UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday, March 11. 1997
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Public transportation to be focus of discussion panel
Speakers to field questions about busing and parking
By Dave Morantz
Kansan staff writer
Citywide busing, a campus shuttle system, parking improvements, a coordinated transportation system. If you have questions about what it all means, you are not alone.
The Citizens Coalition for Public Transportation, a Lawrence
group concerned about the future of public transportation, is holding an informational meeting for KU students, staff, faculty and Lawrence residents at 1:30 p.m. tomorrow at the auditorium in the lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St.
University planning and transportation officials will join in a discussion panel with a city transportation planner. The panel will field questions from the public.
The Kaw Valley chapter of the Older Women's League, the Lawrence Coalition for Social Justice, The League of Women
Voters of Douglas County and the Lawrence-Douglas County Advocacy Council on Aging will sponsor the meeting.
Hilda Enoch, Lawrence resident and moderator of the meeting, said the groups had decided to hold the meeting because they thought they had been left in the dark by the city about the future of public transportation.
"It's a big bone of contention whether to do it or not and how much money to spend on it," she said. "We don't know where it's at or why it's not on the table being discussed with great enthusiasm."
Considering the April 1 City Commission election, Enoch said the direction of public transportation could change drastically.
Tom Waechter, planning coordinator for design and construction present the University's campus access plan at the meeting.
"We feel a real urgency because the city elections will either turn up the people who want to implement a plan or people who just want business as usual," she said.
"I think to the extent that there are issues that we can coordinate on, it will be an effective meeting," he said. "You never know what issues the public will bring into it."
Emily Taylor center celebrates women's history,right to vote
Program honors suffrage activists
By Umut Bayramoglu
Kansan staff writer
U. S. women received the right to vote in 1920, but whether the voting power of women is fully recognized.still is a hot debate for some people.
As a part of the Women's History Month celebration, the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center will present Do We Take Women's Right to Vote For Granted? at 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Rachel Lee, graduate assistant at the resource center, said the center used to celebrate Susan
B. Anthony's birthday in February to honor the women's suffrage movement.
"We decided that we need to recognize the movement as a whole and other women involved in it," she said.
Lee said that the program would focus on the history behind the women's suffrage movement and how women formed the coalition that helped pass the 19th Amendment.
"This program is just another effort to focus on the history of women neglected in even college classes," she said.
Lee said that the purpose of women's history month events was to encourage students to learn and ask questions about current and historical issues
related to women.
"Young women today have more rights than ever before," she said. "But there is still room for improvement."
"I don't think that women are represented enough in the political scene," she said.
Sylvia Stone, administrative assistant for the women's studies program, said that women's political power still faced some problems.
Stone said that women's place in politics relates to other women's issues such as equal representation and pay in the workplace and sharing childcare and child support.
"Only after the achievement of these goals can women reach true equality to men in society," she said.
Connie Berg, KU Empowerment Action Coalition facilitator, said that the problem women face in politics was not
Women's History Month Events
Do We Take Women's Right to Vote For Granted? 7 p.m. tomorrow at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union
Mother/Daughter Relationships 7 p.m. March 18 at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union
International Women Students Reflect On Their Experience: 7 p.m. March 19 at the English Room in the Kansas Union
the right to vote being taken for granted but the system itself.
"When you have a system that is not representative, being able to vote is not sufficient to have an impact on it," she said.
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