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Tuesday
October 19, 1999
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Vol. 110 • No. 43
Inside today
Pakistani troops began leaving the nation's boarder with India, one week after a military coup replaced the country's government.
SEE PAGE 7A
Sports today
Kansas coach Terry Allen would like to erase a two-minute span in Kansas' loss to Texas A&M on Saturday.
SEE PAGE 1B
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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Local bars reward sober drivers with free drinks
(USPS 650-640)
By Chris Borniger
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
Almost every bar in Lawrence is offering its patrons the opportunity to get blasted as long as they're not drinking.
Campus BLAST (Building Local Alternatives for Safe Transportation) is a program to encourage designated driving and use of Saferide in Lawrence. A joint effort of KU on Wheels and the Kansas Department of Transportation, the program has expanded to include 40 bars and restaurants in Lawrence since its inception almost one year ago.
As part of the program, designated drivers can get free non-alcoholic beverages. Bars also give away cups, coasters, matchbooks and key chains with Saferide's phone number and the "Hand 'em Over to Someone Sober" slogan on them. The Kansas Department of Transportation paid for the items.
Jodi Niehoff, Campus BLAST project coordinator, said the program's growth was encouraging.
Jerome Dubin, Olathe freshman, said the offer of free drinks was definitely an incentive to be a designated driver.
"With 40 bars, we're getting close to having just about every one," she said. "It's in the baby stage, but we've had a lot of success business-wise from the Lawrence community."
Niehoff said the project is a pilot program for KDOT, and could expand to include other college towns in Kansas.
"I'm paying my way through school, so money's kind of tight," he said. "It's better to be able to go out and be safe than to not be able to go out at all."
The minimal cost of participating makes the program attractive to bar owners, she said.
"For the amount of effort they have to put
CAMPUS BLAST PARTICIPANTS
Astro's Pool and Bar, Applebee's Neighborhood Bar & Grill St. Hardwood, Jack Flannigan's, The Bottleneck, Brown Bear Brewing Co., Charlie's East Side Bar & Grill, Coco Loco, Dos Hombres, Duffy's, Fatso's, Free State Brewing Co., Granada, Eighth Street Tap Room, G. Willikers, The Hawk, Henry T'Bar & Grill, Jay's (Holiday Inn), Jazhhaus T'Bar Lag, JB Stouts Sports Bar & Grill, Jersey's, Johnny's Tavern, Kaspar's Bar & Grill, King Arthur's, Louise's Downtown, Louise's West, Pat's Blue Ribbon Barbeque, Pool Room, Quinton's, Red Lyon Tavern, Replay Lounge, Rick's Place, Royal Crest Lanes, The Sandbar, Shenango Lounge, Sports Page Brewery, Wagon Wheel Cafe, West Coast Saloon, The Yacht Club
The following bars will provide free non-alcoholic beverages to drivers:
out versus what it could potentially create for their customers, it's a no-brainer," Niehoff said.
Holly Krebs, transportation coordinator for KU on Wheels, said the project was part of an effort to make students more aware of Saferide and other driving alternatives.
"The bars have the benefit of having access to these students, and we're using that access to promote this," she said.
Krebs said KU on Wheels would distribute information about the program to living organizations, including residence halls, scholarship halls, fraternities and sororites.
Rob Farha, owner of the Wagon Wheel Cafe.
507 W. 14th St., said his bar had been distributing free non-alcoholic beverages to designated drivers for years.
"It's just been standard for us," he said. "Bar owners need to show a little responsibility on their parts."
Edited by Ronnie Wachter
Shootin' hoops
Scott Novosel, left, University of Kansas graduate and former Kansas Basketball walk on, and Tim McShane, Brookfield, Wisconsin senior, shoot prep shots at walk-on tryouts last night at Allen Fieldhouse. Novosel is producing the movie "Field House," an independent film about his experience walking on to the University of Kansas basketball team. Photo by Lucas Krump/KANSAN
FACTS ABOUT SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES:
- 55 million Americans have STDs, and more than 15 million new infections are reported each year.
The most common STD on college campuses is HPV, a genital-wart causing virus that is prevalent in about 8 percent of KU students.
■ HPV and some other STDs often have no symptoms.
- One in five Americans contracts an STD
Love and liquor are a bad mix
STDs are spread by genital-genital contact, oral-genital contact and hand-genital contact.
- Women are more susceptible to STDs than men because the viruses and bacteria that cause STDs are able to thrive in a woman's genital tissue and internal reproductive tract.
Watkins presentation will warn of results
By Amber Steuer writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
A pair of beer goggles can get students more than a bad date. Watkins Memorial Health Center officials will warn students tonight at its Focus on Health presentation, "Sex Under the Influence."
Those mixing alcohol with sexual contact also run the risk of having sexually transmitted diseases or unwanted pregnancies.
"I've been told, 'I had sex with someone when I was drunk that I would never even have lunch with,'" said Julie Francis, Watkins health educator. "Alcohol's a social lubricant, and people need to be aware of that when they're drinking, and they lose control over how much they're drinking. They get past a point where they need to be, they're going to make some bad decisions."
Watkins will address the topic of sex and alcohol tonight from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Visitor Center Auditorium. The presentation is a part of alcohol awareness week.
Francis will speak at the presentation, as well as Henry Buck, Watkins coordinator of gynecology, who will speak about STDs, their effects and prevention. Kathy Guth,
nurse practitioner and a registered sexual assault nurse examiner, will speak on acquaintance and date rape.
watkins staffers often see cases of sexually transmitted diseases, Buck said. The most common STDs on college campuses include chlamydia, herpes, human papillomavirus, which causes genital warts, and molluscum cotagiosum, a member of the pox virus group.
"We see so many college students who end up with a sexually transmitted disease," Francis said. "We see so many who end up pregnant unintentionally. And if you trace those back the majority of those dealt with alcohol."
Regents face equity dispute in pay gap of relations job
By Clay McCusinion
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Already embroiled in a gender discrimination controversy, the Kansas Board of Regents added fuel to the fire Friday afternoon when Mike Matson, press secretary for Gov. Bill Graves, announced he would become the organization's new external affairs director.
In his newly-created position, Matson will lobby the state legislature on behalf of the Regents and work with the press — for a $70,000 salary. Barbaria Conant, the board's outgoing communications director, made only $44,000, leading to speculation of pay inequity.
Christine Crenshaw, the Regents' associate director of fiscal affairs, had earlier filed a complaint with the Kansas Human Rights commission alleging gender discrimination by the Regents.
"It has raised questions on the surface," said Barbara Ballard, Kansas state representative and assistant vice chancellor of student affairs. "The perception to people is that maybe there isn't as much equity between men and women in salary."
Kim Wilcox, executive director for the Regents, said Matson's job was completely different from Conant's.
"That's really not the position we're talking about at all," he said.
Legislative lobbying was previously part of the fiscal affairs department of the Regents, Wilcox said. With the addition of 31 community colleges and technical schools to the board's budget responsibilities, the department no longer has the time for government relations — a burden that now falls to Matson.
"He's the perfect person to help us do this," Wilcox said. "We've taken the governmental relations and recast them as external relations."
wilcox said much of the responsibilities of the communications director would be spread out to different departments.
Matson seemed unaware of this Monday morning.
He said it was his impression that the job would consist of both press relations and governmental relations.
"It's the most difficult decision I've ever made in my professional life," Matson said. "It's going to be tough."
Matson will leave his post Oct. 29, after five years as a representative for Graves'. He'll start work for the Regents Nov. 1, making $18,000 more than he did with Graves.
he refused to comment on the equity questions.
"I am in no position to comment on what is going on over there," Matson said, adding that it was his impression that most problems at the office predated
SUA to set homecoming float standards
See GENDER on page 3A
By Emily Hughey
Three weeks have passed since the Homecoming parade, but the controversy surrounding the removal of the Stephenson Hall Float of Doom is back in the spotlight. Student Union Activities and the KU chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union are now working together to set specific float standards.
Kansan staff writer
The Float of Doom, which was removed from the parade by members of SUA, who cited the float creators' poor taste, enraged the KU ACLU, which called the removal a First Amendment rights violation.
Buddy Lloyd, media director of the KU ACLU, originally called for an alternate forum of expression for the Float of Doom, but after discussing the matter with Eddie Lorenzo of the
He said he and Sue Buckley, SUA advisor, had been working together to revise the rules for next year's parade. Buckley said "poor taste" would be more clearly defined and a panel of student judges would determine whether the float was appropriate beforehand.
"We're not opposing views," Lloyd said. "We're working together."
Kansas City chapter of the ACLU, he instead decided to present some ideas to SUA.
"It makes us really happy because it gave us demonstrable benefits for the student body," Lloyd said of the recent agreement. "It was a win-win situation for the ACLU, the student
body and SUA."
Isley Unruh, creator of the Float of Doom, said he appreciated the changes being made but said he would still try to shock the campus with next year's float. However, he stressed that he built the float to make people laugh, not as a political statement.
"We'll watch 'Animal House' a few more times, and we probably won't go that far, but we'll think of something good," said Unruh, Sedgwick sophomore. "I'll have to start thinking now. It's going to be original but at the same time in poor taste."
Buckley said most floats would probably be accepted as long as they followed the rules. She said that she was revising the guidelines to allow for more freedom of expression, but if anyone tried to sneak a blatantly offensive float in the parade again, she would either remove it or modify it.
Buddy Lloyd Media director of KU ACLU
"It makes us really happy because it gave us demonstrable benefits for the student body. It was a win-win situation for the ACLU, the student body and SUA."
"I'm writing it so it's more within First Amendment guidelines," Buckley said. "We want students to have free expression, but we'll have to make sure it doesn't violate obscenity laws or offend people. It is our event, so we can control time, place and matter, but I don't know how much."
Edited by Matt James
1ne Stevenson Scholarship Hall homecoming float sits outside of Stevenson Hall after being removed from the parade this year. SUA has decided to enforce rules and guidelines for float design to help prevent further incidents with controversial entries. Photo by Tara Kraus/KANSAN
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