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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 103.NO.104
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY 18, 1994
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Senate agrees to fund Day on Hill
SUA event would test Senate budget
Bv Heather Moore
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate sacrificed a balanced budget Wednesday night in order to fund Dav on the Hill.
Before the Senate meeting $3,716 was left in the unallocated account for supplemental funding for student organizations. Through legislation that night, Senate spent $6,347.
Day on the Hill received $3,200 from Senate, and other bills received $3,147. Because the amount of these bills was more than the Senate had left in its budget, money had to come from the reserve fund. Reserve fund money is usually kept for future projects.
SUA's originally requested $5,000 for Day on the Hill, but that amount was lowered after the Senate finance committee failed the bill on Jan. 27.
Eric Medill, finance committee chair, had
OPINION: Members of the University
**INTRODUCTION:** Members of the University community offer opinion on Senate funding of Day on the Hill. Page 5.
objected to engineering senator Paul Wolters' attempts to pass the bill at the Feb. 2 Senate meeting for $3,200 because the finance committee had not yet heard the bill for that amount. Last week, Senate finance committee failed the bill because committee members wanted to stick to the budget.
Wolters said that he reintroduced the $3,200 bill so that the entire Senate body could hear it.
"I was concerned as a senator that the finance committee wasn't fulfilling its responsibilities," he said. "My interpretation is that the finance committee should review legislation to make sure that groups have done their homework and make sure that the legislation is financially sound. They were assuming that Asian American Student Union would be funded, so they couldn't fund Dawn on the Hill."
Wolters said that SUA would give the money back to Senate if it was not used. The money provided by the bill is an extra
insurance for Day on the Hill and probably will not be used.
"This is a loan until we roll it over to Senate in June," he said. "It's a trust thing. SUA has shown that there is no way it can spend this money. That is one reason it passed so well."
Wolters said that he thought it was amazing that almost no one voted against the bill.
"It flew through," he said. "Senate was trying to be responsible. This is so beneficial in both ways. It's money to help us and probably the best advertisement for Senate."
"Regardless of what we have left, Day on the Hill is one of the most productive events held yearly," he said. "Everyone wants this and wants it to happen to the best of SUA's ability."
Medill said that he supported the bill.
Travis Harrod, StudEx chair, had brought the bill up in front of StudEx Wednesday night to discuss putting it on the agenda for the Senate meeting. StudEx decided not to put it on the agenda because of the precedent this action would set.
Harrod said that StudEx did not want to
appear to mistrust the finance committee.
"We don't want to be in the habit of circumventing them," he said.
At the beginning of the Senate meeting, Harrod suggested that Senate hear the bill. In regards to concerns about a balanced budget, Harrod said that Senate had understated the arbitrarity amount that was set.
"We're a government body and we can't foresee what our needs will be," he said. "Bills with merit, that fit the mission of this University, should not suffer because of an arbitrary amount we set."
The senators who opposed the bill did not object because they disliked the event but because they questioned whether it was Senate's responsibility to fund it.
Jeremy Haas, Senate treasureur, said that if SUA had gone through the proper channels last year, it wouldn't have a problem now.
"I'm referring to the fact that SUA knows that Day on the Hill is desired by students," he said. "I believe SUA should have realized that people expect the event and should have [set aside] money at the beginning. There was a way to do it last year, but it wasn't done."
Degree cuts evoke negative response
By Susan White
Alan Denton, St. Marys senior, collects forecast information for the University Daily Kansan beneath rows of upper air and forecast charts. Denton, an atmospheric science major, said he thought the program was of a high quality and was unhappy that the major was being discontinued.
Kansan staff writer
The final word about the academic degrees discontinuance plan has been said — some people were satisfied, most were not.
Elizabeth Schultz, professor of humanities and comparative literature, said she was thrilled with the decision to keep the humanities program, but most people were unaware of the decision.
However, Schultz was not as happy with the decision made to discontinue the comparative literature degree and make it a concentration in the English department.
"I very much regret that it was recommended to eliminate the comparative literature program," she said. "I believe it is a very different degree than English."
Nicolas Shump, Lawrence senior, said he was unhappy about the decision to drop the comparative literature bachelor of arts degree and to move it to the English department.
Members of other departments also had concerns about the discontinuances
"I have to take two foreign languages and several humanities classes," he said. "It doesn't make a lot of sense. It seems like the Regents are saying if I want to major in something, not to come to KU. I just hope the English department lets people know that the option to take comparative literature is there, or the program will get buried."
Earl Schweppe, professor of computer science, said that he was disappointed that the bachelor of arts and bachelor of general sciences degrees in computer science were dropped from the University curriculum.
"There are 65 students enrolled in the program at all levels," he said. "We graduate 15 to 20 people each year."
Alex Martens, Lawrence senior, said he would not be affected by the dropping of the computer science degrees because he would graduate with a bachelor of sciences degree. But he said he understood why people would be upset by the dropping of the bachelor of arts degree.
"For people who want to double major in business and computer science, it won't be the easiest. It will hurt them a lot," he said. "The B.A. has a lot less classes than the B.S."
Jan Kozma, chair of the French and Italian department, said she argued strongly
"I am disappointed that the council did not take the recommendation of Academic Policies and Procedures Committee to keep the degree," she said. "But the program is not gone. It will continue as an option within the French degree."
for the Italian bachelor of arts degree at the discontinuance hearings, but the degree was dropped anyway.
"I will still get my degree," she said. "I applied for it before the B. A. was dropped. But I don't know how people will feel about my having a degree that no longer exists.
Anna Marasco, Omaha, Neb., senior, said she felt the Italian department was not getting a fair deal.
"I know I studied hard, and I worked hard," she said. "But people not familiar
Jeff Brandberg, Overland Park sophomore, said the loss of all the meteorology degrees except for the bachelor of sciences degree indirectly affected him.
"I transferred from the University of Georgia just for the meteorology program, then they canceled the KU program," he said. "KU students will have to go elsewhere for their master's degree."
"Without most of the programs, no new funds will be available for research," he said. "After three years the graduate students will be gone, and they do a lot of the research. There will not be the same amount of research."
with the department may be suspicious about how strong that degree is. To make Italian part of French would be like making Greek a track in Latin."
The final score
Discontinued Degrees
Comparative Literature — Bachelor of
change, change to concentration in English
dictionary.
Computer Science = Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Education Studies
Computer Science — Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of General Studies
Italian — Bachelor of Arts, option with Bachelor of Arts in French
Continued Degree
Atmospheric Science — Bachelor of Arts,
Bachelor of General Studies and Masters
Continued Degree Humanities—Bachelor of Arts
"The Scream" bv Edvard Munch
KANSAN
Anti-abortion group linked to theft of 'Scream'
The Associated Press
OSLO, Norway — The theft of Norway's most famous painting, "The Scream," was linked yesterday to an anti-abortion campaign that has been seeking publicity during the Winter Olympics.
A Lutheran minister involved in the campaign said the Edward Munch masterpiece "would emerge again" if television networks broadcasted a film called "The Silent Scream," which shows a 12-week-old fetus being aborted.
In a radio interview, the Rev. Borre Knudsen refused to say he or his supporters were involved in the 50-second robbery at the National Art Museum on Saturday.
"We simply can't be too open about it," he said. "We have sent out a signal, and we hope that it will be heard, but we must be very secretive."
The painting was stolen from a Munch exhibition that was one of the highlights of a Norwegian Culture Festival put on in conjunction with the Winter Olympics in Lillehammer.
"We can't publicly state that we know what happened, but we see what happened as linked with the issue we feel deeply about," said Knudsen, an ordained minister in the state church.
Anne Diesen, deputy managing director at Norwegian television NRK, said it had not received any demand to broadcast "The Silent Scream," which was made by a former abortionist from New York.
"We would refuse it without question. We would never broadcast under those conditions." Diesen said.
Police superintendent Leif A. Lier said he listened to a tape of Knudsen's radio interview, but told the national news agency NTB he had no grounds to question Knudsen as a suspect in the theft.
A handful of Norwegian church groups and American groups such as Operation Rescue and the Christian Defense Coalition have been trying to draw attention to the anti-abortion cause while thousands of foreign journalists are at the Olympics.
"We would not engage in stealing in trying to shed light on our cause," said Bob Jewitt, spokesman for Operation Rescue and the Christian Defense Coalition. "I am not familiar with the incident. But I don't think people who engage in illegal activities are acting according to their Christian beliefs."
Twelve American anti-abortion activists, including Operation Rescue members, were deported last week after anti-abortion posters and pamphlets were seized from their luggage. Police said they suspected the activists planned illegal acts — a charge the Americans denied.
Other American anti-abortion activists have been allowed to enter the country. But there have been no reported demonstrations, except for a brief walk through Lillehammer by Knudsen on Monday evening, surrounded by news photographers.
The Norwegian High Court ruled in 1833 that Knudsen could not have his own parish because his views against abortion brought him into conflict with the state church. But he has a following among those who oppose Norway's laws allowing abortions and providing them virtually free at government clinics.
Med Center joins study to prevent diabetes
Eveing the tigers
Steve Woodberry and the rest of the battered Jayhawks need a victory Sunday against Missouri to stay alive in the Big Eight Conference title chase. Page 11.
Low-level insulin doses may increase immunity
By Ashley Schultz
The University of Kansas Medical Center has joined forces with about 50 other centers in a study researchers hope will spare patients from developing juvenile diabetes.
Kansan staff writer
Type 1 diabetes, or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, accounts for about 20 percent of the nation's diabetes cases, said Wayne Moore, director of pediatric endocrinology at the Med Center.
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases is sponsoring the $30 million Diabetes Prevention
Trial — Type 1 with funding from the National Institutes of Health. Between 60,000 and 80,000 people will be screened before 830 are selected to take part in the five-to-seven-year study.
The number of participants is what distinguishes this study from previous trials, said Elisa Walter, an information specialist with the Institutes' information clearinghouse.
Type 1 diabetes usually strikes victims before the age of 20, Moore said. It affects about 500,000 Americans and tends to run in families.
First-degree relatives of Type 1 diabetics between the ages of 3 and 45 are being screened, as are second-degree relatives between the ages of 3 and 20, Moore said. First-degree relatives include parents and siblings, and second-degree relatives include aunts, uncles and cousins.
"We have been screening in our own patients for about three years to four years." Moore said.
About 1,000 patients already have been screened at the Med Center, Moore said.
Type 1 diabetes is thought to be caused by the attack of insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas by disease-fighting cells in the immune system called lymphocytes. The study will be based on the assertion that if the immune system is exposed to extra insulin before diabetes develops, it could be desensitized and become tolerant of the beta cells.
Moore said that the trial was not the first he has participated in but that it was the first that had the necessary funding.
Half of the 830 participants will take low-level doses of insulin, either orally or through injections, and the other half will be in a control group.
He said the Med Center planned to take information from potential participants and set up a date in March to draw blood.
With the right combination of tests, the likelihood of a person developing diabetes can usually be determined three to five years in advance with a 95 percent certainty. Moore said.
Tests measuring the levels of the antibody will be used to screen participants. About one of every 250 close relatives will have positive antibodies. Moore said.
They will be given the First-Phase Insulin Release test, which gauges the insulin released immediately after eating, the first part of insulin secretion affected by diabetes. Moore said.
Potential trial participants can call the Med Center at 588-6236 for a free screening, or contact the coordinating center at 1-800-425-8361.