The University Daily
Relays run course
60th track classic closes with records and no rain. See results on pages 11-13.
KANSAN
Cold, dreary High, 56. Low, 37. Details on page 3.
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 136 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, April 22, 1985
Tuition rise is discussed by Regents
By TAD CLARKE Staff Reporter
MANHATTAN -- Raising tuition for the 1986-87 school year by 5 percent at the University of Kansas was discussed Friday by the board of Regents during its monthly meeting.
The Regents plan to vote on the issue during their May meeting in Topeka. At KU, undergraduate tuition for Kansans would increase from $495 — the amount in-state students will pay this fall — to $520 in fall 1896. For non-resident undergraduate students, tuition would increase from $1,397 to $1,475.
Tuition for resident graduate students would increase from $555 per semester to $800. For non-resident graduate students, tuition would increase from $1,457 to $1,335.
At the University of Kansas Medical Center, tuition would increase from $2,610 to $2,800 for Kansans and from $5,220 to $5,600 for non-residents.
The amounts do not include the extra fees students pay with tuition.
TUITION ALSO would increase by 5 percent to 7 percent at the other Regents schools. The Regents schools are the six state colleges and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
A committee studying tuition compared the Regents schools' tutions with tuitions at peer schools and found that the Regents schools nearly the same level as the other schools.
The peer schools for KU are the University of North Carolina, the University of Iowa, the University of Oklahoma, the University of Oregon and the University of Colorado. These schools were chosen by the Regents because of their sizes and similarities to KU.
The tuition paid by students at Regents schools covers about 25 percent of the student's educational costs. During the 1970s, state officials determined that students should pay about 25 percent of the cost of their educations.
UNDER THE proposed tuition increase, students would pay an average of 25.6 percent of the cost of their educations. The recommended increases would generate about $4.3 in additional tuition money at the Regents schools in fiscal year 1987.
The Regents also heard discussion on two proposed student fee increases for KU students. The board plans to vote on the proposal, which both fees each semester with their tuition.
One proposed increase is in the Student Activity Fee, which would be raised from $24 to $28 if the Regents vote to do so. Chancellor Gene A. Budig told the Regents that the $4 increase was the first increase in the fee in years. He said it was "a modest increase."
The fee helps faculty all campus groups that receive money from the Student Senate. More information can be obtained at www.senate.edu/
In other business, the Regents:
- Approved promotion and tenure recommendations, sabbatical leave requests and leave-without-pay for faculty from KU and the other Regents schools.
- Granted emeritus status to six retiring KU faculty members: Sam Anderson, associate professor of Slavic languages and literatures; William Balfour, professor of physiology and cell biology; Eugene Bovee, professor of physiology and cell biology; Edward Erazmus, associate professor of physiology; Ralph Garnier, associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering; and Walter Mikols, associate professor of health, physical education and recreation.
Ready, set, go! Runners begin the 26-mile course in the Kansas Relays men's and the Saturday morning race with a time of 2:29:21.5. More than 100 runners come women's open marathon near Memorial Stadium. Dan Schleicher of Mission won peted. See Relays stories, photos and results on pages 11-13.
Coaches applaud proposed fee hike
By CECILIA MILLS
Staff Reporter
Despite the controversy surrounding a proposed $2 increase in the non-revenue sports fees, at least one group is pleased—the team that won the league from the extra $75,000 generated by the fee.
A $6.35 million Athletic Department budget was approved Tuesday by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation board and sent to Chancellor Gene A. Budgir for his approval.
The budget includes the $75,000 that would be raised by increasing the fee from $4.50 to $6.50 starting this fall. The fee increase first must be approved by the Board of Regents.
The Regents plans to vote on the fee increase next month
The money generated from the sports fee increase would go to non-revenue sports — all sports except football and men's basketball — and the sports fees each semester with their tuition.
THE FEE INCREASE was approved and then rescinded earlier this month by the Student Senate. The increase had been removed from a petition requesting that the football scholarship and team membership of a player be revoked.
Before the Senate rescinded the fee increase, however, Budig placed it on the Regents' agenda, taking the decision out of the Senate's hands. Some student senators
were angered when the administration passed on the fee increase to the Regents despite the Senate's opposition.
For coaches of non-revenue sports, however, the fee increase is a welcomed boost to the team.
Under the proposed budget, which is 12.8 percent higher than the budget for the 1984-85 school year, the softball team would receive the largest allocation from the sports fee increase in team's $29,450 increase for the 1985-86 school would come from the sports fee increase.
THE SOFTBALL team would receive a 22.1
percent overall increase, receiving $112,520
for next school year. Of that amount, $13,000
has been budgeted for travel.
“That’s very close to what I turned in as needing next year,” Bob Stancill, head softball coach, said Friday. “That would be a big mistake.” He added as close to my needs as I had asked for.
Soldball isn't the only non-revenue sport to benefit from the Athletic Department's
The women's basketball would receive $9,460 more next year from the sports fee increase. Together, the team would receive $73,000 more next year.
A large part of the 38.1 percent increase in the team's budget is the largest increase in annual expenses.
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 1
Illness claims life of Brazilian leader
By United Press International
SAO PAULO, Brazil — President-erence Tancredo Neves, 75, who underwent the first of seven operations the day before his scheduled inauguration, died yesterday after a 38-day fight against infection and intestinal problems, the Brazilian government said.
*Tancredo Neves* was the inspiration of unity. House President Congressman Ulisses
Neves was to have taken office March 15 as Brazil's first civil president after 21 years of military rule. But he was rushed to surgery in Brasilia with a perforated benign tumor on the intestine the night before his inaugural.
Neves died at 7:23 p.m., presidential spokesman Antonio Brito said. Neves had suffered a heart crise earlier in the day and said his condition had deteriorated rapidly.
inspire Brazilians to unite to overcome their paths and put nation on better paths for the future.
VICE PRESIDENT Jose Sarney substituted for Neves at the inauguration ceremony and leaders of all parties said they were excited to see Sarney remain in office as constitutional president.
Military leaders said they also backed Sarney and analysts said no immediate
political crisis was likely in the world's sixth most nonplural nation.
Persistent infection had spread through Neves' body, causing major organ failure and pressure on his heart, but his stubborn fight against his illness surprised doctors.
Heart surgeon Dr. Adil Jatene, a director of the Clinics Hospital where Neves was moved March 26 as his condition worsened, said he was "just not the dying kind."
Neves survived seven operations, five of them under general anaesthesia
THE FIRST THREE were for abdominal problems, to remove the tumor, free a blocked intestinal loop, then stem a hemorrhoid and finally improved. Neves developed an infection
At first doctors said the infection was contracted in the hospital and was resistant to normal antibiotics, but announced confidence in his recovery.
Later they said the primary infection probably dated from or before the first surgery, with the ruptured tumor releasing body waste into the blood stream.
Many times Neves seemed to be winning the fight against the infection and doctors were optimistic, but days later he would have to admit that he could cut out abscesses formed by bacteria.
As Neves' condition deteriorated, doctors aided his breathing with a respirator machine, pumping air directly to the lungs through a tube inserted in the windpipe.
Police continue vigil at Arkansas hideout
The target of the stakeout is Jim Ellison, founder and spiritual leader of the white supremacist, paramilitary group. He is charged with directing CSA members to produce illegal automatic weapons and silencers from 1981 to 1984.
By United Press International
THREE BROTHERS, Ark. — Lawmen staked out at an isolated survival camp for the third day Sunday said that negotiations with the group's white supremacist leader had intensified and expected him to surrender this morning.
About 175 officers have occupied one-third of the compound at The Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord since they surrounded it Friday, and aircraft manned by state police and FBI agents flew overhead regularly yesterday.
FBI spokesman Ray McEhaney of Little Rock said negotiations with Ellison, who earlier said God had told him to stay on the 242-acre settlement rather than
surrender, have intensified on both "frequency and substance "
About 80 miles north of the camp, a member of a similar group called the Order was arrested late Saturday in Forsyth, Mo. after eluding authorities for six days. David C. Tate, 22, of Athol, moved on on a first-degree murder charge in the Army Highway Patrol trooper. He was jailed in Springfield, Mo. yesterday without bond
"We hope to have good news by nine tomorrow morning," McElhaney said late yesterday.
Tate was one of 24 members of a group named last Monday in a federal indictment for continuing criminal offenses. He
Tate was transferred to Springfield from Forsyth after a crowd of 200 townpeople chanted "kill him, kill him" as he was led to the courthouse.
"They figured he was safer down there in springfield than he would be here," said Spencer. "He's just a little shy."
See MANHUNT, p. 5, col. 4
Finds refuge in library
Man's home is bus station locker
By MICHELLE WORRALL
And what the 82-year-old man can not sway,
he shoves in a pocket of his shapleau ragged
wings.
A bus station locker is Jesse Weezer's home.
"I've got another one just like it," he said Saturday as he proudly patted the sack of his belongings. "I had to renounce the bundles with tape because it's gettin' so hard."
People like Jesse exist across the country, to their possessions and living days to day.
In Lawrence, the elderly man is a familial site as he shuffles along Massachusetts Street with his head bowed, his sack covered under an arm and his free band clenched.
"He's always good for a smile and a hello," said Hal Sears, a manager of Community Merchant Co-op. 700 Maine St. "But every year he gets a little closer to the ground."
Despite his age, his agile mind refuses to give in to the demands of time.
I can't do nothing about my teeth." he
shouted. " I keep my mind sharp by
reading.
MOST OF HIS days are spent alone at the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. either poring over newspapers and magazines, shaving in the restroom or dozing in his chair, but he is always there for him. He is greeted with curious stares from browsers — but smiles from the employees.
"If we don't see him every day, we worry about him," said Jean Umholtz, librarian
MONDAY MORNING
BUT JESSE IS not the only person who visits the library regularly. Umbolz said the library has a staff of 16,000 members.
Lawrence's bag lady was a library landmark. Unholtz said she hadn't seen the
by the Friends of the Library donation box,
which contains various items donated by
library patrons. Jesse rummages through it
every day.
"We had some complaints about the bag, lady. She was pretty stinky, she said "Ier" when I asked.
Some of the public library's permanent guests also visit Watson Library, said Ken
Libraries attract the destitute. Miller said,
because they are open late and have quiet corners
"IT'S NOT LIKE a store park where the floorwalker will throw you out," he said. "People get by with different kinds of behavior here because of the atmosphere."
Most of Jesse's life has remained a mystery because he's the only person who can tell the story. Jesse does not have a family or close friends.
He said he was born in Lakeview, a small town north of Lawrence and attended Lawrence High School. After graduation, he went to college, including some masonry work on campus.
Several years ago he left his home in Lakeview because it had fallen into disrese
HIS NEW HOME is a 75 cents-a-day locker at the Trailways Bus terminal, 1401 W. Sixth St. Ralph Henne, ticket clerk, said that he had been the first bus operator, but that management picked up the tab.
Jesse said. "The locker at the bus station is getting to be expensive. I am looking for chickens."
See JESSE, p. 5, col. 5