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KANSAN
Sunny High, 50s. Low, 30s.
Details on page 3.
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 122 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, April 1, 1985
Steve Zuk/KANSAN
Members of the St. Louis Tunas and the Chicago Winds City ultimate frisbee teams, bundled up against temperatures in the mid-40s and 15 to 30 mph winds, compete in the final game of the fourth annual Fools Fest Ultimate Frisbee Tournament
on the practice fields southeast of Robinson Center. Chicago won the tournament yesterday by beating St. Louis 19-15. The tournament is played every year near April Fools' Day. Twenty-three teams from seven states participated.
Students bundle up against cold
By PEGGY HELSEL Staff Reporter
Only the pigeons remained unruffled yesterday, as cold winds and gray skies forced people on campus to bundle up once more in winter attire.
Earmuffs, scarves and mittens adorned those who only last week sported shorts and sandals. But those who were not fortunate to wear their outer clothes combated the cold in other ways.
"I have to wear three shirts at a time to keep warm," Gerald Mueller, Columbia freshman, said yesterday. "All my winter clothes are back home in Columbia."
Mueller buttoned up his thin jacket before unchaining his bicycle from in front of the Kansas Union.
"It makes it a lot more uncomfortable to ride a bicycle," he said.
Steve Kays, meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Topeka, said yesterday's weather had been colder than usual.
"WE'RE QUITE a bit below normal," he said.
Kays said the inclement weather had been caused by a low pressure system over Oklahoma, a cold air front from Canada, and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico, all meeting over Kansas. The result was cold temperatures, 15 to 30 mph winds out of the northeast and snow and rain over much of the northern plains.
He said the average temperature for this time of year was 59 degrees for the high and 36 degrees for the low. Yesterday, the mercury reached a high only in the mid-40s, the low was 34 degrees.
In Lawrence, one-half to one inch of snow fell Saturday night and early yesterday morning, with no accumulation.
Western Kansas received the brunt of the spring storm, with some places reporting up to 8 inches of snow. The Kansas Highway Patrol reported snow-packed roads in sections of north central Kansas.
Student shot as Salvadorans go to polls
By United Press International
SAN SALVADOR, EJ Salvador — As the threat of leftist rebel violence kept thousands of Salvadorans away from national elections polling places yesterday, a seminary student was killed by rebels who opened machine-gun fire on the car in which he was riding.
No other violence was reported yesterday by police or the U.S. delegation in PU
Savador observing the elections, and voter turnout in some areas was quite high. There was no voting, however, in at least 25 towns either depopulated or under guerrilla control.
Despite patrols by thousands of army troops on maximum alert, there was virtually no highway traffic on the fourth day of a rebel-declared national transportation
AT STAKE DURING the elections for a
new 60-member national legislative assembly and 262 mayors is the future of Duarie's liberal reform program, which has faced stiff opposition in the rightist-dominated assembly.
Voting results were not expected before Wednesday.
The Central Electoral Council said it expected 1.6 million people to vote for the nine
See SALVADOR, p. 5, col. 4
Panel hears requests to improve salaries
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Better salaries and benefits would attract qualified students and faculty to the University of Kansas. KU representatives told a Legislative panel Friday.
Students, faculty and classified employees met on campus with a House Ways and Means subcommittee to say what they wanted from the University's fiscal year 1986
The final version of the budget probably will not be decided until it reaches a House and Senate conference committee later this session.
The full House Ways and Means Committee received the Board of Regents budget last week, after it had been approved on March 25 by the Senate. The House committee has proposed cuts in the Senate version of the appropriations package.
The subcommittee consists of Chairman Sandy Duncan, R-Wichita, Rep. Bob Ott, R-Salina, and Rep. Jack Shriver, D-Akansas City.
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE proposed cutting the Senate's increase in salaries for students and unclassified employees from 5.5 percent to 5 percent. Unclassified employees include faculty and graduate teaching assistants.
Classified employees would receive a 6 percent increase in salaries, according to the House committee and Senate plan. Classified employees include secretaries and maintenance workers.
hance workers:
Representing the faculty were: Sidney Shapiro, professor of law and president of the KU chapter of the American Association of
University Professors; Arno Knapper, professor of business and chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee; and James Carothers, professor of English and president of the University Council.
REPRESENTING students were: William Easley, student body president; Sandra Binyon, president of the KU chapter of Associated Students of Kansas; and Roshann Parris, executive director of KU's Graduate Student Council.
Shapiro said KU was still a leading research institution, but was slipping.
"Most of the research involves graduate assistants, and it's hard to attract them when we don't offer a 100 percent fee waiver for them." he said.
Fee waivers reduce the tuition for graduate teaching assistants as part of their compensation for teaching.
Gov. John Carlin and the Senate have recommended increased fee waivers for graduate assistants from 60 to 75 percent. A recent study has found that pared with recommendation to 65 percent.
SHAPIPRO SAID that he didn't expect the Legislature to solve the problem overnight, but that increases in wavers could be made each year until they reached 100 percent.
"It's really hard to compete with other schools that offer a 100 percent fee waiver," he said.
Student representatives echoed faculty remarks about fee waivers.
The students asked that the assistants receive a 100 percent waiver to entice quality graduate students to teach.
Easley asked that the House committee consider giving a 5 percent increase in
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 1
Staff Reporter
Farrakhan's security costly, KU police say
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
Security for Louis Farrakhan's appearance Thursday night caused problems for the KU police department and could cost Kansas taxpayers thousands of dollars, the director of the department said Friday.
About 2,500 people were at Hoch Auditorium on Thursday night to hear Farakran, leader of the Nation of Islam movement, speak. At Farakran's request, no one was seated in the balcony in Hoch. About 1,000 people were turned away at the door.
"security for Farrakah's visit was an extremely difficult problem." Jim Denney, the director, said, "not because of the expected controversy, but because we were providing site security and not personal security.
"There are three parts to security personal, the site itself and crowd control"
DENNEY SAID site security and crowd control were dependent on how personal security was arranged. To provide proper site security and crowd control, he said, police needed to know where Farrakhan was going to be, how long he would be in one place and what he would do in each place.
But for Farrakhan's visit, they didn't have such information. Denney said. Police didn't even know how many security men Farrakhan had.
Useful despite ups and downs
"There were more than 10 and less than 70." Deney said. "We really didn't know how many. It was hard to tell because no information passed between us."
"Well over 150 man-hours were put into planning for his two-hour visit." Denney
Exemplary elevators recognized
See SECURITY, p. 5, col. 1
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
Many of KU's elevators shaft the notion that objects go up and come back down again.
"The elevators are a continued source of frustration, agony and high blood pressure," said Charles Warriner, professor of sociology, whose office is located on the top floor of Fraser Hall. "They go out of whence initially, without warning and at any time."
But despite the ups and downs, the elevators provide a valuable service for students and faculty. So in keeping with the
MONDAY MORNING
spirit of the Academy Awards, now is the time to recognize campus elevators for the heavy burdens they have borne through the years.
The envelope please.
It is no surprise that the best performance in a continuing supporting role was awarded to Sam Fish, who has kept busy maintaining and repairing the University of Kansas' elevators for the past 10 years.
"PEOPLE RIDE an elevator thousands of times," he said, "and the only time people stop to think about the elevator is when it's broken."
On some days, he said, he has checked as many as 15 elevators.
"I work really hard to accommodate people." Fish said. "I like to think I'm good at my job."
Facilities and operations also services campus elevators, said Ray Patterson, physical plant supervisor. The University's repair crew fixes minor problems, such as obstructions in the sliding door track and problems related to power failures.
Haworth Hall's elevators easily swept the category for the fastest on campus — other competitors were not even close. The elevators climb at a surprising rate, accelerating from the first to the eighth floor in 16 seconds.
FRAASER, WESCOE, Blake, Bailey, and Snow halls were tough contenders in the contest for the slowest elevator award. But after a few trial runs, Snow Hall's elevator rose above other competitors and claimed the prize.
"Blake's elevator is always broken down, and it's very slow," said Rick Feiok, a teaching assistant whose office is located on the fifth floor of Blake. "Unless you need to go up to the fifth or sixth floor, walking is a lot quicker."
At this point, a scuffle erupted among the panel of distinguished judges.
SUMMERFIELD'S elevator blushed a shade deeper than its usual watermelon red as it received the award for the most claustrophobic, and the Art and Design building's elevator was enormously pleased to win the award for the largest.
One of the surprises of the competition occurred when Bailey's elevator was presented the award for the fastest shutting doors. Its stainless steel doors snapped shut like a hunting trap and snatched its prize.
His testimony did not alter his colleagues' decision.
THE AWARD FOR best artistic design was given to the elevators in the stacks of Watson Library. They shakily accepted their award and, as they left the building, diving cages in a deep-sea adventure flick.
The excitement of the awards ceremony reached a fever pitch as Snow's elevator arrived toppled, exposing its cables, to accept award and final award for best suspense thriller.
The old freight elevator, which resembles something from the set of an Alfred
"I THINK PEOPLE who are around the elevator are not that scared," she said. "It just looks so awful, and so open. But I'd rather be trapped in this one because it is open."
However, Doris Belote, business manager of the department of biological sciences, said she was not concerned that the old elevator did not have a roof.
Hitchcock movie, does not have a roof, and it hums, clinks and shudders as it slinks from floor to floor.
its iron lattice door slams shut with the finality of a jail door.
Blake's elevator, which has a hole in its ceiling, also offers passengers a peep show.
"It's fun to look in holes and look up," he said. Alenna Hutchison junior. "It makes the game funny."
A hush tell over the audience as the nominee for best performance by an elevator were announced.
All shafts focused on the Boots' Adams Alumni Center's two plushy elevators, the favorites. The elevators are temperamental prima donnas — young, well-dressed and wealthy. But in a surprise decision, the dress was presented to the main elevator at Walton.
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Alumni Center's elevators, decorated with brass, glass, and fine wood paneling, were disqualified at the last minute because both were stalled on the first floor.
"They usually work fine," said the receptionist, Debi Drummet. "The right elevator is temperamental and works when it wants to."
The least uplifting performance by an elevator was awarded to Dyche Hall's elevator. The decrepit elevator could not rise to the occasion to receive the award.
"It's old and some of the parts are obsolete." Fish explained.
The freight elevator in Snow Hall may be old and slow, but students and teachers say it is still reliable. Doris Belote, business manager of the department of biological sciences, said yesterday that the rooftop elevator only looked frightening.