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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
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Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
University budget approved in House
Tuesday. April 9. 1985
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 expanded the school district 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, increasing than the approved last month by the Kansas Senate
The $645 million appropriations bill no will be returned to the Senate, which expected to reject the cuts made in 17 schools' proposed budgets by the House Committee. The Senate then would ask for conference committee made up of member of both chambers to reach a compromise on the budget.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it more difficult to light on the floor to restore the budget cuts.
HOUSE MEMBERS who opposed the reduced Regents budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not fight it restore some of the lost money on the House
"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 amended on the floor.
"This kind of vote comes down on partisan basis. If they get defeated on th
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 be a student office of student affairs appended 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.
Fish tales on banks
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that live in the river.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the coast. "You have 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 the spring when fish bounce 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 we all know.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are lacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor is also east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Judy Higgins, the shoon's owner.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big backs for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 45-inch catfish would be about 100 pounds, 300 crunchy, lightly battered fishsticks.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and David Smith.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully swept by the river and plunked into the deaths of the river.
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.
"I 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 estate taxes millions of dollars
Vietnam: Tell It Like It Was
I started thinking about my life in terms of history. What could I remember? I remember being five and watching Walter Crankie reeling off the casualty figures. I remember watching the films of the soldiers in Vietnam and 72 when people were wearing DOW bonds.
—Deborah Kalb, Harvard senior
any college students view the war in Vietnam as they view the Punic Wars—it happened a long time ago. But an increasing number, like Deborah Kalb, are eager to make the connection. There are a variety of reasons: older siblings and parents who were involved in the war but have rarely discussed it; alleged parallels between Indochina and current developments in Central America; awareness that so much of contemporary culture is rooted in the tragedy of the "60s. As a result of the experience of the war with special cases on Vietnam cropping up on many campuses and more attention paid to it in other classes. Perhaps more than at any time in the past decade, students want to know what the furor was all about. "I think students are beginning to realize that the war is critical to understanding how the [older] generation thinks about international relations," says Prof. Martin Sherwin of Tufts. "It's as if, without understanding the war, they're missing the central formative experience of adults in America."
relations class, he recalls the "alienation, drift and burnout" that he and others experienced when they came home.
Professors who teach the war often use, as source material, Michael Herr's "Dispatches," Phillip Caputo's "Rumor of War," Frances Fitzgerald's "Fire in the Lake" and the PBS documentary "Vietnam: A Television History." They also encourage students to do independent research by talking to veterans and refugees. But despite the strong feelings of many professors and the increasing interest of
They are certainly missing the central experience of most of the professors who teach the subject today. Having tried to close down the universities 15 years ago to protest the war, many professors are now teaching about it in the same classrooms they once boycotted. And
Tufts's Sherwin: 'The central formative experience'
their passions often show. History Prof. Eleanor Zelliot and English Prof. Robert Tisdale, who teach the two courses on Vietnam at Carleton, both opposed the war. "I've tried to ensure that we show all sides, but it would be unethical of me to hide my feelings," says Tisdale. Zelliot broke down in tears when she was describing for her class what she called the "disgraceful American exit from Sue," and then added a lot to the class, so sophomore Richard Wilcox, who took Zelliot's course last year. "She dealt with it by being honest and by telling us very clearly what her feelings were." The war evokes different feelings in Carleton Prof. Roy Groh, who worked in military intelligence in Vietnam. When he discusses the war in his international-
students, there are not a lot of courses specifically on Vietnam. Stanford and the University of California, Berkeley, for example, have none. At the University of Texas, which dropped its course on Vietnam two years ago, political interest has shifted to the issue of nuclear war. Harvard Prof. Stanley Hoffman, who teaches a course called "War," is not surprised at the relative lack of special attention given to Vietnam in following headlines, he says. "There was enormous interest when the war was going on, but after '75 it dropped considerably. After trauma, people want to forget about it. After 12 or 15 years they start to study it again. We still have a few more years to go."
While some courses do draw a big response—Sherwin at Tufts to limit eni-
rollment to 33 after 75 students showed up—students tend to be more curious than committed. Harvard senior Hamilton Tang says he took a Vietnam course more “to fill a requirement than out of any kind of idealistic interest. It was just another class.” Texas Tech history Prof. George Flynn finds that students are interested in Vietnam “as long as there is shooting and killing.” UT history Prof. Thomas Philipotone knows that the war affects America’s sense of patriotism. “Saving America got its ass kicked by a bunch of [peasants] with pocket knives is like saying UT's football team is chicken shit,” he explains.
Ironically, students at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs may
be as open about the war as any. They are required to deal with the subject in the context of political science, military history, military tactics and a course on "Morality and War." They may view portions of the CBS News report on Vietnam, about which Gen. William Westmoreland sued, as evidence of inaccurate reporting and the pressures officers may face. Yet they are also encouraged to look critically at military management of the war and address such issues as the use of body counts a measure of officer effectiveness. Lt. Col. Harry Borsowski, who teaches history at the academy, reports that because of their ties to people who served in Vietnam, a lot of cadets come into the course believing that the United States lost the war unnecessarily. At the end, he says, "they leave questioning all those pre-conceived notions."
Most courses that deal with Vietnam attempt to engage students by relating the war to domestic upheavals, Watergate and current U.S. foreign policy in Central America. But Prof. Hue-Tam Ho Tai, one of the teachers of a Harvard seminar on the war, believes that
approach smacks of egocentrism. "Vietnam was not a war that affected only [American] elder brothers and parents," says Tai, who left her native Vietnam in 1966. "It was a war fought on Vietnam soil with Vietnamese as both actors and victims." She tries to convey a personal dimension by telling students how the war affected Vietnamese families, but "this did not have the same emotional impact as the American perspective," she admits. Her Harvard student says, "We believe Americans will probably see Vietnam as our tragedy and forget about the Vietnamese altogether. People in this generation want to know that they can get a good job and drive a BMW. There's no place for Vietnam."
DENNIS WILLIAMS with PLAU A BACK in Boston,
JONIN HARRIS in Ninthburg, Minn. and reports bureau
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
a five-non channel catfish and toss it 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 locks 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 dank. Judy Higgins said, "But they got it."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 61.1 E. 238; 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.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, baits 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
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Juffy said he hit a dry spell where they didn't find enough papers. The only thing do was to go to the source. Dufy and art called the Boy's Club but no one knew. They drove to the paper drop at Venice. St. and filled their trunk with /@papers/.
each time they gathered a load of papers, v thought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed i 18 trips to the paper drop. Smart said she used the women to return the snippets to the paper drop after they ined the room.
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and finished at 3 a.m.
soviets call U.S.count 'gross lie'
United Press International
OSCOW — The Soviet Union accused the gan administration yesterday of "a gross in its missile count and of pursuing a igorous policy" by dismissing Soviet officials.
ber mikman Gorbachev's call for a moratorium on deploying missiles in Europe.
moratorium on deploying missiles in Europe "It seems that the U.S. administration wishes neither the army reduction nor the reinsurance for war-related injuries or arms control talks, the official Tass news agency said. The talks entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defense spending. S-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 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 international nations began in late 1983 as part of a 1979 NATO plan to counter the AS-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 threats. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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