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Thursday morning, October 20, 1983
Senate votes to create day to laud King
Reagan gives word he will sign bill in spite of its cost
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., husks Coretta Scott King as he shakes hands with Martin Luther King III, Benjamin Hooks, chairman of the NAACP, looks on. The Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to make the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., a national holiday.
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Senate voted 78-22 yesterday to create a new national holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., whose dream of racial equality in America once was bitterly denounced.
The legislation goes to President Reagan, who has promised to sign it despite reservations about the cost. It will establish a budget for the third Monday in January starting in 1986.
"I would have preferred a day of recognition for his accomplishments ... like Lincoln's Birthday," which is not a federal holiday, Reagan said in a news conference. "But since they seem bent on making international social movements more important enough that I sign it when it reaches my desk."
Sen. Charles Mathias, R.M., said, "We have waited more than a century, since the
end of the Civil War, for this moment of reconciliation."
KING'S WIDOW, Coretta Scott King, watched the vote with black leaders and blind singer Stevie Wonder in seats overlooking the White House. "We were America and for the world," and said
pointedly she would be waiting until Reagan signs the bill.
Two days of tense debate ended with more senators than expected voting against Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which won House
See KING, p. 5, col.1
Programs reviewed by Regents Regents didn't ask for direct student input
By PAUL SEVART Staff Reporter
The Board of Regents did not ask for direct student input when it reviewed programs at its seven schools last summer, the Regents executive director said yesterday.
Stan Koopik, the executive director, said that the only student involvement that he knew of was indirect, through written evaluations of faculty and staff. In addition, officials in some of the programs under review.
When asked whether the Regents thought they would have nothing to gain from hearing directly from students, Kopik said, "That is kind of a erase way of putting it, but there is an element of a
KOPLIK THEN SAID that the Regents talked with people that they thought would give a professional assessment of the quality of the program under review.
The reviews were the first round in a five-year plan to review all programs at Regents schools and to recommend eliminating, merging or keeping those programs.
The recommendations from the first round, which examined architecture, engineering, physical sciences, library science and engineering technology, are to be made public at the Regents Academic Affairs and Special Programs committee meeting today.
Joe McFarland, Regents director of academic affairs, said, "Students were not particularly involved in any way. Not all the faculty were involved. We were dealing primarily with the administration and the deans and the heads of the various departments."
the various Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said, "There were some conclusions drawn about the quality of the teachers, based on evaluation of teachers. Some of them were by students."
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review the 150 or so programs in teacher education at the Regents schools. That review might have more student involvement than the first round of reviews, according to Tacha.
Tacha said that the Council of Chief Academic Officers, a Regents advisory board, had discussed whether more student input would help the review process.
SHE SAID ONE possibility was to have evaluations from graduates or seniors who had completed or nearly completed the program. Regents officials said they would consider adding systematic student evaluations to the program, review data, Tacha said.
Lisa Assner, student body president, said the Regents Student Advisory Committee, of which she is a member, had not discussed any issues relating to program review or elimination.
"I would think they would want to include students in the process," she said. "It's better when they involve all the constituency in a decision like that."
Teacher education may be examined next
By PAUL SEVART
Staff Reporter
Teacher education programs probably will be the next area scheduled for comprehensive review by the Board of Regents, the Regents executive director said yesterday.
Education programs had originally been scheduled for review in the third year of the Regents five-year review plan for its seven schools, said Stan Koplik, the executive director.
Today the Academic Affairs and Special Programs committee of the Regents will discuss its recommendations from the first round of program reviews, which began last spring.
But the Regents will probably vote tomorrow morning to move up the schedule of the education review and begin it "almost immediately." Kopik said. The review should be completed by June 1, 1984.
THE COMMITTEE WILL review its work and announce its decisions on eliminating, merging or keeping programs in engineering, architecture, engineering technology, physical sciences and library science. The Regents will vote tomorrow morning on the committee's recommendations.
The programs scheduled to be reviewed in the second year of the reviews, after education, are: home economics; foreign languages; area and ethnic studies; trade and industrial programs; agriculture; and one non-academic area, student services.
The money saved by the merging and cutting of programs will not go back to the state, Koplik said, but will be re-allocated by the schools. He said that re-allocation had been going on at the schools independently, and that it constituted a sort of program review.
Koplik outlined the purpose and process of the review, which he said included 153 programs in the first round and will include about 150 in the second.
KOPLIK PRODUCED A list of several programs in the Regents schools, indicating the net gain or loss in spending for instruction in fiscal year 1984.
1986年10月 The biggest loser was public affairs, down 7.9
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 1
Reagan vows to uphold U.S. course in Mideast
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that "no one could feel more deeply" than he did about the deaths of U.S. Marines in Beirut, but he vowed that the United States would not change course in seeking peace in the Middle East.
"We have made great progress there." Reagan said of Lebanon, where a fragile cease-fire has been put into place smoother than before and allows peace-keeping troops stationed near the Beirut airport.
"We're going to keep what we have been doing, trying to complete the plan we launched a little more than a year ago," he told reporters at his first news conference since July 27.
THEERE HAD BEEN speculation that a full-scale review of U.S. policy toward the Middle East conducted over the last six days might yield changes. However, Reagan signaled no shift and even sharpened his denunciations of Syria for impeding the quest for peace.
"I know the Syrians have been dragging their feet," Reagan said, suggesting that Damascus has designs on Lebanese territory and blaming the Soviet Union for encouraging the intransigence. "If they're doing it with the idea of wearing me down, they're going to be disappointed."
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"As long as there is an overall possibility of making the peace plan work, we're going to stay there."
On another occasion, policy officers stopped just short of confirming that the CIA is acting to undermine the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua and said that it has not conducted such covert operations.
ASKED IF THE American people have a right to know what the CIA is doing. Reagan refused to
discuss details. But he said, "I do believe in the right of a country when its interests are best served to practice covert activities."
The president also said he would sign legislation giving final congressional approval yesterday to establish a national holiday for slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. He would not, however, express an opinion on the validity of charges by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., that King was a communist sympathizer unworthy of such an honor.
See REAGAN, p. 5, col
Minority affairs issue keeps Senate from acting on policy
Staff Reporter
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
The issue of retaining the Student Senate Minority Affairs Committee last night again stalled the Senate's review of proposed changes in its operating policy.
A number of senators walked out from last night's Senate meeting after the Senate tentatively voted 22-12 to retain the minority affairs committee. But a lack of a quorum prevented the Senate from voting on the proposed rules and instead amended the amendment to retain the committee.
recall the Committee. At the beginning of last night's meeting, 46 senators out of the total of 54 were present, 18 more than the 28 necessary for a quorum. Only 27 senators were present when the quorum was called.
SEVERAL SENATORS to protest the retention of the minority affairs committee and a second proposal that would have created four new Senate seats for minorities. Cheri Brown, president of the Black Student Union, sponsored both amendments.
About 25 black students showed up to voice their support of Brown's proposed amendments.
Brown who tried unsuccessfully to introduce the minority affairs amendment at the Senate's Oct. 11 meeting, said she was upset at last night's delay.
"Action speaks louder than words," she said in reference to the senators who left the meeting. "If they would have cared they would have stayed."
THE MINORITY AFFAIRS Committee is one
However, the rules changes cannot take effect until all eight articles have been first individualized.
of five Senate committees that is scheduled to be incorporated as a subcommittee as a result of the proposed rules changes.
As a result of last night's delay, the process is stalled at the review stages for Article IV, which deals with Senate election procedures, and Article V, which deals with committee structure.
During debate on Brown's amendments several members of the Senate administration, including Lisa Ashner, student body president, spoke against the amendments.
The others included: Robert Walker, chairman of the Senate Rights Committee, which Minority Affairs would be incorporated into; Loren Busy, chairman of the Finance and Auditing Committee; and Charles Lawhorn, chairman of the Senate Services committee.
WALKER, WAS ONE of the senators who left the meeting. Lawhorn does not vote because he is a student at large on the services committee and is not a member of the Senate.
Asher said she disapproved of the proposed creation of the four new Senate seats, which Brown said would have been appointed by the KU International Club, the Black Student Union, the black caucuses from the University residence halls and Black Panhellenic.
Ashner said that if the seats were created the Senate would be obligated to provide seats for other student organizations.
"They already have input through their school senators and through their living-group senators," she said. "They can go through the normal committee structure."
Wet weather may continue in Lawrence
By Staff and Wire Reports
Fall wore gloomy gray yesterday and quietly and steadily poured nearly an inch of rain on the Lawrence area.
tomorrow, the RU Weather Service in Topeka predicted a cloudy day today, with a 25 percent chance of rain and a high in the low 60s.
A weather observer with KU's weather service said that a low pressure front from the Southwest met and mixed with a stationary system over Kansas, causing yesterday's downpour.
And it's likely to play a few more wet tricks this week, showering the area on and off until tomorrow, the KU Weather Service said.
Mark Watson, the observer said, "It kind of stalled on us Monday. It is just moving a little slower than we expected."
slower than we expected. THE NATIONAL WEATHER Service said that the low pressure system was moving across Kansas toward the Northeast at 25 miles an hour. The low pressure system is likely to linger Saturday, when the chances for rain are high. The high will be in low 60s, the weather service said.
See WEATHER, p. 5, col. 3
Umbrellas provide shelter against a Lawrence mist. About 200 an unattended burner in a fifth-floor faculty kitchen tripped a people were forced to evacuate Watson Library yesterday after smoke alarm.
U.S. chemist, physicists win Nobel prizes
By United Press International
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Two American astrophysists whose star studies helped explain the formation of the universe shared the 1983 Nobel Prize in physics yesterday, and a third American won the Nobel in chemistry for advances in understanding molecular reactions.
The sweep in the prizes announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences maintained American dominance in science and medicine. He also won this year's prize in economics.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, of the University of Chicago, and William A. Fowler, of the California Institute of Technology, won the physics prize for independent discoveries about the formation of stars and the elements that compose the universe.
HENRY TAUBE, 67, of Stanford University, won the chemistry award for discoveries in how electrons transfer between molecules in chemical reactions, work which concerns applications for alternative energy sources, the academy said.
Chandrasekhar in 1930 first conceived the idea
See NOBEL, p. 5, col. 3