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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
KANSAN
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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
TOPEKA — The Kansas House yesterday approved a fiscal year 1966 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 proposed 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 tight to some 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 hard 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
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 TWOULD 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."
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
For KU, the House approved about $80,000
in loan approvals.
Housing to move in
that programs are highly competitive but salaries can reach as high as $60,000 a year. And increasingly, these earn-while-you-learn positions are seen as hot-ticket alternatives to an M.B.A. degree, "Having been an executive trainee," says Salman, "you've already worn the label 'winner'."
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 administer Wilmott, 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
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be around 300 crunchy, lightly battered fishsticks.
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Stephen Tapp.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Judy Higgins, the店's owner.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and warms, gracefully flies through the air and plunged into the depths of the river.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catchs are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor has a ramp east from Lawrence River (front Park).
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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, 'til they give up."
Sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that gets away — there's proof.
been from the old world.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that linger in the murky depths.
Fish tales on banks o
preferable to a holocaust: nuclear wars are something to be savored, and we must ensure that there is a next generation left to fight them. (No one won, since it was an exhibition round.)
An added attraction is heckling, also inspired by the British parliamentary model. In the final rounds, a debater may be bazped by a verbal dart—not just from opponents
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the center of the city, for trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
A whale of a talure lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Parliamentary debates feature two-person teams and quirky resolutions—taken from a popular song, for example, or perhaps a slightly twisted brain—that are announced shortly before the match. At a recent Princeton-Brown debate, the resolution was: "I'm about to lose control and I think I like it" as in the song "I'm So Excited." Brown's representation the "govern-
Magrath, president of the University of Missouri and commission chairman. The 17-person group advocated more rigorous academic preparation, including strong, cohesive liberal-arts study, a major in at least one noneducation subject and significant pedagogical training. In fact, nine members of the panel expressed concern that the report didn't go far enough. The usual four-year baccalaureate program, they said, was insufficient to meet proper teacher standards, and they suggested that a five-year course of study may be necessary.
Resolved: Debate Can Be Entertaining
Harvard debater using body English: Anything goes
College debates usually feature polished speakers delivering well-rehearsed statements on serious topics. Enter the "parliamentary debate," which might shock even the House of Commons. These are extemporaneous contests in which nimbleness of mind, tongue and sometimes of body are critical; humor and imagination also help. Formally organized in the United States
in 1981 and most popular in the Northeast, the parliamentary-debathe circuit is now spreading nationally. Eighty-seven teams from 28 schools took part in a recent competition at Princeton, an institution such topics as "You are superman" or "Superman's Cape". Explains debater Sharon Scott Zezima of Smith College, "You're trying to sway a judge with your style and with your delivery, as well as your content."
team," chose to interpret that to mean mental control and a build a case for the much-overlooked delights of nuclear war. If nuclear winter arrives, Brown argued, it would simply mean year-round opportunities for winter sports. Princeton, the "loyal opposition," countered, in the same deborn spirit, that small nuclear attacks were
but from members of the audience as well. Winning requires resourcefulness and powers of repatriate worthy of a stand-up comic. Says Smith's Zeima: "If someone heckles and you don't take it well, they will heckle more and you'll look worse." It's especially disconcerting when debaters are heckled, as they sometimes are, by the judge.
Perking Up the Coffee Market
Coffee has traditionally been as much a part of campus life as cramming, and caffeine-fuelled all-nighters are still an integral part of college education. But market research indicates that fewer and fewer students are turning to coffee in less-pressed markets after dinner or during leisure hours. That worries college students a lot, since people tend to develop the taste in their late teens and 20 or early at last. "The college student is our industry's future market," explains Mike Levin, national director of the Coffee Development Group. "We need to make them aware now."
need to make their dreams come true. To perk up interest in coffee, the CDG is helping schools across the country set up European-style coffehouse, supplying everything from grinders to fancy espresso/cappuccino machines for nominal fees and even training the staff in the proper brewing techniques. All the school must do is accept its coffee beans from a CDG-authorized source. So far, 30 campuses (with five more pending) have established coffehouse featuring such specialty brews as Colombian Supremo, Mocha Mint and Kenya AA. Princeton University's "Chancellor Green Cafe" recently opened to the strains of a 17-piece jazz ensemble that helped attract a crowd of 600. Not all who filtered in were instantly converted, however. "I'm really enjoying the band," said one student. "I myself didn't have any coffee. I'm more of a tea drinker."
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
Prineton's cafe: Brewing new interest
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.
"I always keep when they weigh more than two pounds," he said.
"People just don't catch 'epn, so they grow," he said.
But many years ago, fishermen dove into the water with large hooks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big calffish, also known flatheads, 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
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
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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 Kw o 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.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, bails 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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to watch their 3-peat.
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he said, he tried his own key in
ock. It worked and the mission began.
day night the four men walked to all the
Onaisy Hill and asked for newspapers.
any one they gave a few newspapers, but
were told that the papers were saved to
the Boy's Club paper drive.
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ry said they hit a dry spell where they it find enough papers. The only thing was to go to the source. Duffy and called the Boy's Club but no one drove to the paper drop at Vermont St. and filled their trunk with papers.
r time they gathered a load of papers,
nought that they had enough to finish
the room. The project was completed
8 trips to the paper drop. Smart said
and asked the women to return the
paper and the paper drop after they
did the room.
four began working again at 5 p.m. and finished at 3 a.m.
ed Press International
oviets call S. count 'gross lie'
OW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross missile count and of pursuing aous policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a rumon on June 17. The US, the U.S., administration
teams 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 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 hale off nuclear weapons. S-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 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 their own warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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