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Vol. 95, No. 127 (USPS 650-640)
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 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 Budget 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 right on the floor to restore the culps.
"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
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 be 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
Staff Reporter
A while of a tale turks in the Kaw River across from the old Rowsock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that linger in the murky depths.
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"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "We have you 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 middle of a sprawling trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
"Sounis kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that gets away — there's proof."
Snapshots of grimming fishermen proudly posing with their heavy catches are locked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second from Lawrence Riverfront Park
LAST YEAR, THE BIGGEST鱼 dangled into the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said Todd Sargent.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 35-pound catfish would be worth $100,000, 400 crunchy, lightly battered fishbets.
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents Jim Russell and Michael Hunt from the field.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinks and worms, gracefully swirled by the river and plunked into the depths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
100r, 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 TWOLED 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
tested poorly or skipped class at least once a month due to heavy drinking.
Still other schools are coping with a confusing patchwork of rules. At UCLA, students under 21 violate school rules, as well as the law, when they drink in their dorm rooms. Penalization, however, depends on whether their door is shut. "We have no authority to enforce what goes on behind closed doors," says Guy Sanders, assistant director of residential life at UCLA. "But, given the fact that people underage are breaking the law if they are
To try to curtail abuse and cope with changes laws, administrations have responded with varying severity. After two wild weekends at Southern Methodist last fall, officials first banned fraternity parties altogether, then reinstated the privilege with tight restrictions. Many schools, including the University of Miami, no longer allow open parties in their dorms. And at South Carolina, an all-pervasive new code of drinking regulations took effect in February. It forbids underage students to attend events where alcohol is available unless sponsors guarantee that no one underage will be served. It also bans anyone under 21 from having alcohol in the residence halls, although beer is still legal in the state for those 20 and over. No drinking is strictly must all public areas of campus are only must all drinking parties 10 or more people beeguarded, but a member of the host organization must attend a one-hour alcohol-education session. Demis Prutt, vice president and dean of student affairs at Carolina, concedes that "having the responsibility of an event on campus now is a lot of trouble. You have to limit service of the beverage, determine the age of those served, have food—there's a lot of liability."
drinking, if the door is open we would have to enforce that." Just as complex is the status of the UCLA student pub, the Cooperage—built five years ago but still waiting to serve its first drink. While the school forbids drinking in pubs and bars, students can access student food service to obtain a liquor license. The move has been thwarted by economics Prof. Edward Rada.
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contains as much alcohol as 1/2" ounces of whisky or 4 to 5 ounces of wine. Many people actually consume more alcohol when they quiff beer, experts say, because they drink more, sometimes on the ground that it's nutritious. Beer does have slight nutritional value, compared to other alcoholic beverages—along with controversial additives in some brands—but it's no food substitute.
■ But I only drink on weekends. "If when you drink, you always get drunk," warms Paula Roth of the National Council on Alcoholism. "it is possible to become a weekend alcoholic. What happens then is that the binges get closer and closer together." ■ I'll modify my drinking when I get out in the real world. It didn't work that way for Judy and may not for you. "The way college students drink set the tone for how they will drink for years to come." says Jarasser psychologist Michelle Layman, who don't currently have serious drinking problems may be developing bubbs that will later take a heavy toll."
My aside, how do you tell if you or your friends are in danger? One warning sign is increased dependence. "You begin to look forward to that first drink after classes," says Roth. "And then you begin to find ways to have a drunk earlier in the day. You start thinking that you need alcohol to function in certain situations." Soon, a student is tossing down a little hair of the dog each morning to erase the previous night's hanger—and is getting up later and later.
Other danger signals include losing friends, becoming defensive about drinking and getting injured. “Things really got out of hand when I got so drunk that I fell down and dislocated my shoulder,” recalls Joan (not her real name), a senior at Houston who is now a member of Alcoholies Anonymous. In addition, the body itself sends up red flags. “It’s dangerous if you find that your tolerance of alcohol is increasing, or you stop buying Sawyer Dr. Markku Lunniola of the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, “if a person begins to experience blackouts, acting in a manner which appears to be normal to others but having no recollection of it later.”
Recognizing these warning signs is relatively easy; seeking assistance is another matter entirely. At the University of Wisconsin, for instance, the housing office had to switch to asystem of "forced referrals" to counseling, because voluntary programs did not reach enough students. But at the University of Georgia Health Service "Students almost have to hit rock bottom before they recognize they need some help."
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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.
"People just don't catch 'em, 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 catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam, Judy Higgins said. "But they made it work."
"I didn't do it, it huggts," 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 back.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat." he said.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunken 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.
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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.
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oviets call S. count 'gross lie'
COW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross its missile count and of pursuing a policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a rebuke. The U.S. also points that the U.S. administration
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wishes neither the arms reduction nor the remacination 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 deal on the issue. US$20 missiles targeted on Western Europe.
Ourochaco said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of 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 the American effort to develop nuclear weapons, said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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