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University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, April 3. 1990
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BSU picks governing board
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Black Student Union voted Cedric Lockett, left, president, and Walter Glens, center, vice president, last night during elections held in the Big Eight room of the Kansas Union.
By Jonathan Plummer
Kenyan staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Black Student Union elected a new executive board last night after a ruling took one team of candidates off the ballot.
BSU elected Cedric Lockett, Fredonia sophomore, as president and Walter Givens, Junction City freshman, as vice president by a vote of 30 to 19 over write-in candidates Janice Turner and Cory Anderson.
Darren Fulcher, Kansas City, Mo., junior, was ruled ineligible to run for president when a section of the group's constitution was invoked by Kellie Paris, BSU secretary. The section states that presidential candidates must spend an academic year at the University.
Paris said she defined one academic year to be two full semesters, as the University did. Then in a KU student since Fall 1989.
After the meeting, Fulcher said his record with Black Men of Today, a group he helped found on campus in October, showed he had the ability to be president.
"I have been active in every aspect of uplifting Black students," Fulcher said. "I believe I am qualified me to be BSU president."
Although he said he was disappointed by the interpretation, Fulcher told the new president and vice president after the elections that he wanted to work with them.
After the ruling, some members of the group spoke against another ruling that would have prohibited Anderson from giving a campaign speech to the general assembly because of his write-in status.
Lockett stressed the need for unity in BSU during his acceptance speech.
Anderson became a write-in candidate after the Fulcher ruling. He later was allowed to make a speech.
"If we don't pull together, how will we solve these problems?" Locket said. "Give me a unified BSU, and I will change this campus."
Also during the meeting, members addressed Friday's incident at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in which a pizza delivery person was struck and racially
slurred, according to police reports.
Toni Longhorn, Grandview, Mo., senior, said she had contacted the director of community relations at the Department of Justice about
She said she planned to make calls today to the Lawrence and KU police departments as well as the University of California, executive vice chancellor.
the incident.
Kansas riverboat gambling may resurface
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Like something out of the Wild West, river boat gamblers could return to Kansas. But state legislators would see to it that there was no dealing from the bottom of the deck.
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee heard testimony yesterday on a bill that would allow riverboat gambling on navigable Kansas rivers.
State Sen. John Strick, D-Kansas City, said the bill was aimed at riverboat operations on the Kansas side of the Missouri River.
"There's only one actually navigable river that this riverboat could run on," he said, referring to
the Missouri River.
But State Sen. Dick Bond, R-Overland Park, disagreed. he said that the Kaw River also was navigable from Lawrence to its confluence with the Missouri and that a gambling operation could be run along that stretch of waterway.
Bill Johnson of River City U.S.A., Inc., said his company moved its river boat, the Missouri River Queen, and its cruise operation across the river from Missouri to Kansas last year.
The state would license, regulate and tax riverboat gambling operations.
boat gambing operations.
"What I'm proposing here is a package deal for
bushman, brick saddl. The committee discussed placing limits on the
What I'm proposing here is a package deal for tourism. "Strick said.
Dennis Shockley, inter-governmental affairs director for Kansas City, said betting limits would enable the state to easily control gambling in the boats.
amount that could be bet during a riverboat cruise. Strick said the bets could be limited to $5 a play and $200 a cruise.
But the Rev. Richard Taylor, representing Kansans for Life at its Best, called casino owners bloodsuckers and leeches.
"An exotic bingo game is all it amounts to," he said.
"The issue is not tourism," he said. "The issue is not economic development. The issue is gambling."
Faculty Executive Committee to implement Willner's firing
Dorothy Willner's formal dismissal came one step closer yesterday.
Bv a Kansan reporter
The Faculty Executive Committee decided yesterday to implement the decision to fire Willner. The committee soon will send a formal notice to Chancellor Gene A. Budg, informing him that the committee has read the 103-page report about the decision.
The next step, in accordance
with the Handbook for Faculty and Other Unclassified Staff, should be that Budig send a letter of dismissal to Willer.
On Wednesday, Willner became the first tenured faculty member to be dismissed in KU's 124-year history.
In April 1989, Budig charged Wilner, professor of anthropology, with unethical behavior and would to perform academic duties.
Reports of measles begin spotting area but KU remains fit
By Steve Bailey
Kansan staff writer
The number of Kansas counties reporting measles outbreaks has increased during the past two weeks, but the disease has not yet spread to Douglas County, state and local health officials said yesterday.
Thirty-six cases of measles have been reported in Crawford, Saline, Riley, Greenwood, Clay, Finney, Geary, Cowley, Lyons and Shawnee counties, said Greg Crawford, director of public information for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Of those cases, 12 have been confirmed, 21 are suspected and three are questionable, Crawford said. The greatest concentration has been in Saline County, with four confirmed cases and 12 suspected cases reported.
Figures show an 80 percent increase in measles cases since March 22, when the department had seven confirmed cases and 13 suspected cases in the state.
No cases of measles have been reported in Douglas County in 1990, said Barbara Schnitker, director of nurses for the Douglas County Health Department.
Crawford said Kansas was not the only state having problems with measles.
Crawford said the department offered assistance to any county experiencing an outbreak.
"There have been pockets throughout the country experiencing measles outbreaks this year," he said. "As of March 18, there have been 3,029 cases reported in 1990 compared with 1,726 cases reported during the same period of 1989."
"We try to provide technical assistance and provide the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to local
Figures show an 80 percent increase in measles cases since March 22, when the department had seven confirmed cases and 13 suspected cases in the state.
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment
health departments at no cost," he said.
Crawford said he did not think the outbreaks would mushroom into a state measles epidemic.
"Already we are seeing decreasing numbers in some counties, such as Riley and Greenwood," he said. "There is some technical formula used to calculate levels of epidemic, but we have not approached that point yet."
Charles Yockey, chief of staff at Watkins Memorial Health Center, said he was surprised Watkins had not treated any possible measies cases this year.
"We haven't had anyone come through here that has had measles," Yockey said. "Last year, there were some cases we suspected to be measles, but it turned out they were not. We haven't even had any questionable cases yet."
"It makes sense that sooner or later Douglas County will be hit. There really is nothing we can or could do to prevent that from happening."
Measles is a highly contagious viral disease that is spread much like the common cold. The disease can be devastating to college campuses because it can be easily spread and can have severe complications.
Fine arts continues reviews that leave some students looking elsewhere
By Monica Mendoza
Special to the Kansan
Nearing the end of its fourt
semester of controversy, the School
of Fine Arts will continue to have
class evaluations that will force half
of this semester's graphic design and
illustration students to change
majors.
Some students said it was unfair and harsh. Only half of about 80 students will be admitted into the graphic design and illustration program this spring.
"There are 40 spaces open each semester, twenty for graphics and 20 for illustration," said Joe Zeller, chairman of design.
Faculty said this was the only way to keep enrollment down and standards high. But students who fail can be emotionally lolted.
"It broke me," said Etta Canady, Kansas City, Kan., junior. "It hurt me because I know that I should have made it."
Candy, a former graphics design major, was rejected in 1989 by a
review board of five graphics and illustration faculty members.
Like Canady, approximately 80 students will present their portfolios of work to the board May 7. Students who fail will be advised to pursue other careers.
Canady now majors in painting.
Zeller said too many students wanted to major in graphics and illustration.
He said there always had been a portfolio review. But only since Fall 1988 has it become more than advisory.
This change in the board, from one of recommendation to one of elimination, sparked the four-semester controversy.
"Graphics has to have a physical review to continue. That may seem harsher," Zeller said. "However, all schools have requirements. Enrollment control is the objective."
This semester, there are about 200 upper-level graphics and illustration majors who have passed review boards.
“It’s unfair because when you get ready to go to college, they say you can do whatever you want,” Canady said. “If you are good and you don’t make it because there is not room, then that is unfair.”
Canady said she was told that the reason there was a portfolio review was because the department was understaffed.
Canady said she thought the process of elimination was unfair.
Bruce McIntosh, associate professor of design, said lack of facilities
He said a review process always would be part of the program no matter what the budget.
"We decided that we wanted it to be the best program that it could be," McIntosh said. "It's easy for that to get misrepresented, especially by the students."
"I think you can fairly say that the objective is ultimately in the best interests of the students," McIntosh said.
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