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THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS Wednesday, February 7.2001
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Sports: Kansas baseball team names four experienced seniors as captains.
Inside: A student tells about her attempted suicide and how depression affects students.
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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD
Housing ordinance redrafted
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Joe Noel, Kansas City freshman, avails the City Council's decision regarding the housing ordinance. Last night's meeting drew dozens of supporters and detractors of the proposed ordinances. Photo by Jamie Roper/KANSAN
Public outcry persuades City Commission to rework housing proposal before voting
Bv Erin Adamson
wrter@kansan.com
Kansan staff reporter
The City Commission decided last night to redraft the proposed housing ordinances to change the number of unrelated persons that can live in residences zoned for single families from four to three.
The proposed ordinances previously had called to change the number of unrelated people who could live together in those neighborhoods to two.
Commissioners said that the strong public voice at the meeting meant that they needed to go back and rework the ordinances. Dozens of people crowded together to attend last night's meeting.
Holly Krebs, student senator and Lawrence senior, said that students had
Anton Menning, Lawrence sophomore, is a student and a homeowner in Lawrence and was the first student to address the commission.
Menning said that he owned a home and had roommates who paid rent. He said that even though he worked, he would not be able to pay the mortgage on his house if he couldn't live with other people who were unrelated to him who paid rent.
"I think if you do this, it will take away from the center of our town," he said.
Marlon Marshall, student body vice president and St. Louis junior, said he worried that that the ordinances would allow discrimination, because neighbors could report renters if they suspected that too many unrelated people were living together.
"It's impossible to enforce," he said. "If they don't like me because I'm Black, they can call the police."
always encouraged the licensing of land- lords, but that it was unfair that the ordi-nances would only require that houses in single family zones be registered, because licensing didn't apply to decrepit houses in other parts of town.
A number of landlords and concerned citizens also spoke against the ordinances.
Patricia Weis, a landlord who lives outside of Lawrence, said that the ordinances invaded the privacy of renters.
"Requiring landlords to disclose the marital or relationship status of their tenants is against the law," she said.
These are the four proposed ordinances as they stood before the commission last night:
Ordinance No. 7323 would have defined family as no more than two unrelated persons. This ordinance will be redrafted to limit the number to three unrelated people.
No. 7324 would require registration of non-conforming uses within 90 days.
No. 7325 would phase out non-conforming houses over three years as their leases ran out.
No. 7326, which the commission considered for the first time last night, would require licensing of the owner, inspections and a $25 fee to the owner of properties in single-family zoned neighborhoods.
The commission will bring back 7323 and 7324 for a vote at next Tuesday night's meeting.
City Commission primary elections will be on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Students can register to vote in the election at the Student Senate office.
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Memorial service for RA set for Monday
By Lauren Brandenburg
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Ann Curry was one of many people yesterday who worked to help the family of Shyra McGee, a Wichita senior who was killed Sunday night in a car accident at Sixth Street and Monterey Wav.
Curry, a Stouffer Place resident assistant, had worked with McGee as a RA and in the Stouffer Place housing association. Curry has arranged for people to take meals to the family.
She said people could sign up in the Jayhawker Towers office to bring a dish that would feed 12 people. She said she was coordinating enough meals in case McGee's relatives stayed through the entire week.
Yesterday was taken care of, but
Curry said signups were still needed for today and Thursday and possibly for Friday and Saturday as well.
A memorial service for McGee is scheduled for Monday at 2 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium at the Kansas Union.
The service is open to the public.
Jamie Shew, complex director for apartment living, arranged for McGee's family to stay on campus. He said his staff had been helping to
McGeen her memorial service, open to the public, is scheduled for Monday
provide linens, towels and other basic necessities for the family.
"I think you just start helping when something happens and don't stop to think about it," he said.
Shew said it was the first time he had lost a staff member, and he was working to deal with that on a personal basis as well as working with McGee's residents.
Plans for a memorial service for McGee in Lawrence were put on hold yesterday while McGee's husband, John, remained at Lawrence Memorial Hospital after having jaw surgery Monday.
Curry said McGee was accepting personal visits yesterday and was expected to be released today.
Amber Sellers, Wichita sophomore and member of Sigma Gamma Rho,
McGee's sorority, remained in fair condition yesterday at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Deena Hardie, nontraditional student senator, shared memories of Shyra McGee yesterday, saying she probably would not have been a senator without McGee's influence.
"She was always up for anything with regard to non-traditional students," Hardie said. "She saw most problems as projects to be worked out, and we worked on them together."
The thing Hardie said she most remembered about McGee was how "she was always organizing something for someone else."
McGee's funeral will be held Saturday in Wichita.
Local businesses open elsewhere
By Sarah Warren
writer@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
The couple perfected the recipes, designed the logo and paid the bills to build the Lawrence-based business at 704 Massachusetts St. into a thriving restaurant.
Rudy's Pizzeria is Chad and Julie Glazer's baby.
Waxman Candles, 609 Massachusetts St.; Sylas and Maddy's Home Made Ice Cream Store, 1014 Massachusetts St.; and Bloom Bathr & Body, 704 Massachusetts St.; are among the other home-town companies that can be found outside Lawrence.
Three months ago, Steve and Sharon Scoggins, former employees of Rudy's, opened a Rudy's Pizzeria in Bellingham, Wash., becoming the newest Lawrence-based company to expand out of town.
But now Rudy has a little brother.
Each of these companies has quickly found that what's working well in downtown Lawrence can work well somewhere else.
Waxman has a second store in Lake View, Ill., Sylas & Maddy's Home Made Ice Cream Store can also be found in Olathe, and Bloom Bath & Body has begun to distribute its products in department stores nationwide.
"Everything at Rudy's came from my wife and 1 and 10 years of really hard work, so it would be weird to see all of our hard work in another store," he said. "It's not a big, corporate expansion or anything, though. It's a friend that wanted to open one up."
"The new store is doing really well." Chad Glazer said. "We know a lot of people who went to school here and then moved to the northwest so they're pretty excited about it."
However, when the Scoggins approached the Glazers about opening another store, Chad Glazer said he initially was apprehensive.
Bob Werts, owner of Waxman Candles, said he felt safe expanding his 30-year-old business to Chicago five years ago, for the same reasons the Glazers felt safe to expand — an old friend wanted to open a sister store.
Same Lawrence businesses that have moved outside Lawrence include:
BUSINESS EXPANSION
Rudy's Pitzerz, 704 Massachusetts St., opening in Bellingham. Wash.
- Sylas & Maddy's Home Made Ice Cream Store, 1014 Massachusetts St., opened in Oathe
Bloom Bath & Body, 704 Massachusetts St., is distributing its products in department stores nationwide.
■ Waxman Candles, 609 Massachusetts
Student housing in the Chicago area.
Mark Smirli worked at Werts' store in Lawrence, and he made a deal with Werts to open a store in Lake View, Ill. Now five years old, the store is doing great business, especially among KU alumni.
"Many of the people who are excited about the Chicago store are the kids who graduate and move there," Werts said. "Mark, the manager there, was telling me about how excited people were."
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Logos from several local businesses that originated in Lawrence now appear elsewhere in Kansas and the country as the companies begin to franchise. Photo illustration by Laurie Skii and Selenja jabara/KANSAN
Israeli vote causes mixed reactions
By Danny Phillips
writer@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
By Danny Phillips
Students and faculty at the University of Kansas, who had an invested interest in the outcome of the Israeli election for prime minister yesterday, had opinions as varied as their nationalities when Israeli television reported unofficially that Lukid party leader Ariel Sharon had won in a landslide.
Susan Shafer-Landau, director of KU Hillel Foundation, a campus organization for Jewish students, said she was cautious about the outcome. Exit polls predicted Sharon had defeated current Prime Minister Ehud Barak by an almost 20 percent margin.
"It's sort of ironic and sad," she said. "Palestinians had the best opportunity for peace with Barak."
Shafer-Landau said the result of the election was a symbol of Israel's frustration with Barak, who was elected in 1999 with high expectations of reaching a peace deal with Palestinians but was never able to arrive at a compromise.
Israeli Arabs are traditionally more loyal to Palestinians than to the state of Israel, said Shafer-Landau. They were major supporters of Barak 18 months ago, but during yesterday's special election many of them stayed away from the polls.
Not everyone on campus shares her optimism, however.
Now with Sharon, a former general, seemingly ready to take power, Shafer-Landau said she would try to remain an optimist and not think this outcome would lead to war.
Raja Abu-Jabr, a Palestinian graduate student from Deir Balah, Gaza, said she was worried about her family, who still lives in Gaza, now that Sharon is the new prime minister.
She said she viewed Sharon as a "war symbol" and blames him for the massacre of Palestinian Arab refugees in Lebanon in the early 1980s. An Israeli commission found the former general indirectly responsible for the attack.
Deborah Gerner, associate professor of political science, used to live in the West Bank and is a Palestinian sympathizer. She said Sharon would be a lot harder to deal with than Barak because the Lukid party leader was less willing to compromise on territory or Jerusalem, which both sides claim as their capital.
But Gerner also said leading up to the election, Sharon did seem to be more pragmatic and less ideological than in the past.
Hillel member Igor Shkolnik, Overland Park senior, has relatives living in Israel and said he was glad Sharon won the election because he felt the new leader would take a strategically tough stand against the Palestinian leaders.
"Even though peace is important, I think peace is not an end in itself," Shkolnik said.
While he believes some concessions are necessary to achieve lasting peace, he's also pleased Sharon won't offer as much to the Palestinians as Barak did.
"Irael has been pushed over too many times." Shkolnik said.
Sara Rubin, Elgin, Ill., junior, has been to Israel three times and also felt Sharon was the best choice. She believes "solidarity" will define Israel under Sharon's leadership and she was glad he was uncompromising on the status of Jerusalem.
Rami Earwish, a Palestinian junior from Jordan, called Sharon an "Arab hater" and also holds him responsible for the refugee massacre. He said the new prime minister would "kill whatever chances of peace were left."
— The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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