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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.127
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
TUESDAY APRIL 7,1992
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As former Governor John Carlin looks on, Democratic candidate Bill Clinton speaks during a brief stop last night at Forbes Field in Topeka.
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450 attend pre-primary Kansas stop
By Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA -- Supporters of Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton gathered last night to cheer the Democratic presidential canvass before today's Kansas primary.
Clinica, the only candidate to visit the fortress, had about 450 people at Fortress in Topeka.
Bill McDonnell, state coordinator for the Clinton campaign, said the governor's visit was important because it signaled that Democrats are窥探 their opinions were important.
"Some people have suggested that Kansans feel their vote doesn't count on a day when there are other big states voting," he said. "Kansas is important. The votes of individuals in Kansas are important."
Clinton and former California Gov. Jerry Brown, the only other Democrat officially still in the race, have been nominated by the York. York, which belongs a primary today.
Clinton was accompanied by his wife in the evening several stops in the last month.
"She told me she had a great time in Kansas," Bill Clinton said. "And she told me I would too."
Clinton told supporters the nation was in trouble
"Every other country in the world has an economic strategy," he said. "Not us. Not theirs. Not ours." He stresses, "Not us. We're the only country in the world without an energy
policy. Youdon't have to be bright as a tree full of owls to figure out they're playing with five players on the court and we're playing with three."
Clinton said people in the United States had to start working together.
"We have to stop dividing this country by race or any other artificial category," he said. "Every person counts. There is no them. There is only us, and we've got to start acting like it. We don't have a person to waste."
The candidate urged listeners to start believing in the nation's political system again.
"These next years can be the best we've ever had," he said. "But we've got to decide we want a president and a government with a vision. People must care for one another again. And we have got to believe in the system."
Robert Hite, the national coordinator for the Paul Tsongas campaign, stole some of the limelight by telling reporters at the rally that the former Massachusetts senator would re-enter the presidential race tomorrow and that Tsongas planned to visit the Kansas City area at the end of April.
Tsongas announced in March that he would sussend his efforts because of a
"Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton have beaten each other up so much in New York, Paul Tsongas is often candidate left with integrity," he said.
growing campaign debt
But Clinton supporters were positive about the outcome of today's primary.
Jean Carter, executive committee member of KU Students for Clinton, was one of several students who spent the week helping prepare for the governor's visit.
"This campaign has been lots of work with little notice," she said. "But it will be worth it today when we take the state of Kansas."
State legislators and members of the KU Young Democrats also were among supporters who applauded, whistled and requested autographs.
"This is great for the kids," she said,
"it's an opportunity you don't get very nice."
Mauer said she supported Clinton's ideas and hoped his visit would convince him that he was right.
Judy Mauer, Topeka resident, attended the rally with her husband and three
"I hope it helps people come out and vote." she said.
Senate coalitions plan offensive strategy for campaign's finale
By Jay Williams
Kansan staff writer
With only three days left in the 1992 Student Senate election race, the Unless and Vision coalitions are taking the offensive.
But each of the coalitions said the word of offensive could describe some of the most successful teams.
Students will have the final word tomorrow and Thursday when they vote at various locations on campus.
The campaign heated up at a debate Sunday when Brad Garlinghouse, Vision presidential candidate, said, "A vote for Unless is a vote for less."
Yesterday, he said that the comment
introduced important differences
between Vampire and X-men.
"I'm saying a vote for Unless would be a vote for less leadership and less experience, and because of that, a vote for a productive Senate," Garlinghouse said.
Jean Winter, Unless presidential candidate, said that the remark insured her and that she was ready to heat up the campaign against the rival coalition.
"They have stepped it up a notch," she said. "I am perfectly capable of stepping."
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"I've been nice, and I've been cordial so far," Winter said. "I've hided it with Ms. Nice Person. At the first attack, I don't think I'll be too nice."
She said that she interpreted the attacks on Unless' lack of experience as meaning Vision was on the defensive about the issues they supported.
Vision changed platform issues the three times it printed fliers, Winter said.
"I'm offended because it is simply not true," Garlinghouse said. "They are throwing stuff out there that is not even
Garlinghouse said that Vision had not waffled on the issues and had made changes based on response from students more research by coalition members.
He said he was offended by statements made by members of Unless that claimed that Senate and the Finance Committee were groups of elitists.
He also said that he was offended when Winter said that he had not been effective as head of the University Affairs Committee and a Senate member.
Garlinghouse said that since he had been head of the committee, the advertising campaign to promote Secure Cab increased use of the service by 60 percent.
He said that Vision went on the offensive first, and that he was proud of it.
Garlinghouse also said that Vision had taken the campaign more seriously than U.S. leaders.
"Senate allocates $1.2 million, a serious amount of money," he whined. "We need to stop being nice and need to point out differences between the two coalitions."
Winter said that her coalition took the elections seriously, but that it was possible to be serious and still enjoy the election.
She said that Vision took the campaign too seriously.
"I'm getting tired of the junior congressman routine," she said.
Despite the sniping, neither Winter nor Garlinghouse said that the campaign had become negative.
"You can turn up the heat and still remain pleasant." Winter said.
Unless announces lower budget than Vision
Kansan staffreport
The Student Senate Elections Commission has released the voluntary spending limits established by the coalitions for the 1992 Senate elections.
The Vision coalition plans to spend $2,400 on the campaign, according to commission reports. Unless plans to spend $1,500.
"Our basic concern is not to go over." he said.
"It would be ridiculous for students, who traditionally do not have money, to spend lots of it on a campaign," she said.
Jean Winter, Unless presidential candidate, said that her coalition had budgeted carefully for the campaign.
According to the Student Senate Elections Code, any coalition spending $10 more than the set limit is guilty of a major violation. A major violation is punishable by a fine of up to $50, disqualification from the election or dismissal from office, as determined by the commission after the election.
Garlinghouse and Winter said that most of the money was raised by individual members of the coalition.
This is the second year the commission has not set specific limits on the campaigns. Instead, the commission created voluntary limits of $800 for the presidential and vice-presidential candidates and $100 for each Senate candidate.
Unless is the first coalition in two years to agree to the voluntary limit recommended by the commission.
Last year, Impact, the winners of the election, budgeted $2,200 dollars. The opposing coalition, Facts, sets its budget at $1.2 million to protest the removal of mandatory spending limits.
Gambling on Mother Nature
A lightning bolt set Hoch Auditorium ablaze and sparked questions of whether self-insurance is really insurance
By Greg Farmer Kansan staff writer
Aus golf ball-size hail pounded the sidewalks along Jayhaw Boulevard, students leaving their 2:30 classes ran for shelter
Surrounded by a chain link fence, Hoch Auditorium lies in an island of rubble. Other campus buildings may not be isolated from Hoch's fate.
The crowd scrambling for shelter near the entrance of Bailey Hall stopped and looked southwest, where green-intended clouds touched unessayl
Warning sirens moaned as the hail turned to a gentle rain, and soon an anxious calm hung over campus.
But the clouds began to swirl above the remains of Hoch Auditorium, who loomed as a solemn reminder of the damage the wester could do.
And from that vortex, a ragged,
dirty, twisting cloud plummeted to
earth and spun its way eastward
along the boulevard.
A roul like that of a freight train rolling down Jayhawk Boulevard gave way to the sounds of glass shattering, and debris whistling through the air.
The crowd from Bailey began to abandon its shelter. And, as the people made their way onto the boulevard one by one, their faces paled.
Then, the funnel cloud darted into the sky east of Fraser Hall like a criminal feeling capture.
Five campus buildings — Strong Hall, Wescoe Hall, Malott Hall, Watson Library and Fraser — lay in ruin. Fiction? Yes. Impossible? No.
Joe Eagleman, KU professor of instruction at the University
"the odds say a tornado will hit the University once every 100 or 200 years."
$J$ meteorology, says the University of Kansas sits in Tornado Alley, an imaginary corridor that sweeps from Oklahoma to Oklahoma, and Nebraska.
And, Eagleman says, it makes sense to be prepared when one does
Strong, Wescoe, Malott, Watson and Fraser are insured against catastrophic loss by the same policy that covered Hoch. The state of Kansas officially calls it self-insurance. Others call it no insurance.
"I'm in the insurance field," says Regent Charles Hostetler, a certified property and casualty underwriter in Manhattan. "Self-insurance means the state takes money and sets it aside for a loss like Hoch Auditorium.
The Regents say the state's self-insurance policy is not backed by real money and, therefore, is not really insurance.
According to the Board of Regents, the state is not prepared for a tornado.
"Kansas has no money set aside. What this state has is not insurance."
And, in the end, it apparently will not be insurance that rebuilds Hoch.
The money to save Hloch dropped out of the sky almost as unexpectedly as the lightning bolt that set it afire. It now appears that the 64-year-old, 3,500-seat auditorium will be reconstructed.
Gov. Joan Finney announced March 26 that she would recommend that Hoch be rebuilt from the $185-million windfall the state would receive from the federal government for care provided to Medicaid patients.
But Hostetler says the issue of insurance is much larger than Hoch or the blind luck that will finance its repair.
"Hoch may be rebuilt," Hosteter says. "But what about the next time? What if the loss is more than $18 million?"
What if a tornado were to travel up Jayhawk Boulevard destroying the buildings in its path?
"My guess is that if something like that happened, God forbid, KU would be forced to close its doors," Hostetler says. "That would leave 27,000 students without a place to study."
The problem comes down to this: Should the state pay preset, annual premiums or pay to replace each loss as it occurs?
State Rep. Larry Trunquist, D-Salina, thinks Kansas should buy insurance. He has introduced a bill that would require all state buildings be insured. But now that the Hoch-financing problem apparently is solved, will lawmakers support a change in long-standing state policy?
The Hoch fire woke up lawmakers,
"The basic problem still exists," he says.
The idea that a university in this area would suffer a catastroph-
Turnquist says, and the fact that the Hoch problem apparently is solved will notoll them back to sleep.
Turnquist says buying insurance from a commercial company is the best way of protecting the state against another catastrophic loss.
Iic loss because of a tornado is not far-fetched. In fact, it has happened.
But Warren Corman, the Regents
In 1966, a tornado hit Washburn University in Topeka. It caused about $2 million in damage to several campuses and that Washburn was commercially insured.
director of facilities, says building prices have skyrocketed since then.
He says the Regents are responsible for about 600 state buildings worth about $4 billion.
"It wouldn't take much today to cause $100 million in damage at a Regents university," Corman says.
Dave DeBusman, state architect, says the 1966 tornado came within one block of the Statehouse in Topeka.
The Statehouse, which is valued at $123 million, is not insured, like Hoch. It only can be rebuilt by an act of the lawmakers who work inside.
"It takes only one disaster for us to be sorry that we don't have insurance." DeBusman says, "This state could not endure a $120 million loss.
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