FEATURES: Four local bands will compete tomorrow to earn a Day on the Hill appearance. Page 9.
VOL.103.NO.147
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
THURSDAY, APRIL 28,1994
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KU leaders: Budig a real contender
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By Jamie Munn
Kansan staff writer
As the University of Kansas wonders whether its leader will be moving to the big leagues, a few faculty leaders say Chancellor Gene Budig should take his chance at bat.
Budig was recommended by a search committee for the position of president of baseball's American League, according to a report yesterday in the New York Times.
Budig, KU's chancellor since 1981, would replace Bobby Brown, who
has held the job since 1984.
James Carothers, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, teaches a course titled "Literature of Baseball." Carothers said he had been pleased but not surprised by Budit's potential offer.
"He knows that it's a great game," he said. "He's loved it since his child-hood."
Carothers also said Budig might prefer the baseball job because he wouldn't have to depend on the uncertainty of public financing.
But he knows that baseball, like
education, is a kind of public trust," Carothers said.
Bob Friauf, chair of University Council and professor of physics and astronomy, said he had learned of Budig's possible job offer from yesterday's newspapers.
Friauf said the new job would be a marvelous opportunity given Budig's love of baseball.
But Friau said he wasn't sure if Budig would be better president of the American League than a chancellor of KU.
"It's a different sort of job," he said. T.P. Srivasan, head of the University Senate Executive Committee and professor of mathematics, said he also thought Budig was on deck for the American League job.
But Srinivasan would be sorry to see Budig leave. He said KU would have big shoes to fill if Budig left.
"It would be great for the sport, but not as good for the University."
Knight-Ridder Tribune
Three Vietnam veterans salute Richard Nixon's coffin before the 37th president was laid to rest. Nixon was buried in Yorba Linda, Calif. yesterday.
U.S. bids farewell to Nixon
The Associated Press
YORBA LINDA, Calif. — Richard M. Nixon completed his contentious life's journey yesterday, honored in death by five U.S. presidents. President Clinton called him a leader whose achievements overshadowed humiliation.
nixon was bidden farewell by 2,000 mourners who gathered under cloudy skies at an outdoor funeral within sight of the home where he was born 81 years ago.
"Oh yes, he knew great controversy amid defeat, as well as victory." Clinton said in a eulogy delivered beside Nixon's flag-draped casket. "He made mistakes and they, like his accomplishments, are part of his life and record.
"But the enduring lesson of Richard Nixon is that he never gave up being part of the action and passion of his times." Clinton said.
There were only veiled mentions of the Watergate scandal in any of the eulogies. Instead, the speakers
focused on his foreign policy successes and his triumphs over adversity.
"In the conduct of foreign policy, Richard Nixon was one of the seminal presidents," said Henry Kissinger, his secretary of state.
Kissinger stopped briefly before the casket and saluted his former boss with a brief nod of the head.
The next eulogy, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole, broke into tears after praising Nixon "as the most durable figure of our time."
The service opened with the playing of "Victory at Sea," a rousing symphonic piece that was one of Nixon's favorites. He had played it in solitude the night he won the presidency in 1968, and again on election night in 1972.
For the last time, Nixon was saluted with "Hail To The Chief," and as an honor guard carried in his flag-draped casket the military band softly played "America."
There were dozens of members of Congress present, as well as Watergate mastermind G. Gordon Liddy and Spiro Agnew, Nixon's vice president who resigned in disgrace.
Nixon's successors also came to honor him: Gerald Ford, who had spoken of Nixon's Watergate saga as "our national nightmare," Jimmy Carter, the Democrat who wrested the office from Ford partly because of the pardon Ford granted Nixon; and Ronald Reagan and George Bush, whose Republican nominating conventions treated Nixon as a pariah not to be invited.
A few months ago Nixon was asked in a television interview how he would like to be remembered. Graham said, "He thought a moment, and then he replied, 'As one who made a difference.'"
Eighty-eight nations sent delegations, made up mostly of the U.S.-based diplomats. Delegations included a Chinese vice premier and Russia's deputy prime minister.
The 37th president, who resigned Aug. 9, 1974, had spent the intervening years striving for what he called
"renewal," not rehabilitation.
He died Friday, at 81, after a stroke earlier in the week. His final resting place is beside Pat Nixon, his wife of 53 years, who died of lung cancer last year.
With their faces showing the strain, daughters Tricia and Julie with their husbands and children followed Nixon's coffin into the library and spent a last few minutes alone with him. Only after that, did officials allow the public to pass by the bier.
By the thousands, Americans had stood in lines up to three miles long in rain, hail and nighttime chill for the momentary privilege of a final goodbye, to pass by his coffin as it rested on a pedestal in the library.
Library officials estimated 42,000 people passed by the bier, some waiting up to eight hours.
Nixon's was the first funeral of a former president since Lyndon Johnson's in January 1973.
Baseball fan Budig awaits owners' vote
Chancellor serious about love for game
By Stephen Martino Kansan staff writer
Chancellor Gene Budig's emergence as a contender for major league baseball's American League presidency has brought varied reactions from the University community, but everyone agrees on one thing: The man loves baseball.
The New York Times reported yesterday that Budig had gained the support of the committee searching for a new league president. If the recommendation is approved by owners of American League teams, Budig would succeed Bobby Brown, who has been president since 1984.
"My love for baseball is well known, and to be considered for this position is a high honor," he said.
Yesterday Budig was at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., but he released a statement to the media. He said that he had not been notified by the committee of his selection and making a comment would be inappropriate; however, he reaffirmed his affection for the game.
Budig was appointed to the Kansas City Royals board of directors in the summer of 1983 by late owner, Ewing Kauffman. The Royals appointment fulfilled Budig's dream of being involved in professional baseball. But he has been a strong supporter of collegiate baseball as well, said Dave Bingham. Kansas baseball coach.
"He has a great deal of enthusiasm for all sports at KU," he said. "But, of
Gene Budig
course, he has a special interest in baseball."
Bingham said that Budig was a regular spectator at KU baseball games and was in Omaha, Neb., for the College World Series in June.
Budig has had a long-standing interest in baseball dating back to when he was a young boy growing up in McCook, Neb. In a 1990 Kansan profile of Budig and his interest in baseball, he said, with a smile, that he viewed his life as a failure because he did not achieve his one goal in life — to become a second baseman for the New York Yankees. But that never caused him to lose interest in the game.
"He is a student of the game," said Bob Frederick, athletic director. "The thing that impresses me the most is his autographed baseball collection, which is just simply tremendous."
"Baseball is the best of both worlds because it is the national pastime, and it represents the great escape," he said in the profile. "One can go to the ballpark and leave problems of the day in the parking lot for several hours."
If Budigdoes end up leaving the University for major league baseball's New York offices, the Board of Regents would have responsibility for filling his position, said Ed Meyen, executive vice chancellor.
"The Regents create the search committee and hire the person to be chancellor," he said. "All of that responsibility is with them."
COLUMN: Budig's love of baseball runs deep. Page 11.
The Associated Press
Protesters gather before Nixon funeral
Not everyone mourned the passing of Richard Nixon.
In Portland, Ore., a tombstone-shaped sign read "Honk If You're Glad Dickis Dead," and several people who drove past did.
Lots of people laughed," said Eddie Ludwig, who carried the sign among a small band of demonstrators in downtown Portland. "I haven't had one negative response. I was expecting to get run off the curb."
The tiny group that gathered yesterday just a few hours before Nixon's funeral in Yorba Linda, Calif., provided only a whisper of what it was like during his administration, when hundreds of thousands protested the Vietnam War.
Protesters said they were upset with the favorable coverage Nixon had in receiving his death on Friday. In Albany, N.Y., cannons boomed at
noon in memory of Nixon in a ceremony that drew a few hundred.
Aman wearing a rubber Nixon mask walked through the crowd, climbed on a step next to a statue and gave Nixon's familiar two-armed, victory sign salute.
"Why don't you show some respect?" someone yelled.
"He didn't show respect for the people he bombed," the man answered.
In Portland, the protest took place without incident, although someone left a death threat on demonstration organizer Dan Handelman's answering machine.
"I was looking at the newspaper on Monday, and it said the flags were going to fly at half-staff for 30 days, federal workers are getting the day off and there's no mail being delivered," Handelman, 29, said.
"I thought that was a little extreme reverence for a man who was basically kicked out of office."
Jami Flynn brings student members of her church a unique blend of music and spirituality as lead singer of the local alternative band Jami Flynn and One Will. Page 7.
All-race elections give professor a vote
By Geraldo Samor Special to the Kansan
Surendra Bhana flew to Chicago Monday night to vote for the first time.
Bhana, professor of history and African studies, is one of the 100,000 South Africans in the United States who were eligible to vote Tuesday in the first day of the all-race elections that will likely mark the demise of National Party rule in South Africa.
"Personally, it was a symbolic, important moment." he said. "It was wonderful."
Bhana said that the elections would bring about a government of national reconciliation.
"Once a Black majority goes to power, that government will then set the agenda for the future," he said. "Herein lies the biggest importance of these elections."
South African Blacks make up 76 percent of the population.
Bhana said that he did not believe the current tide of political violence in his nation would totally disappear.
"Violence will slow down," he said. "It will not go away. But a government that is legitimate will be able to deal with it in some fashion."
Most polls in South Africa predict that Nelson Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress who spent 27 years in prison, will be the nation's next president. Last year, Mandela and South Africa's president F.W. de Klerk, who is running for reelection, won the Nobel Peace Prize together for their efforts in leading their nation toward a non-apartheid democracy.
Bhana said that he could not predict whether the electoral results would be accepted. He said that some members of
The perspective of less political violence grew last week when the Inkatha Freedom Party agreed to join the elections, calling off a boycott that might lead to yet more bloodshed.
Arthur Drayton, head of the African and African-American studies department, said that whoever was elected would face a massive problem.
"Seventy-five percent of people in South Africa have been excluded from everything — education, economic opportuni-
the inkatha Freedom party, led by Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, and the white right wing might protest but that most would accept the results.
"If Buthelezi wanted to play his game, he was forced in the end," Bhana said. "He realized that he would be marginalized. He took it to a point where he lost credibility. It was not a clever game."
ties, careers, land and their very dignity as human beings," he said.
He said the electorate would have high expectations of a Mandela government.
"Mandela will have to persuade whites to share what they have monopolized all these decades," he said.
Drayton said that western nations had an obligation to help in the transition to democracy.
He said that some governments supported apartheid economically and that they had armed the South African regime.
"Britain, United States, France, Germany and Israel were complicit in apartheid," he said.
VOTING: Long lines and a bombing mark a second day of elections in South Africa. Page 8.