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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.101,NO.152
WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1992
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Parking decals on sale
Parking stickers from the 1991-1992 academic year expire July 31. New stickers can be purchased at the University Parking Facility starting today.
Don Kearns, director of parking, said he encouraged summer school students, staff and faculty to purchase stickers early to avoid lines in August. Kearns said that the parking facility had not sent out reminders but that the date of expiration was on last year's stickers. Students can purchase yellow or white stickers. Yellow stickers, which are primarily for students living off campus are $50 for one year or $30 a semester. Yellow stickers permit students to park in the lots at the Memorial Stadium and Robinson Gym.
White stickers permit students to park in the residence hall and scholarship hall lots and sell for $33 for one year and $20 for a semester. Faculty and staff can purchase red stickers for $65 a year and $40 a semester. Blue stickers can only be purchased by faculty and staff with 60 years of age and service to the University combined and cost $80 a year and $50 a semester. and $15 if late.
Roost cleanup delayed
Staff in the department of pharmaceutical chemistry found keys on July 7 that fit the windows in Malott Hall, allowing them to remove pigeon feces that had accumulated on the outside window ledges. But until the offending birds leave, a full-scale cleanup was postponed. This week, crews will string fishing line over the Malott Hall courtyard to keep away the pigeons that roost there, said Mike Richardson, director of facilities operations. As time permits, the feces will be cleaned from windows in Malott.
"If the device works, and the pigeons go away, we will contract out to have the windows in the courtvard cleaned," he said.
Richardson said the walls and windows would need to be pressure-washed with special equipment that facilities operations did not have. Janitors in Malott are cleaning the window panes and ledges but probably will not have time to get much done until summer school is over, said Phil Endacott, associate director of housekeeping. The building will need to be pressure-washed to reach the areas that the janitors cannot reach.
WEATHER
Liquor-by-the-drink issue might enter election
By Chris Moeser
Students bored by all the election-year yap about rap, the rich-poor gap and the Murphy Brown flap could be encouraged to go to the polls if a liquor-by-the-drink law is placed on the November ballot.
Kansan staff writer
The Douglas County Commission will hold a public hearing July 22 to determine whether the question will be on the November ballot.
If liquor by the drink were passed, bars selling only alcoholic beverages no longer would be classified as private clubs that are required to charge patrons a membership fee to enter.
Under current law, establishments that sell
And that law is ridiculous, according to Reed Brinton, owner of Benchwarmers Sports Bar and Grill, 1601 W. 23rd St.
liquor and do not require memberships must bring in 30 percent of their revenue from food sales.
A bar in violation of the 30-percent requirement has to convert to private-club status or face losing its liquor license, said Jim Conant, chief administrative officer for ABC.
Conant said it was extremely tough for ABC to enforce the 30-percent requirement and private-club memberships. ABC has 30 agents to cover the entire state, he said.
Brinton said that if the law was enforced strictly, many Lawrence bars would have to become private clubs.
become private class.
Students would have to buy memberships costing as much as $10 for every club they wanted to enter and could end up spending an average of $50 on membership fees, said Brinton.
Brinton said that if the liquor-by-the-drink question was on the ballot, Lawrence bar owners would try to set up voter registration tables in their establishments to encourage students to vote.
The final decision on whether the issue gets on the ballot will be made by the county commission. McElhaney said.
Party James, Douglas County clerk, has the commission to decide by Aug. 17.
No more clubs?
The Douglas County Commission will hold a hearing on July 22 to determine whether the commission question will be placed on the November ballot.
■ Current law mandates that establishments selling liquor must make 30 percent of their revenue in food sales or must classify themselves as a club and require patrons to pay a membership fee.
The new proposal would make it unnecessary for establishments to sell 30 percent revenues in food or become a private club in order to sell liquor by the drink.
Abortion foes stir discussion
Eva Vilach, Lawrence resident, has her daughter, Cecilia, 6, hold a sign at a rally on Campanile Hill supporting women's right to have an abortion. Vilach said at the rally Saturday that she had been supporting abortion rights since before the 1973 Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court decision made abortion legal. Cecilia is one of her five children, who range in age from two to 16 years.
Tsongas, Brown support lingers
Lawrence delegates attend convention
By Chris Moeser
Kansan staff writer
The 1992 presidential campaign might be over for Paul Tsongas and Jerry Brown, but for two of their local supporters, the fight goes on.
Maggie Cartar and Kim Forehand are delegates at the Democratic National Convention at Madison Square Garden in New York this week. Both are Lawrence residents.
Tsongas, who suspended his campaign in March, has released his delegates to vote for whomever they choose. Brown has not released his delegates.
Carrtar said she switched from the Republican to the Democratic Party three months ago because of Tsongas' economic message.
Cartar is pledged to Tsongas, and Fore-bound is nudged to Brown.
sage." she said.
"All of Tofsonga delegates are committed to his proposals and the honesty of the mes-
She called Tsonga's proposals "key to the future of the United States."
"We've got to start paying for our programs." she said.
Carrat pointed to "A Call to Economic Arms." Tsongas' blueprint for reducing the deficit and improving the competitiveness of U.S. companies abroad.
US Congress. Some of Tsonga's ideas will be voted on at the convention for inclusion in the party's platform. Cartarr said that although she would cast her vote for Bill Clinton at the convention, she would continue to fight for the adoption of Tsonga's proposals after the convention was over.
"This business of saying we are economically sound and the world's leader is pulling the wool over people's eyes," she said. "it behaves all Democrats and liberal Republicans to make sure we act to tsongas' economic message to come out of the White House and Congress. I don't think you're going to get this from Bush or Perot."
Cartar criticized President George Bush for doing nothing about the nation's economic problems.
Forehand said she had never been involved in politics before she read an article on Jerry Brown in Rolling Stone magazine.
She joined the Brown campaign because of his support of environmental issues.
Brown supports shutting down the nation's nuclear power plants, reducing the use of fossil fuels and developing goals for dealing with the vanishing ozone layer and the greenhouse effect.
She called Brown's 800 phone number to get involved in the campaign.
orehand said she was shocked when she was elected as a delegate at the state convention earlier this year.
She does not expect to see many of Brown's ideas adopted at the convention.
Brown is the only Democratic candidate who has not endorsed Clinton.
At a meeting in Santa Fe, N.M., several weeks ago, the Democratic Platform Committee rejected all of Brown's 22 proposals.
"They might try to shut us out," Forehand said of the party officials at the convention. "I just want to make my voice heard as loudly as possible."
Solicitation questioned
By Julie Wasson & Becky Lucas
Kansas staff writers
Although Kansans for Life may have trod close to, or even stepped over, a University of Kansas guideline which prohibits non-registered groups from soliciting funds on the campus, KU officials say no action is planned this week.
According to Guidelines for University Events, non-registered organizations may not solicit or collect funds on campus. But at the close of Saturday's Kansans for Life rally in Memorial Stadium, donations were taken
David Miller, who heads the political action committee for Kansans for life, told the crowd that his group had to pay rent and insurance for the stadium. He then said that donations could be put in envelopes and given to collectors outside of the stadium.
When the group received approval to hold the rally, it was given permission to distribute literature, including envelopes people could use to mail donations to the Wichita-based group, said Ann Eversole, director of the Organizations and Activities Center and chairperson of the University Events Committee.
"People can distribute literature, and it is OK because the money is not collected on campus," she said.
Eversole said that no one had complained as of yesterday.
However, she did say that she had received one phone call from an individual who thought funds had been solicited at the event.
"Other than that, all I know is what I've read in the paper," she said.
Mary Prewitt, assistant general counsel, said the University would investigate if a complaint was filed.
"Really the only thing the University would be able to do is say we won't allow them to use the facilities again," she said.
Pat Moriarty, president of the Lawrence chapter of Kansans for Life, said he had not heard from University officials about any problems.
The KU Pro-Choice Coalition sold T-shirts commemorating the "Take the High Ground" pro-choice rally. Eversole said registered student groups could sell or solicit on campus once they received permission from the University Events Committee.
See related story, Page 3.
CAMPUS SNAPSHOT
CLAS produces most undergraduate degrees
By Ana Kostick
Kansan staff writer
The top 10 undergraduate degrees in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences accounted for more than half of the undergraduate degrees awarded in 1991-1992 at the University of Kansas.
Last year the college awarded 1,956 undergraduate degrees, with 1,039 degrees awarded in the top 10 areas of study, including psychology, communication studies, political science and English
Totals were taken from the number of degrees awarded from Summer 1991 to Spring 1992.
The college offers 52 majors, which lead
The main difference between a B.A. and a B.G.S. is the foreign language requirement. A B.A. requires four semesters of college foreign language or its equivalent. A B.G.S. allows the student to take a junior-senior concentration of three upper-level courses from another department instead of a foreign language.
to 93 degrees. Departments can offer a bachelor of arts, a bachelor of general studies and a bachelor of science degree, but each department does not necessarily offer all three.
Pam Houston, director of the college Undergraduate Center, said most students chose the B.G.S. after returning to the college from another school. Students often
and it easier to skip the two years of foreign language to graduate on time.
Though most employers and graduate schools pay the greatest attention to the students' course work and grade point average. Houston said students planning to go on to graduate programs should get a B.A. to get the foreign language background that could help them in the long run.
Psychology and communication studies, which offer both B.A. and B.G.S. degrees, made the top 10 twice, accounting for more than 26 percent of the total college undergraduate degrees.
Tom Beissecker, associate professor of communication studies, said the demand
Beisecker said waiting lists based on seniority were used when courses were filled.
"We hope that the department will continue to grow and meet the needs of the students not only in terms of numbers, but in the rapidly expanding areas such as health communications," he said.
for upper level classes was even higher for those departments because students in both degrees were competing to get into the same classes.
Down Martin, chairperson of psychology, said more professors were needed to make the upper-level courses available to more students.
Popular degrees
From Summer 1991 through Spring 1992, 1,039 degrees were awarded from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in its 10 most popular degree
Source: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Sean Tevis / KANSAN