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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
KANSAN
Cloudy, warm High, 63. Low, 42. Details on page 3.
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 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 Repens 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
"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 nartisan 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-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 turtle lurks in the Kaw River access 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 Rio Grande to Kissimmee. "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 heart of downtown and trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
not another tale about the big one that
can be found in the book.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are locked on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, above, east from Lawrence Riverfront Park
The lure of landing a big one drew
awrence residents. Russell and
Marilyn were the river's river of
the day.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish dragged into the bait shop weighed 61 pounds, said Jury Huiusin, the shop's owner.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs Paul. For example, one 35-pound catfish would be worth $1,000 or 1,000, crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully climbed out of the water and plunged into the deaths of the river.
noir, 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 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
A New Prohibition
As the drinking age heads for 21, students—and colleges—wonder how to react.
E hold the landscape of student drinking, and how quickly it can change. At the University of Maryland, students were inflicted known as "la
Plata Beach," although it's nowhere near any body of water. Until three years ago "the beach" was the site of raucous beer blasts every spring weekend, and the ground was worn as hard and smooth as sanded walnut from the poundings of countless staggering feet. There is the deluxe banquet room run by the university's food service, with its oh-so-tasteful wallpaper and sparkling chandeliers. It used to have sticky tile floors and ersatz disco decor when it was called The Pub, and freshmen used to top off orientation lectures that with a few cold ones. In the basement of student union you'll see Sweet Shop, where you must last time you can buy is the rug in the Wall, and it looked just the way you'd think. Goodbye to all that, to the years when "party" really was an action verb in College Park. For in 1982 the State of Maryland raised its drinking age to 21, and the campus taps ran dry.
Soon the drought will be spreading, as more and more colleges and universities crack down on campus drinking. Spurred by the current federal campaign to make all states raise the drinking age to 21, schools have begun to close campus hangouts, ban public keggers and otherwise restrict the possession and use of alcohol. In response, some about-to-be-underage students have taken to the streets in protest; many have begun to take their liquor behind closed doors, and down deserted country. That's largely the way students used to drink before the liberated '70s—and not all of them, or the administrators either, are exactly delighted to get back to where they once belonged.
The new era of campus prohibition springs from the nationwide crusade against drunken driving. Drinking laws now vary widely from state to state (map), and students frequently drive across "blood borders" to carouse, sometimes becoming involved in accidents. That fact helped Mothers Against Drunk Driving and other lobbying groups to persuade Congress last year to pass a law that will penalize any state that doesn't raise its minimum drinking age to 21. Maverick states could forfeit millions
in federal highway funds, Texas, for example, stands to lose $33 million if it doesn't comply by Oct. 1, 1986, and an additional $66 million if it fails to act by Oct. 1, 1987. Some states may challenge the constitutionality of the law, but most are expected to go along sooner or later.
Federal transportation officials argue that this approach will save lives, and statistics do bear them out. Drivers in the 18-to-20 age group, for example, are twice as likely as the average motorist to be involved in an alcohol-related crash, and drunken-driving accidents are the leading cause of death in this age group. Critics of the new
The newly restrictive drinking climate has rinsed some students to put down their mugs and take up the cause. A year ago 1,500 students stormed an administration building at Notre Dame in response to a clamdown on dorm parties. Last fall students from all over Wisconsin staged a "drinkin'" on the capital steps in Madison. And in October an Illinois State march against city antidrunk ordinances turned ugly as 500 protesters blocked traffic, damaged police cars and staged an impropmtikeger for seven hours in the middle of U.S. Highway 51.
The battle comes at a time when drinking
law counter that its limits are arbitrary: drunken-driving accidents and fatalities involving people 22 to 24, for instance, are only slightly less common. Twenty-one may have been picked because, historically, it was the age of majority, but many rights and responsibilities, like voting, now begin much younger. A NEWSWEAK ON CAMPUS Poll indicates that students themselves are almost evenly split about whether there should be a national legal drinking age of 21. But many believe, like South Carolina sophomore Katherine Morgan, 19, that there's a coming double standard: "I could be married, have children, have had abortions, but I couldn't have a glass of wine at my own wedding. The message is, we're adult in one respect and childish in another."
NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
seems to be especially popular—or at least especially noticeable—on campus. There is some debate among alcohol researchers as a whether college drinking is measurably greater now than it was a decade ago. But with drug use declining, drinking is undeniably a more fashionable and open part of college life. According to the NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS Poll, 72 percent of all college students drink on occasion, more than a third at least once a week. As ever, beer remains the drink of choice—by a 2-1 margin over wine and alcohol. "The most visible, accessible and utilized drug on the college campus is alcohol," says Stephen Nelson, Dartmouth's director of student activities.
How important is booze to college life?
"It's next to sex," jokes South Carolina
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.
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.
"People just don't catch 'em, so they yowr." he said.
"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."
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Judy Hughes said. "But they were not allowed to go."
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.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bant 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.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line," Russell said.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, bails 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.
hers spent 15 hours this weekend
reshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
it took about two hours last night to
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
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he said, he tried his own key in
sk. It worked and the mission began
day night the four men walked to all the
m Daisy Hill and asked for newspapers,
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were told that the papers were saved to
to the Boy's Club paper drive.
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at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
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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time they gathered a load of papers, ought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed i trips to the paper drop. Smart said that to the women to return the papers to the paper drop after they i the room.
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 missile count and of pursuing a us policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a new war. It also items 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 organization entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
were 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.
Gorbachev said the moratorium would last until November and he urged the United States to stop simultaneous deployment of Pershing 2 and crusade 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 lead in another war, which he said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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