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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95. No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
University budget approved in House
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.
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
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 fight to restore 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 tight 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 defeated on the
Housing 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 Willow 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
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. "I remember when I was a lawyer 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 inner village, copy 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've been hearing all along.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, adjacent east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
LAST YEAR, the biggest fish dragged
from the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said
Stephen Schoenfeld.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Ms. Paul. For example, one 45-pound catfish would be 180 pounds, one 300 crunchy, lightly battered fishkiss.
The lure of landing a big one drew
lawrence residents Jim Russell and
Mary Gorman.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion His line, laden with sinks and worms, gracefully cut through the cool air and plunked into
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.
"I TWO D 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
LIFE/STYLE
Biking with brew in Ft. Lauderdale: Making friends, with alcohol serving as 'a social lubricant'
who has twice won appeals before the state licensing board. Says Rada: "I just don't believe education and alcohol mix."
fare as we can be on alcohol," says Dean of Students Leslie Lawson of UC, Santa Barbara. "Students like it the way it is should get back into the business of ethical or moral judgments about student behavior and administrators are concerned because alcohol is a big problem."
At other campuses, clear-cut regulations are in place, but violations go largely unheeded. Concedes one resident assistant in a Maryland high-rise dorm：“On weekends the beer flows all over this place. And it's a good bet that most people drink.” Many administrators say they would prefer not to have to regulate drinking. “We have been as lassez-
However reluctant, administrators cannot ignore their legal obligations. As South Carolina's Prutti put it, "University policy is just a reflection of the law. The college campus is not a sanctuary." Now that the law is changing, colleges are concerned about their civil liability where injuries or property destruction results from campus-related drinking. While several courts have ruled that schools don't have a custodial relationship with students—and therefore cannot be held liable for the actions of drunken students—the law in this area is quite unsettled. Last year a New Jersey court found hosts liable for certain subsequent action-
by their guests, and this concept could conceivably be extended to colleges. "Obviously, universities cannot be totally cavalier in this area," says Donald Klasic, general counsel of the University of Nevada. He points out that students rarely in the instance that something occurs on campus as the result of a campus-sponsored activity and with funding from student fees."
Alcohol is a very profitable business on campus. Each year college students buy alcohol to help them relax.
and brewers spend $15 million to $20 million promoting their products. Market research indicates that most people develop loyalty to a particular beer between the ages of 18 and 24, so brewers work hard to get their names in front of college students. Nearly all of the major companies employ students as marketing representatives. They offer student groups free beer and almost anything that can display a logo, from growable flatable beer bottles to calendars, to pour into big buckets to sponsor campus events; at Miami, Coors spent $1,500 for, among other things, an alumni tailgate party, while Miller bankrolled midcarts to the tune of $6,500.
Recently, however, colleges have begun to back away from alcohol tie-ies. The University of Vermont no longer allows promotional agreements with makers or distributors of alcohol. Loyola of
Chicago's school paper now refuses liquor and beer ads. These schools, and many others, want to avoid even the inference that they sanction drinking. Says Irving Maltzman, a UCLA psychology professor, "Battling alcohol abuse is an uphill battle when you have athletes by Bud, homecoming by Miller, Mardi Gras by Coors and on and on." For their part, brewers have, by and large, abandoned such time-honored promotions as the wet-T shirt contest for more public-spirited endeavors. Miller Beer has
Budweiser pit stop near 1-95 in Georgia: Playing safe
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underwritten alcohol-education literature. And Budwiser sponsors spring-break pit stops along major highway routes to Florida, where travelers can relax with coffee and doughnuts.
Alcohol-awareness courses have proliferated to the point that the majority of colleges now offer them. At Dartmouth, freshmen are taught on their very first night in Hanover about the dangers of uncontrolled drinking. For its award-winning program during last fall's Alcohol Awareness Week, Arizona State offered an alcohol-trivail game, a sobriety test, "mocktails" and a raft of educational literature.
Some researchers question the long-term benefits of such programs, but many campuses report that drinking restrictions have been broken-related accidents and vandalism are down at Maryland; campus Police Chief Eugene Sides points to a 13 percent drop
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
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 care off when they weigh more than two pounds." he 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.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they ewr." he said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat." he said.
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.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Higgins said. "But they thought it was a good idea."
"I didn't do it," itigg. 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."
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, boires his hook in love 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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at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
8 p.m.*
kind of had a system." Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper e others would be crumpling them up using them in."
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1 time they gathered a load of papers,ought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed 8 trips to the paper drop. Smart sat aside and the women to return the papers to the paper drop after they 1 the room.
four began working again at 5 p.m and finished at 3 a.m.
oviens call S. count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
TOW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its mission count and of pursuing a our policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call on Election Day, according to some arms companies that the U.S. administration
Garbache 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 Pacific.
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arm controls talk; the official Tass news report entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally he de-commissioned the S-20 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 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 threat of nuclear weapons. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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