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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 140 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, April 26, 1985
Chancellor opposes divestiture measure
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said yesterday that he did not agree with a resolution calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest all of its business interests from companies doing business in South Africa.
The resolution was approved earlier this month by the University Council. But it has no binding power over the Endowment Association, which should make corporation taxes from the University.
partner from his time. Budig made his remarks yesterday at the University Senate meeting in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union. He substituted as speaker for Robert P. Cobb, executive vice chancellor.
"Until our federal government acts, the lone opportunity for any meaningful im-provement in South Africa rests with the American corporations that have operations in this region."
'I BELIEVE that the well-intentioned American corporations should be encouraged to take a much more activist role in South Africa. I do not believe that total
No business was conducted at the Senate meeting because only 16 Senate members were present. To conduct business, about 250 of the nearly 1,250 Senate members must be at the meeting. The Senate comprises all faculty and the 65 student senators.
Budig told the 16 Senate members who attended the meeting that apartheid. South Africa's system of racial segregation, was a "blight on the world," and that the only chance for sweeping change of that system resided with the president and Congress
HE SAID THAT as chancellor of the University, he had no power to control the investment policies of the Endowment Association. He also said he would not use his power as chancellor to influence the Endowment Association's decision about di-
"I must add that I have never used my position as the head of a public university for political purposes, nor do I intend to," he said.
"It is essential that I use my office to help insure that the University remains, at all times, a forum for open debate and for the free exchange of ideas."
Budig also mentioned the Endowment Association's contributions to the University.
"Their record of service to this institution is truly extraordinary," he said. "Through the years, we have received nearly $130 million for academic advancement during the past decade."
Budig also spoke to Senate members about the financial gains the University made in the merger.
"The University of Kansas faired well in the Legislature," he said, "Quality in higher education carries a high price, but the returns are incalcable."
By United Press International
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Officials in Kansas City, Mo., have told the United States Olympic Committee that the city wants to be considered as the site for the 1992 Summer Olympic Games, the USOC said yesterday.
Kansas City is the only American city interested in playing host to the 1992 Summer Games.
Kansas City enters a bid for 1992 Summer Games
Kansas City Mayor Richard L. Berkley told George Miller, USOC secretary general, that the city wants to be considered. The USOC will send a team of representatives to the city before June 15 to meet with supporters of the bid and city officials.
The International Olympic Committee said that official bids for the 1992 Summer Games had come from Barcelona, Spain; Brisbane, Australia; Belgrade, Yugoslavia; New Delhi, India; Paris, London; and a combined team from Amsterdam and Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
The IOC is scheduled to make a decision on the host cities in October 1986
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Portland, Ore., officials have withdrawn their original bid to be the host of the 1992 Olympic Winter Games
Kent Kesinger, an employee of R.D. Johnson Excavating, yesterday that the house was being removed to make way Route 5, raises a house at 1120 Mississippi St. Kesinger said for expansion at Stadium Apartments, 1123 Indiana St.
Die-in to protest nuclear buildup
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Reporter
graduate student and one of the coordinators of the protest, said Wednesday
About 100 people plan to die at 12:15 p.m.
Monday on the east lawn of Wescoe Hall.
Actually, they plan to just pretend to die.
The theatrical die in is in conjunction with a national "No Business as Usual" day, a day of protest against the nuclear arms buildup. Similar protests are expected in 40 other places across the country.
"The die will symbolize what will happen if business continues as usual and leads to World War III," Stu Schafer, Lawrence
No Business as Usual is a national organization in San Francisco whose members think daily business in the United States is leading to World War III. The local headquarters of NBAU is the Praxis office in the Kansas Union. Praxis is a leftist student organization.
DAN PARKINSON, Scott City graduate student and a coordinator of the protest, said, "I am expecting at least 100 people to confront and quite a few more sympathizers.
Hall and a "nuclear tour" at 12:45 p.m. Fliers circulated by the protest organizers encourage students to avoid business as usual by skipping at least one class.
Stephanie Tang, a member of NBAU's national response committee who works in the organization's office in San Francisco, said the protest was particularly important.
The organized protest includes a rally at noon on the lawn in front of StauerFlint
"Lawrence has already had a slap in the face, being the subject of the television movie about nuclear war." Tang said.
"THE DAY AFTER," a nationally recognized television movie aired Nov. 20, 1983, portrayed Lawrence as a city destroyed in a nuclear holocaust.
Business cleans clothes, not souls Laundromat gets both the dirty and the curious
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Jesus No 777 is a business where customers cleanse their clothes — not their souls
"People ask me if I am affiliated with a church and I say yes. But the church doesn't run my business, I do," Mike Everett, owner of Jesus Laundromat No 777 at the corner of 19th and Louisiana streets, said Tuesday.
Since its creation, the Jesus Laundromat has attracted the dirty and the dreary.
But James Cox, the former owner of the Jesus Laundromat and now the owner of Fathers Video,叫 Kasold Drive, will not show light on the origin of the laundromat.
"If people will still come here, why spend $500 and change the name?" A lot of people say it is a landmark in town. How fortunate are the frontmasters there in the United States."
"People are interested in the sign only because they are curious about the sign, and we don't care."
Everett, a 29 year-old KU graduate who has owned the business for a year, said he occasionally received winkers crack about his formerly considered changing the laundrom's name.
"PEOPLE DRIVE BY AND see the sign and think those. The crazy Christians are flaming Jesus. And I don't want to come across as being 'holier than thou.'"
Brent Hudson, Weston, Mo., senior, said he thought the Laundromat was a chain
"I thought maybe there was a Jesus 536 and a dog," he said.
come across as being kind, what kind?
But most people, he said, were amused by the name and sometimes posed with the sign to have pictures taken.
and a 500", he said.
God may not be looking over the Jesus
EVERETT SPENDS seven to eight hours a day at his business supervising the Lawrence High School students who make
"I'm here to look after the kids and keep the place clean," he said.
Sec IESUS, p. 5, col. 2
Mike Everett stands in front of Jesus Laundromat No. 777, 19th and Louisiana streets. Everett, a KU graduate, is the owner of the laundromat, which attracts people who are curious about its name or simply find it convenient.
Enrollment takes byte out of students, profs
Two years after the switch to early enrollment by computer, problems with the system have some students yearning to have the old-fashioned way — in Allen Field House.
And some of their professors would gladly join them in a trip back to the days of pulling cards and wiping sweaty brows.
Special to the Kansan
James Shortridge, professor of geography,
says enrollment in the field house was more
than 150. He said: "The work is
"Allen Field House was a zoo. But zoos can be kind of exciting sometimes." Shortridge says. "The computer is impersonal. It's just you and the screen."
Some students complain that they don't get enough personal help from the computer operators who punch in their schedules at the enrollment center in Strong Hall. Today is the last day for students to enroll early for the fall semester at the enrollment center
LAURI BACHHEIMER, Glenview III., freshman, says she approaches computer science in the same way she does math.
"The terminal operators don't give a damn about you as long as you keep moving."
bacnenheimer said. "They don't give you time to think or time to switch classes around when one class is closed."
The day before enrollment starts, the computer operators participate in an eight-hour training session in which they study the operating systems and learn to run the computers. Elliott says.
But dealing with students' scheduling problems isn't part of the computer operators' jobs, says Pat Elliott, assistant director of records in the department of educational services. The operators aren't supposed to be counselors, she says.
DAVID SHULENBURGER, director of the undergraduate program in the School of Business, says computer enrollment lacks "human intervention". Although pulling students from the system, he says, an adviser was always there to help if something went wrong.
"With the system we have now, that's not really possible without the student going through a long wait." Shulenbur says.
Schalenburger is a member of the Enrollment Study Committee, a group of faculty and students who are appointed to apply.
See ENROLL, p. 5, col. 4
Clocks to spring forward for daylight time Sunday
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Americans will gain an extra hour of sunlight Sunday when davilight saving time returns.
Keeping in mind the old adage "spring forward, fall back," clocks and watches are set forward one hour at 2 a.m. local time Sunday. They are set back when standard time returns Oct. 27.
Some states and territories do not observe daylight-saving time. Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa and the part of Indiana that is located in the Eastern Time Zone.
The American Optometric Association said yesterday that a later sunrise meant people's eyes would have to deal with more darkness
in the early morning hours and more sunrise glare during morning rush hour.
The association recommended that joggers, cyclists, pedestrians and children waiting for school buses out in predawn darkness wear reflective trim on front, sides and back so they can be visible to drivers
the use of daylight-saving time is traced to Benjamin Franklin, who recommended that shops be opened and closed earlier during the summer months to save money on lighting.
Franklin was a night person and somewhat of a penny pincher.
at first, the idea was slow to catch on
At 10 a.m. the War was adopted the daylight-saving time concept late in World War I to save energy. It was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on March 31, 1918, and repealed by Congress the next year.