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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)
Tuesday. 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 approved last month the increase in 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 difficult to fight on the floor to restore the measure.
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.
"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
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 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.
Stone was one of four finalists, all of whom visited the University in the past two months
Fish tales on banks o
A whale of a talke lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that jump from the sea to the land.
"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, 'til they give up."
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and the adjacent York streets, in hopes of catching 60-pound trophy, and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
an't another tale about the big one that
hadn't been told.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, opposite the east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dugged
at the bait shop weighed 61 pounds,
said Todd Schmidt.
LAWRENCE'S GiANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 18-pound catfish would be about 200 grunts, lightly battered flabstocks.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Amy Stinson from their apartment.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully jumps over the river and plunked into the depths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on rock
floor, it's harder to get them reinstalled 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.
Cusack on the move; A rumpled presence and a bravura performer
A Young Actor Scores for Sure
One sure thing about Rob Reiner's new film, "The Sure Thing," is its 18-year-old star, John Cusack. An actor with soft cheeks and a steely squint, Cusack plays an Ivle League freshman spurned by one girl and in lustful pursuit of another ("the sure thing", of the title). Unfortunately, he soon finds himself on a transcontinental trip with the girl who loathes him. This comedy sings the joys of the quest for love—on campus and off—and at the same time tackles some tough, cosmic questions. What to do about high-school honeys? How to describe a religious affection for pizza? When to succumb to passion? Cusack's irrepressible performance flouts the conventions of a typical fun-in-the-frack flick, and his rumped presence enlivens every scene: he produces manic bursts, operatic belches and philosophies asides with equal ease and authenticity. While the film is less about scoring than searching, the actor has certainly scored one here for his career.
Surprisingly, "The Sure Thing" is already the fourth of six movie roles that Cusack had in the last two years (two films will be released later this year). "It happened pretty fast," he says of his small parts in "Class," "Sixteen Candles," "Grandview, U.S.A." (His simple disappointment: not being
cast for "The Breakfast Club").
"You don't have time to think about it. But I think that's healthy. You don't have to dwell on who you are." Not that he isn't contemplative—or that he hasn't considered precisely where he's going; he wants to act, of course, and more. "What I really want to do is direct. What I really want to do is write. To be able to present a story—I think that's a wonderfully creative thing."
Creativity is hardly new to the Chicago-born Cusack. The son of a screenwriter, he has acted since the age of nine, and he wrote and directed two musical comedies in high school ("I certainly wasn't the scholar." he notes). He currently cowriting a screenplay for Henry Winkler and Paramount. Meanwhile, to clear his head for the fall, he took to tailoring at York University. Cusack will tour the country with a friend from Evanston, Ill., where he grew up. There is no itinerary—one wonders if they will bother with *maps*—but Graceland, Presley's mansion, and Las Vegas are probable stops. "We're going to take a trip across the country in an old, beat-up car," he says. "Kieroua did it for seven years; we're going to do it for three months. We're going to write and take a tape recorder and a camera and a boardboard to go around and reflect about the States." The trip has forced him to refuse several offers ("I've turned down lots of ten sex
comedies"), he don't care. He is already looking away from comedie roles: "I feel I do no serious stuff. If Martin Scott orsees or Milton Sorman say to me, 'Please do this great part,' I don't go to college."
Despite his rapid rise, he modestly declines to place himself in the same class as such fellow fanzine idols as Sean Penn, Matthew Modine or Emilio Estevez. In college, he attended school buddies; the guys who went to Chicago's Wrigley Field with him and conned
hot dogs from the vendors at Cubs games. Lounging with a few of those friends in an $400-anight hotel suite overlooking New York's Central Park, hurrying toward a waiting limoine with open Michelob in hand, Cusack is often unshaven, house, boisterous. But when he drops and he assumes a seriousness uncommon to most college-bound life forms. "This film," he says quietly of "The Sure Thing," "could become part of American culture—or could be gone in three weeks."
MARK D. UEHLING
Actress, Model,
Singer...Star?
could be a very hot career.
Whitney Houston is a little frightening. She has acted on the television shows "Gimme a Break" and "As the World Turns." She's gorgeous, a model with the tony Wilhelmina Models. Scariest of all, she is a terrific singer, deeply rooted in the gospel of her New Jersey church but smooth enough to pull off slur R&B duets with the likes of Jermaine Jackson Clearly, no Jermaine Jackson can fail her quality. It just doesn't seem fair, OK, so she comes from a talented family; her first cousin is Dione Warwick, and her mother is soul singer Cissy Houston. But think about it: she is just 12. And now, with the release of her eponymous debut album on Arista Records, she is posed at the edge of what
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
"Poised" is exactly the right word, too. Houston is not only talented but self-assured. Her family gets the credit for that. She was professionally at 12 as a backup vocalist for Lou Rawls, Chakha Khan and her mother—but her parents convinced her to hold back on a career until she was old enough to handle it. "My parents didn't want me to start out too young, even though I could have," she says. "They wanted me to have my childhood and my teenage years." And in fact, "my mom is still nervous. She's in the business for a long time, and she's seen a lot of things come and go. And it's a scary thing when your kid is going to do it also."
Whitney Houston onstage: Scary
But six years ago Cissy Houston decided her daughter was ready, and the two started performing together in nightclubs. Whitney began slowly, as a background singer, and eventually stepped out front. By the time she was 18 she was gathering glowing notices. Meanwhile, just to keep busy, she was modeling—for Glamour, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan.
Now that the record is out, Houston is concentrating on that of her career. She's made a video for the song "You (You) Dance," which has a rope on a three-week promotional swing and now is hoping
"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.
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," 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."
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam." Judy Higgins said. "But they were not aware of 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.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
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.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Wadditt/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, balts his hook in love of catching something to fill the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across from the Bowersock Mill and Power Co. Sixth and York streets. Russell bought a nettle lettuce for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
kers spent 15 hours this weekend
eshman Melinda LaRue and Heidi
took about two hours last night to
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
pered
but none of them unlocked the door,ance, he said, he tried his own key in k. It worked and the mission began. ay night the four men walked to all the Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers, any one got a few newspapers, but were told that the papers were saved to to the Boy's Club paper drive. started crumpling papers they had
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 using them in."
y said they hit a dry spell where they it find enough papers. The only thing was to go to the source, Duffy and called the Boy's Club but no one red. They drove to the paper drop at St. and filled their trunk with pens.
6 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 if the room.
four began working again at 5 p.m.
y and finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call .S.count 'gross lie'
ted Press International
COW — The Soviet Union accused the a administration yesterday of "a gross its mission count and of pursuing a rous policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a war. He 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 reported entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Urtbacher said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of 6 and cruise missiles in western Europe.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt decommissioning of S-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 their own warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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