THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101,NO.115
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY MARCH 20.1992
(USPS 650-640)
ADVERTISING:864-4358
NEWS:864-4810
Tsongas calling it quits as debt nears $1 million
Kansan staff writer
By Gayle Osterberg
Koenon staff writer
Former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas announced yesterday in Boston that he would suspend his presidential campaign, narrowing the active Democratic field to two.
Tsongas said he would be unable to finance the cost of coming primaries, including those in Connecticut and surrounding areas, are expected to carry high price tags.
A suspension means Tsongas technically is still in the race but will not be campaigning. His name will be on the ballot at the Democratic National Convention, and the state delegates he has won will be bound to cast their votes for him, unless he takes his name off the ballot.
"For all intents and purposes he's withdrawing but procedurally we need to call it a suspension," said a lawyer who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Tsongas also will maintain his eligibility for federal finances to help retire a campaign debt approaching $1 million.
The remaining Democratic candidates are Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and Jerry Brown, former governor of California.
PaulTsongas
Clinton is the front-runner,
having collected 947 of 2,145
delegates necessary to earn
the nomination.
Brown has 129,
and Tsongas has 430.
Tsongas is the fourth Democrat to retire
from the race. The three other candidates who have abandoned their campaigns are Virginia Gov. Douglas McFarland and U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa.
Allan Cigler, KU professor of government, said Tsongas provided a breath of fresh air to the campaign because he tackled subjects that Democratic candidates had avoided in the past.
"The Democratic party has been the party that can't say no to special interest groups," he said. "I think Tsongs will be remembered for affecting campaign debate and moving it away from the sort of social agenda typical of the Democratic party and toward responding to economic policy."
Cigler said he thought Tsongas had given more thought to the issues than
"I think that was his big mistake during the past few weeks," he said. "He quit being thoughtful and started a politician."
other candidates
Cigler said a Democratic ticket feature Clinton and Tsongas would be well-balanced regionally but was not likely.
"They have a lot in common," Cigler said. "I don't think it's likely, but it's possible."
Burdett Loomis, KU professor of political science, said he thought Clinton needed a more liberal running mate.
"I think Clinton has the middle-of-the-road people pretty well covered with his own views, so while Tsongas certainly might be an attractive candidate, someone else may be more beneficial," Loomis said.
he said suspending the campaign, rather than withdrawing, safeguarded against leaving Brown as the only candidate in the character issue surfaced against Clinton.
Jennifer Dodd, president of KU's Young Democrats, said Tsongas was a regional candidate, appealing only to those who lived close to his home of Massachusetts.
Dodd said she had received calls from several students on campus who
Campaign debts
Paul Tsongas dropped out of the presidential race because of money woes. Here are past candidates' current campaign debts and years of their campaigns:
John Glenn, 1984
$3.1 million
$3.1 million John Connally, 1980
$841,600
Robertson, 1988
1000 000
$362,900
$284,000
Alexander Haig, 1988
Alan Cranston, 1984
$223,700
$123,900
Bruce Babbitt, 1988
Jesse Jackson, 1984, 1988
$59,000
Gary Hart, 1984, 1988
$37,800
Paul Simon, 1988
SOURCE: Federal Election Commission
$17,600
Knight-Ridder Tribune/JUDY TREIBLE
were interested in becoming involved in the campaigns of the other Democratic candidates, but no one had called about Tsongas.
The Associated Press contributed information to this report.
Julie Jacobson/KANSAN
Measure provides spines for senators
an audition tape to the Berklee College of Music in Boston with hopes of winning a scholarship.
By Greg Farmer and Gayle Osterberg Kansan staff writers
Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA — When the smoke cleared from the Senate floor yesterday, all that was left were political barbs and boxes of Jell-O.
The day after 23 senators voted to silence an abortion bill. House members approved a measure to purchase backbones for the senators and left Jell-O at their desks in the Senate chamber.
House Bill 2778 would have made abortions legal in Kansas lawbooks.
House members' actions were fueled by the belief that the Senate acted in a jiggly manner by avoiding debate on House Bill 2778.
By an unrecorded vote, the Senate dismissed the bill Wednesday without any discussion. The House had approved the bill 82-41 earlier in the month after five hours of debate.
Yesterday, the House amended a capital improvements bill by including money to buy backbones for the 25 members who voted to reject the abortion bill.
"The KU Med Center has some cadavers up there we could use," said State Rep. Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, who offered the amendment.
One amendment included $3,082 for the spines – 23 times $134, the amount a senator is paid each week in salary and expenses.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said it was the first time in her years at the Statehouse that a frivolous amendment had been added to a bill.
Though playing to an empty room in Murphy Hall, Pete Rende still seeks perfection. By 2 p.m. yesterday, the Kansas City, Mo., sophomore already had practiced for five hours. In one week, Rende will send
*If they had debated the bill and amended the bill like we did and voted it down, then we would have felt like they treated it fairly,' Charlton said.
Charlton said some House members had joked about senators whose vote to reject the bill had surprised the bill's supporters.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., RLawrence, who considers himself prochoice, voted to reject the bill.
"When the motion was made and I stood up, I was a little surprised myself," said Winter, who some House members referred to as Swim. Wimper.
Winter said the Senate deserved the criticism it was receiving.
"We did this in a rather back-handed manner," he said. "It might have been the right result, but it was the wrong procedure. We should have debated the bill and voted it up or down."
Winter said House Bill 2778 did not have enough restrictions to gain his support.
"I feel very comfortable with my vote—or as comfortable as I can feel after being put in such a position," he said. "I would vote for a bill that established a woman's fundamental right to make these choices in the right situations, but we can and should provide for protection and restrictions."
Hate politics, views filter into mainstream
By Shelly Solon
Kansan staff writer
Lone piano
A recent survey indicates that hate politics have had a significant influence on the nation's youth.
The "hate" politics of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan have been around for years, but now some people warn that those beliefs, which once were viewed as radical are seeping into the mainstream.
Elizabeth Rickey, member of the Republican State Central Committee of Louisiana, has spent three years fighting against Duke's racial politics. She said the concern should not be about the number of people joining the KKK but about the effect these politics had on the mainstream.
"Hate politics have been cleverly cloaked in the conservative rhetoric." Rickey said. "Duke's issues are becoming mainstream. People are accepting these views and voting for people who hold them. People don't care about the character."
Rickey will analyze these issues in her speech, "David Duke and the Politics of Hatred" at 7 p.m. Sunday at Auditorium in the Kansas Union.
Rickey said that economic hard times contributed significantly to the popularity of Duke's ideas about such issues as affirmative action but that people often overlooked the key issue.
"Black and white people have never been fully integrated, and there are people in all walks of life that I've seen in Louisiana that are blatantly racist," she said. "There is a general misunderstanding between Blacks and whites, and Duke is feeding on that. Buchanan is too."
Tom Berger, acting director of the
office of affirmative action, said discriminatory politics were not as obvious as they were in the 1960s.
"Duke passes his ideas more slickly," Berger said. "It's not that people are not as frequently advocating discrimination. But Duke looks better than when he was wearing a hood saying the same thing."
Berger said "hate" politics influenced college students.
"There's a rising trend on all college campuses," he said. "And it cuts across all lines. There are incidents against people because of race, religion, gender and sexual orientation."
Results from a survey released Tuesday by the People for the American Way, a Washington-based civil rights group, indicated that young people were influenced by "hate" politics.
When 1,170 people between the ages of 15 and 24 were asked about racial issues, 50 percent said race relations in the United States were "generally bad."
Fifty-one percent of white people said they opposed colleges giving special consideration to minority students, and 65 percent said they opposed employers giving minorities special consideration.
When the word "preference" replaced "consideration", the percentages rose to 64 and 78 percent.
Sherwood Thompson, director of the office of minority affairs, said that during a national election, hate group supporters could with the increase in public information.
"There are hundreds of hate groups or exclusionary groups that publish literature, have meetings and recruit members," Thompson said. "This goes on daily."
Some bottled waters not healthier choice than sodas
By Katherine Manweiler
Kansan staff writer
She said she started drinking Clearly Canadian, a flavored water beverage, eight months ago as a substitute for tap water.
"I don't like Lawrence water because it tastes really bad," Kolling said.
But Kolling and other KU students may be fooling themselves about the nutritional value of flavored waters.
"My philosophy is that if I am going to pay for water, there needs to be something else to it," she said. "I can't see paying so much for plain, everyday water."
The second ingredient in Clearly Canadian and several other flavored
waters such as Chappelle and New York Seltzer is fructose, the same type of sugar used in regular sodas.
"All of those drinks are basically sugar water," said Ann Chapman, dietitian at Watkins Memorial Health Center. "You're really not doing yourself any favors nutritionally. You're saving 30 calories. You're giving yourself a false sense of improved diet and nutritional advantage when you select those."
A bottle of Clearly Canadian contains about 120 calories, compared to a can of 7-Up, which has about 150 calories.
Chapman said she thought the increase in sales was mostly due to marketing techniques that made the beverages seem healthier than regular sodas.
Drinking bottled water is a better habit to get into than drinking sugar-based drinks. "
Ann Chapman Watkins dietitian
were healthier choices," Chapman said.
She said bottled waters and mineral waters with no sugar, such as Mendota Springs, Perrier, Evian and La Croix, were healthy beverage choices.
"Drinks like La Croix are just as
good achoie to hydrateyouaswater." Chapman said, "Drinking bottled water is a better habit to get into than drinking sugar-based drinks."
But sugar based waters such as Clearly Canadian continue to grow in popularity because people think they are healthier than regular sodas.
Barbara Wohlund, consumer relations director for the Clearly Canadian Beverage Co., said the sales for Clearly Canadian in the United States had quadrupled since 1990.
Wohlhand said Clearly Canadian targeted health-conscious consumers.
"The sales have been phenomenal." Wohlman said. "They have been much higher than what we originally anticipated when we started marketing it in the United States three years ago."
"I can't see the focus changing unless there is a total change in lifestyle trends," she said.
Chris Morris, store manager at Food 4 Less, 2325 Iowa St., said sales for these beverages had tripled in the past two years.
"It's becoming a very popular item," he said. "It all seems to revolve around health."
Moritz said the most popular beverages were the flavored waters such as Clearly Canadian.
Wohlnd said Clearly Canadian was healthier than regular soda because it contained mineral water instead of tap water.
Ten to 15 brands of mineral waters, bottled waters and flavored waters line the shelves of grocery stores in Lawrence.
Ken Keefer, director of public relations for Dillons stores in Kansas, said that he could not comment on specific sales figures but that mineral waters and natural sodas continued to be a growing trend.
NCAA TOURNAMENT
posting victories.
Two of the six Big Eight Confer-
The NCAA tournament opened yesterday with 14 of the 16 higher seeded teams in
two of the six b ence teams in the tourney played.
Missouri; seeded fifth in the East Regional, defeated West Virginia 89-78 in Greenboro.
N. C., as senior Anthony Peeler scored 25 points.
veraaska, seeded eight in the Southeast Regional, lost to Connecticut 86-65 in Cincinnati. The Cornhuskers were eliminated in the first round for the third time in its three NCAA appearances.
Kansas, the No. 1 seed in the Midwest Regional, will play its firstround game tonight against the Howard Bison of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference in Dayton, Ohio. Game time is 7:05 p.m.