University Daily Kansan, April 9. 1984
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AURH votes to boycott Coors beer
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
In response to "blatantly racist!" remarks an executive of the Adolph Coors Co. made last month, the Association of University Residence Halls voted last week to boycott Coors beer.
AURH general assembly members unanimously approved the boycott and decided to withdraw from the meeting.
Under the boycott, no money from AUHR can be used by AURH or residence halls to purchase merchandise.
James Jeffrey, AURH president, said publicity would be aimed at getting residence hall governments to pass their own boycots.
Last month, William K. Coors, chairman and chief executive of the brewery called African blacks "intellectually inferior" and said that "one of the best things they (slave traders) did for you is to drag your ancestors over in chains." Speaking before a group of minority businessmen in Denver, Coors also said, "It is important to education among the less. In fact, it helps to lack the intellectual capacity to succeed, and it's taking them down the tubes."
Although Coors has not retracted his statement, he said later that he had "demonstrated a lack of sensitivity" and had not been quoted in light of the context of his speech.
The AURH boycott comes after a recent AFL-CIO boycott of the brewery that has
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In the resolution, AURH general assembly members said that Coors' remarks "demonstrated an insensitivity and otherwise blatantly racist attitude toward minorities."
drawn national attention.
LaDale George, Richmond Heights, Mo., sophomore, spoke to AURH in support of the boycott. He said he had also spoken to KU officials about a more extensive Coors boyscott at the University of Kansas.
George said he wanted to see suspension of the sale of Coors beer in the Kansas Union. He said he would also ask KU residence hall governments, the Interfraternity Council and the KU Panhellenic Association to join in the boycott.
Finance Committee presenting budget requests on behalf of student organizations and members asking questions not pertinent to the budget requests.
Committee
IF THE SENATE passes the bill, the Committee Board will select a new Finance Committee that will be composed of members who will not be opposed to financing particular student organizations "on the basis of their religious beliefs, social standing, sex, race, national origin, disability or economic status."
The bill allows members of the present committee to apply to serve on the new committee.
The bill calls for a special committee to design new guidelines for the Finance Committee's actions and requests that a member of Student Organizations and Activities or its appointee oversee the committee's actions.
In its original form, the bill called for the immediate disbanding of the Finance Committee, but members of the Minority Affairs Committee amended the bill.
CARLA VOGEL, student body president, said Saturday that the Senate needed to form a new Finance Committee but that time for submitting the budget was running out. The budget deadline
Russ Pitacek, co-chairman of the Minority Affairs Committee, said he didn't think the bill would have passed the Senate in its original form because of the approaching deadline.
Placek said that the bill in its amended form was a positive way to address the recent problems of the Finance Committee.
The Committee Board will be more selective in choosing members of the Finance Committee he has appointed.
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If the University decides to cut some phone service, If the Mitcher said, the cuts will probably be spread out across the University. Phone service in University housing will not be affected.
KU'S ANNUAL PHONE bill for basic service and long distance is approximately $900,000. Nitcher said the $67,309 requested for this year would be about 7.5 percent of the budget.
Nitcher said that although the Legislature did not approve the supplemental request for phone service, the University fared well in the Legislature.
"I think we got a good budget, considering the revenue available," he said.
"Given the fact that there were some limits on the revenue and the Legislature was able to improve on the governor's recommendations, we have to be pleased with the way it did turn out."
THE UNIVERSITY'S MOST significant gain from the budget approved by the Legislature this
year, Nitcher said, was in KU's other operating expense and faculty salary budgets, which both increased 7 percent.
Other KU requests the Legislature did not approve included $221,000 for 21 new graduate teaching positions. The Senate had approved $100,000 to support 10 positions in its version of the Regents appropriations bill, but that recommendation was removed when the final budget was approved by both houses.
The Legislature also did not approve an increase in the fee waiver for graduate teaching assistants. The University had requested that waiver increase from 60 percent to 75 percent.
A fee waiver releases students from paying the full cost of incident fees.
KU had also requested $250,000 for computing support and $200,000 for six faculty positions, which the Legislature did not approve.
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Shuttle
dock with the satellite 307 miles above Earth made it wobble more.
In desperation, Nelson grabbed one of the solar wings and tried to manhandle it into position by firing a shot at his buck. But he regained out of fuel and was ordered back to the shuttle.
THE LATEST SALVAGE scheme also was complicated by the limited amount of fuel in the shuttle's forward control jets that will be used to drive the vehicle around the shuttle for the "rotating grapple" attempt.
After Nelson's heroics backfired, the astronauts tried unsuccessfully four times to grab the satellite with the arm.
While the astronauts slept, Challenger was backing away from Solar Max. The shuttle was to be 30 miles away by the time the crew woke up to insert their second approach to the satellite today.
Elliott said controllers radioed new commands to Solar Max's computers in a last-ditch attempt to keep them online.
Earth's magnetic field to slow the rocking and rolling.
But he said only a few hours of battery power remained before the satellite would be dead. If ground teams get control of the craft, they could use the sun to convert the sunshine into electricity.
FLIGHT DIRECTOR John Cox said that if the satellite could be repowered, the rescue attempt might be delayed a day to provide extra time to try to stabilize Solar Max from the ground. In
But, if the satellite dies and the attempt to rescue it with the arm today fails, he said the astronauts would be ordered home early — a flight risk. He said they would have to retrieve and repair the crippled satellite.
Cox said mission control was not planning on a second try for an unethered spacewalker to stabilize Solar Max. He said Challenger did not have enough fuel for a manned maneuvering unit rescue if that were to become necessary. The rescue mission had been planned because
scientists considered Solar Max — with an estimate amount in cost of $235 million — too upset about an asset loss to lose.
Fuses that blew aboard Solar Max have prevented four of the seven experiments on board from working since November 1980. Scientists were especially eager to restore the satellite's precise positioning ability so that it could monitor solar flares.
If the backup plan for a rescue works today, the satellite will be tucked into its cradle in the cargo bay, two days of planned repair work will be compressed into one and Challenger will put the restored observatory back in space Wednesday.
A PROBLEM WITH a fancy trailer hitch — known as a trunion pin attachment device — that was supposed to dock Nelson with Solar Max turned what was to have been the shuttle program's finest hour into a large question mark.
The device's three spring-loaded jaws failed to clamp onto the 2½-inch matting pin on the saver.
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