The heat goes on
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday
March 6, 1987
Vol. 97, No. 110
(USPS 650-640)
Senate passes lottery returns bill to House
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — The Senate passed, 34-5, and returned to the House yesterday a bill that would launch gambling in Kansas on a lottery, add at least jobs and generate a large chunk of income to support state government.
The bill would create a new agency called the Kansas Lottery which would have a $16 million annual operating budget and be responsible for running the state gambling business.
The first lottery game, centered on $1 instant win tickets, is expected to be ready in September. The tickets will be sold at about 2,000 retail outlets and each has a latex patch which must be scratched off to reveal whether the ticket is a winner and for how big a prize.
The instant-win tickets would be followed in about nine months by more sophisticated computerized "lotto" numbers games.
Lawmakers hope the lottery will generate about $35 million in new revenue to support state government during the first year of operation.
The bill now returns to the House for consideration of changes made by the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee. The bill is expected to be sent to a conference committee where members of the Senate and House will hammer out a compromise.
The bill carries out a constitutional amendment approved by 64 percent of the voters in the November general election. It creates an independent agency to operate the lottery and a five-member lottery commission appointed by the governor.
Several features of the Senate version are different from the bill as
In addition, the upper chamber added a prohibition to ensure no one opens up stores where the only business is selling lottery tickets.
it passed the House
The Senate decided to place more responsibility on retail outlet selling the tickets to be sure those buying tickets are 18 years and older.
Under the bill, the Kansas Lottery agency would need about 120 new employees. Of the agency's $16 million annual operating budget, the agency will pay for the general fund and repaid from income generated by ticket sales.
The executive director of the Kansas Lottery would be appointed by the governor, as would members of the lottery commission, which would oversee operations of the agency. The commissioners would serve four-year terms and be subject to confirmation by the Senate.
A September startup is envisioned by Gov Mike Hayden, last month, then Mr. Mike Hayden.
Experts say Kansas can expect about $100 million in instant ticket sales the first year. The state share would translate into about $35 million. Projections are based on $40 a year by Kansas '2.3 million population.
State officials forsee about 1,500 to 2,000 retail outlets for the $1 instant purchase fee.
Of the total amount spent in a year on the lottery, 45 percent would go back to the public in prizes and 30 percent would be kept by the state. The remaining 25 percent would be used to operate the game, including printing tickets, security and advertising. Retail outlets would be paid 5 percent for their costs in selling tickets.
Catfish fever
Tyrone Hill, Lawrence resident, fishes at the Kansas River near the Second Street bridge. Hill was trying to catch catfish yesterday afternoon.
KU center strives for black leadership
Staff writer
Bv ROGER CORFY
The main goal of black educators today is to encourage black youth toward leadership in the 21st century, the director of a KU center that promotes black leadership said.
The center was established upon Chancellor Gene A. Budig's recommendation and was approved by the Board of Regents in May 1986.
"We have to find ways to motivate black students," said Jacob Gordon, director of the Center for Black Leadership Development and Research. "We have to demonstrate to them that they can succeed."
"This is the first center for black leadership development in any major
university in the United States." Gordon said.
The center sponsors leadership training programs and does research on black economic and social issues. Italso plans to emphasize improvement in black education and economic stability.
"Education is tied in with econom-
ic Gordon said "Employment is critica
The center's existence helps draw black students to the University, Gordon said, and officials also work indirectly to recruit black students. For instance, the center will invite 50 black honor students from Kansas high schools to a black leadership symposium in October.
"We will try to encourage those students to come to KU." Gordon S.
Gordon, also associate professor of African and African-American studies, has seen many changes in the University's minority population since he came from Nigeria in 1970. At the time, only four blacks were on the University faculty. Now there are 23.
"Most of them have come since Chancellor Budig came to the University," Gordon said. "He has been very helpful."
One of the center's main concerns is the high drop-out rate of black students at KU, he said. Black undergraduate enrollment has increased
"Students are dropping out of school who will be needed in the needy area."
"The quality and seriousness of the students has improved." he said.
However, those blacks now enrolled at the University are better students than in the past, Gordon said.
See MINORITY. D. 6. col. 6.
A recent study in Newsweek magazine said the percentage of black high school students nationwide who go on to college dropped from 50 percent to 42 percent in the past eight years.
Lawyers resist working for free on indigent cases
Bv PAUL BELDEN
Staff writer
Two Lawrence lawyers said yesterday that they and some others probably would not represent indigent defendants after this year if the state didn't give more money to Douglas County to pay them.
Meanwhile, Ron Miles, the director of the state Board of Indigents' Defense Services, said Douglas County would receive about the same amount of money from the state in fiscal year 1988 as it did in fiscal 1987.
One of the lawyers, Harry Warren, said, "If I had to make the choice right now, I'd probably get off the thing, because basically, with the way it's set up now, you end up doing work for free."
The $88,000 allocated to the county
of Fiscal 1987 can outlay 19. The
1987 budget will be July
The other lawyer, Milton Allen Jr,
has her heath on the panel to Ad-
lay his request.
"If there's not some funding," he
said, "I'm going to resist go back on the team."
Allen was not on the panel at the first of the year, but after a Douglas County Bar Association meeting last week, he and six other lawyers rejoined the panel so the case load could be spread more evenly.
"That was the way this was proposed to us at the last meeting — that this was a stopgap measure," Allen said. "It was understood that it would be contingent on (the state) finding a long-term solution."
The panel handles only felony cases for indigents. Juvenile and misdemeanor cases are financed by the county.
James W. Paddock, administrative judge for the 7th judicial District, which encompasses Douglas County, said earlier this week that two long-term solutions to the panel's problems were possible: more money for court-appointed lawyers or a public defender's office in Douglas County.
Yesterday, Miles said neither was probable.
Lawyers in private practice volunteer to be on a list from which indigents may be defended to defend indigents. A public defence would represent indigents full time.
The earliest a public defender's office could be set up in Douglas County would be July 1988, and even that is not on the agenda of the Board of Indigents' Defense Services, Miles said.
"The money won't be there." he
said. "You may be looking at $100,000 to $120,000 for an office that would handle only felonies."
The fiscal 1988 budget for indigents' defense in Douglas County will be somewhere between $58,000 and $65,000. Miles said.
In the meantime, the state board is searching for money to pay lawyers representing indigents in Douglas, Leavenworth, Butler, Johnson and Wyandotte counties. Those counties probably will also run out of money for indigents' defense before July, he said.
Crawford, Finney and Sedgwick counties probably will have a surplus at the end of fiscal 1987, he said, but that money won't be enough to pay the other counties' debts.
The state is overspending its budget for indigents' defense by a substantial amount, Miles said. Claims from court-appointed lawyers everywhere in the state are being cut by 12 percent.
The state board will meet March 27 to discuss possible short and longer times.
Halley Kampschroeder, president of the Douglas County Bar Association, said the association was seeking information from the Kansas Leiislature.
He said representatives of the association had appeared this week before a House Appropriations subcommittee to request more money. Right Kampschroeder said he was still willing for a response from legislators.
Meanwhile, Paddock said he would decide soon whether to require all Douglas County lawyers to be on the indigens' defense panel, thereby distributing the case load more evenly. Earlier in the week he said that if about 15 lawyers did not volunteer to be on the panel in addition to the original 23, he would consider making panel service mandatory.
As of yesterday, Kampschroeder said, the panel had 30 lawyers.
Some lawyers think it would be unfair to require everybody to be on the panel. Kampschroeder said, but they object to serving on the panel himself.
"There are two main objections to that," he said. "The biggest objection is that some people don't have criminal law experience. The second objection is that you would have to work for free."
But Allen said, "Good civil attorneys could very quickly become good criminal attorneys."
Parking costs may increase
Judy Higgins, Lawrence resident, works on the twister table, one of the machines at BodyTonics, 2223 Louisiana St. Higgins said the table was great exercise because all she had to do was lie down "and let the inches go away."
By BENJAMIN HALL
It's the ultimate exercise: no effort, no sweat
Staff writer
The board's report was approved by the University Senate Executive Committee on Friday. The proposal still must be approved by the chancellor and executive vice chancellor.
KU students, faculty and staff would pay more for KU parking permits under a plan the University Council approved yesterday
Raymond K. Moore, chairman of the board, said the report marked the first time the board had enough data to support its habits to make a systematic study.
The plan, presented by the University's Parking Board, also would change permit requirements for several parking lots, raise parking fines and try to cut down on abuses of the parking and departmental parking passes.
Evelyn Swartz, professor of curri-
Changes in lot permit requirements, along with lot restructuring and a proposed parking garage, the KU's parking problems, Moore said.
The board's plan would raise permit fees between $3 and $18. Blue permits would cost $70 instead of $52, red permits would cost $55 instead of $45, and yellow permits would cost $60. All stickers would rise only $3, to $23.
The price of a campus pass would rise from $17 to $30, and service passes for vendors would rise from $80 to $100.
See PARKING, p. 6, col. 3
By LAURA BOSTROM Staff writer
Clean, sweet-smelling clothes usually aren't associated with exercise. But BodiTonics' owner says people who work out at her fitness salon lose inches without any effort and without any sweat.
Exercisers spend eight minutes on each of six machines that work different body areas. The machines, or tables, build up muscle tone until people can work the muscles themselves.
"I was skeptical myself, 'till I saw the results," said Conene Heidrick, owner and manager of BodiTonics, 2233 Louisiana St.
BodiTonics has brought a new twist to exercising in Lawrence.
The exercisers lay on machines that massage, stretch and tone muscles for them, as well as increase circulation. The exerciser simply can lie there and let the machines do all the work, or add to the workout by resisting the machines.
Mike Chapman, Watkins Hospital chief physical therapist, said the passive motion BodTonics uses a step toward more strenuous fitness.
The padded tables generally will not make a client lose pounds, she said. Instead, the tables firm muscles and relax the body.
The first session costs $7.50
The salon's first client lost three inches from the mips and two from the height.
Heidrick said resisting movement enhanced the table's effects and made it easier to move.
"You're depending on something else to do the work for you," he said.
"But if the end result is a healthier person, that's not so bad."
Heidrick said her customers were at all fitness levels, but the toning system especially aided anyone who not able to do strenuous exercise.
"We have people who run, do aerobics, but they still can't get off that middle," she said. Others may be more motivated to effortless motion their only solution.
Katy Stewart, Lawrence High School senior, said her posture and circulation had improved after seven toning sessions.
"My clothes feel loose," she said as
a machine twisted her waist from side to side.
Heidrick said the tables did nothing for aerobic fitness, but that BodiTonics provided a treadmill machine and an exercise bike.
Chapman cautioned that people training new exercisers should have sufficient backgrounds in exercise physiology.
Heidrick has no background in physiology. She worked at a youth center in her hometown of Beloit before she and her husband decided to sell their farming business two years ago.
The business also is popular with Heidrick's family.
Family friend Audrey Jorgensen, a Beloit resident who is visiting Lawrence, exercises at the Beloit Hospital where she was popular in the town of 4,300.
Her daughter, Marla, works as Bodi-
Tonic's assistant manager.
Her sister-in-law opened a store in Salina, her brother and his wife opened one in McPherson, and Heidi and sister and sister opened one in Beloit.
"They practically have a line at the door," she said.
INSIDE
No thank you
The Kansas Jayhawks will open their spring softball season against Illinois State at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Jayhawk Field. See story page 11.
Season opener
Watson Library turned down two free microcomputers and a printer that would have been accessible to students because they would cause extra work for the library staff. See story page 3.
Tourney time
It's basketball tournament time.
The official bids for the men's and women's NCAA Tournament will be given out Sunday, and the Kansan will provide extra coverage as the roads to New Orleans and Austin begin.