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The University Daily
After six games in 12 days, KU's record stands at 19-4. See story on page 13.
KANSAN
Sunny High, 20s. Low, 0. Details on page 3.
Vol. 95, No. 91 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Thursday, February 7, 1985
Peril of ice not slip-sliding away
By JOHN RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter
Two students surveyed the ice that cascaded down four steps, formed a sheet and stretched about 20 feet down to the next series of stairs. For a moment, they debated about the best course to cross the ice.
With arms wrapped around one another, they took a couple of tentative steps. In practice, they were careful.
The students were navigating the steep, icy stairway Tuesday that runs from northeast of Malott Hall up to Wescoe and Stauffer-Flint halls.
Dick Bivens, landscape and housekeeping associate director for facilities operations, said yesterday that the treacherous ice was caused by ground water that seeped onto the sidewalks and stairs. Facilities operations workers planned to clear the sidewalks and steps today.
LAURA AXELROD. CHICAGO fresh.
man, was one of the two students who shuffled across the slippery area.
"They don't put salt down or anything," she said.
But in other areas of the campus, facilities operations workers did a better job of clearing the walks. Axelrod and her colleague, Bobelle Goldman, Christmas freshman, said.
The ice is difficult for students to cross because it extends the width of the walk at its widest point. Two well-worn paths are cut through the melts and refreshes, the hazard worsens.
almost imperfects, the hazard worsens.
"That's the worst ice on campus, most definitely," said Steve Beigstrom, Winnekta, ill., senior.
Most students stop at the top of the stairs, mentally gauge the severity of the ice, and then alter their direction accordingly.
THE ICE LOCKED as if it was leaking, Richard Roberts, St. Joseph, M., sophomore, said. "I haven't fallen yet, knock on wood."
Considering the amount of snow, workers cleared it off fairly well, Roberts said. However, he thought some areas were still treacherous. For example, the steps of the Adams Alumni Center were too icey, he said.
The stairs in front of Watson Library are also slippery, Lisa Grant, Garfield sophomore, said.
Another student, Jenny Hanson, Parsons junior, said that although she saw many workers removing snow, she thought they did a better job on the walks on the top of the campus than on the steep stairs near Malott Hall.
Beistegm said, "It's the only area I've seen that's solid ice. On that part you need ice."
Doug Ward/KANSAN
JUDGE KANSAK
Mark von Schlemmer, Leavenworth junior, makes a valiant effort to stay afoot on the stiskair tanning between Staufer-Flint and Malott it Underground water this winter has seeped out from the north side of the walkway, making the stairs appear like a frozen waterfall.
Reagan backs budget, celebrates 74th year
By NORMAN D. SANDLER United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan called the nation yesterday to the barricades of a "second American revolution," where a surge of economic growth spurred by tax reform could strengthen the hope for freedom around the globe.
"This nation is poised for greatness," Reagan said in his fourth State of the Union address, delivered to a joint session of the state and a nationwide television audience.
Laying out an agenda for his second term in the 3,500-word speech, the president reiterated many of the conservative goals that marked his first four years in the White House — often items rejected by Congress — while defending his new $797.3 billion budget, boosts military spending and cuts domestic programs in a bid to ease federal deficits.
ON THE WORLD scene, Reagan said that his massive arms buildup was responsible for prodding the Soviet Union back to arms talks and that his Stars Wars missile-defense system could eliminate nuclear weapons. He believed that these threats could not back away from supporting the forces in battle with "Soviet-sponsored aggression," particularly in Central America.
On the domestic front, the president appeared to reach out to blacks — who voted against him by 9 to 1 in November — and other minorities, acknowledging that “despite our strides in civil rights,” they do not yet have “full and equal power.”
While relying on the fundamental optimism he used to his advantage on the campaign trail last fall as he rolled toward a 49-state landmark, Reagan also used some of the staple anti-government rhetoric that helped him win his first term.
"EVERY DOLLAR THE federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy more abundant, our future more free," he said.
Reagan's principle new initiative was his challenge that Congress put into law by year's end "a tax bill for fairness, simplicity and growth, making this economy the engine of our dreams, and America the investment capital of the world."
He said he had told Treasury Secretary James Baker to refine a modified flat tax developed by the Treasury Department. The final version, he said, will retain the personal exemption and increase the personal exemption, but do away with other deductions, exemptions and credits.
Football at Fraser lives; grass dies; 8 await trial
THE CURRENT SYSTEM of tax rates
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 1
By SUSAN McBRIDE
Staff Reporter
An old photograph, faded to a dull brown, captures the scene: students running and throwing footballs, cheering spectators lounging on the grass. The sky is cloudless, the vard filled with sun.
The picture's caption, in the book "Old Fraser," reads, "Football in front of Fraser Hall, about 1887."
Almost a century later, the scene remains much the same, but the consequences have changed. In December, eight students playing football in front of Fraser received misdemeaned citations by a campus police officer. The charge: harming plants.
Now they face a March 7 trial in Lawrence Municipal Court. In addition to the $25 they already have paid for damages to the Fraser lawn and $10 court fees each must pay, they could be up to $500 and sentenced to 180 days in jail.
LT. JEANNE LONGAKER of the KU police said earlier this week that the students were cited because they damaged the Fraser lawn.
"It was very muddy, and they tore up the sod," she said.
But he said the lawn wasn't in perfect condition before the students played football
Jim Mathes, horticultural consultant for facilities operations, said, "We had all that rain, so the ground was saturated and muddy."
Kevin Kelly, Hutchinson sophomore and one of the students cited, said, "I think it's kind of sily. I think the campus cops should be doing something else besides giving citations to people playing football in front of Fraser."
THE OTHER SEVERE students are Trey Humphrey, Mission Hills sophomore; Bennett Cook, Oklahoma City, junior; Meigs Jones, Kansas City, Mo., junior; Rob Hend, Leawed sophomore; Jeff Enright, Shawnee sophomore; Bee Fee, Hutchinson sophomore; Bill Sackfordco, Mission Hills sophomore. They said they shared Kelly's sentiments.
All are members of Phi Delta Theta fraternity Fraternity members have made football on Fraser's lawn somewhat of a play, they've even given it a nickname: Frasserball.
"I've played football there since I was a rushee, over two years ago." Hense said. "We played it all in rain, snow, sleet and hail — in any and all kinds of weather. We play there all the time."
Cook said, "It's just a stupid thing. I can see why the police officer came up to us, but I'm not sure."
SHACKLEFORD SAID, "Come on, harming plants." What kind of citation is that?
The ordinance, part of Lawrence city code, reads, "No person shall willfully injure or destroy any plant, tree, vine or flower, the property of another, standing on or attached to the land of another, or shall pick, destroy or carry away therefrom or in any way interfere with any part of the flowers or fruit thereof."
Mike Glover, city prosecutor, said the ordinance shouldn't be taken lightly.
"The city takes a real pride and a special interest in the beautification of the public right of way, of parks, of the campus," he said.
Glover said about the eight students, "It's doubtful that they'll spend any time in jail." If found guilty, he said, they probably will have to do community service work.
College may revise requirements for degrees
By PATRICIA SKALLA
Staff Reporter
Students seeking a bachelor of arts or bachelor of general science degree through the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences may be faced with a new set of requirements by 1987.
The Committee on Undergraduate Studies will submit the proposals to the faculty sometime next week, but the proposals will be adopted until the fall of 1987 at the earliest.
The proposed changes apply only to degrees offered through the college. Passage of the proposed University core curriculum may alter the changes proposed for the college.
Michael Young, associate dean of the college, said yesterday the proposal for the new requirements was the result of a three-year study.
Young said he thought proposed changes in the distribution requirement would cause the
Under the proposed distribution requirement for a bachelor of arts degree, students will be required to complete nine courses, three courses in each of three divisions,
INCLUDED IN THE proposal are revi-sions in the English, math, foreign language communications and distribution requirements. The Western Civilization requirement will be retained, and a requirement in a core culture course will be added for both degrees.
which are natural sciences and mathematics, social sciences and humanities.
THE BACHELOR OF general science degree, which primarily serves transfer students and non-traditional students who have started their studies elsewhere, would only require six hours in each of the three divisions to "try to keep the spirit of the distribution requirement, namely, breadth." Young said.
Within each division are sets of "topical groups." Students can take only one course from each of the groupings to complete the requirement for that division.
MICHAEL JOHNSON, chairman of the English department, said the purpose of the continuous enrollment requirement was to maintain writing skills. Studies indicate that if students skip semesters before completing the first two courses, he said, writing skills that has been developed are lost.
All the students in the college will have to enroll in the first required English course, English 101, upon entry into the University. They then must enrol in the second course, the following semester. Currently, students may choose when to take the two courses.
He said no department would be able to offer more than four courses to satisfy the distribution requirement. Every department then would have to decide which courses are offered to satisfy the requirement to "best present an area to an introductory student."
Because some students do not enroll in English their first semester. Young said
continuous enrollment "set a common standard for all to make sure they meet those minimum requirements early in their careers."
Although students will be required to take a third-level English course, they will not have to take it immediately after completion of English 102.
Students now are able to choose from a variety of third-level courses. Under the new proposals, students will be able to choose from only four course offerings. The courses are themes in literature, introduction to poetry and introduction to drama.
ALL STUDENTS ALSO would be required to pass a minimum proficiency exam in English. The exam would be similar to the common final that all English 101 students take now. However, transfer students would have to take an exam to prove that they have achieved the same amount of proficiency required of other students.
"The most important effect of this is to make sure the students have achieved a certain minimum amount of proficiency," Young said.
Students also would have to take a proficiency exam in order to complete the re-entry test.
The new proposals require that all students enroll in their first mathematics course no later than the second semester of their enrollment. The second course, however, must be a mathematics course, instead of the former logic alternative.
"There is an increased importance for
THE COMMITTEE TRIED to soften the requirement that the second course be mathematical by allowing courses in other departments, such as philosophy or computer science, to fulfill the requirement. However, to meet the requirement, the course must consist almost entirely of mathematics.
However, he also said, "I have to think about whether I like the idea or not."
The foreign language requirement also is being altered so students who do not pass a proficiency exam must take sixteen hours of one language. Now, students can choose to take 10 credit hours in two languages instead of 16 hours in one.
students to have mathematics and be able to solve problems analytically." Young said.
The present bachelor of arts degree requires three-hour courses in Western civilization. Under the new requirements, students also would have to take three credit hours in a non-Western course culture.
A special meeting of the College Assembly will be held on Feb. 23 to let faculty and student representatives speak out on the proposal, Young said.
The committee will then delay action until April, when it will vote on the proposals, Young said. A date will then be set for the changes to be implemented.
The Western civilization and non-Western culture requirements would replace the present World Civilization and Culture requirements by beckoning a bachelor of general science degree.
Drinking bill faces test today on Senate floor
TOPEKA — Liquor by the drink will be tested on the floor of the Kansas Senate this afternoon, and Majority Leader Paul Burke said yesterday that the measure had the necessary 27 votes to pass.
Burke, R-Leawood, scheduled floor debate on the proposed constitutional amendment after the Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee approved a package of anti-drinking bills yesterday morning.
By MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
"We have enough votes right now to make sure of course it's always subject to plebs."
"NOW THAT WE have two-thirds of the Senate, it gives momentum for those in the House to reassess their position." Burke
See DRINK, p. 5, col. 1