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Vol. 95, No. 110 (USPS 650-640)
Senate approves $4 activity fee increase
Thursday, March 7, 1985
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
The Student Senate last night approved a $4 increase in the student activity fee, a 17 percent increase over this year's fee.
The bill calls for an increase in the fee from $24 to $28 a student in fiscal year 1986, which includes fall semester 1985. The bill also allots money to 20 revenue code groups.
The Finance Committee had recommended a $1 increase, but some senators felt that that amount was not enough to meet the needs of some revenue code groups.
Mark Sump, holdover nurse, proposed the $4 increase so that KU on Wheels, Legal Services for Students and Robinson Gymnasium could receive additional funds.
siml code could be increased. The increase also will add about $20,000 to the Student Organization fund, which helps finance non-revenue code groups.
REVENUE CODE GROUPS are student groups that affect a large number of students. They request funds from the Senate every two years but receive money and resources for the rest. David
Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, and the Board of Regents.
The bill requires the approval of David
Sump, also a Transportation Board member, said the additional $58,200 allotted to KU on Wheels would help keep the new West Campus route running.
"We'll be able to maintain this route with minimal increases in bus pass prices," he said.
Robinson Gymnasium was allotted an additional $25,200.
Allan Hines, Robinson Gymnasium spokesman, said this would help meet the costs of building a restroom and shower facility at Shen克康, 23rd and Iowa streets.
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Cynthia Woolk, director of Legal Services for Students, said its additional $17,000 would mean the service could avoid cutting its staff
- Legal Services for Students — $120,500.
The group requested $123,385 for fiscal 1986 and had received $87,912 in fiscal 1985.
- mean the service approval Senate approved the following allocations
- Transportation Board — $302,730. The group requested $366,975 for fiscal 1986 and received $244,530 for fiscal 1985.
- Robinson Gymnasium — $74,528. In 1985,
the group received $54,945. For fiscal 1986, it had requested $55,453.
- Associated Students of Kansas – $24,436.
In fiscal 1985, ASK received $16,484. ASK requested $25,585 for fiscal 1986.
- KJHK-FM — $27,875. The radio station received $20,879 in fiscal 1985 and had requested $41,990 for fiscal 1986.
- Chamber Music 741.39, the amount requested
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- University Theatre — $49,311. The group requested this amount for fiscal 1986 and had received $46,520 in fiscal 1985.
- University Daily Kansan — $109,890, the amount requested for fiscal 1986 and the amount received in fiscal 1985.
- Recreation Services — $93,273. For fiscal 1986, the group requested $144,478. It received $84,249 in fiscal 1985.
- KU Bands — $34,351. In fiscal 1985, KU Bands received $32,601. The group had requested $48,500 for fiscal 1986.
- Hilltop Child Development Center — $4,522, the amount requested for fiscal 1986. Hilltop received $3,015 in fiscal 1985.
- Headquarters = $14,000. The request for fiscal 1986 was $15,074. The group received $12,962 in fiscal 1985.
- Rape Victim Support Services — $1,345,
the amount requested for fiscal 1986. The
group received $1,150 in fiscal 1985.
- group received $4,521.
* University Dance Company — $4,521.
The group requested $12,590 for fiscal 1986. It received $3,469 for fiscal 1985.
- Graduate Student Council — $37,603. In fiscal 1985, the council received $28,571. The request for fiscal 1986 was $46,498.
- Student Bar Association — $4,400, the amount requested for fiscal 1986. In fiscal 1985, the group received $4,369.
- Consumer Affairs — $14,000. For fiscal 1986, the request was $16,017.
Reagan kills farm aid bill at ceremony
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan vowed a farm debt relief bill yesterday, dismissing the measure as a "massive new bailout" inspired by partisan politics.
In a statement delivered before a throng of reporters and photographers in the Oval Office, Reagan said hard-pressed farmers "deserve our sympathy and our support" but insisted that sufficient action had been taken to ease the credit crunch in the Farm Belt.
teegan, defending warnings that full-scale partisan war lies ahead in the battle over farm aid, delivered the first veto of his own to the military, which offered for national television broadcast.
Reagan contended that the measure would not help farmers and by running contrary to his plans to slash back government spending, would run up the budget deficit.
THE SUGGESTED POLITICAL motives were behind its passage and said he objected to the measure being attached to a $175 million African famine relief bill.
"I certainly don't think that tying this to a bill on food aid to the starving people in Africa was the way to go," he said. Senate Republican leader Robert Dole of Kansas has said the Senate was prepared to take up the famine measure separately and quickly.
Earlier yesterday, Democracts held a mock signing ceremony for the bill on Capitol Hill and vowed Reagan's refusal to support aid to farmers. Farmers could lead to aid and peace partisan war.
Reagan, reading his typewritten statement from note-sized stationery, said, "Just as your families don't have a blank check for whatever your needs may be, neither can government — and that means taxpayers — bail out every farmer hopelessly in debt or every bank that made imprudent or speculative loans."
THE PRESIDENT WAS at ease as he announced his intention to veto the bill, then signed the document and made his speech at his Oval Office desk. A dozen television camera operators and another dozen sound engineers, as well as 10 photographers and five reporters watched.
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Senate passes fees for visit by Farrakhan
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
Student Senate funds to bring Louis Farrakhan, who has called Judaism a "dirty religion," to campus on March 28 were approved by the Senate last night after Jewish and black students jointly endorsed freedom of speech and educational opportunities.
The Senate also voted to add $800 to the original $4,500 request to provide security for Farrakhan.
Students should hear Farrakhan speak. Hamsa said, because they would have to deal with people having ideas similar to his in the future.
Laraue George, Black PanHellenic senator and sponsor of the bill, said that such a move would have effectively killed the bill.
his in the future.
Both said there was no animosity. To preserve the good relationship, Hams said, Black Student Union considered withdrawing its support of the bill to finance Farrakhan's speech.
"We were prepared several minutes ago to withdraw the amendment to bring Farrakhan to campus," Hams told the Senate.
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But members of Hillel, a campus Jewish organization, persuaded the group not to do that, he said.
Geller said Hillel members did not oppose the attempt to bring Farrakhan to campus; they just objected to his racist and anti-Semitic comments.
HAMS SAID THAT he would attend Farrakhan's speech but that he would protest Farrakhan's views before and after the event.
The Senate vote 39-11 with one abstention to allocate $5,300 to Black Student Union for its Black Student Union Lecture Series. The series is in conjunction with Alpha Week, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
The bill allocates $90 to partially cover speeches by Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Emanuel Cleaver, Kansas City, Mo., city councilman, on March 18, and $3,600 for the Farkrankhan appearance and $800 for security.
After Geller and Hams addressed the
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Former student poses as official KU delegate
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
A former KU student last week unofficially represented the University of Kansas at a national student conference without the knowledge of the Student Senate, according to KU officials and the conference coordinator.
Edmonds now works as a lobbyist for the Tavern League of Kansas.
Chris Edmonds, former KU campus director of the Associated Students of Kansas, identified himself as the KU representative at the conference last week at the University of Colorado in Boulder, the coordinator said earlier this week.
earlier this week that at the conference Edmonds was elected vice president of American Association of University Students, the group that sponsored the conference. Edmonds last year was the regional chairman for AAUS.
THE ADMISSIONS OFFICE said Edmonds was not enrolled at KU this semester. Edmonds could not be reached for
Tavern League of Kaisas.
Cavf Flinginger, the coordinator, said
William Easley, student body president,
said he knew of the conference but he didn't
send anyone to represent KU. The student
body president or vice president usually
attends such conferences or appoints a
representative to attend.
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"When I spoke with KU, they told me they weren't sending any delegates," Filfinger said.
According to Filfinger, Edmonds said Chancellor Gene A. Budig approved him as a representative of KU.
BUDIG SAID, "THERE is obvious confusion. I have authorized no student to attend any meeting."
ary meeting.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he did not authorize any student to represent KU at the conference.
to represent the client. Filinger said Edmonds didn't pay the $200 entry fee to the conference. He said Edmonds requested that the fee be billed to him.
Easley said, "We're not pleased about this, and if AAUS wants us to remain a member, they had better reconsider his appointment as vice president."
Filinger said that if Easley sent a letter saving Edmonds had no official capacity at
the conference, he would be removed from his AADS office.
Easley said yesterday that he planned to send a letter soon.
EDMONDS ATTENDED TWO AAUS conferences last summer when he was campus director of ASK and had requested Senate money for the trips.
The request for money was approved by four administrative offices and the Board of Regents before the former Senate officers realized in August that allocating travel funds was against the Senate rules and regulations.
The Endowment Association finally paid for the trips.
Edmonds resigned as KU director of ASK late in August.
Steroid risks may tarnish golden athletic triumphs
By SARAH J. NETTELS
Staff Reporter
Doug Knop, former KU shot-putter, knew what he had to do to win during the 1969 indoor track season.
Clint Johnson, current KU discus thrower and shot-putter, has faced the same quandary. But he said he had chosen not to use the performance-enhancing drugs.
to 59 feet.
"If you didn't take them, you didn't compete," he said. "That's all there was to it."
He decided to takeabale 50 pounds.
He gained 30 pounds in one month. He increased his distance in the shot put from 52 to 59 feet.
"I made the decision that it was important to me," Knop said last month.
performance enhancement.
Johnson was the No. 1 high school discus thrower nationally, but his best collegiate effort of 192 feet is far from the national collegiate record of 217 feet. He now is beaten by competitors he used to beat in high school — competitors he said he thought now used steroids.
"They want to be the best they can, and that's one way they can," Johnson said.
that's one way they try to
But athletes who use the drugs to attain
their dreams may be risking their health and
even their lives. In February, a leading
Chicago sports physician linked the deaths of six athletes last year to steroids, synthetic derivatives of the male hormone testosterone.
Steroids stimulate the buildup of protein for muscle and tissue repair. Athletes use them along with weight training to increase their strength and size. The drugs, which can be taken orally or by injection, can be obtained legally only by prescription.
The American Journal of Sports Medicine last year said that the use of steroids had grown to epidemic proportions. The Food and Drug Administration is investigating illegal steroid distribution, which it describes as a multimillion-dollar industry.
On Tuesday, Stan Narewki, a former KU assistant track coach, and Sam Colson, a former KU javelin thrower, surrendered to South Carolina authorities after their refusal to test athletes and other drugs to student athletes while the two were coaches at Clemson University.
The drugs are not banned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association but are illegal in most international competition, including the Olympics.
Drug policy made official
KU athletes have used steroids in the past, and discussions with athletes and persons close to athletic programs here indicate that
The Athletic Department plans to formally enact this fall a drug policy for all student athletes. The policy will incorporate existing but informal department policies and prac-
steroids now are used throughout the Big Eight Conference and probably at the University of Kansas. But KU has joined about 80 schools across the country in developing programs to combat steroid use.
The goal of the program is to deter through education and drug tests the use of steroids, other performance-enhancing drugs and commonly used street drugs.
Because of the cost of steroid testing — about $130 an athlete — the department plans to focus on street-drug testing. But steroid testing could be done at a head coach's
On Tuesday, Monte Johnson, KU athletic director, said about steroids, "At this point we don't have any reason to think that particular drug needs to be tested for."
particularly Johnson said drug education for athletes would be provided through clinics or seminars.
"I want the athletes to know the risk and dangers involved with any drugs that are either performance-enhancing or dangerous to them in some way," Johnson said.
The NCNA is working on regulations to fight steroids at the national level.19
Knop said that when he competed in the later 1908s, storoids were found mainly on the shell. He also noted that they are oily and hardened.
"Today it's so widely used, it's abused everywhere," said Knop, who said he obtained the drugs through prescriptions from physicians in Lawrence and Olathe. He said KU coaches hadn't known that he had taken the drugs.
January, delegates to the NCAA annual convention postponed voting on proposed regulations. A revised proposal may be considered at a special convention in June.
Some members of the department staff said athletes would not discuss drug use with them because they knew the staff opposed it.
he said.
"I don't think anyone could be certain 100 percent of the time that there is no problem," Johnson said.
Johnson said he had no indications from athletes, coaches or trainers that KU athletes used steroids. The athletic staff strongly opposes use of steroids, he said. But monitoring the 350 to 400 athletes is difficult, he said.
Lynn Bott, head trainer, said, "The athletes will talk among themselves, but it isn't very frequent that they'd talk to me. But my door's open."
Bott said he thought he could detect possible steroid use among athletes with whom he worked closely, such as the football
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players, by physical clues such as rapid weight gain, bloating due to water retention, or sudden acne outbreaks.
But current and former KU athletes and department staff members agree that steroids are prevalent in one area of collegiate competition — the field events of discus, shot put, and javelin. Clint Johnson estimated that 75 percent to 100 percent of field athletes at the NCAA championships used steroids.
"Even at the Big Eight level it's high," he said. "It may not be 50 percent, but it could
Athletes in Lawrence have easy access to steroids through illegal sources, according to Rick Sells, owner of Junkyard's Jym and Nautilus Center. $53 Gateway Drive. Sells, a former KU assistant strength coach, said steroids could be bought on the streets like other drugs.
Jeff Buckingham, a KU pole-vaulter from 1979 to 1983, agreed.
"There are people in the Big Eight using them," he said. "There are people in high school using them. I think it's a big problem."
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