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VOL.101, NO.145
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Two present and one former member of the Kansas Spirit Squad will represent the United States in the closing ceremonies of the Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. The women were three of 25 selected from a seven city search. About 1,500 people auditioned for 50 spots in the production.
Laura Meyers, Overland Park senior, and KU graduate Mark Sharp, Overland Park, perform a Kiso Kumite, or preset sparring. Meyers and Sharp were practicing outside Allen Field House yesterday evening. They are members of the KU karate club, which meets at 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. They said the club was a good stress reliever from finals.
Kansas City sings the Blues
Olympic Spirit
If singing the blues sounds appealing after finals are finished, the Blues and Jazz Festival could offer entertainment that will mellow the soul.
Please see story, page 5.
Please see story, page 6.
WEATHER
Perot withdraws leaving staff to lament loss
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Tuesday was the last day of work for most of Ross Perot's remaining staff, leaving only a handful of aides to shut down what was once a leading presidential campaign.
Perot's headquarters took on the appearance of a wake, with staff lamenting the loss of the campaign and volunteers still hoping for a resurrection.
Tom Lace, Perot's long-time lawyer and campaign chairperson, was busy packing boxes and declined to take phone calls.
After Tuesday, "perot a skeleton crew will remain," said Perot representative Sharon
Holman. "We're not sure how long it's going to take to get our house in order. We still have financial reports, all kinds of things."
Perot's phone-bank volunteers wanted to keep the telephones up and running, but the operation was slated to close today.
"A lot of people are fighting to keep it alive to keep communication with the other states," said Rose Roberts-Camandale, phone-bank coordinator. "We're still alive. We got well over 400 calls yesterday. We're staying real busy today."
"the callers all want him to stay connected. People must don't want it to die."
On Tuesday, Perot's name was certified for the Indiana ballot, bringing to 25 the number of states carrying his now-defunct independent candidacy. Supporters filed ballot petitions on
As the Dallas operation wound down, Perot supporters around the country were pressing ahead with their efforts to put him on the November ballot.
The phone bank opened March 12 and at
"They want to keep a group going forward, creating a brain center here in Dallas and also an accountability group to keep an eye on politicians in Texas," Roberts-Cannaday said.
ones nandied thousands of calls each hour. The phone-bank crew members were planning a meeting of their own to make future plans.
Workers have been trucking away equipment from the campaign headquarters, which has been closed to reporters since Saturday. Requests to interview departing workers were denied. Perot offered workers severance pay through November, aides said.
Monday in West Virginia and Missouri
Monday in West Virginia and Missouri.
Perot has urged his supporters to continue the petitionsto get his name more 50 state ballots to obtain leverage for the fall election.
Please see related story, page 3.
$1.7 million budget cut forces Haskell students to pay tuition
By Julie Wasson
campaign staff writer
James Bland, a KU landscaping employee, rebuilds a planet behind Fraser Hall. Bland brittle the plantier yesterday afternoon after the plantor had been taken apart to allow maintenance on a street lamp. The plants in the planter were temporarily moved across the street to Watkins Scholarship Hall.
Tool time
Kansan staff writer
Jay Farrell is planning to attend Haskell Indian Junior College this fall.
However, her plans are tentative. She is waiting for a decision on a federal proposal that could, for the first time, require Haskell students to pay tuition. And that proposal makes her angry.
"I think the government is violating a pact they made many years ago," she said. "It not right."
The federal government has proposed that Haskell's budget for fiscal year 1993 be cut by about $1.7 million, and the Office of Management and Budget has recommended that Haskell begin charging tuition to make up for the reduction.
The Haskell Board of Regents recommended a $7.8 million budget for fiscal year 1993, according to a statement issued by the joint boards of regents of Haskell and the Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute. Haskell's budget in fiscal year 1992 was about $7.1 million, said Hannes Combes, education assistant to the president of Haskell.
The polytechnic institute, located in Albuquerque, N.M., faces a budget cut of $946,000 under the proposal.
According to a poll taken by Haskell's Student Senate last spring, 75 percent of Haskell students surveyed said that they would not or could not attend Haskell if tuition were charged.
"A lot of students don't have the financial resources or knowledge on how to get them," Farrell said. "Those students will be left out in the cold."
Combest said Haskell did not have a plan to implement a tuition charge.
"We will not start such a plan until we're asked to by the Bureau of Indian Affairs," she said. "At this point, we don't even know a tuition charge
would start this fall or next spring."
Mike Horak, press secretary for Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, said the proposal, which is part of the Department of Appropriations Bill, had been rejected last week by the House Interior Committee.
"The committee approved restoration to Haskell's budget from last year," Horak said.
He said the committee had also recommended an additional $3 million for a new dorm at Haskell and $165,000 for teacher training.
The House will debate the bill later this week or early next week.
Horak said he expected the Senate to reject the proposal as well.
"Senator Kassebaum has recommended full funding for Haskell," he said. "She's also recommended and additional $500,000 for program development. In all likelihood, the Senate will reject the cuts at Haskell."
Shawn Braun, Kassebaum summer intern and student body president at Haskell last year, is on the Select Committee on Indian Affairs. He said he thought that the poll taken at Haskell had been valuable in fighting the proposal.
Braun said that requiring students to pay tuition would be devastating to the school.
"We could be in jeopardy of losing our school," he said. "But I'm encouraged by the Interior Committee's rejection of the proposal."
John Echols, Lawrence sophomore, said he would not be able to return to Haskell if he had to pay tuition.
"I could try to get a grant, but I'd probably have to take some time off and work," he said. "I probably wouldn't be able to come back to school for two years."
Kansas' rabies cases rise dramatically
Kansan staff writer
By Ana Kostick
Leslie Reynard will think twice before she nicks up a stray animal again.
Reynard, a western civilization teaching assistant at the University of Kansas, made that mistake in June and is paying the price.
"It's second nature for an animal lover to have contact with the animal." she said.
Reynard was bitten on her thumb when she tried to pick up a stray kitten. As a result she is on her third round of rabies shots. She said that the five-dose course of shots would cost $755 and that she hoped her student health policy would cover it.
Rabies is 100-percent fatal; it attacks the nervous system and has an incubation period of up to four years, said Randall Rock, a physician at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Rock said there had only been 13 cases of human rabies in the last 11 years in the United States.
Gregory Olmsted, director of environmental health at the Lawrence Douglas County Health Department said the department handled a rabid Alaskan malamut puppy July 10.
Omsted said the symptoms for dogs and cats included extreme nervousness, viciousness, weakness in the legs without evidence of pain, unexplained paralysis and failure to drink and eat.
"That brings our cases in Douglas County to 15 this year," he said. "This year we've had two rabid cows, three rabid dogs and 10 skunks."
Andrew Pelletier, acting state epidemiologist at the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, said all bites should get medical attention. Any open wound that is exposed to saliva should be considered a bite.
"It wouldn't have even occurred to me"
Bryanard said. "A friend told me to get the
shirt."
Pellетier said the number of rabid animal cases in Kansas in the first half of this year
was more than five times the total number of such cases in 1991. He attributed the increase to the natural cycle of rabies, which last peaked in 1982. The disease seems to peak every ten years. Pelletier said the mild winter, in which many animals survived, also was a factor in this year's peak.
Pelletier said the number of animal rabies cases had been fairly stable throughout the 1980s, averaging 50 each year. In 1991, there were 63 reported cases of animal rabies. This year alone, there have been 317 cases of animal rabies, 289 cases were found in skunks, he said.
Brenda Clary, animal control officer with Lawrence police, said the increase could also be attributed to a number of students who get a pet at the beginning of the year and set it free when school is out.
"They can't bear to bring to the shelter for fear it will be put to sleep," she said. "So that means you can't stay."
Clary said the best prevention was to get
all pets spayed and neutered and to stay current on their vaccinations by the age of six months.
In addition, pet owners should not leave pets unattended outdoors, Clary said.
She also emphasized the need for caution and education.
"Panic is not the appropriate response," she said. "But awareness is."
A wild animal that will let a person approach it is the most dangerous, Clary said. The animal is either sick or injured if it will let a human get near it.
"Treat any stray animal as a wild animal," Clary said. "And any animal you do not know is a stray, even if it has a collar on."
An animal may not have rabies, but unless it can be positively identified and brought in for observation, the shots should be started within 24 hours of the bite, according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on rabies prevention.
CAMPUS SNAPSHOT
KU numbers show need for minority recruiting
By Becky Lucas Kansan staff writer
The share of graduate degrees earned by minority students increased by 1.6 percent over the last 10 years, from 3.1 percent in 1980-81 to 4.7 percent in 1990-91, according to statistics released by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning.
In 1980-81, 1,357 students earned graduate degrees at the University of Kansas on the Lawrence campus. Of those students, 42 were minorities. In 1990-91, 60 of the 1,290 students who earned graduate degrees were minorities.
"I think the numbers reflect urgent need
However, a study by the American Council on Education of master's degrees conferred during the 1890s showed that the percentage of minority students registered only a minimal change at a national level. In 1979, minorities made up 10.5 percent of students seeking master's degrees, while in 1989 they made up 10.7 percent.
for all significant members of the University that deal with recruitment to be more aggressive in attracting minorities to our graduate degree programs," said Sherwood Thompson, director of the Office of Minority Affairs.
"There was a decrease in the number of African Americans who received degrees,
but it remained stable mainly because of the increase in Asian Americans," said Eileen O'Brien, research analyst at the American Council on Education. "So it's a real mixed message."
Thompson said the KU numbers reflected the need for more minority recruiting.
Robert Sanders, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, could not be reached for comment. Chico Herbison, assistant to the dean, declined to comment either.
"I'm hoping that in the future the new CTA fee structure will attract more minor cities."
But other options must also be found to
attract the students, he said.
"And the numbers, no matter how small they are, show improvement," he said.
"We're going to have to promote Kansas better so it can change some of the perceptions of some of the candidates from the West and East Coast so they feel comfortable exploring Kansas," Thompson said.
"Overall the major objective for the various University departments is to become more innovative in the pursuit of minority graduate students. That's the bottom line."
However, he also said that even though numbers were low, they did not indicate a lack of effort on the behalf of the office of graduate studies.
Minority graduate numbers increase
Since 1980, the number of minority students receiving graduate degrees has risen 1.6 percent. In the 1990-91 school year, 50 of 1,290 graduate students received bachelor's degrees in minorities, up from 4.2 of 1,357 in 1980-81.
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