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The University Daily
KANSAN
Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
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 and enhanced by the Regents and Gov. John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee, which 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 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.
"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
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
A new director of housing has been pickeo 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 Wilcox, has been chosen to serve William, 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
Fish tales on banks o
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
A whale of a talke lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that lurked in the water.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "You have to fight 'em, they'll give you up."
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that sounds better.
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in which they sell trophies, trophy and peruse a few minutes of fame.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, back east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR THE biggest fish dangled
on stop weigh 61 pounds, said
daddy. Big fish
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents Jim Russell and Brian Keller.
LAWRENCE'S GiANT catfish coul,
mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul.
For example, one 85-pound catfish would be
20 pounds, 600 crunchy, lightly
battered fishsters.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully twirls around the air and plunged into the depths 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 committees."
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."
to go on tour in the United States. She still sings in church whenever she can, although the demands on her time are mounting. Her goals? "The sky's the limit," she says. "I want to sing and model, write and day, by day."
Finding Meaning In the Minuscule
BILL BAROL
"I work according to curiosity," says Elizabeth Tallent. "Sometimes it's dull stuff that interests me, like how a woman washes her face." In her first novel, "Museum Pieces," Tallent's curiosity is like a magnifying glass sweeping over the detritus of life; bubble gum in a drinking fountain or a pile of mouse dropings on a kitchen counter. Such specificity is no writely exercise: in this book, as the title suggests, minute particulars are the bearers of meaning.
Tallent: Extending her range
"Museum Pieces" is a group portrait—it's not quite a "story"—of Peter, an archeologist at a Santa Fe museum, his estranged wife, Clarissa, their daughter, Tara, and Peter's lover, Mia. The characters share Tallent's obsession with artifacts: the novel's unfamiliar image is the Indian potsherds Peter loves to catalog. They collect talmans: a shell containing a single marble, a bird's nest containing a pearl and a thimble. Mia's ex-husband writes poetry about the landscape; Clarissa paints still lifes. Tara's story perfectly suits her, "in an original kingdom things perfectly suited to her, but that kingdom was somehow destroyed, its objects scattered..." Her wish for this sweat shirt or that pair of jeans is a displacement of her wish that her divorced parents were back together. Talent's people look to objects for a center that can hold.
Tallent is expert at motif and detail; more mundane matters sometimes giveher trouble. The compulsion to describe, for example, can affect the dialogue. One character says her refrig-
actor makes "a rumbling digestive sound"; another talks about a generator running "with a sort of monotonous throbbing." Authors talk like this; characters shouldn't. And while Talent's focus on anomic, overeducated types unifies the novel, her vision of Santa Fe seems blinkered. Except for a glimpse of a farmer or truck driver, we see mostly biochemists, linguists and assistant art directors of dance companies.
As disconcerting as the people we don't see are the things that don't happen. Mia is given a peyote button and tucks it into her jacket pocket: that's the last we see of a person with Tallent mits, "is flush it down the toilet. Maybe that could have
been in the book.)" Clarissa uproots the stakes with which Peter has marked the site of the house where he plans to live without her; we never find out how he reacts. Even the question of whether or not he goes back to Clarissa is left hanging. But "Museum Pieces" is less concerned with how things turn out but with how they happen: design, not inattention, led Tallent to leave these points unresolved. "That's a reflection of the way I see things in the world," she says.
Tallent, 30, majored in anthropology at Illinois State and has lived in Santa Fe for 10 years with her husband, an insurance agent. Her short stories, collected in "In Constant Flight" (Knopf, 1983), have appeared in The New Yorker. Esquire and "Best American Short Stories." They won her the sort of small, discriminating leadership that appreciates Mary Robison or Jay Anne Phillips; MUSE or Piece Muse; she characterizes a larger audience Meanwhile, she has temporarily returned to shorter fiction. The most taxing thing about writing a novel, Tallent says, was to keep believing in her chapter—"though that turned out to be the great pleasure in doing it. I'm going to do it again and I think that's why; you get to have the people again."
DAVID GATES
Jason and the Scorchers: 'God only knows where we fit in'
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Country Rock, 1985 Style
Fresh in from Nashville, the singer and lead guitarist for Jason and the Scorchers are siting in their record company's Manhattan offices trying to describe their fiery brand of rock. "God only knows where we fit in," says guitar Warner Hodges, outfitted in a sleeveless black leather vest, jeans, cowboy boots and spurs that truly jingle-jingle-jingle. "We're a rock-and-roll band that approaches music from a country perspective sometimes." And sometimes a bluegrass perspective, and sometimes a folk perspective. This means that the Scorchers have grown weary of influence-peddlily by interviewers. "At least," sighs cowboy-hatted musician Jason Ringenberg, "there's no country-punk talk now."
Still, come to think of it, country punk describes very well the breadth of the music made by Jason and the Scorehers. This Nashville quartet can be sentimental or nasty, and sometimes it's both at the same time. In their four years together, they've put two EPs of lentile rock-and-roll songs. And the same can be found on other albums — although alm "Lost and Found" which is just "Still Tied" could kick its way onto any countrypolitan radio station's list with its plaintive description of the farm life and gently wailing steel-guitar-g让ers.
Rave Up! At other times, the Scorers' intensity approach that of new waviness nihilism. The rhythm section of bassist Jeff Johnson and drummer Perry Baggs drive Hodges' bzs-suz guitar into high gear on hive upselikes "White Lies." "Even better is "Broken Whisky Glass," where the two styles meet. Setting off as a country-tinged ballad about lost love—featuring this epitaph: "Here lies Jason, strangled by love that wouldn't save you, but jigging into a nasty snarler: "Your bedroom heroes fade away when the morning rays shine down." Jason and the Scorers play from the heart—and it hits you right in the gut.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRH 1985
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds," he said.
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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 didn't do it," II, Higgins said. "I didn't want to tackle with fish in the water. They have rough teeth like a man's wiskers. They can tear man's hide off."
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam." Judy Higgins said. "But they didn't believe it."
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.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 651 E. 23rd St., said the catfish were large like they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crowdads and snakes.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
Brine Worldill/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 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.
ers spent 15 hours this weekend shmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi took about two hours last night to
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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but none of them unlocked the door,
nce, he said, he tried his own key in
c. It worked and the mission began.
night the four men walked to all the
Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers,
y one they got a few newspapers, but
are told that the papers were saved to
to the Boy's Club paper drive.
started crumpling papers they had at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
kind of had a system." Duffy said,
person would be unfolding the paper
others would be crumpling them up
sing them in."
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t time they gathered a load of papers,ought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed 8 trips to the paper drop. Smart said the women to return the papers to the paper drop after they d the room.
four began working again at 5 p.m
and finished at 3 a.m.
oviens call .S. count 'gross lie'
ted Press International
COW - The Soviet Union accused the in administration yesterday of "a gross its mission count and of pursuing a arous policy" by dismissing Soviet officials on deployment to a premier on deploying missiles in Europe, claims that the U.S. administration
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally hale down on the war. US-S2-05 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms bulldump* sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news service said. He entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gornetace 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 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 using nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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