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Monica Soto, a Kansas City senior, locks lips with Sarah Riley, an Overland Park junior, during a game of spin-the-bottle in celebration of Pride Week. Queens & Allies, founded in 1970, have been advocating for the community and their allies for 20 years through Pride Week.
Alex Zubine, a sophomore from Overland Park, attaches a colored flag to tree in celebration of the beginning of Pride Week. Monday's events included the Kiss-In, where students received a received a Hershey kisss or a kiss on the cheek with bright red lipstick.
wasn't the image we wanted to portrait"
For some students, such as Steven Heger, the public display that came with last year's event led to some discomfort. "That's a little disturbing," Heger, a senior from Wichita, said. "I just don't think that that's appropriate."
Kayla Trunceke, a junior from Wichita, watched this year's event take place. Last year, Trunceke was in Chicago when the city was
celebrating Pride Week, and she said it was interesting to see the event take place on the KU campus on a smaller scale.
"I think it's awesome that they can be able to represent their ideas in a public place." Trureck said. "People can see a lot of things their culture does. It's not that weird."
— Edited by Katie Blankenau
ECONOMY
Service, housing sectors improve
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON — Employers holding out for more evidence that the economic recovery is finally taking hold got some Monday; the nation's service sector is growing quickly, and contracts for home sales are up.
The big question is whether the latest encouraging signs will help embolden companies to hire at a faster pace and bring down the unemployment rate.
Some economists and corporate executives say it could. And they say they no longer fear a double-dip recession, in which the end of government stimulus money would tip the economy
back into contraction.
Factories are producing more. Americans are willing to spend
Factories are Americans are more. And the economy added 162,000 jobs last month,the most in nearly three years.
"It's much better news than we would have thought a few months ago," said Jennifer Lee,
an economist at BMO Capital Markets.
from 53 in February. Any reading above 50 signals expansion. It was the strongest growth since ISM
"It's much better news than we would have thought a few months ago."
JENNIFER LEE Economist
revised how it measured the service sector in January 2008.
The service sector is critically important because it accounts for about 80 percent of U.S. jobs, excluding
farm workers. It includes jobs in areas like health care, retail and financial services.
Offering more optimism, the
National Association of Realtors said the number of people who agreed to buy previously occupied homes rose 8.2 percent in February. The index is considered a signal of future sales activity. Home sales had been sluggish during the winter, partly because shoppers felt less rushed after lawmakers extended the deadline to qualify for a tax credit. The new deadline is April 30.
Both reports suggest the broader economy is recovering, and employers are taking notice. Recruiters report more interest among their clients in hiring permanent, full-time workers.
student government, are allowed control over non-content related matters." Hiestand said. "If it was just a matter of there not being enough money to go around and everybody was going to get a 10 percent across the board sort of cut, there really wouldn't be a lot you could do about that."
MEDIA (CONTINUED FROM 1A)
Hiestand said a cut in The Kansan's funding as a result of newspaper content, including
endorsements of coalitions, would be a violation of the First Amendment.
"The law is very clear," he said. "Power and authority stops when it does come to content."
The Kansas and The New York Times is not an exact correlation.
"The Kansan is not just a newspaper."
Unlike The New York Times, The Kansan also provides a service for students and serves as ar
"I think like all analogies there is an element of truth in it and also important differences that matter," he said. "In this situation we are talking about a newspaper and a government, however, The Kansan is not just a newspaper."
Richard Levy, a professor of constitutional law, said the decision to simply not fund a newspaper doesn't really implicate the First Amendment. However, he said, if there is evidence that the funding cut is an effort to punish The Kansan for content, then that would potentially be a problem.
RICHARD LEVY KU law professor
Mark Johnson, co-chair of the Communications and Media Practice Group of the Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal law firm and a lecturer at the University; also said the funding cut would be a violation of the freedom of the press.
"Any type of government role in the commercial activities of a newspaper's commercial efforts can have a chilling effect on editorial policy because the newspaper would be concerned about how its editorial policy would affect the government," he said. A chilling effect is when speech is suppressed by fear of penalization and may prompt self-censorship, therefore inhibiting free speech.
Heilman said the financial relationship between The Kansan and Student Senate would be similar to a scenario in which the United States Congress would use taxpayer dollars to fund The New York Times, which illustrates a conflict of interest.
Levy said the analogy between
instructional tool in the journalism department, Levy said. He said the U.S. government does fund the Public Broadcasting Service and that PBS is
not prohibited from broadcasting politically oriented material, but is prohibited from endorsing candidates.
Hiestand said he understood the rationale between The New York Times analogy, but said college newspapers have already attempted to eliminate this conflict of interest. In the 1970s many schools incorporated student media boards to try to distance student government from student media fund allocations, he said. For example, the money from the campus media fee goes through Student Senate, then to the campus media board. The campus media board then directly allocates the funds to various campus media, including The Kansas. Student fees are $423.35 per semester. The campus media fee is $4 of the total.
"I understand where he is coming from to some degree," Hiestand said. "But the First Amendment is going to limit the ability of government officials to dictate what is published."
Heilman said he was uncomfortable commenting on the legality of the proposal and said at this point he didn't see an issue concerning a violation of the freedom of the press.
Edited by Kristen Liszewski
ODD NEWS
Dad steals vacuum while with his kids
FRAMINGTON, N.Y. — An upstate New York man was accused of stealing a vacuum cleaner from a department store on Friday — with his children there. State police said Richard Dekenipp was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and robbery.
After the 42-year-old man allegedly stole the vacuum cleaner, police said he struck a security guard with his car in the parking lot.
The guard wrote down his license plate and Dekenipp was later arrested at his home. His car was found abandoned at the Finger Lakes Gaming and Racetrack parking lot.
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