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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
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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
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee chose to approve the new measure that 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 restore some of the lost money on the House
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it hard for 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 s to move in
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
Kenneth L. Stoner, associate director of residence halls at the University of Tennessee-Kroxville, has been chosen to replace 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
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Renorter
A whale of a talurk in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that linger in the murky depths.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "I think you have to fight 'em. 'il 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 Manhattan, for charity, 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 gets away — there's proof.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are backed on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor offers east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish drowned at the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said Tom Brickman.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
LAWRENCE'S GATF catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be 100 pounds, 800 crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with snorkers and worms, gracefully swirled around him and plunked into the deaths of the river.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Bob Garner, who were
100. 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."
BUSINESS
Anti-partheid demonstrators at UC, Berkeley; A crisis of conscience on the campus
est American investments are concentrated in oil, auto, mining and rubber works. These giants, like Mobil, General Motors, Ford, Goodyear, IBM and Union Carbide, are regularly challenged by shareholders over their South African investments. Most defend themselves by pointing to their adherence to the "Sullivan Principles," drafted in 1977 by the Rev. Leon B. Sullivan, a Philadelphia pastor who serves on GM's board of directors. His statement offers six principles of conduct for companies doing business in South Africa—among them desegregating work places, paying equal salaries for equal work and training nonwhites for managerial positions.
are the principles making any difference?
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South Africa, the answer depends on your point of view. The most recent monitoring report, prepared by Arthur D. Little Inc., of Cambridge, Mass., gave a mixed review. Thirty-two firms, including GM and IBM, ranked in the "making good progress" category. Another 44, including Ford and Gillette, were rated as "making progress." Thirty-two others, including Motorola and Carnation, were said to "need to become more active". Still, the report says that all work stations in the surveyed companies have been desegregated and that blacks hold more jobs than they once did. The bad news is that only 1 to 6 percent of managerial appointments go to nonwhites, and the percentage of nonwhites training for these jobs has fallen.
No one pretends that this record entirely satisfies "The bottom jobs are still full of blocks and Colored, and the whites are still on the top," complains Jennifer Loeb. But the show "The Sultan Principles maintain and strengthen the whole system." But, countern
American executives, critics must be more realistic. "We all agree that it is a morally indefensible system and that it should be changed," says William Broderick of Ford Motor Co. "The real achievement is over the most effective means to achieve such changes. Sullivan signatories say stay, and work for change on the spot."
This moderate approach has great appeal to university administrators, since it both assumes the possibility of rational reform and endorses the maintenance of lucrative investments. But it's a hard sell to campus activists, as Columbia's weary Dean Pollack has learned. Chairman of a university investment-review committee, Pollack recommended last November a multistep approach to the problem that appears to have cost him support on both sides. While opposing outright diversification, the group supported refraining from any new investments in companies that deal with South Africa and leading an effort by a consortium of universities to stifle the Sullivan strategy. Stu
Is there life after divestment?
The answer appears to be yes. In 1978, following a round of student protests, the University of Wisconsin sold off all its buildings in South Africa ties. The state school unloaded $8.9 million worth of stocks and bonds at a paper loss of about $850,000. The decision to sell, incidentally,
dent opponents find this
namely pamby-pamby,
yet it may still be too tern
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people think that."
and not come from the regents. Instead, Wisconsin Attorney General Bronson La Follette ordered the sale, after uncovering an obscure state law that prohibits the university from doing business with companies that condone racial discrimination. The Texas regents have refused to sell their stocks, in par; because of worries over their portfolio's future. But that judgment goes to a matter that in 1982 trust company report arguing that investments in large companies without ties to South Africa actually performed slightly better than the major stock market average.
Rate of return is sure to be one of the central issues in June when the California regents take up a special report on divestment. About $1.7 billion of the system's $5.5 billion portfolio is invested in companies with South African ties. The stakes could hardly be higher: a complete UC divestment would be larger than all of the other campus sales combined. Ninety percent of these shares support staff and faculty pension funds, and the regents who serve in it are bound by law to behave in a "prudent manner" that consideration weighs heavily against Joseph Moore, who says, "It's not my money or the students' money, it's the employees' money." The likely outcome is that the regents will not opt for divestment but may officially protest anpardated.
W whether or not UC divests, "The divestment campaign keeps the South African government nery-
ous and worried, so it does have an effect, according to UC's resident expert on South Africa, political science Prof Robert Price "The paradox is that it is a powerful tool until its used. Overseas are invoked, so they lost." No university could state the creed and better, and for the moment it appears likely that few schools will challenge Price's analysis From Harvard's Derek Bok to Stanford's Donald Kennedy, the
Sullivan: A matter of principles
leadership hopes to have it both ways; righteous statements and a reasonable return. What university authorities appear to believe is that the current South African region should either like it or not. But if they continue to invest, and they have misjudged the explosive political situation, their dividend checks may be consumed in the fire next time.
ARCTIC REPRESENTATION with RICHARD MANNING in Detroit.
MARGARET MITTELLEAN in Berkeley, Calif. KEITH LEE in Chicago.
in Austin, Texas, SHARO
WAXMAN in New York
and burial reports
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
"only keep on when it 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 locks 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.
"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."
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam. Judi Higgins said, "But they got off."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
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 snacks.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Price Waddill/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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voviets call S.count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
Gorrachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Bombs 2 and cruise missiles in western Europe.
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.
OW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing arous policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for an all-out attack on Ukraine, arguments that the U.S. administration
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally decide how to address the ISS. SS-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 the threat. In October, Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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