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Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 126 (USPS 650-640)
Friday morning, March 30, 1984
Joint panel supports raising drinking age to 19
By ROB KARWATH
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA — A conference committee yesterday endorsed and sent to the Senate floor a bill that would raise the drinking age for 3.2 percent beer in Kansas from 18 to 19 on July 1.
However, State Sen. Richard Gannon, D-Doondell, one of six committee members, protested that the panel was acting illegally. He refused to meet with the group until after Kansas Attorney General Robert T. Stephan had looked at his case and said he would import recommending the increasing the drinking age.
On Wednesday, Gannon and Senate Minority Leader Jack Steineger, D-Kansas City, sent a letter to Stephan asking him to investigate whether the committee had met secretly in
violation of the Kansas Open Meetings Act and the rules of the Legislature to draft the report
The conference committee, appointed earlier this month, was examining several changes in the program.
DESPITE GANNON'S protests, remaining committee members signed the report recommending that the full Senate and House approve the bill.
After the five members had signed the report, the conference committee's chairman, State Rep. Robert H. Miller, R-Wellington, said, "I think we have a much better off now that we have gone this far."
Under the bill, who will turn 18 before June 30 would still be allowed to drink 3.2 beer. But those who turned 18 after June 30 would have to wait another year to drink 3.2 beer.
Restaurants that sell 3.2 beer but which take in
20 percent or less of their profits from beer sales
still could hire people under 19, as could grocery
operators.
Sen. Paul Hess, R-Wichita, one of the five members who voted for the bill, said the Senate would consider the bill Monday. If approved by the Senate, he said, approval would send the bill to Gov. John Carlin.
Yesterday, Mike Swenson, Carlin's press secretary, and the group would sign the bill. Mr. Swenson said he was very excited.
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that they are uncertain whether the bill would get that far. Although the House probably will approve the bill, they said, the bill might not be approved because the vote in the Senate is up in the air.
"I't be hard to say what will happen," said State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence. "Last year the vote was no, but this year nobody really knows for sure."
state Sen. Edward Reilly Jr., R-Leavenworth,
Stephen a Stephan a letter similar to
Gawker's asking for the governor.
Gamon said he wondered how the committee decided on the final version of the drinking-age bill if it had never met. He said some members of the committee must have gathered in secret and revised the bill.
GANNON'S COMPLIANTS arose out of an encounter he had with Hess on the Senate floor Tuesday afternoon. Gannon said that Hess then asked Hess to explain the committee's report on the drinking-age bill.
Neil Woermann, special assistant to Stephan,
said the attorney general would conclude his
preliminary inquiry into the alleged Open Meetings Ae violation early next week.
Stephan will announce then whether he has found sufficient evidence of a violation to justify his action.
The committee discussed the bill for about 30 minutes before the members signed the report yesterday. Hess told the committee that he favored raising the drinking age to 21 but that he would agree to 19 with the understanding that he would work for 21 if re-elected to the Legislature
State Sen. Charlie Angell, R-Plains, also said that he favored raising the drinking age to 21 but that he would compromise and support 19 this year.
"I just hope we don't have to read in the paper about the deaths of any young people before we do raise the age to 21," he said.
Tornadoes rip into the lives of thousands 58 are killed,1,000 hurt as twisters roar through Carolinas
By United Press International
Sharon Crosland and her two young sons are homeless but amazed and alive. Raleigh Dembry is grieving for his girlfriend. And Elaine Ennett is weeping for her students.
The tornadoes that ripped North and South Carolina Wednesday night left those people and their families in the water.
Wednesday evening around 6:30, Crosland saw the sky turn "a greenish blue." She heard the hail pouled the air conditioner just before she grabbed her sons and huddled in a bed under a
Crosland, a Bennettsville, S.C., resident, had never seen a tornado before. But she knew something was terribly wrong. The bed seemed like the safest place.
"IT HAPPENED SO quick," she said yesterday, still shaking. "The windows began to shake, the electricity went off and I hid in the bed with children. Then the wall collapsed on us. That was it."
"When we woke up it was raining hard on us. Dirt and everything was in our mouths. We
Rescuers armed with bulldozers and chainsaws searched yesterday for more victims of the tornadoes, which killed at least 38 people and injured nearly 1,000 as they swept through the city.
Crossland's apartment complex, two-story brick units, was directly in the path of a killer tornado that cut a swath 2 miles wide and 12 feet long through this small farm and textile town
The twisters struck first at Newberry, S.C., shortly after 5 p.m. Wednesday, drove northeast through Winsboro and Bennettville and swept up the North Carolina coast.
Officials said the twisters slashed for 300 miles through North and South Carolina and left at least one wreck.
"THIS IS THE WORST disaster I have ever seen in my life," said North Carolina Gov. James B. Hunt after flying over the destruction. The damage would be in the billions of dollars.
North Carolina officials said at least 44 people were killed in 11 counties. South Carolina officials said 14 people died in four towns when 24 tornadoes ripped a 50-mile wide path from central South Carolina to the upper North Carolina coast.
A spokesman for the North Carolina Emergency Operations Center said officials lowered the death toll last night after learning that some bodies were counted twice by rescue squads.
Officials said about 200 people were injured in south Carolina and at least 796 people were hurt in Florida.
"THE DAMAGE WILL make you weep," said Tom Pugh, director of North Carolina Division Poisoning.
Crosland and her sons survived the tornado.
But in Lewiston, N.C., it took only half a minute to blow away the woman Dembry loved.
See TORNADO, p. 5, col. 3
While Dembry sat in his country store, a
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Jill Murphy, Topeka freshman, left, and Mary Coffey, Birmingham, Mich., freshman, look out their Corbin Hall window from below a sign express their views on a proposed KU residence-hall policy change. The change would prohibit residents from allowing guests of the opposite sex to spend the night in their rooms. See story on p. 7.
Charges won't be filed in use of forged passes
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Transportation Board last night rescinded a decision to press charges against 24 students who have been caught in the past month using forged bus tickets.
On the recommendation of KU administrators and the Douglas County district attorney, the board decided to take action against the students through the KU administration.
The board decided that the students would appear before a hearing panel appointed by Caryl Smith, dean of student life. First the committee reviewed the price of the bus pass and a fine of $40.
SECOND OFFENDERS will face restitution, a $40 fine and one semester suspension. The students' bus passes will be revoked in both cases...
Bus drivers first reported noticing the forged passes in early February. Several weeks later, the board authorized the drivers to confiscate suspicious passes.
Attorney Jerry Harper had told him that the board could charge students whose bus passes had been confiscated 40 cents for theft of service.
Mark Bossi, chairman of the committee,
said yesterday that Douglas County District
"We only can charge them with stealing services for one ride," he said.
Kevin Neal, transportation coordinator, said. "It was the district attorney's opinion that we would be ill-advised to press charges. He questioned it would be worth the taxpayer's money to prosecute a 40-cent crime."
SMITH SAID SIE had strong philosophical objections to pressing charges.
"It's a matter of the integrity of the university to handle its own matters," she said.
Smith said that bus pass forgery is a violation of the University of Kansas Student Athletics.
The code says that a student who knowingly furnishes false information to the University or forges or alters or misuses University documents or instruments of identification with the intent to defraud may be subject to a sanction not greater than suspension. For a second offense, the student is subject to a maximum sanction of expulsion.
See BUS, p. 5, col. 4
Senate reaches compromise on cutting Salvadoran aid
By.United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate tentatively approved a compromise plan last night to trim President Reagan's request for emergency military aid for El Salvador from $93 million to $62 million, but left open the opportunity for opponents to seek further
Under an agreement worked out by both sides, final action on the bill is expected next week, after Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said he would attempt to reduce the aid amount to $21 million.
The $62 million figure was tentatively approved when the Senate, by voice vote, accepted the compromise plan offered by Sen. Daniel Inoue, D-Hawaii.
EARLIER IN THE day, the Senate decisively rejected efforts by Kennedy to take over as president.
Completed applications should be returned to Mary Wallace in 200 Stauffer-Flint no later than 5 p.m. Friday, April 13.
Central America without clear congressional approval.
The votes against the Massachusetts Democrat's amendments were the first test of support for President Reagan's request to Congress to enact an emergency aid for El Salvador.
Kennedy's first proposal, to bar a combat
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role for U.S. personnel in El Salvador, Honduras or Nicaragua, was voted down 70-21. Kennedy then sought a vote on a similar amendment that excluded Honduras, but that too was rejected.
Application forms may be picked up in 119 Stauffer-Flint Hall, in the Student Senate office in 105B Kansas Union and in the office of organizational and activities in 403 of the Union.
SEN. JIM SASSER, D-Tenn., told his colleagues that the Pentagon — in response to questions — had reported three incidents in which 16 were casualties in El Salvador came under hostile fire.
See AID, p. 5, col. 2
At special meeting, KU council backs parking changes
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
The University Council passed a proposal at an emergency meeting yesterday that would lower the cost of some KU parking permits and would open four lots to nighttime parking.
James Carothers, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said the emergency meeting was called so that a series of deadlines could be met.
The proposal is subject to approval by
Cambridge Gene A. Budig, and the Board of
Research.
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The universal parking permit, which allows holders to park anywhere on campus, would be eliminated. The green parking and medical permits would also be eliminated.
A blue parking permit would allow drivers to park in all zones. The holder of a red parking
THE EMERGENCY COUNCIL meeting, the first in more than 10 years, was called because the Regents needed the proposal by Monday so that it could be included on its Mav agenda.
Bill Hopkins, chairman of the KU Parking and
the parking permit committee, and the proposal would simplify
the parking permit process.
If approved in May, the policy would take effect by the fall semester.
permit could park in red and yellow zones; the
yellow permit could park only in a
wild zone.
Blue and red permits would be for faculty only. Yellow permits would be for students.
People who have medical permits could apply for a blue permit.
UNDER THE PROPOSAL, red and yellow permits would be less expensive. Red permits would be $27 a semester instead of $30, and yellow permits cost $52. A blue permit would still cost $3 a semester.
Lots by Danforth Chapel, Summerfield Hall, behind Strong Hall and south of Wescoe Hall and Hoch Auditorium would be opened. Twenty-three spaces beneath the Spencer Research Library overhang would still be restricted to blue-permit holders.
Hopkins said the proposal would create more flexibility for faculty looking for parking spaces
without reducing the number of student spaces, Hopkins said.
The proposal would also open four lots for nighttime parking. The lots, which are now restricted to blue-zone permit holders, would be open to anyone.
The proposal recommended opening the lots at
See PARKING, p. 5, col. 1
Jury rules officer used reasonable force in '81 student arrest
Bv AMY BALDING
Staff Reporter
A jury rued yesterday in Douglas County District Court that a Lawrence police officer who was sued by a KU student for battery had used a fire extinguisher the 1981 arrest for suspicion of drunken driving
Juan Carlos Patino, Quito, Ecuador, freshman, will receive none of the total of $100,000 that he sought in actual and punitive damages. Patino had requested $80,000 in punitive damages Lawrence Police Officer Peggy Cobb and $10,000 in actual damages from the city of Lawrence.
According to instructions given to the jury before deliberation, 10 of the 12 jury members were required to agree on whether Cobb used reasonable force during Patino's arrest.
AFTER THE JURY returned with the verdict exonerating the officer, Michael Seck, Patino's attorney, requested a poll of the jury. The jurors voted against them, had decided that Cobb used reasonable force.
According to testimony, a scuffle occurred between Cobbl and Lawrences, John Sharp being the lawyer. Squabble sobbed testify to them.
Patino testified Wednesday that Cobb had asked for his driver's license and that he then asked her why she was being stopped. Patino said that before he gave her his license, she referred
to him with an obscenity and called him an Iranian.
Cobb, however, testified yesterday that she did see his driver's license and that she would not have called him an Iranian, because Patino's license showed that he was from Ecuador.
Cobb also said that Patino repeatedly spit in her face and told her that "women don't treat men well."
A THIRD LAWRENCE policeman. Officer Richard Nickell, who was called to the arrest of a man with a knife,
Nickell said that although the incident occurred two years ago and that it was difficult to recall exactly what he had heard, he said Patino had told him in the patrol car that he was
an important person in his country. Nickell, who is black, also said that Patino told him that in Ecuador, he would not have been treated that way by a woman and a black man.
When asked whether she had used reasonable force, Cobb testified yesterday that she did hit Patino in the mouth with a metal flashlight to subdue him.
She said that although police procedure discouraged the use a flashlight as an offensive weapon, officers were permitted to use whatever force was reasonable and necessary.
WHEN ASKED WHETHER she had considered using something besides a metal flashlight to subdue Patino, Cobb said, "I don't know how to make a fist, and I don't hit people."