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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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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
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 benefited the school district, designated 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 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 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."
floor, it's harder to get them reinstated in the conference committee."
For KU, the House approved about $80,000 from the state general fund, almost $3 million.
Carding near the University of Maryland: Many underage students can beat the system
LIFE/STYLE
Housing to move in
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
times in ways that are hard to spot. "Alcohol may be lying in the background." says Joseph Benfordo of the health service at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "Someone comes in with a sprained ankle. I ask them how they drape their ankle? Because they were running down a hill after having two six-packs. That's why." I inevitably, there are tragedies. Last October a Wisconsin student died from alcohol poisoning following a drinking spree. Last summer an American student who had been drinking fell to his death from a second-floor dorm room.
A new director of housing has been picked to succeed J.J. Wilson, who is retiring this year after 30 years in the position.
o one really knows how many college students are problem drinkers, but there are some estimates. Dart-
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
there are 'some estimates' Dutmouth's Stephen Nelson, for example, recited that nearly 8 percent of the students regularly drink to excess. A survey at the University of California, Santa Barbara, determined that in the three previous months, 68 percent of its students had experienced hangovers or vomiting from drinking. 46 percent had had trouble remembering events that occurred while they were drinking. 41 percent had driven under the influence and 18 percent had argued violently or damaged property while drunk. Southern Illinois psychiatrist Dr. Michael Crawford, a senior of his university's 70,000 students
Fish tales on banks o
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully sweeps toward the plunked into the deaths of the river
The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents 3jm Russell and
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 15-pound catfish would be worth about 400, crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are packed on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor offers east coast from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
Staff Reporter
LAST YEAR, THE biggest鱼 dangled in the bat shop.10 weighing 61 pounds, said Diana. "We had a lot of them."
Sounds kind of tasty, doesn't it? But this isn't another tale about the big one that I was talking about.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that linger in the murky depths.
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from the old Bowersock Mill.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "I 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 nearby parks, and the trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
sophomore Row Killian, "a close second. It's a social lubricant. Essentially, it loosens up a tense, nervous situation with people you don't know." Killian says he and his buddies will gather at their favorite hangout nearly every weekend to "drink a substantial amount of beer and then go home and sleep." After that why most students drink to have fun. Many campus traditions—from bull sessions in a local hangout to spring break in Florida—are built around the use of alcohol.
lead to violence, vandalism and academic disaster. "There'a lot of schoolwork to do here," says Dartmouth junior Mimi Coifsen. "You can't go to bed trashed, wake up at 6 p.m., or get into the clock." One Vassar student recognized her problem when she 'became really aware of my day starting at 9 - p.m.' Too much booze is bad for the student body, some-
students chug along to get along especially freshmen. For them, it' s not the same.
visible role of passage; an outdoor manifestation of new freedom and new responsibility. At assasar, fresh blood quelling ability at the campus pub. Matthew's Murd. "If they don't go to the Mug and drink, they feel out of it," says Vassar psychologist Catherine Comins. "It's the standard to which incoming freshmen compare themselves, and it's a real hard [hari] to break." Elizabeth Stillman, it took most of her first year at Tufts to learn how to cope. "In the beginning, there was a lot of pressure to party and drink. If you didn't, you got sort of typed as a 'stay in your room and do nothing' person. It seems to have relaxed now that it's second semester. I mean, if you want to stay on Saturday night and watch 'Love Boat,' it's not a crime. Some upperclassmen love adapet at this school, but some don't drink." says one UCLA senior, "people take it as an insult. So I pour myself a drink, but I water it down when no one is looking."
Most students use alcohol reasonably, but for some, too much isn't enough. Abuse can result from a need to escape stress, the inability to deal with pain, and the effects (box). Drunkenness, can
How to Spot a Serious Problem
Whether they call it "partying," "getting hammered" or "getting trashed," many college students regard excessive drinking as a relatively harmless escape. But for Judy B. (not her real name), a former student at a major Eastern college, the pressure to "party hearty" created a trap. Keg parties were standard almost every night," she recalls. "Most of us drank until we were drunk; being hung over was a big badge of alcoholism, and I was digging doubts, but I could always forget them with booze. Finally, five years after I left college, I woke up to the fact that I was drinking myself to death."
On today's campuses, Judy's story is hardly unique. At Dartmouth, for example, about 2 percent of the women and 4 percent of the men are "hard core" abusers, says Stephen Nelson, director of student activities. And, according to a *NINEWEST ON CAMPUS Poll*, nearly half of students drink problems. "Alcohol is the drug of choice in the 1980s," says Hugh Samborn, director of campus ministries at the University of Houston. In response, over 80 percent of all colleges and universities have started al-
comfort education and counseling programs,
but many are finding it difficult to get the
programs.
At the heart of the problem is the disparity between the myth and reality of drinking. Many who have weathered the stress of chemistry midterms or fraternity rushes know of alcohol's power to wash away anxiety. Most college students, however, "don't know the signs and symptoms of problem drinking—and what it can do to them," says Raymond Schwarz, founder of an alcohol-awareness program at Auburn. Even worse, they trot out a number of longstanding myths about alcohol abuse to deny that they may be hitting the bottle too hard. Amone the most common:
I'm too young to have a drinking problem.
Like death, as the saying goes, alcoholism is no respecter of persons. Alcoholics Anonymous has thousands of members under 21.
In addition to jeopardizing their college careers, campus alcoholics are also running their health; youth is no protection against the start of cirrhosis of the liver and other serious ailments that plague—and can eventually kill—heavy drinkers.
But I only drink beer. One 12-ounce beer
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1987
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.
"You really keep em when ill than two pounds," he said.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they throw " he said.
But many years ago, fishermen dowe into the water with large hooks lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"I didn't do it." 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
According to an old fishman'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.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 561 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.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, baits 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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started crumpling papers they had
at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
kind of had a system," Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper a others would be crumpling them up using them in."
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time they gathered a load of papers,
ought that they had enough to finish
the room. The project was completed
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pers to the paper drop after they
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our began working again at 5 p.m and finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call S.count 'gross lie'
ed Press International
OW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross tsis missile count and of pursuing a us policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call or an趴 on deploying missiles in Eastern Europe.
wishes 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 halt deal negotiations with Iran. SB-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 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 international nations began in lute 1983 as part of the 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 that he did not participate in other nuclear warheads. Tass also said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1