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KANSAN
Foggy, then clear High, 80. Low, 50s. Details on page 3.
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 145 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, May 3, 1985
Jane McMurrer, Solina graduate teaching assistant, takes Fraser Hall to discuss essays. McMurrer said yesterday her class from the Applied English Center to an area behind this was the final time the class would meet.
Cuban advisers leave Nicaragua
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — One hundred Cuban military advisers left Nicaragua yesterday after a tribute in which Defense Minister Humberto Ortega warned their return was not a retreat from "just, noble" ties with Cuba.
Meanwhile, in West Germany, President Reagan said yesterday that the United States would not recognize the world court's right to overturn the U.S. decision to ban all trade with Nicaragua.
Ortega, brother of President Daniel Ortega, also used the farewell ceremony for the Cubans to denounce the recently imposed U.S. trade embargo as an "earthquake" that would further damage the country's war-shattered economy.
President Reagan declared the embargo Wednesday, saying the Managua government's military buildup threatened the country's ability to defend the States. The embargo ends $8 million in
annual U.S. imports from Nicaragua and
sends airline service to Managua.
'THE CUBAN COMADES have helped us in military sciences and arts and to build the Sandinista Popular Army.' Ortega told advisers at a Managua military base.
"It but it would be good for the Americans to understand that with this step we are not retreating even one millimeter, not for one instant, from our just, noble and revolutionary relationship with the Cuban people and government."
The highest ranking Culando military adviser in Nicaragua, Gen. Arilano Ochoa Sanchez, also attended the ceremony in his first public appearance in the country.
first public appointee. Vice-President Sergio Ramirez and ambassadors from the four nations of the peace-seeking Contadora group — Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama — also attended the ceremony.
The 100 Cubans, all dressed in olive-green military fatigues, applauded Ortega's speech and promptly walked in single file to a bus which took them to the airport.
SPEAKING FOR the group, Angel Gonzalez said, "We have given our modest efforts for this young revolutionary people so we can defend its defense as its enemies have forced it to.
The soldiers were welcomed upon arrival in Cuba by children holding red roses and a 20-minute military ceremony led by Defense Minister Raul Castro under the blazing tropical sun at Havana's airport
Representatives from Mexico, Venezuela and Panama attended the ceremony and Cuban Ambassador to Nicaragua Julian Lopez arrived aboard an executive jet just minutes before the 100 military advisers touched down.
Reagan's embargo announcement came after the Nicaragua president visited Moscow and met with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev on the first step of an East Bloc
PRESIDENT ORTEGA, speaking to reporters in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, described the Cuban's departure as a "unilateral act"
See ADVISERS, p. 5, col. 3
Honeywell to file protest on bidding
By TAD CLARKE
Staff Reporter
Honeywell Inc. is preparing to file a protest against the state of Kansas on the grounds that bid specifications for the purchase of two computers at the University of Kansas are too specific to allow competitive bidding, a Honeywell official said yesterday.
The state last week released bids for a VAX computer, made by the Digital Equipment Corp. or one equivalent to it, and an Industrial Business Machines Corp. or equivalent.
Ed Evans, branch manager of the St. Louis Honeywell office, said the bids prevented competitive bidding, which is required by state law.
Jerry Niebaum, director of computing services, said he knew of only a few companies that could meet the specification and specified IBM, DEC or a computer compatible with IBM.
EVANS SAD HIS office branch would protest the specifications. Susan Eich, spokesman for Housewell's main office in Minnesota, and she could not confirm her origin.
"I believe that is true." Eich said, "but it is
corporate decision not to comment any further."
Evans said he wasn't sure when the protest would be filed. He said it did not need to be done before the bidding closed. Bids for the academic computer must be submitted by May 13 and bids for the administrative computer must be submitted by May 17.
He said the protest had nothing to do with KU's recent decision to disconnect a Honeywell computer, valued at $250,000, that university donated to the University 21 years ago.
RICHARD MANN, director of institutional research and personnel services, said he hadn't heard anything about the possible protest by Honeywell.
"It itches from time to time." Mann said. "They have the right to do it. I feel the bid is good. We'll just have to wait and see."
The University's computing system now is split between the academic and administrative computers. The University has requested a VAX 8600 computer or an equivalent for the academic computing system.
The specifications also require an IBM or compatible system for the administrative
GSL forms available after weeks of delay
See COMPUTER, p. 5, col. 1
Staff Reporter
By JEANINE HOWE Staff Reporter
Guaranteed student loan applications now are available at the financial aid office, after several weeks of delays, and students should find no surprises in them, the associate director of the financial aid office said yesterday.
Jeff Weinberg, the associate director, said GSL applications for the 1985-86 school year listed the same $30,000 family income restriction as last year. Students who come from families with incomes of $30,000 or more are inelegible for GSLs unless they can demonstrate a need.
Earlier this year, President Reagan proposed restricting eligibility for GSLs to only those students whose family incomes were below the lowest class of whether they could demonstrate need.
The delay in distributing applications stemmed from the debate in Congress over a provision of the law.
ALTHOUGH THE income restriction remains the same for Weinberg said
congress could change it by Oct. 1. He said he thought that would be unlikely, but that the possibility of a drastic change in the CSL income classification loomed for the 1986-1987 year.
The University, along with colleges and universities across the country, has been waiting for the past four weeks to see whether any changes would be made in the GSL program guidelines. The schools have to know of any changes before they can complete the applications and have them printed
Dennis Martin, assistant director of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administration in Washington, D.C., said recently that guidelines were ready to go on the show.
However, Weinberg said that the University had not received the guidelines.
INSTEAD OF waiting for the guidelines,
Weinberg said, he called the U.S.
Department of Education and financial aid
directors at other universities to find out
See GSL, p. 5, col. 3
Legislators may consider new status for Washburn
By NANCY HANEY
Staff Reporter
The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has asked that a panel of legislators be appointed to study the possibility of Washburn University becoming a state school.
State Rep. Bill Bunting, R Topka, the study would be done over the summer to determine the costs of such a takeover. The study will be conducted in January and the start of next year's session in January.
Bunten said he had asked the Legislative Coordinating Council to appoint a panel that would include House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Attwood; Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, and House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis, D-Louisburg.
The council plans to meet later this month to appoint the committee. Bunten said.
BUENIT SAMD A similar study into the possibility of a state takeover of Washburn University in Topeka had been made in 1976. That study determined it wouldn't be feasible to bring Washburn into the State Board of Regents system
Another study done in 1981 failed to reach any conclusions. Bunten said.
Washburn is a municipal university but received nearly 16 percent of its budget for fiscal year 1986 from state funds. The university will operate on a budget of about $21 million next year, of which nearly $4.5 million will come from state funds.
The Regents schools now include the six state universities, which are the University of Kansas, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University and Wichita State University. The Kansas Technical Institute in Salina is also a Regents school
WASHBURN RECEIVES about $1.45 million each year from property taxes levied in Topeka. The rest of the money comes from private donations and tuition fees of $3 per student.
Bunten said a takeover probably would have to be done over five or six years. The
state could gradually increase the funding to the university until it was supported solely by the state.
"The state is already involved," Bunten said. "We just need to decide whether we want to replace the property tax with state tax money."
But State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, said he thought the state already was spending too much on higher education for a state the size of Kansas.
"TO BRING Washburn into the Regents system means more state money will be involved." he said.
"We can!' have five or six KUs in the state." Solbach said. "But we must have at least one. If we cut the money too thin, then we'd be able to afford the University of Kansas."
Sobach said he thought state money could be better spent at the existing state schools because the money was not there.
Winter said he thought the state was financing enough universities and colleges. He said he was concerned about the possible impact of a change in course if another state school were established.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R Lawrence, said he hoped the study would consider the needs of the other universities in the state
"It needs to include the roles of both community colleges and the entire Regents system," he said. "We need to identify the strengths and build on those in the future."
"I THINK WE might be spreading the butter untool than on the bread," he said.
"I don't think Washburn was ever intended to be a state university," Winter said. "It was never."
pelt out bitter loss on the Hearts, he said. Winter said Emporia State University had suffered a 33 percent decline in enrollment this year. Emporia officials blamed the decline on an increase in the number of programs offered at Washburn that were
Bunten said Washburn was growing and had an enrollment of nearly 7,000 students. The growth has made it hard for Topeka to wash Washburn through property taxes, he said.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Workers from Allan Ott Welding, Eudora, and Stevenson Roofing, Topeka, load sections of a crane onto a truck. The crane was used this week to remove old air conditioners at Learned Hall and replace them with new ones.
Lobby sit-in for S. Africa to continue
The sit-in in the lobby of Strong Hall is scheduled to continue into the weekend, according to the students and others who are protesting the Kansas University Endowment Association's business ties to South Africa.
"More and more interest is coming through." Carla Vogel, one of the organizers of the sit-in and a former student body president, said yesterday. "It's growing bigger and bigger. This would not be a good time to end it."
The protesters, who have been at Strong since 9 a.m. Monday, have planned a rally for the protesters on Tuesday.
Vogel said the rally would include speak- ers, music, dancing and street theater.
The protesters, whose numbers have ranged from 10 to nearly 50, want the Endowment Association to divest its interest in companies that do business in South Africa.
Last week, in a statement presented to the University Senate, Chancellor Gene A Budig said he did not think that dovetail would change apartheid, the white-supremacist
Budig's statement was in response to a resolution passed by the University Council on April 12 calling for the Endowment Association to divest.
"It would have been nice if the Chancellor would have chosen the mediator role." Betty Banks, secretary of the University Council and associate professor of classics, told the protesters yesterday "He can talk to the Endowment Association and he can talk to us.
"No one is ever going to know if the chancellor is a warm human being if he is locked in his office. He was brought here to lead us, not hide from us."
Three representatives of the protesters met Wednesday with Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor and David Ambler, vice chancellor. They have not been able to talk to the chancellor.