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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 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 approved the budget last month and approved last year 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 Budgets budget decided to wait for the conference committee and not tight to restore some of the lost money on the House
State Rep. Jesse Branson, D-Lawrence, said opposition to the Senate's budget by the Republican majority in the House made it right 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
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 WORKALL p
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Staff Recorder
A whale of a tale larks in the Kaw River across from the Olowoo Diversion 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, and erased Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the banks of the Kaw. Why did they give up?"
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersville Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in the midst of a thriving trophy and perhaps a few minutes of lame
sounds kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
not another tale about the big one that
looks like a fish.
Snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their heavy catches are tacked up on a wall of Hugues Bait Shop. Second floor is accessed via a road from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big backs for Mrs. Paul. For example one to pound catfish would be a bit much in 10 cranies. Lightly fattened but flickerless.
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish drowned at the last shop weighted 16 pounds, said Chris Bates.
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The lure of landing a big one drew Lawrence residents Jim Russell and Danny Rooney to the river on Easter.
WITH PINPOINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line ladder with sinkers and warms, gracefully swirled by the water and plumped into the depths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
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.
"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
A New Prohibition
As the drinking age heads for 21, students—and colleges—wonder how to react
B enhold the landscape of student drinking, and how quickly it can change. At the University of Maryland there is a quiet, grassy lawn affectionately 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 floor tiles and ersatz decor decor when it was called The Pub. The pub then used to top off offices in lecture there with half an union you'll find Dory's Sweet Shop, where the booorest thing you can buy is the rum cake. Once this was a bar called The Hole in the Wall, and it looked just the year 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 more have begun to take their clothes down after being deserted country hikes. 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.
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 constitution in court and are expected to go along sooner or later.
Federal transportation officials argue that this approach will save lives, and statistics do beat 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 roweed 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 clampdown on dorm parties. Last tall students from all over Wisconsin staged a "drinkin'" on the capital steps in Madison. And in October an Illinois State march against city antirrisk ordinances turned ugly as 500 protesters blocked traffic, damaged police cars and staged an impromptu keeper for seven hours in the middle of U.S. Highway 51.
The battle comes at a time when drinking
The new era of campus prohibition springs from the nationwide cruse 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 train its minimum drinking age that 20. Mayqueen states could forfeit millions
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 NEWSWEEK 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 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 to 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
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 books lashed to their wrists to try to snare the big catfish, also known flatheads, he said.
"People just don't catch em, so they erase." he said.
"I didn't do it," Hoggs 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 dum," Judy Hutney said. "But they weren't going to let him."
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.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lanker Bait and Tackle, 96) 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, boats 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'
OW. The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross misuse count and of pursuing an auspise policy" by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a new constitution, in terms of the U.S. administration
ed Press International
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the reminiscence of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency reported on her fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
Gorbachev announced Sunday that he had accepted President Reagan's call for a summit and would unilaterally half defend Europe. He also sent 85,200 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 Ukraine.
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 armed at western Europe. Tass said yesterday that U.S. officials used state forces to defend Russia or to reject Gurchebus's proposal and accused them of ignoring the American lead 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