The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, April 2, 1981
Vol. 91. No. 124 USPS 650-640
MARK MCDONALD/Kansan staff
Brian Booton, Tulsa, Okla, senior, and Maggie Sweeney, Prairie Village senior, found solitude under a tree by Potter Lake yesterday.
Bloc's attempt to regain funds for raises fails
ByGENE GEORGE
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — Time run out yesterday for the bloc of representatives fighting to restore money to the Board of Regents system w/1822 budget and approved with $9 million worth of cuts left intact.
The bloc, lead by the Lawrence House deposition committee, will raise faculty pay for the six institutes, including
The House tentatively accepted the Senate's
governing body and the governor's
committee agreed to seven percent.
Before an amendment increasing money for operating expenses could be prepared and introduced, the House passed the budget on a voice vote.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said that the amendment, increasing the universities' operating budgets, had not been printed in time for the debate.
The House tentatively approved the Senate's cut in the operating expense budgets from the governor's recommended 6 percent to 5.5 percent.
Sobbach said the lawmakers who wanted to restore the money to the budget had worked down the wire.
"We did not decide on who would carry the amendment (on faculty pay) until early this year."
Solbach, State Reps. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence and Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, went to work organizing support in the House after the Senate approved the budget last week
"We did our homework," Sobach said, "Jessie and Betty Jo divided the House and talked to her."
Solbach said that although the Lawrence
delegation "that the Democrats in line," he was still surprised at the number of legislators who were behind him.
The first amendment, raising the pay increase to the governor's recommended 8 percent, failed 65-55. The second, an amendment to increase faculty pay to 7.5 percent, failed 66-54.
Although the House went along with the $8 million in cuts as passed by the Senate, it made
- It eliminated the Senate's rider requiring professors to teach at least three hours a week, unless they have permission from the chancellor to be absent.
- It added about $300,000 to Fort Hays State University's budget to supplement faculty pay. According to the House Ways and Means Committee, Fort Hays has lagged behind the other state institutions in faculty for several years.
Ways and Means Committee chairman Mike Hayden, R-Awool, predicted that the Senate would not approve these changes when the bill returned to the upper house.
In that case, the Regents budget would be sent to a House-Senate conference committee where votes are gathered.
State Rep. James Lowther, R-Emporia, started the debate in the House by proposing the bill to allow minors to vote.
Young professors were watching lawmakers' actions this year, some of them beating the odds.
He told the House that it would be ill-advised to pay faculty members based only on fiscal conc
"The political effects (of the budget cuts) will be reverberating long after we adjourn," he said.
Lowther questioned the logic of cutting any state agency.
Bullet ricocheted, FBI says
WASHINGTON-President Reagan probably was wounded when one of six bullets fired in his direction ricocheted off his bulletproof limousine, law enforcement sources said last
By United Press International
The sources said one bullet hit the window of the car and one was believed to have hit the limouse, ricocheted and then hit the president in the left side of his chest.
Yesterday, Reagan, up and walking around for the first time since he was shot, was conducting "business as usual" from his hospital suite and driving to the White House to return to the White House next week, aides said.
CBS News reported last night that the FBI laboratory had reached the conclusion about the richetocheul bullet from a microscopic fleck of black paint on the bullet found in Reagan's body.
IN A MEDICAL bulletin, Daniel Ruge, Reagan's White House physician, said the president continued to make excellent progress although he experienced "some pain during the day, which is normal for one experiencing an attack of any variety of this type. He is now resting comfortably."
Reagan's fellow victims, White House press secretary James Brady, a secret Service agent and a District of Columbia policeman, also were reported mending from the wounds they suffered in the attack on the presidential party outside the Washington Hilton Hotel Monday.
Brady, 40, who underwent surgery to remove a bullet from his brain, can now move his left and right arms and legs, can speak and, as part of his medical care, can walk "down" with his wife, Sarah, from his hospital bed.
Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy was scheduled to undergo diagnostic scanning tests to determine damage done to his liver. The medical technician said the patient was in good condition with a wound in the neck.
Brady's progress was "astounding," White House sources said.
THE SECRET SERVICE, which will be questioned by Congress this week, said yesterday that its internal investigation of agents' handling of the assassination attempt against Reagan included a critical look at the placement of his limousine.
Two Congressional committees are prepared to question today the men in charge of PHILIPPINES.
The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees the Treasury Department, in which the Secret Service is located, is to hear today from Director H' Stuart Knight. The comparable House subcommittee is to hear from Treasury Secretary Donald Reagan.
But a third look at the Secret Service and the assassination attempt might come from the House Government Operations Subcommittee, which has oversight responsibility for the Treasury.
YESTERDAY, ADMINISTRATION sources said Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had clashed over a sensitive national security issue during the tense hours when Reagan was incapacitated.
"They clearly had a disagreement," one source said. "It was not over who was in control. It was not considered a shouting match or a big row."
The sources said the issue in question concerned national security and was too sensitive to attack.
White House Chief of Staff James Baker acknowledged that a "difference of opinion" had existed, but he denied that Haig and Weinberger had been involved in the White House Situation Room after Hougan was shot.
Presidential Counselor Edwin Meese also insisted that there had been no row. "Both men talked to me today, and that just simply didn't happen."
MEESE SAID THAT in the immediate hours after the assassination attempt "everybody was alert"
Meanwhile, a court-appointed psychiatrist interviewed accused accusant John W. Hinckley Jr. to see if he was mentally competent for a preliminary hearing set for today.
The three-hour evaluation was conducted as officials marshalled evidence on the first solid lead on a motion for the assassination attempt—in the case of the lower lover seeking to prove himself to a movie piece.
Sources said a hand-scrawled letter found during a search of Hinkley's Washington hotel room was addressed to teen-age actress Jodie Foster.
"I will prove my love for you . . . through a historic act," the letter declared.
Touring Russian cellist revisits KU
THE 25-YEAR-OLD driver, who could go to prison for life if convicted of trying to kill the president, secured the services of one of Washington's best-known criminal law firms, headed by famous defense lawyer Edward Bennett Williams, to represent him.
In New Haven, Conn, where she is attending Yale University, Foster released a statement confirming that she received several notes and comments from the students in the initial J. W.H., both last fall and this spring.
See REAGAN page 5
BvSHAWN McKAY
Entertainment Editor
With the finishing touches already in place, Rostropovich will play the same program he has planned for New York tonight at 8 in Hoch Auditorium.
Seventy-two hours and more, 1,500 miles away from a sellout crowd in New York City's Carnegie Hall, most performers would be frantic placing the finishing touches on their repertoire. But not cellist Mstislav Rostropovich.
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of his American debut, the 54-year-old Russian cellist has chosen to do four concerts to honor his first step onto an American stage in 1956.
WHILE HOCH certainly isn't Carreghe in one of the places he wanted to return to during his trip.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Jacquelin Davis, director of the Fine Arts Concert Series, said, "According to the people in New York, Rostropovich wanted to return to certain spots in the United States where he had a good reception, places where he got a warm response from the audience. And KU
James Moeser, dean of the School of Fine Arts, said he was surprised when Rostropovich's agent called and offered the concert to the University.
Rostropovich first appeared at KU in 1974, according to Davis.
"He came very close to be out before, and I expect there to be another large turnout this week."
WHILE ROSTROMPOVICH may not receive the sellout crowd that will greet him when he returns to Carnegie Hall on the same day he plays, it will be a larger audience when he performs tonight.
"I've only seen one sellout crowd at Hoch in the last 15 years," Moeser said. "However, Hoch is capable of holding 3,800 and Carnegie can only hold a little over 2,000. So we could easily see a larger crowd tonight than he will face in New York."
Rostropovich's rapport with an audience began with his first performance at the age of 15 in Slaviansk. The warm response received after his appearance in the Soviet Union had felt for some time—with
a cello in his hand, Rostropovich would become a star.
Soviet support of the musician began to waver in the late 1960s when he began to speak against the repressions of the Soviet regime.
ROSTROPOVICH WAS labeled an outcast. His concert popularity waned as his disfavor with the Communist Party grew. Yet his success in the West encouraged him to return.
The critical acclaim he received in the United States and Europe prompted him to remain outside his country, especially after the death of his wife, Catherine and his wife's citizenship in 1978.
"Now the time has come for me to think about my past," Rostropovich said. "Before 1955, not one Russian artist had been in the United States and never worked there, but the United States was a big enemy."
Remembering his first U.S. performance, Rostropovich said, "I was nervous, incredibly nervous. In our country, it is very important what the critics say. It is very important in the West also, but in our country, each newspaper is official."
"If critics say you're bad, you must know everybody knows you're bad; there's no question. If you're really bad, but the people are good, all know officially that you're good."
TODAV, ROSTROPOVICH spends more time here than in any other country. He even works on his golf club.
But his attachment to his country remains.
"I think maybe I feel even more Russian now," he said. "Now, I have all Russia within me. I don't have all Russia outside. If you have it outside, then maybe you don't have as strong a feeling inside. In my apartments in Paris and Switzerland. I keep many Russian paintings, paintings on canvas, peaceln. Inside I'm very, very, very, very Russian.
"But there is another feeling, not less than this, which is that the whole earth is so small, like a home, a house. Therefore I can feel that at the very same moment, international."
The flavor of his program tonight will also be international. It will include Brahms' Sonata in E minor, Op. 38; Bach's Suite No. 6 in D major; Shostakovitch's Sonata in D major. Op. 40. Elude by Scrabbin; "Minstrels" by E. W. Maysley; and Rastrovichowitz "Humourose."
THOUGH THE PROGRAM is the same one he performed 25 years ago for his American wife, I am grateful to her.
"He's got very strong, individual ideas about his music," Samuel Sanders, Rostropovich's accompanist, said. "He's a profound musician, but like all great musicians, he does things on the spot. He's spontaneous. No concert's the same."
Tickets are still available for the concert and are $10 and $8 for the general public. Students with valid ID cards may purchase tickets for $5 and $4. Reserved tickets not picked up in at least 24 hours before the concert are reserved for sale an hour before the performance.
Many critics have linked Rostopovich's feeling for his music to his feeling for
According to Raymond Stuhl, professor of stringed instruments, Rostropovich "is not only the greatest instrumentalist of his day, he is one of the great humanitarians."
Weather
It will be partly cloudy, windy and warm today with a high near 80, according to the National Weather Service. The weather will be gusty at 15 to 20 moths today.
Tonight there will be a chance of thunderstorms with a low between 50 to 55.
Dole defends threatened audio-reader networks
Thunderstorms will again be a threat tomorrow. The high will be near 70.
By BRAD STERTZ
Staff Reporter
Concerned that blind people will lose their audio-reader broadcast system, Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kansas, warned the Federal Communications Commission to make making any changes in FM frequency availability.
Dole defended the audio-reader networks that serve the blind because of fears that a proposed change in the availability of quadraphonic broadcast networks would reduce frequency used by the audio-reader networks.
Audio-reader networks are broadcasts that provide the blind with news, shopping information, entertainment and other closed-circuit programming. If the FCC made the change, it would mean a smaller listening area and higher costs for the audio-reader networks.
ONE SPECIFIC network that Dole said was a
network and admirably service was the KU
Audio-Retrieval.
But because of the proposed changes by the
FCC that network might be in for numerous financial difficulties.
"Their proposed changes would certainly have a harmful effect on the quality and the availability of service that we can provide." Rosie Hurwitz, director of the KU Audio-Reader Network, said. "Because the frequency that we are on would vanish, we would have to all of our receivers and equipment changed to meet a higher frequency.
"By doing that we would have to spend a lot of money. Some of the receivers we could not readjust, we would just have to throw 556 of them away."
HURTWIT SAID that the KU Audio-Reader Network provided the receivers to the handicapped on unlimited loan. Although these handicapped people do make modest contributions, they simply cannot pay for the entire cost of the receivers.
"And the cost of a receiver at 95 kilohertz rather than the present 67 kHz would be a great expense."
In a letter, Dole reminded the FCC of the needs
of handcapped Americans who receive hours of
hand and entertainment programming daily
through the MCU.
DOLE ALSO TOLD the FCC that the audio-recorders and listeners were concerned about having to change their frequency and thereby having to weaken their signal-to-noise
All of those concerned, Hurwitz said, have
"In effect we would lose the Kansas City listening area and a part of the Topeka area."
Hurwitz said that if the frequency had to be changed, a network would have to be built with a large portion of the latency.
OTHER PROGRAMMING that would be affected by the increased use of quadraphonic broadcasting would be the Physicians' Radio Network agricultural reports and MUZAK.
"Right now we travel 65 miles, including the Kansas City and Topeka areas," she said. "But if quadraphonic sound was instituted in the area, it would reduce the frequency to a higher frequency that would not travel as far."
been petitionting the FCC to not impose the change.
"We are all writing letters to Washington, but we really do not want to get into the political aspects of how the University would react to the sudden increase in costs the change would be show," she said. "The best thing for us would be if the FCC simply did not pass the legislation."
Dole said the FCC was expected to make a decision on the issue by this summer. Hurwitz said that she hoped they would not decide on the information they had so far.
"There have been a number of different studies done that establish that some quadraphonic frequencies will hurt our circuit," she said. "Studies from MUZAK, the American Association of Audio-Reader Services have all shown this true by engineering processes."
"The FCC, however, said that their study showed that the use of quadraphonic would not affect our broadcasts. That is what they are going on, unfortunately."