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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday February 12, 1992
Racquetball Doubles Tournament
ENTRY DEADLINE: Wednesday, February 12, 5:00 p.m. 208 Robinson
ENTRY FEE: $10 per team
(Open To All University Of Kansas Students, Faculty, & Staff) DIVISIONS: Men's, Women's, and Co-Rec (Advanced Intermediate & Nursing)
A single elimination tournament will be held for all divisions with action beginning February 14th.
Sponsored by KU Recreational Services
208 Robinson 864-3546
WEDNESDAYS
$1.00 DOUBLE DRAWS
(24 OZ.)
BENCHWARMERS
Prospective voters register for New Hampshire primary
No cover for members!
The Associated Press
CONCORD, N.H. — Prospective voters flocked to get registered Friday and the New Hampshire secretary of state's office said turnout for the first-in-the-nation presidential primary could set a record.
Town and city clerks said they expected to be flooded Saturday, the last day to register for the Feb. 18 primary.
Benson said many more people had registered this year than did for the 1988 primary, and increases were reported from one end of the state to the
"Oh God, it's been out of sight," said Nashua Clerk Eleanor Benson, after 350 people registered Thursday. "It hasn't let up at all today."
other.
"I've had five or six people at the counter since I opened the door this morning," said Concord Clerk Elizabeth Campbell. "The lady taking registrations hasn't been able to sit down."
New Hampshire's ailing economy, unusually high interest in this year's campaigns and a purge of voter lists that removed 147,000 names statewide last summer were cited by clerks as reasons for the surge in registrations. Anyone who did not vote in the last three general elections was removed from the list.
by the deadline.
Deputy Secretary of State Bob Ambrose said some of those registering had been registered before but most are new voters. Statewide, clerks expect to add 50,000 names to the lists
He said his office also has had an unusually high number of requests for absentee ballots and ballots for polling places. That leads him to believe there will be a heavy turnout.
Ivestiva, one of the country's leading dailies, reported Monday that the airlift would not make any noticeable improvement in the situation with food or medicine, because the volume of supplies is very small.
"We always get a lot of requests at this time, but this year there's been an unusually high number, so we might have a record," he said. "We'll certainly have a higher percentage of people vote."
In 1988, 284,734 people voted, a record to the primary. That was 48.5 percent of the vote.
The record for turnout percentage of registered voters, 51.2, was set in 1980. Ambrose expects that to be broken, but he declined to predict whether total ballots cast also would be a record.
MOSCOW — Though grateful for the U.S. humanitarian aid that they began receiving yesterday, Russians are not hiding their disappointment at its size, nor their humiliation over a superpower accepting handouts.
Russians grateful for foreign help but humiliated to accept handouts
The Associated Press
Theformer Communist Party newspaper *Pravda* carried a front-page commentary, titled "Spoon Feeding of Future Allies," that reflected the nation's bruised ego.
It complained that U.S. planes were delivering the aid to cities across the new Commonwealth of Independent States, instead of letting the former Soviets do it themselves.
"I'm more than certain that our military transport planes would not be allowed to penetrate the airspace of any state with self-respect. But thanks for the help," wrote the newspaper's political commentator, Anatoly Karpichev.
Russian citizens expressed a mixture of gratitude and wounded pride.
"In principle, our country is like America. Look how low the government has brought us!"
Vladimir Boiko Russian citizen
"Honestly, I think it's shameful. In principle, our country is like America. Look how low the government has brought us!" said Vladimir Boiko, a 20-year-old forklift operator.
Vladimir Lotov, a Moscow businessman, said his 17-year-old son refused to accept milk from abroad at his high school.
"Do you realize how hard it is to find milk in the stores?" Lotov asked, shaking his head. "Still, I was proud of the boy."
He said he did not know whether the
milk came from the U.S. shipment, or from far larger European Community shipments. Either way, he said, it did not feel right to hold out an empty palm.
The U.S. airlift, valued at $78 million, consists mainly of medicine and food left over from the Persian Gulf War.
The first of 100,000 meals flown to Moscow were served yesterday in a soup kitchen in the Russian capital to a few dozen elderly women who expressed profuse thanks — despite puzzlement over such American foods as vanilla pudding.
Ivestia pointedly compared the U.S. aid, which it estimated at between 5,000 and 5,500 tons, with the amount of humanitarian assistance the paper said was sent since December by the EC: 114,000 tons of meat, 77,000 tons of dried milk, 10,000 tons of baby food, 22,000 tons of butter, 10,000 tons of vegetable oil, 2,500 tons of macaroni, and 3,000 tons of tomato concentrate.
So far, the United States has pledged about $5 billion in aid to the former Soviet Union, mostly credits to buy American grain. The EC has offered roughly 800 billion, the largest share of which is from Germany.
Save Our Team Spirit!
Remember the last two men's basketball games, the one's played at Allen Fieldhouse? Yea, you know the ones-the games that had the all-inspiring posters, that read: Rock Chalk Jayhawk and Whoosh? Well, we have caught a little hot air from the top of the balloon. It seems that a few grungy scoundrels decided to turn their posters into B-10 Bombers, and flew them onto the floor of Allen Fieldhouse. Anyway, you know the 'rest of the story': We will no longer be allowed to publish any of the all-inspiring, Poster Series Collection with the rally-potent blurbs on the front, and the all-encompassing player and team profiles on the back. In other words, we will lose a vital edge in our battle for the best; part of our pompous, rompus, go-out-and-accomplish team spirit.
HOWEVER, there is a solution. All you have to do to prevent this loss of team spirit (not to mention priceless collectors' items) is to jeer, hiss, scowl or blind-side (No! Cross
out the part about blindsiding) the scalawags who show that, while attempting to become Top Guns with poster airplanes, they are merely taking away the rights of Jayhawk fans
But, more appropriately, keep the posters, like they were meant to be kept. Take them home and hang them up as mementos to be remembered when you become KU alumni. And please, have some respect for the best team in the country, not to mention the greatest fans!
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN