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University Daily Kansan / Monday, April 15, 1991
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Out of his shell
Terry Doonan, Lawrence graduate student and employee of the division of mammalogy and herpetology at the Museum of Natural History, points out different parts of a snapping turtle's shell. Doonan's turtle display was part of the 11th annual Museum Day sponsored by KU museums.
Regents budget bill to remain unresolved until recess is over
By Joe Gose
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — After two legislative conference committee meetings, the higher education financing bill remains $12 million light and will not be discussed again until legislators return from recess April 24.
The committee, which met twice Friday to hammer out House and Senate disagreements on the bill, negotiated of three members from each body.
State Reps George Teagarden, D-LaCyneg, Bill Wisdom, D-Kansas City, and Rochelle Chromister, R-Neodesha, represented the House
position that would restore $16 million to the Board of Regents budget, while State Sens. Gus Bogina, R-Shawnee, Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and Paul Feleciano Jr., D-Wichita, pushed for the Senate's version that would cut $12 million from the budget.
Although many technical discrepancies were ironed out, Chronister said the lack of a tax increase would make it difficult to restore money to the budget.
"The Senate, of course, hasn't passed any kind of revenue measure," she said. "And the House has already spent all the money they
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, who attempted to restore $20 million to the budget during debate on the bill on the Senate floor, said that waiting to discuss the bill would be the best scenario in the long run.
raised on K-12 education. The meetings were not very productive."
Winter said that any tax measure that would make the restoration of some financial possible would not be required by the Legislature returned from recess.
"I would have preferred that my motion passed two days ago," he said.
GALA Week stresses education, celebration
Saturday's parade on Massachusetts, dance to complete week of learning By Lara Gold
Kansan staff writer
Jamie Howard hates when people ask her, "Why are you a lesbian?"
"Why are you the way you are?" responds Howard, co-director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas.
She said it was frustrating that people did not try to meet gays.
But this week KU students have a chance to change their ignorance to knowledge.
Gay and Lesbian Awareness Week began last night with a performance by KU's theater department. The
performance at Smith Hall was a collection of excerpts from poems and plays depicting various aspects of the gav and lesbian lifestyles.
About 30 people attended last night's performance, which dealt with relationships between gays and lesbians, how they address questions about their sexuality and discrimination from society.
"It bridges the gap between ignor-
"i bridges the gap between ignorance and our culture," Howard said. GALA Week will continue through Saturday with various speakers and including topics about homophobia, combating sexism racism and political activism. The celebration will conclude with a parade down Massachusetts Street from City Hall to South Park and a dance in the Burge Union.
"Part of my duty is to let people know who I am." Howard said. "It's celebrating what we are, and often
we don't get a chance to celebrate."
The goal of the celebration is to educate the entire student body, including the gay and lesbian population, to understand the lesbian and bisexual pride, she said.
Scott Manning, co-coordinator for publicity for GLSOK, agreed.
A gay pride group was started in the aftermath of riots caused by the Stone Wall raid. Manning said.
He said that the police raided the Stone Wall bar because the people were gay and that the bar's patrons decided to fight back.
He said gay pride started in the late 1960s after a gay bar in New York City was raided by police.
He stressed that GALA Week was for everyone to participate in.
"But it makes people realize gay and lesbian students and faculty are important to the University," he said.
House rejects resolution against flag desecration
Debate about proposition arouses strong feelings
By Joe Gose Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — A last-minute House debate concerning a resolution supporting the prohibition of flag desecration brought tears to many of the participants and hushed the House's usual cacophonic atmosphere.
The resolution, unanimously passed in the Senate, would have told the U.S. Congress that Kansans support a bill to outlaw flag desecration.
But the House Judiciary Committee reconstructed the resolution to simply warn Congress to weigh freezing such an amendment.
The House passed the committee's version 73-22.
The emotional debate began when State Rep. Jeff Freeman, R-Burlington, said the committee had had enough time to pose to restore the Senate's intent.
Freeman said Gov Joan Finney and more than 40,000 Kansas citizens have joined the campaign.
'Our state deserves better. We've survived because we're rugged individualists.
— Mark Parkinson State Rep., R-Olathe
desecration.
But State Rep. Mark Parkinson, R-Olathe, said that a constitutional amendment was not needed and that the survival of Kansas throughout history was due to the freedoms guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
"It's possible that a statute could be constructed that could pass constitutional muster," he said. "I don't care if other states have done this. I don't care if it passed through the Senate 38-0."
"Our state deserves better. We've survived because we're rugged individualists."
State Rep. Ruth Ann Hacker, JD,
Odette, another opponent of Freeman's proposal, tearfully said that to change the Bill of Rights would be an
affront to the sacrifices her family members had made when defending those rights in World War II.
"Sometimes it's unpupular to take a stand for freedom of speech when we don't agree with some of the ideas that are being offered," she said
a stand for freedom of speech when we don't agree with some of the ideas that are being offered," she said. State Rep John. Solbach, D-Lawrence, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, was chairperson of the committee that constructed the House version of the bill.
Solbach, who also became emotional when recalling the 397-day stint he served in Vietnam, said he had been wounded before he had reached voting age while fighting `n` enemy that wanted to establish `n` a government that suppressed all fundamental human rights.
Freeman said he respected every opinion expressed during the debate but disagreed.
"The question is what kind of message do we want to send?" he asked. "A weak one that came out of it was a simple one that came out of the Senate!"
1990 candidates help Impact
Kansan staff writer
By Michael Christie
When the Impact coalition's victory was announced early Friday morning, two people were just as happy as darren Fulcher and Alan Lowden, president- and vice president-elects.
Greg Hughes and Pat Warren, student leaders who were unsuccessful in their bid for student body president and vice president last year, helped with the Impact campaign.
"It's easier to go back through a second time and know what to do," said Warren, chairperson of the Student Senate Executive Commit-
"It was important that he do well."he said.
Warren said that Lowden had run their campaign last year and that he and Lowden were good friends.
Hughes, Associated Students of
'I've never seen 61 people work harder in my life.'
— Greg Hughes Associated Students of Kansas
Kansas campus director, said he had provided mostly inspirational support to Impact's campaign, but he stressed that the victory was the coalition members'.
"I've never seen 61 people work harder in my life," he said.
Lowden said that Hughes and Warren had contributed different talents to the campaign.
"Greg was mostly motivational," he said. "Pat helped set up things, organizational."
On election night, as the results came in, Warren sat by the radio with a pen and pad of paper, scribbling the results.
As the results were read, Warren
kept track of the seats Impact was gainen, after the School of Fine Arts results were announced, in which the Facts coalition won both seats, he curbed the disappointment at the party by saying the seats had not really been campaigned for.
When the School of Education results were read and Impact began its pattern of sweeping seats, Warren turned to Fulcher and said, "Darren, that's a really good sign."
Lowden said both Warren and Hughes helped by allowing him to sound off ideas and in choosing the best course of action.
Hughes said that it was nice to be on the winning side after last year's effort, when he and Warren came 48 votes from a victory.
“It’s a lot more gratifying to see your efforts help another group of people rather than yourself,” he said.
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