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Vol. 95, No. 77 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, January 18, 1985
GLSOK leader, foe promote truce
By NANCY STOETZER Staff Reporter
Two key figures in the dispute over Student Senate financing of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas yesterday joined forces to call for an end to hostilities on both sides.
Steve Miebel, author of a petition calling for a campus vote on Senate financing of GLOSK, and Ruth Lichtward, GLOSK president, said in a joint statement that they wanted the state to have bad feelings that erupted during the dispute and have simmered for nearly a year.
"Both Steve and I feel that things have gotten out of line," Lichtward said in a joint interview with Imber. "We hope to show people who have jumped on the bandwagon and harassed others that there is no longer a bandwagon to jump on."
Imber said, "I feel good about this. I just want to prove the example we're setting with this statement."
The statement said that although Imber and Lightwardt still differed over the issue, they wanted "to deal with this matter in a rational manner which will not violate any individual's rights, and which will be worthy of this institution."
"We differ in opinion," Lichtwardt said. "But we want to encourage people not to take a difference in opinion beyond its expression."
Lichtward said that although the conflicts brought him into imprisonment, the toughness he taught the teenage would have had an effect, tight.
Imber appealed the invalidation to the University Judicial Board. The board ruled earlier this month that the Elections Committee wrongly invalidated the petition and it would have to re-examine the petition's validity.
GLSOK began circulating at this time. But in October, the Senate Elections Committee invalidated the petition because it did not contain the exact wording of legislation to be enacted, as required under Senate rules. The committee issued a letter expressing concern that the petition was discriminative.
The petition's future is unclear. The Elections Committee can appeal the board's decision, but Thom Davidson, the former chairman of the committee said this week that the committee probably wouldn't appeal.
If no appeal is filed, the petition would go back to the Elections Committee for consideration sometime this semester. Jeff Polack, student body vice president, yesterday said that a new Elections Committee vote should have been selected in November hadn't been formed yet.
Yesterday, Imber wouldn't say whether he intended to pursue his petition.
The fate of another petition on GLSOK, this one calling for an end of University recognition of the group, also remains unclear. The petition was circulated in the fall by Tom Crisp, at that time a Lawrence graduate student.
Crisp's friends said this week that he no longer lived in Lawrence and that they didn't know whether he intended to pursue his petition.
"However, the purpose of any mistake is to learn from it, as we feel we have in this case."
Controversy began last spring when the Senate Finance Committee voted to deny funds to GLOSK. The Senate rejected the recommendation and allocated $955 to GLOSK.
Imber's petition questioning financing of
One KU administrator said yesterday that the statement by Imber and Lichtwärdt appeared to be a step toward calming tensions over the GLSOK issue.
16 November, 1985
As in all other places of higher learning, this university is full of diversity of opinion. At different times these opinions can come into conflict. Such was the case of the petition concerning the Student Senate funding of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas. To the regret of both parties involved, these differences were not handled by many in a manner becoming to the principles of this university. This case served as a precedent in many regards, and as a result, mistakes were made on all sides. However, the purpose of any mistake is to learn from it, as we feel we have in this case.
Robert H. Jerry, chairman of a University Senate committee that last fall passed a resolution opposing harassment of GLOSK members, said, "I'm delighted about this statement. People are finally showing some sense." I hope to reduce intolerance on campus continues."
It is the will of both parties involved in this issue that the hostile atmosphere and bad feeling that were created from this dispute (and other issues, such as the "Fagbusters" T-shirts) be ended. Both parties publicly condemn any further harassments and prejudices of both "sides" on these issues. Both parties also condemn those individuals who have used these issues to infringe on the rights of other individuals and who have added to the problem of discrimination on this campus. Both parties, while having different opinions concerning the funding issue, wish to deal with this matter in a rational manner which will not violate any individual's rights, and which will be worthy of this institution.
William Tuttle, professor 'o' history and
sponsor of a petition last fall asking K of
the University to withdraw his student status.
GLSOK, said the only way to end hostilities was to end Imber's petition drive.
"Minority rights are threatened on this campus," Tuttle said. "The petition is motivated by homophobic attitudes. Imber's home is hostile. To end hostilities is to end the petition."
Art Farmer, assistant director of the office of organizations and activities, said he thought conservative attitudes on campus had fueled the GLSOK conflict. Farmer argued that the committee should commit the issue of harassment of GLOSK members and supporters.
Drinking age rise may cut city's tax revenue
Bv JAS STROHMAIER
Staff Reporter
Sales tax revenue from beer sales may decline as much as 25 percent in the Lawrence area if the legal drinking age is increased to 21, according to a grandum report. (A city official.)
Lawrence also would have trouble enforcing the new drinking age, according to the official.
Hannes Zacharias, the city's management analyst, wrote the memorandum at the request of the three state representatives from Lawrence. Zacharias said State Reps John Solbach, Jessie Branson and Betty Jo Charlton, all Democrats, would review the memorandum detailing the local impact of raising the drinking age.
Zacharias the 25 percent estimate was based on information compiled by a Kansas University economist.
Neal Whitaker, the lobbyist, said yesterday that sales tax revenue from beer would decrease 10 percent statewide if the drinking age was raised.
WHITAKER SAID he had talked to the executive directors of other state beer wholesalers to help him estimate the percentage of revenue Lawrence would lose.
He said he compiled information from other college towns in Michigan, Oklahoma and other states to estimate the total loss to Lawrence.
Whitaker said passage of legislation to raise the drinking age might mean an annual revenue loss to the state of between $1.2 and $1.5 million.
That loss to the state would come in the reduction of sales tax and gallonage tax revenue the state would earn through 3.2 percent beer sales each year, he said.
Branson said yesterday she didn't think the estimate by the beer wholesaler was
She said the reduction of sales tax revenue was hard to calculate, and figures estimating the loss of revenue could vary.
"I THINK THAT'S a pretty difficult thing to determine because you don't know if that money would be spent on another item." she said.
Zacharias said he could not obtain Lawrence sales tax revenue information on
"I don't think there would be a total loss," said Jacqueline, "but money would go up."
the sale of beer from the Kansas Department of Revenue because it is classified and because the department didn't have accurate figures for individual cities.
"They really can't provide the figures for the managers are not set up for city by city," he said.
However, Whitaker said, the money the state would lose in tax revenues was small compared to losses in federal highway funds. The amount of statute doesn't pass the higher drinking age.
"What we lose in 22 years won't be equal to what money we'll lose in two years if we lose state highway funding," he said.
97 students reported ill at Hashinger
By TAD CLARKE Staff Reporter
About 100 residents of Hashinger Hall — twice as many as housing officials estimated earlier this week — were sick with a stomach illness during finals last semester, several hall residents said yesterday.
A door-to-door poll of the hall, taken by six Hashinger residents Wednesday night, found that at least 97 students were sick and more than 30 made trips to Watkins Hospital during the last week of finals last semester.
Earlier this week, housing officials estimated that less than 50 residents had been sick and only 15 had gone to the hospital. Housing officials still say a cafeteria worker may have spread a virus at the Dec. 16 dinner. A beef sandwich was the main dinner course that
The Department of Health and Environment in Topeka today was to release its analysis of the food served Dec. 16, Bob Moody, department spokesman, said.
Hall residents will be upset no matter what he finds, Robert Burnett,
Toekea lump saps.
"I think it is a big deal and someone is here to cause of a possible scandal," Burpitt said.
James Jeffley, president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said he was contacted Dec. 19 about the illnesses, and talked with residents who were sick
Jeffrey that because of complaints about sicknesses and overall food quality at all residence halls, he had formed an AURH food committee. Food committee chairmen from each of the halls compose the AURH committee.
Burnett said he quit working in the Hashinger cafeteria after the sickness incident. He said some workmates workers were also a member of 'families had been sick the week before.'
"I even had to drive a girl to her final
house," he said. "You couldn't help but
he couldn't make it on her own," he said.
"We had people lining up to go to the bathroom to throw up," he said. "People had thrown up all over the floor. It was sick."
DeWayne Nickerson, Fort Scott junior,
said he either brushed or tore cartilage in
his ribs from vomiting often and violently.
For some residents, being sick made stud-
James Martin, Shawnee freshman, said he did not miss any finals but studied less because he was sick.
"During my final, I was sitting by a trash can in case I did get sick, but I didn't." Martin said.
Firm shows new locales for library
ny MICHAEL TOTTY Staff Reporter
Architects from the company preparing plans for the proposed science and technology library last night gave KU faculty and students aimp of some of their site locations.
Rick Kanoy, an architect with Peckham,
Guyton, Albers and Viets Inc., offered six
possible site plans for the building to
100 people in 3139 Wicego Hall as a part of
Design Week, sponsored by the School of
Architecture and Urban Design.
All the site plans would place the science library between the Military Science Building and Hoch Auditorium. That location became the focus last semester of protests over the threat to a large tree in the area, as well as to the loss of one of the largest open green spaces in the center of campus.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the University had been committed to the site north of the Military Science Building since 1973.
Kanayo said the University chose the site because the disciplines it was intended to teach were in line with the university's mission.
Pages of group's book reconstruct old Fraser
The architects' plan would include a decision on the fate of the 70-year-old elm tree north of the Military Science Building, Wiechert said. Concern over the tree
"Other available sites around campus for any further development are committed."
See LIBRARY, p. 5, col. 1
Old Fraser Hall served as the campus' main academic Fraser," a 72-page book on the hall, recounts the hall's history building from 1892 to 1965 when it was demolished. "Old with photographs, letters and published articles.
By MICHELLE WORRALL Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The original Fraser Hall has more lives than a cat.
"Old Fraser," published by the Historic Mount Ouread Fund, captures the spirit of the hall, once hailed as the largest educational building west of the Mississippi River. The book contains photographs, letter excerpts and published articles about the hall.
The former campus landmark, razed in 1965, lives in the hearts of former 'students, faculty and Lawrence citizens. Now, the hall also lives in print.
Shankel, managing editor of the Spencer Museum of Art and president of the Historic Mount Oread Fund, and Barbara Watkins, coordinator of curriculum and special projects for independent study in the division of continuing education, spent a year gathering information about old Fraser. Jeannot Barnes Seymour designed the book
"We can no longer afford to build buildings like the original Frasier Hall," said Carol Shankel, who compiled information for the company that have to be satisfied with plain建筑s."
Shankel said "Old Fraser" was written as a fund-raising effort for the Historic Mount Oread Fund, an organization dedicated to preserving historical sites on campus.
SHANKEL AND Watkins also compiled quotes and photographs for "On the Hill," a book that traced the history of the University of Kansas.
The 72-page book sells for $9.95 and all proceeds will help preserve historic landmarks on campus. The book is sold on eBay for $14.95 and on the Kansas Union bookstores.
When Fraser was demolished in 1965 because it was unsafe, it was the oldest building on campus. The foundation, which had been plagued with problems, was
weakened during the building of Blake Hall and the addition to Watson Library.
"There was no choice about saving Fraser. Shankel said. "The building had pitched so low that it looked like a cave."
BUT A CENTURY earlier, Fraser was
touted as the largest and most modern educational facility in the country. The Fort Scott Daily Monitor said, "Harvard College has existed more than 230 years without having a building equal to this in size or usefulness for purposes of instruction."
The building, four stories tall, 300 feet long and 100 feet wide, was heated with steam and lighted with gas. Every room was supplied with water and proudly displayed an
See FRASER, p. 5, col. 1