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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday, March 30, 1995
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Candidates' stances are similar
By Sarah Morrison
Kansan staff writer
A city commission candidates forum last night brought more consensus than conflict.
Candidates discussed their stances on issues ranging from tax abatements for new businesses to the South Lawrence Trafficway and generally agreed, often for different reasons.
The candidates were asked questions by Scott Holeman, anchor for Sunflower Cablevision's Channel 6.
Some of the questions and responses:
Candidates were asked what experiences they had that would enable them to manage a large city budget.
Bonnie Augustine — She said me experience as a banker would help her. She said she was used to dealing with numbers and working within her customers'budgets.
Jo Barnes — She said her experience as a small business owner gave her experience in managing money.
Carl Burkhead - He said that although he had no experience working with large budgets, he considered himself fiscally conservative and would work within the budget.
Doug Compton — He said his experience as a business owner and two years on the commission give him experience in dealing with budgets and money.
Allen Levine - He said he had experience working with budgets at his job at the Spencer Museum of Art.
John Nalbandian - He said his experience the last four years on the commission proved he had experience in working with city budgets.
They were also asked about continuing the practice of providing a 50 percent tax abatement for new industry in Lawrence.
All candidates said they supported giving tax breaks to new industry as a means of keeping Lawrence competitive with other towns. Augustine said she supported also giving breaks to existing businesses as they expanded and created new jobs.
Levine said he wanted the city to only go after businesses that offered benefits to their employees and had a history of community involvement.
Candidates were asked whether they supported South Lawrence Trafficway and Eastern Parkway.
All candidates said they supported both projects to relieve traffic congestion in Lawrence.
Elections for the Lawrence city commission will be held Tuesday. Three of the six candidates will win seats on the commission.
Pharmacy school alters degree focus
Bv Matthew Friedrichs
Kansan staff writer
Students entering KU's School of Pharmacy in Fall 1996 will not have the option of pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Pharmacy degree.
Instead, they will be limited to obtaining a Pharm.D degree.
Students seeking a Pharm.D. spend four years in the pharmacy school, while students seeking a bachelor's degree in pharmacy are part of a three-year program. KU presently offers both programs. A Pharm.D. program also provides more focus on clinical practices and hospitals.
Some students who are working on their bachelor's degrees say the extra year would not help their career plans.
"For my plans, it doesn't suit what I need," said Darby Brown, Gardenplain senior.
Brown intends to work in retail pharmacy after he graduates, a job he hopes he can parlay into a sales job in the pharmacy industry.
The move to the Pharm.D. degree signals a shift to clinical patient care, Brown said. In the future, pharmacists will be taking over drug therapy from doctors, monitoring dosage and making recommendations to doctors about medication changes.
"I don't really want to practice pharmacy," said Tad Gomez, Wichita senior.
Gomez estimated that the majority of the pharmacists working in retail had only a bachelor's degree.
He is not interested in a Pharm.D. degree, either. Gomez, who is pursuing a bachelor's degree, wants to work in hospital management and is using his pharmacy degree to move into KU's Masters in Health Services Administration program.
Jack Fincham, dean of the school of pharmacy, said the changes in the KU program were motivated by peer institutions and the marketplace.
The Pharm.D. degree is for people interested in doing clinical work or becoming more specialized in their pharmacy practice, Gomez said.
The Board of Regents approved KU's Pharm.D. degree in 1987.
Pharmacy schools in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri offer Pharm.D. degrees.
The American Council of Pharmaceutical Education has issued a mandate stating that after the year 1999 it will only accredit schools offering Pharm.D. degrees, Fincham said. Bachelor's degrees will not be accredited.
KU's pharmacy school has approximately 95 students in each class in the bachelor's program and 30 students in the Pharm.D. program, Fincham said.
Those numbers are expected to even out next year, and after that, only a Pharm.D. curriculum will be offered for incoming students.
Paulo Eskitch / KANSAN
Jill Baser, Lenexa sophomore, and Bryan Andregy, Overland Park junior, receive information and free condoms from student body president candidate David Stevens.
REAL uses sex appeal
Editor's note. This is the first of two stories covering the campaigns of the two coalitions running for Student Senate.
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Few people associate sexual intercourse with Student Senate, but this year's election race is a different story.
Students running for the April 12 and 13 Senate elections in the REAL Coalition handed out condoms to students in front of the Ekdahl Dining Commons last night.
"Don't get screwed by Student Senate again," said Stevie Case, Olathe freshman, as she passed condoms out to students.
Case is running for residential senator with the REAL coalition.
David Stevens, Wichita junior, who is running for student body president with REAL, said that passing out condoms was a way to promote safe sex between students and support the peer health education program at Watkins Health Center.
"We're committed to making our campaign stand out." Stevens said.
The condoms, which were Lifestyles lubricated
with nonoxynol-9, were packaged in red paper to look like a book of matches. Printed on the paper were statistics on sexually transmitted diseases and unplanned pregnancies in college and a logo that read, "REAL Protection: Use it. Otherwise, this election won't matter much."
Eric Moore, Lawrence sophomore who is running for social welfare senator with the coalition, said that students enjoyed being handed condoms.
"They think this is great," he said. "This is probably the single most well-received hand-out of flyers, pamphlets and buttons that coalitions have handed out."
Moore said that passing out condoms put forth a two-fold statement.
"We're encouraging people that if they're going to have sex, they should do it responsibly," he said.
He also said that passing out condoms was symbolic of protecting students from a Student Senate that didn't meet their needs.
Handing out condoms was a good idea to promote safe sex, said Scott Whinery, Lenexa junior.
Stevens said that REAL purchased 2,500 condoms for the campaign. The total cost of purchasing the condoms was $375, he said.
COMPTON Candidate is 'regular guy'
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Compton says he is a misunderstood man.
on the issue, and he decided he was against extending anti-discrimination protection to people on the basis of sexual orientation. Critics called his decision before completion of the April study deceitful, accusing him of using the issue to boost his campaign.
"I was trying to do the right thing," he said. "In December, I wanted to get people from both parties involved to come up with an idea to see if there was any way this issue could be worked out, but none of the other commissioners were interested in that — they just wanted to vote on it."
Compton said both proponents and opponents of the amendment criticized him for riding the fence on the issue.
"I wasn't riding the fence; I was doing what I was paid to do and that was research and study the issue." he said. "I was just the only one
"Iwasn't riding the fence;I was doing what I was paid to do."
Doug Compton
Lawrence city commissioner
doing it. Everyone else had their minds made up."
Marilyn Bittenbender, Compton's campaign manager, said Compton took heat from opponents and proponents of the ordinance, and he was put in a no-win situation.
"He wasn't cut any slack from either side," she said. "Neither side wanted to work together. They wanted to be right rather than be effective."
Compton said he had also been unfairly painted as a rich west-side resident who wouldn't look at the needs of the community as a whole.
Compton said he had nothing to gain from being a commissioner except an opportunity to give back to the community he loves.
"Lawrence has been good to me for 17 years," he said. "I just want to give back to the community that has been good to me for so long."
DOUG COMPTON
The following are Doug Compton's top three priorities if he is re-elected to the city commission:
Follow through on promised property tax reductions with the one-cent sales tax passed in November.
Improve the city's infrastructure
- Continue to create new jobs in the Lawrence community
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