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University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, January 15. 1992
Benjamin Allen, Lawrence graduate student and employee of the KU Information Center, searches a telephone book for one of hundreds of callers. The Information Center, which is back to 24-hour service, uses files, reference manuals and several odd pieces of literature to answer questions.
KU Info has 24-hour duty
Shelly Solon
New financing expands services
Kansan staff write
For students who have questions or need assistance late at night, help has arrived. The University Information Center is open 24 hours once again.
Last semester, the center closed each morning at 2 a.m., because of a lack of funds, said Susan Elkins, associate director for Organizations and Activities Center.
"It was the first time in 20 years that KU Info was not open 24 hours," Elkins said. "It was unfortunate because the idea of it was to have a service students could call anytime."
Elkins said the budget was not cut last semester, but the extra financing needed to keep the Information Center open 24 hours was unavailable.
The center put in a request for extra financing for this semester. Elkins financed
The funds were available, so the center will be open 24 hours a day until the day after commencement.
When hours were shortened, Elkins said she decided to double the number of staff available until 11 p.m.
Elkins said the additional staff would continue to be used this semster even with the 24-hour service.
Benjamin Allen, Lawrence graduate student who works at the Information Center, said the Center usually was busy until 1 a.m. However, in the past, the Center received only about four to 15 calls an hour between 1 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. he said.
Allen said he answered some strange calls late at night.
"Right after 2 a. m. when all the bars close, there's usually some drunk freshman guy who calls up and asks, 'Do you have Lori's number?' " Allen said. "But he can't remember her last name and does not know we do not give out numbers anway."
Although Elkins said many calls were silly or about campus trivia, she believed answering these types of questions would help students trust the Center.
"If students feel they can call us about anything, hopefully they will automatically call us in emergency or call us as well as to be silly," she said.
Valerie Harlow, Louisburg sophomore, said she usually called to find out information about classes but had her phone called for all types of information.
Buchanan's bad-boy campaign sets him apart
"A lot of my friends call for traffic information," she said. "I did not even know they could help with that."
Associated Press
HANOVER, N. H. — A month into his presidential campaign, Patrick Buchanan is toning down his act. Sort of.
"In this campaign I have been called an anti-Semite, a homophobe, a racist, a sexist, a nativist, a protectionist, an isolationist, a social fascist and a beer-hall conservative," he told an amused Dartmouth College audience.
Let's clear all of this up, insisted the man who wants to topple President Bush. "I am none of the blues."
And let's clear up something else: You can catapult a tattoo-tongued TV commentator into a race for the nation's highest office and he'll turn quickly into a candidate. But he'll never be blond.
Pat Buchanan, bad-boy pundit of newsprint and screen, can't help dropping phrases like "upholstered think tanks" and "free trade über money" (his description of the New World Order).
He relishes confrontations with protesters outraged by an extensive paper trail of opinions on AIDS, the Holocaust and immigration, none of them delicately expressed.
In fact, he relishes confrontation, period. Or he wouldn't risk alienating his party by taking on a president whose big problem, in Buchanan's book, is that he recoils from a fight.
"I represent an incredible threat to the entire power structure down there in Washington, D.C." Buchanan, 33, says proudly.
True or not, the Republican leadership is acting that way. Bush assembled his re-election team ahead of schedule, dispatched Vice President Dan Quayle to New Hampshire and planned to arrive there to demonstrate concern for the state.
Buchanan depicts himself as a Republican loyalist but simultaneously plays the insurgent role to the hilt. It is one of the many paradoxes he embodies.
He's an affable man, yet given to cutting rhetoric and views many find offensive. He is a conservative who sometimes sounds like a liberal populist
He's a veteran White House aide, but at the same time his lack of electoral experience gives
Buchanan gains on Bush recent poll
Associated Press
MANCHESTER, N.H. — President Bush has lost some ground among New Hampshire voters to conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan six weeks before the state's presidential primary, according to a new poll.
Bush was preferred by 46 percent of likely Republican primary voters, compared with 30 percent for Buchanan in the telephone poll compared with 19 percent for the American Research Group of Manchester.
A similar survey in November showed Bush with a 56 percent to 20 percent lead over Buchanan. In both polls 24 percent of the respondents were undecided.
American Research said most of the 10-point drop in support for Bush, whose recent trade trip to Asia was highly criticized by Democrats and Buchanan, has come within
the past 10 days.
Among Democrats, Arkansas Gov. Bill Cline and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas continue to share the lead. Clinton was preferred by 23 percent of likely Democratic primary voters and Tsongas by 22 percent.
The two are followed by Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey at 10 percent, Iowa Sen. Tom Hartin at 4 percent and former California Gov. Jerry Sanders at 3 percent of Democratic respondents undecided.
American Research said it polled 403 likely Republican primary voters and 416 likely Democratic primary voters. The Republican poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points; the Democratic poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.8 percent.
credence to his anti-establishment pitch. He is a widely recognized TV celebrity, but somehow strikes voters as being one of them.
Butnolonger ishe an averageguy.
Before he earned his pinstripes and television renown, he actually was one of them—one of nine children in an ultraconservative Roman Catholic family of modest means.
Admiirs repeatedly interrupted Buchanan as he tried to eat a sandwich last week at the quaint Pleasant Restaurant in Clarenton. "I want to shake your hand," said one woman. Another said, "You're a lot younger than I thought you were." A third said, "You really can get your point across."
Plenty of workers at the Sturm-Ruger firearms factory in Newport recognized and greeted Buchanan as he watched them gluing, grinding and polishing gun parts.
"Being a person like myself, maybe he'll realize what's going on in the real world. He's an everyday person." said Wally Langlios. 45.
Buchanan was trying his best to bridge the gap between his world and this noisy blue-collar
world of long-haired, tattooed men in jeans, T shirts and work boots.
"Bush has been rich all his life." Buchanan told one worker. "He lives at Walker's Point, but America does't live on Walker's Point. We come from different places."
At another point, the presidential candidate picked up a .44 magnum pistol and commented, "your basic Dirty Harry gun. the most powerful gun in the world. Go ahead and make my day."
But Buchanan doesn't own a gun. And though words rarely fail him, he seemed almost at a loss during an exchange with a part-polisher sitting in the chair of a large chair cushioned by taped-on chunks of foam.
"You sit right here for eight hours?" Buchan asked. The man nodded. Paus."It hardwork," Buchan offered. The man nodded again. Buchan finally said, "Yes," the man said, nodding.
The candidate's job in the past month has been getting an education.
His leap from commentator to contender has been "a reality bath," he says. "It's one thing to know the economy is down in New Hampshire and (another to) have some woman breaking out crying while you are sitting there having lunch in Nashua, and saying she can't feed her kids and she doesn't know what she's going to do."
His former free-trade importism is down the tubes largely because of what he has seen in New Hampshire, he says. Now he repeatedly recommends that "my friends in Washington in those upholstered tank talks can up here and take a look at reality, talk to some of these folks and maybe they can explain to them why free-trade other allies is good for them."
Buchanan gets most fired up when he accuses Bush of retreating from conservatism and mishandling the economy. But he will talk to voters about his plan, which includes property taxes, garbage collection or schools.
It is a far cry from the cutting TV repartee of "Crossfire" and The McLaughlin Group. "Or the explosive social commentary that ignited a recent Dartmouth protest by the Ad Hoc Committee Against White Supremacy and Pat Buchanan.
"I've changed in four weeks as a candidate," says Buchanan. "I can't go on and gab about something in the paper that I found pretty interesting. You've got to focus on what concerns folks."
Yet he continues to detonate enough verbal dynamite to prove that Pat Buchanan is still Pat Buchanan. And he aims it increasingly at his own kind.
White House Budget Director Richard Darman is "the Dr. Kevorkian of the American economy." Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, once reliably hard-line, has "gone native on us." Charles Black, a senior Bush strategist who lobbies for Japanese interests, "ought to be wearing a kimoon."
Bush himself, in the gospel according to Buchanan, is a timid compromiser whose "idea of an economic recovery plan is to buy four pairs of socks" and be Japan for jobs.
"I think what he had in mind was his job and (Treasury Secretary Nicholas) Brady's job and Darman's job," says the pundit.
South African official held for Simon attack
The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Police on Monday detained a Black leader who protested against American singer Paul Simon's tour for questioning about a grenade attack last week.
A representative for the detained leader's Azanian Youth Organization said later the group would demonstrate at Simon's three remaining shows in South Africa.
Simon's first two shows, in Johannesburg, drew small crowds last weekend after Black nationalist groups protested the tour.
Simon is the first international star to perform in South Africa since the lifting last year of the cultural boycott against apartheid. Black nationalist groups say the boycott should remain in effect until there is a Black government.
The Azanian Youth Organization, whose president Tami Mecrwv was arrested, at first threatened to use violence to stop the tour. A representative later said the group would protest peacefully.
Radicals affiliated with Black nationalist groups claimed responsibility for the Jan. 7 grenade attack on the building housing the tour promoters. It caused little damage and no injuries.
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