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Monday, April 29, 1996
UN I V E R S I T Y D A I L Y K A N S A N
Day on Hill organizers aim for high attendance
By Nicole Kennedy Kansan staff writer
Organizers of Day on the Hill are making final preparations this week for Saturday's concert, but some are afraid attendance may be low this year.
Jenny Lawson, a member of the live music committee, said she hoped the turnout would be good, but she was concerned because the group could advertise the event only this week.
"We had problems getting it approved, which then resulted in trouble getting bands, which then resulted in trouble getting the posters in time," she said. "Anytime you don't have a lot of time to promote, you have lower attendance."
But Lawson said advertising for Day on the Hill was pretty easy because it's an annual event that most students know about.
Poster Child, a national band, will headline the event. Justin Case, Stick, The Floyds, formerly know as Floyd's Funk Revival, and Paw also will play.
Stick and Paw are alternative bands, The Floyds is a funk band, and Poster Child is an alternative pop band, Lawson said.
Amy Hackmeier, Houston freshman, said she planned to attend the concert.
"I like Floyd's Funk Revival, but I wish Caroline's Spine was playing," she said.
In addition to the bands, a giant foam obstacle course will be set up at the top of the hill. The University is one of eight universities that were chosen by Champion Sports for a national competition.
Two students, one male and one female, who have the fastest times will have a chance to go to the Olympics in Atlanta to compete with students from other universities in the obstacle course.
"I hope a lot of people will come out," Lawson said. "Even if you don't like a band, you won't be sitting there bored. You can go run through a tire."
Project equips voters to make smart choices
By David Teska Kansan staff writer
You own the government.
With that axiom in mind, Project Vote Smart, a non-profit, non-partisan organization, set out to provide voters with the information they need to ease that responsibility.
"Americans need information to check in on the hired help," said Lorena O'English, director of logistical services at the project, based in Corvallis, Ore. "The intent was to provide voters with information they could trust."
O'English said the project maintained its own database of information on federal and state officials. The database includes information on voting records, campaign finance data, issue positions, special interest groups' performance evaluations and background information of candidates and elected officials.
"We collect the information and put it in one spot," she said.
In 1995, the project launched a new service for accessing its database and opened its own site on the World Wide Web. Response, O'English said, was more than expected. She said that in March the site had received between 16,000 and 20,000 hits.
Because of the work involved in both compiling the information and maintaining the database,
O'English said the project relied heavily on the help it received from volunteers and interns.
"The organization would not work without them," she said.
One of its members, Helen Fluker of Lawrence, said she became involved in the project through her work with the League of Women Voters.
"Project Vote Smart is so ideal for the league because they have the same goals," she said. "I try to promote it when I have the chance to."
O'English said funding for the project came mostly from its members who each paid about $40.
"Our organization is funded 60 percent by memberships," she said.
The project has published a guide to its Web services, Vote Smart Web. It also publishes its Voter's Self-Defense Manual, a listing of Congressional voting records, a sample of the national political awareness test that it sent to all presidential candidates and a partial listing of e-mail addresses for members of Congress. Both are available for free by calling 1-800-622-SMAR(T).
Despite the popularity of e-mail, no one knows what impact an e-mail message has compared with a hand-written letter, said Burdett Loomis, professor of political science and government.
"For the elite who have access to the Internet and e-mail, it may have an impact," he said.
Loomis said he saw the Internet's value for voters today resting with the ability to access information off databases like the one maintained by the project.
"That's information that could flow into a campaign and get to voters," he said.
Where to look on the Web
Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton:
```http://www.vote-
smart.org/campaign_96/pres
idential/democratic/clinton/
html/
Republican presidentiari candidate Bob Dole:
http://www.votesmart.org/campaign_96/resident/republic/dole.html/
White House.
Whitehouse
http://www.whitehouse.gov
http://www.wmlitehouse.gov
**Gov. Bill Graves, R-Kan.**
http://homepage.databank.com/
~governor~
Gov. Mel Carnahan, D-Mo:
http://www.state.mo.gov/
index.html
A listing of services is available at the Project Vote Smart homepage: http://www.wote-smart.org or call: 1-800-622-SMAR(T)
KU student gets trespassing charges
Charges were lessened to criminal trespassing for a 21-year-old KU student arrested in connection with aggravated burglary and felony theft about 2:45 a.m. Friday.
KU police arrested Patrick George Copley, Overland Park sophomore and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, 1645 Tennessee St., on charges of aggravated burglary and felony theft. Police caught Copley
Kansan staff report
allegedly stealing a photograph composite from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, 1301 W. Campus Road, KU police Sgt. Gary Wieden said.
Pete Getz, president of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, said he thought Copley snuck into a party that the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was having Thursday night and took the composite off a wall.
KU police caught Copley with the composite by the Chi Omega fountain and took Copley to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, where Getz verified the composite had been stolen, Getz said.
Copley was booked at the Douglas County Jail, where he was held without bond until his 3 p.m. hearing on Friday at the Douglas County District Court. After Copley was formally charged, he was released on his own recognition.
Copley could not be reached for comment.
Weather
Source: The Asssociated Press
ON CAMPUS
St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center will hold Mass at 12:30 p.m. today at Danforth Chapel and at 4:30 p.m. today at the center, 1631 Crescent Road. For more information, call the center at 843-0357.
KU Women's Rugby Football Club will practice at 5:30 p.m. today at Shenk Complex. For more information, call Stacey Stringfellow at 749-3380.
the Burge Union. For more information, call Ravi Hirekatur at 832-8789.
KU Meditation Club is holding a group meditation at 6 p.m. today at the Daisy Hill Room in
Stranger than Fiction is holding a creative, non-fiction, essay-writing workshop at 7 tonight at Alcove C in the Kansas Union. For more information, Call Allan Grohe at 843-7016.
KU Yoga Club will meet at 7 tonight at the Daisy Hill Room in the Burge Union. For more information, call Adam Miller at 832-0399.
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