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THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 2008
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"Remember the Alamo!"
Texas battle cry that spurred on the American forces at the Battle of San Jacinto
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Originally named Misión San Antonio de Valero, the Alamo served as home to missionaries and their Indian converts for nearly seventy years. Construction began on the present site in 1724.
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Student Senate met last night at the Kansas Union. All legislation heard at Senate must first pass through two committees, which were held last Wednesday. There will be no Senate next Wednesday.
SENATE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST VETO
Senate overturned one of the student body president's vetoes at last night's meeting.
Last week Hannah Love, Student Senate President, vetoed three pieces of legislation: a resolution to ask KU Information Technology to look at Gmail, a bill to give the Student Senate Executive Committee oversight over the Multicultural Education Fund Board and a bill to create a sustainability fee from existing fees.
Students voted to create the $1.50 sustainability fee, which in
its vetoed form took S.25 from the Women's and Non-Revenue Sports fee.
Senators wanted to get the sustainability legislation through Senate this week because typically legislation is not heard at the Joint Senate meeting.
Studie Red Corn, Shawnee senior who helped write the bill, came to Senate with another bill to replace the vetoed one. Love advocated overturning her veto in favor of the new legislation, but the new legislation could not be heard because of a rule.The bill is now in effect in its vetoed form.
The Gmail veto and Multicultural Education Fund veto were not overturned.
TRANSPORTATION, SUA FEES INCREASED
Senate voted to increase student fees by $6.70. They
voted to give a $6.20 raise to the campus transportation fee, or KU on Wheels, and a $.50 raise to the SUA fee.
May Davis, transportation coordinator, said KU on Wheels needed the raise to keep up current services, but that the night campus express would be removed.
Senators raised the SUA fee to deal with inflation and rising booking costs for entertainers.
Senators voted to put a $21.50 fee raise for KU on Wheels on the Senate ballot on April 9 and 10. A raise of $1.50 would go to SafeRide to increase its services, and $20 would go to allow unrestricted access to the buses. Unrestricted access means there would no longer be a fare or bus pass required to ride.
In order for the $21.50 fee increase to be valid, 10 percent of students must vote.
SENATE SUPPORTS WET LAND PROTECTION
Senate approved a resolution that supports an alternative route for the South Lawrence trafficway so it doesn't cut through the Baker Wetlands.
The current plan cuts through the wetlands on a 32nd street route. There are also unmarked graves, which may not follow the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Supporters said cutting through the wetlands would ruin environmental and cultural learning opportunities. They also said that the 32nd street route would have a sound barrier built next to it, which would cut the wetland habitat in half and abandon some species.
The group advocated a route south of 32nd street at 42nd street.
Brenna Hawlev
CIVIL RIGHTS
Protesters remember hard work for better life
BY WOODY BAIRD ASSOCIATED PRESS
MEMPHIS, Tenn.- Joe Warren dropped his head to his hands, sobbing as he remembered back 40 years to the bitter garbage workers strike that drew Martin Luther King Jr. to Memphis — and to his death.
Warren, 86, was one of the 1,300 black sanitation workers who walked off the job in 1968 with a strike that tore at the foundation of the city's white-only rule.
"They talked to you like you were a dog, and they worked you like a dog," he said, his shoulders trembling. "But I couldn't find a job nowhere else."
The 65-day strike for the right to unionize ended with a victory for the workers. But King's assassination stained this Southern city for
"It took a decade of growth out of the Memphis regional economy," said David Cissel, a University of Memphis economist. "It was a time of fairly rapid growth in the South, and it was a time when Atlanta and Nashville kind of left us behind ... People just didn't want to associate with us."
years, limiting its prosperity and hurting its reputation worldwide.
The city's fortunes eventually improved, thanks largely to a young cargo airline named Federal Express that in the early 1980s showed that Memphis could still be a good place to do business. The airline grew into today's FedEx Corp.
"It rescued Memphis," Ciscel said.
The sanitation strike and King's assassination made clear to blacks and whites alike that "the
old plantation mentality had to be dumped," said Michael Honey, author of "Going Down Jericho Road," a history of the Memphis strike and King's struggle for economic justice for the poor.
In the 1960s, close to 60 percent of black families in Memphis lived in poverty,
The strike began in February 1968 after two sanitation workers were crushed by a trash compactor when they climbed in a garbage truck to get out of the rain.
The accident was blamed on faulty equipment, but it inflamed tensions that had festered for years over low wages, poor working conditions and racist treatment of black workers by white superiors.
Looking back on the indignities endured by the workers still brings tears to Warren's eyes, but the pain is softened by memories
of organizing the strike and taking to the streets under the banner "I Am A Man."
"I had a sign on my front and my back," he said, "and I was walking around saying, 'I am a man, I ain't going to be quiet no more.'"
Twelve days after King's death, the strike ended with the city council recognizing the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees as the workers' union. The workers got a pay raise of 15 cents an hour, promotions based on seniority and the right to file on-the-job grievances.
The National Civil Rights Museum opened at the Lorraine in 1991 after private citizens saved it from foreclosure and demolition. It is now a tourist attraction and a shrine to the civil rights movement.
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Two minutes doesn't cut it in the bedroom
NEW YORK - Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn't take long to satisfy a woman in bed.
If that sounds like good news to you, don't cheer too loudly. The time does not count foreplay, and the therapists did rate sexual intercourse that lasts from 1 to 2 minutes as "too short."
A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes. The findings, to be published in the May issue of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, strike at the notion that endurance is the key to a great sex life.
The questions were not gender-specific, said Corty (who, it must be noted, is male). But he said prior research has shown that both men and women want foreplay and sexual intercourse to last longer.
Researcher Eric Corty said he hoped to ease the minds of those who believe that "more of something good is better, and if you really want to satisfy your partner, you should last forever."
Irwin Goldstein, editor of the Journal of Sexual Medicine, cited a four-week study of 1,500 couples in 2005 that found the median time for sexual intercourse was 7.3 minutes. (Women were armed with stopwatches.)
It's difficult for both older men and young men to make sexual intercourse last much longer, said Marianne Brandon, a clinical psychologist and director of Wellminds Wellbodies in Annapolis, Md.
"There are so many myths in our culture of what other people are doing sexually," Brandon said. "Most people's sex lives are not as exciting as other people think they are."
Fifty members of the Society for Sex Therapy and Research in the U.S. and Canada were surveyed by Corty, an associate professor of psychology at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and student Jenay Guardiani. Thirty-four members, or 68 percent, responded, although some said the optimal time depended on the couple.
Corty said he hoped to give an idea of what therapists find to be normal and satisfactory among the couples they see.
"People who read this will say, 'I last five minutes or my partner lasts 8 minutes,' and say, 'That's OK,' he said. "They will relax a little bit."
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