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Half-baked
Lawrence's drug culture has gone underground compared to earlier days.
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Wednesday
September 22, 1999
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Vol. 110 • No. 24
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Football teams live or die by their turnovers and Kansas is no exception. The team's turnover margin is No. 1 in the Big 12.
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Take note, not all professors welcome commercial deals
By Nathan Willis writer@kansan.com Kansan staff writer
Although students might disagree, a commercial note-taking company is betting that students won't want to attend social welfare professor Dennis Dailey's popular Human Sexuality in Everyday Life class.
Instead, the online note-taking company allstudents.com is hoping students will log onto its Web site and download notes once the site is operational.
(USPS 650-640)
And that makes Dailey mad.
And that makes Dailey mad.
"I don't want note takers in my class," Dailey said. "If I thought that all my class was about was the notes, I'd just mail my class to the
students."
Dailey said that in frustration, he called the University General Counsel to learn about his options — one of which could be a lawsuit
Dailey said that about a week ago he sent the company an e-mail telling it to stay out of his class after he saw an ad in the University Daily Kansan that said the company would begin offering notes for his class. He hasn't received a response.
one of which could be a lawsuit against the company.
Provest David Shulenburger said
Dailey is one of several professors who teach large lecture classes at the University and are having trouble keeping commercial note takers out of their classrooms this semester.
determining whether to let commercial note takers into the classroom was up to the professor. But if companies don't leave when a professor tells them to, they are violating University policy and copyright law. he said.
Shulenburger said that this semester there had been a surge of commercial note takers, along with an increase in the number of complaints from professors about commercial note-taking ventures.
"We reissued the policy this year because of all the new companies that put stuff up on the Web," Shulenburger said. "I'm not in a position of saying whether commercial note taking is good or bad, but they absolutely may not do it unless
faculty approve. Folks are potentially facing significant legal costs here."
One of the problems this semester is that Web-based companies are not asking professors first if they can take notes, Shulenburger said. Versity.com, which lists 58 KU classes on its site, is one of the companies that professors most frequently complain about, he said.
Tim Shaftef, professor of accounting and information systems, is an example. He has never let commercial note takers into his Financial Accounting I lecture, but Versity.com's Web site lists his class
See SOME on page 2A
Band's 'songo' style puts crowd in salsa mood
By Lesley Simmons
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Los Van Van made up for lost time last night.
Because of the American embargo of Cuba, the Cuban band that played last night at Liberty Hall was first allowed to tour in the United States only a year and a half ago when the embargo's restrictions elighted.
Los Van Van plays a "songo" style, which comes from the traditional Afro-Cuban rhythmic dance "son," and is similar to salsa music.
Afro-Cuban band Los Van Van, known for their high-energy shows, performs onstage during a set at Liberty Hall. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Los Van Van spread across the stage last night, presenting a united front of sound to more than 700 dancing fans. Three trombone players at stage right and two violin players at stage left flanked three singers. Aligned behind them were two band members playing electronic piano, bass, one playing drums and two additional percussionists.
And the audience responded.
As full as the stage was, band members allowed themselves ample room to dance.
"The crowd seems warm," said John Stewart, Blue Springs, Mo., senior. "Everyone that's here seems glad to be here. Getting down in the crowd and dancing, you can forget you're in the States."
The almost hypnotic connection between the band and the audience was cited by promoter Bob Augelli, as the reason Los Van Van was considered one of the finest bands in Cuba.
banks in Cuba.
Stewart said that experiencing a Los Van Van show gave the audience a taste of Cuba and the Latin-American world in general.
Mary Cardona, Anzoategue, Venezuela, junior agreed. "This kind of music is very close to the music in my country," she said. "When you are South American, you can dance to music from Venezuela, Cuba, Brazil, Chile (etc.)"
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The table selling Los Van Van CDs and CDs by
Barbario Torres, the opening band, had almost sold out by the time Los Van Van took the stage.
Augelli said he was glad the band finally had a chance to make its voice heard in the United States.
"The people from the U.S. have a right to hear the music of the people of Cuba," he said, adding that the band's music was not political.
That has not kept the band from being affected by other people's politics. A show in Miami last week was postponed because of pressure from the largely white community of Cuban exiles there, who were still opposed to anything coming out of a Castro-led Cuba.
"Let's take the politics out," said Augelli, who added that he was happy that the band came to Lawrence, the tour's smallest venue.
KU students were also happy that the Cuban band played in town.
— Edited by Brad Hallier
"I think it's great that this is the second Cuban band I've seen in Lawrence," said Marvin Grilliot, Roeland Park graduate student in Latin American studies. "I hope the American embargo on Cuba ends soon, because the people it affects most are just the regular, every-day folk."
FacEx to work with Provost's salary study
By Nathan Willis
writer@kansan.com
Kanson staff writer
The Faculty Executive Committee agreed yesterday that the University of Kansas would not pursue a faculty pay equity study separate from the one the provost's office is undertaking during the next two months.
Mary Hawkins, FacEx president, said the committee's decision broke with an announcement by Buddy Gray, president of the Council of Faculty Senate Presidents, to the Board of Regents on Thursday that the faculty at the six Regents universities would study pay equity.
Instead, Faculty Senate would work with the provost's office as it progressed in its salary equity study, she said. Hawkins and Provost David Shulenburger had met and agreed that a joint effort, instead of two separate efforts, was the best course of action.
"It will not be a task force sponsored as such by governance," Hawkins said. "We agreed we wanted to assist the provost's efforts. The means, in this case, may vary from institution."
After the FacEx meeting, the University Senate Executive Committee met and discussed options for establishing a policy regulating sidewalk chalk on campus.
In the end, SenEx took no action, instead preferring to first seek more input from the provost. However, SenEx members discussed several possible courses of direction the policy could take.
Members discussed what should be targeted and suggested several alternatives for restrictions. They generally agreed that commercial advertising should be targeted.
"If someone is advertising on campus, there's a question of propriety," said Peter Gegenheimer, SenEx member and professor of molecular biosciences. "Who pays to get rid of it? Does the University have to send out its ground crews?"
Some members said that no policy barring commercial sidewalk writings would be enforceable because people could always write at night in the cover of dark.
This led student senator Michael Henry to suggest charging a fee for firms that were advertising on the sidewalks — or a fine, depending on the vantage point.
Some SenEx members said they were edgy about touching the issue at all.
"This is just a mine field waiting for us to run out into," said Student Body President Krob Maxwell.
Charles Krider, SenEx member and professor of business, agreed.
"The more of an issue we make it, the more people are going to go out and chalk," he said.
In other business, Mary Hawkins told SenEx that a resolution passed by University Council Sept. 9 opposing the Kansas Board of Education's decision to strip evolution from state requirements had been delivered to Linda Holloway, chairwoman of the board. But the resolution had not gone to all of the local school boards across the state as had been discussed, she said.
"We decided not to bombard them with this, hoping that University Relations might be able to get some of this information out instead."
She said the resolution still could be sent to the local boards if necessary.
Edited by Matt James
Comission keeps bus route plans moving
City prepares documents for bids from contractors to finalize transit system
By Derek Prater
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Plans for public transit in Lawrence keen rolling on.
City Manager Mike Wildgen said that bids would be based upon proposed service hours, which in turn are based on bus routes recommended by the Public Transit Advisory Committee. The contract specifications will be sent to 36 potential contractors.
Lawrence city commissioners took three steps toward bringing a bus system to Lawrence at last night's City Commission meeting.
Commission meeting The commission established the Department of Public Transit, authorized the mayor and city manager to submit grant applications, certifications and other appropriate documents and approved recommended public transit contract specifications. The specifications would be used to solicit bids from contractors.
Steve Klika, a consultant from KA Associates, said that more than 100 people attended the public meetings and that the firm applied the public input to the revised route structure.
A proposed bus route system was developed by KA Associates, a Wichita-based transit consulting firm. The public then scrutinized the proposed route system at open houses Sept. 9 and Sept. 13 and then a revised system was approved by the Public Transit Advisory Committee and submitted to the commission last night.
Holly Krebs, KU on Wheels coordinator, said that the revisions would be good for everyone, but that coordination between the city system and KU on Wheels still needed work.
Aaron Bartlett, city transportation planner, said that the city system would adapt and work with KU on Wheels.
after the system begins," Bartlett said. Klika said that coordinating the two systems would create the best possible service.
"That will be an ongoing process even after the system begins." Bartlett said.
"Ultimately, we'd like to see an integration of the two groups wherever possible," he said.
The proposed system reviewed by the City Commission last night has prioritized the routes and singled out two routes for possible deletion if funds do not match potential bids.
Those two routes, 1b and 6, serve parts of east and south Lawrence.
Bartlett said that the routes that would be eliminated weren't as essential or far-reaching as the others.
"We're going for the most bang for our buck." he said.
Bartlett said that about 80 percent of the start-up costs for the bus system would be paid for by grants from the Federal Transportation Administration. The rest would be handled by the city.
He said that the city was eligible for about $2.5 million from an Federal Transit Administration program dating back to 1995.
After the system was up and running, federal grants would pay for about half of the operating costs. Bartlett said.
Wildgen said that the bid process would take about four weeks and another two to three weeks to review bids and conduct interviews.
Edited by Julia Nicholson
Bus routes up for public inspection
Hospital/Packer Road Downtown to neighborhoods north and west off campus; hospital and Clinton Park, hospital and Clinton Park.
North Lawrence
downriver. North Lawrence
Lawrence includes Lyon
Park and Tanger Factory Outlet
Center, 1035 N. Third street.
South Lawrence
23rd Street/Clinton Parkway
commercial district from
Tennessee to Wakeau Drive.
5 West Lawrence Downtown to Wakayama Drive; includes 16th Street commercial district, west campus neighborhoods, and 15th Street.
Shopping/downstreet Downstown to south Iowa Street; includes 23rd Street commercial district, Iowa Street commercial district, northwest street and the neighborhoods of Vermont Street, Louisiana Street and 27th Street.
Downtown shuttle Service from downtown, the area west of the Iowa Street commercial and entertainment district.
Richard Bachman / KANSA