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CLOUDY
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Vol. 94, No.129 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
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Wednesday morning, April 4, 1984
Mondale wins New York; black vote boosts Jackson
By United Press International
NEW YORK -- Walter Mondale scored his biggest primary victory of 1984 yesterday, thrashing Gary Hart in the New York Democratic primary battle in which civil rights activist Jackson was running a strong third.
Mondale roared through the cities, suburbs and rural areas of the Empire State, sweeping the vote everywhere except the black areas. In those areas civil rights activist Jessie Jackson came through with another big vote that probably assured him of a major role at the Democratic National Convention.
A record black vote was reported, with some districts in New York City saying the black turnout was 100 and larger than in 1980, according to ABC.
Although Hart lost the momentum he has enjoyed since his New Hampshire primary upset in February, he vowed to continue the marathon battle, which he said would be decided in the California primary June 5.
Mondale woke with ease the biggest contest vet for the Democratic nomination. Combined with his easy win two weeks age in Illinois, it shows him to be a powerhouse in big industrial states with traditional Democratic votes – which should bode well Tuesday when Pennsylvania's 172 delegates are at
With 97 percent of the districts reporting, Mondale had 605,478 votes or 45 percent. Hart had 366,910 or 27 percent and Jackson had 343,827 or 25 percent.
IF MONDALE'S VOTE remains around 50 percent it will be his biggest victory in any primary this year. He scored 41 percent in Illinois, which was his best showing against the rest of the Democratic field.
Mondale apparently scored well in the battle for New York's 252 delegates. He was winning 133 delegates compared with Hart's 72 and Jackson's 47.
Those delegate counts would raise Mondale's total to 644 of the 1,967 delegates necessary for the Demo election. The remainder belonged to Jeremiah 14,77 with 322 uncommitted.
Wisconsin also had a primary yesterday, but no delegates were at stake in the beauty contest in which both Democrates and Republicans could
vote. With 79 percent of the vote counted, Hart had 45 percent, Mondale 42 percent and Jackson 11 percent. He won by a single delegate at causesus this weekend.
New York was a sweet victory for the former vice president, who was backed by the New York Democratic hierarchy, Gov. Mario Cuomo, Mayor Ed Koch of New York, Sen. David Rahman and 60 of 62 county chairmen.
"I feel very good about the results," Mondale said as he left his residence to attend a funeral.
"I THINK IT PROVES that our message on the only question that counts is starting to come through," he added, referring to the question that he has made his campaign theme — "Who would be the best president?"
Flying to Philadelphia, Hart told reporters that as a result of New York he would stop responding to Mondale's charges. He said that the New York vote might not mean much and that in June would decide the nomination.
An obviously pleased Jackson said.
See POLITICS, p. 7, col. 3
SIX Lawrence tavern owners and employees wait in vain in the gallery of the Kansas Senate for the Senate to on a bill that would raise the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer from 18 to 19. From left to right are John Wooden, Dale Valest, Douglas Compton, David Moser, Charlie Farha and Brad Nieder. The tavern owners, some of whom have been at the Capitol for three days awaiting the vote, said they would return there today.
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Angino elected mayor; Shontz protests system
By SHARON BODIN Staff Reporter
Lawrence City Commissioner Ernest Angino was elected mayor at last night's City Commission meeting amid tension created by the dissatisfaction of one member of the commission and a bomb threat police received early in the evening.
The commission meeting continued as usual after Mayor David Longhurst announced that someone had made the threat, and after police searched City Hall during the early part of the meeting, City Manager Buford Watson announced that no bomb had been found.
In a 4-1 vote, commissioners made Angino the
new mayor, with Commissioner Nancy Shontz
voting against.
SHONTZ SAID, "I was not voting against Commissioner. I think he'll be a very good candidate."
Angino said of his new position as mayor, "I'm surprised. I was flattered that they thought I could do the job."
And Longhurst said the vote surprised him because it went more quickly than he had thought.
Shontz said she objected to the new role the position of mayor had taken on.
"I get the impression that this is some kind of fraternity that I've sort of blundered into," she
See MAYOR, p. 5, col.1
Soviet warship maneuvers surprise NATO countries
By United Press International
LONDON — A Soviet armada, thought to be the biggest Russian battle fleet ever assembled in the Atlantic, poured into the Norwegian sea yesterday in sudden maneuvers that took NATO allies by surprise.
NATO officers monitoring the exercise from Britain said that more than 40 Soviet vessels, including their most modern destroyers, frigates and cruisers and more than 20 submarines, were participating in three formations off Scandinavia.
The fleet included the Kirov, a 28,000-ton nuclear-powered battle cruiser. A "significant
NATO said that the exercise appeared to be both a test and a display of the Soviet navy's defense capability. "The main thrust of the exercise appears to be anti-submarine warfare and it is assessed that more than 20 subs are participating," officers said.
number" of Soviet aircraft also took part, they said.
SHIPS AND MARITIME aircraft from the United States, Britain, West Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark were keeping "constant surveillance" on the exercise
NATO's surveillance center at Northwood.
See WARGAMES, p. 5, col. 4
Lawmakers agree on Regents budget
Rv LORI DODGE
and the Kansan Staff
TOPEKA — Months of wrangling over the Board of Regents budget ended yesterday with a truce between the house and Senate that will help relieve some of the pains felt in the last two years of trimming and doing without.
For the University of Kansas and the rest of the Regents schools, the final draft of the fiscal 1983 budget furnishes a 7 percent salary increase for faculty members.
It also provides a 5 percent salary increase for student workers, a 7 percent increase for utility expenses and a 7 percent increase for other operating expenses — the part of the budget that covers minor building costs, supplies and other similar expenses.
DURING A SEVEN-HOUR session last night, a conference committee of Senate and House members worked out differences between the versions of the appropriations bills drawn up by both chambers. The agreement will now go to the full House and Senate, where final approval is almost certain.
For KU, a substantial loss came when the conference committee cut $100,000 that the Senate had allocated to restore 10 of the 21 senators eliminated during the summer of 1982.
That summer, Gov. John Carlin sliced $14.2 million from the Regents system budget to help avert a fiscal crisis. The cuts then were temporary, but they were never restored.
That meant the universities had to cut programs and leave vacant teaching positions unfilled. As equipment wore out and supplies diminished, students made do without some of the resources needed for their education.
Senate allocates money to expand infant-care unit at KU Med Center
By the Kansan Staff
TOPEKA — The Senate yesterday passed a bill that would give $100,000 to the University of Kansas Medical Center to expand the intensive care unit at Bell Memorial Hospital.
Keith Nitcher, KU director of business and fiscal affairs, said the version of the budget bill passed by the Senate would allow the Med to have an enhanced invasive-care unit to accommodate more babies.
Another provision in the bill would notify Med Center officials that on June 30 the state will assume any money that is left in the budget for renovating Bell Memorial.
The Med Center has three months to duplicate the federal matching funds budget. Nine of them have been approved.
The bill is a supplement to the budgets approved during last year's legislative session.
the fiscal 1984 finances for 26 state agencies, including the six board of Rogers university.
The bill also shifts $750,000 from one University of Kansas budget to another.
That money would be transferred from KU's Other Operating Expenses budget, which means the University general fees fund would go back from about $2.7 million to about $2.45 million.
The OOE budget covers expenses such as minor building repair, maintenance and cleaning.
Parts of the Senate version of the bill dealing with KU and the Med Center do not differ from the House version. However, amendments were added to other sections of the bill by the full Senate yesterday, and by Ways and Means Committees last week.
The conference committee of three representatives and three senators will work this week to iron out a compromise version.
"You could say that we made a down payment on a little bit of that $14.2 million," State Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita and chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said after last night's committee meeting.
He also said that for the first time in the past several years, the Legislature had agreed to give the Regents nearly all the money requested.
MEMBERS IN BOTH the House and Senate have called the budget generous, as have many KU officials.
Under the bill, KU's budget will be $153.5 million, with another $159.4 million for the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Both the House and Senate plans were more generous than the recommendations Carlin made in his January State of the State address.
Salaries for classified employees, such as secretaries and maintenance workers, will be
The compromise plan provides $4.7 million more for the Regents schools than he had recommended.
A small group of students stage a silent protest on the law of Stuaffer-Flint Hall. Yesterday's protest was in response to the
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
Kansan's coverage last week of the showing of the X-rated film "Emmonuelle."
Large classes spell doom for Macabre Party tradition
By PHIL ENGLISH
Staff Reporter
Bruce Keller went to his psychology class yesterday wearing a blue crash helmet and a wetsuit. Some of his classmates wore tutus; others wore tuxedos with tails, and one student came as a can of Coke.
Last night Psychology 574 had class in a laboratory setting — at Cogburns bar, 737 New Hampshire St. — strictly for educational purposes, of course.
Just as thousands of other Psychology of Satisfaction students had done before them, most of the students sat drinking cheap beer and smoking at the party, dubbed the Macabre
Party
BUT THE 10-YEAR tradition of the Macabre Party came to an end when employees of the bar closed down the establishment at midnight.
"It's just too much trouble trying to keep the students and the computer system working, as well as keeping a one-to-one relationship with the students," said Maynard Shelly, a professor of psychology who teaches the class. "I'm going to make the class almost all lecture and reading from now on, but I'm going to miss all of the parties."
Each semester the students in the psychology of satisfaction class have come to the party to receive credit in Shelly's class. About 300 of the class's 500 students packed Cogburns last night.
"The Macabre Party is to provide a setting in
The Macabre Party has become a tradition at the University of Kansas as an educational tool for the psychology department, Shelly said.
which students can try out new ways of relating to others and some behaviors that they might usually avoid." he said. "The people are encouraged to do simple things like talk to someone they might usually avoid."
ALTHOUGH STUDENTS at Cogburs last night didn't act as if the party was a homework assignment, some of them said that it was a valuable experience.
"In life, you have to experience many things," he said. "The class party also helps to take away the monotony of going to school."
Jerry Thornbrugh, an Overland Park seni
who came as the Coke can, said he came to
the party to have a good time and a "nee
experience."
Next semester the class will be decreased in size to about 40 students, Shelly said, and the Macabre parties and post-class celebrations will be a thing of the past.
He said the class had just become too large. Shelly said that one of the functions of the course and the party was to analyze the usefulness of a wide varieties of behavior.
usemnt "PEOPLE SHOULD LEARN to let loose of a few inhibitions in relating to people they already know, and in general learn that it can actually be fun to do things in a little different way than they have done in the past."
In the past, Shelly encouraged the leaders of small groups of psychology of satisfaction students to direct the groups into unusual situations.
"It's getting hard to keep in touch with the students," he said. "The best way to help would be to reduce the size of the class and try to increase that one-to-one relationship."