University Daily Kansan / Thursday. March 28, 1991
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Skateboarders rebel against prohibition of use on campus
Bv Mike I. Vargas
Kansan staff writer
About 20 skateboarders continue to skate frequently on campus despite the five-month-old ordinance prohibit skateboarding on the KU campa.
"I am not going to stop skating on campus," said Jeff Linden, Rockford, Ill., sophomore. "The next day we were playing I was skating on campus again."
Linden said that the $2 ticket he received last semester had made him more cautious of the police.
He said that now, when he saw the police, he kicked up his skateboard and carried it inside a building.
Linden said that he and others continued to disobey the ordinance because skateboards provided transportation to class.
Between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on
school days, students should be allowed to use a skateboard as a form of transportation. he said.
Trick and freestyle riding on a skateboard or any other form of transportation during those hours is illegal. A threat to pedestrians, Haiden said.
But such a proposal probably would not pass because of the stigma associated with skateboarding, he said.
The skateboarding ordinance was proposed in August, after a KU student was hit in the head by a skateboard while she was sitting in the cafeteria area behind Wescoe Hall.
Eric Smoyer, Kansas City, Mo. freshman, said KU pedestrians had been hurt from bicycles and mopeds, too.
Smoyer said he and his friends
continued to ride skateboards on the ground in light of the ordinance was disciplinary.
"With all the people that were drinking during the block party on Saturday, they had to stop me for asking and ask me to leave." Smover said.
Since the ordinance, there have been virtually no complaints. Mulettes
KU police Lt. John Mullens said that before the ordinance, KU police received two of four complaints a tideboard rideers scaring pedestrians.
Sidewalks are intended for pedestrians, Mullens says. Laws against bicycle riding on sidewalks have existed for more than 20 years.
Skateboard riding and roller-skating on the street have been illegal for many years.
Senate committee hears testimony on proposed parental notification bill
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TOPEKA — A woman whose teenage daughter had an abortion more than a year ago told a legislative group that she still mourned for her grandchild.
"She's alive in my heart." Carolyn Matlock of Madison told the Senate Federal and State Committee. "She should be here today."
"It still hurts my daughter," she said of the abortion.
The committee is hearing testimony on a bill that would require doctors to notify parents if their children are going to undergo an abortion.
Others supporting the measure said the bill focused on parental rights and responsibilities.
"The state has an important interest in protecting parents' rights."
Artie Luces, a former House member, told the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee.
Lucas was heavily involved in an effort to pass a parental notification bill last year, a measure that failed. He was defeated for re-election in 1990.
The committee bill would require doctors to give 24 hours notice to at least one parent if a girl 17 years or younger sought an abortion. The bill includes a provision that allows a child in danger of death is afraid to tell her parents if a court rules that such a judicial bypass is constitutionally necessary.
Lucas said before the hearing that he did not expect the bill to pass this session, which has less than three percent of the floor for him. He hoped the bill could be passed by the
Senate before the Legislature adjourned.
"We want to get it passed through one house," Lucas said before test-tiving.
Supporters of the bill decided on a two-year strategy, he said, to give them a chance to identify those candidates that would be educated before next session.
"We're trying to learn to be a little more effective." Lucas said.
Lucas was the first person to testify in the hearing room, which drew about 100 people. Opponents to the committee asked Lucas not to act on the committee may act on the bill.
Bob Rumels, lobbyist for the Kansas Catholic Conference, said the bill would reduce not only abortions, but also the number of teen-age pregnancies in the state.
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