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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.
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
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 tight to some more of the lost money on the House 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 light on the floor to restore the
"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-Toulouse, has been chosen to Wilson, 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 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 stores about monster-sized catfish that live in the water.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat, said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "We had to be very careful you have to fight them. 'it they give up.'"
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in downtown Stamford, for a photography, and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Snappshots of grimming fishermen proudly posing with their heavy catches are locked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor is a $10,000 cost from Lawrence Riverfront Park
Sounds kind of harsh, doesn't it? But this isn't another little about the big one that you can tell.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish drowned in the butt shop weighing 10 pounds, said the aquarium owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one its pound catfish would be about 100 crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
The lure of landing a big one drew
lawrence residents Jim Russell and
Jim Roecker to the city.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with snorkels and warms, gracefully flies over the water and plumbed into the depths of the river.
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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 from the state general fund, almost $4 million less than Carlin's general fund appropriation recommendation and $8 million less than the
ARCHITECTURE
Campus Americana
Dartmouth; Egalitarian
We borrowed from Europe,but the look of our universities reflects our historical trends.
B both the "campus" and the architecture associated with it are American inventions. Forget all those Greek revival facades, neo-Renaissance columns and Oxbridgeian quadrangles. Though it dresses up like a European, the American university is as native as baseball or jazz. From the first, it has been dedicated to egalitarian ideals, unlike its great European models — Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne — which were attended by a tiny elite. In an early engraving, an American artist shows us the founding of Dartmouth College in 1769. The background is romantic, even primitive—a row of trees, a clearing chopped in the woods, a pair of log cabins. In the fore-
democratic group of students —some white, some American Indian—in prayer
Robert Venturi's Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton: A subtle echo of the
The very word "campus" derived from the Latin for "field," is romantic, not classical. It soared in popularity at Princeton after the revolution when that college opted for open, green fields. In time the word came to signify the "spirit" of a hugely complex phenomenon, embedding classrooms, restaurants, gymnasiums and theaters, not to mention dormitories. "The American university," rhapsodized the French architect Le Corbusier in the 1930s, "is a world in itself."
Despite this extraordinary fact, little attention has been paid to the architecture of the American campus in all its amazing variety, which encompasses both hoary tradition and the most rigorously "modern" and "postmodern" avant-garde styles. Paul Venable Turner, professor of the history of architecture and city planning at Stanford, has finally begun to right this wrong. His new book, "Campus" (317 pages, MII Press/Architecture) of 353, attempts to overcome the strictly overlooks nature and emphasis "planning," which means, as the theory behind the organization of the buildings. In the case of lucid, invigorating thinkers like Thomas Jefferson, who designed the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, this emphasis works in Turner's behalf. From his earliest letters about this project, Jefferson was thinking about an "academical village" in which the faculty lived as well as taught—about an entire living and
University of Virginia: Thomas Jefferson's neoclassical 'academical village' was designed to create a familial atmosphere
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1987
than two pounds." 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.
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.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
"Everyone assumed that he was under the dam," Jody Higgins said. "But they were."
"I didn't do it," it huffs. 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 'man's hide off."
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat." he said.
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, 691 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 snails.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, bats 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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It worked and the mission was right; night the four men walked to all the Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers. "one they got a few newspapers, but we told that the papers were saved to the boy's Club paper drive.
started crumpling papers they had fat 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
and of had a system." Duffy said.
person would be unfolding the paper
others would be crumpling them up
taping them in."
said they hit a dry spell where they find enough papers. The only thing as to go to the source. Duffy and called the Boy's Club, but no one d. They drove to the paper drop at St. and filled their trunk with cris.
ime they gathered a load of papers, right that they had enough to finish e room. The project was completed trips to the paper drop Smart said 3 asked the women to return the paper drop the paper drop after they the room
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viets call S. count gross lie'
d Press International
JW - The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a grass is mess count and of pursuing a us policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a ban on nuclear weapons, not 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 report 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 deserts. He added 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 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 accused them of ignoring the situation. The Americans 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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