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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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MONDAY APRIL 10 1995
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Coalitions fined for violations
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United Students REAL break minor campaign rules
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
While it's not exactly dirty campaigning, minor rule violations have resulted in fines against both coalitions running for Student Senate.
The United Students coalition has been fined $55 by the elections commission, while the REAL coalition has been fined $30.
"I think these are just violations that occur in the normal course of a campaign," said Suraj Dudhoria, elections commissioner.
The largest single fine that has been given was $25 to the United Students coalition for not licensing the Jayhawk logo on their posters.
Kim Cocks, Lee's Summit, Mo., senior, who is running for student body president with United Students, said that other student organizations had used the logo in the past and that she wasn't aware that it was a violation.
"We corrected it as soon as we could," Cocks said.
Paul Vander Tuiz, the licensing administrator at the University, said that the logo would have been approved for use if the coalition had asked ahead of time.
"I would like students to understand if they use the University logo, they have to see me." Vander Tuig said.
But, he said, that no legal action would be taken by the administration.
"From a student point of view, it's a matter of education," Vander Tuisg said.
Twenty dollars of the REAL coalition's $30 in fines were a result of chalk writings supporting the coalition on campus. The writings reportedly appeared in front of Ellsworth Hall and on the east stairs of Wescoe Hall.
David Stevens, Wichita junior, who is running for student body president with the REAL coalition, said that he didn't think anyone in his coalition had committed the violation.
"As far as they of the fines for chalk writing go. I have assurances from mv
coalition that none of them would so blatantly violate an elections commission rule," he said.
Stevens suggested that the commission should reevaluate its campaign rules.
"I think the elections commission needs to re-look at the elections codes as far as how violations will be proven and how fines will be levied." he said.
Stevens said the violation probably was committed by a random REAL supporter on Daisy Hill.
"I think we have so much support on Daisy Hill that anyone could've taken a piece of chalk and done it." he said.
Of the 12 complaints filed by the coalitions against each other, the elections commission ruled that five of them were violations that deserved fining. The other fines were levied after coalitions posted more than one campaign poster on a campus bulletin board.
Dole to announce presidential bid
White House try No.3 begins today
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — Bob Dole, the pragmatist who has survived war wounds, Watergate and his own sometimes acerbic wit to stand one step from the pinnacle of American
politics, returns today to the town where his legislative career began.
Bob Dole
Dole will declare his candidacy for the presidency for the third time, but this is the first time he will do it from the Landon Arena at the Kansas Expo Center. And, for the first time, he does it as the early front runner for the Republican Party's nomination.
Dole, the Russell native who earned his law degree at Washburn University in Topeka and held his first elected office as the state representative from Russell County in 1951-53, won't draw nearly the crowd Landon did as he declares for 1996.
Kansas senator Bob Dole plans to declare his candidacy for the presidency today.
But those attending
jican Party at a downtown hotel.
When: Today at 9:30 a.m.
his formal declaration of candidacy will include U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, the daughter of former Kansas Gov. Alf Landon, who was the 1936 Republican nominee for president.
Where: In the Land
Arena at the
Kansas Expo
Centre in Topeka
Kassebam will introduce Gov. Bill Graves, who will introduce Dole. Dole is scheduled to speak about 9:30 a.m., following a breakfast sponsored by the state Repub-
hearty at a downtown hotel.
Dole's wife, Elizabeth Hanford
Dole, president of the American
Red Cross, is the main speaker for
the breakfast, which is by ticket
admission only. She set to speak
about 8 a.m.
Dole, who will be 72 on July 22,
made a half-hearted stab at seeking the GOP nomination in 1980, belatedly sending his top operative at the time. Dave Owen, to New
Hampshire and buying television time there. He made a more serious bid in 1988, making his formal declaration in his home town of Russell on a bitterly cold day in November 1987. He will conclude his announcement tour back in Russell next Friday and Saturday.
The five-term senator survived his closest political call in 1974 when former U.S. Rep. Bill Roy nearly defeated him in the aftermath of the Watergate scandal, which unraveled while Dole was national Republican chairman. Now the boy from Russell, who was an athlete at the University of Kansas before going off to World War II and suffering crippling wounds in Italy is on the threshold of realizing his long-held dream of being president.
He approaches next year's GOP caucuses and primary elections with a solid lead in the polls and a cadre of supporters already lined up behind him.
For his Kansas supporters, who will cheer him on today, it means Bob Dole's time may finally have arrived.
Yumi Chikamori / KANSAN
Enjoying the extra daylight
Brad Looney, Tulsa freshman, plays frisbee at sunset in Clinton Lake Park. Looney is one of many students who stay outside playing sports, bicycling, jogging and simply hanging around to enjoy the longer days since daylight savings time started last week.
The Note is silent, for now Music magazine halts publication
By Sarah Morrison Kansan staff writer
The Note, Lawrence's only monthly music and entertainment magazine, is no more. At least for now.
Jeff Shibley, publisher and founder of the decade-old publication dedicated to the area music scene, said he was selling The Note so that he could pursue a career as a full-time talent agent. The March issue was the last one published under Shibley, and until a buyer is found, The Note will not be produced.
"It has been quite a demand on my time." Shibley said. "I just got burned out over the last 10 years and had a lot of opportunities come my way that I prefer to follow."
But don't look at the absence of an April issue of the magazine as the end of the publication. Look at it a temporary phase, said Note writer Francis Kelly.
"The Note is just dormant." Kelly said.
"I just got burned out over the last 10 years..”
Jeff Shibley publisher and founder
"But I think there is a good chance that someone is to buy it and start publishing it again."
Kelly said *The Note* helped foster the flourishing local music scene by writing, reviewing and previewing area talent, as well as sponsoring events and concerts.
"A good thing about The Note is that it has always included different styles of music," Kelly said. "The Note has always had space for that kind of word."
From blues rock to grunge, if it has been noteworthy in area music, it has been in The Note, Kelly said. And while the magazine has promoted the local music scene, it has also helped foster the careers of local writers who have worked for the publication, he said.
"I've written for The Note for about six or seven years," Kelly said. "That is how my column got started."
Kelly's column has been picked up by The Kansas Citu Star.
The possibility of selling The Note looks promising, Shibley said, and the magazine may return to publication soon.
In the meantime, plans to put the magazine online are in the works despite the absence of newsstand issues, Shibley said. A dose of The Note, cyberspace style, will be available in the next few months.
Although The Note will not have the funds necessary to produce the magazine in its paper form until a buyer is found, the staff can post articles on the Internet at lower costs.
People interested in reading The Note on-line should call The Note office at 843-6561 for more information.
Complete game winner
Kansas pitcher Jamie Splitorff threw his first complete game of the season yesterday and helped the Jayhawks defeat the Cyclones 8-3. Page1B
Sidewalk scribes scribble messages underfoot
With scribbled chalk messages of both humor and philosophy, campus sidewalks are beginning to look more like bathroom walls.
By Brian Vandervllet
The chalk craze seems to have begun with the philosophical beliefs of T.S. David, Lawrence graduate student, who chalks against the evils of divorce. In recent weeks, however, the sidewalk "pulpit" has expanded to include a growing number of messages.
Kansan staff writer
"They do seem to be proliferating," said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations. "It's not uncommon to find six or eight in a day."
Richardson said that facilities operations had a policy of washing away chalk messages the same day they are found by landscaping workers. Using a high-powered water hose, the chalk messages are washed away to maintain the appearance of the campus.
"If we don't do that, it just encourages more writings," he said. "It seems like it's been worse this year than in any time in the past. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but unfortunately, due to the costs, it affects everyone on campus."
Washing away each message costs the University about $15 because workers are taken away from other duties, Richardson said. About 20 messages are washed away each week.
Whether a message is a club advertisement or a philosophical statement does not matter. Richardson said.
"We don't want to be put into a position of determining what is a worthwhile cause," he said.
Ted Frederickson, professor of journalism, said that the University was within its rights to wash away the sidewalk messages, including those of a political nature.
"It might be political speech protected by the First Amendment, but the government may also impose reasonable regulations on the time, place and manner of such expression," he said. "Personally, I don't know why the University would want its employees to spend their valuable time erasing sidewalk messages when nature will do the job."
Kim Frederickson, Evergreen, Colo., freshman, gives campus tours to interested high school students and their parents. She said that the parents often had questions about the sidewalk messages.
"As long as what they're doing does not have threatening messages, we would not be involved." she said.
Although the University has a policy of washing away the chalk messages, writing them is not against the law, said Sgt. Rose Rozmiare of the KU police.
Frederickson said she had become indifferent to the messages.
"I think it might be a concern, but I don't think it's something that will keep them away from KU," she said.
"They add character, but I don't know if it's good or bad," she said.
Edmee Rodriguez / KANSAN
Chalk messages have been appearing on campus with greater frequency.