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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.103,NO.134
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE
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FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1994
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New law dean 'brimming with good ideas'
MICHAEL HOEFLICH
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Michael Hoeflich, incoming dean of law Education:
Haverford College, 1973.
Graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of arts in history, religion and classics.
Haverford College, 1973. Master of arts in medieval studies.
Cambridge University, 1976. Master's degree.
Yale Law School, 1979. Juris doctorate.
Experience:
Experience:
1981-1988 taught law at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1988-1994. dean of law at Syracuse University Professor of law and history
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
Michael Hoefflich, who was appointed the new dean of law yesterday, said he would like to develop more community-oriented programs within the School of Law next year.
Hoeflich, 42, will replace current dean Robert Jerry on July 1.
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"He would like to move the School of Law in areas they're not heavily involved," said David Shulenburger, vice chancellor for academic affairs. "He'd like the students to be involved in legislative research. He's a person brimming with good ideas."
One of Hoeflich's goals is to increase the number of opportunities for practical experience.
"It's important for the law school to have programs that not only teach students but also serve the University community and the state," he said.
Hoefflich said he would first concen
rate on forming a legislative research bureau similar to the one he had developed as dean of law at Syracuse University.
"Second- and third-year law students work on teams that we offer to all elected officials in the state, from the city to the federal level," he said. "We'll offer free research on legislative and government policy matters. It's a great service to officials, and it gets students in touch with people who will help them get jobs later."
Hoeflich said he also would like to form programs to help the elderly.
"When poor elderly become sick, they run into all kinds of legal problems, like wills, taxes and Medicare," he said. "We can help them on an outpatient basis."
In addition to developing programs, Hoefflich said he would like to work with alumni, the community and also to increase the number of minority law students.
"A diverse community benefits the entire program," he said. "Not many minority students from KU go to the KU law school. It will be my priority to convince KU undergrads to stay for KU law school. I'm not sure how we'll do it, but we'll see."
Hoefflich will teach while serving as dean. Next year, he will teach contract law a first-year class, and legal history.
"Deans are different things at different times," he said. "If you feel teaching is important, you teach. If you feel research is important—as I do—you do research.
Clinton trip emphasizes health care
Presidential visit to Topeka, Fairway stresses proposal
By Angela Lopez and Stephen Martino
Kansan staff writers
TOPEKA — President Bill Clinton came to Kansas yesterday enthusiastic to answer questions about his health-care proposal.
James Wilcox / KANSAN
The President addressed a gathering of small-business owners in Topeka and then conducted a televised town meeting at KCTV Channel 5 in Fairway.
Popularity for the proposal has been waning since Clinton announced it during his State of the Union address in January. Small-business owners particularly have been skeptical about the measure because they would be expected to help provide health insurance for their employees, even if their profit margins are not in the black.
President Bill Clinton prepares to enter a foundry at 300 S.W. Jackson St. in Topeka. Clinton took part in a panel discussion on health care at the foundry yesterday afternoon.
However, the President said at the Topeka gathering that health-care reform was necessary for the most developed nation in the world: the United States.
"I have no interest in the government running the health-care industry," he said. "We will not remain the most advanced economy in the world unless we promote this change."
Clinton said that the nation had three choices in the health-care debate: adopt a system such as the one Canada uses — where the government runs health care — adopt an idea of reform such as his or do nothing. But he said doing nothing would only plunge the nation into a deeper crisis.
"More Americans will continue to lose health insurance and health care will continue to get more expensive," he said.
Clinton discussed issues with nine panelists, including Democratic Kansas Congressmen Jim Slattery and Dan Glickman.
One panelist, David Porterfield, owner of a Topeka floral business, said he had tried to provide health care for his 10 full-time employees, but the extended hospitalization of one employee caused everyone's health insurance rates to triple in one year. Clinton said his plan would address that issue by grouping many small businesses together to help keep their rates low.
"What we need to do is return to community pools with a lot of people," he said. "Insurance companies need to make money like grocery stores: a little bit on a lot instead of a lot on a little."
During the town meeting last night, Clinton addressed the concerns of citizens who have seen their insurance become more
expensive or who had no coverage at all.
John Sanders, a college student in Tulsa, Okla., who was hooked up to the meeting via satellite, said he worked 25 to 30 hours a week, took 13 hours of classes and had no health insurance. He questioned whether the Clinton plan would help him.
The President said the plan would help address Sanders' problem — avoidance of health care.
"Students think 'I'm young and healthy, and I don't have to have health insurance,'" Clinton said. "But if they get in a skiing accident or a car accident and — God forbid — they go to the emergency room, it's the rest of us who have to pay because they don't have medical insurance."
The President became testy with Herman Cain, chief executive officer of Godfather's Pizza, when Cain said he would have to lay off part-time workers rather than pay for their insurance.
However, Michael Heilligman, an audience member at KCTV, said Clinton was down-to-earth but presidential at the same time.
KU student meets President
By Shauna Shindler Special to the Kansan
As I watched Air Force One descend through the crisp April air into Topeka yesterday, I knew it would not be an ordinary day.
People scrambled after President Clinton with briefcases and photo equipment as Secret Service agents with sunglasses and ear phones conspicuously scanned the crowd for anything out of the ordinary.
For myself and three other KU students, everything about the scene was out of the ordinary. As president of the KU Democrats, I had been chosen to drive in the President's motorcade. It is not often that one gets a chance to meet the leader of the free world.
Clinton finished his speech at Forbes Field and slipped into an armored limo as a throng of VIPs, members of the press and White House staffers dashed toward the line of vehicles. I hardly had time to notice Wolf Blitzer of CNN jump into the back seat of the car I was driving. We were off!
In every van presidential advisors and network reporters were calling across the country to update Washington or phone a story into their headquarters.
Clinton spoke briefly with a group of local citizens at Forbes Field, and then he was off for Kansas City. But first he took the time to shake hands with the volunteers and politely thanked us.
A simple handshake can make an entire day worthwhile, especially when it's the hand of a president.
Stop Day survives Council
Members say ending it would hurt students
By Jamie Munn
Kansan staff writer
After nearly an hour of debate yesterday, KU University Council rejected two schedule proposals that would have eliminated Stop Day for the Spring 1995 semester.
In a unanimous vote, the Council instead approved its own version of the calendar, which secures a Stop Day by starting spring classes one day earlier.
Larry Maxey, chair of the University Calendar Committee, proposed the two schedules to help KU
Plan C
For the Spring 1995 semester, University Council accepted its own "Plan C," which starts classes one day earlier. It schedules Stop Day on Thursday, May 4, and the first day of finals on Friday, May 5.
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deal with a Kansas Board of Regents mandate.
But Maxey's proposals brought criticism and concern from both faculty and students.
In 1898, the Regents required its institutions to have 150 instructional days, not including final exam week. KU's schedule had been falling six days short of that requirement, Maxey said.
Shanda Vangas, Derby senior, said she was happy with the vote because many students had told her they did not want Stop Day killed.
"More people have come to talk to me about this than anything since I've been a senator for two years," Vangas said.
She said she had been surprised by Maxey's proposals and had not heard about them before last week.
"That looks like a loser schedule to me," she said.
Sandra Zimbards-Swartz, professor of religious studies, also opposed the schedule plans because she said she thought that students would not attend first-day classes on Thursday, Jan. 12, as in Plan A or on Friday, Jan. 13, as in Plan B.
That looks like a loser schedule to me, she said. Alan Tikwart, Westwood Hills senior, said students would not attend the last week of their classes if they had to take finals the next day after classes ended, which is what the Plan A proposed
I'm a senior, so I remember when we had two weeks for exams," he said. "You need some period to study when 30 to 40 percent of your grade is determined by finals."
Maxey said that he personally did not oppose the Council's decision but that he thought that some deans would be upset.
In other Council business, an amendment to Council policy about non-member guest speakers drew criticism but passed 21 to 8.
The amendment permits a non-member to speak only after a two-thirds vote for a specific time about a specific issue.
But Don Marquis, professor of philosophy, said any faculty member should have the right to speak.
"I think it's outrageous," Marquis said. "We should seek input from our colleagues."
Carl Lande, professor of political science and government, also opposed the amendment.
"We wouldn't be doing our job if we didn't allow faculty and students to speak," Lande said.
The amendment was the result of a heated debate in the Council's January meeting between Bob Friauf, head of Council, and Emil Tonkovich, former professor of law. Tonkovich eventually was allowed to speak when the Council reviewed the University's consensual relations policy.
Both policies will be sent to Chancellor Gene Budig, who will make the final decision on whether to accept the actions.
It's a hit
The Kansas softball team plays three doubleheaders beginning today at Jayhawk Field against Pittsburg State. The Jayhawks also play nationally ranked Oklahoma tomorrow and Sunday.
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Lied Center books Broadway shows
'Evita,' 'Oliver,' 'Cats' highlight new season
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
Broadway will come to the Lied Center next fall — but tickets go on sale for students and season ticket holders April 18.
Jacqueline Davis, executive director of the Lied Center, said "Evita" would open the series on Oct. 17, followed by "Oliver" Feb. 5, 1995. The center will close out the series with "Cats" on May 5, 1995.
"We had a lot of enthusiasm when we opened the Lied Center with The Secret Garden' last fall," she said. "I have been talking to a lot of people, and they like the idea for the Broadway theme."
The original idea for the Broadway series
came from a poll taken at a Student Senate meeting, Davis said.
"We asked the senators to make a wish list of what they wanted to see at the Lied Center," she said. "The common theme that kept coming up was Broadway shows."
Davis said she spoke with several theater management companies around the country to find out when shows would be touring.
"I checked my schedule to see when we had openings, and I settled on these three shows," she said. "People have been really enthusiastic about the choices."
Only KU and Haskell students and previous season ticket holders will be able to purchase tickets in advance, Davis said.
"We have a renewal campaign for season ticket holders," she said. "We also opened the tickets sales to students because we were afraid that they would go home and not be able to get tickets later."
Nancy Kaiser-Caplan, director of public rela
tions for the Lied Center, said KU students also would have the opportunity to get tickets for the three shows by purchasing the All-Arts options pass for $140 during fall registration.
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"Evite" — October 17
"Oliver" — February 5
"Cats" — May 5
The series
A series of three musicals will be presented next fall. Tickets for students go on sale April 18.
Davis said in addition to the Broadway shows, the
options package included the 1994-95 concert series, Swartwhout Hall chamber music, the New Directions series productions and all other University Theatre events.
Regular tickets sales begin May 16.
Students can purchase advance tickets through May 16 at the Lied Center box office. Season ticket holders must renew their tickets by April 25 to guarantee their seats.
BSU opens elections to the public
The Black Student Union is opening its presidential elections to the general public.
However, to vote you must register. And you must do it today.
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Applications are available at the Office of Minority Affairs, which is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Voting will take place from 7 to 10 p.m. Monday in the Kansas Union.