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Vol. 109 • No. 140
Vol. 109 · No.140
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Kosovo Conflict
"These reserves are essential to America's military strength. They are part of the total force we bring to bear whenever our men and women in uniform are called to action."
President Clinton
Pentagon announces call to send reservists to Kosovo
The Associated Press
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W CHITA - Airline pilots. Asssembly line teachers. School teachers. Construction workers. Engineers. Librarians.
For the 370 members of the U.S Air Force Reserve's 931st Air Refueling Group, the Defense Department call to duty in NATO's Kosovo operation meant an expectant wait for the phone call to tell them whether they are among the unit's 64 reservists selected to join the NATO air campaign.
The Pentagon announced yesterday that it will call 38,102 reservists to active duty. The call-up will begin immediately with 2,116 members of the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard to assist in aerial refueling of NATO warplanes.
The call-up includes Kansas reservists based at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita and others from units in Alabama, Arizona, California, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. They will serve on active duty for as long as six months.
President Clinton said he expected Defense Secretary William Cohen to call up
additional reservists from all branches of the military to "fill critical support positions in our humanitarian and combat operations" in and around Yugoslavia.
"These reserves are essential to America's military strength. They are part of the total force we bring to bear whenever our men and women in uniform are called to action." Clinton said.
Once they are notified, the reservoirs will have 24 hours to arrange their family affairs, leave their civilian jobs and report to McConnell. The deployment to join the NATO air campaign could take days longer.
The earliest they could leave would be this weekend, but the 931st has not yet received its deployment order, said Col. Dean J. Despinoy, the unit's commander.
The 831st will activate one squadron—a total 16 crews—in this first involuntary call-up since NATO began its air campaign. The group is a KC-135 Stratotanker unit. About one-third of the missions flown from McConnell Air Force base use reservists, Despinoy said.
"We are constantly ready to go fight our battles. So therefore, it is expected and everyone that is a member of the organization is basically read for this. "DESPINoy said, 'It is disruptive of other lives, so we try
The Guard and Reserve together contain more than 50 percent of the Air Force's air-reliefing capability, Despinoy said.
"The real dedication ... for the rest of the folks that will be staying back here at the unit is to make sure that they are doing everything they can to support those families," he said.
— just as the president has tried — not to activate the Guard and Reserve indiscriminately."
The Kansas unit has 20 people serving on a volunteer basis, but those reservists will be called home before they are deployed again as part of this call-up. DESPINoy said
A crisis action team has been activated to help them.
The group is based in Wichita, but many of its members — particularly the pilots — live in other states, including Missouri, Texas, Illinois and Oklahoma. Most of the reservists serving as navigators or boom operators live in the Wichita area.
The focus of the 931st will now shift to the needs of the families that are deployed, Desminov said.
Air National Guard
- The 161st Air Refueling Wing, Phoenix; 6 planes and 284 personnel.
- The 171st Air Retueling Wing Pittsburgh; 14 planes and 470 personnel.
- The 117th Air Refueling Wing, Birmingham, Ala.; 6 planes and 210 personnel.
- The 128th Air Refueling Wing, Milwaukee; 6 planes and 281 personnel.
Air Force Reserve
The 92th Air Refueling Wing
Detroit; Omaha and PS personnel
- The 940th Air Refueling Wing, Marysville, Calif.; 8 planes and 250 personnel.
- The 434th Air Refueling Wing, Kokomo, Ind.; 7 planes and 498 personnel.
- The 931st Air Refueling Wing,
Wichita; 0 planes and 64 personnel.
source: CNN Interactive Kyle Ramsey/KANSAN
Posting policy gains new appeal process
By Nadia Mustafa
mnuftaaf@kansan.com
Kansas staff writer
An appeals process will now be available to students who are fired for illegally posting materials on classroom bulletin boards, campus utility poles, walls, exterior doors, bus stop signs and newspaper distribution boxes.
Last week, Provost David Shulenburg formally added an appeals process as an accompaniment to his campus bulletin board policy, which calls for a $10 fine per illegal poster after a written warning.
Students or other individuals who think they didn't violate the policy will be able to submit a written appeal to the provost's office within two weeks of being fined. Shulen burger will then appoint an impartial panel to review the appeal and make a recommendation.
Brian Bartelt, member of Students Against The Recreation Center, was fined $110 last week for SARC signs posted on campus utility poles. He said that other members of SARC were responsible for the postings but that he did not know who they were.
Student organizations such as Student Union Activities had campaigned for changes to the policy earlier this semester, but nb action had been taken until last week.
Bartelt consulted the KU chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union after being fined. Buddy Lloyd, president of KU ACLU, set up an appointment with Shulenburger shortly before the provost
announced the addition of an appeals process.
Jeannette Johnson, assistant to the provost, said Shulenburger had met with students who thought they shouldn't have been fined even before the addition of an appeals process.
But Bartelt said he was still frustrated with the inconsistent manner in which the policy was enforced. He said that not all students received warnings before they were fined and that some groups' illegal postings were ignored.
Lloyd said the lack of a formal appeals process was a violation of due process rights. He said the addition was a result of ACLU's involvement.
Johnson said that the provost's office did not selectively implement the policy and that she had sent warnings to a diverse group of student organizations.
"This is a complete victory on all accounts," Lloyd said. "Once we got involved, we got action."
After meeting with Bartelt and Lloyd yesterday, Shulenburger dismissed Bartelt's fine.
She said 11 student organizations and more than 30 off-campus organizations had received warnings this semester. She said about 15 organizations were fined.
He said that he did not discuss those concerns with Shulenburger yesterday but that he would send him a letter.
"It's kind of weird that certain political groups are targeted," Bartelt said.
- Edited by Steph Brewer
Outstanding women honored at Union
Barbara Ballard, assistant vice chancellor for student affairs, smiles after receiving recognition for her 18 years of service as the director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center. Ballard was one of 30 women who were honored lastnight in the Kansas Union. Photo by Augustus Anthony Pizzaza/KANSAN
Mary Turkington took off her canvas apron and put down her tin snips in 1943. Her metal-cutting job to help fuel the World War II effort had come to an end, as had the income that would allow her to go to the University of Kansas.
By Dan Curry
Kansan staff writer
The dean of women found herself a job, a room and a chance for an education.
AWARD RECIPIENTS
now member of the Kansas Turnpike Authority and the keynote speaker at last night's annual Women's Recognition Program.
"It made a real difference to me then, and it makes a difference now," said Turkington,
When Turkington returned sometime later to help another woman find a place at the University, Emily Taylor was the dean of women. Taylor found the woman Turkington was helping a job, a room and a chance for an education, as well.
About 100 people attended the program last night at Alderson Auditorium in the
See EMILY on page 2A
Outstanding Women Students:
Mandy Dye, Jessica Dunn, Alicia Barker, Jody Rhodes, Tina Terry, Emily Ronning, Crispian Paul, Jennifer Scott, Julie Numrich, Sara Nelson, Jen Swenson, Kari Johnson
Alma Poehler Brook
Sarah Giesel, Jennifer Blomquist, Eva Davis, Leslie Duke
Outstanding Women Students in Athletics:
Jenn Pride  Concord Mason
Outstanding Nontraditional Woman Student: Glenda Immer
Outstanding Woman Student in Community Services:
Erika Nutt
Outstanding Woman Student in Leadership:
Jane Stoever
Outstanding Woman Student in Student Services: Julie Numrich
Outstanding International Woman Student:
Brenda (Tingfai) Chung
Outstanding Woman Educator:
Caren Warren
Teresa Rockhold, Mary Ryan
Outstanding Women Staff Members:
Women's Hall of Fame:
Joan Brunfeldt, Karen Gal-
lacher
Service Recognition:
Barbara Ballard
Outstanding Pioneer Woman:
Emily Taylor
Higher education proposal advances
New plan to include faculty salary increase
Rv Katrina Hull
Special to the Kansan
If the financial aspects of the plan follow through, the University can expect to receive a significant increase in faculty salary funding in 2001.
TOPEKA - A House-Senate conference committee on higher education gave unanimous approval yesterday to a compromise that will restructure the Board of Regents on July 1.
"It's an acknowledgement and a promise to fix faculty salaries in 2001," Chancellor Bob Hemenway said. "We'll watch and hope that it will be fulfilled."
The state has been trying to change higher education for 25 years. Bill Docking, chairman of the
With the approval by
present board, said this was the best proposal he was aware of. "It's not perfect, but it's the best we are likely to see," he said.
With the upstart committee, the bill has been sent to the House and is planned for debate today as the legislature returns for a wrap-up session. If the House and Senate give their final approval to the conference committee's compromise, the bill will be sent to the governor.
Gov. Bill Graves said he approved of the restructuring plan, which would increase coordination in higher education by bringing all institutions under the supervision of the restructured board.
The new board will still consist of nine members, but three divisions will be created: one to govern the existing six Regents universities, another to govern community colleges and vocational technical schools, and the final to provide coordination among all state institutions of higher learning.
Along with the restructuring, the state would begin funding community colleges and municipally financed Washburn University through enrollment-based operating grants that would equal half of the cost to educate freshmen and sophomores at state universities.
Currently, community colleges and Washburn University are financed through local property taxes. The House-backed funding component will provide tax relief to counties that support community colleges.
"We would be asking the Regents to do what they would be doing anyway," he said.
Rep. Ralph Tanner, R-Baldwin City, said little change in the function of the Regents would occur.
Community colleges are now governed by the State Board of Education. Although supervision will be transferred to the new Board of Regents, community colleges and Washburn University will be allowed to keep their own boards of trustees.
Sen, Tim Emert, R-Independence, said the intent was to allow issues not involving credit hours to remain between the colleges and the community.
Under restructuring, performance objectives will be set separately by the schools and then approved by the board to avoid competition between schools.
The conference committee added a provision yesterday that would award schools that achieve their set objectives.
"We don't want the competition between each other," Tanner said. "We want them competing against themselves."
Emert said it would be the job of the new board to further clarify the intent of the legislation.
Sen. Barbara Lawrence, R-Wichita, said that the bill was not perfect and that she expected it to be revisited in the future.
"This is big step, and I do think the work and thought behind it have been extraordinary." Lawrence said. "To assume everything is going to be included in the first step is overly optimistic."
Edited by Seth Hoffman