The student vOice since 1904 SPRINTER SETS THE Jayplay PACE WITH FASTEST TIME OF THE YEAR INSIDE » PAGE 3B THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008 WWW.KANSAN.COM VOLUME 118 ISSUE 99 » PHILANTHROPY STUdenT senATE Athletes, coaches advocate awareness University sports teams are using their publicity to push the fight against cancer. Many teams have held events to raise awareness for cancer and healthy living. Teams include men’s and women’s basket- ball, softball and volleyball. FULL STORY PAGE 3A »RESEARCH Center receives grants for exploration Jon Goering/KANSAN Janiece Richard, student athletics advisory committee senator, and Alex Earles, student rights committee associate senator, present an artist’s redoring of the new KU rowing boat house scheduled to break groud on March 7. Richard voiced her concern Wednesday night at the Senate Students Rights Committee meeting about a proposed student fee cut that would cut funding to non-revenue sports. Accomodations, like the boathouse, for non-revenue sports depend on The Center of Latin American Studies the current student fees. has received funding to support explor- atory graduate research in Latin America, Spain and Portugal. Grant recipients come from a wide variety of academic disciplines and have the freedom Fee continues amid controversy to pursue virtually any topic of research with policy implications for the countries in which students conduct their research. Senate votes to continue $80-a-year charge to subsidize KU athletics budget FULL STORY PAGE 3A BY BRENNA HAWLEY Lennea Carty, Andover senior and junior/ group that was not open to all KU students. “Athletics is so close to the pulse of this [email protected] senior CLAS senator, wrote the bill to lower Senate created a subcommittee last year to University, it’s considered untouchable,” Carty » DEVELOPMENT required campus fees for students who cannot discuss how the fee should be used. said. The Student Senate finance committee afford them. She said she had heard people “Accountability has always been an issue Joanne Bauer, Leawood freshman and asso- voted down a resolution to eliminate the complaining about the fee, but when no one with this fee,” said Brian Hardouin, Broomfield, ciate finance student senator, said she was Women’s and Non-Revenue Intercollegiate wrote a bill to eliminate it, she decided to write Colo., law senator. originally a sponsor of bill but removed her Historic house Sports Fee. Students have voted to pay $80 a one herself. Carty said she did not visit the committee name because she wanted to hear more debate year for this fee, which goes to the Athletics “I don’t care if it polarizes Student Senate,” or talk to the department before writing the about the bill. Department. Carty said. “If it’s the right thing to do I’ll do legislation. “We don’t want to alienate athletics because demolition In spring 2006, students voted to raise the it.” She said it also violated a Senate regulation they help a lot of students,” Bauer said. fee from $20 to $40 a semester, which gave She said after she talked to a friend who because it funded a third party. The depart- She said she was not confronted to remove the department $1.9 million a year in student couldn’t afford the increases, she decided to do ment is a non-profit organization separate her name from the legislation and would money. Fifteen dollars of the $20 increase was the only thing she could to help: write legisla- from the University. probably have supported the bill if it had made imminent allocated to help build a new boathouse for the tion to lower fees. Sean Lester, associate athletics director, said it to full Senate. rowing team. “Eighty dollars is a heating bill in winter eliminating the fee that generates $1.9 million Jordan Williams, Coffeyville junior and Eleven members of the committee voted to and that’s three new pairs of shoes depending a year would directly affect not only users of Queers and Allies senator, was also originally From rugby to sex to presidential pres- pass the bill and six voted it down, but two- on where you shop,” Carty said. the boathouse but also the athletics depart- a sponsor of the bill but removed his name. He tige, the house at 1142 Indiana st. has a lot thirds of senators have to vote yes to pass a Carty said she also wrote the bill because ment in general. said he went to talk to Ray Wittlinger, student of history within its walls. Lynn Zollner, resolution. it violated a Senate regulation by funding a “It would affect them in 1.9 million differ- body vice president, and Adam McGonigle, administrator to the Lawrence historic ent ways,” Lester said. student executive committee chair and cur- resources commission, expects the city Brandon Macneill, another associate athlet- rent United Students presidental candidate, will knock it down sometime this spring. ics director, said athletics director Lew Perkins for advice about the legislation. He said pledged to keep student sports pass prices the McGonigle was adamant about making sure FULL STORY PAGE 8A same as long as Senate supplied the student he could vote however he wanted to. He said fee. He said the University has the second-low- Wittlinger brought up some good points about est sports pass price in the Big 12 at $150. the legislation but did not imply how to vote. Lester said the department’s budget was “I don’t want to hurt my coalition,” Williams transparent as it listed all payments for the said, who is a member of United Students. boathouse. He said the department had so far Williams said he felt the fee was dispropor- weather paid $1.3 million of the $1.8 million cost of tionate compared to other fees, but also did the boathouse. not want to alienate athletes, who are a great Hailee Jones, Burden senior and member asset to the voting constituency. 25 16 of the rowing team, said the boathouse facil- Wittlinger said he had worked to make sure Snow to Wintry Mix ity before the fee was introduced was nothing all senators were informed about the bill and — weather.com more than a chain-link fence. She said the that coalitions didn’t influence how senators FRIDAY SATURDAY University was one of two Division I schools voted. in the country with a rowing program without McGonigle said he had not told people how 33 12 37 28 a boathouse. to vote and was happy to be a member of a Snow Shower Mostly Cloudy She said when the microburst hit Lawrence coalition where people have their own brains. in March 2006, some of their $40,000 boats He added that he did not support the bill were damaged. Rowers also didn’t have a because it was extreme. index locker room, a place to have team meetings “We could sit back, do nothing and pretend Classifieds. 4A and experienced safety problems. like nothing’s wrong, or completely cut the Eric Foss, Overland Park law senator, said fee,” McGonigle said. “I think the right deci- Crossword. 6A the fee should be removed because the depart- sion is somewhere in between there.” Horoscopes. 6A ment was not concerned about students. Tom Cox, Shawnee senior and holdover “I’ve gone to school here for almost six senator, was originally a sponsor on the bill Opinion. 7A years, and the department is the most unre- but removed his name because he also felt the Sports. 1B sponsive organization on campus to student bill was one extreme fee option. He said he needs,” Foss said. would rather find a compromise than remove Sudoku. 6A Carty said she felt her legislation had the entire fee. become a coalition bill where a whole coali- “Extremes force facilitated discussions,” Jon Goering/KANSAN All contents, unless stated otherwise, tion was opposing it. She said she felt some Cox said. © 2008 The University Daily Kansan Brian Hardouin, Broomfield, Colo., law senator, andL ennea Cardy, junior/senior CLAS senator, argue in favor people were intimidated by the department —Edited by Nick Mangiaracina of cutting the student fee for non-revenue sports. Cardy argued the fee was unfair to students who could not afford it. and were reluctant to stand up to it. 2A NEWS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2008 quote of the day on campus “Yoga is the fountain of Yoga youth. You’re only as young as Spotlight El Lissitzky: Futuristic Port- your spine is flexible. “ folios will be shown from 10 on a.m. until 5 p.m. as the South —Bob Harper Balcony Gallery in the Spencer Organizations Club Museum of Art. BY HELEN MUBARAK Eastern thought and practices. The seminar “KPERS Benefits [email protected] “I found it to be a wonderful in Retirement” will begin at 1 blend of mindfulness, strength and p.m. in the Kansas Room in the fact of the day When the Student Recreation flexibility,” Hidaka said. “I’m the Kansas Union. Fitness Center stopped offering free kind of person who loves a good Yoga is defined as a practice fitness classes in the fall of 2006, workout. After my first class, my The seminar “Globalization(s) of physical health, diet control, Brandon Hidaka, Prairie Village entire body was sore the next day. I Seminar-Stephen Goddard” will positive thinking and harmony senior, and Molly Daughety, Topeka was hooked.” begin at 3:30 p.m. in the Confer- in the mind, body and environ- junior, founded the Yoga Club in Hidaka said yoga strengthened ence Hall in the Hall Center. ment. order to give students and faculty the muscles proportionally to how use- ful they were for the body.