University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 3, 1989
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Deadline for fixing new districts nears
Six current seats will be eliminated
by John P. Milburn Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The puzzle pieces of the new house districts are slowly falling into place, but six current members will be missing.
Shifts in Kansas' population will force the elimination of six districts in Shawnee County, north-central Kansas and southeast Kansas, while Sedgwick County and Johnson County will gain seats.
State Rep. Vince Snowbarger, R-Olahe, that said subcommittees had completed preliminary maps showing the new districts but that work remained to make the regions fit with the state's borders. The district has been drawn of the Kansas districts.
Members of the House Legislative, Judicial and Congressional Apportionment Committee presented maps and heard public testimony Thursday and Friday. The committee must finish redrawing districts before the end of the session, scheduled for this Friday.
According to a committee report issued Friday, there were more than 32,000 people who still needed to be dispersed among the 125 districts.
"This experience has been enlightening for me," Snowbarger said. He said that some people had told him they wanted more members in his house but that others did not want them; aren't a representation to be divided
Snowbarger said one problem that remained to be solved was establishing the districts for the seats for
Butler County near Andover and Rose Hill in south-central Kansas. To include the cities in Sedgwick County, Kansas, the population over the target population of 18,348
Butler County could be divided into as many as six districts, according to some maps.
Members of the committee said six factors were used in determining districts, including consistent needs among city residents. That concern was difficult to accommodate in drawing districts in western Kansas where House members have been spending hundreds of miles. Some said constituents often had nothing in common from one end of a district to another.
The most important factor was to maintain a deviation of no more than 5 percent from the target size for the target populations and to maintain the populations between 17,431 and 19,265.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dawrence, said Douglas County representation would remain the same. The county would have three full seats and a fraction of the seat required to elect R-Europee, Miller's district would shift east to include a larger part of Johnson County.
Charlton said the committee tried to arrange the districts so that two Republicans or two Democrats would run against each other. She said she should not have the parties' proportions in the House to be changed by the 1999 election.
TOPEKA — State representatives on Friday combined two Senate bills for higher education that included financing for the second year of the Margin of Excellence and state support to Washburn University.
by John P. Milburn and Alan Morgan Kansan staff writers
Margin, Washburn bills combined
The bill was amended to include a $6.3 million investment grant to Washburn for fiscal year 1990. A proposal for out-of-district tuition for all Kansas counties except Shawnee was eliminated from the bill.
Washburn supporters compared the university to the Wicked Witch of the West from "The Wizard of Oz." Unlike throwing water on the witch,
State Rep. Joan Wagnon, D-Topeka, said she would gracefully accept the fact that Washburn would not be a member of the Board of Regents system, but asked that an amount be given to the university.
The amendment was similar to the one proposed two weeks ago by State Sen. Michael Johnston, D-Parsons, when the Senate debated the issue.
they said, throwing money at Washburn would not make the school melt away.
Denise Apt, education adviser for Gov. Mike Hayden, said that financing for Washburn was a reasonable gesture, but that the university would continue to seek admittance into the Regents.
Debate on the bill began before 10:30 a.m. Friday and was not completed until 4:30 p.m. During that time, the bill to finance the second year of the Margin and state support of 19 community colleges were added to the appropriations bill for higher education.
The Margin is the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their budget. Students receive faculty salaries to 100 percent of their
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, successfully amended the bill to include a faculty salary increase of $2.2 million for Regents institutions. The increase has been endorsed by the Senate and Hayden.
Branson said the increase would enhance the effects of the Margin. Members of the House could not say that they had fully financed the Margin until base budget cuts were restored, she said.
State Rep. Rochelle Chronister, R-neodesha, said the cut was made to prevent universities from transferring funds from salaries to other budget areas. More than $4.2 million was transferred last year
peers.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said the increase would help to restore cuts made in higher education in 1982 and 1987. She said Brunet's amendment was well followed by the amendment to finance Washburn.
"It can be called a trade-off, or cutting a deal with the other members," she said.
The House also amended the bill to include financing of community colleges. The provision would eliminate out-of-district tuition paid by Kansas students. It would decrease percent of the community college budgets during a five-year period.
Hayden recommended financing of the community colleges as part of his Margin of Excellence Partnership Act at the beginning of the session.
In other action, the House approved:
- more than $750 million in appropriations for the Department of Education.
■ more than $530 million for school district equalization aid. Equalization is a program to ensure that students are given equal financing in the 204 state districts.
LIGHT House is alternative to bar scene
by Candy Niemann and Cynthia L. Smith
Kennan staff writer
Supporters cheered yesterday as the recently paid LGHT House mortgage was burned in the streets.
The LIGHT House, 13 Pawnee Ave., has been a weekend gathering place for Haskell Indian Junior College students since 1979, when the house was purchased yesterday, yesterday, the deed to the house was handed over.
Inside the LIGHT House, quilts donated by local churches hang on the walls.
Wiley Scott, LIGHT House board member and
Haskell maintenance employee "It makes you
real proud."
"The house gives many of the quilts to students, and I see them on beds all over the campus," said
The Rev. Ray Ideus, LIGHT House director, said the center provided a homelike environment for students.
"One of the first things I remember learning from this ministry was how to laugh," idiot said. He said the students continually laughed while
He said the students continually laughed while talking and playing games at the center.
"I was convinced someone was doing something they shouldn't, and I'd run out, but the kids were fine," she said.
Ideas said the center also was an advocate for Haskell students. During the recent presidential election, the Democratic Party offered to trans- gender students at Haskell University, but the Haskell administration refused the offer.
"So we let the Democratic Party pick the students up here," the ideas said. "About 170 students."
Ideus said the LIGHT House was an alternative to the Lawrence bar scene.
LIGHT is an acronym for Lutheran Catholicism and sing Together, but the house is open (to all) Halloween.
The LIGHT House is supported by the Kansas District of the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod and the Missouri-Kansas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Weekend protest of B-1B bombers in Wichita results in twenty arrests
The Associated Press
WICHTA - Twenty anti-war protesters crossed on McConnell Air Force Base property yesterday while dozens of people cheered them on and watched them get arrested.
The demonstration yesterday was the third since it was announced the third bomb would be based at McConnell, one of the activists said.
About 100 members of the Faith in Resistance group sang songs, made speeches and cheered as the band played a painted line marking the border.
An Air Force sergeant read aloud a formal order saying the protesters would have to leave the base or be arrested. Soldiers arrested the protesters seconds later when they refused to move.
One of the activists, Mary Har-
,en said the demonstrations were being conducted to make people aware of "the extravagant connection between the homeless and other social needs."
Six of the protesters arrested yesterday were repeat offenders and were ordered to appear before a federal judge April 27. The first protesters were given better warning when they notre their actions.
Election includes Klansman
The Associated Press
NORTHMoor, Mo. — Two white supremacists will be on the ballot tomorrow in an election that has been a major issue this community outside Kansas City.
"This is a sad, sorry mess," said Northwestern resident Jerry Copeland, who opposes the two candidates. "I think it's absolutely horrible. I don't want my community to be connected with the Klan."
Dennis Mahon, a national Klu Klux Klan organizer, is running for one of three open seats on the Northmor Board of Aldermen. Alderman Joe
Howard, a Klan sympathizer and former member of the National Association for the Advancement of White Americans, Northworth Marshal Charles Fagan.
Mahon angered some residents last week when he mailed copies of a Klan newspaper to about 120 registered voters.
"I mailed out the paper to show people where I stand on the issues of the Klan, to let the people understand I'm not a terrorist," Mahon said. "Yes, can we be violent. I have been vicious, but it is only in self-defense."
Several residents said they also receivedunsigned filiers attacking the mayor and marshal, who are both up for re-election. Mahon said he was not responsible for the fiers and didn't know who had sent them.
In response to the fliers, Copeland said he and his wife, Delinda, sent more than 160 letters to townpeople who were also called the unsigned fliers cowardly.
Mayor Forrest Stewart, who is unopposed, said he was puzzled by the unsigned filers. Fagan, the marshal called the filers a personal attack.
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