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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
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
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further reduces the increases requested 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 committee had proposed smaller increases than those approved last month by the Kansas Senate.
The $645 million appropriations bill 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 Regents budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not fight to 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 partisan basis. If they get defeated on t
Housing to move
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
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 replace Wilson, the office of student affair announced yesterday.
A search committee composed of faculty representatives, housing office personnel and presidents of student housing organizations read applications and interviewer 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.
Fish tales on banks
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A whale of a talk lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded
about monster-sized catfish that
linger in the water.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident, "green grass eating dogs. When you're big you have to fight 'em tilt they give up."
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Jason Gaynor as he made his way
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully twirled to the floor and plunged into the depth of the river.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in which they spend much of the trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that
has been told for years.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catchs are packed on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR THE biggest fish dragged into the shop weighed 61 pounds, said Terry Lau.
LAWRENCE'S GiANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 18-pound catfish would be valued at $40,000 crunchy, lightly battered fishbites.
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
State Rep. John Solbach, 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 $87,000.
MY TURN
Let's Hear It for R.A.'s
Bv BOB GARRISON
The time: 3:10 a.m., less than five hours before the start of my Medical College Admissions Test. After being less than gently awakened by one of my dormates, I helped him clean up the pieces of what once had been a window in the outside door of our building, a window that some soul had decided to gaff with a forearm he stroiled. Where he was going at 3 a.m., I will never know, but it wasn't the only time I was to be puzzled by self-destructive tendencies of college-age men.
I consider it truly unfortunate that the R.A. is often immediately pigeonholed as a law officer and nothing else. Indeed, ensuring that campus and city regulations are observed is an integral part of the job, but no means is it the only one. In fact it is a minor role: believe me that the job title itself best describes what R.A.'s do and the qualification looked for in prospective R.A.'s. A desire to help others was the No.1 reason that I tackled the job. The words are trite, but for most R.A.'s, the meaning behind them is not.
Ivienten, M. I my year as a resident assistant at the University of Nebraska was a year filled with experiences that ran the gamut from catastrophic to tearfully happy. I made sure of the best friends I've ever had, learned the real meaning of time management, helped form a floor community that was unraveled for closeness among those I had previously seen and, most important, came to know and understand myself and my residents in depth that I wouldn't have thought possible in nine short months.
or me, this helping of people ranged from answering trivial questions to
from answering trivial questions to dealing with situations that were potentially life threatening. Helping a freshman with a baffled chem problem, explaining to foreign graduate students how to wash clothes, organizing an intramural team at the start of the school year, keeping an eye on roommates who look unprofessional for trouble or with suicidal students, all examples of problems with which a resident assistant may be faced.
These examples are just that—examples. A resident assistant has to be prepared to hear any type of problem and to deal with the situation in an empathetic, open-minded and nonjudgmental fashion. Confidentiality must be absolute; the only other people who should know about the problem are those who, in the judgment of the R.A., are qualified and/or required to know.
The pressure on resident assistants is enormous. Because most are juniors and seniors, their academic loads are starting to pack more of a punch, and the R.A.'s must reconcile the increased academic demands with a job that cuts into study time tremendously. Time management takes on a new meaning: The R.A.'s struggle to fit classes, study time, staff meetings, time for residents and play time into their schedules.
when a resident assistant returns from class, it's not as if he or she is "leaving the office." Instead, he or she comes home
It was a year filled with moments that ran the gamut from catastrophic to tearfully happy.
it. This inability to remove oneself from the place of work can quickly lead to some I'm-carrying-the-world-on-myshoulders depressions, but most R.A.'s are fortunate enough to have colleagues who can spot the syndrome and point out what's happening.
What made it work for me were the people I came to know. Our staff, the famed Quad Squad of Select Quadrangle, was the most important group of peers I had ever known. I felt closer to them in many respects than to my own family. We laughed together, cried together, pulled one another out of the depths, made nuisances of our selves at more than two inches Lincoln established that and all the while knew that when the chips were down and nobody else would listen, we could turn to one another for love and support.
Very close behind my colleagues were my residents. The men of Sellec 8100, '82-83, were my life. I can't pinpoint when the transition occurred, namely when a group of awkward, self-conscious freshmen, semi-broken-in upperclassmen and their
R. A. went from existing as names on doors to a community of guys who were tighter than brothers, but it doesn't matter. It made my heart sing when I saw it happening before my eyes. When I realized that suddenly I was considered one of the guys and the R.A. (spoken in hurried whispers), I was so overjoyed I nearly did cart wheels down the hall. That acceptance meant more to me than can be put into words.
My residents were, I suppose, a typically diverse group—majors, hometowns and years in school—but to me they were anything but typical. Long after I have trod the hallowed halls of Sellect Quad, I can still hear the voices, see the faces and remember the feelings of closeness that were present among us. The resident assistant staff we in the hall knew that we would turn to one another when it wasn't kind. I still get a charge out of the nicknames. They are original than those in any other residence hall or fraternity, but these nicknames are special because they evoke memories: The Wheeze, Hollywood, Reggite, Silk, Doom, Devo and Lurch.
Without a doubt the worst day I had as an R.A. was the last day of the school year. I say this in retrospect, because at the time I couldn't wait for the end of finals, noisy residents and endless room checkouts. Now I remember poignantly seeing my residents leave, draining away in twos and three, wrestling their belongings to hopeless overloaded cars and pickup trucks. It seemed that everyone moment everyone came and a moment later, everyone was gone. There wasn't enough time to say goodbye.
The worst part of the worst day was saying goodbye to the men and women who had been my best friends in college—the other resident assistants on our staff. I knew very well that I would see many of them again, even if less frequently. What I also knew, though, was that we would never again be together as colleagues, exalting in our common highs and weathering our common lows.
Bob Garrison is a second-year student in veterinary medicine at Iowa State University.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
back into the river
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.
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." he said.
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 flatheads, he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
"I didn't do it," Higgins 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."
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they were not aware."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
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 wiggies and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, bails his hook in hope of catching something to fill 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 never caught the big one. He had to settle for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
jokers spent 15 hours this weekend freshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi s. It took about two hours last night to
apered
but none of them unlocked the door,
chance, he said, he tried his own key in
lock. It worked and the mission began
riddle night the four men walked to all the
isles Onaya Hill and asked for newspapers.
every one they got a few newspapers, but
were told that the papers were saved to
ate to the Boy's Club paper.
he started crumpling papers they had
heshed 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
launched.
We kind of had a system," Duffy said. je person would be unfolding the paper the others would be crumpling them up tossing them in."
uffy said he hit a dry spell where they didn't find enough papers. The only thing lo was to go to the source. Dufy and rt called the Boy's Club but no one they drove to the paper drop at Vermont St. and filled their trunk with soapers.
ich time they gathered a load of papers,
thought that they had enough to finish
g the room. The project was completed
18 trips to the paper drop. Smart said
the women to return the papers
to the paper drop after they
leave the room.
e four began working again at 5 p.m.
ay and finished at 3 a.m.
aited Press International
oviets call .S.count 'gross lie'
SCOW — The Soviet Union accused the in administration yesterday of "a gross in its missile count and of pursuing a gerson policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of 8 and 2 cruise missiles in western Europe.
moratorium on deploying missiles in Europe.
"It seems that the U.S. administration wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in an agency official Tass news agency said. The talks their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deal negotiations. SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
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 international rules. The French hands. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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