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Vol. 99, No. 43 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
PUBLISHED SINCE 1880 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
Wednesday October 26,1988
Bork
Judge says he was caught in war for judicial control
By Jay A. Cohen Kansan staff writer
Judge Robert Bork said last night that the fight over his nomination to the Supreme Court was just one battle in a long war for control of the legal culture in the United States.
"If people believed 10 percent of what they heard, they had every right to be terrified." Bork said. "If I believed 10 percent of what was said, I would have ended the committee hearing by compelling the hari-karaj to the sena-karaj would have found to be a satisfying climax."
Bork, who spoke to about 2,000 people in Hoech Auditorium, was a judge on the District of Columbia Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals when President Reagan nominated him to the Supreme Court in July 1987. Bork was denied the appointment by the Senate Judiciary committee after three weeks of highly publicized hearings.
Bork described the opposition to his nomination as the first all-out national campaign to attack a judicial nominee in U.S. history.
Many of the advertisements criticizing his nomination were paid for by about three hundred liberal organizations which either distorted his record or were completely false, Bork said.
pietly made him laugh. Bork said the bitter nomination fight would have a chilling effect on judges.
or judges.
"A lot of judges who are potential Supreme Court nominees and an infinitely greater number of judges and lawyers who imagine that they are potential Supreme Court nominees, will be a lot more careful about what they write."
Bork said.
BORA K. said he believed the ongoing political war in our culture concerned more than methods of achieving a better society, but concerned the nature of society itself.
"The ferocity of the attack and the tactics showed that the other side knew the fight was over more than one judge." Bork said. "It was a fight over the control of the Constitution and the judiciary."
"The Constitution is the trump card in American politics, and judges decide what it means." Bork said.
The war, he said, was between a powerful, rising, nihilistic radical left who call themselves liberals but are not, and 'true liberals' and conservatives, who believe in "traditional American values."
During the question and answer session after the speech, Bork was asked what traditional U.S. values were.
"Ask me what my values are," Bork said.
Elaborating, Bork said traditional values meant that people have the right to decide how long sentences for drug pushers should be and whether they wanted to be submitted to pornography.
somber hope that Mauro Nobre, Brazil senior, said, "I thought one of the traditional American values was the value of different opinions, of having different values. He seems very intolerant of people who have different values."
Bork said; "The radical activists see the law as a weapon with which to move forward a political agenda."
Ruby sinks ship; leaves 15 survivors
The Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines — Rescuers said yesterday they had found only 15 survivors from a ship with more than 500 people aboard that was sent to the bottom by Typhoon Ruby's 140 mph winds.
Ruby's 140 mph winds.
Ruby flattened thousands of houses and took at least 97 lives on shore. More than 100,000 Filipinos were made homeless by the typhoon, which was in the South China Sea late yesterday, heading west with top winds of about 100 mph.
Robert Bork
Darkness and bad weather forced an overnight suspension of the search for survivors of the Dona Marilyn, a 2.849-m passenger liner that replaced the Dona Paz on the Subriquí Lings run between Manila and Tacloban.
the Sulpicio Lites RH Bench.
The Dona Paz sank Dec. 20, 1987, after a collision off Mindanao Island, and only 26 people were rescued the official death toll was 1,749, but some estimates said 3,000 died because many deck passengers making the holiday trip to Manila were not on the passenger list.
In suburban Manila, U.S. and Philippine helicopters rescued hundreds of people stranded on rooftops and in trees by the flooding Marikina River.
trees by the flooding in stark fire.
Coast Guard officials said the Dona Marilyn sank Monday in the Visayas Sea about 300 miles southeast of Manila while it was making the Manila-Tacloban run.
It was was carrying 451 passengers and 60 crew members from Manila to Tacloban on Leye Island when it rained a distress call, said Carlos Go, general manager of Sulpicio Lines.
L1. Rey Esguerrera of the coast guard station in Cebu said rescuers had found 11 survivors on Marippi Island and another small island, and four people were found alive in the water.
Vicente Gambito, vice president of Sulpicio, put the number rescued at 18. There was no explanation for the discrepancy.
The Dona Mariyln was authorized to carry about 1,400 passengers and crew.
passengers should
Officials reported 25 people missing because of Typpon Ribbon Cayakan de Oro, a coastal city on Mindanao island and 15 unaccounted for after a crowded bus plunged into a swollen river Monday in Antique province. The Red Cross said 26 bodies were recovered from the bus.
Bush says policy isn't mainstream
The Associated Press
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Michael
Dukakis yester
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economic policies that were "far outside the mainstream" and more akin to Euro pean socialism than to United States free enterprise.
Program would help locate housing
The Republican presidential nominee campaigned in Columbus, Akron and Lima in his quest for Ohio's 23 electoral votes, calling them "absolutely critical in this election."
Please see BUSH, p. 8, col. 1
It was Bush's sixth visit to the state since the GOP National Convention in mid-August. In Columbus, he spoke to the Ohio Association of Broadcasters for the second time in six months. "Hey, listen, it seems like I just left," he said.
seems like just plain Tackling what he called Dakuks' high-tax, big-spending policies. Bush said:
By Craig Welch
Kansan staff writer
The Off-Campus Board of KU Student Senate said Monday night that a computer program should be made available to simplify students' search for off-campus housing.
search for our camp. Pam Holley, student body vice president, said that Senate's goal was to establish an off campus center. The center would offer access to a computer program that would list available housing. The program includes a questionnaire to help students find housing that meets their individual needs and desires.
"We met basically to just prioritize our ideas." Holley said. "The committee will be drawing up a timeline so that we will know where we are at all times."
The committee would like to have the computer program available by February or March of 1899. The date would allow students to use it to look for housing for the fall and summer semesters, she said.
Student Senate eventually would like to have an office set aside for the center, but until the project
gets off the ground, it would be run through the Student Senate office in 105 Burge, Holley said.
Student Senate office in 163 Burge, Honey state,
Brooke Menes, student body president, said the program was modeled after a similar one used at Iowa State University.
a State University. "Their program has been in existence for about four years and thousands of students use it," he said.
Menees said that there was definitely a need for this center at KU.
this center?" More than 65 percent of KU students live off-campus. Many apartment complexes advertise and are large enough that students may hear about them through word of mouth," he said.
them through no other means.
"But Lawrence has a lot of smaller two and three unit complexes that students might not be aware of."
Mendes said that the computer program would list mostly mid-sized apartments, duplexes and some houses, but that some of the larger complexes would also be included.
Michael Diggs, the board's chairman, said that steps were taken during the summer to inform other organizations and to solicit their support.
"We definitely have the support of the Lawrence Tenants Association and the Lawrence Landlords Association," Diggs said. "They're our allies."
James Dunn, president of the landlord organization, said that he was excited about the idea and was just waiting for some results so they could get the project underway.
the project anyway. Clark Gay, off-campus senator who attended the meeting, said that the committee would also like to involve the Student Assistance Center.
"I'm going to speak with them about the possibility of running some seminars that deal with issues like 'How to Deal with Landlords' or 'What to Look for when signing a Lease.'" he said
Also, the committee is in the process of checking the status of the Off-Campus Survival Guide, which gives basic information on rental living. In years past, the guide was put out by Consumer Affairs. Diggs said that he hoped to be able to improve circulation of this booklet.
Laura Ambler, off-campus senator, said that there was a lot that this center could accomplish in the future but that Senate needed to start small.
John Fisher, Wellsville resident, stands in front of a sign on his farm promoting his attempt to develop a mobile home park on his property. Wellsville Township officials will meet tonight to decide whether to recommend a zoning change that would allow the mobile home park development to begin.
Conflict smells in Wellsville
Neighbors wary of park as owner threatens to build pig farm
By Janell Good Kansan staff writer
A Wellsville man thinks a truckload of pigs at tonight's Wellsville City Commission meeting will be enough smell to convince opposition that a mobile home park really isn't that bad.
home park really. John, a Wellsville resident, said that the construction of pigs should emphasize his threat to build a hog farm on his land, if the commission rejects his rezoning proposal needed to build a mobile home park.
Russer wants to build the mobile home park on 40 acres of his land, but his neighbors oppose the idea, stating that there is a bad reputation associated with mobile home parks.
mobility position leaders said they would not comment on the situation until after tonight's meeting.
City officials will decide tonight whether or not t approve Fisher's rezoning proposal.
Move Fisher's rezoning proposal.
Fisher needs a zoning change from agricultural to residential in order to put a mobile home park on the 40 acres he owns.
But angry residents have hired a lawyer to fight the park and are circulating a petition in efforts to stop Fisher's proposal.
Fisher's proposal.
Last month, Fisher devised a plan to change the minds of the opposition. To announce his intentions, he made a 4-foot-square sign that read "Coming Soon: Foxfire Mobile Estates or Fisher's Hog Farm Your Choice Remember the Prevailing Winds."
"I believe the American people are fed up with politicians, instead of statesmen, we've had enough 'bull.' " Fisher said. "I thought it was time for a little 'pork' (or honesty),"
He said that he came up with the idea during the last presidential debate.
'pork' or 'boil'
Peter Nicholson, Franklin County zoning administrator said that the petition against Fisher's mobile home park was not valid. He said that usually, only letters signed by residents of Wellsville and were sent to the Franklin County Commission Board were given credibility.
Nicholson said that tonight's meeting would establish a recommendation that would be sent to county commissioners in Ottawa, the Franklin County Seat. The final decision could be decided as early as Nov. 9, he said.
he said.
Nicholson could not comment on the possible outcome of the meeting. He said that he must remain impartial to both sides but could see benefits for both
"I Fisher gets the mobile home park, the Welshville area could receive more tax dollars and the additional people would help the community to grow." Nicholson said. "But if the opposing neighbors win, they won't have to put up with noisy construction. They might have to endure the smell of pigs, though."
have to enclose the site by proper Howard and Corrine LawRENz, the closest neighbors who would be most affected by the proposal decided not to comment until after tonight's hearing.