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University Daily Kansan, September 21, 1983
Student Senate elections draw interest Students speculate on presidential bid
By PETE WICKLUND Staff Reporter
The 1983 student body elections are still two months away, but at least five KU students, including two former candidates, are considering running for student body president.
No one has officially announced his candidacy, but five students said this week that they would decide at the beginning of October whether they would run.
Kevin Walker, who lost last year's presidential election, said yesterday that he was considering another bid this year, this time with a new running mate, Mark McKee, Overland Park junior.
"I'm thinking about it, and only thinking about it," said Walker, Webster Grassi. "I think it should be."
OTHER POTENTIAL CANDIDATES include: Scott Swenson, Tpeka junior and outgoing director of KU's chapter of the Associated Students of Kansas; Robert Walker, Kansas City, Mo.; junior and chairman of the Student Senate Student Rights Committee; Loren Busby, Hutchinson senior and
chairman of the Senate Finance and Auditing Committee; and Tom Berger, Lawrence graduate student and former instructor of the Graduate Student Council.
Mckee, a former senator who represented the Interfraternity Council, would not discuss any of his or Walker's plans for their campaign other than saying that they were getting a coalition together.
"I got to know Kevin when he was running late, and I liked what he told me." McKeeh
Busy said Monday that he and Berger were considering running as a team, but had not decided who would be president and who would run as vice president.
BUSY SAID THAT he and Berger were interested in a possible candidacy because of their misgivings about the other potential candidates.
Although Busby said that Kevin Walker and Swenson were fine individuals, he said that both lacked Senate experience.
"I don't think you can come in from the outside without any experience," said Busby, who unsuccessfully ran for president in 1981.
"I'm not saying that you have to be in Senate for three years but the more you know the better you'll do."
Busby also said that the student elections had steered away from dealing with issues that concerned students and had turned into a battle of belief hope.
"Basically, what's happened in the last couple of years is that the coalition that's run the slicker and prettiest campaign has been the one that wins."
BUSYB SAID THAT he and Berger were basically monitoring the developing campaign, but that if no candidate with more experience entered the race, he and Berger would announce their candidacy on Oct. 1.
Swenson, who resigned as ASK director on Sept. 3, said that he would officially announce his candidacy on Oct.1, but said yesterday that he was putting together a campaign coalition, tentatively called Priority.
If Swenson does run, he said his mate would be Dennis Strickland. But he did not.
Swenson said that while he had not been a senator, his duties with ASK had put him in constant contact with the
Swenson said that he was interested in Kevin Walker's potential candidacy.
Senate.
"After having run once and having been defeated by a sizable margin, I'm interested in knowing why he'd run again." Swenson said. "I wonder if he has the best interest of the students in mind."
ROBERT WALKER SAID Monday that he supported Swenson, but said that a group of students had asked him to consider running.
"I'm not in any formal way planning on running," Robert Walker said. "But looking at the race at this point, I'm feeling to feel that we are reshuffling the deck."
Robert Walker said that while he had complete confidence in Swenson, he did have reservations about both Swenson and Sand not having any Senate experience.
Robert Walker also said that a strong hand was needed in the Senate because the group had become too much of a political organization.
"It items that anyone who is motivated to bring changes for the students ends up being alienated by the Senate office," Walker said.
Chilean labor official released by Pinochet
By United Press International
SANTIAGO, Chile — Rodolfo Seguel, leader of the militant copper miners, was freed from jail on his 14th day, ending an 11-day hunger strike.
The Chilean government dropped charges that he violated national security laws.
"Seguel, the people are with you," 100 supporters chanted as the young labor leader stepped out of jail.
"We are going to continue working for peace and justice in this country," Seguel said.
Seguel, president of the Copper Workers Confederation, was arrested Sept. 9 and charged with violating national security laws for supporting Tupac Shakur Pinochet in statements made last month to a newspaper.
In the interview, Seguel called Pinochet an "absurd and obstinate dictator." He described Chile's
10-year-old military government as "pure fascism" and said it had turned the country into a "giant concentration camp."
Responding to a plea by the Archbishop of Santiago, Monseigneur Juan Francisco Fresno, Pinouchet forgeschied Segul Monday and instructed government, lawyers and the charges against the labor leader.
The government is still prosecuting Seguel for violating national security laws on two counts for organizing the first of a series of monthly mass protests which have shaken the country since May.
Two months ago, Seguil spent 32 days in jail for his role in starting the pre-democratic protest movement which earned him the nickname of "the Lech Walesa of Chile." He was later released on bail.
Seguej's lawyer said he lost 20 pounds during his latest stint in prison as a result of a hunger strike and contempt 11 days taking only salt and water.
American income edges up 0.2 percent; spending rate unusually low in August
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The income of Americans edged up only 0.2 percent in August and spending went down by the most in more than a year as the result of a telephone strike, record heat and drought. Alice, the government said yesterday.
Personal income increased at an annual rate of $6.5 billion in August. Seasonally adjusted, that is enough to generate $2.76 trillion in yearly income or a total of $1,749 for every U.S. man, woman and child.
After-tax disposable income would amount to $10,051 per person in a year.
That measure first topped $10,000 in July.
But personal spending, crucially important to keeping the recovery healthy, declined 0.3 percent in August, and did not help, the worst reverse since June 1982
The overall growth of personal income, mirrored by the rise in after-tax disposable income, was the weakest since February.
SPENDING JUMPED by 1.7 percent in May, but slowed to a 0.5 percent improvement in June and 0.4 percent in July.
"That shows you that strikes, especially if they are lengthy, can be damaging to the economy," said the
department's chief economist, Robert Ortner, referring to the telephone industry work stoppage that took about $146 million out of August payrolls.
"In the coming months we will see increases in personal income that will do a lot better than the 0.2 in August, and more than in growth and spending," he said.
However, the big gains in personal income recorded earlier this year, including a 1.2 percent jump in May, are probably not going to be repeated, he said, because of a more fundamental moderation of the economic recovery.
AMERICANS INCREASED their savings while trimming spending The
savings rate recovered to a fairly typical 5.2 percent of disposable income in August after dipping as low as 3.6 percent in June.
The figures were in line with what was expected from a month hit by the telephone industry strike, torrid weather and Hurricane Alicia's disruption in Texas. Analysts in and out of government agreed that the main downward influences for the month were temporary.
Record heat kept shoppers away from stores and apparently weakened back-to-school spending. The weather service made it official yesterday, declaring August the hottest month on record.
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A CONTEMPLATIVE prayer session will be conducted at the Ecumenical Church in New York.
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THE KU MOUNTAINERING Association will meet at 6 p.m. in the Cork Center.
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THE UNIVERSITY Forum will feature a speech by Allan Hanson, professor of anthropology The speech, "The Movement." It will begin at 11.45 p.m.
DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS will meet at 7 p.m. in the Trail Room of the Museum.
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AN EPISCOPAL Eucharist will begin at noon in Danforth Chapel.
THE INTERNATIONAL Law Society will sponsor a speech by Ron Francisco, associate professor of political science, about relations between the United States and Western Europe at 7 p.m. in Room 107, Green Hall.
Regionalist Room of the Union. The Rev. Joseph Hirsch will speak on "The Divine Liturgy."
THE KU AMATEUR radio club will meet at 7 p.m. in Room 209 Learned in Room 310.
THE ORTHODOX CHRISTANS on Campus will meet at 7 p.m. in the
College Republicans
Guest Speaker: Wendall Lady Thursday, Sept. 27 7:00 p.m. Jayhawker Room, Student Union
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The University of Kansas Chamber Music Series opens the 1983-84 Season with the Guarneri String Quartet -in its 9th straight season.
Arnold Steinhardt, Violin David Soyer, Cello John Dalley, Violin Michael Terni, Viola
Program
Haydn
Quartet in C major, Op. 74, No. 1
Hindemuth
Quartet No. 3, Op. 22 (1921)
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"Death and the Maiden"
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