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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 118 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, March 26, 1985
25 gather to protest ties to South Africa
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
About 25 protesters chanting "Black and white must unite!" picteted in front of Strong Hall yesterday to protest the Kansas University Endowment Association's investments in companies that do business in South Africa.
The demonstrators marched for about an hour and plan to picket again at 11:30 a.m. today and tomorrow. The protests are part of the broader movement against segregation in South Africa's system of racial segregation.
The protesters also plan to rally on campus before a forum on divestment, which begins at 3:30 p.m. Thursday in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union. The forum, conducted by state prosecutors, will include a committee, will allow groups and individuals five minutes each to speak about apartheid.
The protests are sponsored by Praxis, KU Democrats, Democratic Socialists of America and members of last semester's Student Senate Committee on South Africa.
PROTESTERS VESTERDAY said the demonstration's goal was to educate the public about apartheid and the Endowment Association's investments in companies that
Many companies, such as General Motors, PepsiCo and IBM, sell products in South America.
The Endowment Association is a private corporation that invests money from donors or other sources and uses the profits to help the University financially.
Bob Marvin, member of the Democratic Socialists of America, said of the protest, "it's like praying - you don't expect it to do any good. You just hope it will get the people
He said he hoped the protests would put pressure on the Endowment Association to move forward.
body vice president, said, "Ultimately, the Endowment Association can do what it wants. But if we keep people informed and if the pressure increases, then maybe all this would have an effect. And, it's a nice day to be outside."
Laird Okie, another member of the Democratic Socialists of America, said. "It's like pulling teeth trying to get the Endowment Association to acknowledge us. They've stonewalled dialogue."
Okie has been involved intermittently with the KU Committee on South Africa since it formed in 1978. He said activism against apartheid had increased as people became more aware of American economic support of South Africa's apartheid government.
"But you need to put pressure on all levels." he said.
DENNIS HIGHBERGER, former student
"The administration needs to get on the ball and follow up after this week's forum."
THE FORUM STEMS from a report issued in February by the University Senate Human Relations Committee on conditions in South Africa. The report recommends that the Endowment Association divest from companies that have business interests in South Africa if they fail to adhere to ethical business practices.
"People come up and ask why you're wearing a red ribbon. This is a gentle, constant reminder of the South African situation," she said.
Ewen Sherman, Lawrence resident, passed out red ribbons to symbolize "the solidarity of our brothers and sisters in South Africa."
Some students watching the protest weren't sure why the demonstrators were
Jeff Wilson, Garnett sophomore, said he thought most students don't understand the law of gravity. Mr. Smith
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"Students don't really know about all this. Now that I've heard the issue, I agree. But most students don't know what the protest is about."
David Baird, 1826 Indiana Street, protests the University of Kansas Endowment Association's investments in South Africa. About 25 protesters marched in front of Strong Hall yesterday demanding that the Endowment Association divest from South Africa.
KU's budget is endorsed, sent to House
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA - A trimmed budget package for Board of Regents schools, shaped two weeks ago by the Kansas Senate Ways and Means Committee, yesterday received strong endorsement from the full Senate.
After little discussion and no opposition, the Senate sent the $654 million Regents budget for fiscal year 1986 to the House of Representatives. The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
The budget included $170 million for the University of Kansas and $165 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center. This is $2 million less than the amount proposed for the University in January by Gov. John Kasich and $1 million less for the Med Center.
THE LARGEST CUTS came from a reduction in Carlin's proposed 6 percent raise for unclassified employees. The Senate endorsed a 5.5 percent increase.
Unclassified employees include University faculty and administrators.
But included in the reduced KU budget is $500,000 to provide a 1 percent increase in the state's contributions to the unclassified employees' retirement fund. The Senate had endorsed the increase but needed to approve legislation amended state law to permit the increase...
That bill changed the state law that required a 5 percent contribution by the state to the retirement fund. The law needed to be changed to allow a 6 percent contribution.
The companion bill, which passed the Senate 36-3, also contained an amendment to eliminate the two-year waiting period that unclassified employees now face before they can be covered by the retirement plan.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence,
See REGENTS. d. 5. col. 1
Battle rages over math collection
Staff Reporters
By KEVIN LEATHERS and HEATHER R. BIGGINS Staff Reporters
A war of letters has erupted between the math department and library officials as each group tries to sway administrators to store the University's stock of math books, periodicals and journals where it wants them.
Since February, when the University Senate Library Committee recommended placing part of the math collection in Snow Hall instead of the proposed science and technology library, math and library officials have sent administrators dozens of letters asking them to see the situation their way.
Most of the letters have been sent to Deanall Tacha, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor. Both will have a say in resolving the dispute, according to Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the math department.
THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE recommended Snow Hall as the place to store math journals and research books because the department eventually plans to move there
from Strong Hall. The science and technology library is scheduled to open in 1989.
The committee's recommendation has come under fire by library officials for being impractical and hasty. But math officials said they studied the situation for months before Himmelberg asked the committee to store storing part of the math collection in Snow.
When Himmelberg testified before the committee, he presented evidence showing that 27 of the 30 top universities in the country are part of the department and the library in the same building.
"I TALKED TO other administrators around the country and most of them very simply said that it wasn't practical from the department's standpoint to have the library elsewhere," Himmelberg said. "I think that information helped to make our presentation very convincing."
"We were really surprised. We thought the decision had already been made." Ranz said.
Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said the recommendation came as a surprise since the committee had suggested since 1976 that the math library, including the math library, consolidate
"But if they were going to make the decision, it shouldn't have been made overnight.
Ranz said library officials weren't given enough time to examine the recommendation and its consequences. He said it was almost as if the committee "didn't want to talk with
HE HAS ASKED the committee to delay its final recommendation on the math library to Tacha until he could consult with other officials. The committee rejected the request.
Himmelberg said math faculty considered their library to be as valuable to them as chemistry labs are to chemistry faculty. But math and science departments need to be close to the math department.
"We often need to run by the library and check some material before class or do some quick research," he said. "And our materials, unlike other department's, are generally of value only to mathematicians and people within the department."
A library's purpose is to have its materials equally available to everyone, Ranz said, and it is difficult to predict who will need the materials.
See LIBRARY, p. 5, col. 3
Panel passes compromise for financing of GLSOK
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
The recommended amount was offered as a compromise between members who didn't want GLSOK to receive any Senate money and members who said the group should receive funds for office and phone rental.
Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas would receive $256 next school year — less than half the money the group requested — under a first-round budget recommendation approved last night by the Student Senate Finance Committee.
Last year, the Finance Committee recommended that GLSOK receive no money from the Senate. But the full Senate voted to give the group $505.
Last night's recommendation passed 10-7, with one abstention. But the committee's rules say final budget recommendations must receive approval from two-thirds of the committee. The committee's final recommendations, expected to come later this week, go to the full Senate for approval.
GLOSK REQUESTED $728 to cover expenses for advertising and office and phone rental. The allocation approved last night would cover half of the group's projected rent and phone costs for the 1985-86 school year.
This week, the committee plans to decide how much money to allocate among the groups requesting funds for fiscal year 2016 which includes the 1985-86 school year.
The group can allocate up to $51,181,
which comes from the $24 student activity
fee students pay with their tuition each
semester.
Non-revenue code groups are small student groups that request funds from the Senate annually and generally promote a special interest.
Last night, the committee recom
See FINANCE, p. 5, col. 2
Price Wealth KANSAN
MANHATTAN — Sen, Robert Dole, R-Kan, speaks to about 1,600 students and faculty about federal financial help for farmers. Dole told the audience at Kansas State University yesterday that he voted against recent farm aid legislation because it would increase the federal budget deficit and wouldn't help farmers. He wore his sentiments on his head as he joined other farms in protesting Dole's appearance. "He doesn't give a damn about the farmers," Gates said.
Disappointed farmers protest Dole's speech
By NANCY HANEY
Staff Reporter
MANHATTAN — For Sale signs on farmland have become part of the scenery along Highway 24 between Manhattan and Lawrence in the last several years.
And farmers who traveled that strip of highway yesterday to hear Sen. Robert Dole, R-Kan, speak at Kansas State University said they weren't convinced that the Senate majority leader's proposals to prevent farmers from losing their land will work.
Dole spoke to a crowd of about 1,600 students and faculty members as part of the London Lecture Series, named after former president John F. Kennedy in the 1986 Republican presidential candidate
Dole said he realized that the recent drop in land prices had hurt farmers. But he said granting them more subsidies was not the answer.
About a dozen Kansas farmers protested outside McCain Auditorium, where Dole
"THE HARDWARE STORE owner has been hurt, too," Dole said, "and he doesn't get any subsidies."
Dole, the first Kansan holding public office to speak in the series, said farmers would be better off if the federal government reduces its $20.7 billion budget deficit instead of offering more loans and subsidies to struggling farmers.
qenewered his speech. The farmers held "Save the Family Farm" and "Dump Dole" signs. They said after the speech that they would be replaced when he is expected to run for re-election.
"He doesn't give a damn about the farmers," Loren Gates, a Delphos farmer, said after the speech.
Gates said farmers supported Dole for re-election in 1808 when he told farmers he would work to solve the economic problems then starting to eat into their profits.
"WHEN THE ELECTION was over, he
forest about us." Gates said.
Lowell Thornhan, a fifth-generation farmer from Concordia, said nobody wanted to buy land that had limited production capabilities. Farm product prices have decreased during the last three years, he added, now farm profits are almost nonexistent.
"There's more land, but nobody wants to buy," he said.
But Dole said the budget deficit was too large now, and an increase in loan opportunities for farmers only would hamper efforts to reduce it.
"Huge deficits drive up interest rates, making it difficult for people to borrow to run a business or buy a home," he said.
Dole said the huge deficit could be reduced by amending the Constitution to require
See DOLE, p. 5, col. 3