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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 105 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday. February 28, 1985
Committee approves money for Farrakhan visit
Staff Reporter
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
Money to bring Louis Frakarak, a member of the Nation of Islam, to campus next month was tentatively allocated to the Student Senate Finance Committee.
The committee voted to give $4,500 from the Senate's unallocated account to help pay to bring speakers for the Black Student Union Lecture Series during Alpha Week, which is sponsored by Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity and scheduled for March 25-30.
Other speakers the fraternity plans to
bring to campus are Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Emmanuel Cleaver, Kansas City, Mo., city councilman.
Young and Cleaver are scheduled to appear on campus March 18, George said. Their schedules won't allow them to appear during Alpha Week, he said. Farrakhan is expected to speak March 28.
LADALE GEORGE, BLACK PanHellenic Council senator and co-sponsor of the bill, said all of the speakers had agreed to appear in connection with the annual event, which is designed to broaden educational experiences.
Richard Butler, a member of the Aryan
Nation, an extremist right-wing organization, will not speak on campus as planned.
Complaints from Hillel, a campus Jewish organization, contributed to the decision not to ask Butler to speak, George said.
The bill must be approved by the Senate's University Affairs Committee and then by the full Senate next week before the money is given to the group.
Because Farrakhan has made anti-semitic remarks in the past, some Finance Committee members expressed concern that bringing the controversial speaker to campus would be a Week 1 mistake it appears as if the Black Student Union were supporting his views.
BUT LUCA JELLINEK, committee member, said turning away Farakran because of possible controversial remarks would not eliminate the existence of such attitudes.
"As someone of Jewish heritage," Jellinek said, "I think keeping anti-semitic people off campus is stupid. If someone is saying something against Jews, I don't want to put my head in the sand. I want to hear what they have to say."
Committee members also expressed concern that Farrakhan's presence could provoke violence on campus. They passed the bill to pay for the speakers after adding a stipulation that the funds be given only if the University Events Committee determined
that security would be adequate to protect each speaker and members of the audience.
$3,600 of the $4,500 would cover expenses for Farrakhan, George said. The remainder would partially clear the appearances of Young and Cleaver. Other funds have been raised through private donations from sources such as Student Union Activities, Adolph Coors Co. and the Black Alumni Association.
ALL THE SPEAKERS are scheduled to appear in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The bill approved by the Finance Committee last night does not request as much money as the original bill because Butler will not appear. George said.
Men's halls will receive new security
Staff Reporter
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON Staff Reporter
The hiring of security monitors this semester for Joseph R. Pearson and Templin halles was approved yesterday at the Roemential Programs Advisory Board meeting.
meeting. Originally, the monitors were not to have been hired until this fall. But James Jeffley, Association of University Residence Halls president and JRP resident, wrote the proposal that requested the earlier starting date for the monitors in the two all-male residence halls.
The request followed incidents of vandalism and theft earlier this month at JRP. The incidents caused more than $1,500 worth of damage, Jeffrey said, and prompted JRP and Temple hall governments to pass the proposal.
JRP and Templin are the only residence halls that do not already have security
J. J. WILSON, DIRECTOR of housing, last semester offered to pay for the cost of hiring monitors this semester at the two halls out of the housing budget. He changed his decision after Caryl Smith, dean of student life and RAPB chairman, and Jeffrey said they thought RAPB should have been consulted in the decision.
RPAB yesterday passed the proposal to provide the two halls with money for the monitors, contingent upon the availability of the funds.
Wilson said the housing office had the money available. He said communications equipment, such as walkie-talkies, for the monitors would be at JRP and Templin by 4
"Yes, we have it in the budget," Wilson said. "In the long run, it will save us more than it costs us."
than it costs us.
With the security monitors, the two halls
See RPAB, p. 5, col. 1
Anne Lowder, Allen senior, sleeps peacefully in Wescoe Hall yesterday that she had completed her homework for the before her 1:30 p.m. British Writers class. Lowder said class and that napping was the best way to pass the time.
Senate, House pass measures to aid farmers
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Both the Senate and House approved programs yesterday to give more federal aid to debt-strapped farmers yesterday, ignoring charges of "budget busting" and threats of a veto by President Reagan.
Defections of Farm Belt Republicans made the difference — and the draina — in the GOP-controlled Senate, where the tally was 54-45. House passage, never in doubt because of the wide Democratic majority, came on a 318-103 tally.
The more costly House measure would provide a quick infusion of cash into rural America with advance payment of price support loans, assure $3 billion for bank loan guarantees. and establish a temporary, low-interest loan program for farmers hit by natural disasters.
In the Senate, Republican leader Robert Dole and the administration pulled out all the stops to GOP forces in line but failed as eight farm state Republicans joined the minority
Democrats in supporting a $100 million farm interest subsidy.
Dole argued the measure to reduce interest on farm loans was a "bailout" of banks he said were already helped by modifications of the debt plan first announced last September.
THE SENATE THEN took up the House-passed measure for advance price support loans.
Indeed, White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater declared after the first Senate vote. "We continue to expect a veto that will be recommended to the president. We feel the administrations program will provide relief to farmers and should be used."
"MAYBE BANKS ARE also hanging on by their fingernails," he conceded, but he said the banks were not satisfied with modifications and now want the government and the taxpayers to pay half of the remaining costs of their interest costs.
Despite the defections, Kansan Dole said Reagan was likely to have the last word. "I'm convinced this is never going to become law," he said.
Sen. Edward Zorinsky, D-Neb., retorted
In House debate. Agriculture Chairman Kika de la Garza, D-Texas, said the bill was not targeted to the wheeler-dealers and speculators, but was for "industrious, conservative farmers who have watched helplessly over the oil price reduction in farm income and loss of asset value have destroyed their credit worthiness."
"In my state, banks and farmers are in the same boat, and I can tell you that boat is sinking fast."
Earlier in the day, White House spokesman Larry Speaks told reporters the $100 million Senate measure was unacceptable and declared, "The president's advisers will be unanimous in recommending a veto of this budget-busting legislation."
One of the few members to oppose the plan was Rep. Robert Walter R-PA, who called for a change in the law.
In the Senate, Dole argued the administration already had "a good farm package in place," and meddling with changes could slow that program.
spending ceiling, but bankers must agree to reduce interest or principal before farmers can join.
Reagan first offered a $650 million program of loan guarantees and lifted the
MEANWHILE, IN AMES, Iowa thousands of farmers joined in prayer, asking God to "open the callous hearts and minds" of Agriculture Secretary John Block and other federal officials, who were booed for failing to end the farm crisis.
More than 15,000 farmers and state lawmakers jammed Iowa State University's Hilton Coliseum for the National Crisis Action Rally, which organizers said could be the biggest farm rally since the Great Depression.
Hundreds more farmers spilled outside, where some gleefully pounded nails into a wooden coffin that bore the sign: "Here lies (federal budget director) David Stockman."
Several speakers attacked President Reagan and other administration officials, who
National Farmers Organization president DeVon Woodland said farm leaders had just learned Block had vowed to recommend that farmers adopt additional farm aid approved by Congress.
Panel backs plan to raise sports fee $1
ny NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
Students could pay an extra $1 to support non-revenue sports if a bill approved last night by the Senate Finance Committee and approval of the full Senate on Wednesday.
Under the bill, students would pay $5.50 each semester next school year for the sports fee that finances women's and non-revenue sports. The summer-session fee would remain at $2.50 for each student.
the non-revenue sports fee, which is separate from the student activity fee, helps finance 13 intercollegiate teams that do not generate their own revenue. The increase would benefit all sports teams except men's football and basketball. All non-revenue sports events have free admission.
Scott Lawrence, board member of the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation and a sponsor of the bill, said, "The bill is an effort to increase student support of non-revenue sports. The two main men's teams are the glory, all the press and all the buck."
LAWRENCE and MARK Sump, holdover senator and co-sponsor of the bill, requested a $2 increase in the fee from $4.50 to $6.50 each semester. The committee vote to make the increase $1 because part of the money could have helped pay for tutors for athletes.
Sandra Binyon, committee member, said that although the increase would not have been carmarked for the athletic academic support program, she supported a limited increase so that money would not go toward the program.
Gordon Woods, Finance Committee member, said "This move is a symbolic gesture of the company's commitment to its growth."
Last fall, the program, which helps athletes from revenue and non-revenue teams, expanded to use tutors through Educational Services instead of hiring tutors.
EARLIER THIS WEEK, Monte Johnson, athletic director, and Lonny Rose, an assistant athletic director, voiced approval for the attempt to increase the sport fee.
Johnson said financing for non-revenue sports was the Athletic Department's biggest
Earlier this month, the Finance Committee approved a $1 increase in the student activity fee. Both increase recommendations are to go before the Senate on Wednesday.
IN OTHER BUSINESS last night, the committee amended a ruling made earlier this semester by voting to allow noncommittee members to answer questions from committee members during Finance Committee meetings.
Committee meetings The original rule did not allow noncommittee members to speak during any Finance Committee meeting.
The new rule allows non-committee members to answer questions if they have made a presentation to the committee before the meeting.
The Finance Committee also recommended allocating $1,762 to In The Streets, a campus newspaper started last fall.
Craig Krueger, editor of *In the Streets*, said the money was needed to provide students with the tools they need.
"The paper is for all the students and the student body needs its own paper," he said.
Senate bill to make fraternity hazing illegal introduced
By PATRICIA SKALLA
Staff Reporter
Fraternities may have to change their traditional initiation rites to comply with a bill introduced Monday in the Kansas Senate that would make hazing illegal.
Scott Hartman, adviser to the Interfraternity Council, said yesterday. "Hazing is forcing somebody to do something against their will, without any purpose."
Hazing incidents have been known to include physical abuse, such as spankings with paddles, and mental abuse, such as
prohibiting fraternity pledges from talking to people outside the fraternity.
The bill, which Senate Majority Leader Paul Burke, R-Laeward, asked the Senate Judiciary Committee to introduce, would outlaw hazing by fraternities. Universities and colleges would become legally responsible for any such activities.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL, hazing would be classified as a misdemeanor, and victims would be able to sue for civil damages caused by mental or physical injuries received during hazing.
"We don't know that we have a problem in the state of Kansas." Burke said. "This is
simply a vehicle that we will begin to address the issue on."
The proposal will be considered by a joint committee this summer and will not be heard until the end of March.
John Hilliard, president of Sigma Nu fraternity, 1501 Sigma Nu Place, said the bill would not affect any practices in his fraternity.
"We have a no-hazing policy, and that's open for anybody to look at," he said.
Although hazing was the norm in the '50s and '60s, Hartman said, it is uncommon
JOHN LARSON, PRESIDENT of Delta Upsilon fraternity, 1025 Emery Road, said,
"The overall campus attitude has moved away from having."
Larson said his fraternity followed a policy prohibiting hazing practices.
promoting having a national fraternity has statements that come down on hazing."
Fraternity pledges or members who think they have been victims of hazing can complain to the president of the interfraternity Council, Hartman said. Complaints are sent to the council's judicial board, which decides whether hazing has occurred.
Hartman said the organizations and activities center registered all student
groups, including fraternities. A fraternity that haze its pledges or members would have its registration revoked.
A fraternity that hazed would no longer have the rights and privileges of a student organization, he said. It no longer could belong to IFC.
The national office of the fraternity would be notified, and some fraternities would face the possible revocation of their charters, Hartman said.
John Secrest, president of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said that although his fraternity followed a no-hazing policy, he thought the bill would be an added incentive to discourage fraternities from hazing.