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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 134 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday morning, April 11, 1984
Senate votes against Nicaraguan mining
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate handed President Reagan a sharp rebuke Tuesday, voting overwhelmingly that the United States should not in any way be involved in the mining of Nicaraguan ports.
The 84-12 vote came as the administration struggled to minimize damage to its policy in the wake of an angry backlash on Capitol Hill. Key Republican senators complained bitterly about not being informed of the decision to proceed with the mining.
The amendment, authored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., declared no funds should be used "for the purpose of planning, directing, executing, or supporting the mining" of Nicaraguan ports.
KENNEDY AGREED to withdraw a second part to the amendment, concerning jurisdiction of the World Court, after it became clear the Republicans were divided and seeking a quick end to what had become an embarrassing situation for the White House.
Republican senators met in what was described as a stormy session before the vote. Republican leader Howard Baker then went to the Senate floor to work out the agreement with Kennedy permitting a vote on his amendment.
In the House, Speaker Thomas O'Neill said members probably would agree to provide only half the $62 million in Salvadoran military aid approved by the Senate last week, and would reject any funds for the CIA-sponsored rebels in Nicaragua. Reagan has said the money, including $21 million for the rebels, is urgently needed.
SHORTLY BEFORE the Senate vote, the White House issued a statement defending Reagan's Central America policy and saying a "broken" plan "has obscured the president's aim in the region."
"To the contrary," the White House said, "all U.S. activities in the Central America region have been fully briefed in detail to the committees of the Congress."
The document also took issue with members of Congress who complained of inadequate notification of CIA operations off the Nicaraguan coast.
The statement, endorsed by Reagan's top
The White House statement, issued by presidential spokesman Larry Speakes, denied the administration has any contingency plans to use U.S. combat troops in the region or escalate its secret war against Nicaragua if Reagan is re-elected.
national security advisers, was released late in the day amid signs a bitter outcry among Republicans and Democrats in Congress could mushroom into a major policy disaster.
THE DAMAGE CONTROL exercise, which included sending CIA Director William Casey and Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth Dam to Capitol Hill, met with little immediate success.
The furor, growing since the initial reports of CIA involvement in mining two key Nicaraguan ports, took on the appearance of a political firestorm with the revelation Reagan approved the operation in February without notifying the committee Chairman Barry Goldwater, R.Ariz.
"I am pissed off," Goldwater said in a blistering letter to Casey. "The president has asked us to back his foreign policy. Bill, how can we help?" He said when we don't know what the hell he is doing.
Senators vote not to finance Gay Services
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance Committee last night voted 8-3 to deny funds to the day and pay for a memorial service.
The Student Senate will have final say on whether the group receives funds.
Carla Vogel, student body president, said last night that she would veto any appropriations bill she passed.
GLSOK requested $2,869 73, but the committee had reduced the figure to $688 in preliminary hearings. Jim Vanderbilt, a member of the board, last night moved to change the figure to zero.
Vanderbilt said he thought the Student Senate, not the Finance Committee, should decide whether GLSOK should receive funds.
Vogel said she would call a special Student Executive Committee meeting tomorrow to consider the budget, which the Finance Committee completed last night. She said she also would call a special Senate meeting for next Wednesday.
Vanderbilt said the committee's reason for denying funds was that committee members thought GLSOK could cover its operating expenses with revenue from its dances.
The budget endorsed by the committee allocates $61,300 to student organizations. The committee included another $5,000 in reserve funds for budget requests next fall.
Robert B. Waddill/Kensan
Jon Gilchrist, chairman of the Finance Committee, said that the Women's Soccer Team and the Graduate Student Political Science Association had not appeared for their budget hearings and had not contacted the Senate office after the scheduled appearance. The committee's policy is to deny funds to any group that fails to appear.
The committee also voted to deny funds to the Women's Soccer Club, the Graduate Student Political Science Association, the University Police and Pistol Teams, and the KU Defender Project.
The committee denied funds to the University Film Society because it made a profit and did not merit funding.
He said that with few exceptions, the KU Navy Rifle and Pistol Teams limited participation in its events to Navy ROTC members. The teams were not open to because the teams were not open to all students.
The KU Defender Project was disqualified because it violated Senate rules, he said. The rules prohibits financing groups that give academic credit to members that participate.
Laura Womble, Oklahoma City freshman and Kansas crew money for the Kansas crew team. Womble yesterday was per- member, rows on an ergometer at Wescool Beach to help raise ticipating in the Kansas Crew Ergathon.
Costume's campaign pledges challenged
By CINDY HOLM
Staff Reporter
Carla Vogel and Dennis "Boog" Highberger were different. They made few campaign promises and didn't claim to be anything they weren't.
ANALYSIS
They pledged to improve communication within the Student Senate and between senators and students. They vowed to abolish Roberts Rules of Order, saying the rules stifled
Mainlv. they promised change.
discussion and promoted injustice. They believed they could make the Senate work.
KU STUDENTS DECIDED to give them a chance. On March 1, Vogel became student body president, and Highberger took the office of vice president.
But after a little more than a month, students and senators are questioning whether the government is doing enough.
Despite the optimism and idealism of Vogel's administration, problems have arisen. Communication within the Senate has been poor. Roberts Rules have been suspended at only one meeting, and the result was a long and arduous battle.
Members of the Student Senate Executive Committee, which is composed of committee
chairmen and Senate officers, said last week that they didn't know about the resignations of some of the Senate office staff until they read about them in the Kansan.
And last week, when David Friend, former StudEx chairman, arrived to conduct the StudEx meeting, Robert Walker, the newly appointed StudEx chairman, already had called the urge to go.
Friend said he had not been told that Walker would conduct the meeting.
Highbierger said that he had tried to contact Friend before the meeting but was unable to reach him.
Vogel said Friend's problem was an example
See ANALYSIS, p. 5, col. 1
KUAC to get 9.6% increase in fiscal'85
Board also approves a proposal calling for fewer members
The University of Kansas Athletic Corporation yesterday approved a 9.6 percent budget increase for the coming fiscal year and adopted a new operating philosophy for the corporation's board from 21 to 17, voting members.
By MATT DeGALAN Staff Reporter
The corporation approved the plan to reduce the size of the board despite charges from one committee member that the plan would be unfair to students.
The $.6 million budget calls for a 12.6 percent increase in funds for basketball but only a 2% increase in money for football.
WOMEN'S ATHLETICS will receive a 5.3 percent increase, while nonrenewal sports teams will receive a 10.6 percent increase.
Susan Wachter, athletic department business manager, said that larger increases had not been possible because only five home football seasons would be made it a lean year for the department's income.
To make up for the shortfall, KUAC plans to increase alumni donations and raise ticket funds.
Prices for student tickets haven't been decided and will be released next week, said Mike Hamrick, administrative assistant to the athletic director.
Single game reserved seats for football will be increased from $12 to $13. Tickets for the
See KUAC, p. 5, col. 1
Pennsylvania primary goes to Mondale
By United Press International
PHILADELPHIA — Walter Mondale swamped Gary Hart in the Pennsylvania primary yesterday and Jesse Jackson rolled up a huge black vote to carry Philadelphia, the nation's fifth-largest city.
Mondale won a majority of the 172 delegates at stake in Pennsylvania, which means that he has more than half of the 1,967 national convention delegates needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination in San Francisco in July.
With 64 percent of the vote reported at 10:30 p.m., Mondale had 470,849 or 45 percent. Hart had 351,161 or 34 percent and Jackson had 209,544 or 20 percent.
Pennsylvania marked Mondale's fourth big victory in the industrial belt. He had previously won in Michigan, Illinois and New York.
MONDALE APPARENTLY WON at least 107
delegates and now has 1,053. Hart won 11 and
24 in the playoffs.
Unions played a big role in the election. According to network exit polls, Mondale won by a 2-to-1 ratio among union voters, who made up nearly half the total.
With 95 percent of the vote counted, Jackson
See PRIMARY, p. 5, col. 5
Schools hit by gender bender
Male pronouns are cut from course catalog
By STEPHANIE HEARN Staff Reporter
The KU office of affirmative action has requested that KU schools avoid using "he," "his," and "man" in course descriptions and titles in the undergraduate catalog, but five schools have not yet responded to the request, the editor of the undergraduate catalog said yesterday.
Roberta Ferron, director of the office of affirmative action, said that her office had requested that the schools change the wording of course descriptions and titles for the undergraduate catalog to comply with affirmative action policy.
Jane Haskinson, the editor, said that the Schools of Allied Health, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Architecture and Urban Design, and Hospitality design will require to revise course descriptions and titles.
TO COMPLY WITH the request, the name of the course "Insects and Man," would have to be changed to remove the reference to "man."
Other changes requested by the office of affirmative action include the removal of the name of the first person in the sentence.
and Man," "Plants and Man," and "Molecules and Man."
Ferron said that the policy stated that the words "his," "he," and "man" could not be used to refer to both genders in University of Kansas program publications.
HOWEVER, HOSKINSON said that the departments of anthropology, biology, geography, geology, and history had not made the necessary changes.
The School of Liberal Arts and Sciences has the largest number of changes to be made at Madison.
Robert Lineberry, dean of the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that he had sent the request to department chairmen and asked them to consider it.
Brecca Hines, administrative assistant for the School of Engineering, said that she did not receive the request until after the date that the changes were to be made.
Hokinson said that most of the changes in course descriptions involved replacing, the changes in curriculum.
"I just called the student records office and said that the proposed changes were OK." Hines said. "I assumed that was all I needed to do."
Haskinson said that although she did not know the exact date the catalog would be printed, she hoped to have the first half of the catalog to the typesetter by last night.
IF THE CHANGES are not made before the catalog goes to the printer, Hoskinson said the generic words would appear in the new version. "If I change the authority to change the words herself
Hoskinson said that the changes first had to be written by the schools and then given to the office of admissions and records before she could edit them.
Several officials from the schools which Hoskinson claims have not made the necessary changes say they have made the changes.
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design said, "All of our were changed."
Hannes Combes, assistant dean of education, said that they had also sent the changes to the department.
Because the catalog is in its final stages, the matter of rewarding course descriptions is less important.
The cost of producing the catalog could be increased if changes made by the schools did not reach the office of university relations before the type was set, Hoskinson said.
Mistrial declared by judge in professor's slander suit
By JILL CASEY Staff Reporter
A Douglas County associate district court judge yesterday declared a mistrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict in the 11-day trial of a KU professor who filed a slander suit.
The jury foreman in the suit, filed by Michael Crawford, professor of anthropology; against two of his former research assistants and another professor of anthropology, told the judge that jury members had been unable to reconcile differences about key questions that attorneys raised during the trial.
Ralph King, the associate district court judge, declared the mistrial after the jurors told him that additional time would not help them resolve their disagreements.
However, Dan Biles, one of the two attorneys
Crawford had sued for $1.5 million in damages, but Dale Niklas, his attorney, during his closing arguments asked the jury to consider awarding $50,000 to Crawford.
A message to King explaining the jurors' dilemma stated that nine of the jurors had sided with Crawford, and the three others voted that he had not been slandered.
At about 3 p.m., after the jurors had deliberated for two full days, they informed King that six of the jurors had voted against proceeding further with deliberations.
who represented Lundsgaarde, said that he thought some of the votes for Crawford might not have been definite.
Crawford filed the suit in 1980 against Liz Murray and Nancy Sempoli, the two former research assistants, and Henry Lundsgaarde, professor of anthropology.
Testimony in the trial lasted for nine days.
Niklas said, "We will pick a new trial date and start again."
Biles said that new trials usually take about half as long as the first trial because time consuming technicalities, such as marking injuries into evidence, had already been completed.
The suit stemmed from allegations made by Murray and Sempolski in several complaints they filed with the University of Kansas and other agencies in 1977 and 1978 and from comments they made to the press about the allegations.
In their complaints, Murray and Sempolski said that Crawford had misused federal grant money and had conducted himself unethically while doing research with human subjects in Belize, a Central American country, during the summer of 1976.
One question, on which the jury was deadlocked, was the question of whether the statements Murray made in the various newspaper articles introduced into evidence were true.