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University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 28, 1991
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Student Senate's plan to create media review board fails to pass
By Michael Christie
Kansan staff writer
By three votes, a Student Senate bill to create a media board was defeated last night.
The bill needed a three-fourths majority approval to pass because it would have required a change in the rules of the courts. The vote was 35-16, with one abstention.
The bill would have taken $3 from the student activity fee and redesignated it as a media fee. The money to the Kansan and KJHK
Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, expressed anger at Senate's refusal to have a roll-call vote.
"I think there no excuse for anyone who voted against the legislation not to be willing to go on record as being opposed," he said.
Jason McIntosh, Senate Cultural Affairs Committee chairperson, spoke against the bill. He said one
of his objections to the bill concerned the proposed membership of the board, which would consist of the dean of journalism, the Senate treasurer, a representative from college or of student life and two students.
He said he would prefer a board that had more student representation.
"I think we need to go over this and possibly retool the dynamics of the board," he said.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, co-authored the bill with Warren. He said the board was responsible to make the news media and government.
The current financing of the Kansan and KJHK involves too much politics, he said.
"It gives us the power to stop funding if they write something we don't like." Schreiner said.
The bill could be called back to Senate if two of the senators who
opposed it so move.
In other business, Schreiner and
Greg Hughes, Associated Students of Kansas campus director, encouraged the Senate to get involved in the state budget deliberations in Topka by calling legislators to attend a meeting extending various legislative sessions.
Schreiner said the deliberations were the most important legislative issue facing students.
Hughes said the House Appropriations Committee had recommended an 8-percent increase for in-state tuition and a 20-percent increase for out-of-state tuition for next year, as well as a decrease in money allocated to the University of Kansas.
"I don't know why we should have tuition increases and receive less funding for the University. It doesn't make any sense to me," he said.
Returnees from gulf could be unemployed
by Beniamin W. Allen
Kansan staff writer
KU student employees called to active duty in the armed forces may not be able to return to the University unless they have a valid duty, according to University policy.
KU policy is based on the U.S. Code of Veteran's Benefits, which states that employees called to active duty will be restored to their former jobs, or a job of like seniority, status and pay; they are temporary employees.
Rose Marino, associate general counsel to the University of Kansas, said, "I understand that this University, as well as the other Regents schools, considers student positions temporary."
Marino said that the Board of Regents attorney had been asked to look into the matter and had concluded that positions would not be
held for student employees.
She said her office had looked into the matter as well and decided independently that the conclusion required Regents attorney abided by the law.
"We didn't do this hastily," Marino said. "We really tried to look at the law.
"The courts looked at the nature of the positions in each case. What we found were cases on temporary positions."
She said there were no cases in which a student employee had requested to be reinstated to a job they left because of military duty.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the University had no policy on holding positions for students who were called to active duty.
He said it would be a burden because each office would need
someone to fill the student position because they usually played a vital role in the office.
"Whether or not it's policy is up to each individual department," he said.
Ola Faucher, assistant director of human resources, said human resources had requested all departments to inform it by March 6 if any student employees who had been called to duty.
Faucher said that she could not say who the students were or what departments they worked for because leave information was considered confidential personal information.
She said that 27 of about 200 departments had responded by yesterday and that there were only four student employees who had been called to duty.
Wal-Mart's plans for moving and expanding are cut short
By Vanessa Fubrmans
Kansan staff writer
It may have taken nearly five hours of debate, but once the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission heard all sides, its answer last might to a site plan and move it from Wal-Mart to Wall-Mart store was a resounding no.
The request from Wal-Mart officials to relocate an expanded version of the discount store from 2727 Iowa St. to 35th and Iowa streets drew a full house last night, as concerned residents and downtown businessmen came to speak against the proposed site.
Wal-Mart, which has operated in Lawrence since 1983, filed a request last year to rezone the 25.75 acres on the southern outskirts of the city into a municipal and agricultural zone to a planned commercial development area.
The tract lies west of U.S. Highway 59, directly south of Nieder Acres, a 21-home neighborhood.
Backing up a report it issued last week, the city commission's planning staff argued that commercial use of the land tract would decrease the value of the surrounding residential areas and conflict with the policies of Plan '95, which outlines the future development of Lawrence.
John Lungstrum, a Lawrence attorney, represents the Mart-Mart.
dictionary because it supported the South Lawrence Trafficway plan, which allowed for commercial zoning even though Plan '96 did not.
"You can't have it both ways," he said. "The trafficway plan tells us this site is suitable for commercial zoning."
Lungstown, said store officials wanted to be clear would be possible for the store to expand.
Rodger Schenewer, a local landscape architect, also defended the site and said it was the most logical choice because it was near other large discount stores and was accessible from Iowa and 31st streets.
"When we look at a site that's going to generate 12,000 to 15,000 cars a day, we don't want something too big that will disrupt through the community," he said.
But the arguments of Nieder Acres residents persuaded commissioners to vote unanimously against the request.
Marsh Goff, who has lived in Nieder Acres for 23 years, said that if he did start it was built at the proposed site. He good homes would lose property value.
"Truly there is nothing they can do to make it palatable to Nieder Acres," she said. "If Wal-Mart is built on that site, you will have encircled us in commercial development."
A crowded city commission room audience listens to a proposal to new Wal-Mart store. The commission voted to deny the preliminary site rezone a plan of land near 35th and Iowa streets for construction of a plan and the rezoning request.
Baseball great Satchel Paige battled segregation. discrimination
By Mark Spencer
Kansan staff writer
Leroy “Satchel” Paige was regarded as one of the best pitchers to play the game in the Negro Leagues in the 1920s. ‘30s and '40s.
Early in his career, Paige lived through the difficulties of being a Negro League player as he bounced from team to team in the South, sometimes playing for lemonade and then playing players was virtually nonexistent.
"I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do," Paige said. "But when I got that that," Paige said. "I don't know where I got that spunk."
Working at a temporary job in a
He played with the Pittsburgh Crawlers during the '36s and with the Kansas City Monarchs during the '40s.
Mobile, Ala., train station, he was nicknamed Satchel because of his ability to carry a large number of satchels with his long arms.
"Fifty dollars was what we were calling money then and the thing about it I would have played for me. It would have told me to tell the truth," Paige said.
His popularity grew as he would often joke with fans during games and show off the pinpoint accuracy of his blazing fastball.
Paige would delight fans by propping two bats six inches apart on
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home plate and throwing his fastball through them. Other times he would rip home plate out of the ground and replace it with a gum wrapper.
This is my base, he said.
Paige's popularity allowed him to publicize and fight the oppression
that African-Americans were under during his career.
In the mid-1930s, the Negro League All Stars and the all stars from the all-white Major Leagues played games in different parts of the country.
Among other things, these games were intended to give the Negro Leagues more publicity, however often used them to make a point
He refused to play in towns where he was lodging or food by segregation laws.
This often would upset many ticket holders as the games were advertised as Paige vs. Dizyz Dean and, later, Paige vs. Bob Feller.
Paige's passive resistance was widely publicized and called attention to the problems of African-Americans throughout the South.
When Paige was wrongly prosecuted for a $40 speeding ticket in the South, he pulled $80 from his pocket.
handed it to the judge and said,
"Here you go, Judge, because I'm coming back again tomorrow."
Paige's efforts had some impact in a few areas of the South, particularly in baseball.
The all-star games Between African-American and white major-league players contributed to Jackie Robinson's career. The barrier in Major League Baseball.
At the age of 42, Paige entered the major leagues where he was rookie of the year in 1948 after a 6-1 season with the Cleveland Indians.
After a career that included 55 no hitters, Paire returned to Kansas City where he continued to campaign for racial equality.
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