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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 113 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, March 19, 1985
Young says blacks, whites should unite
Andrew Young, mayor of Atlanta and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, speaks in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Young's speech last night was part of Alpha Week, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
By SHARON ROSSE
Staff Reporter
The political and economic progress of minorities depends on their ability to unite with the white majority. Andrew Young, mayor of Atlanta, said last night.
Young and Emmanuel Cleaver, Kansas City, Mo., city councilman, spoke in the Kansas Union Ballroom as part of Alpha Week, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and the Black Student Union.
Young, a former congressman and ambassador to the United Nations, said minorities could change political and economic systems in order to benefit both whites. In the end, everyone would benefit.
He said Atlanta's mass transit system that what he called "poweringshers" worked.
"I could rally blacks around our frustrations, but that doesn't change anything," he said. "Change doesn't happen until we get whites to understand our frustrations."
THE BLACK COMMUNITY in Atlanta wanted the system, but they also wanted a share of the benefits of developing the system, he said. The city guaranteed minority businesses 20 percent of the contracting and lowered the bus fare from 40 cents to 15 cents to make the system more affordable for the poor.
"Our formula pulled everyone together." Young said. "Minorities and the poor shared in the growth and development generated from the system."
National and international problems also could be solved in this way, he said. But the president and Congress must recognize the condition of the country's problems, Young said.
"We need to find a way to get our needs together," he said. "American industry is in a significant decline, and yet everything we make is needed abroad."
GOVERNMENT POLICY CAN generate economic growth for the United States and the world, Young said. But that will happen
only if the president and congressmen realize the need to develop from the bottom to the top.
"If you grow at the bottom, everybody
grows from the top, it probably will not triclove down."
"These would be investments that would contribute to life and development rather than to the burden of it."
He also said that Americans would do better to invest in African and world development bank bonds, rather than in South African companies.
Investments in South African countries are bad business because of the growing tensions there, he said. Whites make up only 5 percent of the population, but they control the government and economy. Young said the situation could not last because power was not shared.
CLEAVER, WHO INTRODUCED Young, urged students to participate politically.
"We have no more time to waste on political apathy." Cleaver said. "When the federal government cuts financial aid, you lose your job and your own interest. You can't avoid politics."
Young also challenged students, especially minority students, to participate in the political process
"The fact that we are here and are blessed with opportunity gives us an extra responsibility, not only as leaders to ourselves, but to the entire world." Younn said.
He compared universities to miniature worlds that allowed students to meet students of different races and cultures. He said he had learned more about foreign politics from the students he met during college from the courses he took or the books he read.
Racial, cultural and national differences affect various points of view of the same group.
The first step toward progress for minorities and whites is to realize that minority problems ultimately will affect the entire country, Young said.
"I was offered drugs in the third grade, but no one paid any attention because it was only blacks," he said. "Now it affects all levels of society. If we had paid attention then, we would not."
Unemployment was also ignored when
"If we had addressed the problem then, we would know how to cope with the nationwide unemployment we have now," he said.
many blacks were affected. Young said When most of the unemployed were blacks, politicians said blacks were just lazy.
Winter favors allowing liquor at fund-raisers
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
A local legislator said yesterday that he wanted an amendment passed in the Legislature that would allow liquor to be sold on campus, raising functions for the University of Kansas.
State Sen. Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, is favoring an amendment to a Senate liquor bill that would allow the Board of Regents to designate one non-classroom building on each Regents campus in which alcoholic beverages could be served.
All Regents schools would be included, except the Kansas Technical Institute in Saskatchewan.
Winter said the purpose of the amendment was to allow wine and mixed drinks to be served at the Spencer Museum of Art during receptions and fund-raising affairs.
"It's absolutely ludicrous that you can't have wine over there for a reception or performance," he said.
BEER CAN BE sold in the Kansas Union, because the Union is a private corporation.
Winter said he thought the amendment had enough support to pass in the Senate, but he wasn't sure whether it would pass in the House.
"The House is generally more conservative, so it's hard to tell what might happen."
The amendment is one of many to a bill that would raise the legal drinking age to 21.
The Senate today will begin debate on the bill, which the House passed in January. The Senate will convene at 2:30 p.m. A vote will be called on the bill before adjournment.
The bill was discussed in Senate committee meetings last week and was recommended to the full Senate on Thursday.
The amendments, added to the bill by the
Med Center projects $7 million surplus
See DRINKING, p. 5, col.1
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
One of the largest revenue sources for the University of Kansas Medical Center may surpass by $7 million the amount estimated by a Med Center administrator said recently.
Eugene Staples, the administrator, said the money, which will go to the hospital revenue fund, came mostly from patient and insurance payments. Last week, Staples told members of the Board of Regents at their monthly meeting about the revenue surplus.
The hospital revenue fund already contains $9.1 million left over from fiscal year 1984
The projected surplus in the fund represents an increase of more than 11 percent from the $61 million predicted by Med Center officials last May for fiscal year 1985.
The fiscal year for 1985 began July 1, 1984 and will end June 30, 1985.
THE ESTIMATED revenue for the fund should top the $68 million mark. Slaves, vice
chancellor of hospital administration for the Med Center, said.
Staples, who came to the Med Center on July 1, 1982, attributed the increase to improved billing systems, management systems and a revamped rate structure.
Under the new rate structure, he said, the hospital charges patients less for most operations than other Kansas City area hospitals.
Staples said he had made the hospital department heads more aware of the need to seek help.
The unexpected revenue will enable the Med Center to pay its direct expenses — salaries and employee benefits — for the first time since his arrival, Staples said.
Patient bills now are sent out on time, are checked for promptness of payment and are
D. KAY CLAWSON, executive vice chancellor for the Med Center, said yesterday that Staples had improved the Med Center's bill collection procedure, and his changes were responsible for most of the increased revenue.
followed up by an internal collection group, he said.
However, Clawson said that the Diagnostic Related Groups, a Medicare payment program, was responsible for some of the revenue increases. The DRG system pays hospitals for operations and tests on patients based on the national average cost for those procedures.
Clawson said the Med Center made money through the DRG system because operations and tests at the Med Center often cost less than the national average.
The only source of revenue comparable to the hospital revenue fund is legislative appropriations, which 'totaled $62 million in fiscal year 1855.
He said hospitals tried to reduce the number of days patients remained in the hospital to increase net revenue from DRG payments.
Even though the length of patients' hospital stays and the number of admissions at the Med Center have decreased over the past decade, there is a number of visits by outpatients has increased.
Lawrence man sentenced for rape and kidnapping
By KATHY FLANDERS Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A Lawrence man yesterday was sent
to prison for staging a spring's
kidnap and gird rate of U.S. arrests
Devin T. Galloway, 22, received a controlling sentence after he was convicted of one count of rape and one count of kidnapping, both Class B felonies:
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, yesterday said that the state had entered a motion under the habitual criminal act to increase the normal sentence for each crime to 30 years to life. The longer sentence is called a controlling sentence.
Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, yesterday said the state asked for an increase in the normal maximum sentence of 15 years to life for each crime
to 30 years to life because Galloway is a habitual criminal.
FLORY SAID THAT District Judge James Paddock accepted the state's motion, giving Galloway a sentence of 30 years are to be served concurrently.
At the time of the rape and kidnapping, Galloway was on probation from an earlier felony conviction of burglary and theft, Flory said. Galloway will finish the previous sentence before beginning to serve the new one.
After the sentencing, Paddock said that the soonest that Galloway would be eligible for parole would be after he had been found guilty. The second sentence for the kidnapping and rape.
Frank Diehl, Douglas County assistant district attorney, said that on March 23.
See SENTENCE, p. 5, col. 3
Carlin tells farmers he will work to lower interest rates
TOPEKA - Farmers and trade union members gather at the Capitol steps to protest low commodity prices and high interest rates. Yesterday's rally was sponsored by the Kansas Coalition of Farmers and Labor for Kansas Rural Crisis Day.
TOPEKA — Kansas plans to meet the American agriculture crisis by offering lower interest rates on farm loans, Gov. John Carlnold a farm rally yesterday.
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Carlin said that the Kansas Rural Crisis Day rally afforded an opportunity to focus on the problems of agriculture, but that farmers needed action to solve the crisis.
"This rally here today doesn't mean a damn thing if we don't get action." Carlin told the crowd of about 800 in front of the steps of the Statehouse in Topeka.
"The state of Kansas is not going to ask for help, we are going to provide help, not just with a resolution but with actual dollars to assist setting loans," he said.
THE STATE THEN would take a 3 percent reduction in the interest it received from the bank.
But Carlin was criticized by a speaker from the American Agriculture Movement, who said the solution to the problems of the land was a meritorium on farm foreclosures.
"I don't think Carlin and the Legislature understand our problems," Stephen Anderson, a farmer from Aima and a speaker for the Agriculture Movement, told the crowd at
"If they do, why don't they pull their heads from the quicksand of liquor by the drink and
The noon rally, organized by the Kansas Coalition of Farmers and Labor, brought together representatives of farm, organized labor and church groups.
"No other major industry has to go to Washington to beg and plead for some kind of policy every three or four years." Carlin said.
A bill similar to Carlin's, proposed by Senate President Robert Talkington, R-Iola, would allow banks to claim a tax credit for the 3 percent reduction in interest rates for farm loans. Both bills are in the Senate Ways and Means Committee.
IN ADDITION TO a plan for lower farm loan interest rates, Carlin said, farmers needed to urge the federal government to reduce the federal deficit and to come up with a farm policy that would assure stability.
tax increases and put a moratorium on farm
foreclosures?"
But some of the rally's speakers and many in the crowd said that lower interest rates will not be a problem.
VERNON SETZER, a farmer from St. George who wore an American Agriculture Movement cap, said that even if interest was growing, he thought the farm would still not be able to pay off their loans.
"We need a price." Setzer said, "but forget those damn loans. I'm not asking for charity. We're asking for a fair price for the wheat."
The crowd, which carried several signs saying "Veto Reagan" and "1 Agriculture Pest: Bob Dole," interrupted Anderson's speech several times with applause, particularly when he blasted President Reagan's
See FARM, p. 5, col. 1