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Vol. 95, No. 76 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas.
Thursday, January 17, 1985
Transfer of radiation biophysics program suggested
By KATHY FLANDERS
Staff Reporter
The radiation biophysics program should be eliminated from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences but not from the University, the University Council Committee on Academic Procedures and Policies said yesterday.
But F. Allan Hanson, chairman of the committee, admitted the committee's recommendation violated University discontinuance guidelines because it was based on financial, not academic, considerations.
University Senate rules governing program discontinuation say that "an academic program shall be discontinued because of bona fide academic and educational readiness" and that "bona fide educational considerations are distinct from those of financial exigency."
The committee cited two reasons in its recommendation to discontinue the program in July.
Second, the report said, college administrators should integrate college resources to utilize the program.
First, the report said, radiation biophysics cannot be a viable program without improvements, including spending money to hire new faculty.
HANSON SAID, "THE recommendation wasn't supposed to depend on financial considerations. This decision involves hiring nurses, and that involves dollars for their salaries."
Last fall, Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, proposed eliminating the program. Lineberry didn't be reached for comment yesterday.
James Carothers. Senate Executive Committee chairman when the discontinuation policy was adopted last spring, said, "The recommendation to discontinue a program is supposed to be academic. But it's not always possible to separate the economic and academic completely."
"They followed their own guidelines and interpreted section 8.0.1 of the guidelines as follows:
The article says, "Programs may be discontinued when there is no valid educational reason for their continuance."
The committee's report suggests that 8.01 be changed to eliminate possible misunderstandings but doesn't specify changes it would make.
IN RECOMMENDING discontinuance, the
committee cited article 8.2.5, which directs the committee to determine whether discontinuance "is in the best academic interests of the University."
Hanson said the committee wasn't supposed to suggest transferring the program but did so anyway.
The committee recommended that "efforts be made to transfer or establish such a program in some segment of the University other than the college."
"We encouraged administration to find a new home for the program," he said.
Hanson said the University's nuclear reactor might be affected if the radiation biophysics program was eliminated.
"The University has to satisfy (federal) guidelines to keep the reactor up," Hanson said. "If there's no program in radiation
biophysics, KU couldn't satisfy the guidelines.
"KU QUALIFIES TO have the reactor with the radiation biophysics program."
The University Council will take the next step in the process to eliminate the radiation biophysics program from the college at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 24 in 208 Blake Hall, when it acts on committee's recommendation. The council will meet on Thursday, March 15, Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs.
There are 10 graduate students and three undergraduate students now enrolled in the program, which offers four degrees. The committee's recommendation satisfies the requirement to arrange for the completion of requirements at KU or other institutions.
The committee's proposal also satisfies the discontinuance policy's requirement that no dismissal of faculty occur.
Nicaraguan prof offers insights into revolution
Students enrolled in Political Science 669, Nicaragua last November's election, lectures to students in Nicaragua Politics, will learn about the government and history of the Politics yesterday in 210 Ribe Rose Hall
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BY JOHN RODRIGUEZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Teaching students will be less stressful than supervising an election under a revolutionary government, Mariano Fallo, the former president of Nicaragua's Sucre party.
Fialos, a Rose Morgan professor of political science in the Center for Latin American Studies, is teaching about 40 students in a Nicaraguan politics course this semester.
In November, Fiallos supervised the first national election in Nicaragua under the Sandanista government, which took power in 1979.
Fiallos said the purpose of his course was to provide as well as possible an exercise in the republication law.
THE COURSE MET for the first time at
11:30 a.m. yesterday in 210 Blake Hall
"To understand the Nicaraguan revolution, you have to take into account that Nicaragua was subjected to the influence. Nicaragua was the indication of several countries," Fiallo said.
An honors class taught by Fialos, International Relations of Central American and the Caribbean, also met for the first time yesterday. Less than a dozen students are enrolled in the class, which met at 3:30 p.m. in Nunemaker Center, said Randa Dubnick, acting director of the college honors program.
Students who attended the first class session of Nicaraguan politics said they were excited about learning from a government who had played a part in Nicaraguan history.
Cheri Dewey, Leawood senior, said that the Nicaraguan elections were a "hot topic," and that she wanted a basic background of public relations from someone with firsthand knowledge.
"I DON'T KNOW if you get an accurate view from newspapers." Dwyer said.
She said that because of the proximity of Central America to the United States, it was important to under stand the political nature of the region.
A former student said that she was "dying
to take this course" Rhonda Neuebauer, who said she was auditing the class, added, "Where else are we going to hear a central Nicaraguan official?"
Several students were unaware that Fialios' teaching appointment had been protested by a business professor who wrote that the appointment of Fialios to a professorship was, "roughly comparable to having appointed a member of a Nazi puppet government to a KU visiting professorship during the late 1930s."
ARTHUR THOMAS, the Arthur Young distinguished professor of business, made the remark in a Sept. 12 letter to Charles W. Carnegie, the founder of the Center for Latin American Studies.
The protest by Thomas showed a lack of knowledge "of what Nazis are, or what the Nicaraguan government is," Failos said.
"Last thing I could be called is a Nazi."
He said it was difficult to find objective material for the course. Many textbooks were either overly for or against the Nicaraguan revolution.
FIALLOLS THE Course would cover the political development of Nicaragua from the Spanish colonization to the present. The lectures will be divided into four sections: colonization to 1930, the Somoza era, the Civil War of 1777 and 1797, and the post-revolution present.
Fiellos said present-day Nicaragua was far from a totalitarian state. He said a report of the Nicaraguan election by the Latin
American Studies Association, a group of American scholars, showed that the elections were not merely a governmental formality.
Criticism of the Nicaraguan election by the U.S. government is unjustified. Fiallos said,
because no country's elections are perfect -- including elections of the United States.
Nicaragua's revolutionary government is trying to build a unique system based on political pluralism and anti-imperialism. Fiallos said. He said governmental goals include improving the health, education, and economy of the roughly 3.2 million Nicaraguans.
He said Nicaraquay buys weapons from Russia, France and other countries to battle the counter-revolutionary forces. The rebels are based in Honduras, and attack Nicaraquay and other economic objectives. They also "kill civilians indiscriminately," he said.
Fiallos has a daughter, Violeta, who is a KU senior studying business administration, and a son, Rodrigo, who is a Lawrence high school senior.
Co-owner says beer will flow at Crossing site
By CINDY McCURRY Staff Renorter
The building at 618 W. 12th St., formerly Hawk's Crossing, will remain an establishment of beer, not beauty, a co-owner of the building said Tuesday.
When the Crossing closed Dec. 15, rumors circulated that the bar would become a beauty parlor. But James Thrasher, coowner of the building, said that the building would be sold within two weeks and that it would remain a bar.
Charles Kincaid, the other co-owner of the building, said yesterday that Kinka's Copies had been delivered.
"Our immediate plan is for the building to remain a tavern, but not through us. We will continue."
Jim Warren, president of Kinko's Graphics Corp. in Santa Barbara, Calif., said yesterday that he and three other persons had submitted a bid on the building.
BEFORE IT BECAME Hawk's Crossing in 1980, the gathering place at the north edge of campus was perhaps best known as the Rock Chalk Cafe. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Chalk was a center for the Lawrence drug culture. CBS news Dan Manher and "60 Minutes" visited the bar while doing a story about drug problems on college campuses.
The Chalk came to an abrupt end on March 13, 1971, when Vern Miller, then Kansas attorney general, closed the bar as a public nuisance.
Jeff Morrow, former owner of Hawk's Crossing, said he had no plans to re-open the Crossing.
"I guess we'll all just have to wait and see what happens," Morrow said.
But a former Crossing employee, Bill Odle,
said that if the building re-opened as a bar,
many of the Crossing's former customers
would return.
"They (the new owners) are going to have to go out of their way to lose the clientele." Odie said. "The people who went there will put up with anything."
HE SAID CROSSING regulars no longer
place to go to socialize and meet
friends
"I just don't go out any more." Odle said.
Reagan praises arms team but asks for real reduction
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan congratulated his arms control team yesterday for bringing the Soviets back to the negotiating table but stressed he wanted real arms reductions and not just "a piece of paper" in new talks.
The Shultz-Gromyko meeting climaxed with an agreement to set a specific time and place during the next month for the start of new negotiations covering medium-range nuclear missiles, strategic arms and weapons in space.
Insisting that there be "no euphoria" over last week's agreement to resume formal arms negotiations, Reagan told his advisers during a 20-minute White House meeting: "We can't rest on our laurels. This is the beginning of a process."
The meeting was the first formal reunion of Reagan and the delegation he sent to Geneva. Jan. 7 for talks between Secretary of State Robert L. McCain and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromykov.
NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER Robert McFarlane chaired a more substantive session of top Reagan advisers yesterday to chart a course for the talks.
White House spokesman Larry Speakes, who briefed reporters on the meeting between Reagan and the arms control team, said the president "thanked and congratulated” his advisers’ and expressed his appo-
sition for the effort and for bringing
Soviet forces to the table.
The Soviets walked out of arms talks 13 months ago.
"We want an agreement," the president was quoted as saying, "But if it isn't a good agreement — if it won't work — we just don't seek a piece of paper."
At the same time, Speaks said, Reagan again cautioned against high expectations and indicated he will not consider an arms agreement to be a goal in and of itself.
Reagan has attached similar conditions in the past, insisting any agreement with the Soviets result in mutual and verifiable reductions in armaments to equal levels. The aim of a stumbling block in negotiations with the US is policy-making within the administration.
SPEAKES DEFINED AN acceptable agreement as one "that offers the prospect of real arms reduction on both sides and would offer the prospect of lessening tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union."
In a separate statement, Reagan declared his "determination to reach agreements which bring about deep and verifiable benefits for the states, and which enhance strategic stability."
Reagan said he remained "confident that with the expertise and dedication each member of our team brings to this work, the team will be able to make the correlations negotiating succeed."
See Reagan, p. 5, col. 1
Beer wholesalers' group drafts own bill as legislators ponder drinking age issue
By MICHAEL TOTTY
Beer wholesalers, faced with the impending increase of the state's legal drinking age, yesterday introduced their proposal to ban beer sales to those under 2)
Staff Reporter
The Senate Federal and State Affairs Committee voted yesterday to introduce a 49-page bill presented by the Kansas Beer Wholesalers Association that would phase in the drinking age increase over the next three years.
Under the wholesalers' bill, Kansans who now can buy beer still would be able to do so. The legal age then would increase from 18,19 to 18,20, to 2 on July 1, 1966 and to 21 in 1973.
The state must raise the legal drinking age to 21 by 1986 to comply with federal regulations or lose federal highway funds.
"Raising the age is not a good idea as far as we're concerned." Neal Whitaker, lobbyist for the wholesale said, "But I'm a realist. I don't streamline and modernize the industry."
THE WHOLESALERS' BILL trades the loss of 3.2 percent beer sales to 18- to 21-year-olds for changes that would regulate regulations currently governing beer sales.
The bill would allow those 18 and older to serve beer in closed containers and to
The Senate committee also agreed to introduce bills legalizing pari-mutual betting and calling for a vote on a national amendment for liquor by the drink.
serve it in open containers in licensed businesses where food accounts for half of the sales.
"THIS AGE CATEGORY represents a generation of Kansans who have never been given the opportunity to vote on this issue." Shelor said in a prepared state-
Other provisions would permit Sunday and election-day beer sales, except in liquor stores, and would allow beer to be sold until 1:30 a.m. None of these provisions would become effective until the legal drinking age reached 21 in 1987.
Jerry Shelor, director of Kansans for Effective Liquor Control, introduced the liquor by the drink measure. He cited a university of Kansas study that found 85 percent of those polled favored such an amendment. He said the study found the strongest support came from the 21 to 30 age group.
The House Federal and State Affairs Committee plans to conduct hearings on the drinking age issue beginning Tuesday. Committee Chairman Robert H. Miller, committee chairman, will meet together a committee bill based on testimony at the hearings instead of
"THE DRINKING AGE is going to be raised," Miller said. "Now we need to start looking at the more practical details."
Miller said the committee already understood the economic and safety arguments for and against raising the drinking age. Instead, he said, the committee will look at the beer wholesalers' proposals and the Associated Kansas concerns about possible effects on student opportunity opportunities.
introducing proposals submitted to the committee.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Dawrence, a member of Miller's committee, opposes raising the drinking age and requiring alcohol to be more comprehensive approach to the issue.
"We don't have to act this year," Charlton said. "We should enforce the laws we have and take a wait-and-see attitude and not act this session."
She said the cost to the state of raising the drinking age would include the loss of state revenues, the price of additional law enforcement and the economic effect on tavern owners.
JOHN LAMB, DIRECTOR of the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board, yesterday told Miller's committee that his agency would need between six and 15 additional agents to enforce a higher drinking age.