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Tuesday, September 3, 1991 / University Daily Kansan
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KU Hillel is looking for four men. and four women who want to act.
Auditions start today for Hillel production
Auditions start at 7 tonight in Parlor A of the Kansas Union for "Ist I Romantic?" written by Wendy Wasserstein playwright Wendy Wasserstein.
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Hillel, a Jewish campus group,
will produce the play with a $1,975
grant from the B 'naI B with Hillel
Institute for Student Leadership
Kevin Eberman, who was president of Hillel last school year, applied for the grant in February.
"It is hard to get people interested in supporting theater during a recession," he said.
He said he was surprised that Hillel received the entire amount of the grant it requested.
The competition was nationwide. The maximum a school can receive is $2,000.
The grant will pay for the rights to the play, advertising, scenery costs and rental of lighting equipment
Eberman said he decided to apply for the grant because it combined two things he was interested in: the theater and the Jewish commun-
"What appealed to me a about it was, No. 1, it is funny," Eberman said. "It tits not just about being Jewish. It is about being a woman."
The play is about a woman's desire to establish herself apart from her parents and break away from her mother, raising a nice, Jewish doctor, he said.
"We got a very good grant," Ebermansaid.
Eberman said he wanted to select a play that described what it meant to be Jewish in the United States today.
He also said that he needed to select a play that could be produced within the group's budget.
Suzi Scher. Denver junior, who will be a production assistant for the play, said she thought the play was a big step because it would make Hillel accessible to all students.
"It is not just exclusively for Hiliel," she said. "I hope a bunch of people come to auditions.
"We are looking for people who are outgoing enough to be on stage and can hold a character," she said. "We are excited about the
But students do not have to act to be a part of the production, Scher said.
Environmentalists to attend conference
By Stepnanie Patrick
Kansan staff writer
KU environmentalists will be packing their bags and heading to Kansas State University this weekend for the second annual Student Environmental Action Coalition District Six Regional Conference in Manhattan.
Conference coordinator Paul Davidson said the conference would be the biggest environmental event in the Midwest this year.
The conference will have a series of workshops for environmentalists. It is sponsored by Enirons, a KU environmental group, and Southwind, a K-State environmental group.
Three-hundred people representing several environmental groups in the region are expected to attend the event Friday night and Saturday.
He said the goal of the conference was to provide inspiration and organizational ideas for student organizations.
Student Environmental Action Coalition is the largest student-led, student-staffed environmental group in the country and operates as a network for student environmental groups, Davidson said.
TERRIFIC TUESDAY
Eberman considered several plays before deciding on Isn't It Romantic?" he said.
*This is a student-focused confer-
nity.
After the keynote speech, a panel discussion followed by a question and answer period is on the agenda.
Kris Gottschalk, co-president of Environs, will be one of the panel participants.
"We Pile It On!"
More than 50 speakers from Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska will speak about toppies ranging from saving wetlands or preventing consequences of the Persian Gulf War.
The keynote speaker will be John Kraft, president of the Kansas Natural Resource Council and researcher on renewable energy for the Land Institute, an environmental resource center about the Midwest and sustaining development.
"We have had a great response," Davidson said. "Most of the speakers
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Davidson said he expected students at the conference to outnumber other environmentalists by three toone.
Eastman's *h* hypothesis was that the lottery is essentially a redistribution game.
ence, without a doubt," he said.
Greg Eastman, Augusta senior,
looked at the influence of lotteries on
state economies. E. sterman financed
the study with a $1. $\mathcal{O}$ undergraduate research grant from KU's General Research Fund.
According to information from the Kansas Lottery in Topeka, 45 percent of lottery earnings in Kansas are returned to the public as prizes, 30 percent goes to the State Gaming Revenue Fund, 13.3 percent to operational costs and 11.7 percent is for vendor fees and retailer commissions.
"It is difficult to get information from states that are not required to give reports where lottery money is tracked." El-Hodiri said.
Many lottery players belong to a low-income group, Eastman said. He said many states are using lottery money as part of their budgets instead of setting it aside for education, social services and other programs that would aid those low-income residents.
Instead of trickling down, money generated by the lottery may actually trickle up, said a KU student who spent the summer studying lotteries.
Eastman said his study had practicaluses.
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In 1992, renewal of the Kansas Lottery is expected to be voted on and the Legislature and Kansas residents will participate in the lottery's economic impact, he said.
According to Kansas Lottery officials, 90 percent of the money in the State Gaming Revenue Fund is given to the Economic Development Fund, and 10 percent is used for juvenile and correctional facilities buildings.
In 1991, netsales from Kansas lotteries totaled $70.3 million, and game prizes were $33 million.
The public's perception is that lottery funds are earmarked for particular state needs, but there is a lack of unbiased information available to the public about the lottery, and advertising is misleading, Eastman said.
Eastman's study looked at the income, spending habits and socioeconomic strata of lottery participants.
"If the lottery is selling a dream, who is desperate for a dream? The person who can least afford it," said Hodri, Eastman's projectadviser.
Eastman said, "Politicians love the lottery. It generates revenue without raising taxes and it's a pinless tax."
Eastman said that each year, states made millions of dollars on lotteries and did not give the money to programs that help low-income resi-
KU student finds lotteries are regressive
El-Hodiri said that because a state profits from lotteries, politicians think of money spent on lotteries as a tax.
Although many people think of the lottery as a chance to strike it rich, Eastman said he and many others have assured that the lottery was a regressive tax.
"Many studies have shown that," he said.
By Melissa Rodgers Kansan staff writer
A growing dependence by states on oateries as part of their budgets is a daunting challenge.
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