VOL.101, NO.89
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1992
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Peggy Jarman, an employee of George Tiller, a Wichita physician who performs third-trimester abortions, speaks to House Federal and State Affairs Committee members.
Pro-choicers laud House bill
By Gayle Osterberg
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Proponents of a bill that would keep abortion legal in Kansas spoke yesterday during the first day of House committee hearings on the bill.
Representatives from organizations including Planned Parenthood, the Pro-Choice Action League and the League of Women Veterans submitted statements
supporting the bill, which would protect legalized abortion in Kansas if Roe vs.林
to the stage when the fetus can live outside
women without extraordinary medical care.
Kristin Lange, KU student body vice president, submitted a written statement to the House Committee on Federal and State Affairs. She stated her support for a part of the bill that would penalize people who blocked access to health clinics.
In addition to protecting access to health clinics, the bill proposes that:
"It is absolutely ridiculous that any constituency should feel so free to harass and abuse its legislators as the anti-choice forces in the state of Kansas and elsewhere have felt free to do to." Lange stated.
Late-term abortions would be legal if the procedure were necessary to protect
A woman could have an abortion prior
the woman's life or health.
Women under age 16 would be required to consult with a counselor beforehearing an abortion.
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The committee today will hear opponents of the bill. Committee head Kathleen, Sebelus, D.
Topeka, said no action would be taken afterward today.
Roe vs. Wade, a 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision, made abortion a constitutional right and suspended state anti-abortion laws. The court did not repeal anti-abortion laws afterward.
Sometime next week, the committee will discuss the bill and vote whether to send it to the House floor. she said.
If the decision is overturned, Kansas state law will prevail. Performing an abortion is illegal, according to current state law, unless three doctors agree that a woman's life is in danger, or in the case of rape or incest.
Several speakers vested davcited Operation Rescue protests in Wichita during the summer as reason for passing the bill.
Pat Ranson, a Wichita resident and head of Republicans for Choice, said, "Unfortunately, a vocal few in this country have systematically and doggedly over a period of time determined to impose their religious beliefs on our children. We have their own personal and diverse opinions about what the government's role in family planning should be, if any.
"A government powerful enough to prohibit abortion is powerful enough to force abortion," she said. "Most people don't want a government that powerful."
Stan Reeser, a member of the Wichita City Council, voiced support for a section of the bill that would prohibit preventing access to a health care center.
A woman who requested that only her first name, Sylvia, be used, also spoke in favor of the section. Sylvia said she had a sister who was a nurse during the Operation Rescue protests.
She had learned that the fetus' heart was not fully developed and that it would die
"I would do the same thing again," she said. "I can't understand that this choice would possibly be taken away from any of us.
Janet Balk Manhattan hears about abortion protests
Admissions plan would raise Kansas education standards
Bv Great Farmer
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA — Chancellor Gene Budig told a Senate committee yesterday that the aim of qualified admissions would be to challenge students to be and do their best.
"We don't want to exclude students," Budig said. "We want to encourage students to pursue seriously their high school preparation for further study.
"We need to encourage school districts to provide high-quality, forward-looking academic programs and to prepare students for post-secondary education."
Budig and other qualified admissions supporters voiced their side of the issue to the Senate Education Committee yesterday.
Qualified admissions opponents will address the committee at 1:30 p.m. today
would require students to earn a 2.0 grade point average in a college-bound curriculum in high school, score at least a 23 on the ACT or rank in the top one-third of their graduating class.
Budigai said the University of Kansas supported the Board of Qualified admission papers.
The committee is considering a bill that
"Qualified admissions should result in improved education for all Kansans." he said.
The Regents want students to succeed in college. Harman said.
"We need more excellence from our young people at an earlier age," he said. "Unprepared students are slowing the progress of prepared and dedicated students."
Regent Rick Harman said the state's open admissions policy had outlived its time.
"Kansas students deserve the opportunity to be successful at the college level," he said. "Qualified admissions will help us set standards that mean something. Students will be
prepared better in high school for what's coming ata university."
Grant Bannister, student body president at Fort Hays State University, said students supported qualified admissions.
"The wrong message is being sent to high schools now," he said. "Students now are being told that if they meet the low high school graduate, they are ready for college. That's just not true."
Qualified admissions opponents have said entrance standards would deny students, especially minority students and those from rural areas, access to educational opportunities.
John Burke, school superintendent at Valley Falls, about 30 miles northwest of Lawrence, said his rural school district supported qualified admissions.
Bannister said, "the state's open admissions policy denies students access to success."
"You will get what you expect," he said. "If you expect only a high school diploma, students
will get a high school diploma. But if you expect the higher standards defined by this qualified admissions bill, students will meet those higher requirements. We need to expect the best because most students will choose the path of least resistance."
Three legislators spoke in support of the qualified admissions proposal.
State Sen. Frank Gaines, D-Augusta, and State Sen. Richard Rock, D-Dar Kansas City, said they recently had decided to support qualification of candidates who did the decision was not an easy political one.
"We owe the state's educational system an attempt to improve quality." Rock said. "To
State Rep. Jo Ann Pottorf, R-Wichita, said she once opened qualified admissions.
"But after analyzing the issue, I decided admissions standards would improve the quality of education in Kansas at all levels."
Fatal blaze in jurors' hotel halts Tyson trial
The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS — A deadly fire early yesterday at the hotel where Mike Tyson's jurors were sequestered forced a delay of his rape trial. The mayor requested a federal arson investigation and security was increased at the courthouse.
The fire at the Indianapolis Athletic Club killed two firefighters and a hotel guest and injured 12. Jurors were safe evacuated.
Hours later, the former world heavyweight champion showed up briefly at the City-County Building, where he is being tried on charges of rape and criminal deviate conduct. Tyson, 25, faces up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
Court representative Joe Champion
said that trial would resume today with the jurors being questioned in court by Marion Superior Court Judge Patricia Gifford, prosecutors and defense attorneys. The interviews will
determine whether any juror was compromised while standing on the sidewalk outside the hotel, where all sheen shielded from public and press.
Sheriff's deputies tightened security outside the courtroom, setting up a walk-through metal detector for media and spectators and bringing in a bomb-sniffing dog. Judge Gifford banned cameras from the second floor, with the exception of three pool cameras.
Mayor Stephen Goldsmith requested federal arson investigators, citing the "unusual coincidence of the proximity of the jury."
Public Safety Director Michael Beaver said that two experts from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Prescription drugs would help with the investigation.
The 15 jurors were led out of the burning building by two court bailiffs and a sheriff's deputy. They were moved to an undisclosed location.
Authorities said that the blaze erupted in a lounge and destroyed the third and fourth floors of the hotel.
Champion said that the jurors appeared to be in good spirits under the circumstances, but said that they were unaware of the deaths.
NCAA
BASKETBALL
No.1, No.2 fall
No.1 Duke and No.2 Oklahoma State lost their status as the last two unbeaten teams in Division 1 basketball last night, clearing the path for No.3 Kansas to take over the top spot in Monday's Associated Press poll if it can beat Oklahoma State on Saturday in Stillwater.
Game stories, p.11
Brown may move again, this time to L.A.
Coach and Manning could reunite
The Associated Press
SANANTONIO - Former Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown apparently has a chance to make the Los Angeles Clippers the fifth pro team on his coaching ledger.
The Clippers would neither confirm or deny yesterday that Brown had taken the job. But their vice president and public relations director Michael Williams said that the team would hold a 10 a.m. news conference today at the Los Angeles Sports Arena to name the new coach.
A television station reported Tuesday night that Brown, fired by the San Antonio Spurs on Jan. 21, will be named the head coach of the Clippers today.
Mike Schuler of KSAT-TV in San Antonio said that a reliable source on the West Coast provided the information that Brown would succeed.
But Andy Roeser, Clippers vice president of business operations, said, "We're trying to get it done. I talked to Elgin Baylor and he's very comfortable that he'll be able to get it within the week. Elgin's got his candidate in mind, and we're talking things out, but we feel the whole thing will be taken care of this week or over the weekend."
After the Clippers beat Dallas Tuesday night, with Mack Calvin acting as head coach, owner Donald Sterling declined comment on the report.
Asked if the courting of Brown is one of the worst-kept secrets in history, Roesel said, "It's not."
Calvin directed the team again last night at the Great Western Forum in Inglewood against the Los Angeles Lakers. The Clippers said when Schuler was fired that Calvin would be only an interim coach. Brown could not immediately be reached for comment
Brown's first two pro coaching jobs were with Carolina in the American Basketball Association and Denver in the ABA and NBA. Calvin was a player on both of those teams.
Calvin said, "I played for Larry for seven years, two with Carolina and five years with the Denver Nuggets. I have a tremendous amount of respect for Larry, if he is the coach."
With the Clippers, Brown would be reuilted with forward Danny Manning, who helped lead Kansas to an NCAA championship in 1988.
Brown's firing in San Antonio marked the first time he had been terminated in his 20 years of a roller-coaster career.
Brown's record was 153-131 as coach of the Spurs. He experienced his first losing season as a coach his first year with San Antonio, when the team finished 21-61 in 1988-89.
Then, in 1989-90, with the addition of center
David Robinson, he guided the Spurs to the best single-season turnaround in NBA history with a 56-26 finish, the franchise's best
ever. The Spurs ended last season at 52-27, winning the Midwest Division for the second consecutive year.
fessional game, usually leaving following a successful stint.
Before coming to the Spurs, Brown shuffled between the college and pro-
Schuler was fired Sunday after the Clippers lost 10 of their previous 15 games.
The Jayhawks won the NCAA championship in 1988 before Brown returned to the proranks in San Antonio the next season.
He coached Carolina from 1972-1974, then moved to Denver until 1979, when he left for a two-year tour at UCLA. He then spent two years with the NBA's New Jersey Nets, moving to Kansas in 1983.
Larry Brown