CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, September 2, 1994
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Daron Bennett/ KANSAN
U. S. Representative and Kansas gubernatorial candidate Jim Slattery speaks to a meeting of the KU Democrats about his candidacy. Slattery took the floor last night at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union to detail why he was more qualified for the job than his opponent, Republican Bill Graves.
Slattery addresses KU group
By Colleen McCain
Kansan staff writer
Jim Slatter believes he's fighting an uphill battle.
After all, Slattery says, he doesn't have the financial resources that Bill Graves does to spend on his campaign.
Slattery, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, spoke to 75 students during the KU Democrats' meeting at 8 last night at the Jayhawk Room in the Kansas Union.
"I have an enormous financial disadvantage to overcome because Bill Graves has unlimited money to spend on his campaign," Slattery said before the meeting. "But I'm confident that when the people of Kansas get to know both of us, they will see that I'm better prepared for the position of governor."
Slattery told the students that he was the better man for the job based on his life experiences.
"I spent the first years of my life on our family farm in Good Intent, Kan," he said. "I've had military experience. I've worked in the business world, and I'm a parent. Believe it or not, my opponent Bill Gravens has none of these experiences — none."
Slattery outlined his views on several issues and said he would focus on three basic areas as governor: education, health-care reform and making communities safer.
"I do not have all the answers to all the problems that we face in Kansas," he said in his 25-minute speech. "But it's the job of the governor to reach out to those who have the best ideas, and we have an enormous amount of
talent in Kansas."
Slattery, who represents the 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives, has faced criticism for the years he spent in Washington and away from Kansas. But, Slattery said, those years provided him with the experience necessary to serve as governor.
"I've been in the arena, and I've had tough decisions to make," he said. "Bill Graves has only worked as the secretary of state, and the secretary of state does not make policy decisions. People don't seem to understand that."
Slattery repeatedly compared himself to Graves, portraying Graves as a wealthy politician who lacked experience and mocking Graves' statement to KU students in his campus visit Tuesday night.
"Bill Graves told students that he didn't want to discuss issues," he said. "But I do want to discuss policy issues, and we still will have fun, too."
Junction City law student Brett Godsey said Slattery was well-versed on campaign issues.
"He has a vision, and his duties in Washington only will help him as governor,"Godsey said.
Ted Miller, Bonner Springs junior and president of KU Democrats, said Slattery's effectiveness as a legislator made him the clear choice for governor. During his introduction of Slattery, Miller referred to Graves as "Dan Quayle with a slightly better vocabulary."
"Jim Slattery has a resume, and he has proven results," Miller said. "Bill Graves just wants to be governor."
Student Senate to vote on media funds
New bill would place funds in general account
By James Evans Kansan staff writer
The Student Senate Finance and Student Rights committees voted Wednesday night to move funding of the student media fee, which partially funds The University Daily Kansan and JKHK, back into the general activity fee.
If passed by Student Senate next week, all forms of media on campus would have to apply for funding every two years under revenue code status. This status would require student
media groups, like many other student groups, to make formal requests for funding to Senate and explain why the money was needed. The Senate then would decide how much funding should be allocated to the groups.
The legislation was introduced to the two committees by AruHizer, off-campus senator. She said the legislation was designed to put all campus media on the same footing for funding as other student groups.
She said that Student Senate's job was to oversee all organizations. By putting campus media under revenue code status, "it makes Student Senate ideology consistent," Hizer said.
"We think that The Pinch and Kiosk are just as much media as the Kansan and JKHK. "Hizer said.
"I don't feel that a governance organization should be distributing money to independent media organizations," said Kim Cocks, education senator. "Ethically, that is not right."
She said that if the money was under the control of the whole Senate, free speech violations could occur.
But the philosophy is not shared by all senators.
"The primary reason for the establishment of the media fee the way it is now was to eliminate the adversary relationship between the student media and the student government," said Mike Kautsch, dean of journalism and ex-officio member of the
In the current system, a $3 media fee is collected from each student's tuition. The fees that are collected are allocated to campus media by the Senate Media Board.
"It's just not a good precedent to set," Cocks said.
media board.
"The specific concern was that student government was in the position to censor student media by withholding funding." Kautsch said.
Student media was funded under revenue code prior to 1991. Kautsch said this had put a political dynamic in funding campus media.
During that time, he said the relationship between student media and Student Senate was not positive. Kautsch said that both sides were constantly trying to ruin each other's reputations.
Databases place info at fingertips
But in 1991, Mike Schreiner, then student body president, helped create the media fee. Kautsch said that the reform led to a better relationship between the student media and student government.
Libraries offer many reference options to campus
By Shannon Newton
Kansan staff writer
Cindy Bath was reading a psychology journal.
And even though she was in Watson Library last night, it wasn't a book that was in her hands. It was a computer keyboard.
"I am looking for psychology journals for preliminary research," Bath, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said. "I anticipate I'll be using this quite a bit."
Bath is taking an experimental psychology class this semester.
The libraries have been trying to keep up with the technical age by providing databases for students, said James Neeyle, head of reference at Watson Library.
Like many other KU students, Bath is learning how to use databases in campus libraries.
The index is a listing of over 1,500 academic magazines and journals. Neeley said 95 percent of the journals were available to students in one of the libraries at the KU campus.
"We have tried to maintain something for everyone at the University," he said.
"The other databases we have are beneficial to KU students," he said.
"But they can be frustrating to students because we do not have all the periodicals that are listed."
The newest addition to the campus databases is the Expanded Academic Index.
"We tried to make searching a subject on the index similar to the on-line catalog," Neeley said. "Most KU students are already familiar to that system so we wanted to make it relatively easy for users."
Lorrie Knox, assistant science
Atyourfingertips
At your fingertips
Databases that are available to KU students include:
-Lexis-Nexis
-Religion Data base
-PsyC Lit
-Business Dateline
-EconLit
-Dissertation Abstracts
-Eric (Education Abstracts)
-Social Sciences Index
-Humanities Abstracts
-Medicine and Health Abstracts
KANSAN research
librarian at Anshutz Science Library, said that there was a mixed response from students about the index.
"The students that are familiar with the system have no problems," Knox said. "But since the index is on the online computer, some students get confused about which system they are on."
The index is beneficial to students looking for general resources because the index provides a small citation about the article, Neeley said.
"If they know exactly what they're looking for and they need a lot of information, they are generally referred to the other databases," he said.
The databases that have been in existence include Lexis-Nexis, PsycLit and the Social Sciences Index.
A lot of general information is available to students on the databases, Neeyle said.
"Students can look up legislative agendas without driving to Topeka," he said.
Neeley said more students were becoming aware of the many options available to them at the campus libraries.
"They don't want to be passed on the Information Super Highway," he said.
By Manny Lopez
Kansan staff writer
Gunmen injure three at north Lawrence bar
An argument that started in a north Lawrence bar and continued outside the bar Wednesday night left three people injured from gunshot wounds.
Lawrence police said Samuel Spivey, 22, and Damon Guest, 21, both of Topeka, were shot around midnight at Los Amigos Saloon, 508 Locust St.
Police said Spivey was shot in the buttocks, and Guest was shot in the leg. They were treated and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Bruce Toineeta, a Haskell Indian Nations University student, was injured after a bullet ricocheted off the ground and hit him in the leg, police said. Toineeta refused treatment, police said.
"It appears the first shooter (Spivey) fired into the ground in an attempt to rescue his friend," said Lawrence police Sgt. Rick Nickell.
A friend of the Topeka men left the bar after an argument. Nickell said. A group of people followed him out and began chasing him down Locust Street.
Nickell said Spivey fired one shot from a 38-caliber, semi-automatic hand gun into the ground in an attempt to get the people to disperse. When the crowd started to run, an unidentified second shooter, who was also using a small-caliber handgun, fired into the crowd, hitting the two Topeka men, Nickell said.
No arrests have been made, and police are still trying to identify the second gunman.