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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Tuesday, February 20, 2001
Sports: Iowa State loss takes Kansas men's basketball team out of running for conference title.
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Inside: Residence halls set to go smoke-free under new housing department plan.
(USPS 650-640) • VOL. 11 NO. 95
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Senate might grant money to religious organizations
By Brooke Hesler
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
A proposed bill would allow Student Senate to grant money to religious organizations after the Society of Open-Minded Atheists and Agnostics received financing last week..
the bill, which will go to Senate committees tomorrow, states that Senate must distribute money in a "viewpoint neutral fashion," meaning Senate cannot deny money solely on the basis of the organization's viewpoint. Brandon Bell, co-sponsor of the bill and off-campus senator, said that while he might not like the idea of granting money to religious groups, the bill is necessary.
"It's not up to Senate to decide what a religion is," Bell said. "We could have Muslim and Christian groups come through, but then we could have the Branch Davidians come through and ask for money. This gives us some more concrete guidelines."
Previously, Senate's rules and regulations handbook stated that Senate couldn't grant money to any organization whose primary function was religious. At last week's Senate meeting, there was much debate when the Society of OpenMinded Atheists and Agnostics was granted $387. Although SOMA is not registered as a religious organization with the office of Organizations and Leadership, the constitutionality of Senate's procedures for allocating money was called into question.
Marlon Marshall, student body vice president, told senators that he had received advice from General Counsel stating that some of the current clauses in the rules and regulations handbook could be considered unconstitutional because they discriminated against groups on the basis of expressed viewpoint.
Despite the fact that religious organizations may be eligible for money, the new bill states that Senate can't grant money to any group that exclusively promotes one religion. While some have said the wording is too vague, Bell disagrees.
"The wording in the bill is intentionally vague," Bell said. "It allows for a lot of debates on the issues when groups are coming through Senate."
Each organization would be required to submit a statement of purpose before submitting a funding proposal. Katie Bartlett, co-sponsor of the bill and Student Senate Executive Committee secretary, said she hoped the bill would remedy some problems.
"We might be more likely to fund Campus Crusade for Christ than a Catholic group because Campus Crusade encompasses more viewpoints." Bartlett said.
Aaron Profiff, University Affairs committee member, said although he hadn't read the bill, he thought it was the best idea thus far.
See SENATE on page 5A
"I think it's going to be decided on a case-by-case basis," Profitz said. "That's
Budget woes hit University
By Cássio Furtado
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
All University units have been asked to stop any hiring and equipment purchases, and to stop the hiring process for next year until new plans are made.
The University asked departments and schools yesterday to cut $1.15 million from this year's budget and prepare for a $3 million cut in next year's estimated budget.
The cuts were announced by Provest David Shulenburger in a press release and by Chancellor Robert Hemenway in an e-mail to faculty and staff.
lny reflect the University's reaction to the budget recommendations announced by Gov. Bill Graves on Jan. 8.
"You will begin to see the effects of these cuts immediately." Hemenway said in the
e-mail. "Expenses will be curtailed, positions will not be filled, equipment will not be purchased, and we will all be inconvenienced."
Hemenway said he remained hopeful that the legislature would amend the recommendations before it ended deliberations.
"I pledge that the University will do everything to encourage Topeka to support higher education," he said.
Hemenway said in the e-mail that the University's utility expenses had increased more than $1 million at the Lawrence campus and $400,000 at the University of Kansas Medical Center in the current fiscal year.
He said those costs, added to other administrative costs, would cause a shortfall of $1.15 million in the Lawrence campus budget and $364,000 in the Med Center budget.
Shulenburger said he hoped the legislla
BUDGET CUTS
What happened: The University has requested that schools and departments cut their budgets to account for a $1.15 million cut recommended by Gov. Bill Graves on Jan. 8.
**What it means:** All units will stop personnel hiring and equipment purchases for this year and suspend hiring plans for next year
What's next? Deans and department chairs will have to adapt to the cuts while the University continues to lobby for Graves and the legislature to restore the funds.
ture would approve the University's request for supplemental funds to cover these costs.
Marlin Rein, director of governmental affairs and budget, said the University
would continue to work with Graves and the legislature to try to obtain more money.
"It's not over until it's over," Rein said.
Stephen McAllister, dean of law, said the school had an unfilled staff position, which would not be filled.
He also said the school's legal aid clinic and student common area projects would be suspended temporarily.
"The cut will hurt us." McAllister said. "Proyects will be put on hold."
Carl Locke Jr., dean of engineering, said that the school had commitments to students and faculty at this point in the semester, but that the school would be able to adapt to the University's measures.
Students brew up homemade spirits
"It will be difficult, but we will be able to do it." Locke said.
Edited by Jason McKee
Ben Johnson, Shawnee sophomore, and Jennifer Gunby, Roeland Park junior, brew and bottle their own beer and wine in their apartment. Together they have been experimenting with the brewing process since this past summer. Photo by Nick Krug/KANSAN
By Sarah Warren
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
A five-gallon jug sits on the kitchen table in the apartment shared by Ben Johnson and Jennifer Gunby. The glass bottom of the jug covers the table almost completely, making it nearly impossible
for the couple to have a meal. The contents of the jug — a mostly amber liquid sandwiched by two layers of frothy foam — stew and gurge.
"This one's still going at it. It's still got bubbles. It's got another week before secondary fermentation," Gumbv said. "Then we'll bottle it."
Gunby, Roeland park junior, and Johnson, Shawnee sophomore, don't
mind the giant bottle obstructing their dinner conversation — the lack of a kitchen table one week out of the month is just something the couple has learned to accept in the name of their love of home brewing.
"It's actually very entertaining to watch the brew ferment," Gunby said. "The bubbles, they keep rising to the top in all sorts of shapes and sizes. It's
a wonderful conversation piece."
This one, Johnson will tell you, is a variation of a honey brown ale. It's his own recipe — his first true deviation from the tried and true recipes that he finds in brewing books and at home brew stores. Johnson began brewing this past summer, drawing his girlfriend.
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Kitchens of meth: the drug's producers
A homemade disaster: meth's popularity due to easy recipe
By Phil Cauton
writer@kansan.com
Kansas senior staff write
Cooking methamphetamine made Adam feel like God.
After several years of honing his technique, he could make the best meth in Topeka. His stuff was revered on the street. Everybody wanted what he could make. They pleaded with him to cut them in on his next batch. They paid hundreds of dollars for it every week.
Of course, it didn't hurt that he was usually high on the drug himself, a drug which typically induces just such a feeling of omnibiotice.
At least once a month, Adam would steal the ingredients he needed from Wal-Mart or have his customer/friends do it — 30 cans of starting fluid, 40 lithium batteries and 50 boxes of cold tablets. Because
he always abandoned equipment at the cook site, he'd also need a couple of mason jars, a small cooler, some coffee filters and a rubber hose.
Even though he could buy the ingredients and still turn a healthy profit, stealing was safer. In the quantities he needed, the ingredients could be red-flagged at the check-out counter.
Then, a few hours before sunset, he's head to one of his cook sites outside the city — Adam's favorite was under a low bridge on Highway 40. On the way, though, he had to stop by a farm to fill his cooler with anhydrous ammonia fertilizer. The pressurized, cylindrical feeder tanks he had staked out weren't
enclosed and were far enough from the farmer's house that he could steal the ingredient without a problem.
Adam needed the noxious fertilizer for its unusually quick evaporating quality. An hour after dissolving the cold tablets in it, he'd have a purer form of the pills' active ingredient, pseudoephedrine. Using lithium strips from the batteries and ether extracted from the starting fluid, he'd produce a blend of both lethal bi-products and a powerful stimulant.
In four or five hours total, he'd have a quarter-pound of meth — worth more than $11,000 — or enough to keep a couple dozen addicts high for a month.
Today Adam is locked up in Lansing correctional facility for manufacturing methamphetamine. Last year, a record 702
labs like Adam's were busted in Kansas, from unt just four in 1994.
Probably the single most facilitating factor in the Kansas meth boom is the diffusion of a quick and easy recipe — the one used by Adam and almost all other meth cooks, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
It's called the Nazi method, and hundreds of variations of the basic recipe are readily available on the Internet or in books like Uncle Fester's Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture.
Accounts vary on where the Nazi method originated. Some, such as KBI Director Larry Welch, say it goes back to meth's use by the German army (as well as Japanese
See CLANDESTINE on page GA
Easy-to-follow recipes for manufacturing meth are widely available on the internet and in books like this one. This copy of Uncle Fester's costs $30 from Amazon.com and contains 200 pages of detailed tips and diagrams for making meth, as well as advice on how to avoid getting caught.
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