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Two failed referendums that would have raised student fees by $35 could be seen tonight in the full Senate meeting.
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BLOOD DRIVE
Controversy flows about donor discrimination
BY KATY BLAIR
Disclaimers will appear at the University's annual blood drive to quell suspicions of discrimination.
The KU Blood Drive Committee has received negative inquiries about the donating process on campus; specifically about the exclusion of gay and bisexual men.
The donator screening process excludes sexually active homosexual
or bisexual men because of their increased risk for contracting HIV from other men. Jonathan Pryor, Columbus senior and president of Queers and Allies, said this exclusion was based on faulty evidence.
"This is outdated information," Pryor said. "If the FDA is really following guidelines, they shouldn't allow African-American women to donate either. They are currently the highest risk factor for HIV."
The KU Blood Drive Committee held an open forum Tuesday evening to explain donating regulations. Pryor and others attended the forum to talk about the necessity of asking a person's sexual nature in order to donate blood.
information available, Pryor said he thought a person's sexual orientation should be left confidential.
Pror said questions on sexual orientation seemed discriminatory because donors provided extensive medical history and the blood was tested for diseases. With all of this
The Blood Drive Committee reached an agreement with Queers and Allies to provide a disclaimer stating the committee was a non-discriminatory group but was required to follow Food and Drug Administration guidelines.
The discrimination in donating blood has been an ongoing problem
for Queers and Allies. Priyor said the group approached Student Senate in 2003 to discontinue funding for the blood drive, but "the donation of blood was more important that discrimination of gay and bisexual people," he said.
This year marks the first positive discussion Queers and Allies conducted with the KU Blood Drive
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》 DOWNTOWN
Mass. Street Deli closes
SEE BLOOD DRIVE ON PAGE 4A
Mass. Street Deli shuts down after 34 years of business. Owner Bob Schumm said that the competition the deli faced from other restaurants on Massachusetts Street was too much for the small deli to keep up with.
Longtime business shuts down after struggling to keep up with competitors
BY JOE HUNT
Mass. Street Deli closed for the last time on Sunday night. The 34-year old restaurant faced tough competition from a growing number of restaurants in the downtown area.
Owner Bob Schumm said that the restaurant, located at 941 Massachusetts St., simply didn't have enough business to make running it worth his while. When he got a generous offer for the real estate, he didn't turn it down.
"The fact that there's an extremely
large amount of restaurants downtown makes everyone do less and less business," Schumm said. "There's not new diners, the market just gets sliced up."
Lauren Foulkes was a manager at the restaurant until about a year ago. She wasn't surprised that the restaurant closed.
"Some days we only sold like $200 worth of food," Foulnes said. "We all kind of had a feeling it was going to happen."
Katie Young, a manager until the restaurant closed, said that the slowest times were in the winter. In the tan and summer, the nice weather attracted more customers to the patio.
Schumm said running two restaurants of different styles was difficult, and he had been wanting to dedicate his attention to Buffalo Bob's.
About 25 people worked at the restaurant — most of them students. Schumm said that many employees had other jobs they could go to, and others could be transferred to Buffalo Bob's Smokehouse, 719 Massachusetts St., another restaurant he owns.
But he had some good memories
at Mass. Street Deli. His favorite times were when Lawrence was flooded with fans during KU home football games and he would see lots of alumni in his restaurant. But Schumm knows that another restaurant will soon take Mass. Street Deli's place.
Kansan staff writer Joe Hunt can be contacted at jhunt@kansan. com.
"it's gone into the history books, as they say" he said.
— Edited by Stacey Couch
》 DEBATE
Teams qualify for national tourney
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BY NATHAN GILL
The cluttered headquarters of KU Debate in Budig Hall's subbasement is no Allen Fieldhouse, but it is a place of champions. For the 40th consecutive year, the University of Kansas is sending teams to the National Debate Tournament.
KU Debate has two teams going to this year's tournament in Dallas, Brett Bricker, Wichita junior, and Andrew Jennings, Silver Lake junior, made the tournament based on their 68-21 record. Another pair, Lindsey Lathrop, Overland Park senior, and Nathan Johnson, Manhattan senior, won entry to the tournament last weekend by winning a qualifying tournament in Austin, Texas.
Bricker, who debated at last year's national tournament, said he and Jennings had a good shot at winning this year.
"We beat a lot of the top teams in the country pretty consistently." Bricker said, mentioning Harvard, Emory and Dartmouth. "We beat K-State a lot. They're not much of a competition."
Scott Harris, KU debate coach, said the University had done well at past tournaments, winning four national championships and making it to the Final Four 13 times. Harris said he thought his teams had the talent to make it to at least the Sweet 16 of the national tournament. Seventy-eight teams are competing in the tournament.
They have the talent to do
>> FUNDRAISER
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Proceeds benefit Haitian orphanage
BY TYLER HARBERT
Men anpil chay pa lou.
In Creole, the predominant language of Haiti, those words mean, "Many hands make the load lighter."
Members of the Latin American Solidarity and the Honors Program Student Council are trying to make the load lighter for a group of Haitian female orphans who have been denied access to the same housing given to their male neers.
Danielle Coffyn, Prairie Village junior and member of both the Latin American Solidarity and the Honors Program Student Council, was the
lead organizer for the Haitian Girl Project, a fundraiser held Tuesday at Ecumenical Christian Ministries. The fundraiser benefited the construction of an all-girls dormitory at Maison Fortune Orphanage in Hinche, Haiti.
The event was donation based and featured free Haitian cuisine, guest speakers and drawings for gift certificates to local restaurants.
Coffyn said that under Haitian law, boys and girls could attend school together at the orphanage, but after classes the girls left the school compound and stayed with neighbors, relatives or whoever would take them in.
"It they could stay at the orphanage, it would be a much better living situation," Coffyn said.
She said that 50 to 80 percent of the Haittian population was illiterate, so the type of free education the orphanage provided was greatly needed. She also said that the education and overall well-being of women in third world countries was often overlooked in place of educating only the male students.
"When we heard they wanted a girls' compound, we jumped to help because we thought it was an amazing opportunity," Coffyn said.
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Brebeca Monroe, Fayetteville, Ark., junior, far right, fills her plate with traditional Haitian food during a fundraiser at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries building Tuesday night.
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