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The University Daily
KANSAN
Published since 1889 by students of the University of Kansas
Vol. 94, No. 99 (USPS 650-640)
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Tuesday morning, February 14, 1984
KU Senate passes a discontinuance policy
Staff Reporter
By JENNY BARKER
Staff Reporter
A policy passed by the University Senate last night will provide protection for KU students and faculty members if an academic program at the University of Kansas is eliminated.
The proposal will now go to Chancellor Gene A. Budig, who said last night that he would not accept it.
The University Senate, which comprises faculty, administrators and the Student Senate, voted 458 to 78 to pass a proposal regulating the elimination of programs at KU.
Mail ballots for last night's vote were sent to the 1,224 faculty and administrative members and 65 Student Senate members of University College. All votes will be received by Executive Committee received $66 valid votes.
JAMES CAROTHERS, chairman of SenEx,
said the University had been working on *e*
discontinuance policy since the Board of Regents asked each of its six universities to form such a policy in April 1982.
Yesterday was the second time the University Senate voted on a discontinuance policy. Carothers said the Senate rejected the proposal drafted last April because it did not provide enough protection for faculty and students in programs being eliminated.
"The crucial difference between the proposal of last April and the one just passed was the development of a precise phase-out period," Carothers said.
The new policy includes four provisions for efforts the university should make to accommodate students.
The new discontinuance policy provides for elimination of programs over a three-year period. During that period, students in discontinuance will be enrolled in other studies, but no new students will be accepted.
- Permitting students to complete higher
degree programs by taking work in related departments.
- Permitting students to complete higher degree programs at other universities.
- Making provisions, in the case of graduate students, for supervision of dissertations and administration of graduate examinations by faculty at other universities.
- Honoring the terms of a multi-year graduate scholarship made before the discontinuation.
Under the policy, the University will help find new jobs for university members affected by discontinuation.
The discontinuance policy will also allow faculty to continue teaching during the years their institution has been established.
If the eliminated program is reinstated within five years of its elimination, the faculty positions will not be filled without allowing former faculty to participate in the first opportunity to have their jobs.
The first University Senate vote was about two to one against the proposal, Carothers said, and considerably fewer people voted.
"I think that the margin of this vote reflects a desire on the part of a substantial portion of the Senate members for a proposal that offers a greater degree of choice and student members alike," Carothers said.
The policy will now be sent to the Regents for review. The discontinuance policy will regulate the elimination of academic programs by the University, and will be used by KU administration when programs are eliminated by the Regents.
"We could not continue a program if the Regents ordered it discontinued," Carothers said, "but the implementation would be up to us."
"It has taken a good deal of work," he said. "We've come a long way since last April."
Goading students into involvement is coalition's goal 'Apathy' candidates use annoying tactics in Senate campaign
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
Most politicians make promises during their campaigns, but few promise to offend their constituents.
But Bob Swain, student body presidential candidate for the Apathy — It Just Doesn't Matter Coalition, said last night that he would go out of his way to annoy people, which would force them to respond to the Senate and become involved.
"Don't take anything that we say too seriously." Swain told an audience of about 25 students at a debate between presidential candidates in Doutht Scholarship Hall.
He said, "If we offend anyone, we are just trying to get them angry enough to get involved.
"The Apathy It Just Doesn't Matter
Coastline expresses attitude on campus
by sending an email to senate"
*Senate*
SWAIN DEBATED candidates Loren Busy, Starting Over Coalition, and Carla Vogel, Costume Party, at the forum sponsored by the All Scholarship Hall Council.
The election, which Chancellor Gene A. Budg ordered because of problems with November's student body presidential election, will be Feb. 29 and March 1.
Swain said he and his running mate, Robb
See DEBATE, p. 5, col. 3
cond from the left, of the Apathy — It Just Doesn't Matter Coalition. Others at the debate included Hank Panker, third from the left, the Costume Party secretary; and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, for right, the vice presidential candidate from the Costume Party.
Loren Busby, left, the Starting Over Coalition candidate for student body president, outlines his coalition's platform for an audience in Douthart Scholarship Hall. Yesterday, at a forum sponsored by the All Scholarship Hall Council, Busy debated two other presidential candidates, including, Bob Swain, se-
GLSOK says Senate panel shows bias
Jim McCrossen/KANSAN
By CINDY HOLM Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee discriminates against homeosexual and other minorities, several members of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas said.
Ruth Lichtwart, GLSOK president, said the committee recently tried to discriminate against homosexuals when it proposed a definition of "minority" that would have excluded homosexuals from the services that the committee offered.
The committee was considering a definition that would have limited the minority classification to skin color and ethnic and religious backgrounds.
The committee failed to act on the proposed definition at a meeting Thursday because Kevin Elliott, a member of the committee and a member of GSLOK, walked out of the meeting and forced the committee to adjourn because it lacked a quorum.
THE COMMITTEE SERVES minorities by proposing legislation to the Senate and representing them in grievances against the University of Kansas, she said.
Elliott said he left the meeting because he had objected to the proposed definition.
Russ Ptacek, chairman of the committee, said that because the committee had not decided on a definition of "minority," he had appointed subcommittee formulate a definition.
"We're looking for a broad, generalized idea of what 'minority' means, and then we'll build it from there."
The committee will vote Feb. 29 on the subcommittee's recommendation, he said.
AT THE MEETING, the committee rescinded its Feb. 3 decision to concentrate their efforts on women, physically handicapped people and ethnic and religious groups.
Placek said the committee had not excluded homosexuals but had decided not to discriminate.
"Who would choose a lifestyle that is
dominated against in every aspect?" she
says.
Lichtward said the committee had objected to including homosexuals because it said people chose homosexuality as a lifestyle.
Homosexuals comprise 10 percent of the population, she said, and they are discriminated against in the military, CIA, FBI and police forces.
She said homosexuals had been fired from civil service jobs and teaching jobs, and homosexual parents had lost custody of their children.
Group still in debt from Soviet trip
By MATT DeGALAN
Staff Reporter
Athletes United for Peace owes local businesses about $10,000 for expenses incurred by Soviet athletes who came to Lawrence last April for the Kansas Relays, the president of AUP said yesterday.
Bob Swan, the president, said the trip was so quickly planned that the group fell off $20,000 short of the $50,000 to $60,000 it cost to sponsor the Soviets' visit. He said funding for raising the funds came in April 23-28, event began in January.
AUP could face legal action if the debt isn't paid by Feb. 24, Swan said.
SWAN WOUDL NOT release 'the same man' when threatened to sue.
Swan also declined to release the total amount of the debt, but said the AUP owed $9,553 to one creditor who has agreed to accept 52 cents on each dollar of the debt, thus reducing the bill to $5.000.
"I don't think it's an idle threat," he
AUP is now trying to raise money to pay off the debt, Swan said.
said. "I can't fault them. They've been patient."
The group recently sent 1,200 letters asking for donations. It also asked for donations in the newsletter of the defence Coalition for Peace and justice.
'Anytime you work in the peace movement, he said, "you take a risk, risk a risk.'
JOHN LINSCHIELD, the president of
JOHN LINSCHILD such requests
usually bring in, to a problem.
On their way to the University of Kansas, the Soviets paid their own expenses from Moscow to Montreal. AUP then picked up the tab after the Soviet contingent left Montreal, Swan said. He said the largest expenses were lodging, meals and travel for the 18 Soviet athletes.
However, such efforts have been insufficient to pay the debt, he said.
While in Lawrence, the Soviets stayed at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road.
The project to bring the Soviets to the Relays began in November 1982 when Swan, a local insurance executive, formed AUP.
After twice declining Swan's invitation to come to Lawrence, the Soviets agreed March 22 to send a team of athletes.
Nevertheless, Swan said he was confident that I would come up with the necessary assent.
Local man loses $4,200 in con game
A 69-year-old man lost $4,200 when he fell victim Friday afternoon to the "pigeon drop," a con game that might involve a giant of old television serials like "McCoy."
In this incident, a con man approached the victim Friday afternoon at Hillcrest Shopping Center, at Ninth and began and began to talk to him, Dalaquest said.
Lawrence Police Sgt. Dal Questel said that the pigeon-drop scam was pulled off about four times a year in the park and usually follows the same pattern.
By JILL CASEY
Staff Reporter
ANOTHER MAN, who also was a party to the scam, soon walked over to them and began speaking with them. A friend of the man's asked as if they didn't know each other. The
He then asked the victim and the other man whether they knew where to find a female companion and offered him a request to help him, the victim told police.
The victim then drove the two men to the Holiday Inn Holdome, 200 W. Turnpike Access Road, and in the parking lot, the second man asked the other con man to gamble. Dalquest said.
victim told police that the first man produced a large roll of bills and said that he had recently inherited the money.
THE SECOND CON man then asked the first man whether he would put up his entire $25,000. He agreed, but only on the condition that they give him proof that they had $25,000 to give him if he won.
The victim reported that the bet on the first hand of poker was $1,000, which the first man lost.
The victim said he could put up $4,200, after the second man offered to put up $20,800. The second man then found a third man inside the Holidome, who accompanied the victim to his bank, where he withdrew the money.
When they returned, the first con man pretended to place the $20,800 from the second con man, and the victim's $4,200 in the glove compartment, wrapped in a handkerchief, Dalquest said.
The three men then asked the victim to wait in the pickup until the first man found a female companion. The con man then returned by return by 4 p.m., the victim told police.
The victim waited until 5 p.m. Dalquest said, and then looked into the glovebox, where he found not money. The wound of tissue wrapped in the handkerchief.
Dalquest said that none of the three suspects, all described as being in their own place, were killed.
Chernenko takes Soviet helm
By United Press International
MOSCOW — Konstantin Chernenko, a Siberian peasant who aligned himself with Leonid Brezhnev for three decades then patiently waited out the Andropov era, was chosen yesterday as the new leader of the Soviet Union.
Cherenkenko, 72, was the oldest man ever elected to the powerful post of general secretary of the Communist Party. He replaced President Yuri Andropov, who died Thursday at the age of 69 after a prolonged illness.
In his acceptance speech, Chernenkov immediately called for "peaceful coexistence" with the West, attributing the policy to Lenin rather than Nikita Khrushchev, the disgraced leader who made the term famous.
Konstantin Chernenko
"NOWADAYS, IN THE AGE of nuclear weapons and super-accurate missiles, people need it as never before," Cherenko said in accepting leadership of the 18 million-member party.
"We will further see to it that our country's defense capacity be strengthened, that we should have enough means to cool the hot heads of militant adventurists," Chernenko said.
Vice President George Bush arrived in Moscow as the head of the U.S. delegation to today's state funeral for
In Washington, American officials reacted cautiously to the choice of Chernenko as leader of the Soviet Union, but described him as a transitional chief who likely would preside over a collective leadership.
STATE DEPARTMENT officials said they believed Chernenko, an accomplished bureaucrat, was a compromise leader who was chosen to avoid a lengthy power struggle between younger candidates.
President Reagan, in a statement issued by White House spokesman Larry Speakes, invited Cherenko "to work with us in establishing a basis for greater mutual understanding and constructive cooperation."
bush, who will meet Chernenko after the lavar state and military burial ceremony, went immediately from the airport in a seven-car motorcade to the House of Unions to pay his last respects to Andropov.
Andropov. Some 100 other world leaders were expected to attend the ceremony in Red Square.
Cherenko's name was submitted to the party Central Committee's estimated 300 members by the 12-man ruling Poliburo four days after the death of Andropov — his predecessor and rival. He was elected unanimously.
Prime Minister Nikolai Tikhanov, 78, the Politburo's oldest member, nominated Cherenko and described him as "a true associate of such Leninist-type
leaders as Leonid Ilych Brezhnev and Yuri Vladimirov Andropov."
CHERNENKO ROSE to power after spending 32 years as Brezhnev's closest aide and 15 months as runner-up to Andropov.
The choice of Cherenko may have followed a tumultuous Politubro debate in which Andropov's reported heir apparent, Mikhail Gorbachev, 52, was considered by his colleagues as too young to assume the leadership role, which is likely to be made available to him in the future, foreign analysts said.
ANDROPOV'S ROLE as titular head of government, based on his presidency of the Presidium, remains vacant at the meeting of the national legislature.