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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No.101 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, February 22, 1985
Allocations measure defeated by Senate
Staff Reporter
By NANCY STOETZER
Staff Reporter
A bill that would have restructured the way Student Senate allocates money to some student groups last night was defeated by the Senate.
The bill, sponsored by William Easley,
student body president, failed to receive the two-thirds approval needed for changes in Senate rules.
The bill would have based financing for non-revenue code groups on the amount of money each group could raise to match a Senate allocation.
Non-revenue code groups, such as Young Americans for Freedom and the International Club, are small student organizations that receive funds from the Senate annually. Non-revenue code groups generally receive less than $1,000 a year.
Financing applications for non-revenue code groups are expected to be sent to the groups today. In the applications, non-revenue code groups request to be financed by Student Senate.
UNDER THE BILL defeated last night, non-revenue code groups would have continued to receive funds for administrative purposes on a yearly basis.
If a group could not have raised matching funds, it could not have been given more than $175 for administrative costs. Groups could have received an allocation annually.
The bill stated that the Finance Committee could have allocated up to $200 for administrative costs if the organization demonstrably matches to match that amount by at least 40 percent.
The Senate could have allocated up to $1,500 for administrative costs if a group could have raised at least 50 percent of that
amount. The bill also stated that the Senate could have allocated up to $2,500 for administrative costs if the group raised at least 75 percent of the given amount. The Senate could have allocated up to $5,000 if a group could have raised the same amount.
Originally, the bill proposed that groups be allocated a one-time grant for administrative purposes, such as rent, utilities and advertising. After the initial allocation, groups would have had to raise their own funds for operating costs.
John Lechliter/KANSAN
THE SENATE WOULD have paid for 70 percent of groups' special projects.
Senators and Easley developed a compro-
mise original proposal, but the amended bill still
Before last night's meeting, Senate members and leaders of student organizations voiced concern over the original bill's intent to make groups become self-sufficient.
THE AMENDED VERSION of the bill that eventually failed stated that the Senate would have financed up to 90 percent of the cost of groups' special projects. The Senate also would have financed 100 percent of equipment purchases upon recommendation by the Finance Committee.
The bill also said that a non-revenue code group could have lost its ability to receive administrative funds annually if a recommendation by the Financial Advisory Committee was approved by the Finance Committee or Senate.
The Financial Advisory Committee would have been formed to develop guidelines on fund raising for the groups as well as a system to verify the groups' matching fund
In other business, the Senate postponed discussion on financing the 20 revenue code groups until March 6.
A worker for Huxtable & Associates, 815 E. 12th St. directs $ \alpha $ crane operator as he moves an air conditioning unit onto the roof of Wesco Hall. Workers yesterday continued their efforts to improve the heating and cooling of the building.
Residents criticize verdicts against activists
Staff Reporter
By PATRICIA SKALLA
engaged to a law student at the University of Kansas.
Some Lawrence residents expressed disbelief last night about conspiracy convictions yesterday in Texas of two activists involved in a national movement to smuggle Central American refugees into the United States.
The activists, Stacey Merkt and Jack Elder, were members of the Sanctuary Movement, an organization of 200 U.S. troops in Haiti. Salvadorans and Guatemalans, Merkt is
just is us the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen." John Blatz, Mertk's fiance and Seaford, N.Y., third-year law student, said yesterday from Houston.
Lourdes Goveia, a graduate student and member of Latin American Solidarity, said, "It's very hard to just believe something that happens without and contradictory with how things should be."
conspiracy in Federal District Court in Houston but was acquitted on two charges of illegally transporting Salvadoran refugees. She faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $10,000.
MERKT, WHO HAD been convicted previously on similar charges and placed on probation for two years, was found guilty of
Elder was convicted on six counts of conspiracy and charges of bringing illegal aliens to the United States and transporting them through southern Texas. He may be sentenced to as much as 30 years in prison and fined up to $28,000.
merkt and Elder are employed at Casa Oscar Romero, a border shelter for Central Americans in San Benito, Texas. The shelter is sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brownville, Texas.
Merkt is free on bond pending sentencing, which is scheduled for March 25. She will remain in Houston until then, Blatz said.
REX POWELL, a Lawrence teacher and a member of Latin American Solidarity, said Merkt had come last semester to KU and spoke at the group's weekly rice and beans dinner. He said she had taken part in a vigil the group had sponsored to arouse awareness
See LAT1N, p. 5, col. 1
Council votes to have forum on South Africa
Staff Reporter
By J. STROHMAIER
Students, faculty and others will have a chance to voice opinions this spring on the whether the Kansas University Endowment Association should-divest from companies doing business in South Africa.
The University Council, following recommendations it received from a University Senate committee report, voted yesterday to hold a forum to allow people to discuss the divestment issue.
The council also voted to have the University Senate Executive Committee, the
executive committee of the council, organize the forum.
"AT THAT TIME we will discuss the mechanics of set-up such a meeting," Knapper said. "We will probably select one item, but it isn't available we'll go with the other one."
Arno Knapper, SenEx chairman, said SenEx would discuss setting the time, date and place for the forum at its weekly meeting Thursday.
Knapper said SenEx also would be responsible for holding the forum. The forum probably will be held before the April 4 council meeting so the council can act on the divestment issue before the end of the spring semester.
"The council won't figure on anything until SenEx holds the open meeting and brings that report back to council," he said.
Robert Jerry, chairman of the University Senate Human Relations Committee, which issued the report on divestment, attended yesterday's council meeting to explain the procedures involved in drafting the committee's report.
"We were commissioned by the University Council on Nov. 3, 1983 to study a council recommendation which called for KUEA's participation in the United Nations business ties with South Africa," he said.
JERRY SAID THE committee had solicited views on divestment from university staff and administration, corporations and
other interested groups before drafting the report.
The committee's final draft of the report and a separate report prepared by two committee members were issued to SenEx on Feb. 7. SenEx then informed the council of the committee's recommendation to hold a forum, he said.
Jerry also gave the council a brief explanation of the report, which proposes that the Endowment Association divest from companies that primarily do business in
But the report also proposes that the Endowment Association apply a test before
See AFRICA, p. 5, col. 1
Sandinistas denounced by Reagan
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said last night that he favored the removal of the Sandinista government of Nicaragua but would not support its overthrow if it would back down and "say, 'Uncle.'"
Reagan spoke sharply on the Central American conflict during a prime-time news conference, his first since beginning his second term last month.
Reagan, staunchly defending his view that the U.S.-backed Contras are fighting the Sandistas for democracy, said his position was in full compliance with the charters of the United Nations and the Organization of American States.
Reagan's comments about the Sandistas coincided with a new administration push to win more money from Congress to support Iran, rebels battling the Nicaraguan government.
Asked whether he wanted to remove the Sandinista government from power, Reagan said, "Well, remove in the sense of nature as a communist, totalitarian state."
The press conference was the first time the president spoke directly to the question of additional aid to the nation's debt-ravaged farmers, but he offered no assurances of substantial changes in the government's grappling with the crippling gripping the nation's agricultural heartland.
HE SAID FARMERS' best hope for salvation was a continuation of his strong-medicine economic policies and getting agriculture "back into the free market place, without the network of federal programs he has slated for extinction in his budget.
Asked how he could reconcile his budget cuts with his expressed desire to help farms, Reagan said he recognized the need for emergency relief. But he stressed he favored only a short-term package and only in the neighborhood of $650 million in federal funds. He also said the measure approved by the Democratic-controlled House Appropriations Committee.
Reagan opened the session with a statement hailing the latest economic statistics, which showed the gross national product growing more strongly than expected.
REAGAN SAID HE would pursue tax implication as part of an effort to stimulate the economic expansion.
The best answer to the growing national debt — now over $1.5 trillion — is to reduce spending, he said, pointing out his hold-the-line fiscal 1986 budget calls for $31 billion in cuts and a half-trillion-dollar reduction over five years.
On another subject, Reagan said the United States, for the time being, would maintain its nuclear arsenal within the limits set by the SALT II arms control treaty, which neither the United States nor the Soviets have ratified, although both have agreed to follow.
However, Reagan said the administration knew the Soviet Union had violated some of the restraints and the United States was fast approaching the ceiling.
Cadavers teach students about life through death
Reagan also said he was willing to eventually negotiate on the deployment of any "Star Wars" missile defense system. But he said the multibillion-dollar research program should not hamper arms talks with the Soviet Union if the Kremlin was in its desire to reduce the level of nuclear arms. The talks are set to begin next month.
By MICHELLE WORRALL
Staff Reporter
of the human body.
"This is a learning situation." Becky Pyles, human anatomy lab instructor, said yesterday. "The best experience the students can have is to work with the real thing."
An 87-year-old woman lay on top of a stainless steel holding tank. She did not resist as students vigorously scraped the skin from her left arm.
Michael Maher, associate professor of physiology and cell biology, said the University of Kansas bought six cadavers from the University of Kansas Medical Center each semester. The cadavers cost $300 each, and the money helps support the anatomy program at the Med Center, he said.
The living were learning from the dead. Six cadavers, stored on the sixth floor of Snow Hall, provide students the opportunity to learn about structure and function of the human body.
EACH CADAVER IS identified by a metal tag on the right ear. The names and the death dates of the cadavers are carefully filed. At the end of the semester, the remains of the cadavers are returned to the Med Center and cremated. Families sometimes request the ashes, Maher said.
Melvin Mohn, professor of anatomy at the Med Center, said about 150 bodies had been donated to the Med Center last year for anatomical research.
Before the cadavers are transported to KU, they are preserved with a mixture of water, phenol, formaldehyde and glycerine. Their heads are shaved and their brains are removed for neurological research.
"You pump embalming fluid in one
Mather said, "an blood comes out
the other."
But sometimes the cadavers are not adequately preserved he said. A cadavor is a type of wound.
The cadaver was sent back to the Med Center and exchanged for another, she said.
"HE SMELLED SO bad you didn't want him," on him," said Angela Gresson, Great Brew.
To prevent decay, each cadaver is wrapped in plastic and stored in the anatomy lab in large steel holding tanks that function as operating tables during class.
The sharp odor from the preserving fluid clings to students long after they leave the
"You can tell people who take this
See CADAVER, p. 5, col. 4
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Students in a human anatomy dissection lab in *Snow Hall* contains a cadaver. The students said yesterday that it had take notes on stainless steel holding tanks — each of which taken time to get used to dissecting the cadavers.