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A time to say goodbye
Mourners step at a memorial placed at the side of railroad tracks near the intersection of Seventh and Maple streets. Yesterday, people continued to leave cards, flowers and momentos at the scene of Sunday night's one-vehicle accident. A small pick-up truck carrying eight men flipped after running onto train tracks. Three were dead on the scene; three others remain in area hospitals. As all men involved were connected with Haskell Indian Nations University, the school held a memorial service for the victims Monday morning. Police have not identified the cause of the accident but say alcohol played a role. Photo by Roger Nomer/KANSAN
Officials intensify watch for underage drinkers
By Emily Hughey writer@kanson.com Kanson staff writer
It's Friday. A late summer night is setting in — a night to be spent on the front porch with friends, a few hundred acquaintances and a keg or two.
Such would have been the scene for Tim Holtzclaw, an 18-year-old Wichita sophomore, and his friends if they would have left the party a bit sooner.
While rolling the third of six kegs to the car at a local liquor store Friday afternoon, a van of undercover Alcohol Beverage Control officers — a scene typical to last weekend and probably weekends to come.
Holtzclaw said he just went along for the ride. He now has a court date.
He's not alone. Last weekend, the ABC issued 98 minor in possession and six administrative citations to liquor licensees.
"There's always sort of a presence, but sometimes there's a more stepped-up presence." Goering said. "There is a more concentrated effort in college towns right now ... it's basically to let bar owners, their employees and students know they're there to enforce the underage drinking laws."
Angela Goering, Public Information Officer at the ABC, said the ABC was in full force not just in Lawrence last weekend but in a lot of college towns.
A MIP charge entails a notice of a court date at which the offender can plead guilty, not guilty or enter into diversion; and a fine ranging from $200 to $500 to be determined by the county district court judge. If the minor is convicted in district court and doesn't enter diversion, his record will be marked with a misdemeanor offense.
If the minor enters into a diversion program, his record will state the MIP violation instead of a misdemeanor. However, there is an additional $25 application cost to go on diversion, and the minor must pay for an alcohol evaluation and alcohol-education classes in addition to the fine.
However, Sgt. George Wheeler of the Lawrence Police Department, said the best way to avoid fines was to abide by the law.
"They shouldn't violate the law." Wheeler said. "People that don't violate the law don't have anything to fear from the police officers or the municipal courts."
Amy Randolph, Lenexa sophomore, said she tried to stay away from police officers when she drank. Instead of going to bars, she said she drank on private property at parties she didn't
WHAT THE ABC LOOKS FOR
People who look young and are drinking alcohol
**Underage indicators (stamps on hands or wrist bands) bars use to designate minors**
How people act when door person checks IDs
Bars the ABC knows will be busy and most likely attracting minors
think the ABC would visit. However, she said she did not feel hostile toward the officers.
"I don't have a problem with them," Randolph said. "They get a bad rap for doing their job, and it's not their fault that the laws they have to enforce are pretty stupid."
Nevertheless, Holtzclaw and 97 other area minors will be facing fines and diversion programs on top of school work and jobs. Holtzclaw said he was concerned about the cost of his violation.
"It really bothers me, but I admit that I broke the law," Holtzclaw said. "I've got to keep straight. I'm really trying this year to do good, and a few little things that everybody does, I get caught for, and I wasn't causing any harm. And now it's messing with my life."
'Gerrymandering' lessens city's clout
Edited by Jamie Knodel
12,000 county residents claim other addresses
By Chris Borniger
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
state politics.
When students fill out census registration forms for the year 2000, they could affect how Lawrence is represented in the Kansas Legislature.
Article 10, Section 1 of the Kansas Constitution orders the state to adjust census figures every 10 years to account for students and military personnel living in legislative districts. That means students who live in Lawrence during the academic year but claim permanent residency in another town are included in the other town's legislative district.
That adjustment, according to Student Body President Korb Maxwell, leaves college towns such as Lawrence, with less representation in
"It's supposed to be non-politically motivated, but what it's damn close to is gerrymandering," he said. "There are some people in western Kansas who are scared because they're losing their population. While I can feel for these people, the answer isn't to penalize students."
In Kansas, about 19,000 people comprise a legislative district. According to the 1990 census, there were 81,798 residents of Douglas County, but 12,000 of those people claimed other addresses as their permanent residences.
Maxwell said if those people had claimed Douglas County, the state could have allotted another seat in the Legislature.
Kansas is the only state in the nation to allow census adjustment. Maxwell, a member of the Census Adjustment Advisory Group, said that non-resident students have no representation in Kansas as a result, but that even prisoners in
"One representative can mean a lot," he said. "One person can end up as chair of a committee. One house seat could end up becoming Speaker of the House."
Leavenworth Federal Prison are counted as residents. More than 30 percent of students at the University are non-residents - the highest percentage of all Board of Regents institutions.
"It items like when Kansas is pioneering public policy, sometimes we fall short of the mark," Maxwell said.
Most of the counties that showed a negative adjustment, including Douglas County, were homes to a university or community college. Riley County, where Kansas State University is located, had the greatest adjustment: about 19,000 of more than 67,000 residents claimed other permanent residences.
Maxwell said he had considered sending letters to student living organizations to encourage students to claim their college addresses as their permanent residences on their census questionnaires. He said that he had also proposed that students fill out the questionnaires before they could enroll for this spring's semester.
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Scholarship hall residents tackle same parking overflow hassles
By Michael Terry
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
The University of Kansas parking department is looking into ways to solve the overcrowding problem facing students in KU scholarship hall parking lots.
Donna Hultine, assistant director of the parking department, said that she was aware of the lack of parking spaces around the scholarship halls.
"Parking has always been a problem in the scholarship hall area." Hultine said. "The problem originates back to when the halls were first built and that the designers never anticipated so many students bringing cars to campus."
bringing cars to campers. The construction of Amini II for women has contributed to the overflow of parking lots at the scholarship halls by closing a lot around the construction site, Hultine said.
will have a place to park." Hultine said. "The problem is we have run out of space to put another spot in."
"We are planning to bring a proposal before the parking board to limit the number of parking permits sold to the number of spaces actually available," Hultine said. "We tried this proposal three years ago, but we were down flat by the scholarship halls."
Hultine said that one of the ideas being considered for the scholarship hall parking problem was putting a cap on the number of permits sold for that area.
Sarah Crumrine, Olathe junior and president of the All-Scholarship Hall Council, said that a portion of the gravel parking lot at 13th and Louisiana streets will open 20 to 25 spaces on Sept. 20.
the construction of the building. "We have tried, with the loss of spaces due to the construction of Amini, to open up as many new spaces as possible, so that students
Nathan Judd, Tecumseh junior and Pearson Scholarship Hall resident, was annoyed that the parking department had oversold so many permits for the scholarship hall parking lots and thought that limiting the number of passes would be a good idea.
"I paid $75 for a parking pass, and that doesn't even guarantee that I will ever get a parking space," Judd said. "The parking department should tell us, especially the incoming freshmen, that having a parking permit is no guarantee that you'll ever find a parking space, instead of hiding it in the small print."
"In the past the University used to issue cards that said where students lived and then went to stickers to put on the back of their KUID cards, but now they have stopped this procedure." Hultine said. "We had a problem a few years back with students receiving parking permits that did not live in a scholarship hall, and we'll be happy to look into any complaints that students may have concerning this."
Hultine said that there was really no way to tell when students bought their permits if they really belonged to a scholarship hall.
Edited by Matt James
Students stuck waiting on textbooks
Bookstores blame professors, publisher
"It's not often that all three are all out of books."
By Amanda Kaschube
writer@kansan.com
Kasman staff writer
A recent shortage of textbooks has left a number of teachers and students wondering about the reliability of University of Kansas bookstores.
Bill Getz, Kansas Union Bookstore textbook manager, said that the problem was not the direct fault of bookstores, but also of the publishers.
Getz said that the Union Bookstore generally ordered textbooks for 75 percent of the enrollment of a class. If the
"We have to look at our book supply on a daily basis," he said. "There is always a rush the week before classes start to the second week of classes. We are always replenishing books."
"In an environment with three other bookstores, we try to make it so no student goes away without a book," he said.
class is more specialized or if other bookstores cannot order the book, Getz said the Union Bookstore would order all of the books.
Keith Kileman, Jayhawk Bookstore textbook manager, said his store ordered 30 to 40 percent of a class's enrollment. University Book Shop's book orders vary among academic departments, but generally it orders 30 to 33 percent, said Mike Lammers, manager.
"There is a cooperative attitude in the stores." Getz said.
University Book Shop, Jayhawk Bookstore and the Union Bookstore are contractually bound to share textbook information. Any orders from teachers and class size information are shared so that all three stores can try to locate the books needed.
Several classes' textbook orders, such as those for Spanish and Math, have been delayed because of publishing problems. Getz said the shortages arose from not ordering enough for class sizes and teachers submitting late orders.
"The Spanish 104 books have been out of stock for awhile," he said. "They should have been here two weeks ago."
Raymond Souza, professor in Spanish, had a higher enrollment in his Spanish 776 class than expected. But, he said he contacted the bookstores a week before classes started, and they ordered more to accommodate the larger class size.
"I've found that if you check the books a week before classes begin then you're usually OK," he said. "But I have had problems in the past."
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