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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 108 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, March 5, 1985
Senate committee passes bill to let Farrakhan speak
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
The bill to bring Black Separatist leader Louis Farrakhan to campus cleared one hurdle last night in the Student Senate University Affairs committee, and it will
If the bill passes another committee and the full Senate, the controversial Farrakhan will speak in the Kansas Union March 28.
The bill would give $4,500 from the Senate's unallocated account to the Black Student Union for a lecture series. The series would be in conjunction with Alpha Week, sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and scheduled for March 25-30.
Pending approval by the University Events Committee tomorrow afternoon, the bill is expected to be discussed during the Senate meeting at 7 p.m. tomorrow in the Big Eight
LADALE GEORGE, Black Panhellenic senator and co-sponsor of the bill to finance the lecture series, said it was his idea to bring Farrakhan to Lawrence.
George, also a member of Alpha Phi Alpha,
said he wanted students to hear Farkranak
speak so they could form opinions about him.
When he went to college, Farkranak through the news media, he said.
"I really think the man has been grossly misunderstood." he said.
George told the committee that the purpose of the bill was not to endorse Farrakhan or his ideas, but to give students a chance to hear him in person.
The format planned for Farrakhan's appearance gives him 20 minutes for an opening address, a question and answer session, and 10 minutes to wrap up his comments. George said.
HE SAID THAT he hoped to arrange for a panel of faculty members to question Farakran about his beliefs but that it would not cause a objection for the audience to attack those beliefs.
During the last few weeks, several Senate committee members have questioned the security arrangements for the Farrakhan attack and have said that he has been chosen as the site for the speech.
Yesterday Senate officers, KU administrators and Lawrence and KU law enforcement representatives met to discuss possible security measures.
William Easley, student body president, said the group asked George questions concerning arrangements for Farrakhan's appearance. George is supposed to supply the group with his role as director of the Organizations and Activities Center, before the Senate会议 tomorrow.
EASLEY SAID THE bill should have no trouble receiving Senate approval.
Officers of Hillel, a Jewish student organization on campus, said yesterday in a prepared statement that the organization stood behind the principles of free speech and non-censorship in an academic community.
Another controversy raised by the planned appearance concerns Farrakhan's anti-Semitic image. He has been quoted as calling Judaism a "dirty religion," accusing Israel of "injustice, thehey, lying and deceit" and charging that the United States was engaged in a criminal conspiracy by supporting Israel.
"While we find it regrettable that any student organization would give a podium to an individual who espouses violence, racial segregation, and anti-Semitism, Hillier firmly supports his right to a free and open forum on this campus if he is invited by any of the student organizations. Mark Wallman, president of Hillel, and Melissa Miller, vice president.
Other speakers planned for the Black Student Union lecture series are Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Emmanuel Cleaver, Kansas City, Mo., city councilman. Their appearances, scheduled for March 18, are being financed by donations from sources such as the Adolph Coors Co. and Student Union Activities.
Computer committee agrees on new system
Staff Reporter
By TAD CLARKE Staff Reporter
After months of debate, administrators have proposed that the University of Kansas spend about $1.6 million on two computers to provide students with access to administrative and computer systems.
Jerry Niebaum, director of computing services, said yesterday that a computer committee deciding the issue recommended buying a Digital Equipment Corp. VAX 8600 computer or its equivalent for the University's academic system, and an inter-departmental Computer Corp. VAX 8600 computer or an equivalent to it for KU's administration system.
Richard Mann, University director of institutional research, information systems and personnel services, said he and other committee members decided to go with the system for academic computing because it was what faculty had said they wanted.
"It represents the mainstream of academic computing." Mann said. "We received lots of interest from faculty to move toward the VAX series."
AN IBM COMPUTER already owned by the University would also be part of the academic system.
A new system is needed to replace the overloaded academic and administrative computers now used. The VAX system would triple the memory capacity and computer
power on the academic system by this time next year.
Mann presented the committee's recommendation to Chancellor Gene A. Budig and his staff, with whom he met last week.
Budig told the committee to proceed with the writing of bid specifications, which should be released to computer manufacturers later this week. Niebaum said. A state open bidding policy allows all manufacturers to submit bids.
THE COMMITTEE ALSO was required to submit a request to the state division of information systems and communications to get approval to buy the computers. The division must approve all computer purchases under than $2,000 for Board of Regents schools.
Niebaum said a deadline to submit bids probably would be in May.
Niebam said the state division already understood the University's presentations because members of the division were present when the presentations were made before a Regents computer advisory committee meeting. Niebam responded to Niebam's response this week, he said.
No money will be appropriated from the Legislature to purchase the computers, Nebium saxon. All the money needed to purchase the computers is already in the University's budget.
The administrative computer could be installed by July, Niebaum said. The academic computing system would probably be installed by January 1986.
A definite sign that spring break is less than a week away, owner will be vacationing in South Padre Island, Texas. Spring car on Massachusetts Street indicates that this car breaks start this Friday.
Explosion kills twelve in mosque
Bv United Press International
BEIRUT, Lebanon — An explosion ripped through a village mosque in Israel—occupied southern Lebanon yesterday, killing at least 13 people, the Muslim guerrilla cheftains, officials said.
Shite Amal militia leader Nabib Berri, Cabinet minister for Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, blamed Israel for the blast in the village of Maarakeh, saying soldiers planted the bomb during a weekend search operation.
The Israeli army strongly denied any involvement.
The explosion wrecked the top floor and collapsed the roof of a two-story religious center during a meeting chaired by Mohammed Saad, Amal commander for the south, and Khalil Jaradi, Amal commander for Tyre.
"We know the solution. It is either martyrdom, death or being wounded. We will not stop," said an injured Amal member who volunteered to American University Hospital in Beirut.
fired three Soviet-made Katyusha rockets and several anti-tank shells at an Israeli position near the village of Kasmyliy, Israel sources said. No casualties were reported.
Watched by residents weeping and screaming "God is great!" workers collected corpses and limbs and removed the wounded at Maarakeh, eight miles east of Tyre. The search through the rubble continued for 10 hours.
U. N. spokesman Timor Goksel and civil defense officials said 12 people were killed; Amal put the toll at 15 dead and 50 wounded. Only 23 of 25 were injured; the civil defense said 65
HOURS AFTER THE explosion, guerrillas
Travelers from Tyre said Israeli troops surrounded the Jabal Amel Hospital, fired tear-gas grenades and entered the building to detain several Maarakeh residents donating blood. There was no immediate comment from Israel.
SHORTLY BEFORE THE explosion in Maarakeh, 10 mortar shells crashed onto two runways at Beirut airport. Security officials said the shelling caused no serious damage but forced the temporary closure of the airport.
It was not immediately known what caused the blast at the mosque.
"Reports we have received from the scene indicate that the building was dynamited," a Civil Defense source said. "We do not think a car bomb was involved."
Berril said Jaradi and Saad were leading a meeting in the mosque when the explosion occurred. The two guerrillas said Sunday they had wounded Israeli settlements in retaliation for Israel's raids.
Maarakeh has been a center of Shite resistance to Israel's occupation of the south. Israeli forces raided the village Saturday, leaving early Sunday after a 24-hour search
Berri, blaming the bombing on Israel, charged that Israeli troops planted "a bomb in the library before they left the village."
In a written statement, Israel said it denied involvement and insisted no Israeli soldiers were involved.
"It seems from the situation that Israel no longer has control over its nerves," Prime Minister Rashid Karami said.
The Israeli Cabinet Sunday announced it would begin the second phase of a plan to restore Lebanon.
More student aid affected by cuts
Staff Reporter
By JEANINE HOWE
Staff Reporter
President Reagan's proposal to slash guaranteed student loans and Pell grants is not news. But many people may not realize that cuts and restrictions also would be made in three other federal aid programs.
Department of Education official in Washington, D.C., said yesterday.
Those students may not know about these additional cuts, but they are a little publicity, a U.S. government initiative.
Those cuts would affect about 488 KU students now receiving a about $622,000 through the programs, Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said recently.
Reagan's proposal would eliminate Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants and would restrict National Direct Student Loans and College Work-Study programs to students whose families' incomes are less than $25,000 a year.
The proposal would prevent students who come from families with incomes above $25,000 from receiving Pell grants and students who come from families with incomes above $32,500 from receiving guaranteed student loans.
or about 100 of the 488 students — came from families with incomes above $2,500.
But Rogers said many students who would be unable to receive the Fell or Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant, the National Direct Student Loan, or on be the College Work-Study program, probably would be able to receive a guaranteed student loan.
Rogers said the three proposed changes had not received as much publicity as the proposed cutbacks in Pell grants and guaranteed student loans.
BARBARA DAVIDSON, special assistant to the assistant secretary for post-secondary
ROGERS ESTIMATED that 20 percent
See LOANS. n. 5 col. 1
Petition requests removal of Timmons
A Student Senate petition requesting that a KU football player's scholarship be revoked and that he be removed from the team was approved by the Senate University Affairs Committee.
The petition, addressed to Monte Johnson, athletic director, and Mike Goffried, head football coach, asks that Roderick Timmons' scholarship and team membership be terminated because of Timmons' conviction last year of sexual battery, a misdemeanor
charge stemming from an incident in Javahawk Towers on March 2, 1984.
Timmons is on athletic scholarship as a defensive lineman. He has not played on the team since the 1983 season. He was dismissed by Lakers earlier this spring. he reinstated by Goffred earlier this spring.
The petition is on the agenda for tomorrow's Senate meeting. The meeting will be at 7 p.m. in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Uppon.
any action will be taken against Timmons. It would be a request for action and a statement that the person was being
The petition also asks that students convicted of serious sexual crimes in the future not be allowed to represent the University in any highly public position.
Approval of the petition does not mean that
Amy Brown, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, and Amy Kincaid, Nunemaker senator, submitted the petition because they
See TIMMONS. p. 5, col. 1
Budget chairman proposes military spending cut
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenic, conceding that GOP efforts to draft a budget are dead, yesterday proposed a $62 billion deficit reduction plan that would allow military spending as much as the President Reagan requested.
Domenici's plan, presented to his committee for consideration, would allow a 3 percent hike above inflation for defense, in contrast to the president's 6 percent request.
In addition, Domenici's plan would freeze Social Security cost-of-living increases for a year, something Reagan has been reluctant to touch. Domenici, R-N.M., agreed with Reagan's requests to cut Amtrak, Medicare payments and federal revenue sharing, but
rejected Reagan's proposed 5 percent cut in federal pay and Medicaid reforms.
DOMENICI'S PLAN LEASE a $165 billion deficit in fiscal 1986, $15 billion lower than Reagan's estimated $180 billion deficit that year.
Asked how the White House reacted to his plan, he said, "The reaction was 'There's plenty of room.'"
Concerning his plan, Domenici said “it has almost all the domestic cuts” Reagan had
Domenici said he had no guarantees that members of the Budget Committee would go along with the plan, but said that he would like to hear a discussion of the plan that has as its goal reducing the more than $200 billion budget deficit down to $100 billion by 1988. He set another meeting today to go over the numbers.
SENATE REPUBLICANS, led by Domenici and GOP leader Robert Dole, have been working since January to try and formulate an alternative to Reagan's fiscal 1986 budget, which makes $50 billion in reductions from domestic programs.
The GOP effort became mired over the defense issue. Some Republicans suggested a complete freeze in military spending and others wanted to allow 4 percent growth above inflation.
"It is now impossible to have any more meetings with Republicans, with Democrats, with anyone, and come up with numbers we can represent them and at the opening Budget Committee meeting.
He said it was now up to the whole committee to work out a budget solution.
"We've got to get a budget first (out of this committee) and then there is a reasonable
SEN. LAWTON CHILES agreed on the need for "meaningful" cuts, but cautioned that what the committee did should not be disguised by the administration's forecasts.
Domenici said recent good economic times have made him hard to get people to shop.
chance the American people will focus on this (problem). "
"The good news for this country is going to be short lived if this committee can't get a budget — that is a major deficit reduction package — to the Senate floor in a short period of time so the American people, the United States Senate, and yes, even the president, can begin to focus on it," Domenici said.
Dole, R.Kan, and other Senate members — Republicans and Democrats — have been publicly irritated with Reagan for what they see as a near abandonment of the budget
deficit issue in favor of tax reform talk
"The time has come for 22 senators in this committee to decide in the next few days whether we can get a budget or not," Domenci said.
Sen. Lawton Chiles, D-Fla., ranking Democrat on the Budget Committee, said Democrats had been waiting "with bated breath" to see what kind of budget the Republicans could formulate and now were ready to back to the process the way it is supposed to be."
Sen. Daniel Moynihan, D-N.Y., said that if the current economic recovery should dip into recession, the deficit could soar to $300 billion or $400 billion.
"It is said at the White House, quite directly, that the business cycle is a thing of the past," he said. "and it is that type of problem that got us into the deficit problem now."