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Women's basketball defeats Missouri The basketbal team won the Border Showdown in overtime Saturday, 81-71. To sweeten the victory, senior guard Erica Hallman set a career high of 29 points. PAGE 1B
KU women's lacrosse improves to 12-2 The team defeated Truman State and Creighton on Saturday. With two minutes remaining in the Truman State game, students started the rock chalk chant. PAGE 2B
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.116 ISSUE 103
Steep loss for the 'Hawks
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Sophomore Kansas center CJ Giles looks to pass after taking an offensive rebound in front of Texas senior forward Brad Buckman during the first half of the men's college basketball game Saturday in Austin, Texas. Kansas lost the game to Texas 80-55. That loss was the largest loss margin in KU men's basketball under the leadership of coach Bill Self. For more coverage of the game, see pages 1B, 4B & 5B
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MONDAY. FEBRUARY 27, 2006
LEGISLATURE
Non-citizen tuition mulled
FRED A. DAVIS III
fdavis@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
The legislation to repeal the undocumented resident/instate tuition bill is being brought back for a re-vote.
The repeal had been voted down Feb. 15 in a Kansas House of Representatives committee.
House Speaker Doug Mays requested a re-vote last week on the repeal bill. Mays declined comment for this story.
Controversial tuition bill may be repealed
Federal and State Affairs Committee Chairman John Edmunds (R-Great Bend) said that Mays had approached him last Wednesday afternoon to request the re-vote.
The re-vote will take place Wednesday in the Federal and State Affairs Committee.
Rep. Tom Burroughs (D-Kansas City), Ranking Minority Member of the House and Federal Affairs Committee, said that he was quite surprised by the re-
vote request and he could only remember one or two instances during his nine-year tenure in which a re-vote had been requested.
Edmunds said that Mays had wanted the repeal bill to make it to the House floor.
Edmunds, who was the tying vote to defeat the repeal bill in committee, said he was undecided as to how he will vote
Wednesdav.
Burroughs, who had voted against the repeal, said he had no doubt that the repeal would make it out of committee now that Mays was involved.
Burroughs said the repeal was an extremely divisive issue and he hoped when the bill was discussed, people would do the morally right thing.
Concerning his feeling about the repeal, Burroughs said, "The fabric of this bill goes against the foundation of this country."
Not all instate students are U.S. citizens
— Edited by Timon Veach
BY FRED A. DAVIS III
fidavis@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Delia wakes up every morning and has to worry about a lot of the same things that other freshmen in their second semester of college worry about.
Despite not having a Social Security card, a driver's license
The individual's name in this story has been changed because of the delicate and potentially harmful subject matter.
Yet there is one aspect of college — and life — for Delia that only three other people at the University of Kansas have to deal with daily — being an illegal resident in the United States.
or the ability to obtain federal financial aid, Delia is able to attend the University based on the undocumented resident in-state tuition bill that was passed in 2004 by the Kansas Legislature. Of course, Delia had to qualify academically before being accepted at the University.
Classes, homework, a job and the always important social life are just a handful of the things that dominate Delia and her peers' day-to-day operations.
The bill says that anyone who graduated from a Kansas high school or G.E.D. program and was educated in the state for at
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Delia, an Olathe resident by way of Texas and Mexico, has been in the United States since she was five years old after arriving in Texas with her aunt.
least three years is eligible for instate tuition at any Kansas postsecondary educational institution. The bill also mandates that the person must seek citizenship while attending school.
SEE INSTATE ON PAGE 4A
Engineers show off
Expo highlights entertaining student projects
BY CATHERINE ODSON
codson.kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
A giant game of electronic tic-tac-toe lit one wall of Eaton Hall's computer commons, but the young visitors found their way to a smaller, darker lab instead.
Inside that room they found some youthful familiarity among the other engineering exhibits – the Ultimate Gaming Machine, designed over winter break by William Blake, Olathe graduate student.
"It's hard to get them to leave," he said. "A few of them come back twice."
The Ultimate Gaming Machine featured a 27-inch television screen and real arcade replacement parts. Users could play more than 15,000 games, including original arcade games such as pinball and favorites from Nintendo, Sega and Nintendo 64. While Blake's knowledge of electrical engineering made his creation possible, his motivation was the challenge and pride that came with such a design.
Blake's machine was one of several exhibits engineering students presented at the annual Engineering Expo Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb. 25 at Eaton and Learned halls. This year's event, named "Extreme Engineering," featured exhibits engineering students and student professional organizations and drew more than 700 area elementary, middle and high school students.
Stuart Bell, dean of engineering, said the hands-on activities allowed younger students to learn what the field is about.
"It's a chance where they can touch and feel projects in engineering." he said.
Expo presents an opportunity for those students to relate to current engineering students in and out of the classroom, Bell said.
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Lawrence Raitinger, Parker junior, brings the group's newest race car up to speed on the chassis dyno during a demonstration at Friday's Engineering Expo. The car has been geared for acceleration and can reach 60 mph in 3-3.5 seconds. Raitinger is in his second year on the project and is one of five people who race the car in competition.
SEE EXPO ON PAGE 4A
STUDENT LIFE
Head Start aids student parents Program gives those busy with toddlers time to attend classes
BY KRISTEN JARBOE
kjarboe@kansan.com
KANSAN STAFF WRITER
Jamie Reeves is able to attend morning classes while her 3-year-old son, Chance, is at school.
Reeves, Liberal freshman and single parent, attends classes from 8 to 10:45 a.m. and then has an hour to meet with teachers or her math tutor before she picks Chance up.
Chance is one of 78 children who participate in Head Start, a program for preschoolers in Lawrence that allows KU students who are single parents to attend classes while their children are cared for.
The program also provides volunteer opportunities for the KU students who work with the children. The program targets children ages 3 to 5 who have special needs or whose parents have low income.
The classrooms operate from 8 a.m. to noon. Education for the children is free, so Reeves feels more at ease financially.
"It helps me out a lot because there's nobody that could watch him during the day." Reeves said. "It works out great."
Head Start is part of the Community Children's Center. Classes are held at three locations: Plymouth Congregational Church, 925 Vermont St., Kennedy Elementary School, 1605 Davis Road, and East Heights Early Childhood Family Center, 1430 Haskell Ave.
Jamie Reeves
It helps me out a lot because there's nobody that could watch him during the day," Reeves said. "It works out great."
Jamie Reeves Liberal freshman and single parent
Reeves likes how open Head Start is to parents helping out in the classroom. She can go in anytime and be involved as much as she wants, she said.
Kelly Cook, program coordinator for Head Start, said parent involvement was important to the program.
"It's something we're always stressing," she said.
Cook also likes seeing KU student volunteers get involved. Last semester, about 60 students volunteered for Head Start, which was the most the program had ever had.
"We've had a lot come back this semester," Cook said. "They like it so much they decide to return."
Volunteers assist teachers by working with the students in groups or individually, reading books, playing with them indoors and outdoors or simply giving the children extra attention.
Some teachers in the School of Social Welfare, like associate professor Alice Lieberman, state in their syllabi that students must complete 20 to 30 hours a semester at Head Start.
SEE HEAD START ON PAGE 4A
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