CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, April 10, 1996
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Polls open today for campus elections
Cesar Millan
Cesar Millan, Kansas City, Mo., senior, Voice coalition candidate for student body president:
Age:23
Hometown: Kansas City, Mo.
Major: Political Science
Senate Experience: Chairman of the Multicultural Affairs committee Member of University Council
Three main issues:
Diverse and representative leadership in Senate
No new restricted fees
Implementation of a combined on-line enrollment and on-line faculty evaluation system
Where do I go to vote?
Polls are open today and tomorrow for student elections. Be sure to have your KUID with a enrollment sticker from this semester properly affixed.
Polling sites:
Wed.
Kansas Union
8 a.m.-7p.m.
Thurs.
8 a.m.-4:30p.m.
Burge Union
8 a.m.-7 p.m.
8 a.m.4:30 p.m.
Robinson Gymnastum 8 a.m.4:30p.m. 8 a.m.4:30p.m.
Strong Ball
8 a.m.-4:30p. m 8 a.m.-4:30p. m
Wescoe Hall
8 a.m.-4:30p.m. 8 a.m.-4:30p.m.
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Grey Montgomery
Grey Montgomery, Junction City senior, Vision coalition candidate for student body president:
Age:21
Hometown: Junction City
Majors: Political Science and Journalism
Senate experience: University Senate Executive Committee member Transportation board member
Three main issues:
Implementing a park-and-ride bus system and coordinating the parking and transportation boards
Lobbying the Legislature to pay for new technology on campus
Coalitions back joint busing
- Simplifying the enrollment process by bringing administrative and academic offices into Strong Hall during enrollment
Candidates want University, city to work together
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
Both Student Senate coalitions support the idea of a bus system jointly run by the University and the city of Lawrence, and the idea has support from the mayor of Lawrence as well.
Grey Montgomery, presidential candidate for the Vision coalition, said he wanted to start by urging representatives from the University
But the real issue concerning a citywide bus system is how to turn the talk into action.
administration, Student Senate and the city to sit down and talk about it.
"The only thing students would have to worry about is on-campus transportation," Montgomery said.
The only bus system available to Lawrence residents now is KU on Wheels, financed in part by student fees. Many Lawrence residents have voiced a desire for a city-run bus system with more routes throughout the city than is provided by KU on Wheels.
Lawrence mayor John Nalbandian
has said that the only way a citywide bus system would be feasible for the city is if it involved cooperation from the University.
Cesar Millan, presidential candidate for the Voice coalition, said that the University and city officials needed to stop talking and start acting.
"We need students to become politically active in the Lawrence City Commission," Millan said. "That's the only way we are going to convince the city to have a city-wide, studentwide transportation system."
With more routes in a citywide transportation system, more bus passes would be purchased and the
Millan said that city and University cooperation would make a bus system more viable and relieve parking congestion on and around campus.
amount of parking passes sold would decrease, Millan said.
Montgomery also sees city cooperation in creating a citywide bus system as a way to solve the parking shortage, but he said that restructuring the boards would help coordination.
"What we would like to do is combine the parking and transportation boards so that there is consolidation in planning between the two bodies," he said. "The purpose of both boards is to get people from point A to point B as efficiently as possible."
Montgomery, who serves on the transportation board, said that eventually he would like to see the parking department subsidize on campus transportation and students be responsible for paying only for transportation on campus.
Credit card tuition payment may end
Legislature no longer will pay hefty fees for state universities
By John Collar
Kansan staff writer
Students may be able to leave home without their credit cards when they pay their tuition this fall.
As part of the state budget passed last week, the Legislature voted to stop financing credit card fees at state universities. The decision was made because of this year's tight budget and because taxpayers were forced to pick up the bill.
Lindy Eakin, associate executive vice chancellor, said that this meant that the University of Kansas had received about a $400,000 budget cut.
"We may be forced into a situation where we can't take credit cards for tuition," Eakin said.
In the face of such a staggering cut, the University is investigating several options to determine whether to stop accepting credit cards for tuition, he said.
"We are trying to minimize the impact on the
campus and to come up with a creative solution," Eakin said.
The simplest solution would be to take away general operation funds from academic programs and to pay the bank card fees, which are transaction fees charged to the University.
But Chancellor Robert Hemenway said that eliminating financing was not an option and that he had hoped the Legislature would view the bank card fees as part of the state's cost of doing business. But facing the tightest budget year in two decades, state officials saw the situation differently.
Another option would be to add the bank's fee to all tuition payments and give a discount to those who pay cash, he said.
Marvin Burris, Regents associate director for budget, said the board now was leaving the necessary adjustments to each campus.
The initial proposal to end the practice of financing the bank card fees came from Gov. Bill Graves in his yearly budget message.
Hemenway said the University would adjust better than other Regents' schools because of the installment payment plan started last fall.
Hitting the credit limit
Source: Legislative Research Department, Topeka
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Happy romance Gigi opening at Lied tonight
By Heather Kirkwood Kansan staff writer
Love and lasting commitment win over lust and freedom in the musical Gigi, to be performed by Edwin Lester's touring company at 8 p.m. tonight at the Lied Center.
Gigi, a young girl trained in the world's oldest profession, dismays her guardians when she decides to deviate from family tradition and marry a rich man rather than be his mistress.
Jackie Davis, director of the Lied Center, is looking forward to seeing the stage production of the musical, originally made for film. "I own the tape of the movie and watch it twice a year. It's relaxing," Davis said. "I'm a pure romantic at heart, and this is a romantic story that lifts your spirits."
Audiences may recognize several show tunes from Gigi, such as Thank Heaven for Little Girls, I Remember It Well and The Night They Invented Champagne. The music and lyrics for Gigi were written by Lerner and Loewe, better known for works such as My Fair Lady and Camelot.
Kim Jones, Olathe junior, is keeping her fingers crossed that she can afford to see the show.
"I like musical theater," Jones said. "I've done a lot of musical theater, and it's more fun, more light-hearted than traditional theater."
The story of Gigi was originally written by French short-story writer Colette. In 1949 *Gigi* was
Gigi
Where: Lied Center
When: 8 tonight
When 8 tonight
Tickets can be purchased at the Lied Center box office, Murphy Hall box office, Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union and TicketMaster outlets.
made into a French movie. Not long after, Colette's New York agent approached Anita Loos with the idea of adapting the story for the stage. Two years later, the script was ready, and Audrey Hepburn got her big break when she was cast to play Gigi in what proved to be 217 stage performances of the play.
M. G.M. made a film version of *Gigi* in 1956 that won nine Academy Awards, including best picture of the year. In 1973, Lerner and Loewe decided to create the stage musical version of the story that will be performed at the Lied Center. Lyrics were revised considerably, and five new songs were added, including *The Contract and Paris is Paris Again*.
Tickets can be purchased at the Lied Center box office, Murphy Hall box office, Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union and TicketMaster outlets. Tickets are $35 and $30 for the general public, $17.50 and $15.00 for KU, Haskell and K-12 students, $34 and $29 for senior citizens and other students. Tickets must be bought in advance.