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CAMPUS/AREA UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday April 7,1994
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Vote on library code postponed
By Jamie Munn
Kapsan staff writer
After a heated debate yesterday, student leaders convinced the University Senate Executive Committee to allow a student committee to review proposed changes in a new library-lending code.
John Shoemaker, student body president, and John Altevogt, SenEx member and graduate student, argued that students would be affected by the code but that they had not had time to review it.
The proposed code, which would have been voted on by the University Council today, was pushed back one week after an emotional debate by Altevogt and Shoemaker.
"We're trying to get all the bugs out
of this before it goes to University Council," Alveogt said.
Altevogt said he objected to the students' lack of knowledge about the proposal, which would have been presented today by Jack Davidson, chair of the Senate Library Committee.
Although Davidson's report on the new lending code had not been passed by the Senate Library Committee, T.P. Srinivasan, head of SenEx, said the Council could have voted to approve it.
Srinivasan suggested that only controversial portions of the proposal should be tabled at today's meeting.
"I'm not going to hold up the document for a million different reasons," he said.
But Shoemaker said he had not even
had'a chance to review the proposals and was not sure which portions would warrant debate.
In the following discussion, Altevogt, Srinivasan, Shoemaker and SenExe member Bob Friauf argued about why students had not looked at the proposals yet.
Shoemaker said that by allowing students time to look at the proposals, objections about the changes could be handled before — instead of during — the meeting.
"I'm trying to avoid all these petty little games," Shoemaker said as tempers began to flare.
"We didn't start these petty little games." Friauf said.
"Anytime you want to debate fault, I'd be more than happy to," Altevogt said at the end of the argument.
Srinivasan allowed Altevogt and Shoemaker another week with the promise that a student committee would review the policy tomorrow.
In other SenEx business, Sinivasin commented on the recent decision by Kansas legislators to drop the Partnership for Excellence plan.
"I'm still hoping that the future for salary compensations will still be successful." Srinivasan said.
The plan, in which Gov. Joan Finney linked increased faculty salaries with the acceptance of Washburn University into the Kansas Board of Regents' system, was rejected last week.
He also said he thought linking one to the other had been a mistake.
"She packed the two together as inseparable twins," Srinivasan said. "When you do that, it forces surgery."
Panel rips Clinton's health plan
By Roberta Johnson Kansan staff writer
A panel sponsored by the KU Libertarians and the Kansas Libertarian Party said President Bill Clinton's health care plan will hurt the individual consumer, and they offered an alternative to the plan.
The panel spoke to a group of 30 at Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union last night.
"The key component of Clinton's plan is managed competition," said Henry Butler, Koch distinguished professor of law and economics."But it treats the symptoms and not the causes."
Butler said an alternative to universal health care would be the creation of medical savings accounts. The accounts would be funded by employers, as some health care plans are now.
"The employees would receive a voucher to give to a health insurance company to set up an account," he said. "It would be their property to use to buy other things if they wanted."
Bob Murphy, chair of the orthopedic department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, said that was not the case with the current system.
He said that the medical savings accounts would lead to savings because the consumer would shop for the best deal.
"People want to get their money's worth," he said. "The prices are rising so much that I get the amount of coverage that I feel is fair. Who gets killed? The people who don't have insurance."
Others who would be hurt by the Clinton plan are those in need of new drug treatments, said Frank Kaul, a De Soto graduate student who works for a pharmaceutical company.
"Drugs aren't cheap, especially new ones," he said. "If the government controls costs, it will discourage new development. The young companies can't fund the research. The days of the entrepreneur will have ended."
Kaul said that the proposed alternative would allow for greater competition and more drug treatments being tested.
"A very expensive cancer cure is better than no cure," he said.
Donald Tiffany, a Lawrence clinical psychologist and member of the audience, agreed with the panel's opinion and said that the major problem with the health care system was the bureaucracy.
Brian Vandervliet / KANSAN
Disco skating
Lawrence residents Fernando Mancullo and Dustin Davis rollerskate on a parking lot south of Memorial Stadium in what they called their disco skates. The two said they wanted to get out in the nice weather.
CAMPUS BRIEFS
Male student upset over pair of shorts
A male KU student was given a notice to appear in court at an undisclosed date for grabbing a woman and threatening her Tuesday at Robinson Gym, KU police reported.
The police report said that the student was upset about a pair of shorts that the woman had in her possession. He claimed the shorts belonged to him, grabbed the woman and spoke to her in a threatening manner. Police said the woman, who was an acquaintance of the student, received a scrape on her chest.
Tryouts for spirit squads will begin next week. Clinics for the cheerleaders will be from 6:30 to 10
Spirit trvouts to begin
Clinic and tryouts for the Crimson Girls will be held at 6:30 April 10-13 at Allen Field House.
p.m. on April 15 and 9:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., followed by tryouts from 6 to
10 p.m. on April 16, all at Anschutz.
Clinic for the Jayhawk and Baby
Jay mascots will begin at 6:30 p.m.
April 11, and tryouts will begin at
6:30 p.m. April 22, both at Anschutz.
Compiled from Kansan staff reports
For more information, call Elaine Brady, spirit squad coordinator, at 864-3002.
Liquor bill doesn't end with Finney
If signed, it hits counties By Stephen Martino
If Gov. Joan Finney signs into law the Sunday sale of alcohol, the Douglas County Commission will be the next group to grapple with the issue.
The bill, which also would allow liquor purchases by credit card, gives counties the option of enacting the Sunday sales. That could be done through a county commission vote or a referendum of county residents.
However, one county commissioner, Jim Chappell, said he was in favor of the commissioners making the decision. He said that he had instructed the county administrator, Craig Weinaug, to place the issue on the agenda for the first meeting if Finney signs the bill.
As of yesterday, Finney had not said whether she would support the legislation. She said in a media conference March 31 that she was concerned about the credit card provision but had no opposition to the sales.
Chappell said he was pleased to see the Legislature act, on this bill in a favorable way.
"The Legislature should not dictate those kinds of things," he said. "The reason behind the restrictions were
moral and religious, and that is a big problem."
Chappell said that if the commission passed the county provision and allowed Sunday sales, the public could reverse the decision by vote if the decision is unpopular.
Louie McElhaney, county commissioner, said that he had not heard enough about the proposal to have formed an opinion.
"If had to vote today, I couldn't support it right now," he said. "But that does not mean I couldn't support it later."
McElaney said he supported the issue being put to the ballot for the primary election in August.
The third commissioner, Mark Buhler, said he had not given the issue any thought but would later.
"I'm not wasting any brains cells on it until it is absolutely necessary," he said.
The provision came about because some state legislators said that certain counties would not want Sunday liquor sales. They said it would go against the general attitude and beliefs of the community. Only after the provision was included into the bill did it pass, 63-62.
The bill would also legalize liquor sales on Memorial Day, Independence Day and Labor Day, leaving Thanksgiving and Christmas as the only days that liquor could not be sold in the state.
Activists anxiously await new court appointment
By Susan White Kansan staff writer
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun received criticism for being overly conservative when he first was appointed to the court in 1970 — a court of fairly liberal justices.
"Over history he has become more and more liberal," said Burdett Loomis, professor of political science. "I think he probably never would have predicted a liberal career for himself."
Blackmun, who announced his retirement yesterday, was best known as the author of Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 law that legalized abortion in the United States.
Burdett said that about 20 years later, Blackmun's law was strong.
"He has a substantial record for the longevity of his decision," he said. "It was a decision that has stood the test of time through all the trials and tribulations. He was an admirable member of the court."
Sarah Deer, Lawrence junior and president of the KU Pro-Choice Coalition, said Blackmun's retirement made her sad.
"He wrote Roe to Wade," she said. "It changed Roe's lives forever."
Deer said the status of the law probably would not change with the appointment of a new Supreme Court justice. She said that despite new court appointments during the Ronald Reagan and George Bush administrations, which opposed
abortion, the decision hadn't changed.
Patricia Trausch, Spring Hill senior and member of Students for Life, said she did not anticipate that an anti-abortion justice would replace Blackmun. She also said she thought the majority of the justices — including Republican appointees Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Souter — would continue to support pro-choice issues.
"Even at the best of times the vote has been five to four," she said. "O'Connor, Kennedy and Souter have been known to go either way, but they have been leaning toward the prochoice side lately."
"The government has been cracking down," she said. "We are generally concerned with the violence in Lawrence, Wichita and Kansas City. A lot of women feel that if the violence continues, they will lose the ability to have an abortion at a clinic."
Lynne Green, co-president of Lawrence NOW, National Organization for Women, said Blackmun's retirement saddened her and made her a little nervous.
"He's been the hero for the women's movement for the last 20 years," she said. "I have been listening to it all day on the radio. But with a pro-choice president in the White House things should stay the same. We'll keep our
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Deer said the organization's present concern was to help women's health clinics that perform abortions cut down on the violence against them.
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