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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 142 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 30, 1985
About 100 people "die" in front of Stauffer Flint Hall to Some of the protesters yesterday drank Kool-Aid, represent- demonstrate what would happen if World War III began. a cyanide drink.
KU events support national protest day
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A mock nuclear bomb hit campus at 12:30 p.m. yesterday, killing about 100 people in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall.
The people who screamed and sprawled on the grass and sidewalk participated in a "die-in" symbolizing what would happen if World War III began.
Meanwhile a group of about 20 people help a sit-in at Strong Hall to protest U.S. ties to South Africa The protestors planned to stay the night in the first floor rotunda of the hall.
THE ORGANIZATION'S local headquarters is the office of Praxis, a leftist student group, in the Kansas Union. Parti-
tarians of Praxis's protests were not all members of Praxis.
At the die-in, Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology, and David Gramling, Kansas City, Kan, sophomore, toasted death with cups of grape Kool-Aid. The Kool-Aid, led by the local No Business as Usual organates, represented "Jim Jones cyanide drink."
Both protests were in conjunction with a nationwide No Business as Usual day. No Business as Usual is a national organization in San Francisco whose members think daily business in the United States and other countries is leading to World War III.
Both protesters said they would rather commit suicide than die in a nuclearuclear.
David Huet-Vaughn, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, passed around M & M's candy
symbolizing opium used to ease the suffering
of radiation sickness.
"THIS WILL make you feel better," he told the crowd
At Strong Hall, Dennis Highberger, former student body vice president and one of the protesters who organized the sit-in, arrived at 8 a.m. prepared to stay the night. He said he would stay as long as he thought was necessary.
Higherberger, whose term as vice president ended last fall, said the sit-in was indirectly a part of No Business as Usual day because the University had not responded to official requests for it. Finally Endowment Association to divest from companies doing business in South Africa.
South Africa operates under a system of racial segregation called apartheid.
"I'm not going to say I'm going to sit here until KU divends, but I'll stay as long as it takes to our point across," Highberger said. "We've been patient for a long time. By now all the organs in the University governing system have vowed to end lies with South Africa."
LAST WEEK, IN a statement presented to
Senate pares, juggles funds to meet budget
See BUSINESS, p. 5, col. 1
By JULIE MANGAN
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate last night approved fiscal year 1986 allocations for 32 student groups after shifting money among accounts in the school district that relatively approved last week for some groups.
The Senate cut $3,334 from the amount recommended for the KU Crew Club and eliminated funds for Young Americans for Freedom and Rock Chalk Rowdies. It also unallocated account to other groups to balance the budget
The Senate approved all other budget recommendations unchanged.
ganizations unallocated account, move money from the Senate unallocated account to student groups or combine these in some way to balance the budget.
On Wednesday, the Senate tentatively approved about $5,000 more than the $51,180 available for distribution among student groups. The money comes from the $28 million raised by the university and their tuition starting next semester. The activity fee this school year was $24.
Jeff Polack, student body vice president,
told senators that they could cut the tentative
legislation.
The Senate debated for $2^{1/2}$ hours before reaching its final decision. After the final vote to approve the budget, Doug Stallings, gracious student senator, led a walk-out and
The Senate is scheduled to meet again tomorrow to finish business for the year.
The Senate approved the following amounts:
- African Student Association — $233. The group requested $283.
- Black Student Union — $1,955. The group requested $4,190.
- Catholic Social Services of Lawrence — $2,000. The group requested the same amount.
- Chinese Student Association — $551. The group requested $4,065
- Commission on the Status of Women $1,030. The group requested $1,620.
See FINANCE, p. 5, col. 3
Extra funds allocated for schol hall addition
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
Staff Reporter
Renovation and construction on Battenteen Hall will begin sometime next month because extra money for the project was obtained last week, the housing director said yesterday.
J. J. Wilson, housing director, said the office of student affairs last week approved the use of $100,000 from a Kansas University Endowment Association fund for work on the
Plans to renovate the hall had been delayed because the low construction bid was about
Shuttle's seventh flight plagued with problems
$70,000 more than the amount originally allocated for the project. The project includes building a four-room addition to the hall and a walkway to connect the addition to
THE HOUSING OF OFFICE received bids two weeks ago for the proposed construction at the hall. The low bid, made by the B.A. Green Construction Co. 1207 Iowa St., was $289,606.
The construction project will go forward as planned. Wilson said, with no changes
See HALL, p. 5, col. 5
But the nagging troubles did not seem to bother two squirrel monkeys, identified only as "384.80" and "3165," caged next to 24 rats in a wooden cave, anchored in a chained rooftop, a keen cargo bay.
CAPE, CANAVERAL, Fla — Shuttle Challenger streaked into orbit yesterday carrying a space zoo, but its crew of seven had a rocky first two hours with plumbing problems and the launch failure of one of two tiny low-cost satellites.
By United Press International
Although it was the 12th shuttle launch — and a record seventh for Challenger — the first few hours in orbit were far from ordinary.
Problems ranged from an overheated hydraulic system power unit to a urine collection device that sprayed liquid around. The fluid in Lacheetle later said the liquid was urine.
BUT COMMANDER Robert Overmyer said his No. 1 problem was the drinking water. The gailley faucet refused to work.
The water problem kept co-pilot Fred Gregory, Norman Thagard and civilian scientist Lodewijk van den Berg from going to sleep five hikers after launch as scheduled
WHEN IT CAME time to launch the two small satellites, dubbed "cheepsats" because they were built for the relatively small prices and $1.5 million, there was more trouble.
Controllers finally radiated up makehssft repair instructions, and Overriver said the system had been fully automated.
Overmeyer reported that the first of the satellites carried in trash can sized canisters in the open payoff bay sprout out normally 4 hours and 15 minutes after Challenger's second reused to leave its container 15 minutes later and will be brought back to Earth.
Jo Black/KANSAN
Pete Cassius, one of the onlookers gathered outside Stauffer-Flint Hall yesterday, attempts to throw a tattered American flag over Jed Smock, Terre Haute, Ind., evangelist. Cassius said yesterday that Smock "represents America as usual, like The 700 Club and Jerry Falwell."
Staff Reporter
By KEVIN LEATHERS
Wages of sin are tickets, held grades
Lines at the Parking Service office in Hoch Auditorium usually start swelling about this time of year as students realize they must pay parking tickets if they want their grades to arrive in the mail later this spring.
Parking tickets are a part of life for many students. Last year, the Parking Service issued nearly 77,000 parking tickets for those with mutilated stickers or permits to those with mutilated stickers.
But Parking Service officials contended that there was more to their work than bus drivers.
"It would be my deepest desire to see that no tickets were ever issued," Don Kearns, director of the Parking Service, said yesterday. "If there weren't any, that would mean that people were complying and buying their permits or putting change in the meters. We'd be happy to see money come in that way."
KEARNS SAID the Parking Service was aware of its negative image on campus. The service has even considered hiring a public person to improve the public's perception of its work.
"We have, unfortunately, been the enforcers of something many students feel should be somewhat of an almost absolute right," Kearns said. "And also, very simply, students just don't like to pay for parking here, is limited here, so there have to be some rules."
The Parking Service started fiscal year 1985 with a $434,000 surplus from its fiscal 1984 budget. The service estimated that it would pay $330,000 from parking fines this school year.
Kearns said it appeared as if the Parking Service could quit issuing tickets for a year and still be ahead at $200,000. But he didn't mention anything regarding the Parking Service, peyer considered.
"FIRST OF ALL, we cannot drop below the $200,000 mark in carryover money because we have a month and one-half of dead time between when school gets out and when the next fiscal year's budget takes over," he said. "We're here to pay salaries during that time."
The carryover budget, Kearns said, also helps defray the cost of capital improvements, such as repaying parking lots. Capital improvements cost $100,000 this year. he
He also said many students had a “dirst door obsession” and were convenience-oriented, causing them to drive when driving sometimes wasn't necessary.
TIM POTW, Wichita senior, said he was guilty of "front door obsession," but said he thought there were certain instances when it should be justified.
"As an art student, there have been a number of times when I needed my car close by, be it to deliver something to the printer or just to haul awkward objects," Poe said. "I have a legitimate need. But I don't want to have to park illegally to accommodate it."
In an attempt to respond to one of the students and faculty's complaints, Kearns said that next year all violators would be notified within six days of the violation, eliminating some of the surprise some students experience when they find holds placed on their grade cards'