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The University Daily
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Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Tuesday, April 9, 198F
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 Regents and Gov. John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means committee. The Senate smaller increases than those 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 difficult to 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 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 serve in 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 tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that jump from boat to boat.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the bay. "If you want to fight 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 the town center, and a brophy 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 tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, a glistening east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, the biggest fish drowned into the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said Joe Larsen.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for catfish. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be worth $300, 300 creamy, lightly battered fishbats.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents. Russell and William rose to the river river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on rock
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully swirls around the plank and plunged into the deaths of the river.
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.
"IT WOULD HAVE been a tactical effort 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
The best known of the flasher charge, or travel-and-entertainment, cards is American Express, which demands a $35 fee buy but charges no interest and offers no "revolving credit." This pay-as-you-go policy encourages fiscal conservatism, say American Express officials, who tout the card as a kind of training bra for credit users. "You've got to pay it off at the end of the month," says Porges. "To a lot of people, that represents security, the idea that 'with this card, I'm not going to go overboard.'" American Express campaigns hard to spread its cards on campus, using promotional codes sent via email well indirect mail. "We're about to launch a promotion with painters' caps," Porges says, "because we hear painters' caps are a big deal on campus these days."
Some students get their parents to cosign for the cards. One Mellon Bank promotion actually addressed to the parents, Daniel Staub, the Mellon vice president who signs the mass-mailing letter, claims that such accounts really do provide a credit rating for the student, because "the contract is with the student"—despite the fact that the letter says, "Until your student establishes a permanent address, statements will be mailed to your home address." WRW's Schanz asserts that cosigging does not hurt a credit rating, since "our credit reports don't show if a card is corsigned or not." On the other hand, credit counselor Gibson says that cosigging can taint credit ratings, especially if the company has to go back to the cosigners to cover debts.
If a student is refused a card, it may be because he has already damaged his credit rating. If so, he may well want to see his personal credit file. This process can be as simple as writing a letter or can involve office visits to a credit-reporting agency. You can also contact the creditors for direct errors in a credit record and to include in the file his side of a credit dispute.
As students begin to play the credit game, they will learn some tricks, such as timing their purchases right after the monthly close of the statement in order to get a month's free credit. But credit authorities emphasize that what they are offering is only a loan; sometimes it must be paid. If a student does get in over his head, the creditor will often help work out a schedule of payments, though, as Porges of American Express says, "It's not something we publize a lot," said Kwong-su, president of the Credit Center. Creditors emphasizes that creditors want to help students get started properly so that they won't get into trouble later. "We don't want to drive them into the ground," says Sperling. The creditors want their customers to pursue—and afford—the good life. Because, after all, the more money the customers spend, the more the creditors make.
The Divestment Drive
JOHN SCHWARTZ
The decision came, appropriately enough, on Lincoln's Birthday. Meeting in Palo Alto, the Stanford board of trustees took one small step to protest apartheid in South Africa by voting for a conditional sale of the school's 124,000 shares of Motorsolar Corp. stock. The trade union that represented school discovered any recent business dealings between the manufacturer and the South African police. "Our policy calls for
Universities search for a way to punish South Africa.
large measure because of student agitation. The pressure tactics have grown more and more sophisticated. At Yale, graduating seniors will invest their class gift only in a South Africa-free portfolio. At the University of Texas, protests students still march past the Texas Tower but also bring in demonstrators from California, the student member of the state university board of regents a review of the $1.7 billion of the system's $5.5 billion
Students at South African consulate in New York
With those cautious moves, two more American universities came to grips with a difficult question of conscience: should they hold stock in companies that do business with South Africa? This issue, known as "divestment," has been a campus fixture for about a decade and is once again back on the boil. At least 38 schools have adopted some form of divestment policy—partial or complete—and others are considering it, in
divestment when there has been substantial social injury and when all other remedies have failed," explained university vice president William F. Massy. Two days later, officials at Harvard had a bit further, announcing that it had sold off its $1 million holding in Baker International Corp., an oil-and-mining toolmaker, because the firm refused even to discuss its South African operations.
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portfolio invested with companies doing business in South Africa. "When universities start acting together, they can have a big impact," says law student Fred Gaines, the student regent. "Companies don't want Harvard, Stanford and the University of California saying that they don't manage properly." A UC report on divestment is due in June.
The problem will not have become any simpler by then. Few doubt academia's abhorrence of apartheid—"an abomination," says Columbia college Dean Robert E. Pollack. Such attitudes only lead impatient students to demand that schools put their money where their ideals are. Says David Nather, an associate editor of the Daily Texan. "It doesn't show much commitment to say, 'We'd love to help oppression, but we can't afford to.' But that's not the only interest at stake: vast chunks of university endowments are tied up in blue-chip U.S. companies, many of which have long traded with the South Africans. Pulling out of those firms might deal the schools a stiff financial loss and would forift any influence campus humanitarians have on company managers. Further, many American firms insist that their presence in South Africa has improved conditions for their black and Colored workers, advances that might disappear with a U.S. pullout. In any case, argues UT regent Beryl Milburn. "You can't settle the wrongs of the world through the investment policies of the University of Texas."
The debate on campus mirrors the conflict within the Fortune 500. About 300 American firms conduct business in South Africa. They employ about 120,000 locals, 70,000 of whom are nonwhite, and have investments of about $2.6 billion. The large-
"I keep crying when they weigh in
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.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam. Judy Higgins said, "But they were doing it wrong."
"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."
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 snakes.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
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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 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.
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oviets call S. count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
COW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its mission count and of pursuing a policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call or a speech. In other words, companies that the U.S. administration
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally de-arm the NATO headquarters on Europe. SS-20 missiles targeted on 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.
Bortbacher said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Paving 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 argument" and refused to Gorchéshe's proposal and accused them of ignoring the American lead in other nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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