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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
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 restore some of the lost money on the House 806.
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
Housing su to move in
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 replace the office of student affairs manager unsecured 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 o
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 ocean.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi Delta. "You have to fight 'em. 'till they give up."
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in Rockaway Beach, through trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fishy, does it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that
hadn't happened.
Snapshots of grimming fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catchs are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, they can easily east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE BIGGEST fish dragged
sounds, said Dady Hitzinger, the shaper owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be about 1,800 crunchy, lightly battered fishsticks.
The lure of landing a big one drew residence residents Jim Russell and Dana Williams.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully roars through the depths and plunked into the death of the river.
Bigger, 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 error to make those changes on the floor," Solbach said. "We expect some of the cuts to be restored in the conference committee."
EDUCATION
New Faces on Campus
Smith and her children: A challenging lesson in juggling housework and homework
Older students are a pragmatic and determined lot.
n "Educating Rin," Julia Walters portrayed a book-hungry, 26-year-old
hairdresser newly enrolled in college. Before too long, the uneducated English lass blossoms into a campus heroine. Unfortunately, real life for adults starting or reentering college is rarely as blissful as that screenplay. Many passages are more like that of Bill Stein, 37, who enrolled as an engineering student at the University of Pittsburgh three years ago after he lost his job to a college graduate. The former powerplant supervisor says he was repeatedly cold-shouldered by classmates and professors and found friends only after he wangled his way into a fraternity. "It's something I'd never do again," says Stein of his period of adjustment.
But for all the roadblocks, older students are now attending college in greater numbers than ever before. According to the latest census figures, 37 percent of all college students are 25 or over (counting part timers), up from 28 percent in 1972. Some are pragmatists like Stein, who was told that he would be hired back if he had a bachelor's degree. Others come for midlife self-improvement. "You take new directions when you get older," says Linda Tice 44, a graduate student in education at Oklahoma State. Some are fulfilling their own visions of the American Dream, like Owen Maloney, a 33-year-old former steerjack who now is completing his English degree at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. "I grew up blue collar," says Maloney. "I wanted a new beginning, a break from my old world." And some are
simply seeking knowledge, like 65-year-old surgeon Adrian Neerken, who is studying Italian at the University of Michigan so that he can read Dante in the original.
Whatever their motivations, many adults encounter similar problems in academe. The most frequent is the loss of a regular income. Ann Prochioh, who quit work as a natural-childbirth consultant in order to study medical illustration at Indiana University, explains that for her, entering college "means poverty and waitressing in sleazy bars instead of running my own business." Often, older students not only juggle child care, homemaking and homework, but must campaign hard to maintain the backing of their families. Donna Smith, 30, whose then unemployed husband and six children moved 75 miles to Colorado Springs so that she could attend Colorado College, still must explain to her children how much work was required "This education," she tells them, "will help us in the long run. I'll get a good job, earn lots of money and make up for all that you have sacrificed."
The conflicting pressures from campus and home are often enormous. At Colorado College, Smith edits the school paper and has racked up academic awards—but sometimes feels as if she's developing a split personality. "At school," says the senior history major, "I talk about philosophy,urgion, and skirtings. At barge, I
Europe and ski trips. At home, I
still that about "Sesame Street," meat lao and bowling leagues." Bill Stein says that getting noticed at all by fellow students is quite a victory. "The [younger] guys are too busy chasing skirts, and the girls are too busy chasing the guys," complains the husband and father of two. "That leaves me out. Old, bald guys just don't get attention!"
Younger students sometimes resent the academic fervor of their elders. "They can dominate the classes and intimidate people who are younger," says Greg Lacile, 21. a University of Houston senior accounting student. "Many of them will take one course, bust their tails and ruin the curve." At times, older students also clash with their professors. Allan Lichtman, a history professor at Washington's American University, remembers when "I was talking about the Great Depression and a man in his
Stein with Pitt fraternity brothers: A hard road to becoming best pledge
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
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.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," 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.
"Everyone assume that he went under
to dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they
came out."
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 951 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.
"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."
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.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, batts 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 was a teacher for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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oviens call .S.count 'gross lie'
United Press International
COW — The Soviet Union accused the n administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a gross policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev, an ex-door guarded leader in Europe, seems that the U.S. administration
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gerbache announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deployment of 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 2 and 3 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 attempt to counter it in other nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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