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KANSAN
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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Vol. 95, No. 95 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, February 14. 1985
A car traveling on Ninth Street tries to dodge potholes for the city's street department, said yesterday that workers created by the melting snow. Don Farrier, street supervisor were using an asphalt compound to repair potholes.
Snow leaves scars on city streets
By J. STROHMAIER
Staff Reporter
Pockmarked campus and city streets are becoming plugged with black asphalt, as KU and city workers hustle to repair cauldron-size potholes.
Because of larger amounts of snowfall this winter, drivers are in danger of encountering deeper holes in streets where water has escaped asphalt.
Robert Porter, an associate director of facilities operations, said yesterday that a maintenance crew had been busy filling in pothes on campus.
"We've been filling some almost on a daily basis," he said. "It could be days or even weeks."
Porter said a three-member construction crew with a dump truck had been filling holes on Nalismath Drive, Sunflower Road and 15th Ave. He said most severe damage to streets had occurred.
CITY STREET WORKERS have been easily busy filling holes around Lawrence.
Don Farrier, street supervisor for the city's street department, said the city had eight workers and three flatbed trucks shoveling asphalt into holes throughout the city.
Potholes form when water seeps into cracks in the streets and forces ashault out.
"If you have a little crack in the asphalt and you get water in the crack, the asphalt starts to pop out," he said.
Freezing and thawing cause the asphalt to expand and contract and widen the cracks, he said. When water washes through the openings, it carries asphalt out and starts the
Farrier and Porter said workers used an asphalt compound, called satchrock, composed of a small amount of asphalt and is thin enough to contain the compound sealed the potholes temporarily.
FARRIER SAID. "IT'S just a temporary patch, so we'll just go over and over them until it gets warmer, and we can put some hot mix in them."
Hot mix is a stronger asphalt compound
used for permanent street repairs, he said
When the weather warms up, street crew will use jackhammers to remove the old grates and refill them with the stronger asphalt.
Farrier said the average pothole encountered by road repair workers was between 8 and 10 inches deep and approximately $ \frac{1}{2} $in diameter.
"We haven't had anything yet that I think would tear up a car," he said.
Tennessee, Kentucky, Sixth, Ninth, 15th and 23rd streets, as well as streets leading in and out of Lawrence, are priorities for city officials. The city is traveling frequently and have faster traffic.
HE SAID WORKERS had used about 26 days in the past three days to repair three streets'
Bill Edmonds, owner of Bill's Concoce
service, 1290 W. Zwart St., said poles posed
well by the walls are not to be touched.
"It can bend the rim and blow out the tire," he said, "as well as knock out the wheel alignment."
Shooting spree leaves four dead
By United Press International
COLBY, Kan. — Four people were killed and at least four others wounded yesterday in a trail of gunfire across northwest Kansas that ended in a gun battle at a farmhouse, a Colby television station reported.
The station, KLBY, cited police sources as saying two of the dead had 'seen hostages, a third person had been one of the suspects and the other apparently was shot during a
p. m. when a high school student found the body of a restaurant manager in Grainfield. Oakley police said robbery was a motive for the slaying.
A short while later Thomas County sheriff's deputy Ben Albright was shot when he stopped a car occupied by four people near Levant, about 50 miles northwest of Grain-
The occupants of the car then allegedly fired toward a grain elevator, wounding Maurice Christie, manager of Bartlett and Co. Grain Elevator officials said.
The first shooting was reported about 3:45
In Levant, the suspects allegedly stole a pickup truck, took two hostages and drove north, officials said. The hostages were shot and their bodies dumped along a rural road north of Levant, the station reported.
condition at Citizens Medical Center in Colby, said Paul Dougherty, hospital administrator.
The victims were not identified and Thomas County sheriff's officials, and Colby police would not comment on the shootings.
The suspects were forced to turn around at a roadblock south of Atwood and hid in an apartment.
Albright and Christie were in stable
Committee backs rise in student activity fee
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
Recommendations for a $1 increase in the student activity fee and financing for 20 student groups were approved last night by the Student Senate Finance Committee.
The committee voted to recommend increasing the activity fee from $24 to $35 per student for the fall and spring semesters of the 1985-86 school year. The committee also voted to suggest raising the summer semester activity fee 50 cents to $12.50.
The committee recommended distribution of $962,579 among 20 revenue code groups for fiscal year 1986. The full Senate plans to vote on the budget proposals Feb. 21.
Revenue code groups are financed by the Senate every two years but receive money annually. The organizations are large groups that serve many students.
Discussion on financing the University Daily Kansan had been postponed until last night because the committee voted Friday to request an audit from the newspaper.
ANDREW HELMS, FINANCE committee member, said last night that he suggested the audit because in fiscal 1984, the Kansan had had exceeded revenues by about $7,000.
Senate rules and regulations allow the Senate treasurer to request an audit of student organizations. Last night, Andy Turner said he didn't think an audit was necessary.
"I'm not sure what the committee wants is an audit. The UDK is already audited annually. I think the committee is asking for the UDK to seek financial consultation," he said.
The committee voted to allocate $109,890 to the Kansan, the amount requested for fiscal 1986. The allocation was made with a provision that the Kansan seek financial counseling from an independent accounting firm.
The bill does not say who would pay for the consultation. Tim Henderson, committee chairman, said that decision would be up to the Senate.
"In my opinion, if the Senate votes to approve this bill, the Senate should have to pay for the consultation," he said.
THE FINANCE COMMITTEE voted to allocate the following amounts:
- Legal Services for Students — $103,500.
The group requested $123,385 for fiscal 1986 and had received $87,912 in fiscal 1985.
- Associated Students of Kansas — $24,436.
In fiscal 1985, ASK received $16,484. ASK requested $25,658 for fiscal 1986.
- Transportation Board — $244,530. the amount received in fiscal 1985. The group requested $666,976 for fiscal 1986.
- JKHK-FM — $27,875. KJHK requested $41,990 for fiscal 1968. The group received $20,879 in fiscal 1985.
- Chamber Music — $74,139, the amount requested for fiscal 1986. In fiscal 1985, the group received $67,399.
- University Theatre — $49.311. The group requested this amount for fiscal 1998 and had received $46,520 in fiscal 1985.
- Forensics — $10,256, the amount requested for fiscal 1986 and the amount received in fiscal 1985.
- Kansan — $109,890, the amount remember who suggested the amendment, said the temporary committee would set guidelines for the advisory subcommittee and present them to the Rights Committee by March 6. Once approved by the Rights Committee, the full Senate would vote on the guidelines.
See REVENUE, p. 5, col. 1
Student Senate to debate amended bill on financing
Staff Reporter
By JULIE MANGAN Staff Reporter
A bill to restructure Student Senate financing for some student groups was amended by a Senate committee last night and passed to the full Senate to be considered next week.
The Senate Student Rights Committee added an amendment to the bill that would form a temporary committee to set guidelines for a financial advisory subcommittee. The committee will serve under the Senate Finance Committee and would be established under the bill.
After debating the bill for two hours, the Rights Committee voted to send it to the Senate without a recommendation.
The bill would give non-revenue code student groups a one-time allocation of $175 for the administrative costs of supplies, advertising, rent and utilities in fiscal year 1986.
Starting in fiscal 1987, those groups would be expected to raise administrative funds on their own.
NON-REVENUE CODE groups are those that generally request less than $1,000 each year. The money allocated to them comes from the tuition and student payments with their tuition each semester.
Martie Aaron, the Rights Committee
Earlier this month, the Finance Committee amended the original bill to include establishing the advisory subcommittee.
"That's something we wanted to include in our bill, but we neglected to because of haste," said William Easley, student body president and author of the bill.
ACCORDING TO THE Finance Committee amendment, the financial advisory subcommittee would help non-revenue code groups manage their money and become self-supporting.
During debate, some members of the Rights Committee objected to the bill, saying it would discriminate against student groups with small memberships.
But Easley said the bill was not designed to exclude any organization from Senate financing.
The purpose of the bill is to "encourage organizations to become a little bit more self-sufficient than they are now," he said.
The money saved by not financing administrative costs every year would be given to student groups for special projects, he said.
Death penalty lacks votes to override expected veto
By NANCY HANEY Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The death penalty was endorsed in the Kansas House yesterday but lacked the two-thirds majority vote needed to override an expected veto by Gov. John Carlin.
Final action on the bill, which was approved 72-46, is expected today. The bill then would be sent to a Senate committee and then to the full Senate, where it is expected to pass.
However, the bill to reintroduce the death penalty for some premeditated first-degree murder convictions faces determined opposition from Carlin. The governor vetoed similar capital punishment bills three times before and has said he will do so again.
BOTH HOUSES OF THE Legislature would need two-thirds vote to override a veto. In the House, 64 members - 12 more than voted in favor of the bill yesterday - are needed to
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, voted against the bill when it was discussed in committee hearings last week. She voted against it yesterday also.
Local legislators voted against the bill and said they didn't think it would get the necessary two-thirds majority.
aggrandified Charlton said no measure could be taken to ensure that innocent people would not be sentenced to death.
Before this year, a death penalty bill had not been introduced in the Legislature since 1981, when Carlin's threats to veto any capital punishment bill prompted legislators to drop the issue, Charlton said. This year's bill carried 46 sponsors.
"We need to find ways to deal with violence in nonviolent ways," she said.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said she voted against the death penalty bill because crime rates in states with the death penalty are different from states without the punishment.
"THEY PROBABLY THOUGHT there were enough votes in the House and Senate to override the governor's veto," she said.
STATE REP. JOHN Solbach, D-Lawrence, who also voted against the bill, said the death penalty was part of a violence cycle in society.
The potential for discrimination in court also influenced her vote, she said. She said poor people who couldn't afford good lawyers wouldn't be represented fairly.
Branson said the death penalty a barbary way for society to deal with murderers. Also, she said, capital punishment is the risk of innocent people in death.
"It sends a message to society that taking life is OK if it is the state doing it, but it is not."
The argument that a death penalty would reduce the crime rate in Kansas is false, SOS.
"Almost all the states bordering Kansas on the southeast with death penalties have higher crime rates," he said.
Fine arts dean will stay until July 1986
By ANN PETERSON
James C. Moeser, dean of fine arts,
announced his resignation yesterday but
will remain until July 1, 1986, at the
request of the university, vice chancellor
academic affairs.
Staff Reporter
Moeser, who has been dean for 10 years,
said he submitted his letter of resignation
to 10 days ago and planned to resign at
age 62. But he agreed to stay on an extra year.
"The University will have the time to organize a search committee next fall for a new dean and to study the School of Fine Arts." Moeser said.
Moeser, 45, said he resigned for personal reasons and planned to teach full time in the School of Fine Arts. Moeser is an Althaus distinguished professor of organ.
"IWILL HAVE a lot more free time and less responsibility as a teacher." Moeser said. "Sometimes it's a healthy thing not to be a dean for too long."
Laura Sealey, Weatherby, Mo., senior majoring in music history, said of Moeser's announcement, "It is really sudden and very surprising. It is good that he's not leaving for another year so the University can adjust."
Changing deans should be a traumatic experience next year, Moeser said.
"The school is on a sounder basis than it was on 10 years ago." Moeser said. "There is much stronger support for the school from the outside and from the administration. People better appreciate the high quality of the school."
Peter Thompson, professor of art, said Moeser reorganized the departments within the School of Fine Arts when he moved to Anerley after nine years of teaching organ classes.
MOESER HELPED THE department chairmen and associate dews work together to bridge the gap between the art and design and music departments,
Moeser said his job in recent years was being the "number one cheerleader" for a new performing arts center on campus. For five years, he has been trying to get the public and administration to focus on this need, he said.
He said the battle had been won. The performing arts center is the administration's top priority for private fund raising, he said.
"It is up to the Endowment Association now as to when the decision to start a capital fund drive will be." Moeser said.
Moser said that in the past 10 years, he had been responsible for about 100 faculty
Jerry Moore, associate dean of fine arts, said, "Moeser made strides in making people aware of the realities of KU, not only the people of KU, but for Lawrence as well," said
IN HIS FIRST year as dean, Moeser organized an advisory board made up of about 40 art enthusiasts who donated and raised money for the school. He also began the Swarthout Committee that raised more than $80,000 for a concert series last
James C. Moeser
members and about 1,000 students as dean.
Valerie Smith, Bellevue, Neb., senior majoring in music education and therapy, said Moeser probably thought a great deal about resigning before making his decision.
"IF HE FEELS resigning is important for him, on his面说," Smith said.