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Tuesday, February 21, 1995
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Mexican state clashes with government
Reform movement hurts image of political leaders
By Eduardo A. Molina Kansan staff writer
Money, Money, Money. Viva Clinton!
A Mexican newspaper wrote this front page headline to celebrate President Clinton's $20 billion aid package to help back the peso and the deteriorated Mexican economy.
About a week later, the southern state of Chiapas, one of the poorer states in Mexico, didn't receive any money. Instead, Chiapas received the bullets of the Mexican Army that launched a Feb. 9 offensive against the insurgent movement of the state.
The movement, the Emiliano Zapata National Liberation Army or Zapatistas, is demanding political and social reform for the impoverished Indians of the state. It doesn't seem to threaten the rest of the country, but the international credibility of the country and the new United States-Mexico economic partnership are threatened, University of Kansas professors said.
CHIAPAS: The bishop mediating the conflict is under pressure to resign. Page 4B
Charles Stansifer, professor of Latin American history, said the movement was hard to understand because it had no anti-United States ideology or international connections, as other revolutions had in Latin America.
"Clinton could face one more blow if the economic aid he sent doesn't help Mexico to stabilize," Stanser said. "What hurts the Mexican economy hurts the U.S. economy and President Clinton."
However, he said, the Zapistas' threats could affect not only Mexican credibility, but they could also affect President Clinton's credibility.
Stansifer said that Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo launched the offensive to solve a problem that affected relations with the United States and Zedillo's party image — his Institutional Revolutionary Party suffered a resounding loss in the gubernatorial race in Jaizco, a central western state. 10 days ago.
Orlando Perez, program assistant, teaches a class on Latin American revolutions. He said that the government offensive could bring credibility in the short term but that the government had to solve economic and social problems in Chiapas to bring the state into the 20th century.
Mexican students at KU also are concerned by the instability in their country.
David Cuevas, Pachuca, Hidalgo, sophomore, said the only way to solve the problem was to stop the conflict.
"There is a feeling of not being taken into consideration by the central government while other areas of the country go forward," he said. "The government has to spend money to invest in land reform, welfare and give these people access to markets for their products."
"The government should attack the guerrillas or negotiate a cease of fire," he said. "But after stopping the conflict, the government has to attack the problems that the Zapastistas brought to light."
Hector Perez, Mexico City senior, said the conflict not only affected international investment, but it also affected the peasants of the region.
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"The only tosers are the peasants who are attacked by the army on one hand and used by the Catholic Church on the other," he said.
Election rules to be discussed
Correct procedures will be covered tonight
By Ian Ritter
Kansan staff writer
Candidates in the Student Senate election officially will learn how to run their campaigns tonight.
The Elections Commission, a student organization that oversees the Senate election, is conducting a workshop at 7 oncth at parlors A and B in the Kansas Union.
Tonight's workshop is one of three scheduled for those planning to run for Senate positions. The other two workshops will be on March 30 and 31.
Surej Dudhoria, elections commissioner,
said that the workshops would concentrate on four aspects of the elections process:
the dates for filing candidacy, the rules of campaigning, penalties for breaking rules and information on campaign expenses.
For this year's election, the commission is recommending a campaign spending limit of $1,050 for the student body president and vice president. Senatorial candidates are recommended to spend no more than
$210 each.
Dudhoria said candidates were required to attend at least one of three workshops.
"The commission is going to take up a harsh view with those that don't show up to one of the workshops," he said.
Dudhoria said attending tonight's workshop would allow candidates to meet the attendance requirement early.
Stephanie Guerin and Kim Cocks, who are both running for student body president, said that they and their running mates were planning to attend tonight's workshon Guerin's
shop to spell out the rules of the election for those attending.
Both Cocks and Stevens said that they had been happy with the overall performance of the commission, but each had one concern.
"I have to say I was disappointed to find
"If they come to this one,then they don't have to worry about it later on."
vice presidential candidate is David Stevens, and Cocks' running mate is Dan Hare.
Stevens said that he expected the workout that they didn't add any polling sites," Stevens said.
SureJ Dudhoria elections commissioner
There are going to be five polling sites on campus for the April 12 and 13 elections.
Cocks said that she wished the commission had submitted its recommendation for the number of senator seats earlier, but she understood the commission's time constraints.
The commission determines the number of student senators for the College of Liberal
Arts and Nunemaker divisions. The determination is made after the release of 20th day enrollment figures, which came out last week.
New procedures will save libraries paper and costs
By Brian Vandervliet
Kansan staff writer
A small change in library procedure could be a large step toward conserving paper.
Within the next two weeks, University libraries will change its overdue book notification process. Until now, when the libraries notified borrowers of overdue books it used one sheet of paper for each book. Future notifications will consolidate the list by including up to 16 book titles on each page.
So, if a student had five overdue books, he or she would receive overdue notices on five separate sheets of paper.
"It has the potential to save a lot of paper," said Kent Miller, acting head of Watson Library access services. "It's obvious the new system will reduce paper use and mailing costs."
Because borrowers are allowed to check out as many titles as they want, sometimes more than 200 sheets of paper have been sent to notify one borrower of overdue books. The new forms potentially could cut paper use by as much as 80 percent, Miller said.
"It's one drop of water out of an affair, but if you do things on a small scale the cumulative effect can be large." Miller said.
In addition to consolidating titles, the new forms also will make checkout renewal easier for library staff by eliminating the need to keystroke a title's call number, Miller said. Staff now will identify a title using a scanning wand.
"We're trying to cut down on potential human error and go faster." Miller said.
Zee Galliano, circulations desk supervisor, said the ability to scan titles could save a substantial amount of time during checkout renewal. In the past, punching in the numbers could take as long as 30 minutes when a renewing a large number of titles. She expected the amount of time to be cut by at least half.
Miller said the idea for the consolidated forms had been recommended two years ago by the former environmental ombudsman at KU. Computer programmers at the University began working on the redesign last summer and now were removing a minor glitch in the program.
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