THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
KANSAN
Friday November 4,1977
The University of Kansas
Vol. 88, No. 49
Lawrence, Kansas
Senate gives more money to 16 groups
By ALLEN HOLDER and MELISSA THOMPSON
Staff Writers
With barely enough student senators present for a quorum at the start of last night's meeting, the Student Senate has set aside funding to 18 campus or organizations.
At the beginning of the delayed meeting, only 56 of 110 members were present. A quorum requires that 55 senators be present.
The Senate in the past two nights has allocated more than $25,000 to 29 of 31 campus groups requesting Senate fall supplement funds.
When the meeting ended, only 50 members were present, but a quorum count was not called for and action taken last night was binding.
Last night's meeting was a continuation of a meeting Wednesday night that was recessed midway through budget considerations for lack of a quorum. Funding was approved Wednesday night for 13 organizations.
THE SENATE LAST night honored the fall budget committee's recommendations for 16 groups, but changed allocations for two groups.
Women's Coalition received $209 more than the fall budget committee recommended. The Senate vote to allocate $125 more to the groups for film and music rental and $84 to buy whistles for a total allocation of $138 whistles would be used for rape prevention.
The face of Steve Leben, student president was twisted in concentration during a rigorous discussion about funding of the Women's work.
Funding frown
The budget committee had decided not to fund the coalition for the whistles because they said the money would not be enough to stage an effective rape prevention program.
Reggie Robinson, Student Rights Committee chairman, said last night he thought the Senate was not being serious about allocating money for the whistles.
Coalition during last night's Student Senate meeting. The Senate completed its fall budget hearings.
YOU GUYS LAUGHED when they said See ORGANIZATIONS page three
See ORGANIZATIONS page three
Quinn says magazines of no merit
Staff Writer
RV DON WILSON
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Dennis Quinn, professor of English at the University of Kansas, testified yesterday in federal district court that the issues of Screw and Smut magazines he had been asked to judge contained no serious literary merit.
Quinn appeared as a witness for the prosecution in a case involving AI Goldstein, publisher of the magazines, and James Cox, former associate in the publishing enterprise.
Goldstein and Buckley have been charged with mailing obscene material - a charge that carries with it a maximum jail sentence of five years.
Quinn, the third and final witness of the process, spent nearly four and a half years in prison.
Quinn was called by the government to testify as a literary expert to demonstrate that the publications did not have any serious literary value.
IF IT WAS ruled that the magazines had serious literary value, they could not be
found obscure under definitions laid down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
During the morning session, the jury of seven women and five men listened as Quinn explained the criteria for judging serious literary value.
Quinn said scholars looked for out-
standing skill with language, full
development of characters, clever plotting,
entertainment and a serious treatment
of the subject.
"Particularly in literature dealing with sex, it is easy to determine whether the
Committee okays test exemptions
The University Senate Calendar Committee yesterday approved three more requests for exemptions to a new final rule that is in effect for the first time this fall.
The policy prohibits instructors from giving final exams during the last week of school.
The three requests approved were among six considered. The committee approved two exemption requests last Friday, both by the department of human development.
The requests were approved on the condition that the approved exemptions be included in the application.
The requests approved were from John
Deborah Fauro, director of microbiology
labs; and Chuan-Tau Tau, associate professor of aerospace engineering.
However, committee members expressed dissatisfaction with the final exam rule.
A letter from Elen Morris, assistant professor of architecture and urban design, prompted William Balfour. University officials are about to prescribe the exemption might be.
"I think in each of these requests, we should either get rid of the rule or stick to it," he said. "My personal opinion is to get rid of it."
ROBERT UMHOLTZ, associate professor of mechanical engineering, called the rule
"We're opening ourselves to dozens of requests if we approve of this proposal," he
One exemption request, from Michael Henderson, director of the Applied English Center, was disregarded by the Calendar Center. The English English Center is not funded by the University.
THE PROPOSAL was originally made by the Procedures and Policies committee last year.
The center is paid for by the tuition of foreign students participating in the program.
Quinn said that he thought the reading public sensed the same things in literature, but, because of a lack of professional training, could not articulate them.
Umholtz suggested that the committee made the final exam rule should be the committee to consider exemptions to the rule.
writer is seriously exploring the subject or merely exclaiming it." he said.
Balfour said there was no need to approve Henderson's request because the center was empty.
During the afternoon session, Quinn was asked by the prosecutor attorney to go through several issues of both magazines and give his opinion about their literary
"He made a mistake in even applying for an exemption," Bailour said.
Quinn said continually during the prosecution's questioning that all the literary forms employed in the magazines were accessible to them by a serious literary value.
Of an editorial in one issue, he said, "I don't know whether I would call it an editorial at all. It's simply a statement of opinion." Dr. Dainstein's (disliking of women's "liberation")
Under cross examination, Harold Fahringer, chief council for the defense, raised questions about Quinn's Roman Catholic religion, his involvement with the controversial Integrated Humanities Program, his lack of study in the field of popular literature and the extent of his recent scholarly publication.
FAHRINGER DID NOT pursue any of the issues very vigorously but instead spend more time demonstrating that under Quim's definition of serious literary value, almost no popular literature would have any value.
Fahringer and Quinn also hagged over the definition of the term "serious literary
See QUINN page three
By SUSANT. HALL Staff Writer
Funds trimmed from KU budget
Staff Writer
Funding for Watson Library, women's intercollegiate athletics and all new program requests for the Lawrence campus have been cut from the University of Kansas fiscal 1979 budget by James Bibb, state budget director.
KU administrators yesterday received notification of the budget director's cuts and recommendations to Gov. Robert Bennett, the director of business affairs, said yesterday.
Nitcher said that KU Medical Center receives for new programs also were cut burdens.
Bibb cut requests for $84,153 for KU Women's Intercollegiate Athletic program and $100,000 for library improvements. Both requests were announced by the Kansas Board of Regents.
Requests of state agencies are routinely trimmed by the state budget director before he delivers his budget recommendations to the governor.
ADMINISTRATORS WILL defend KU's fiscal 1979 budget requests before the governor and Bibb Thursday at the statehouse in Topeka.
KU administrators originally had requested 1,068,227 for library information.
A requested graduate fee waiver, which would have cost the University $263,094 during 1978-79, also was not recommended by Bibb In. June, the Regents decided not to recommend incorporating the fee waiver into the university's budget instead, decided to let the governor and the legislature decide whether to finance the waiver.
Administrators have said the fee waiver, which would eliminate incidental fees of graduate students, was necessary if KU did not offer a degree to graduate students with other limitations.
Also included in KU's budget request, which was submitted to the state budget director Sept. 5, we had a 7 per cent salary and Bibb recommended a 5 per cent bike. Bibb recommended a 5 per cent bike.
KU$'S SALARY increase for classified
EMPLOYEES, which totaled $300,792, was approx-
mately 6.5% of the base salary.
A 10 per cent increase in student employment funds was cut totally from the budget. Most of the student employment money was requested to meet a future increase in the minimum wage, not to create new jobs.
Salary increases were established by the regents and are the same for all seven Regents.
See BUDGET page 14
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Capsules From the Associated Press, United Press International
CIA accused of assassination plot
WASHINGTON — THE CIA was accused of attempting to kill Jamaica's leftist prime minister three times last year in a Penthouse magazine article published
The CIA denied the charges. Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley said be believed the CIA melded in Jamaican affairs last year but would not contend with the claims.
Carter to address nation on energy
WASHINGTON — President Tuesday, attempting to save his energy program, will address the nation Tuesday night on radio and television "to refocus public attention" on the issues at hand.
The House and Senate are nearing the end of their work on Carter's energy legislation, and the White House, in a written announcement, said "the President feels the remaining areas of controversy should be presented to the American people."
U.S. praises Soviet nuclear goals
WASHINGTON — State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III said yesterday that U.S. goals were consistent with a proposal made Wednesday by Soviet officials to boost the production of all military and peaceful nuclear material.
Secretary of State Cyrus Vance said also that recent news leaks about the U.S.-Soviet strategic talks were "very unhelpful" and have been privately protested by the Soviets.
The White House is not investigating the leaks, however he. said. See stories page two.
Hodding Carter
MOSCOW — The unofficial Moscow branch of Amnesty International yesterday urged teacher to abolish the death penalty in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Rise of the Reform.
Moscow urged to end death penalty
The group, which has been labeled "anti-Soviet" by authorities and has been subjected to harassment, sent its appeal to the Supreme Soviet, the Soviet
The appeal letter was signed by Nobel prize laureate Andrei Sakharov.
Locally...
When the Beach Boys come to town, they have more on their minds than surf'n' music and California girls. They also ask for limousines, caviar and a meditation room, as SUA has discovered. The Beach Boys are like virtually all kids, with special items to keep them comfortable during their KU stay. See story page 12.
Liquor tolerance a possible key to alcoholism cure
Staff Writer
By SHIRL KASPER
A six-year study by the chairman of the KU Medical Center psychiatry department has provided strong evidence that alcoholism, at least in part, is hereditary.
Donald Goodwin, who documents his findings in the book "Is Alcoholism Hereditary?"," said this week he had taken his study a step further by attempting to isolate a body chemical that would lower a person's tolerance for alcohol.
Goodwin, who is considered an international authority on alcoholism, said that he was attempting to isolate the chemical in research currently underway at the Med Center, but that findings so far were inconclusive.
Such a chemical, Goodwin explained, would permit persons who drink excessively to consume alcohol.
1976 in Denmark, concluded that the children of alcoholics were four times as likely to become alcoholics as children of nonalcoholics.
Perhaps the strongest evidence of genetic factors in alcoholism, Goodwin said, was that there were no genes for the disorder.
"For many centuries it has been known that alcoholism runs in families," he said. "You find references of it going back to antiquity."
THIS WAS NOT the case with Goodwin's recently completed study on alcoholism and its consequences.
Goodwin said about half of all hospitalized alcoholics have another alcoholic in the immediate family. The chances of a death from alcohol is an alcoholic in the family are one in five.
BUT JUST because something runs in the family does not mean it is heredity, he said.
"Speaking Chinese runs in the family, but it isn't hereditary." Goodwin said.
were separated from their biological parents soon after birth and reared by nonrelative, nonalcoholic foster parents. The study compared the adopted children of alcoholic biological parents with a control group of adopted children of nonalcoholics.
To separate the genetic from the environmental factors affecting alcalicles, hydrolyzing enzymes and other factors.
The sons and daughters of alcoholics were our times more likely to be alcoholic than not.
THE VULNERABILITY was specific for alcohol, Goodwin said, and did not involve increased risk for other psychopathology reasons, personality disorders or criminality.
In a second phase of the study, Goodwin and his colleagues compared the drinking problems of children of alcoholics reared by their biological parents with those of their brothers who had been adopted early in life and reared in a different environment.
The main finding of the study, Goodwin said, was that the sons of alcoholics were no more likely to become alcoholic if they were reared by their alcoholic parent than if they
were separated from their alcoholic parent birth and reared by alcoholics.
BUT THERE MAY BE two kinds of animals that runs in a bond and a kind that does not.
"There are people who simply drink too much," he said. "But this is an expression of general maladaptation, which is expressed in many other ways, too. They take too many drugs, and you end up getting a job. They drive drinking is just one more expression of a general instability."
That type of alcoholic, which fits the public stereotype, is not the same as the "diabetlike" alcoholic—the alcoholism that runs in the family, Goodwin said.
THE CAPACITY to drink a lot may be the primary aspect of alcoholism.
Good wine!
In the familial type "there seems to be something very specific that alcohol does, something very specific that affects the brain in a very specific way," Goodwin said.
"It affects behavior in some way or another that makes the person want to continue to drink beyond any reasonable level." he said.
Goodwin said between two-thirds and three-fourths of Oriental people have a low tolerance for alcohol. After drinking a small amount, one ounce, for example, they flush, develop hives, feel nauseated and generally are discouraged by their physical reaction
While some people have the capacity to drink a lot without getting sick, others are just the opposite, notably, Orientals. It is useful for a study underway now at the Med Center.
"There are millions and millions of people, I think the majority of people living, who are to some extent protected from becoming alcoholics because they can't drink very much." Goodwin said. "This is true certainly, of Orientals."
"THIS DEFINITELY is a physical response," he said.
to alcohol from drinking more. Even when she's flush, while other babes do not. Goodwin
In studies at the Med Center, Goodwin is trying to identify what biochemical factor produces the unpleasant reaction in Orientals.
"If we knew chemically what made people intolerant to alcohol, then we would be on the way to having something that might be able to give to people who are, highly tolerant to alcohol, which you have to be in order to be an alcoholic," he said.
Such a "pill" could be used to control a person's drinking by making the individual feel ill after a certain amount of alcohol is consumed.
Goodwin said he has been conducting the research in this area for about two years.
**WE HAVEN'T found anything that**
*See ALCOHOL page 14*