THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.143
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY. APRIL29. 1992
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Wichita State, K-State may leave ASK
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
Two member universities of the Associated Students of Kansas might end their association with the student lobbying group soon.
The defections would affect the state organization and the University of Kansas.
Kansas State University's student senate will pay tomorrow night on whether to pay about $27,000 in yearly dues. Wichita State University's student senate voted in February with
hold its $22,000 in dues for next year.
ASK has a total yearly budget of $109,000. Dues are paid from six member universities: KU, K-State, Wichita State, and Emporia, Pittsburgh and Fort Hays state universities. KU will pay about $36,000 for next year.
Jennifer Volz, student body president at Wichita State, said her school still would reconsider if ASK made some changes.
She said Wichita State wanted a reduction in dues and a reduction in the professional lobbying staff in Topeka from two lobbyists to one.
"Until then, we will concentrate on our own lobbying because our senate voted that way." Volz said.
Wichita State can continue as a member of ASK until the fall, when money for ASK membership is due.
K-State joined Wichita State in support of reducing dues and staff. No other school followed.
Jackie McClaskey, K-State student body president, said the K-State senate voted to pass its fiscal year 1998 budget but decided to put the ASK proposal off until tomorrow's senate meeting.
She said the senate had concerns that they were receiving an appropriate amount of services for $27,000.
K-State students have a separate group that lobbies for university concerns, McClassey said. She said the group has said she could do as much for K-State as ASK.
"K-State of the opinion they can do the same thing wedo, but thatis not the case," he said. "Without the
resources of the five other schools, they would not be as effective."
As for Wichita State, Nimz said that the university's attempt to use student lobbyists also would not be effective.
"Being two and one-half hours from the state capitol, it would be physically impossible to do the work needed in Topeka," he said.
John Schwartz, KU co-director for ASK, said the group could survive with four members for about two years.
"One of ASK's basic policies is
strength lies in numbers," he said. "If K-State and Wichita leave, it breaks the chain. We need to a united front."
He said he was concerned the schools that leave would still receive benefits from ASK work without paying for them.
Schwartz said that KU might not want to be a part of a weakened ASK.
"My personal feeling is ASK in going under some radical changes," he said. "Whether to remain part of a smaller ASK remains to be seen."
Playboy shoot only finds Kely Harmon feeling great about life, anxious for future
By Janet Rorholm
Kansan staff writer
When one of Kely Harmon's neighbors suggested that she pose in Playboy, he was not sure if he would get a slap or a smile.
"I said it in passing, a joke type thing, because you don't know how someone is going to take it," said Mike Kitter. Deter sophomore.
Harmon didn't slit Kitter. Instead she auditioned for Playboy and landed on page 116 of the April Girls of the Big Eight issue, sitting on the edge of a desk, only partially wearing a black lace bra, black garter belt and black hose, her long red hair teased, smiling seductively into the camera.
Her bi in *Playboy* said she liked cassies and credit cards, but there is much more to play.
Harmon's outgoing, personable nature attracts people to her. But she also is determined to have her own way. She's hard-working, stubborn and independent, always going after her classmates and takes her classes and her job as a receptionist at the Kansas University Alumni Association seriously.
But after graduation she doesn't want to pursue a career, opting instead for the mommy-track. And, although she has strong traditional family values, she still has no problem taking off her clothes for at least 3.5 million Playboy readers.
The Lawrence sophomore said she doesn't know why she decided to pose in Playboy. It was just something she wanted to do.
"Playboy has the most beautiful women in the world," Harmon said, sitting Indian-style on her bed. "It's such an honor to be in it, even my little photo in there. It's not that big of a deal, but it is kind of. It's an accomplishment." She rubs lotion on her hands.
"I think Playboy is probably the only one of the naked magazines that I don't consider pornography," she said. "I think it's promoting sexuality as opposed to sex."
Harmon said she never thought she would get picked, but when Playboy called to ask if she would do some more pictures, she immediately said yes.
Once Playboy chose her for the
issue, her decision to go through with it
wantn't as easy. Her parents were against it. They asked her not to do it and offered to give her the money she would pay but she returned Pepm now.
"I had to decide," Harmon said. "I knew it was going to hurt them, but it was something I really, really wanted to do. They said 'You might regret it,' but I didn't 'think I would, and I don't at all."
In the end, her father seems to have accepted her decision. He even came to one of the magazine signing sessions.
"That really meant a lot to me," she said, adding that she was not embarrassed about her father seeing her naked in Playboy. "It's always hard when your parents disapprove of something that you are doing that you really feel good about."
Her mom still doesn't like it.
"I took home a magazine and she said she would look at it when she was ready and I doubt if she has yet," Harmon said. "She 'b were irrorified if I did it
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Bill Clinton approaches nomination with win in Pennsylvania
ANALYSIS
The Pennsylvania walkaway accomplished his dual mission: winning delegates for his almost-guaranteed nominating majority at the Democratic National Convention on July 15 and dispelling doubts to gain headway for the ultimate test against President Bush on Nov. 3.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — In the final round of presidential primaries, Bill Clinton is seeking votes of Democratic confidence in states that will be battlegrounds of the fall campaign, from Pennsylvania, where he won in a landslide last night, to crucial California.
In winning with about 55 percent of the vote, Clinton seemed to have overcome his old nemesis, the character issue, among Pennsylvania Democrats. A poll of voters leaving polling places found 61 percent believe the Arkansas governor has the honesty and integrity to be an effective president, the television networks reported. That compared with 49 percent in the New York primary three weeks ago.
Democratic National Chairman Ronald Brown called it an encouraging sign that showed voters will back Clinton once they get to know him and his policies.
Clinton said he'd been able to conduct a positive campaign, oriented to issues and change rather than to persecute them. "I was my kind of campaign," he said.
And while Bush was gaining another unchallenged primary victory, 38 percent of Republican voters said they respected his job performance as president.
Nonetheless, the network exit poll still showed that 53 percent of Democrats would like to see some other candidate enter the race.
Kelliv Harmon relaxes before an aerobics class by plaving with Elliott. one of her three cats.
Primary breakdown
Inpartial Democratic returns, Clinton was getting 56 percent of the vote,
former California Gov. Jerry Brown
26 percent, dropout Paul Tsongas, still on
the ballot, 12 percent.
Here is the current breakdown of presidential preferences of delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions.
Democrats
Needed to nominate: 2,145
Total delegate votes: 4,288
Yet to be chosen: 1,313
Republicans
Bush 1.007
Needed to nominate: 1,105
Total delegate votes: 2,209
Yet to be chosen: 1,058
With the share he was winning in the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton moved within about 650 votes of the 2,145 it will take to win the Democratic presidential nomination. There are 14 primaries to go, assuring that Clinton will be close enough to a majority to gain any balance among party leaders and officeholders who still are uncommitted.
Jerry Brown Democratic presidential candidate
"I don't care what the numbers show," said Jerry Brown, declaring that he'll press on with his challenge.
The Democratic delegate arithmetic is Clinton's.
Some, like Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey, insist that there ought
Michael Gier, Daily Kansan
to be alternatives to a Clinton, Casey contends that the character issues plaguing Clinton make him a likely loser to Bush. He says he could be convinced otherwise, but failing that, he thinks the convention should be held open to consider other candidates.
"All we're doing is really expressing what the public in these surveys around the country are saying, and that very simply is that over half of the people have great concerns about the character issue," he said in an election-eve television interview. "These are danger signals that I think the party ignores at its peril."
But the aim of any candidate is to close the convention by gaining a delegate majority before it begins, and Clinton is on track toward that goal.
Cases saythisiselectability concerns about Clinton are shared by other Democrats.
Jerry Brown points to those vulnerabilities in his campaign against Clinton, saying that voting for the Arkansas governor is like buying a ticket on the Titanic, and forecasting that Bush would win 47 states against him.
The big state primaries are Clinton's opportunity. Presidential elections are won or lost in the major states, with their hefty electoral votes. A candidate who can gain strength there has a head start for the final campaign.
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Group voices dissatisfaction with residence-hall conditions
Kansan staff writer
By Erik Bauer
About 60 students met at the fifth floor lobby in Ewellsworth Hall last night to listen to Outrage, a group that distributed fliers accusing resident assistants and housing administration officials of mistreatment and arbitrary rule enforcement.
Last night's meeting became a heated debate between those who agreed with Outrage and those who disagreed. One side said the disciplinary process treated them unfairly, and the other side argued that the discipline should be held accountable for their actions.
Students argue about the fairness of discipline in residence halls.
The fliers were distributed earlier this week. Some were illegally placed on cars in the Daisy Hill parking lot, while others were placed in residence halls.
Zielinski, Omaha, Neb., freshman, said he encouraged disgruntled students to write letters outlining their complaints and give the letters to him after graduation, who planned to take them to Ken Stoner, director of student housing at 45 n.m. room
Bob Zielinski, organizer of Outrage and co-creator of the fliers, said the group intended the fliers to be radical and militant.
He said Outrage was opposed to the casting of RAs in the dual roles of friend and villain.
"We wanted to catch everybody's attention because we think there are things that are hard to reach."
Zielinski said he had been falsely accused of setting off a fire alarm at Eldsworth this year and that he had been arrested by Ternolillo Hall, where he is still living.
He said Outrage was composed of seven residents with similar experiences who also said the roles of RAs were clouded and their decisions arbitrary. The group also objected to the fact that RAS monitors their students the students' peers.
*People who have been harassed are usually people that are considered disciplinary.
He said that he and his friends had been singled out as troublemakers.
Four residents on his former floor also were kicked out of Ellsworth, Zielinski and
He said he thought the University was
"We have power if we get numbers," Zielinski said.
"We want to find a middle ground where RAS aren't always busting us or taking a condescending tone with us," Zielinski said.
ripping off students because they paid
for the school and not received childish
treatment in return.
Jamie Cutburth, recently-elected president of the Association of University Residence Halls, said during the meeting that AURH had a Housing and Contracts committee that students could approach with their grievances.
Jason Graff, Lenexa sophomore,
spoke at the meeting
"One of my suggestions is to talk to our housing person," he said. "I'll be happy to meet with you if you'd like to look into getting reinstated. A lot of things can be
Several of the people who attended the meeting disagreed with Zielinski and Teresa.
"Perhaps the residence-hall system at KU does need close inspection to the source of discontent," he said. "However, I do find it irresponsible to place the
entirety of the blame on the RA staff at Ewellorth and Deb Miller. Ido, however, see much of the blame pointed toward the urgent of their responsibilities in the hall.
Aaron Orr, Columbia, Mo., graduate student and RA at the hall, said the students who complained were not behaving like adults.
"They just don't want to be held accountable for their actions," he said. But many students agreed with Zielinski.
But many students agreed with Zielinski.
Stephen Flueck, Perry freshman, said his friends often were blamed for being too young.
"If anything happens at night, I'm the first one that's blamed for it," he said.
Flueck said his RA often told him to turn down his music, while the noise of the RA's guitar amplifier could be heard in the street.
Miller, the director of Ellsworth Hall, said she could not comment.