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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
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 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 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 difficult to fight on the floor to restore theUtah law.
"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-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 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 deaths.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the banks of the Kaw. "When they that big you have to fight" emil '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 waterfront trophy, and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
Sounds kind of fishy, doesnt it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that I am talking about.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged to the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said Chris Ware.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully twirled around the air and plunged into the depths of the river.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be heavier than a 100 crunchy, lightly battered fishbite.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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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 state general fund, almost $4 million less than Corlea
in the number of reported crimes in the first year after the school banned all public drinking parties.
Rada in UCLA's dry pub: 'Education and alcohol don't mix'
There are many examples of voluntary action as well. The National Interfraternity Conference says that more than 150 campuses now have "dry" rush—and indications are that Greeks are making a sincere effort to change their "Animal House" image. At Purdue, fraternalities instituted a Designated Driver Program last November. Local bars offer free soft drinks to any student who acts as a chauffeur for a group of three or more drinking buds. Similarly, during Alcohol Awareness Week in October, the University of Kentucky has an a "Tipsy Tax" to roommates wobbly collegians in Burlington, Maryland, public safety and entermental spirit have melded in the senior economic major David Ruttenberg. He's selling busrides from College Park—with its 21 limit—to the District of Columbia, where 18-year-olds can buy beer. "Drinking and driving are a bad combination," says Ruttenberg, "but there's nothing wrong with a good time."
ome experts believe that the new conscientiousness runs deeper than these publicized efforts. "We have seen a tremendous change taking place in students toward alcohol, Gonzalez, president of BACCHUS (Boost Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of Florida University Students), a University of Florida-based organization devoted to college alcohol education. "Students are less accepting of drunkenness and much more willing to get involved and talk to a friend who may have a drinking problem." BACCHUS boasts 200 campus chapters in 46 states. A lot of students say they even welcome the new strictness, because it helps them drink moderately. Says SMU junior
Ronny Ortiz, "The
thing was to go to the
fraternity parties, get
totally wasted and have
a good time. I think it's
better now."
At Dartmouth, long celebrated for its bibulous winter carnival, students may even have created the campus park of the future. It's Saturday night at Eleazar's Dungeon, and the folk singer has taken a break. Before she leaves the stage, she encourages the crowd of 150 to 'order drinks and a good time, and so they do the strawberry daiquirs have no rum, and the cans that litter the table tops hold soda in. Between sips of the
strawberry concoction, Paul Hochman, a 21-year-old junior, says, "Beer is not the central part of my life. If I want to be with some blithering idiots, I can find them. But I不想 that. I like coming here and
knowing no one is going to spill beer on me. "Look," he says, pointing around, "it's Saturday night and people are having a good time. It doesn't require booze."
But if Eleazor's points to the future, a recent Friday-night dunk party at Wisconsin may more accurately typify the present. The 35 people who have crowded into a small lounge in Witthe Hall to thundering funk music couldn't care less about alcohol policy. They're busy and, besides, the rules probably won't affect them too much. Take Dan ("Please, call me Mr. Rock and Roll"), who's decked out in his best sunglasses. In between frosty sips of beer from the unsupervised keg in the corner, Dan admits, "Sure, I'm not old enough to drink."
The straight truth is that no legislation will prevent students from drinking when and what they want—not when they can buy fake ID's, slip into bars with lackadaisical carding procedures or persuade older students to buy. "My friends and I can get the alcohol, and nobody is going to stop us," says Arizona State freshman Vickie Chachere. Schools knowledge the futility of enforcement. Patricia Harvey, assistant director of resident life at
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS POLL: TOO MUCH DRINKING?
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS
Most college students drink alcohol. But over they aren't sure that's a good idea; 8 out of 10 think it is. Sixty percent require alcohol-acid therapy on campus.
But a survey by Seward County Senior High School found that
most college students drink at least once a week. **BBC** students drink too much. What is to do? Severity percent endorse required alcohol-education programs on campus.
Yes 72%
No 28%
About how often would you say you drink alcoholic beverages? (Asked of those who drink.)
At least two or three times a week
About once a week
About once a week
About two or three times a month
About two or three times a month
About once a month
No more than once every two or three months 10%
What kind of alcoholic drink do you usually drink, ice or wine? (Asked of those who drink).
How often, if ever, have you driven when you had drunk work?
All Students Males Females
Beer 68% 84% 48%
Wine 33% 22% 47%
Liquor 34% 29% 40%
never 59% Once 10%
A few times 23% Many times 7%
At what age do you think a person should be allowed to buy hewse (or liquor) legally?
Do you favor or oppose a national law that would raise the legal drinking age in all states to 21?
Do you think raising the legal age to 21 is an effective way to cut down significantly on drunk driving?
Beer/Wine
No 55%
Oppose 45%
Beer/Wine
Liquor
Atage 16
19% 20%
Atage 19
16% 8%
Atage 20
7% 6%
Atage 21
36% 6%
Yes 56%
No 34%
Do you think that college students, generally, drink too
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Do any of your friends have a drinking problem?
Yes 24%
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Occasionally Seldom Never
No 76%
22%
24%
50%
How often, if ever, does drinking interfere with the academic work of your friends—occasionally,seldom
Would you, personally, prefer to ban the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages on your campus?
All Students Drinkers Nondrinkers
Yes 20% 13% 35%
No 54% 66% 27%
25% of students reported that alcoholic beverages are not now allowed on their campuses
Yes 45% No 55%
The Newarker On Campus Poll. The Rake, Organizations conducted 506 personal interviews with full-time college students on 100 campus rationale during the period Sept. 4 to Oct. 21, 1984. The number of rationales per minute is 50 points. Percentages that add up to 100 indicate 'don't know' rationales are estimated and may add to more than 100 when multiple responses are permitted. (The Newarker On Campus Poll. © 1985 by John M. Rubin.)
Would you approve of alcohol-education programs on your campus, with attendance required at least once?
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.
No 29%
keep on when they weigh more than two pounds" he said.
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
"People just don't catch 'em, so they eyewr." 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 could not have done it."
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, 951. E.I. 23rd St., said the catfish were large like they were old and could find plenty of food in the Kaw to eat, such as small fish, frogs, crawdads and snakes.
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.
Rice Wardill/KANSAN
Jim Russell, Lawrence resident, balts 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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oviets call S. count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
OW - The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross itsmile count and of pursuing a 'ous policy' by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev adjudicated Europe's empties 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 entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally halt deployment of Soviet triple-warhead SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Umbacherie said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Stopping 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 call for withdrawal 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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