Alternative spring break in Mexico KU students forgo the traditional spring break experience to learn about the social problems, such as femicide, facing the border town of Juarez, Mexico. PAGE 6A
Women's basketball defeated, 72-52 Kansas lost to Kansas State last night in the first round of the Big 12 tournament.The Jayhawks will likely receive a bid to the WNIT Monday night. PAGE 1B
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 116 ISSUE 110
▼ LEGISLATURE
Immigrant in-state tuition upheld
BY FRED A. DAVIS III
fdavis@kansan.com
KANSAN STUDIO WRITER
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 2006
The threat to repeal in-state tuition for undocumented residents came and went Tuesday on the Kansas House of Representatives floor.
An amendment proposed by Rep. Tom Holland (D-Baldwin City), reworded the body of the original in-state tuition repeal, and instead called for the bill to exact harasser penalties on companies that hire illegal immigrants.
Rep. Becky Hutchins (R-Hotton) called it "gutting the bill."
After an hour of arguing both sides of the amendment, the House voted on part A of the amendment, which subsequently killed the in-state tuition repeal, and narrowly accepted it 63-58.
Rules Committee chairman Clark Shultz (R-Lindsborg) said the amendment was pertinent to the bill before the debate started on the amendment.
Holland argued on the floor after the bill was introduced that if Kansas was serious about illegal immigration, it should not wait for federal legislation to do something about the problem. Rather, Kansas should make others take notice by focusing on the cause of illegal immigration, which he said was the companies that hire illegal immigrants.
Holland's amendment struck down the original language of the in-state tuition bill, making it about the companies that hire illegal immigrants and what the penalties would be for those that violate the proposal.
The penalties weren't agreed upon. The bill was ultimately voted to be sent back to the Federal and State Affairs Committee to be reworked with the new provisions.
That was little consolation to Hutchins because her repeal attempt was denied.
"Sixty-three people thought the current law is good, but I worry about what the courts are going to do and the effect it could have on the taxpayers," Hutchins said, referring to the lawsuit that is attempting to overturn the in-state tuition law on behalf of citizens living out of state paying nonresident tuition.
An earlier lawsuit to overturn the law was thrown out of court.
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PROFILE
Anthony Mattingly/KANSAS Former Jayhawk Maurice King stands outside Allen Fieldhouse and its new addition, the Booth Family Hall of Athletics, where he played basketball for Kansas from 1953 to 1957. King was the first African-American basketball player to letter at KU and travel with the team.
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King's story still inspires
BY ANNE WELTMER
aweltmer@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
When Maurice King and the rest of the 1954 University of Kansas basketball team got off its train in Dallas and checked into the Hilton Hotel, King was turned away because he was black.
Instead, he had to stay in a dormitory with the players from Southern Methodist University, the opposing team.
The KU basketball team is again travelling to Dallas, this time to play in the Big 12 Conference tournament. In contrast to King's experience 52 years ago, the nine African-American and four white players will all stay under the same roof at the Fairmont Hotel.
When the team went on to Houston to play Rice University, the hotel there refused to let King stay; he spent the night at the home of a wealthy black businessman who owned a night club in Houston. Most of that first year, he couldn't stay with the rest of the team on the road.
Things have changed since 1954. King was only the second African-American basketball player at KU LeVanness Squires was the first — and the first black starter in KU history. He was repeatedly confronted by segregation in Lawrence and on the road with
the team. He proved that black athletes could overcome the oppression and helped pave the way for a young Wilt Chamberlain, who arrived at the University King's junior year.
King went on to play professional basketball for the Boston Celtics at a time when a rookie's salary was only $6,500, while the top player on the team, Bill Russell, earned only $17,000 per year. Even though King left the University a few credits short of a degree, he came back to Lawrence and finished after his basketball career ended. He then became a physical education teacher in his hometown of Kansas City and later worked at Hallmark Cards until his retirement. Today, he continues to stress
the value of education to his own children and grandchildren.
King came to the University in 1955 but like all freshman, the 6-foot-2-inch forward couldn't play until his sophomore year. When he took the court a year later, he faced the same discrimination he would meet in Dallas.
When the team went on to Houston to play Rice University, the hotel there refused to let King stay; he spent the night at the home of a wealthy black businessman who owned a night club in Houston. Most of that first year he couldn't stay with the rest of the team on the road.
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SPEAKER
Scientist: Iraq's nuclear potential still exists
Mahid Oubidi, former chief scientist for Iraq's nuclear weapon program and author of "The Bomb in My Garden," speaks Tuesday night in Budig Hall. The lecture was part of Student Senate and Student Union Activities Student Lecture Series.
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BY CATHERINE ODSON codson@kansan.com KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Mahdi Obeidi, the former chief scientist of Iraq's nuclear weapons program, spoke to 500 people in Budig Hall Tuesday night about his experience with the Iraqi effort to create nuclear weapons.
Iraq had the potential to create hun dreds of bombs, but concentrated on a single weapon of mass destruction the country never completed, a former Iraqi scientist said.
Saddam Hussein suspended his initial desire for hundreds of bombs to create a single, more dangerous bomb in the early 1980s, Obeidi said, because of the societal implications of widespread destruction.
"How can we fight one bomb?" he said. "It is one bomb that could change the world order as we know it."
Hussein "lived in a fantasy world,"
desiring unrealistic weapons, Obeidi said. Any threat is a matter of perception, he said, and Iraq's former neurotic dictator's agenda was fueled by fear.
"Violence is an answer to fear," he said. "Saddam was afraid. He feared his neighbors, and his neighbors feared him."
Hussein wrestled scientists into his project by manipulating their fear, Obeidi said, while simultaneously convincing himself that he was armed and dangerous. Scientists worked in the program out of national pride, eager to see their country prosper, he said.
Obeidi said all of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were disassembled in the early 1990s, and the evidence of them was hidden.
Hussein evicted United Nations weapons inspectors in 1998, when only the plans for weapons remained.
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Photojournalist Gordon Parks died Tuesday afternoon at the age of 93.
Recently honored artist dies
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OBITUARY
Journalism school dean Ann Brill recently gave Parks the William Allen White Foundation's 2006 National Citation. The award is given annually to someone who has achieved
a significant accomplishment in journalism.
In his lifetime, Parks achieved fame not only as a photographer but also as a poet, author and director. He was the first African-American photographer to shoot for Life and Vogue magazines, and the first African-American to give a speech at the University of Missouri.
Rich Clarkson, fellow photographer and KU alumnus, said in addition to all the things Parks did creatively, he also played a significant role in the civil rights movement of the country.
Ben Gleeson put it perfectly when he introduced a scenario to a panel of men at the feMENismn discussion Tuesday evening. Gleeson, Lawrence senior, complained on an issue in his history class that particularly annoyed him, in which a graduate teaching assistant continuously addressed only a female student, when asking questions about a woman in history.
John G. Younger, professor of classics and humanities and Western Civilization, sarcastically told Gleeson how he could handle the issue: say that he was a transsexual and had a comment.
BY RACHEL PARKER
rparker@kansan.com
KANSAN STAT WRITEER
According to the panel, many students don't know what feminism means and how it should be addressed. The fact that males can be feminists was less known.
A commission of five men from the University decided to discuss women's issues, publicly addressing questions posed by a feminist KU student organization.
Allyson Bedford, Tulsa, Okla. senior and treasurer of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), said the group was trying to make people on campus more aware of women's issues. She said she was pleased with the turnout to the event.
"Gordon was one of the most artistic of all Kansans, who touched so many people in so many amazing ways." he said.
— Nicole Kelley
A collection of Parks' photographs is on display through March at the Spencer Museum of Art.
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