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KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 141 (USPS 650-640)
band's favorite places to play. The band, which is on a world tour after recently releasing the album "Lost and Found," appeared last night at Hoch Auditorium.
Monday, April 29, 1985
Jason Ringenberg, lead singer of Jason and the Scorchers, belts out one of the band's songs to a rowdy and receptive crowd. Jason told the audience that Lawrence was one of the
Session called historic
Lawmakers productive in 1985
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
When the 1985 session of the Kansas Legislature adjourned Saturday, lawmakers agreed it was one of the most productive in recent years.
In the 90-day session, the Legislature approved measures that would ban the burial of hazardous waste, permit the operation of a water pump and allow for legal drinking age for the 3.2 percent bottle to be 18.
Lawmakers also agreed on two issues that have eluded solutions for more than a decade.
lawmakers also agreed on two issues that have eluded solutions for more than a decade — proposed amendments to the state constitution to allow voters to decide on liquor by the drink and the classification of property for tax purposes.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said she thought the session was productive
"It's amazing that we were able to get liquor by the drink and reclassification in the same session," she said.
BOTH MEASURES were high on Gov. John Carlin's agenda for this session. Roth
now will go to the state's voters in the 1986 general election.
"There's no doubt this has been a historic session, addressing some issues that have been on the agenda for many years." Carlin said at a news conference after adjournment.
The governor and legislators disagreed on
See related stories p. 3, 10
Carlin's proposals for school financing and on the need for a tax increase to meet the state's spending requirements.
Carlin had asked for a half cent sales tax increase, in part to pay for his proposed $67 million increase for elementary and secondary education. The Legislature rejected the request for the sales tax increase and cut the school finance proposal by more than half.
ALTHOUGH THE schools — the six state universities and the Kansas Technical University — have shown increased increases in their fiscal year 1986 budget, large as they had requested, they gained
The seven Board of Regents schools did not fare poorly.
about 4 percent over their budgets for the previous year.
The Regents budget included a 5 percent increase for faculty and graduate teaching assistants, or GTAs, an additional 1 percent in the state's contribution to the faculty retirement fund, a 5 percent increase in the schools' other operating expenses, or OOE, and an increase in the GTA fee waiver from 60 percent to 75 percent.
In a separate package, the Legislature approved a 5.5 percent increase in the salaries for classified employees. The University of Kansas has about 1,800 classified employees, which include secretaries and some maintenance workers.
THE LEGISLATURE approved $170.1 million for KU, which included $81 million from the state general fund. This represents an increase of 5.2 percent — or $4 million — in state contributions to the University.
This includes $266,000 to begin a degree program in computer engineering at the University and $200,000 to match con-
Statement by Budig gets mixed reviews
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Students and professors gave mixed reactions to Chancellor Gene A. Budig's statement last week that he was not responsible would eradicate aparteed in South Africa.
See WRAP-UP, p. 5, col. 3
"In my own opinion, I think the chancellor was probably put under a great deal of pressure by the Endowment Association to make that statement," said Betty Banks, secretary of the University Council and associate professor of classics.
Todd Seymour, Endowment Association president, said he agreed with the change.
"I think he's probably right," Seymour said.
In a letter addressed to the members of the University community and presented to the University Senate, the chancellor said that until the U.S. government acted, only U.S. corporations operating in South Africa could be about improvement for blacks living there.
Aparthid is the official policy of racial segregation promulgated by the South Africa.
BUDIG'S LETTER and statement were in response to a resolution passed earlier this month by the University Council that called for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest completely from corporations doing business in South Africa.
Chris Bunker, chairman of the Student Senate Social Responsibilities Committee and a Prairie Village first-year law student, said Friday that he was upset with the chancellor's remarks because he was not sure that Budig had considered arguments for divestment made by the University Council or Student Senate.
"I feel like I've been playing the game as fairly as I know how," he said. "I was curious what other channels we could go through to make our point University policy. I don't know what else students of the University can do to get their message across.
This is sort of one more arrow in the *Employment Association's* quiver of arguments.
SEYMOUR SAID he did not know whether the Endowment Association would or could divest but said that it was under consideration.
Banks said Budig might have been
See REACTION, p. 5, col. 1
Nightmare of bulimia plagues some students
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
No one knows who the women are who have been throwing plastic bags of vomit down the Lewis Hall trash chute every day, but hall officials and eating disorder experts say they are victims of a problem more widespread than anyone knows.
Residence hall officials say the women are chronic dieters who suffer from bulimia, a disease which causes victims to consume sugar and then sitting and then force themselves to vomit.
Symptoms of bulimia — which experts say afflicts mostly women — include binge
"It's sad to hear the poor junior describe cleaning out the trash chute, with vomit up to his shoulders," Lisa Landowski, Lewis resident director, said recently.
The evidence of bulimia at Lewis Hall is one example of a widespread problem among teenage women, according to residence hall office officers of sororities and local counselors.
JANE SHARP, A Lawrence granuate student who runs a bulimia self-heLP group at Lawrence Memorial Hospital said that a high percentage of college-age women were chronic dieters Joan Caesar, a counselor for the University Counseling Center, said 13 to 30 percent of college-age women showed bulimic tendencies.
eating, self-induced vomiting, fasting, and laxative, diet pill or diuretic abuse. Bulimics also experience feelings of depression and guilt. Some may exercise excessively Victims needn't suffer all these symptoms to be considered bulimics.
SOME OF BULIMIA more serious side effects, Cesari said, include heart attacks, ruptured internal organs and a rapid depletion of potassium. But she said bulimia began as a psychological disorder whose origin was not food, but low self-esteem.
"Bulimia is all about stress and self-concent." Cesari said.
Molly Martin, assistant resident director at Lewis, said bulmilah had been a problem among residents there for the past few years. The absence of the problem had increased this year.
Bulimia is no new fad. Ancient Romans were known to induce themselves to vomit by tickling their throats with feathers after gorging at banquets. After the self-induced purges, undaunted practitioners returned to their feasts, eager for more.
THE PROBLEM GREW last fall. Landowski said, when the hall janitor found about three bags of vomit in the trash chute every day. Landowski said a mandatory hall meeting was called last month to alert residents to the problem.
See BULIMIA, p. 6, col. 1
Vietnam memories War recalled in texts, college classrooms
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Students fought wars of their own at home while their peers battled in the jungles of Vietnam.
Violence, protest and arson sweep across college campuses as fellow students and friends daily faced gunfire and bombing
Student unrest in the 1970s served as one of the most visible signs of opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Ten years ago this month, the fall of Saigon occurred. And now, the Vietnam War has returned to
Some protesting students threatened to boycott classes, while others who were drafted never had the chance to enroll.
college campuses - in the American history classroom.
TUTTLE HELPED write an American history textbook, "A People and a Nation," which is used in introductory courses at the University of Iowa and in schools He said the book reflected current criticism of the Vietnam War.
critical of the death squad and the fire bombings."
Vietnam:
A Decade Later
However, textbooks from the new scholarship - a conservative school of thought that has tried to understand the events in Vietnam and States had valid reasons for its involvement in Vietnam. Tuttle said.
In his book, Tuttle maintains that American protests of the war had a great effect on U.S. involvement, whereas a new school of research says the protests had almost no effect.
(about the U.S. role in the war)," Tuttle said.
Media spotlight again shines on Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Saigon, now called Ho Chi Minh City, is being made up, painted and refurbished for the biggest event in Vietnam since the Communist take-over 10 years ago.
Trying to explain U.S. involvement in Vietnam could be difficult, he said, because no one knew much about Vietnam before the United States
The city is buzzing with excitement and preparations in anticipation of the 10th anniversary celebration of the Vietnam War on April 30, 1975.
"But there is still a lot of division
By United Press International
More than 200 foreign journalists,
most Americans, already are here.
The festivities tomorrow probably
will be higher than the Communist victory itself.
See HISTORY, p. 11, col. 1
"I haven't seen so many Americans here for a long, long time," said one shopkeeper on what used to be called Tu Do Street, the main drag of wartime Saigon. "Business has not been so good since the Americans
See related stories p.11
left, but now that the Americans are back it is almost like the old days."
THE SHOPKEEPER, who asked that his name not be used, said he wished the Americans would return so he could sell his lacquerware and souvenirs. But he acknowledged that such an event was unlikely.
'Anyway, we will pretend for a few
days," be said. "Things will be back to normal soon."
In the meantime, though, local citizens are preparing for tomorrow's military parade marking the communist victory over the U.S. backed South Vietnam government. A major unanticipated application of North and South Vietnam
Buildings along the parade route have received new coats of paint. Shopkeepers have erected new signs or touched up old ones. And the few entertainment spots remaining in the city once overrun with bars and nightclubs have planned special shows and longer hours.
See VIETNAM, p. 11, col. 3
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Ron Kellogg, KU basketball player, receives a push from Maria Antonio, KMBC TV 9 reporter, as he begins his uphill leg at the KU Rehabilitation Relays in Kansas City, Kan. See story p. 8.