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The University Daily
KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 123 (USPS 650-840)
Ohio vendor hopes to sell food at games
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
Tuesday, April 2, 1985
An Ohio concession company and the Athletic Department hope to reach an agreement by the end of this week on concession sales in Memorial Stadium and Allen Field House starting July 1, an official for the company said last week.
Hugh O'Brien, director of corporate marketing for Gladieux to Toledo, Ohio, said he had met with Athletic Department officials but had not signed a contract.
or otherwise, a subsidiary of Marriott Corp.
provides concessions for the University of
Michigan, Ohio State University, University
Of Toledo, Florida A&M University and
Bowling Green State University.
The Kansas Union has provided concessions for about the past 25 years, said Jim Long, director of the Union. The contract between the Memorial Union Corporation and the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation expires June 30. The contract was extended for one year after the expiration date last spring
THE UNION EARNED about $258,500 from athletic concessions during the first half of fiscal year 1985. 4.3 percent less than it earned in the first half of fiscal 1984. Long said the income was down during the first half of fiscal 1986 because that player only five home football games lasted. The team played six home games in fall 1985.
volume Services, Kansas City, Mo., also submitted a bid for the concessions operation. Barry Freilicher, eastern area vice president, said that he knew the company's proposal was not being considered and that he thought Gladieux's was.
Volume Services provides concessions for Kenner Area in Kansas City, Mo.
Hope "Ours required the University to spend some money, and they didn't want to do that." Freiellier said.
LONNY ROSE, ASSISTANT athletic director and contract negotiator for the Athletic Department, yesterday said a contract was being drafted, but would not confirm whether Gladieux had been chosen as the new concessionaire.
the department earned about $39,000 from football concessions last season, even though the department's budget projected $50,000 income from the season. The budget estimated that concessions would generate $16,000 from basketball games and $500 from the Relays. Wachier said.
susan Wachter, athletic department business manager, yesterday said the Athletic Department expected to receive about $121,000 from concessions sold at home football and basketball games and at the Kansas Relays next school year. The department's projected income from concessions this school year was $66,500.
THE DEADLINE TO choose a new company passed lappy!
company please a book.
O Brien said he had met with University officials to present them with Gladieux's proposal.
O'Brien said employees to operate the concessions would be hired locally, but a person would be brought in to take responsibility for the operation.
Gladieux would become the new concessionaire July 1 and would provide service starting with the first football game, Sept. 14, O'Brien said.
Long said he had not heard which bid the department had chosen.
HE SAID THAT if the Union did not regain the contract, it could recoup the lost profits by improving other areas of vending or catering at campus events.
Long said that although the Union might not have the concession income next year, it also would not have the expense of labor or production.
The Union's proposal was based on the need to improve utilities available to the existing concession stands in the stadium and the field house, Long said. Gladieux's bid proposed extensive renovation of the concession stands and building some new stands.
O'Brien said the company also might buy portable concession stands.
The sale of souvenirs at games also has been part of the contract discussion.
Kansan taking job applications until April 15
The Kansan is accepting applications for the paid positions of editor and business manager for the summer session and the fall semester.
Applications are due by 5 p.m. April 15 in 209 Staffier-Fint Hall.
Application forms are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the organizations and activities office, 403 Kansas Union; and in 119 Staff-Fluent-Flint
Mirah, a four-day old foal, stands with her mother, Duchess, intersection of West 31st and Iowa streets. The horses van in a field at the Stable of Joy, about two miles west of the in- tured out yesterday to enjoy the return of warm weather.
GLSOK awareness week canceled
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
A week of speeches, films, and a dance to celebrate campus gay awareness will be canceled because the group sponsoring it failed to obtain Student Senate money last night to help finance the activities.
GALA Week, sponsored by Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, was planned for next week to promote awareness of the gay community, according to Ruth Lichtwardt, GLSOK director. But after GLSOK failed to receive $203 from the Senate Finance Committee last night, Lightwardt said the event would be canceled.
"We can't have it, we can't postpone it," Lichtwardt said after the committee meeting. "We've spent weeks planning. We thought we could come up with the money, and that's why we waited so long to request Senate funds."
A BILL REQUESTING money for GALA
Week was approved by the committee earlier in the evening, but later overturned by Tim Henderson, committee chairman, on a technicality.
The policy that overturned the approval says a committee can't act on bills that have the same effect as bills already submitted to the Senate's executive secretary.
Jeff Polack, student body vice president, said a bill identical to the GALA Week bill submitted last night to the Finance Committee by David Hardy, graduate student senator, had been submitted earlier in the afternoon to the Senate's executive secretary. Because a similar bill already had been submitted, Henderson declared the committee's approval of funds "null and void."
Lichtward said she had submitted the other GALA Week bill to the secretary. She said she didn't know submitting the bill to the committee or the committee from considering Hardy's bill.
BILLS USUALLY ARE submitted to the executive secretary, then to the vice
by the senate. Polack said he would not re-submit the GALA Week bill to the committee for consideration at tonight's meeting for several reasons. He said the Senate could not act on the bill this week because policy says senators must be given a bill five days before it can be considered.
He also said he didn't want to delay this week's Finance Committee's budget deliberations and didn't want the Senate to consider the bill at tonight's meeting because that meeting was called only to complete old business.
business.
THIS WAS THE first time GLSOK requested money for the annual GALA Week. Lichtwardt said GLOSK had expected to raise the money through dances, but the group didn't raise enough at its last dance.
Hardy said GALA week was GLSOK's biggest event of the year.
See FINANCE, p. 5, col. 1
Senate gives death penalty tentative OK
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Supporters of the death penalty defeated an amendment by State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, that would have replaced the death provision with mandatory life imprisonment for capital crimes.
TOPEKA - The Kansas Senate yesterday tentatively approved a bill to reinstate the death penalty for certain crimes although Gov John Carlin already has promised to veto it.
Winter's amendment failed 18-22, and some lawmakers said that might be the outcome of today's scheduled final vote.
"Our system is incapable of determining without a doubt that a person is guilty of a crime," Winter said in proposing his amendment. "We can never know that the death penalty won't be administered to someone who is innocent.
sometimes.
"IF WE WANT to get tough on crime, let's do it with certainty. Lock 'em up and throw away the key."
But a supporter of the death penalty, State Sen. Edward Reilly, R-Leavenworth, said imprisoning murderers for life would increase the risks to prison employees and those who lived near prisons.
"You create a human carnage on the employees who have to work in the state prisons," Reilly said. Reilly's district includes the state prison in Lansing and the federal prison in Leavenworth.
The bill, introduced in the House by State Rep. Clyde Graeber, R-Leavenworth, and co-sponsored by 45 other representatives, would provide for death by lethal injection for those convicted of premeditated murder, murder committed during aggravated kidnapping and murder committed during a rape or aggravated sodomy.
TWO TRAILS ARE required by the bill before the death penalty could be imposed the first for conviction for the crime and the second to determine whether the death penalty should be used.
The bill lists specific circumstances present at the time of the crime that could result in the imposition of the death penalty. It is also committed for hire could be punished by death.
could be punished by the court. It also lists, but does not limit, certain circumstances that would mitigate the use of the death penalty. A jury could weigh the defendant's age or the lack of any previous criminal activity in his or her favor.
CARTin already has said he would veto any death penalty bill that crossed his desk. He vetoed capital punishment bills in 1979, 1980 and 1981.
According to the bill, a death sentence would require the unanimous decision of the jurors in the second trial.
See DEATH, p. 5, col. 1
Duarte's party claims Salvadoran elections
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — President Jose Napoleon Duarte's Christian Democrats claimed a crushing upset victory yesterday over right-wing parties in legislative elections crucial to United States-backed reforms and peace talks.
Although no official returns from Sunday's balloting were expected until today, the Christian Democratic Party said its own
count of 60 percent of the votes showd it won majorities in 12 of the nation's 14 provinces.
"The people knew how to decide," he said. "We have won the elections."
None of the other eight parties fielding candidates for a new 60-member legislative assembly and 282 mayors publicly released statements saying it was premature to declare winners.
Duarte however, told reporters the unofficial vote tallies showed "a victory for the Democrat."
AN EXIT POLL by the Spanish International Network agreed with Duarte's figures, giving the moderate party an estimated 33 assembly seats against 25 for a coalition between the ultra-right Nationalist Republican Alliance, or ARENA, and the Nationalist Conciliation Party.
Commenting on Duarte's promise to resume stalled talks with leftist guerrillas
National Council on Education.
If the figures hold, they would signal a decisive and unexpected defeat for ARENA leader Roberto d'Aubuisson, who has relentlessly battled Duarte's efforts to reform the nation's agrarian and judicial systems.
who have been battling to topple the government for five years, d'Aubulsson said, "It will come to nothing."
Sunday's elections also are expected to cement U.S. support for the Salvadoran government.
A STATEMENT RELEASED by the official U.S. observer delegation to the elections praised the smoothness of the process in the face of a pre-election guerrilla sabotage campaign that kept thousands of voters away from the polls.
Diversity of students marks KU's history
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
Forty students from Douglas County and neighboring counties filed into Old North College, a small three-story stone building on the northeast corner of Mount Oread, and joined three faculty members and Chancellor Robert W. Oliver in morning devotions on Sept. 12, 1866.
And although none of those 40 students had a high school education, each was admitted to the school because he met the requirement of being 12 years old.
The University of Kansas was born During the next 119 years, the University grew from its humble beginnings as a preparatory school into the state's largest university. It now has nine professional schools in Lawrence, the College of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Kan., and an enrollment that ballooned last fall to a record high of more than 26,700 students on both campuses.
The University of Kansas was born
Through the years, KU has struggled to become a school with state and national appeal. Today, students from almost every region of the country progress from the University on Mount Oread
Special report OUR STUDENT BODY
KU has been shaped since its beginning by the Kansas Legislature, the board of trustees and the staff.
the students — who they are, where they come from and what they want from a college education — have molded the University into the school it is today.
The Legislature determines KU's budget, the Regents determine where the money is spent, and the administration and faculty govern the University and the knowledge it imparts. But it is the students who determine the complexion of KU.
Excellence attracts students
This semester about 23,200 graduate and undergraduate students came to the Lawrence campus. They came from locales as diverse as Manhattan, Kan., and Manhattan Island in New York.
During the past eight years, students have continued to pour into KU despite a nationwide trend toward lower enrollments at colleges and universities.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig says KU's ability to attract increasingly larger numbers of students indicates KU's appeal.
"The University of Kansas is unique," he says. "It is one of few major institutions that has not suffered significant enrollment drops in the past few years."
"It is a significant achievement to have a stable education in this day and age."
The quality of KU's academic programs is the main reason students are attracted to the University. Budig says.
The group includes members such as Harvard, Yale and Stanford universities, the University of Michigan and the University of California at Berkeley.
Canada In the 1984-85 New York Times Selective Guide to Colleges, KU was given the highest rating of four stars and ranked ninth
KU is one of only 24 public universities that belong to the Association of American Universities, a group of 50 public and private universities that selects members based on their prominence in graduate studies and research.
Statistics tell the story
academically among public universities in the United States. The guide describes KU as "a doctor-grantate institution — a cornbelt Berkeley — that in selected areas offers some of the finest programs in the nation."
Each semester, students file into Strong Hall and enroll in 'classes. And each semester, computers churn out reams of information gleaned from students' enrollment cards to give KU officials a profile of the student body.
the student body
Gary Thompson, director of student
records, says computers calculate enrollment statistics using six variables: sex,
major, class standing, courses taken, residency and number of credit hours taken.
"You have to look at what statistics are important to keep for historical purposes," Thompson says. "Each semester we have put together the report the same way."
Enrollment data serve a financial function as well. Financing for the University from the Kansas Legislature is determined in part by the number of students enrolled. As a public institution, the University must compete for funds with other state schools
"Private schools don't have the necessity for head count because they don't compete
See ENROLLMENT, p. 8, col. 6