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Kansas City tops Toronto 2-1 as the 1985 season begins. See story on page 13.
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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 enhanced the curriculum 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 increased 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 hard 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
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
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 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
Staff Reporter
A whale of a tale lurks in the Kaw River across from, the old Rowsock Mill.
For years, fishermen have traded stories about monster-sized catfish that were caught by the sea.
"Years and years ago I caught an 80-inch cat," said Ernest Higgins, a Lawrence resident who grew up along the Mississippi River. "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 summer when trophy and permab is a few minutes of fame.
**ounces kind of fishy, doesn't it? But this**
**unn't another talk about the big one that**
**you've heard**
snapshots of grinning fishermen proudly posing with their hefty catches are tacked up on a wall of Higgins Bait Shop. Second floor, from east from Lawrence River front Park
LAST YEAR, THE biggest fish drowned in the bait shop weighing 61 pounds, said Michael Schoenberg.
LAWRENCE'S GIANT catfish could mean big bucks for Mrs. Paul. For example, one 85-pound catfish would be worth about $300, 300 crumely, lightly battered fishfats.
The lure of landing a big one drew
lawrence residents Russell and
rivers of riverland
Biggers, however, took a more relaxed approach to fishing. He lounged on rock
WITH PIN-POINT accuracy Russell cast with a side arm motion. His line, laden with siskins and worms, gracefully flicks over the water and plunged into the depths of the river.
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
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One of the most cherished of all student activities is under attack. Across the country, states are raising their legal drinking ages to 21 in response to a federal campaign against drunken driving, and colleges are enforcing tough alcohol regulations. Whether this will reduce student drinking, or just drive it underground, remains to be determined. Drinking problems among students. *Table 6*
The Look of the Campus. Then and Now
It may have Greek revival facades and Oxbridgeian quadrangles, but the architecture of the American university is as native as baseball. Based on egalitarian ideals and openness to the environment, the design of our universities reflects the history and nature of the institution. Page 22
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Older students attending college face a special set of problems—trying to study while raising a family, sometimes being shunned by their teachers and fellow students. But they are a particularly pragmatic and determined group. Page 32
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The Secretary of Education Comes On Strong
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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.
"only keep 'em when they weigh more than two pounds." he said.
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But many years ago, fisherman dove 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," 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 back off."
"People just don't catch 'em, so they grow," he said.
"Everyone assumed that he went under the dam." Judi Higgins said. "But they made it worse."
According to an old fisherman's tale, a man dove into the water and never came
"Anything that wiggles and moves, they'll eat," he said.
And when these fish bite, they really bite.
Harvey Hasler, manager of Lunker Bait and Tackle, 951 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.
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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 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 hessed back.
gers spent 15 hours this weekend
ishmen Melinda LaRue and Heidi
took about two hours last night to
pered
but none of them unlocked the door
once, he said, he tried his own key in
a lock.
ay night the four men walked to all the Daisy Hall and asked for newspapers. try one they got a few newspapers, but they were too busy to leave. he traveled to the Roy's Club paper room.
started crumpling pages they had
at 7 p.m. Saturday night and quit at
kind of had a system." Duffy said. person would be unfolding the paper others would be crumbling them up sing them in."
" said they hit a dry spell where they't find enough papers. The only thing was to go to the source. Duffy and called the Boy's Club but no one driver to drive to the paper drop al mount it, and filled their trunk with pens.
time they gathered a load of papers,
ought that they had enough to finish
the room. The project was completed
8 trips to the paper drop. Smart said
and asked the women to return the
paper drop the paper drop after they
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four began working again at 5 p.m.
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eium on deploying missiles in Europe seems that the U.S. administration
oviens call S.count 'gross lie'
COW — The Soviet Union accused the administration yesterday of "a gross itsm count and of pursuing a misdemeanor" in the case of Mikhail Gorbachev's call for a
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 S-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 Asia.
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 threat, according to a statement said U.S. officials failed to include British and French forces in their missile count.
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