Top Campaign Issues Face Critics Sible to Meet the 20 Percent Goal

VOTING STARTS TODAY Look inside for profiles of this year’s Student Senate candidates and see The Kansan’s choices for the top spots. 4A, 11A WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2007 The student vOice since 1904 WWW.KANSAN.COM VOL. 117 ISSUE 131 PAGE 1A » StuDENT SENATE » STUDENT SENATE kulture Delta Force files complaint Student 12A BY ASHLee KIELER student groups and organizations Committee. The members also said discuss the issue. The commis- while campaigning. that Cross had authored one bill. sion postponed the hearing until fees play Politics don’t just get dirty in Connor said The infor- Monday to allow for more time to Hungry for a late- national and city elections; it hap- that he attended mation also investigate the allegations. pens on university campuses as three student An elections code violation appeared on the The election commission code night snack after org an i z at i on United Students’ in question defines defamation as well. complaint filed against United crucial role a Friday night on An elections code violation com- meetings where Web site. false and defamatory words complaint filed against United Students United Students Students for defamation will be Cayla Witty, municated with the specific intent the town? Campus for defamation will be heard on coalition mem- heard next Monday. W a k e f i e l d to injure a third person, actually Monday. bers stated that senior and elec- resulting in the harm to the reputa- Christians offer free Hannah Love, tions commis- tion of the person defamed. on ballot The complaint, filed by Jack hot dog to students. Connor, Overland Park junior and Dodge City junior and presiden- sioner, said Love and Wittlinger Witty said the commission BY ASHLEE KIELER member of Delta Force, claimed tial nominee for United Students, wrote and passed 18 bills combined. would make a decision Monday on that United Students defamed John and running mate Ray Wittlinger, She said Cross had authored and the case. Student Senate elections begin Cross, Kansas City, Mo., junior and Olathe junior, had authored and passed four bills. “If they are found to be com- today and students have the opportu- softball Delta Force presidential candidate, passed a combined 29 bills while The elections commission hear- nity to voice their opinions on fees. by providing false information to in the Student Senate Executive ing board met Tuesday night to SEE VI OLATIONS ON PAGE 9A Three referendums would appear on the ballot. Two referendums ask for student support for SafeBus and homecoming. The other referendum asks for the reallocation of fees to support a renew- 1B PoETRY SLAM able energy and sustainability fund. This semester Senate increased student fees $54.75 per semester, which included the costs of purchasing newer buses after a University-wide election Students failed. The Safebus referendum and The Jayhawks return the homecoming referendum ask students to support an additional $6 in to action at 6 tonight fees, totaling an increase of $60.75. against the Tigers. One referendum on the ballot asks for a $4 increase to the SafeRide Kansas has won recite fee to support a SafeBus program. SafeBus would provided bus routes the last two games to and from downtown Lawrence against Missouri. during weekend evenings. “SafeBus will make the ability original to go out and get home easier for students,” said Tom Cox, Shawnee rankings junior and the bills author. The Lawrence Bus Company KU graduate determined the bus routes for the program. Buses would travel on programs keep two material Kentucky and Tennessee streets, by No. 1 spots in the Campus Court at Naismith, 1301 W. 24th St.; Meadowbrook, 2601 Dover annual U.S. World & Square; Daisy Hill; GSP-Corbin Hall; and many sororities and fraternities. News Report. The buses would also loop around Massachusetts Street. Cox said that if the referendum passed, the next step was to put the bus contracts out for bid to find a 3A Michiko Takei/KANSAN service provider. Shawn Bowers, Overland Park junior, “We could see this implemented city commission reads his original poetry at a Poetry by the fall semester,” Cox said. Slam held by Student Union Activities A second referendum creates a Mayor Sue Tuesday evening at the Hawk’s Nest in $2 homecoming fee to sponsor new the Kansas Union. Bowers won first prize events during Homecoming Week. Hack lays out “Homecoming is a week to pro- out of five contestants. mote school spirit,” said Rachel Barnes, her priorities Hutchinson junior and sponsorship for the 2007 chair for the homecoming committee. “It’s not just about the football game.” term. Student Union Activities offers spotlight for personal prose Barnes couldn’t specify what new events would be created, but she said BY BETHANY BUNCH ninja school. newspaper for a ninja school. Once “I like the sound of my own some money would go to sponsor Shawn Bowers, Overland Park enrolling, he found he was being voice,” Bowers said. “I talk to myself “Stuff the Bus,” a food drive event. Five KU students read their junior, read two lengthy poems with tricked into learning subjects like a lot and eventually it makes it on “Adding more events gives us poetry to a small crowd and for great expression and with a sense of English and science because the the page.” the chance to get more students a chance to win a $50 gift cer- comfort and ease. One poem was teachers were ninjas. The Ronald The audience cast ballots of their involved,” Barnes said. tificate to Massachusetts Street on entitled “Secret Ninja School.” McDonald poem was about a crazed top three choices. Bowers came out The final referendum does not Tuesday night at the Hawk’s Nest Bowers read “Secret Ninja McDonald’s customer set out to kill on top. increase student fees, rather it gives in the Kansas Union. Although School” before moving onto his Ronald McDonald because he was a “This is just a good forum to try students the opportunity to decide 8A the theme of the night was publi- second poem, “I Hate You Ronald “scary clown.” out new material,” Bowers said. what their fees go to. cized to be love, poets exhausted McDonald.” His fictional ninja It wasn’t Bowers’ first time read- The referendum asks students if a range of topics, which included poem was about an ad he saw in a ing his poetry at an open forum. SEE po ETRY ON PAGE 9A they think the University should make efforts to ensure that it be reliant on renewable energy for 20 percent of its power supply by the year 2020. weather » STUDENT SENATE The referendum also asks stu- TODAY dents to support the reallocation of $1.50 from student fees to create a renewable energy and sustainability 56 33 fund. The fund would make it pos- Few Showers/Wind Top campaign issues face critics sible to meet the 20 percent goal. — weather.com “This isn’t only the opportunity to THURSDAY FRIDAY BY ASHLee KIELER “We will expand the Blue Light now one of the greatest detriments Tim Norris, KU Memorial distancing the University from fossil system to several off-campus loca- to student life is crime,” Cross said. Union bookstore director, said the fuels but also to secure the next gen- 56 41 46 37 Delta Force, Students’ Rights and tions including the neighborhoods idea of a textbook rental program erations energy resources,” said Studie Partly Cloudy T-Showers/Wind United Students will vie for top between Ninth and 13th Street and TEXTBOOK RENTAL would be interesting to investigate. Red Corn, Shawnee junior and First spots in the Student Senate elec- Iowa and Massachusetts,” said John The creation of a textbook rental He said a lot of issues would need Nations Student Association senator. Each referendum appears on the tions, but how realistic are their Cross, Kansas City, Mo., junior and program is Students’ Rights goal to be discussed, like start-up costs index ballot beginning today. Voting can be campaign goals? presidential candidate. when reaching office. and academic freedom issues for Cross cited Lawrence police sta- teachers. done online or at polling booths at Classifieds. 5B Each coalition created plat- “Students’ Rights most impor- Wescoe Beach and Mrs. E’s. Online forms that it thinks can change the tistics as having 15 rapes and sexual tant platform affects all students “It would obviously work better Crossword. 11B voting starts today at 6 a.m. and goes to University of Kansas. The presidential assaults, 359 combined assaults, 18 at the University,” said Johnathan in lower-level courses, but high- 10 p.m., and continues Thursday from Horoscopes. 11B and vice presidential nominees were robberies, three kidnappings, and Wilson, Paola sophomore and pres- er-level courses, the teachers like 6 a.m. to 4 p.m. Voting at the polling asked to present what they felt was one murder in these neighborhoods idential candidate. to specify the books used,” Norris Opinion. 11A their most important platform issue. during 2006. said. sites run from 8 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. today Their plan, modeled after and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sports. 1B Cross said the platform was real- Northwest Missouri State Wilson said the benefits of the BLUE LIGHTS istic because the money used for University’s rental program, allows program were endless — most Sudoku. 11B the Blue Light System was allocated importantly, bringing money back Kansan staff writer Ashlee Kieler Delta Force focused its platforms students to pay a flat fee each semes- can be contacted at akieler@kan- from Senate.

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