THE UNIVERSITY DAILY
DREARY
KANSAN
Vol. 90. No. 93
The University of Kansas—Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, February 15. 1980
Student election results tallied See story back page
Top seats go to Coalition
By SUSAN SCHOENMAKER
Minutes before a phone call from the governor, Mike McCain formed presidential candidate Greg Schneck and his running mate Matt Davis of their victory. Schneck said the race was not over.
Their 47-vote win over the Focus coalition was hardly a comfortable margin.
"Put down your beer, you are not going to need that," Davis told Schnacke. "We won. We won."
"Are you sure?" Schnacke demanded several times.
e. yes watering, the pair hunged each other before running downstairs to shout the news to their supporters. They were imminent deaths. They begged, begged,
"My intuitions never fail. I just knew they would win," one supporter said. "They put all that work in."
Another less confident supporter looked dazed. Because the race was close, a recount was called before the Senate elections committee released its results.
"I'm shaking, I just can't believe it," Schnacke, Topea senior, said.
Bendover had trailed The Coalfire by 692, and Apathy had 226 votes. A total of 2,907 votes were cast.
Davis, Overland Park junior, said that when Mitchelson called, he kept asking whether it was really him.
"I was just sure it was a prank," Davis said. "I had to make sure."
Davis said his parents were "sound asleep" when he called to inform them of his victory, and that he wasn't convinced they would remember the news in the morning.
Schnacke was direct when he called his parents.
"Mom, you're talking to the Student body
president," Schnacke said. "I won. It was a very, very close race."
Schnacke said before the results were announced that he would work harder as student body president because the race was close and he wouldn't "bracelee in."
He said his first priority was to "give up" for Senate budget hearings. Then, he said, Legal Services needed to be "contended with."
Davis said, "The first thing we're going to do is see if the key fits tomorrow morning at seven."
George Gomez, outgoing student body vice president tossed Schnacke the keys to the Senate office and said, "It's all yours."
Margaret Berlin, outgoing student body president, was on a flight to a Washington, D.C. conference.
Davis said, "We're going to take the ball and run with it; we're going to move. I have a feeling this year is going to be different."
Focus coalition's leaders falter but Senate candidates dominate
By ANN SHIELDS and RICK HELLMAN Staff Reporters
With only 57 more votes, the lethargic group in the Stephan Realty building last night would have been celebrating.
"I can't see us dropping out of Student Senate altogether," Senecal said.
But someone on the stairs was crying, another popped up and shouted, and Shelley Sedney, Focus Coalition candidates for student body president and vice president, were trying to
She said she and Cramer probably would try to get holder seats or committee chairmanships.
MANY OF the campaigners said they did not think next year's Senate would be different with Coalition, not Focus, candidates in the ton offices.
"the difference?" one said. "There really isn't a difference between the two."
Marti Smith, newly elected Nunemaker 2 senator, said, "There's a big void in thinking that Steve and Shelley won't be there since they were our spearheads.
Cramer said, "There's a difference, but not a major difference that would change everything."
About 78 percent of the Focus senatorial candidates won the election. They will comprise 46 percent of the Senate.
"They're really the ones who got us elected."
CRAMER SAID he thought the Bendover and Apathy conditions afflicted the outcome.
"But who's to say whether their votes would have come to us?" he said.
He said he thought that although the Bendover Coalition was "a bit drastic," the Apathy Coalition drew attention to the election and the problems of the Senate.
Graduate students need to be included,he said, and poor senatorial attendance should stop.
"It should be prestigious to be a senator," he said.
weary campaign worker leaned against See ELECTION back page
Committee receives election complaints
Staff Reporter
By TOM TEDESCHI
Four complaints alleging student election procedure violations were received by the Student Senate Elections Committee yesterday.
Eleven residents of GSP-Corbin Hall, a local non-profit organization that two members of the Food Bank distributed campaign literature in the Hall late Tuesday night, specifically against those who were underage.
The Association of University Residence Halls also filed a complaint, against the two Focus sophomore class office candidates and against the Focus Coalition.
Stan Taylor, an Ind-spend runner for Nunemaker District Two, complained that Naismith Hall residents received the wrong
TIM SALTER, student body president candidate for the Bendover coalition, complained that graduate students were not and were pregnant, student body president and wegressed.
ballots—Nunemaker Three instead of Nunemaker Two—during dinner, at a critical point in his campaign.
In a Feb. 13 letter to the elections committee, the 119-GCS-Panzer residents alleged that the GSPCP was running for sophomore class treasurer and secretary were seen slipping Focus Coalition handbills under residents' doors, violating the violation of the AURH solicitation pole.
"... these women were afforded an official reminder and request to stop, by a Cornhall staff member," the letter said. "The staff member inspected the staff member to a good hit at work."
If this happened to more than these two
BOTH DIEDERICH and McGinty won their elections by more than 100 votes
Saliter, in a letter to the committee dated yesterday, said that two graduate students and one student body president and vice president saliter. Saliter said they had to request them.
Taylor, a resident of Nismath Hall, said several students told him that between 5:00 and 5:14 p.m. the wrong balls had been in the bat during the dinner hour.
students, Salter said, "the election is suspect."
TAYLOR REQUESTED that the Feb. 13 returns be invalidated and that new electors not for only senate, but presidential, class officer, general assembly and draft issue
John Mitchelson, chairman of the Senate elections committee, said early this morning that the complaints were not unusual.
"It's pretty common," he said. "We had five complaints last year and only four this year."
According to Senate rules, any individual or coalition found in violation of election procedure outlined in the rules can be fined. Any person who is seated in the Student Senate or class office.
Campaian close-ups
Top left: Tim Salter, Bendover presidential candidate, holds tedy after finishing third in last night's Student Senate elections. Top right: Matt Davis and Greg Schachek (Coalition) share a victory hug after learning that they will represent the student body
next year as vice president and president.
Bottom: Shelley Senecal and Steve Cramer (Focus) share the disappointment of losing the Senate presidential and vice presidential race last night.
Photos by Wes Orzechowski, Ben Bigler and Jeff Harrinz.
'Fallen angel' gathers dust at local airport
By BRIAN VON BEVERN
Staff Reporter
She sits next to the hangar at Lawrence Municipal Airport, where she has sat for the past 10 years, heedless of the cold. A star ballet choreographer her prime once. Once she was a star, prima balerina in an aerial ballet. But now she sits alone, the ice wind sighing around her. It is a grey, leaden day, a far cry from those sunny days, when warmed by a midnight frost.
"Now, ladies and gentlemen, I direct your attention to the east end of the runway, where L1 Hal Lovey is beginning his takeout run in the number five aircraft.
The narrator stands stiffly erect, reading from a clipboard he holds at arm's height. He is a light-skinned male in aircraft to 150 miles per hour, then rotate the nose, climb to 50 feet and — in a specimen of his own design — generate the F1IA—will roll his aircraft 360 degrees with the landing gear and
Off to the right, a roar signals the off to Loney's takeoff. The roar crescendo as its airplane passes the balancing on a knife edge of skill and raw power, the plane pirouettes at what seems to be an impossible low airspeed and
"Nobody else liked to fly her, because she was trimmed so nose heavy." Hail her as it was, and soon ago. "We had it measured once, and I was ready to run out of the show during upwards of 60
pounds during some of the high-G maneuvers."
THE WARM SUMMER breeze tugs at his collar and ruffles the pages of his script.
THEY HAD PERFORMED together hundreds of times, flawlessly.
After a few months, she was moved from Penacola, Flia. to Lawrence, ostensibly to help with the plane rentals or airplanes. Instead the plane rents by a corrugated aluminum hangar. A fallen tree fell on the plane.
The aluminum front edges of her wings used to be polished till they shone. They
would flash in the sunlight, shedding the wind in a 500-mile-an-hour cry as she slid down the back side of a delta formation loop.
This was no ordinary airplane. She was a member of the U.S. Navy's precision flight team, the "Blue Angels," consider one of the top aeroplastic teams in the world.
And she was a star among stars, the lead airplane, tail number five.
THE GLOSSY BLUE paint has faded over the years, oxidized. To touch her is to come away with a faded blue hand. The blues have been a hallmark and spotted with age. Around her lie
See PLANE back page
Unpaid bills total $1 million at Med Center
Staff Reporter
A foreign professor visiting the University of Kansas was treated for a kidney failure at the University of Kansas Medical Center, the country before paying his hospital bill.
By STEVE MAUN Staff Reporter
A wine fell down a set of stairs and was taken to the Med Center enervated with an EPI, but no money. Several thousand similar incidents each year cause the Med Center's annual debt of $150 million.
"If you look at the accounts we are writing on, it is a lot of small ones that add up. We work with companies in Center business and fiscal affairs, said this week." We feel we do everything we need to do.
The fact of life is that the Med Center has accumulated a $400,000 debt for fiscal 1980, which ends in June, and Gresson expects it will increase to between $1.5 and $1.8
IN FISCAL 1979, the Med Center wrote off $1.5 million in bad debts, 3.5 percent of its gross charges. During the last three years, the Med Center wrote off about $4.2 million worth of uncollectible bills.
" of we course to try to collect everything." Greese said. "I think you have to look at the reasons they don't pay. Some are on rent and some catastrophe events in their lives."
Mike McReynolls, manager of credit and collections, said a series of three letters was sent to patients who failed to respond to the hospital's billing statements.
first letter informs patients of their See BILL page eight
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