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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
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 approved the budget 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 100p
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
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 reopened 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 of
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 jumped out of the water.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the coast. "We've been watching you have to fight 'em, 'til they give up."
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and walk down the river to work streets, in hopes of catching a 60-pound trophy, and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their heavy catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor features east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish drowned to the bait shop weighed 11 pounds, said Jeffrey Patterson of the New York Aquarium.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another talk about the big one that I thought was true.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be about 300 crunts, lightly battled fishfats.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Dan Kline.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with siskins and worms, gracefully flies over the river and plunked 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.
"I 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."
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Rice's postmodern Herring Hall: A complex lyrical facade (right) and a radiant reading room inside the building (above)
around a large, open mall that signaled a similar desire—to create a "familial" even "colonial," an atmosphere.
Jefferson was thoroughly Roman in his taste, as evidenced by the abundance of pavilions and colonnades at the university, as well as the giant rotunda at its center. But he was moved as well by the contemporary French architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, whose extravagant, lyrical work served as a model for one of the professorial houses. As a planner, Jefferson struck a distinctively American chord in his concern for the whole environment in which the student studied; this was far from the case at Continental universities, where students often had to find their own lodgings in the town. "The large and crowded buildings in which youths are pent up," he wrote, "are equally unfriendly to health, to study, to manners, morals and order."
In one form or another, the ideals implicit in Harvard and Virginia cannot affect the campus to this day. South Carolina College (now the state university at Columbia), founded in 1801, was designed around a "horseshoe," a verdant green mall
rows of buildings faced each other, with the president's house at one end, the town entrance at the other. As the republic flourished and expanded west, so did the number of universities. But the Land Grant College Act of 1862, which allotted each state federal land, which it was to sell, using the funds for the erection of "agricultural and mechanical" colleges, was the turning point. Colleges of all kinds began to be built in such haste and abandon that critics complained that too much money was spent on construction and not enough on books. Each of these new hybrids was dedicated to democracy
in education. "I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any subject," said Ezra Cornell, who helped to launch the biggest land-grant college in New York state, named in his honor.
ARCHITECTURE
Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York's Central Park, was the role model in these decades. He created or influenced at least 20 campuses from the 1860s to the 1890s, most of them land-grant. His pungent, passionate ideas perfectly suited the spirit of an era when the children of working men and women were being welcomed into the university system for the first time. He called it a "period of academic achievement" and puarchitecture, of quadrangles and classicism, as well as the stuffy academy itself. Instead he preached a "free, liberal, picturesque" esthetic, in which rustic, thoroughly American structures could be smoothly integrated into a rolling, cultivated landscape.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
Olmsted worked on Cornell, the University of Maine and the University of California at Berkeley, among others. In Berkeley, he conceived of the entire college as an integral part of the surrounding community and wove the two together in his plan—yet another radical American departure from the past. He included residential areas and athletic facilities within the campus grounds. He insisted that the dorms resemble "large domestic houses," each with a "respectively finished drawing room and dining room." Olmsted's clients often refused to mix education and life as fully as he desired, but his vision transformed many schools all over the United States. Agricultural colleges opened in Massachusetts, Kansas and Iowa bearing the mark of his ideas. So did—and does—the beautifully manicured
campus at Stanford, for which olmsted devised the original plan. In the end, another architect dotted his green, rolling hills with espanish Mission missionaries. The archival fort still stands as a tribute to Arcadian romance.
British art center at Yale: Louis Kahn's light-drenched masterpiece
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.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Haggis said. "But they knew it was true."
Romantic visions are struggling to survive in this century, as Turner's book demonstrates. The pictures in "Campus" become progressively more complex, crowded and urban as the pages turn. By 1900, the American college was becoming a "multiversity," offering an unprecedented variety of courses to large student bodies and endowed on occasion by enor-
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds," he said.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large hooks 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 back.
"I didn't do it," Higgins said. "I didn't want to niggle 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.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves they'll eat," he said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 661 E. 23rd St., said the catfish were large because they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kra to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
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 Mill and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets. Russell caught a set of cattle for a lot of nibbles and a five-inch channel catfish, which he tossed back.
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night the four men walked to all the Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers, one they got a few newspapers, but another who had never traveled to the Boy's Club paper.
started crumpling papers they had at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
ind of had a system." Duffy said.
would be unfolding the paper
others would be crumpling them up
upg them in."
said they hit a dry spell where they find enough papers. The only thing as to go to the source. Duffy andalled the Boy's Club but no one d. They drove to the paper drop at St. and filled their trunk with cnts.
time they gathered a load of papers, ught that they had enough to finish e room. The project was completed trips to the paper drop. Smart said the women to return the ers to the paper drop after they the room.
our began working again at 5 p.m and finished at 3 a.m.
viets call S. count gross lie'
d Press International
DW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross missile count and of pursuing a us policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a nuclear war against the U.S. administration.
wishes that the U.S. authorities wishes neither the arms reduction 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 deployment of 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 Pershing 2 and cruise missiles in western Ukraine.
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 ignoring the American threat. He 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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