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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.
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
University budget approved in House
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee chose 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.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it hard 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 to 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 it amended on the floor.
"This kind of vote comes down on a partisan basis. If they get defeated on the
Housing to move in
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, has been chosen to replace Wilson, the office of student affairs announced yesterday.
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
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 muscular size catfish that weigh up to 15 pounds.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "I was just a kid. You have to fight, 'em, 'til they give up."
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, overlooking east from Lawrence RiverFront Park.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in downtown for their trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
isn't another talk about the big one that
has been a favorite.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Judv Higgins, the shon's owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be battered and one 80 crunchy, lightly battered fishsticks.
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents Jim Russell and Lawrence Woods.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracietely cut through the river and plumped into the deaths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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 effort 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
60s raised his hand and said, 'Sonny, what do you know about the Great Depression?' I was there.' Nor are administrators always sympathetic to pleas of special needs. When Donna Smith complained to Colorado College officials about the size of her financial grant, she says, she was dismissed as "a mad housewife."
There are signs, however, that the generation gap is closing. Last May, Smith's classmates rallied to her financial cause, mounting a petition drive that won her an audience with the college president—and a larger scholarship. And although some of the brothers at Pitt's Phi Delta Theta originally treated their 37-year-old rushee as if he were a student, they quickly vowed the fraternity's best new pledge. In the classroom, meanwhile, many teachers have come to admire the discipline of life-tested students. Says Houston journalism Prof. Stanton, "Older students are more serious and more dedicated."
College administrators are also beginning to exhibit more sensitivity to the special problems that older students face. At Colby, "nontraditional" students are allowed to earn degrees at their own pace and need not fulfill the college's senior-residency and phys.-ed. requirements. Similar transition-easing programs are available at schools as disparate as Stanford, Goucher, Smith and Texas Woman's University. And to encourage a measure of comradeship, older students are beginning to band together themselves. At UMass Amherst, the 25+ Club which maintains the university's sports organizations and social events. Says senior botany major and club founder Georgette Roberts, "When I came here, I didn't know anyone. And I was not about toob off after class with [young] undergrads." She formed the club because "I wanted to let others know that this campus is not made up exclusively of people under 25."
That lesson is one that most people on glimpse can camp learn by just glancing around the library or student union. Over the next decade, college administrators expect to see an even greater proportion of older students. By the 1990s—when colleges will almost surely be competing over dwindling numbers of young students—experts predict that half of the college population will be 25 and older. At that point, a school's treatment of mature students may be a matter of sensitivity than of survival. If they don't acknowledge Colorado College admissions director Richard Wood, "we must be the best at recruiting and keeping the best students of all ages." Times may still be trying for today's older students, but those who follow can probably look forward to a reception that's somewhat closer to Rita's cinematic welcome.
NEAL KARLEN with JOE EZEF in Pittsburgh, NJ and JOE EZEF in Amherst, RI. KATHRYN CASEY in HAWAII reports
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a five-inch channel catfish and tossed 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.
"I didn't do it," Higgins said. "I didn't want to tangle with n 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 laced 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.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came back.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said, "But they didn't."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 961 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.
"Yeh, 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, baits his hook in hope of catching something to fill the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across the Bowersock Sills 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.
kers spent 15 hours this weekend
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Inhip Hampshire Day Hill and asked for newspapers, one they got a few newspapers, but were told that the papers were saved to e to the Boy's Club paper drive.
he started crumpling papers they had
at 7 p.m. Saturday and quit at 8
the kind of had a system." Duffy said. A person would be unfolding the paper the others would be crumpling them up ossing them in."
said they hit it a dry spell where they isn't find enough papers. The only thing o was to go to the source. Duffy and it called the Boy's Club but no one they drove to the paper drop at Vermont St. and filled their trunk with paperls.
each time they gathered a load of papers, I thought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed in 18 trips to the paper drop. Smart said he had asked the women to return the spatula to the paper drop after they ended the room.
je four began working again at 5 p.m.
day and finished at 3 a.m.
United Press International
oviets call J.S. count 'gross lie'
OSCOW — The Soviet Union accused the gnai administration yesterday of "a gross in its missile count and of pursuing a rigorous policy" by dismissing SovietMIkah Morgachev's call for a retaliation on deploying missiles in Europe.
"Allotment of tepidation" or "seems to the U.S. administration wishes that the arms restrain 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.
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.
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of 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 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 war in Ukraine, their burdens. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile test.
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