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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
University budget approved in House
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
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 increase in taxes attributed by the board to John Carlin.
The House approved by a 101-21 vote the budget recommended by its Ways and Means Committee last week. The committee, which uses that approval 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 tighten 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 difficult to fight 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 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-Knoxville, 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 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 Erwin Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the river. "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 city's downtown. Digging a 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
I'll hear.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, from east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, the biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 11 pounds, said Michael Krause.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be worth $200,000 crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on rock
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Rachel Pitcher.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully sweeps the rock and plumped 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 request made. About 42%
MULTIPLE CHOICE
The local hero on parade with BC band: But could he make the team next year?
Flutie Passes the Bucks to Alma Mater
If Doug Flutie's star has been low to rise in the USFL, it's still shining brightly at his alma mater, Boston College. School officials estimate that Flutie's football exploits produced $3.7 million in television revenues. More stunning, BC's freshman applications, which usually reach off at about 12,500, have reached 16,200 (for 2,000 places) for the class of 1989. Authority gives Flutie much of the credit.
The number of visitors to the campus is averaging about 700 a week, and blue-chip athletes from high schools that never paid much heed to BC's recruiters are now lining up to sign letters of intent. "The exposure Doug and the other players have given us is undeniable," says admissions director Charles Nolan. "The declining number of
college-bound high-school seniors may be giving other colleges and universities reason to worry, but at BC we're more concerned about crowd control."
The Flutie phenomenon advertised Boston College in a way that the school could never have done commercially, according to Nolan: "It's been a storybook script that not even the most exciting of writers could have dreamed up." Things are so good, adds Jack Bicknell, the head football coach, that if Doug Flutie had applied to Boston College this year the story might well have had a different ending: "With four first-rate quarterbacks coming in to battle the four who are returning, Flutie probably would not have been offered a scholarship."
Become a Biz Wiz
If you want to land a prestigious management job but you haven't yet mastered the business buzzwords, you could be asking for some "dung letters" — rejection notices from companies that hire recent graduates for executive-training programs. To help you sprint on to that fast track, however, there's a glossary of managerial lingo, plus lots of insightful advice, in two new guidebooks: “Inside Management Traits” (383 pages, Plume. $8.99) Marian L. Salzman with Sullivan, and “Money Ignore” (256 pages, Crown Publishers. $7.95) by Marti Praskhar and S’Peter Valuas. “I’m still convinced I lost one prime job because I didn’t know what an M&A [merger and acquisition] was,” says author Praskhar, who did eventually learn enough to get into a program at Bank of America, where she's now a corporate finance officer.
Both guides offer detailed directories, as well as salary ranges and helpful interview tips. "Money Jobs!” concentrates on banks, brokerage houses and other financial firms, "Inside Management Training" covers a variety of industries. The authors note
Work Them Harder
Yet another blue-ribbon panel has examined how colleges prepare schoolteachers—and graded them poorly. Calling recent criticism of teacher education "valid," the National Commission for Excellence in Teacher Education recommended, among other things, that colleges toughen admissions standards and strengthen curriculum requirements for those studying to be teachers. "We are calling for teacher-education programs to be made harder," said C. Peter
Fair Trade With Japan
When Allen Miner went to Japan in 1983, he covered ground most tourists never see. At one point the Brigham Young senior was required to assume the lotus position for meditation in a Buddhist temple outside Kyoto, his ears ringing with mosquitoes, while a priest scolded him for every twitch. That introduction to Zen was only par for the course of the Japan-America Student Conference, an international exchange program founded 51 years ago to摩动 peace through discussion and debate during summer sessions (which were suspended during World War II) alternate between the two universities, bringing 80 or so students to meet with government officials and businessmen as well as their peers. "Arguments about trade and women are got pretty hot," recalls Miner. The conferences are funded by private and corporate sponsors and organized by a student committee headquartered in Washington. D.C. Former participants say the program not only looks good on a resume and starts lasting friendships but can also lead to jobs in Japan.
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International students in Washington: Peace through discussion and debate
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 keep crying when they wight more than two rounds." he said.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
"People just don't catch 'em, so they yrow." he said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
"I didn't do it," heigg 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."
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.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 961 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.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they
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.
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Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, bears 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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TOW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross missile count and of pursuing a权益 policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a turn on sanctions, but that the administration
vietcs call S. count 'gross lie'
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wishes neither the arms reduction or the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arm control talks, the official Tass news agency claimed it 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 down on Iran. US-S2-05 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 l98 as 138 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 called for sanctions 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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