietnam War, Cold War and more recent wars, he said the athletic directors were being overly politically correct.
The term originated before the Civil War when small battles between Missouri, a slave state, and Kansas, a free state, broke out on the states' border. In a raid led by William Quantrill of Missouri in 1863, Lawrence was ransacked and burned to the ground.
The name is relevant because the competition between
Missouri and Kansas is like a war, Brittany Zschoche said.
Abraham Sipe, midshipman first class and public affairs officer of the Naval ROTC, said standing by the athletic director's decision was like following the military chain of command.
"It's all the more reason to keep it," the Lenexa senior said. "Lawrence takes pride in being the free state."
The Senate committees will revisit the resolution in the next Senate committee meeting in two weeks. The football game against Missouri is on Nov. 20 in Columbia, Mo.
Senate committee members supported the resolution, but said it needed to be well researched before it could be sent to the athletic directors.
"I don't think it's insensitive, but I stand by the athletic director as a leader of the University," the Topeka senior said.
Chanay said he would be ready with facts and statistics to back up the resolution.
In other Senate legislation:
The committees tabled a bill
to give $200 for general funding to Students for an Egalitarian Society because the group was not registered with the Student Involvement and Leadership Center.
The committees failed a bill to fund a speaker for the Society of Open Minded Atheists and Agnostics because the speaker would be partisan and endorse atheism.
Senate passed bills to give $200 of general funding to the Student Disability Advocates, who educate elementary schools students about disabilities, and the KU Victory Campus Ministries, a Christian fellowship organization.
- The committees passed a bill to give $700 to the Muslim Student Association's 2004 Ramadan Fast-a-Thon.
The committees passed a bill to allocate $300 to the KU Argentine Tango Club to increase partner dance at the University and in the community.
Edited by Anna Clovis
School of Ed names interim dean
BY MIRANDA LENNING
mlenning@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
David Shulenburger named Fred Rodriguez interim dean of the School of Education yesterday. Rodriguez, associate dean and associate professor, replaced Angela Lumpkin, who announced her resignation Monday because of personal reasons.
"I am very pleased that Fred has agreed to provide this most important service to the school and the University," said Shulenburger, provost and executive vice chancellor.
Rodriguez has served as associate dean of the school twice, for the 1991-1992 school year and since 2001. He served as the first director of
RODRIGUEZ
the KU Center for Teaching Excellence, which works to improve the teaching of faculty and staff. from 1997 to 2001.
Rodriguez is known for his work in multicultural education
and with the Kansas Alliance of Professional Development Schools.
Shulenburger said Rodriguez's experience with the school will make the transition to the interim position smooth.
"He has worked closely with Dean Lumpkin and has a very good understanding of the challenges facing the school and the profession." Shulenburger said.
Shulenburger said a date had not been set to begin the search for a permanent dean. Rodriguez said Shulenburger's next step would be to meet with the faculty to talk about what's in the best
"The faculty will give feedback to see if they want to pursue this soon, being this academic year, or if they want to wait until the next academic year."
interest of the school.
Rodriguez received a doctorate from the University of Nebraska in 1978. He came to the University that year, serving as an assistant professor. He has written several books in the area of multicultural education.
Rodriguez said the school intends to move forward, regardless of who the dean is.
Edited by Janette Crawford
PHILADELPHIA — The same huge federal study that led millions of women to abandon use of hormones after menopause now provides reassurance that another hormone concoction — the birth control pill — is safe.
Doctors say the type of hormones and the stage of life when they're used may be what makes them helpful at one point and harmful at another.
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In fact, women on The Pill had surprisingly lower risks of heart disease and stroke and no increased risk of breast cancer contrary to what many previous studies have found.
"We're still learning more and more about the biology," said one of the researchers, Dr Michael Diamond of Wayne State University in Detroit.
The new findings are from nearly 162,000 participants in the Women's Health Initiative, the largest women's health study ever done and one of the biggest on oral contraceptives.
About 16 million American women currently take birth control pills and hundreds of millions have used them since the first one came on the market in 1960. Most combine synthetic forms of estrogen and progestin in various doses.
Women taking these hormones after menopause were more likely to have heart disease and certain cancers.
Previous research on oral contraceptives suggested that they, too, raised the chances of heart disease. The new study found the opposite — lower risk of heart attacks, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other heart-related problems among the 67,000 women in the study who had ever taken The Pill.
Study shows pill benefits
THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS OCTOBER 21, 2004 STUDENT SENATE
Oct.21 7-9pm
The Real Person's Guide to Intimacy
Jayhawk Room Kansas Union
Presented by Dennis Daily KU Professor of Social Welfare
What is intimacy?
What are the personal requirements to the attainment of intimacy?
Why is intimacy so hard to attain?
Do many people actually live in relationships that could be considered intimate?
First of Four Part Series Called The Real Person's Guide
Thursdays 8pm
Experience something like you've never experienced before. Experience God. Find a Purpose.
Wescoe 3140
HALO Hispanic American Leadership Organization
We meet every Tuesday @ 6:00 in the Multicultural Resource Center (Behind the Military Science Building)
Open to all KU Students Contact Andrea Pantoja for more info at rose32@ku.edu
ACLU
Keep America Free www.ku.edu/~aclu/main.htm
Announcing:
BOARD OF CLASS OFFICERS INFORMATIONAL MEETING
Sunday, October 24
6:30 pm
Pine Room, Kansas Union
Everyone's welcome to come and participate in one of the oldest organizations on campus. come learn how you an promote student life and recognize excellence in the KU community.