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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95. No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesdav. April 9. 1985
University budget approved in House
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Staff Reporter
109PEKA - The Kansas House yesterday agreed a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further benefited by funding authorized by the Regents and Gov. John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The Senate increased than those approved last month by the Kansas Senate.
The $645 million appropriations bill now will be returned to the Senate, which is expected to reject the cuts made in the schools' proposed budgets by the House Committee. The Senate then would ask for a conference committee made up of members of both chambers to reach a compromise on the budget.
HOUSE MEMBERS who opposed the reduced REGEMBERS budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not fight to more some of the lost money on the House floor.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it difficult to fight on the floor to restore the budget cuts.
"We have hopes that some of that will be restored in committee." Branson said. "We decided that it would be risky to try to get it amended on the floor.
"This kind of vote comes down on a partisan basis. If they get defeated on the
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
State Rep. John Sobbach, D-Lawrence, said some of the reductions were made to give the House a position to bargain with the Senate in the conference committee.
"IT WOULD HAVE been a tactical error to make those changes on the floor," Solbach said. "We expect some of the cuts to be restored in the conference committee."
For KU, the House approved about $80,000 from the state general fund, almost $4 million less than Carlin's general fund appropriation. It is more than the appropriation passed by the Senate.
Including money from the general fees fund, the University would receive $170
less than the $173 million proposed by Carlin and the $171 million approved by the Steward Committee.
Money for the general fund comes primarily from state taxes, and money for the fees fund comes from student fees and tuition.
THE HOUSE ALSO approved $13 million for capital improvements at the University. About $2 million would come from the state's educational building fund, and $11 million would come from federal and private sources. Robert Dole Human Development Center.
If the appropriations package goes to conference committee as expected, disagreements are likely to center on the different recommendations for the Regents
Up to their necks in newspapers. Dan Ruettimann, Morris Plains, N.J., junior, left, Ian Duffy, Gathershers, Md., freshman, Tom Smart, St. Louis, sophomore and Bryan Pearce, Kansas City, Mo., junior, sit in a room in Hashinger
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Hall. The four practical jokers spent 15 hours this weekend filling the room of Salina freshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi Denison with newspapers. It took about two hours last night to clean out the newspapers.
See BEGENTS, p. 5, col. 1
Housing successor to move in June 1
Hashinger room gets papered
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been chosen to be the office of student affairs announced yesterday.
A search committee composed of faculty representatives, housing office personnel and presidents of student housing organizations read applications and interviewed applicants for the position. The search began in December.
Stoner was one of four finalists, all of whom visited the University in the past two months
and interviewed with the search committee and University officials.
DAVID AMBLER, vice chairwoman for student affairs, said Stoner was chosen about two weeks ago, but the announcement was not final. The three finalists were notified of the decision.
The director of student housing, as the position now will be called, is responsible for the housing budget, personnel, physical plant maintenance, maintenance, food service and other activities.
"The thing that impressed all of us is the
The office of housing oversees the eight residence halls, eight scholarship halls, Stouffer Place, Jayhawker Towers and 25 apartments for faculty and graduate students. About 6,300 students and faculty live in University housing.
See HOUSING, p. 5, col. 3
By CECILIA MILLS
Staff Reporter
Two Hashinger Hall residents returned yesterday to find themselves in the news.
Heidi Denison and Melinda LaRue, Salina freshen, confronted a wall of newspapers when they opened their door. The women were victims of a practical joke by four other
Tan Duffy, Gathersburg, Md., freshman, Tom Smart, St. Louis, sophomore, Bryan Pearce, Kansas City, Mo., junior, and Dan Ruettmann, Morris Plains, N.J., junior, and many helpful assistants, spent five hours Saturday night and 10 hours Sunday night gathering, unfolding and crumpling newspapers, before packing them into the room.
The result was wall-to-wall and ceiling to floor newspapers and many strained arm
Denison and LaRue said the men had played jokes on them before but none of this caliber. The men have been known to hide in the closet or in the hallways to scare the
"I HAVE A feeling it's been building up for a while." La Rue said.
Denson said she didn't want to incriminate herself by commenting on the likelihood that
sne and LaRue would retaliate. But she said the stunt was "very amusing."
The two returned at 5:30 last night and found a headline from Friday's Kansan taped to their door: "Students confront cleanup challenge."
Pearce said he heard Lakue say, "You don't think they did something to our room."
PEARCE SAID WHEN the women came back, word spread to the dining room where the pranksters were gathered. About 25 men entered the room in the stairwell to see the women's reaction.
Cleaning up the room was a group effort, La Rua said. The men helped her and Denison fill 93 trash bags with the crumped newspapers, which they left in the hallway.
Smart said he thought he and his friends had been rather considerate of the women's belongings when filling the room. He said he found the girl tall and put the stuffed animals in the closet.
Smart and Duff thought of the prank while Smart was working as security monitor at 4
They knew they could find a key to fit the lock they could pull it off, Smart said. They had heard that some room keys would fit more than one door.
friends but none of them unlocked the door.
By chance, he said, he tried his own key in
the lock. It worked and the mission began
Friday night the four men walked to all the halls on Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers. At every one they got a few newspapers, but none of them answered. He traveled to donate to the Boy's Club paper drive.
SMART BORROWED three keys from
They started crumpling papers they had gathered at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
"We kind of had a system." Duffy said. "One person would be unfolding the paper and the others would be crumpling them up and tossing them in."
Duffy said they hit a dry spell where they couldn't find enough papers. The only thing to do was to go to the source. Duffy and Smart called the Boy's Club but no one answered. They drove to the paper drop at St. and filled their trunk with newspapers.
Each time they gathered a load of papers, they thought that they had enough to finish filling the room. The project was completed after 18 trips to the paper drop. Smart said they had asked the women to return the papers, and the paper drop after they cleaned the room.
Fish tales plentiful on banks of the Kaw
The four began working again at 5 p.m.
Sunday and finished at 3 a.m.
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River access from the old Bowersock Mill
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that live in shallow waters.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "I think I should have you to fight 'em, 'til they give up."
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in Bakersfield, CA, for the trophy, and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor has a pool, east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
an't another tale about the big one that
isn't a fish.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dangled at the bait shop bought 61 pounds, said Kate Hussey.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big backs for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 35- pound catfish would be worth $1,000,000 in 30 crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
The hire of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Robert Giles.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully falls on the river and plunged into the depth of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
puffing on a cigarette with his pole beside him.
His reminiscing was interrupted by the first catch of the evening. Russell reed in a five-inch channel catfish and tossed it back into the river.
"You know, you never forget your first fish," he said as he stared into the dark water "你 so embarrassing I couldnt forget it on the grass — then I stepped on it"
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." he said.
"I didn't do it," Itgks said. "I didn't want to tangle with no fish in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They can tear a man's hide off."
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large hooks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known fatheads, he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam. Judy Higgitts said, 'Hit them every time.'"
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
The catfish congregate by the dam, said Ernest Higgins, Lawrence resident, because it is their nature to swim upstream and the dam blocks their path.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 651 E. 23rd St., said the catfish were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
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Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, balts his hook in hope of catching something to the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across from the Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets. Russell bought a littleettle for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
By United Press International
Soviets call U.S.count a 'gross lie'
"It itens that the U.S. administration wishes neither the arms destruction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency said. The talks entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
MOSCOW — The Soviet Union accused the Reagan administration yesterday of "a gross lie" in its missile count and of pursuing a "dangerous policy" by dismissing Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a moratorium on deploying missiles in Europe.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deforestation. He also signed SB-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in western Pacific.
BUT THE WHITE HOUSE quickly dismissed the move as "not enough," citing a 10.1 Soviet superiority in medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe.
The deployment of 572 medium-range U.S. missiles in five European nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the SS-20s. The United States said the Soviets had 414 SS-20s operational, two-thirds of them aimed at western Europe.
Tass said yesterday that U.S. officials used "stale arguments" of Soviet missile superiority to reject Gorbachev's proposal and accused them of ignoring the American lead in the Cold War. Tass told U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
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