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The University Daily
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.
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
TOPERA — The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1986 budget for the seven Board of Regents schools that further expanded funding authorized 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 proposed smaller increases than those 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 House
State Rep Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it clear that fight 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 s to move i
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 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
Staff Reporter
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 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 where he lived. "You have to fight, 'em, '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 town where it is a graveyhip and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
booms kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that I wrote a while ago.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are packed on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor offers east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Juvie Hueinz. The shop's owner.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He loured on rock
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 45-pound catfish would be worth $80,000, 300 cruch, lightly battered fishfishes.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents. Russell and Andrew residents even
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully sails over the river and plunged into the deaths of the river.
noir, 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
How to punctuate
Bv Russell Baker
International Paper asked Russell Barker maker of the Pulitzer Prize for his book, *Grown Up*, and for his essays in the New York Times the latest collection in book form to call *Russell Barker* (the Pulitzer Prize for his work) a make better use of punctuation, one of the printed words most valuable tools.
When you write, you make a sound in the reader's head. It can be a dull mumble—that's why so much government prose makes you sleepy—or it can be a joyful noise, an aly whisper, a throb of passion.
Listen to a voice trembling in a haunted room;
"And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never left before . . . "
That's Edgar Allan Poe, a master. Few of us can make paper speak as vividly as Poe could, but even beginners will write better once they start listening to the sound their writing makes.
One of the most important tools for making paper speak in your own voice is punctuation.
When speaking aloud, you punctuate constantly – with body language. Your listener hears commas, dashes, question marks, exclamation points, quotation marks as you shout, whisper, pause, wave your arms, roll your eyes, wrinkle your brow.
In writing, punctuation plays
"My tools of the trade should be want tools, too.
Good use of punctuation can help you build a
mole solid monee tableau sentence."
the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
"Gee, Dad, have I got to learn all them rules?"
Am I saying, "Go ahead and punctuate as you please"? Absolutely not. Use your own common sense; remembering that you can't expect readers to work to decipher what you're trying to say.
Don't let the rules scare you. For they aren't hard and fast. Think of them as guidelines.
There are two basic systems of punctuation:
1. The loose or open system, which tries to capture the way body language punctuates talk.
2. The tight, closed structural system, which hews closely to the sentence's grammatical structure.
Most writers use a little of both. In any case, we use much less punctuation than they used 200 or even 50 years ago. (Glance into Edward Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," first pub- 1736.)
insisted in 1760, example of the tight structural system at its most elegant.)
No matter which
lished in 1776, for an
system you prefer, be warned: punctuation marks cannot save a sentence that is badly put together. If you have to struggle over commas, semicolons and dashes, you've probably built a sentence that's never going to fly, no matter how you tinker with it. Throw it away and build a new one to a simpler design. The better your sentence, the easier it is to punctuate.
Choosing the right tool
I can't show you in this small space how they all work, so I'll stick to the ten most important—and even then can only hit highlights. For more details, check your dictionary or a good grammar.
There are 30 main punctuation marks,but you'll need fewer than a dozen for most writing.
Comma [ , ]
This is the most widely used mark of all. It's also the toughest and most controversial. I've seen editors almost come to blows over the comma. If you can handle it without sweating, the others will be easy. Here my policy:
1. Use a comma after a long introductory phrase or clause; After stealing the crown jewels from the Tower of London, I went home for tea.
tory material is short, forget the comma. After the theft I went home for tea.
2. If the introduce-
3. But use it if the sentence would be confusing without it, like this:
The day before I'd robbed the Bank of England.
4. Use a comma to separate elements in the series; *ib wadded the*
I only keep on when they weigh more 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 yrow." 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," Judy Higgins said. "But they wanted it."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came.
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, 951 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 wiggies and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, boasts 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
okers spent 15 hours this weekend
freshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
It took about two hours last night to
pered
ds but none of them unlocked the door
ands he, he met his own key in
his waistband, we kidged.
day night the four men waited to all the Daisy Hall and asked for newspapers. But he were told that the papers were saved to the Boy's Club paper drive.
systart crumpling papers they had
at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
a kind of had a system." Duffy said.
person would be unfolding the paper
he others would be crumpling them up
assing them in."
4 time they gathered a load of papers,
thought that they had enough to finish
the room. The project was completed
8 trips to the paper drop. Smart said
asked the women to return to the
paper the paper drop after they
did the room.
ry said they hit a dry spell where they it find find edious papers. The only thing was to go to the source. Duffy and I called the Boy's Club but no one. They drove to the paper drop at estr St. and filled their trunk withapers.
four began working again at 5 p.m.
and finished at 3 a.m.
voviets call S. count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
OOW — 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 a war on Ukraine, in emails 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 announced that entered her fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt defence 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 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 American lead role in the war, he 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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