The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Monday, February 23, 1981 Vol. 91, No. 101 USPS 650-640
Death penalty backers attempt to override veto
Kansas Senate death penalty supporters will attempt for the third straight year to override a law.
By BRAD STERTZ Staff Reporter
Carlin vetoed the bill Saturday just before he signed a rule that Governors' conference in Washington D.C.
This year, however, the proponents are more optimistic about their chances. The opponents, on the other hand, do not think the override effort has a chance.
"The override doesn't have a chance," Jack Steinerge. Senate minority leader, said. "It is really not a legitimate attempt, but just a chance to plav politics to make the governor look bad."
Steineger, D-Kansas City and a supporter of the bill, said that every year the Republicans keep running the death penalty issue through the Senate. The House is promising the promise that Carlin did not follow through with.
When Carlin ran for governor three years ago, he campaigned in that, although he was personally against the death penalty, he would sign a measure it had gained enough support to reach
"A lot of the Republicans probably feel that they are doing some harm to the governor by continuing to put it up," Steiner said. "But if we don't do that, we could support a bill are lot of malarky."
Senate Majority Leader, Robert Taktington, however, said that Carlin's change in stance is something that should be brought to the public's attention.
"The death penalty is a major issue that most Kansans support," Talkington said. "When Carlin ran for the office, he said he would sign a bill to make it a reversal shows he only said that he got elected."
Talkington, R-Iola, said he thought that Carlin's refusal to sign the death penalty bills for three straight years would help the override vote.
"It is possible that some Legislators who did not support passage of the bill, will support the override," Talkingham said. "Some feel that this would have been a mistake, may change their vote because of Carlin's veto."
Senate President Ross Doyen said that the Senate needed to get three more votes to obtain
"In the vote for passage," Doyen, R. Concordia, said, "24 out of 50 voted for the bill. In order to get the two-thirds majority needed, we will have to get 27 to vote for the override."
Doyen said that he knew of two senators who might switch their original vote.
"I have been going around to see whether or not we could get three more votes for the overtly sad man," said it now it looks like we had a much more tally, but even uncertainty is unnatural until the actual tally is taken."
Doyen said that he could not even call the two members he had counted on to switch as being firm. He said that he could not even call their commitment 50 percent one way or the other.
The override vote is expected to be moved on the Senate floor either tomorrow or Wednesday. Doyen said that he would not bring up the matter today.
"We want to get the matter voted on quickly," Doyen said, "but I promised the Senate a short session today so they could get some work done on their committee business."
Steineger said that despite the optimism of the Republican leaders, he did not think the effort to override was any better than an "exercise in futility."
"I have never seen anybody change their vote for an override on an issue of this importance," he said. "The effort to introduce was as futile as and so is the effort to override as futile last year."
State Sen. Jane Eldredge, R-Lawrence, said that she would not change her vote on the bill.
Eldredge said that she was firm in her opposition to the bill because its categories were
"I could support a bill if it were more limited," she said, "like having the death penalty for murders of prison guards, but this bill does not define who would be subject to the death penalty."
Another point about the bill that Eldridge added was the provision for a selection of the defendant's ally.
"I think that provision is good because you're talking about a person's life to be defended," she said. "The bad part of this bill's section is that it protects you from the court's decision, the counties next to where the trial is held,
"That limits the defendant in smaller counties to having to pick from lawyers who may not be eligible."
"He asked me if I'd consider changing and I said no." Eldredge said. "He asked me if I was firm and I said yes. He then said fine, that he was just trying to raise support for the override, but he said yes."
Eldredge said that she had been approached by Doven to see if she would change her vote.
If the Senate passed a motion to override the veto, it would then go to the floor of the House for a vote.
"The House had 79 votes for the bill on its passage vote," House Speaker Wendell Lady, said. "For the override to carry, it would need 84 will carry to think that the override will carry in the Senate."
Lady, R-Overland Park, voted against the measure and said that he would not participate.
"I am sure that some people in the House will get underway to make a push for the override," but I will not support any kind of effort like that. I don't plan to change my vote on the issue at all."
Members of the LSD gang make an attack on an enemy line in their war games on Saturday. Pictured from left to right are Paul Joslin, Silver
Spring, Md. mophomore; Gary Wienstein, Wichita senior; Bob Stockdale DesPeres, Mo. and senior; Mike Paquette, Lena jun胶局.
MARK MCDONALDIKANS staff
Beer is essential to the war game. Once a person has been killed in the war, he must drink several beers before returning to the front.
MARK MCDONALD/Kansan staff
McCollum frat rituals include make-believe warfare games
Rv DERRV FOSTER
Staff Reporter
The two sides lay waiting, weapons ready. Suddenly the soldiers plunged forward and after a few seconds of intense fighting, some fell to the ground. The survivors retreated.
The dead, only momentarily stunned, ran off to the battlefield, a few beers before returning to the battlefield.
That was the scene on KU's West Campus Saturday when members of the Lambda Sigma Delta -LSD -"fraternity," *complete with in-arms weapons* and weapons engaged in make-believe warlords.
THE LSD GANG, about 26 McColumn Hall residents, was formed last year by what they call "the Neo-Nazis."
Just by chance these men were placed in the West wing of the third floor in McColm last year and become infamous for throwing wild parties and doing strange, bizarre things. They like themselves to the infamous fraternity in National Lampoon's Animal House.
"The best thing about the group is that there is always someone to talk to, eat dinner with and do things with." Bob Stockkale, president of LSD, said. "You're always surrounded by friends."
But this year things are different. Because of vandalism on their wing last year, the members have been separated from each other and now live on various floors in McColum.
"A lot of spontaneity was lost," Gary Weinstein, Wichita senior, said. "It's a lot harder to get everyone together this year."
THEY WERE TOGETHER Saturday as they divided into two teams and took hiders in.
Monday Morning
the brush and hunting each other down, using anything from a toy rifle to a stick as a weapon.
"Even though it's all fun and games, there a . lot of suspense." Stockholm said. "The waiting is the worst part because you don't know where the man is. You're afraid someone will sneak up behind you."
See GANG page 5
John Andrews
MARK MCDONALD D'Kansan staff
Opera hopeful performs in Lawrence
By PENNI CRABTREE
Staff Reporter
The man at the piano caressed the keys as if he were entreating the notes to sound.
"Hey, John, sing 'O Holy Night,' an old man called from the back of the game room.
called off backstage when the song was finished, the old man
and his statues face swimmer. "Well, it dink or swim?" the piano player asked.
"It swims, man, it swims. That was beautiful," the old man said.
JOIN ANDREW'S, 33, is a man who can make a song swim. He is an opera singer as much at the ballet as he is at the concert.
"When I performed at the Lawrence Opera House last year, I interspersed Phyllis Diller and Dracula impressions with opera and pop," Andrews said, chuckling at the memory. "I don't think the audience knew quite how to react at all." And when I was just I was serious. But it went over well."
Andrews has performed 50 times at the Pen-
timento, a local coffeehouse that recently went out of business, and has sung for student radio
"I'enjoy doing those kinds of things, but it's not what I'm seriously interested in," Andrews said. "I'll an opera singer, and that is what I want to perform and be paid for."
ADREWES CRISSCROSSES the country every year to audition for opera companies. It is weary miles by bus and train with eight trains and 14 last year. Competition is stiff, and brutal.
"Opera can be a bell of a vicious profession, and sometimes you just have to try and rise above it." Andrews said. "Some singers have the ability to write music that is considered when a company chooses a singer."
"My happiest moments are when I'm singing, it doesn't matter what. People can tell how content I am when I sing and how much joy I get from it.
"I'm an opera singer by training and desire, but I enjoy singing anything. I have my own singing-telegram music, and I've performed in front of audiences. And of course, I play a lot here."
ANDREWS SINGS almost daily for fellow residents at Vermont Towers, a low-income housing project for the elderly and the handicapped. A small but steady stream of elderly people make their way into the game room where Andres sometimes practices. A few timid ventures. But most just sit, whatever songs closed and gait tapping, to whatever songs he sings.
To other Lawrence residents, Andrews is an enigma. A small, disclibly smooth-featured tenor, Andrews will confound an audience with a mixy mixture of high Italian opera and low coms glanced thoughtfully around the
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ANDREWS HAS auditioned for dozens of opera companies but only once got a call back.
"I got the call back for the chorus of the Chicago Lyric Opera." Andrews said. "I didn't make it, but they sent me a very nice letter, a very encouraging letter.
"I think that they make us wait too long to find out if we've been accepted. It's very frustrating. Sometimes I get into bad, psychological dithers and need to talk to someone."
Andrews glanced thoughtfully around the
Legislators threaten to cut Med Center budget
See ANDREWS page 5
By BRIAN LEVINSON
Staff Reporter
The problems cited included slow completion of renovation at the old hospital, tardy submission of patients' bills to be reimbursed by Medicaid, unsuitary conditions at the new hospital and lapsed contracts with the physician that use the Med Center for private practice.
The legislators gave the Regents until mid-April to correct what they saw as a breakdown in the administrative chain of command at the Med Center.
THE LEGISLATORS also charged that David Waxman, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, and Acting Chancellor Del Shankel had a personality conflict.
personally contact
Waxman said yesterday that he and Shankel
had no conflict, but that he had not seen the other charges.
"He and I talk every day," Waxman said. "We don't know of any friction that exists between us."
Waxman also said he and Shankel had a lot of respect for each other.
Shankel said, "No, it is not true that we do not get along. I think that Dr. Waxman and I will be able to work together to correct the problems at the Medical Center."
the legislators, State Sens. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, and Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and State Reps. Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, and Bill Bunten, R-TOpeka, presented the Regents with a six-page list of concerns. Among those concerns was an allegation that the management of the Med Center fell apart after former Chancellor Archie R. Dwkes left in August 1980.
SHANKEL, ACCORDING to the legislators,
does not have Dykes' administrative talents and
Shankel said, "I think my record in administration for the last 15 years and the
University support I have had as an administratr speak for itself."
As for the other charges, Shankel said that he had a problem with the Med Center situation and was complaining.
"In the suggestion that the University was late submitting Medicaid bills, I can say that most of the bills are submitted on time," he said. "The vast majority of the bills that are overdue, there is some question whether we should be reimbursed."
To clarify the matter, Shankel said he would be responsible for the officials of Social and Rehabilitation Services.
Roger Orke, director of support services, which includes Facilities Operations and Housekeeping, said he wished the legislators would inform someone from his office when they were going to take a tour so that the sanctuary could be pointed out and corrected immediately.
"I don't understand the allegations," Orke said. "I don't deny that a person could walk
Oroke said that on the average, the condition of the critical areas of the hospital was comparable to that in the general population.
through any building and see a piece of paper on
the spoon filled cup of coffee, but I would not
wry those numbers.
One problem area the legislators cited was the trash-compactor room.
Oroke said that was a problem for a period of time but that it had been corrected.
Hayden said the doors to the area would not close, so the odor went out into the hallway. He also said the room looked liks it needed to be emptied.
The Med Center switched from a private janitorial service to its own housekeeping staff last year. Oroke said he did not think the transition had caused problems.
"I think the attitude of our housekeeping staff is more positive now than it has been in the past," he said. "I know that problems occur, but the important thing is to address them quickly so they turn themselves around and I think this has happened."
Weather
It will be sunny, breezy and mild today with a high in the middle 50s, according to the National Weather Service in Toneka.
It will be continued clear tonight with a low in the 20s.
Tomorrow will be continued clear with a high in the middle 60s. Winds will be out of the northwest at 10 to 15 mph.