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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.
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
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 governor.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee had approved the budget last month and approved last month by the Kansas Senate.
The $645 million appropriations bill now 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 Housepoo.
State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it difficult to light 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 39 years in the position.
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-knoxville, has been chosen to serve as 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 were big enough to eat.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the bay. "I don't know if you have to fight, '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 city's downtown, 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 I know.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, located east from Lawrence River Front Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged
sided by Jiggers, the shoal owner,
said Hingga, the shark.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be lighter than a 300 crunchy, lightly battered fishkiss.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Andrew Feldman from the field.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully swirled downward and plunked 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 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
ARCHITECTURE
moussums John D. Rockefeller founded the University of Chicago in 1890 with a gift of $30 million. His architect, Henry Ives Cobb, was given a compact four-block site in the middle of the city, into which he was forced to cram a Woman's Quadrangle, two Undergraduate Quadrangles and a Graduate Quadrangle. Somehow he managed it all with the beaux-arts grace and symmetry favored then. As Columbia expanded in the early 20th century, Charles McKim, who explicitly embraced the "minimal character" of the school, he placed his fascinated buildings right on the edge of the street (contradicting Jefferson), like any urban structure.
Columbia: A computer-science building snuggled into the 19th century
As universities grew larger and more self-conscious, they began to cultivate a design "image." Ernest Flagg's magnificent French baroque cadet headquarters for the Naval Academy in Annapolis in the late 1890s is a glowing example—and the perfect precedent for the soaring Air Force Academy designed 50 years later in Colorado Springs by Walter Netsch of Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill.
In one sense, the "campus" ideal has been totally violated in our times. As higher education expand, there is a need for an ethos that is more
plexes designed by no-nonsense "modern" architects in the 50s and 60s departed in many physical ways from the past. Classrooms and dormitories were often built overnight, stamped out in cold, stiff metal-and-glass boxes that resembled other like automobiles on an assembly line. Terms like "open planning" (that is, no planning) became fashionable; the assumption was that coherent direction was impossible, since the future offered nothing but increasingly unmanageable hordes of new students.
In this decade, barely discussed in Turner's book, there is a fresh dogma. Convinced that the "new" modernist vocabulary is unsuitable, the educational hierarchy, inspired by the Yale and Rice examples, is commissioning big-name designers to produce dramatic images, often deliberately recalling the past. The controversial College of Architecture building, recently designed by Philip Johnson and John Burgee for the University of Houston, is the perfect case in point.
Once "modern" architects dedicated to streamlined, abstract shapes, Johnson and Burgee have provided Houston with nothing
more or less than a neoclassical villa, directly imitating the finest work of the 18th-century French master Ledou. Despite some vocal opposition, the building is rising now, strongly supported by university officials.
The list for sheer presence can be overwhelming. Paul Rudolph's infamous Art and Architecture Building at Yale (1958), whose ugly "Brutalist" towers and cramped interiors prompted a student revolt, was one of the first signs of this trend. Louis Kahn's warm and light-filled Center for British Art at Yale, filled with honeyed woods, was completed in the same city in 1977, a splendid antidote to Rudolph. Robert Venturi, who proclaimed that he would return Princeton to "the Gothic tradition", is more typical of the postmodern takeover. His Gordon Wu Hall (1983) is a masterpiece of this overworked genre, an exquisite two-story brick and limestone building that subtly echoes the Renaissance ornamentation and broad bay windows elsewhere on the campus. At Rice, Cesar Pell has just completed another gem, the long and narrow Jesse Jones School of Administration (1984). Its complex
U. S. Air Force Academy chapel: Soaring peaks in the Colorado mountains
and lyrical brick facade weaves colors, forms and textures that directly recall other buildings on the
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.
But Kahn, Venturi and Pell alone cannot revive this lost, peculiarly indigenous tradition. Jefferson's obsession with the end of education—not methodological "planning" or ornate architecture—is rare in the '80s, when universities are desperate for image-enhancing plays to fill their classrooms and dorms. Surely at some point students must learn that ledged edgery might serve their hard-edged needs. The metaphysical scope of John Carl Warncke's plan for the University of California at Santa Cruz (1963), set in a great redwood forest on a hill above the Pacific Ocean, is a telling reversal of the multiversity mama. Warncke's concept proposed clusters of colleges holding no more than a few hundred students, most of whom reside, dine and study in the same atmosphere. Kresge College at Santa Cruz, jointly designed by Charles Moore, William Turnbull and a participating group of students, offers a compact village of lowlying white buildings along a river, lettering, as well as urbane plazas and fountain courts. Here the "campus" ideal becomes at last a finished, working contemporary model.
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." he said.
DOUGLAS DAVIS
"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 there."
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.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large books lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, 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."
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
Bruce WardII/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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four began working again at 5 p.m. and finished at 3 a.m.
COW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a窥势 policy" by dismissing Sissy Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a brum on deploying missiles in Europe. He seems that the U.S. administration
ted Press International
oviets call .S. count 'gross lie'
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 Gravya yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defense spending. 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 cruise 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 appeal to the United States in other nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
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