Officials protest census use Figures not valid for reapportionment, they say
by Carrie Harper Kansan staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission has joined the Douglas County Commission and other local governments to protest the use of the 1988 state census figures for state legislative reapportionment.
This session legislative districts will be redrawn according to the state figures.
A resolution approved unanimously by the commission on Tuesday urges the Kansas Legislature not to use the state figures for reapportionment. The resolution contends that the figures undercounted the number of registered other areas of Kansas, said Mike Wildeen assistant city manager.
Other city and county governments have approved similar resolutions.
Under a 1987 Kansas statute, the secretary of state must count students and military personnel as residents of their original home towns, not necessarily the town in which they reside, said Chris McKenzie, county administrator. Prison institutions and nursing homes also are counted as residents of their home towns.
census.
The Lawrence resolution asks the legislature not to reapportion now, but to submit an amendment to the Kansas Constitution. The amendment would provide for legislative reapportionment on the basis of the 1990 federal
About 16,000 people, mostly students from the University of Kansas, Baker University and Haskell Indian Junior College, were not included in the state Douglas County population figures, as compared to the 1987 federal census estimate, McKenzie said. The state figures include only those who claim Lawrence as their permanent residence.
In addition to the resolutions, the cities of Lawrence, Manhattan and Pittsburg, as well as Douglas, Riley and Leavenworth counties have filed two lawsuits collectively. They challenge the constitutionality of the census and the way it was compiled. McKenzie said.
Shawnee and Sedgwick counties, which include Wichita and Topka, have not decided whether to join the tribe. McKenzie said it fitted its own lawsuit, McKenzie said.
Mekenzie did if Shawne and Sedgwick counties joined the lawsuits, 40 percent of the state's population in the county were officials who protest the census figures.
The lawsuit charge that the 1988 state census was inaccurately compiled by the secretary of state's office and that it violated the one man, one vote Supreme Court rule, McKenzie said. The lawsuits also challenge the authority of the state administration, approved by voters on Nov. 8, 1988, that allowed census figures to exclude students and military personnel.
McKenzie said the lawsuits were filed in state and federal courts because both federal and state issues were at stake.
"Hopefully, we'll get a ruling out of one of them as soon as possible," McKenzie said.
Although Douglas County was named first in the state for growth in a published analysis of U.S. Census Bureau projections, the state's 1988 indicates a lower population than was reported in 1979. McKenzie said.
The state census puts the Douglas County population at 58,441, compared with the 74,257 reported in the 1979 Kansas Board of Agriculture census, used for the last reapportionment, McKenzie said.
The 1980 federal census listed
67,640 for Douglas County, and
the 1987 federal estimate listed 75,100.
McKenzie said.
All of the Douglas County state legislators are individual plaintiffs in the lawsuits, as well as Bob George, a former lawyer for the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce.
Gary Toebben, president of the chamber, said the chamber had invested $1,000 for legal expenses.
"We believe that the census does not provide adequate representation for Lawrence and Douglas County," Toebben said. "Everyone believes that Douglas County is being penalized. Our census does not count as much."
University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 9, 1989
Palestinian group seeks financing
by Scott Achelpohl
Kansan staff writer
A student senator is considering sponsorship of a proposal to Student Senate for financing of a lecture by Ibrahim Abu Lughod, a member of the Palestinian National Council, the leadership council for Palestinians.
Sadqe Masoud, Dammam, Jordan senior, and president of the General Union of Palestinian Students, a campus cultural group, said Kevin Farley, student senator, was considering sponsorship of the proposal for the April 17 visit by Lughod. Lughod also is director on sabbatical of the
political science department at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. Lughed is scheduled to speak April 18 at Kansas State University.
"I'd be happy help out," he said. Masoud said his group had asked for $900 for the visit, a figure Lughod already has agreed upon.
Masoud said that some senators' belief that his organization was political in nature had led to questions about the possibility of financing
Lughod's talk. Senate cannot grant financing to political campus organizations.
Pam Holley, Student Senate vice president, said the plans for the visit were still in their earliest stages.
"Nothing has been submitted to the senate yet," Holley says. "The group has until Tuesday to submit the proposal."
If the senate agrees to hear the proposal, Holley said, the finance committee will review it Feb. 21. If the committee approves the proposal, the full Senate would vote on it Feb. 22.
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