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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 95, No. 103 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, February 26, 1985
Saeki Ayako, Tokyo graduate student, gets a push from Kudoh Mai, Kobe, Japan, graduate student, in front of Bailey Hall. Ayako said yesterday that it was her first time to ride a moped and that it was harder than riding a bicycle.
Racquetball at Robinson rained out by flooding
Staff Reporter
By CECILIA MILLS Staff Reporter
Rain usually doesn't affect indoor sports, but six of the 12 lacretball courts at Robinson Gymnasium were closed yesterday because of flooding during the weekend.
Workers discovered the damage at 1 p.m.
Sunday when they opened the gymnasium.
Allan Heinze, director of physical education and recreation facilities, said yesterday
that the damage occurred because two of Robinson's three sump pumps had failed to work.
Heinze said that rain, melting snow and moisture from the thawing ground had overloaded the two pumps in the newer section of Robinson, where the racquetball courts are located.
The pumps have malfunctioned before, he
See ROBINSON, p. 5, col. 4
Admissions policy reviewed
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — College-bound students would need more than their high school diplomas to enter a state university if a bill under consideration by the Kansas Legislature is
The bill would require the Board of Regents to establish a list of courses a high school student would have to take in order to enter a state university.
The open admissions policy now requires universities to admit any student with a diploma from a state-accredited high school, or less of the student's grade point average.
But passage of the bill also could modify the state's open admissions policy, as well as strain already stretched school district budgets, administrators said yesterday.
In 1983, the Regents recommended that high school students preparing to enter college take four years of English, three years of math, three years of social studies, three years of science and two years of foreign language.
THE REGENTS' guidelines were not binding on the universities.
The bill, introduced into the Kansas House by State Rep. Denise Apt, R-Iola, does not spell out the courses that would make up the requirement that the Birrents establish one.
Last year. Ant introduced a similar bill
that did specify the required curriculum. That bill was endorsed by the House Education Committee but never debated on the house floor.
If approved, the legislation would require students to complete the Regents' preparatory curriculum before they could be admitted to a state university. Except for the foreign language requirement, it would become effective in 1989.
The foreign language requirement would take effect in 1991. The delay would give some school districts time to establish language programs.
KU ADMINISTRATORS and state and local school officials said yesterday that they generally preferred to use guidelines rather than a mandatory curriculum.
The Regents, in its initial recommendations, also stopped short of setting a required course of study, said Martine Hammond, Regents director of academic affairs.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said she opposed attempts to tamper with the open admission policy and the guidelines not be made requirements.
"Kansas has been well served by open admissions," Tacha said. "It has given many students the opportunity for higher education not depend on the size of their school districts."
Hammond said the Regents wanted to see the results of its guidelines before supporting a bill.
Means Committee that the state's open admissions policy was costly and unfair to students, many of whom failed or dropped out after the first year.
BUT APT TOLD the House Ways and
Apt said remedial English and math courses were costly for universities. The Regents estimates remedial courses cost the state $800,000 each year.
"I admire open admissions," she said,
"but I not sure we can afford it financially on our own."
Also, more than 50 percent of college freshman either drop out or flunk by the end of their second year.
"If those students had been better prepared, you'd see the dropout rate and the unemployment rate."
Only one other speaker addressed the committee. Chris Grives said the Associated Students of Kansas, a statewide student university, gave its qualified support for the proposal.
GRAVES, ASSOCIATE director of ASK, said. "ASK would suggest that allowing a student to enter a university simply on the basis of a high school diploma will not help the student who is so ill-prepared in the college coursework cannot be understood."
"We're not doing anyone a favor by admitting a student who is a prime candidate for frustration or failure." Graves, said. ASK-qualified, its support
KU may pull plug on Honevwell
See ADMIT. p. 5. col. 1
Graves said ASK qualified its support because some school districts did not offer all
By TAD CLARKF Staff Reporter
users of the computer are faculty researchers.
Officials at Honeywell Inc. said yesterday that they were concerned that the University of Kansas soon might disconnect a computer the company gave KU two years ago.
Ed Evans, branch manager of the St. Louis Honeywell office, said KU personnel had told him that the Honeywell CP-6 computer might be disconnected to upgrade the KU computing system.
"It has been mentioned by various KU personnel, but not in any official capacity." Evans said. "It's disturbing to us that this would take place. It concerns us a great deal.
"The discontinuance of a free system doesn't sit well with me personally. I have a hard time adjusting that in my mind as a rational business action."
The computer was valued at about $750,000 two years ago when it was donated. The main
RICHARD MANN, UNIVERSITY director of institutional research, information systems and personnel services, said Friday that the decision of whether to disconnect the Honeywell CP-6 would not have to be made immediately.
Mann said the computer committee, which is studying several options to improve the computing system, would make its recommendation on improving the system to Chancellor Gene A. Budg by the end of this week or early next week.
"Honeywell made a generous gesture." he
would there could be some em-
bassignment.
Victor Wallace, professor of computer science, said Friday that he opposed disconnecting the Honeywell computer after such a short period of use.
Jerry Niebaum, director of computing services, said Friday that if the system was
connected, the University might use it in a different capacity.
EVANS AT HONEYWELL said relations between the company and KU probably would not change if the computer was disconnected.
"We're very interested in continuing relations," Evans said. "It just poses problems with us locally to go to our upper management to ask for grants and any kinds of gifts. It doesn't make anything worthwhile if these gifts aren't of value to the University.
"We were heavily courted by the University to show our concern for their needs a couple years ago. We responded by giving the computer."
The University is trying to update its administrative and academic computer systems. The academic system comprises the university's main computer, used primarily by computer
See COMPUTER, p. 5, col. 1
Silent scream controversy heard
Staff Reporter
By DeNEEN BROWN Staff Reporter
About 150 people watched the 28-minute movie, which depicted the abortion of a 12-week old fetus, in the Big Eight Room of the Kansas Union last night.
A black and white shadow of a fetus appears to jark and swim away from the suction tube during an abortion in the controversial film, "The Silent Scream."
The movie was filmed using ultrasound, a technique in which high-frequency sound waves filter through skin and tissue and penetrate inside the body, producing images on a screen.
As the black and white shadows waved slowly on the screen, the voice of the narrator said. "The shadow we are seeing is the child," she said. The child, the child, the child; the child, the child will rear away from it.
*WE SEE THE CHILD's mouth open with a silent scream. It does sense activity in its sanctuary. It moves away in a pathetic attempt to escape the inexorable instruments
that the abortionist is using. The body is now being torn systematically from the head of a fetus.
Neil Jeuvenat, an Overland Park obstetrician and gynecologist who spoke against abortion before and after the film, said one of his patients described a sense of whether an unborn child could feel pain.
"It is hard to describe the film to other people," he said, "and often times the criticism of the film is that it is unbelievable. I think it has to be looked upon as a factual film."
The facts speak for themselves that abortion is a killer young baby. We need to change it.
The film and debate were sponsored by Young Americans for Freedom. People from
JOUVENAT HAD been scheduled to debate a pro-choice doctor after the film. But Victor Goodpasture, chairman of the KU chapter of Young Americans for Freedom, said the other doctor had conflicting commitments and could not attend the
John Chappell, Overland Park sophomore, said he could not see the image of a fetus and called the film a documentary that reflected only the views of anti-abortion groups.
But some people who watched the film said they could not see a fetus in the images on the screen and said the narrator added emotional moments that turned the film into propaganda.
"I THOUGHT the film was a blatant piece of 'propaganda,' he said. "I personally wasn't able to see the so-called brutal actions described by the narrator. I thought the language used by the narrator was highly exaggerated and highly overdramatized."
both pro-choice and pro-life groups turned out to watch the film.
Judy Peterson, a KU graduate who also viewed the film, said she agreed that the narrator had used emotional language, but she said she saw the movements of the futur
"It was very clear that the baby was struggling to get away from that tube with its head down."
Willy Peterson, a KU graduate, also said he could see the movements clearly.
AURH judicial board gets hall approval
By MICHELLE T. JOHNSON
The Hashing Hall government was the sixth of eight residence hall governments to pass an AURH constitutional amendment that would establish the judicial board.
A judicial board for the Association of University Residence Halls was approved last night by the government of Hashinger and needed to approve the board's creation.
Staff Reporter
An amendment to the AURH constitution requires approval by three-fourths of the general assembly and two-thirds of the eight residence hall governments. The general assembly approved the judicial board amendment last semester.
David Forney, author of the amendment, said at the meeting that the purpose of the board was to provide an intermediate step between the residence hall director and the office of residential programs for a resident wishing to appeal any hall violation.
"THE MAIN THING is that students get heard by other students," Forney said. "It's
The original intent of the board was to hear only appeals of visitation policy violations, Jeffrey said, but the amendment was changed so the board could hear appeals of any disciplinary actions by a hall staff member.
Fred McElhenne, director of residential programs, said he had discussed the original intent of the board with Jeffley and Forney, but not the board's increased scope.
a service from AURH to the students that provides for them at no extra cost."
The governments of Lewis, Gertrude Sellards Pearson and Corbin, Elsworth, Joseph R. Pearson and Oliver halls are the governors of Oklahoma and board James Jeffrey, AUHR president, said
"WHAT IVE HEARD is that it's been proposed as an appeals board 'for any sanction in the residence halls, and I feel it has been able to provide for appeals." McElihenie said.
MeElhenie said hall contracts stated that appeals of violations of hall policy were the responsibility of his office. But he said this meant he mean the responsibility couldn't be delegated.
Jeffley said he and Forney would meet
DEWAYNE NICKERSON, Fort Scott junior and one of the floor representatives who abstained, that according to his Rules of Order, the amendment had passed.
with McElhenne this week to discuss the expanded scope of the board.
At Hashinger, the amendment passed 2-1 with nine abstentions. After the vote, floor representatives and others at the meeting voted in favor of the amendment because of the large number of abstentions.
Brian McCalpin, St. Louis senior and one of the representatives who abstained, said, "No one really wanted it, but no one really wanted to vote it down."
Forney said the board would be reviewed by the AURH general assembly in a year. If the general assembly finds that the board is unsuccessful, he said, the board could be
The judicial board would be composed of an appointed justice from each residence hall and the chairman. The chairman would not vote except in the case of ties, Forney said.
Forney said he was appointed as chairman of the judicial board last semester before the bench.
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Santa has been a little late making rounds but he managed to get a present to 1042 Louisiana St. in time for spring cleaning. A neighborhood cat checks to see whether his present also was delayed.