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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)
University budget approved in House
Tuesday, April 9, 1985
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 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 right on the floor to restore the red 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-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
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
A whale of a talke lurks in the Kaw River from the old Bowersock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that linger in the murky depths.
"80-years and years ago I caught an "years-pound cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the River for 14 years. "You you bear to fight, sir, they give up."
In warm weather, fishermen gather by the dam across from Bowersock Mills and Power Co. Sixth and New York streets, in downtown Bakersfield, in trophy and perhaps a few minutes of fame.
counts kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this
an't another tale about the big one that
came from my childhood.
Snapshots of grining fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are backed on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, the cabin east from Lawrence Riverfront Park.
LAST YEAR, the biggest fish drowned in the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said Lori Mayer.
The lure of landing a big one drew lawrence residents Jim Russell and Dana Woodward.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big backs for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 35-inch catfish would be five pounds and 100 crunchy, lightly battered fishfishes.
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with sinkers and worms, gracefully sweeps the water and plunged into the deaths of the river.
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on a rock
10oor, 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
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LETTERS
Arts and Entertainment
The December issue on entertainment reflects the general lack of exposure given to books, films and music made by women. They have been a source of seek out and review the work of women.
FLORENCE FETTERER Norfolk, Va.
What planet is your movie reviewer Bill Barol from? His review of "2010" claims that Hal's farewell song was "Bicycle Built in the Moon" and that life in the universe knew it was "Daisy."
WILLIAM MOORE Boston, Mass.
√ It’s the same song. The title is “Daisy Bell”, the lyric goes：“Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer, do I’m half crazy! All for the love of you! It won’t be a stylish marriage/I can’t afford a carriage/ but you’ll look sweet on the seat/OA bicycle built for two.”
"Dune" is a reprehensible excuse for a movie, rife with gore, sadism and violence. Nothing is more repugnant than the notion that Dune is ultimately redemptive of or necessity to a pledge.
FRANCESCA J. SIDOTI Albany, N.Y.
Thank you for your article on Martin Short in comedy, everything is amazing.
DAVID NELSON Sacramento, Calif.
Violent Novels
Your publication of Lee Goldberg's article celebrating his success at writing violent novels was ill considered, and his "amusing" anecdote about the horror of a female student who read his "pivotal rape scene" was offensive. Rape is not funny.
LISA D. JACOBS Chapel Hill. N.C.
While Mr. Goldberg writes to a write
"a novel about relationships and feelings," a
woman is sexually assaulted every few
minutes. Is there really "plenty of time?"
ATHERINE W. OXNARD
Brown University
Providence, R.I.
Goldberg appears to be ill. What a sad commentary on education at UCLA.
Prof. JOSEPH M. STANDOFFER
Marquette University
Wilmington, WI
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NEWSWEEK ON CAMPUS/APRIL 1985
"I only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam," Jack Higgins said. "But they
"I didn't do 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."
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
kers spent 15 hours this weekend
eshmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
t took about two hours last night to
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
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.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker 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.
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.
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat." he said.
"Yeah, you know when you have a big one on your line." Russell said.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
"People just don't catch 'em, so they yrow." he said.
pered
Jim Russell. Lawrence resident, waits his hook in hope of catching something to fill the frying pan. He was fishing Easter day on the Kaw River dam across 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.
s but none of them unlocked the door
s or left him alone. His eye in
his work, and the man mea-
lay night the four men walked to all the m Daisy Hall and asked for newspapers.ry one they got a new newspapers,but they were not hawked to In the Box's Club paper drive.
'kind of had a system.' Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper eries would be crumpling them up asseming them in."
y started crumpling papers they had at t 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
h time they gathered a load of papers, thought that they had enough to finish the room. The project was completed 18 trips to the paper drop. Smart said asked the women to return the paper drop after they did the room.
y said they hit a dry spell where they it'd find easy papers. The only thing was to go to the source. Duffy and called the Boy's Club but no one Dry they drove to the paper drop at St. and filled their trunk with red apples.
four begin working again at 5 p.m.
y and finished at 3 a.m.
oviets call .S. count 'gross lie'
ited Press International
COW— The Soviet Union accused the in administration yesterday of “a gross its missile count and of pursuing a herous policy” by dismissing Soviet Mikhail Gorbachev’s call for an orion迫击要炮 (or an armored BUSH) administration.
wishes neither the arms reduction nor the renunciation of the arms buildup" sought in arms control talks, the official Tass news agency entered their fifth week in Geneva yesterday.
weeks earlier. 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 cruise missiles in western
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 the nuclear arms race. U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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