THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.101,NO.103
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
WEDNESDAY,FEBRUARY 26.1992
(USPS 650-640)
NEWS:864-4810
Interviewing begins for exec vice chancellor
No minorities included in field
By Greg Farmer
Kansan staff writer
A 10-member search committee appointed by Chancellor Gene Budig has begun interviewing candidates for KU's executive vice chancellor position.
Frances Ingemann, head of the search committee, said she would not release the number of candidates, who were selected in early February based on their resumes.
"We are interviewing more than three." Ingemann said.
She said that at least one candidate already had been interviewed by the search committee and that the others should be interviewed in the next four weeks.
Ingemann would not release the names of the candidates, who are all white males.
"We don't want any candidates to withdraw from consideration prematurely," she said. "Sometimes people get very strange ideas about whether internal or external candidates will be given priority. We just don't want to scare anyone away."
Ingemann said the committee did everything it could to attract minority and women candidates when the position was advertised.
"But when we looked at the resumes, the resumes of those candidates were not as impressive as those we will interview," she said.
Seven of the 10 members of the search committee were contacted yesterday. All said Ingermann would be the only committee member to comment.
Ingemann said candidates would meet with the search committee and KU administrators during the first round of interviews.
After the first round of interviews, the search committee will recommend three candidates to the chancellor, Ingemann said. The chancellor will conduct second interviews with the candidates.
During the second round of interviews, the candidates will meet with KU administrators, faculty and students, she said.
Ingemann said the search committee hoped to have the position filled by July.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, would not say he was a candidate for the permanent position. But he would not deny he was, either.
Shankel has worked as the University's interim executive vice chancellor since Judith Ramaley left the position in 1990.
"I only will say that I enjoy working with the chancellor and the other administrators very much," he said. "But any comment on the candidates must come from the search committee."
The 64-year-old Shankel said he was not contemplating retirement.
"I will stay at the University of Kansas in whatever capacity they feel I can best serve the University," he said. "I presume that will be teaching and research, but we'll just have to wait and see."
Ingemann said age would not be a consideration when the committee made its recommendations to the chancellor.
"There is no mandatory retirement age," she said. "Therefore,age will not be a consideration."
Shankel served as the executive vice chancellor from 1974 to 1980 and worked as the interim executive vice chancellor in 1987 before Ramaley was appointed. He also served as the acting chancellor in 1980 and 1981.
Shankel, professor of biochemistry,
resigned his position as executive vice
chancellor in 1980. When he resigned,
he cited his desire to return to teaching
as his primary reason.
Ted Vaggalis, graduate teaching assistant in philosophy who was a member of the search committee in 1987 when Ramley was appointed, said Shankel, who was the head of that committee, should be a candidate.
"If he isn't a candidate, that would surprise me," Vaggalis said. "He would make a great executive vice chancellor.
"I worked with him on that search committee, and he was for thright and very much in tune with what was happening. He's not power player, but he knows what the real concerns of the University are."
Vaggalis said the names of the candidates whom the search committee recommended to the chancellor were released to the public in the 1987 search.
Ingemann said such a decision would have to be made by the chancellor.
Derek Nolen/KANSAN
Carrie Meeks, St. Louis junior, takes a break from studying for her architecture class. Meeks was studying yesterday in Anschutz Science Library for a coming test before she fell asleep.
Turn out the lights...
Senate OKs bill tightening DUI rules
By Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — The chances of being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol could increase significantly if a proposed bill becomes a law, officials sav.
The Senate yesterday unanimously approved a bill that would lower the illegal intoxication level for drivers from a blood-alcohol content of .10 to .08 percent.
A person would have to drink one-and-a-half two beers in an hour to register. 08 percent, depending on that person's weight and on how often they drank, according to Lawrence police. That person would need to drink about three beers in an hour to register. 10 percent.
Ken Clark, a public information officer in the Kansas Department of Transportation, said, "I think you could safely say (the bill) will double the number of people arrested and charged with driving
under the influence," Clark said.
Under the orders of a man,
He said more than 9,000 people had been convicted
of crimes committed in Kansu.
Penalties for the conviction include fines up to $1,000 and sentences of up to one year in jail.
Because the bill originated in the House and has been amended, a house committee must review the changes and re-approve the bill before it can be signed into law by the governor.
Current law states that drivers are intoxicated at 10 percent, and that the charge cannot be overturned by the defense on the terms that the drivers were not actually impaired.
That law would not change under the bill.
That law would not charge under the bill. However, the bill would allow drivers who register between .08 and .10 percent to protest the charge on the grounds that they were not impaired. But some lawmakers said winning such a case would be difficult.
"I don't think it would be very easy to show that somebody with that level of intoxication was not
impaired," said Michael Heim, a legislative researcher at the Statehouse. "It is a tightening of the drunk-driving laws for sure."
the United Airlines.
The bill originated in the House last session, and was passed unanimously. The Senate Judiciary Committee conducted hearings on the bill earlier in February and made passes before recommending that the Senate pass the legislation.
In Senate debate yesterday, two senators expressed concern that stricter laws would contribute to prison overcrowding.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, who heads the Senate committee, said he disagreed with senators using that reasoning in opposing the bill.
"What I hear them saying is that the highways are a better place for drunk drivers than jails," he said.
Winter said he had participated in a test sponsored by Lawrence police that measured a driver's competence after having a few beers.
"I can tell you that level of intoxication is very dangerous," he said.
Kerrey wins South Dakota primary; Bush hit by protest vote
The Associated Press
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Bob Kerney won the South Dakota primary yesterday and is the latest Democrat to gain a regional victory in a curious presidential campaign lacking a national front-runner. President Bush ran unopposed but was buffeted by a strong GOP protest vote.
"I've hit my stride," Kerrey said. He said his showing had catapulted him into the thick of the Democratic race.
Kerley, from next-door Nebraska, had 40 percent of the vote with 91 percent of the precincts tallied. His farm-state rival, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, had 26 percent while Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton crossed regional lines and ran a respectable third at 19 percent.
Paul Tsongas was a far-away fourth, unable to capitalize on last week's New Hampshire victory. Jerry Brown trailed and was certain to lose his eligibility for federal campaign matching funds.
With 90 percent of the GOP vote tallied, Bush had 69 percent, and the uncommitted vote tallied 31 percent. The news had to be sobering for the White House, coming on the heels of Pat Buchanan's 37 percent showing in New Hampshire's GOP primary a week ago.
"In this case, the uncommented slate represents an anybody-but-Bush ticket," said political analyst Stuart Rothenberg. "Pat Buchanan campaigned day and night in New Hampshire and drew 37 percent. And here, a
non-existent candidate who didn't campaign drew nearly as much of the vote."
"Tonight, we've struck gold in the black hills of South Dakota," Kerrey said at a victory rally. "There's no question we've gotten a solid victory here and tonight we're going to begin a rush for gold, a rush for delegates in the South and in the West and in other parts of the country."
Buchanan entered the race too late to qualify for the South Dakota primary.
The results closed the campaign book on a preliminary round of single-state contests with few delegates at stake. Next up is a string of delegate-rich contests, many of them in the South.
With the string of big delegate contests just around the corner, South Dakota thus extended a trend of regional favoritism among the Democrats, left one-time front-runner Clinton still without a victory, and wrote a new chapter to Bush's political woes in a time of recession.
The Bush campaign conceded it needs to "work harder" to get the president's message out. But, said representative Tori Clark, "It's not as though we had the full court press going on. It's a little bit of the protest feeling you sense in a place hit hard by recession."
In the Democratic contest, Tsongas offered Kerrey congratulations, but it was tempered.
"It is obvious that the negative advertising worked, and we'll take that into consideration," he said.
Tsongas got one bit of bright news — an endorsement from Gov. William Donald Schaefer one week ahead of Maryland's primary.
With 92 percent of the state's 1,010 precincts tallied, this was the Democratic vote:
Kerrey: 20,785 or 40 percent;
Harkin; 13,521 or 20 percent;
Clinton; 9,865 or 19 percent;
Tsangas; 4,929 or 9 percent;
Isolegas, 4,250 or 9 percent.
Brown: 1.982 or 4 percent.
Among the Republicans, it was Bush with 26,841 votes or 69 percent; uncommitted had 11,907 or 31 percent.
In the race for national convention delegates, Bush was leading for 14; uncommitted for 5.
for 7; Harkin for 5; Clinton for 3.
Among the Democrats, Kerrey led
Health care mattered most to Kerrey voters, according to polling place interviews.
About three in 10 Democrats said they were not satisfied that Clinton had the honesty and integrity to serve effectively as president. The Arkansas governor has been hit with allegations of a 12-year affair and Vietnam-era draft dodging — charges he denies.
A quarter said they were concerned that former Sen. Paul Tsongas' health would interfere with his ability to serve effectively. The former Massachusetts senator had lymphoma in 1983, underwent a bone-marrow transplant and has been pronounced fit enough to run, and serve, by his doctor.
Students make no bones about donating marrow
KU's first bone marrow drive, aimed at minority students, draws 20 donors
By Janet Rorholm
Kansan staff writer
After confronting fears they might have about surgery, 20KU students registered yesterday to become possible bone marrow donors.
The drive, which was the first of its kind held at KU, targeted minority students. The chance of finding a donor with matching tissue for a patient is difficult, but the match for minorities is even more difficult because they make up a smaller percentage of the donor pool.
Eighteen students registered yesterday were African American, one was white.
The American Red Cross and the National Bone Marrow Donor Program also sponsored the event, which was at the Pine Room in the Kansas Union.
Garth said she was pleased with the turnout. Not everyone who came was eligible to register because of medical reasons, she said.
said Frenchette Garth, president of Zeta Phi Beta sorority, which co-sponsored the drive.
She also said that she expected next year's drive to be more successful.
Giving blood is a simple procedure that causes little pain besides the prick of the needle or the bruise that appears the next day. Thousands of people donate blood everyday.
But donating bone marrow is not as easy.
The students yesterday gave two tablespoons of blood to be tested. Their names will be entered into the computer where a match could be found. If a match is found, the students will be contacted and asked if they would be willing to undergo the surgery.
During the surgery, four to eight tiny incisions are made in the small of the back, from which the marrow is extracted. The procedure usually lasts about an hour.
The donor's body can replace its marrow within about two weeks.
Krista Morgan, Atlanta junior, regis tered to become a donor.
She said she had thought about it for a while and decided that if she were called she would donate her bone marrow.
"A friend of mine was just diagnosed with leukemia and the importance of this was brought to light. "Morgan said.
She said it was like giving someone a second chance.
"I did if for the simple fact that this process could save someone's life, if everything went well." Morgan said.
"I've never donated blood before, but the cause is the main thing that attracted me," she said.
She also has a cousin with sickle cell anemia, a disease that often requires a bone marrow transplant if the patient is to survive.
Mike McCartney, lab assistant at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, draws a blood sample from Mariquio Madlock, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore, during the National Marrow Donor Program registration drive.