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Wednesday, March 4, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Court definition of lottery would allow state casinos
By CHRISTOPHER HINES
Staff writer
TOPEKA — Kansas lawmakers may not have understood the definition of lottery when they presented a constitutional amendment to Kansas voters last fall, a state attorney said yesterday.
Brenda L. Braden, Kansas deputy attorney general, said that lottery, as defined by the courts, must be made state to operate gambling casinos.
"I think there has been some confusion at the state Legislature about what would fall under the letter bill." Braden said.
Kansas Attorney General Bob Stephan said last week that in his opinion, several Kansas Supreme Court decisions had set a good precedent for the definition of a lottery. He defined a lottery as any game that has a prize, an element of chance and a consideration. A consideration is the money a player bets.
Braden, who drafted Stephan's lottery option, said, "This could apply to a lot of Las Vegas-type machines and even slot machines. But this
would depend on how narrowly the court defines lottery."
Some state legislators who helped write the lottery amendment said they never intended to create gambling casinos in Kan-
"We put the word lottery in the amendment so the state would have some flexibility when developing games," said State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, chairman of the Senate Federal Commission to the state. "But I honestly don't foresee the State operating casinos."
Kansas voters last fall approved a constitutional amendment that would allow the state to operate a lottery. The Senate is expected to give preliminary approval of the lottery bill today.
Braden said that under Stephan's opinion, Kansas could offer the first state-run gambling casinos in the United States.
The Rev. Richard E. Taylor Jr., president of Kansans for Life At Its Best!', a state temperance organization, said yesterday that he would take Stephan's opinion to court if the state Legislature
decided to develop gambling casinos.
"It it shows that the lottery amendment was so poorly written that it should be thrown out," Taylor said. "Kansas voters should have been told what they were voting for."
Taylor had asked State Rep. Vincent Snowbagger, R-Olathe, to request an opinion from Stephan concerning the lottery because Taylor thought the state's proposed lottery games did not fall under the strict definition of a lottery.
"I was expecting a narrower definition," Taylor said. "But I received just the opposite."
Braden said the Legislature's inexperience in dealing with gambling issues was the main reason for the present confusion. She said the Legislature never asked the attorney general's opinion when it was writing the lottery amendment.
"The state constitution has been drastically amended by the voters, and dealing with all the resulting legal questions has just begun," she said.
Traditional non-Western dances focus of director's presentation
By JERRI NIEBAUM
Staff writer
A dance can be abstract, but it can also be about riding in a canoe, hunting wild animals or making love.
"One of the ways people learn about being good husbands and wives is through dance," said Spider Kedelsky, on sabbatical from directing the dance program at Amherst College in Amherst. Mass.
Kedelsky spoke to about 50 people in the Burge Union last night and showed videotapes of traditional Australian, Polynesian and Brazilian dances.
As the group watched a tape of aboriginal dancers from Australia,
"They are a vehicle for you to learn who you are and how you fit into society." Kedelsky said.
he said, "Traditionally, they're hun ters, so there are spears."
As Polynesians performed a dance on the screen, Kedelsky said, "In some societies, people take drugs and fight, out and fight. These people dance."
Kedelsky taught master classes in modern jazz to KU dancers Monday and yesterday. Expressions Dance Club sponsored the events.
Elizabeth Sherborn, dance department director at KU from 1961 to 1975, attended last night's lecture. She said that she had never seen dancers perform the wildly spiritual dances from Brazil that Kedelsky showed, but that all dance was spiritual in some way.
"It has to be spiritual in one way or it doesn't work." she said. "You have
to feel it and do it."
On the screen, yellow and black-painted Australian aborigines danced to the traditional music of clicking sticks and large wooden
But the non-Western dances the group watched had been influenced by Western theater, Kedelsky said.
"They've adapted traditional dances or working with American artists."
The Australians created an entrance dance to satisfy Western audiences because traditionally they did not dance on a stage and did not have to enter or exit from a proscenium. They also added bows, which Kedelsky said were "worty of the Bolshoi."
Briton retains title in pancake race
The Associated Press
LIBERAL — The United States will have to wait until next year for another chance to regain the prestige of victory in the Shrove Tuesday international pancake race.
Elizabeth Bartlett's victory at Olney, England, was her second in a row and the fifth straight time that a British woman has won the race in which women run a 415 yard course while carrying a frying pan with a pancake in it.
The competitors must flip their pancakes twice, at the beginning and end of the race.
Bartlett, a 30-year-old mother of two, ran from Olney's Market Square to the city's 14th century church in 64.7 seconds, crossing the line a yard ahead of her closest competitor in the 20-woman field.
At Liberal, Marcia Streiff, 29, a housewife with three children, led a field of 12 runners, but her time of 70.1 seconds was well behind Bartlett's.
At Olney, race organizer John Hanson said the traditional race had been run continually since 1445. The trans-Atlantic rivalry with Liberal, a southwest Kansas community of 16,000, began in 1950.
The race is always on Shrove Tuesday, when English women traditionally make pancakes to use up the day's leftovers before the 40 days of Lenten fasting.
Streiff passed up last year's race to have her third child but began running again two weeks after the birth.
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