University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, February 11, 1987
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Committee approves funds for crew
By LISA A. MALONEY
Staff writer
The Student Senate Finance Committee approved a bill last night that would give $37,450 to the KU Crew to purchase new racing boats and gear.
"Crew is an expensive sport," said Scott Long, Kingwood, Texas, sophomore and captain of the crew team. "If you want to compete, you have to have state-of-the-art equipment."
Amy Eatherly, committee member, spoke against the bill, which she said was unfair to other student organizations.
"We're depriving everyone else on campus. I don't think we have the right to give them that much money," she said.
The full Senate, which will meet at 7 p.m. today in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union, also must approve the expenditure.
But Tom Woods, Senate treasurer,
said the crew bill would not be
discussed at tonight's Senate meeting
because it had not yet passed
through the University Affairs committee.
Kelly Milligan, student body vice president, said bills that called for large expenditures usually passed in the fall. "We were heard by the full Senate."
Before the meeting, Milligan said most of the five bills scheduled for discussion would be passed by the Finance Committee.
"A lot of these bills are not killed in committee, but once they get to the Senate floor, there's no telling what will happen," he said.
it the full Senate allocates the money for the KU Crew, the team will purchase two eight-man racing boats, or shells, for $12,400 each; one four-man shell for $6,600; 27 life vessels for $810; 20 oars for $3,800; and a coxswain the amplifier system for $1,440. Long said.
He said the bill represented capital improvements for equipment. The team pays for its yearly operating expenses of more than $34,000 through fund-raisers and membership dues of $45 a year. Long said.
shells, but the newest ones are four years old, and the club still uses one shell that is 11 years old, he said.
The team now has seven racing
Long told the committee that KU's team competes against schools whose teams receive money from their athletic departments and against schools, such as Wichita State, whose crew team receive more than $35,000 each year from their student governments.
Ann Hiszczynsky, committee member, said she supported the bill because the team members were dedicated to the sport, putting in as much as 12 hours a week of practice. The fact that the crew is able to compete against better-equipped teams reflects well on the University.
Bill would regulate toilets on trains running in Kansas
By a Kansan reporter
TOPEKA — Removing toilets from Kansas trains will become illegal if some members of the Senate have their way.
The proposal was one of several bills submitted to the Senate yesterday.
The bill, which was submitted by 13 legislators, would affect railroad companies operating in Kansas. It would require them to equip engines and cabooses that carry railroad workers with drinking water.
Under the bill, trains also must have working toilets, which would have to be kept clean to prevent the spread of disease.
If a railroad company removed a toilet from a caboose, or let a toilet fall into disrepair, the company could be fined $200. Companies that do not have toilets on trains would not have to install them.
English will become Kansas official language if another Senate bill passes. But the bill does not provide for any measures to promote or enforce an official language.
Club intends to enliven history for students
By PAUL SCHRAG
Staff writer
Members of a newly formed history club hope to enrich students' enjoyment of history, club organizers said yesterday.
The club will have its first meeting at 7 p.m. today in the Pine Room of the Kansas Union. Two faculty members and a political science teaching assistant from Nicaragua will speak on "The Historical Aspects of U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Nicaragua."
Bryan Schmidtieeler, Salina junior and the club's president, said he
hoped the first meeting's topic would generate students' interest in the
"We're going to study different aspects of history that you don't get in class," he said. "We'll apply history to everday life."
Kelle Roesch, Prairie Village senior and club treasurer, said the club was open to any undergraduate student, not just history majors.
The meeting tonight will feature presentations by Charles Stansifer, professor of Latin American history and director of the KU Center of
Latin American Studies; Robert Tomasek, professor of political science who specializes in U.S. foreign policy toward Central America; and Flavio Valladares, a Nicaraguan native who lived in Nicaragua during the 1979 Sandinista revolution.
Valladares said he supported revolutionary change in Nicaragua but did not support the Sandinista government.
Stansifer, who was part of a Kansas delegation that toured Central America for nine days in January, said U.S. foreign policy issues involving Central America had historical roots in the 19th century.
The first U.S. military intervention in Nicaragua was in the 1850s, although it was not sanctioned by the U.S. government, he said. In 1909, the United States embarked a liberal government in Nicaragua and install a conservative one.
From 1912 to 1933, U.S. troops occupied Nicaragua to support the conservative government, Stansifer said.
Roesch said the history club planned to meet twice a month.
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