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CAMPUS POLICY
Beer in Union decision likely to come in summer
BY LIZ NARTOWICZ
lnartowicz@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Student Senate's proposal to sell 3.2 beer at the Kansas Union has come a long way from being just a dream, yet not far enough to become a reality.
The proposal, has yet to reach the desks of the final decision makers, Chancellor Robert Hemenway and Provost David Shulenburger.
Nearly six months after Steve Munch, former student body president, pitched the idea to re-establish alcohol sales at the Union, the proposal is still in the revision stage.
"We're back to the point of making the formal request," David Mucci, director for both the Kansas and Burge unions, said.
Mucci, who is a member of the Kansas University Memorial Corporation Board, said the board had to refine the language before submitting the proposal to the chancellor and provost. The board finished polishing the proposal June 16 and sent it to
Marlesa Roney, vice provost, for approval on June 17.
Roney said it was too soon to make a judgment of whether the proposal was ready for submitting.
Mucci said he expected a final decision on the proposal this summer. He said he felt the decision would be based on university policies and looking at the larger picture of what alcohol sales on campus could mean.
The proposal outlines when, where and under what circumstances alcohol could be sold. According to the proposal, only 3.2 beer would be sold on the first floor of the Union. This area includes Jaybowl and Milton's. Consumption would be limited to this area.
"It is possible to make a quick decision," Mucci said. "I assume they know what direction they're going to go in."
The Union would offer two to three brands of beer on tap. No drink specials, pitchers, bottles or cans would be available. Beverages would be served in a plain, unmarked plastic cup and served one cup per customer per order.
In order to ensure lawful and responsible drinking, trained staff would check IDs, give out wristbands and mark the bands with every drink purchased.
The University stopped the sale of beer in 1998 after reviewing requests from a task force composed of KU and Haskell Indian Nations University representatives. The task force was formed after the death of KU student, Lisa Rosel.
"This is not an environment to get roaring drunk," Mucci said. "We want to show people you can sit down and have a beer and not get intoxicated."
Before 1998, both unions served 3.2 beer. Mucci said he had never heard of any problems and that neither of the unions were ever cited for any violations.
Rosel was killed by another KU student, Matt Vestal, when she walked in front of his moving car in the 1400 block of Tennessee Street. Police reported both were intoxicated, but that they had not purchased their drinks at the either of the unions.
- Edited by Ashley Michaels
CORRECTION
Last week's University Daily Kansan contained an error. The cutline accompanying the photo with the story, "Fraternity carries on after vandalism," stated the house was Phi Kappa Theta's. The house is Tau Kappa Epsilon's.
CAMPUS
West Campus bridge getting repairs
The bridge over Iowa Street, connecting the residence halls to West Campus, has been under construction since the week of June 6, Joe Blubaugh. public affairs manager for the Kansas Department of Transportation, said.
"We worked really closely with the University to fix this after graduation and before the start of the next school year," Blubaugh said.
Construction crews had to block off the road because of the narrowness of the bridge for workers, Blubaugh said.
street.
Crews will patch the street, then give the road a new topcoat of asphalt. Blubaugh said. The main cause for the repair was the abutments, which are what anchor the bridge to the
The contractor hired for the job, Progressive Concrete Inc, has until August 5 to complete the work, Blubaugh said. Fines will be levied against the contractor for all work not completed by the August due date.
Adam Land
NATIONAL
Former klansman guilty of killings
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. Forty-one years after three civil rights workers were beaten and shot to death, an 80-year-old former Ku Klux Klansman was found guilty of manslaughter June 21.
The jury took nearly six hours to clear Edgar Ray Killen of murder but convict him of the lesser charges in the 1964 killings that helped bring about passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
"Forty-one years after the tragic murders ... justice finally arrives in Philadelphia, Miss," said Rep. BennieThompson, Mississippi's only black congressman. "Yet, the state of Mississippi must see to it that the wrongs of yesterday do not become the albatrosses of today."
— The Associated Press