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The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas
Vol. 93, No.147 USPS 650-640
Wednesday, June 8, 1983
Today will be mostly sunny with highs in the low to mid 80s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the south at 10 to 15 mph.
Skies will be fair tonight with lows around 60.
Highs will reach the upper 80s tomorrow and skies will be fair.
KANU tower power reach all-time lows
Staff Writer
By JUDITH HINDMAN
What goes up must come down, or so it seems lately at KANU-FM, the public radio station of the University of Kansas.
Last December the station's 605-foot tower came down, folding like an accordion when three of the tower's 24 support cables were severed, apparently by vandals.
TWO WEKERS AGO, on May 25, the station's 100-foot temporaryOWER went down / 'felled when a construction truck's portable crane hit one of the tower's guidelines.
And on Monday, the station's transmitter automatically shut down when a cooling fan burned out. Replacement parts, air-shipped overnight from Continental Electronics of Dallas, allowed the station to resume broadcasting yesterday afternoon.
Now, KANU's plan to return to full operating power. June has also come down, and the system is ready.
Howard Hill, director of KANU, said Thursday that the station's supplier for a new permanent antenna, RCA Inc. of Camden, N.J., had experienced delays.
"They told us informally that there would be some incremental cost increases," he said. "We are now awaiting a letter outlining the delays and the possible increases in costs."
HILL SAID THAT as a result of those delays the station would not operate at full power until
He also said the station's annual Campaign for Excellence fund drive had been delayed until September because, with its reduced power, the station could not reach the Kansas City and Topeka areas, two main sources of contributions.
KANU is now operating at 4.5 kilowatts of power, slightly more than half of the 8.5 kilowatts of power at which it has operated since last December and far below its normal power of
Hill said the station hoped to return to its
previous power level of 8.5 kilowatts within a week.
The station is now waiting to rent a second temporary antenna to replace the one damaged two weeks ago.
"RCA HAS AN antenna in Philadelphia being used by a public radio station. But they will not release it until their new antenna is completely installed, and are sure it is operating well." Hill said.
Hill said the contractor's $500,000 insurance policy would pay for the damage to the house.
U.S. expels 21 Nicaraguans
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The United States expelled 21 Nicaraguan diplomats and ordered the Marxist government's six consulates shut down yesterday in harsh retaliation for the outster from Managua of three U.S. diplomats.
The administration's unexpectedly sharp action stopped short of cutting off diplomatic relations with Nicaragua. The Central American nation's embassy in Washington will remain open with full staff and conduct consular functions.
The new steps intensified the bitter cold war between Washington and the leftist Sandinista government, which President Reagan has blamed for creating the hermit-crook Cuban and US backtracking.
THE STATE Department said Nicaraguan consulates in New York, Miami, Miami, New Orleans, Los Angeles, Houston and San Francisco were ordered to shut down by today and the six consuls general were told to leave the country by 4 p.m.
The rest of the Nicaraguans, all members of the consulate staffs, and their families must
leave by Friday. Embassy charge d'affaires
Manuel Cordero said the total number who must
be charged is 250,000.
At a news conference in New York, Javier Chamorro, Nicaraguan ambassador to the United Nations, called the action "one more step toward the hardening of relations between the U.S. and Nicaragua. I hope it does not lead into a situation of war."
Antonio Jarquin, newly designated Nicaraguan ambassador to Washington, and Cordero were summoned to the State Department and notified of the U.S. action as the three U.S. diplomats expelled from Nicaragua Monday returned to Washington.
Upon arrival in Washington, the three were whisked away in government cars.
"The only thing we have to say is we categorically reject the absurd charges against us." Pfeifel told reporters during the stop in Miami.
Cordero reiterated Nicaragua's charge that the three Americans were involved in the assassination plot and blamed Washington for deteriorating relations.
"The cause of tensions is the Reagan administration's continued support for our enemies, and the involvement of agents within Nicaragua and the CIA manipulation of those agents," Ms. Ayala says in news conference. "It up to the United States to improve relations between our countries."
THE UNITED States had been expected to retaliate for Managua's expulsion of three of its diplomats Monday, but not on such a broad scale.
The State Department's written statement announcing the new steps was succinct.
Relations between Nicaragua and the United States have slid sharply since Heagan took
WASHINGTON accuses the Marxist-dominated government of sending weapons and supplies to guerrillas in El Salvador and fomenting beld movements in Honduras and Guatemala. Reagan has labeled the guerrillas "freedom fighters" and called the current regime "government at the point of a gun."
Opposition bears brunt of retaliation
By United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua has arrested several opposition political figures in a roundup of citizens accused of links to three U.S. diplomats. In a speech to the party, Nicaragua calls said yesterday.
Two party leaders of the Conservative Democratic Party or PCD have been detained and another took political asylum in the Venezuelan Embassy, said party spokesman Jose Castillo Osejo. Another leader has disappeared.
accused of heading a CIA plot to kill Foreign Minister Miguel D'Escoto with poisoned brandy, arrived at Washington's National Airport via Miami.
IN WASHINGTON, the State Department ordered Nicaragua to shut consulates in six U.S. cities and expelled 21 of its diplomats in retaliation for the expulsions.
The three ousted U.S. diplomats who were
Castillo said two of the politicians had contacts in their work with the three expelled U.S. political officers who left Nicaragua Monday for the United States.
PART OF THE job of embassy personnel is to meet with a broad range of people to get an idea of the range of local public opinion.
The PDC is the oldest and best known of the parties in opposition to the Sandista government that took power in 1979 after toppling dictator Anastasio Somoa.
One diplomatic source said the arrests probably would only be the first in a wave of detentions.
"I think they are trying to crush the political opposition." the source said.
The head of State Security, Lenin Cerna, told reporters Monday that police expected to make many arrests of Nicaraguans accused of working with the CIA.
The PDC members detained for contacts with the U.S. diplomats were attorney Enrique Sotelo Borgen, party minister for international affairs, Luis Castillo, who heads the PDC's youth organization.
A U.S. EMBASSY official who declined to be identified said she had been in contact with Castillo in connection with establishing a claim that denied any involvement in an allied plot.
Sotelo Burger was also to serve as chief defense lawyer for other party members already in office.
Commission endorses proposal for high-tech area
McMurry plans to plead Friday
MmCurry, 122 Concord, is scheduled to appear for disposition at 1:30 p.m. Friday in district court. The plea "disposes the case as far as the trial." Warren said.
Steve McMurray, former transportation coordinator of KU on Wheels, is expected to plead guilty Friday in Douglas County District Court to five felony counts of stealing bus funds, Harry Warren, assistant district attorney, said yesterday.
ACCORDING TO WARREN, if McMurray pleads guilty, the trial judge will order a pre-sentence investigation and set a date for sentencing.
McMurray was arrested on Sept. 15, 1982, on five fidelity counts of stealing $20,425 in bus system funds between January 1981 and October 18, 1982.
As transportation coordinator, McMurry was in charge of delivering bus pass revenues from the Kansas Union, where passes were sold, to the University comptroller. McMurry also had access to bus pass monies that were delivered to the university during the first two weeks of each semester.
University officials were tipped to the possible misuse of transportation funds Sept. 14, 1982, when a check made out to the Student Senate bounced.
By MATT SCHOLFIELD
Staff Writer
Citing a need to invest in Lawrence's future, a coalition of University of Kansas officials, Downtown Lawrence Association members and other area businessmen called for the annexation of 300 acres of land to be developed as a park at last night's City Commission meeting.
Their call did not go unheeded as the commission, with the exception of Commissioner Nancy Shontz, who abstained from voting on the issue, enthusiastically endorsed the proposal by passing an ordinance on first reading.
MAYOR DAVID LONGHURST said the initiation of a high-tech park in Lawrence would be a fundamental cure to the city's economic ailments.
"I will do everything I can to ensure that this program is successful," he said.
Despite the relatively low unemployment rate in Lawrence, the employment situation could be viewed as bad. Longhurst said, because the number of holders has dropped by 1,600 in the two years.
KU research economist Richard Sexton said that high tech was looked upon as a long-term solution, and Lawrence's status as a research center, or university town, enhanced its value as a potential site for high-tech industry.
He said, however, that a study he helped conduct recently for the Kansas Commission on High Tech showed that being a good potential site was not enough.
"WE FOUND THAT if you look at the people working in high tech, Lawrence has a smaller proportion than the rest of the state and the nation," he said.
Shontz said she abstained from voting on the issue because the plan had not been fully developed. She also said that she was in favor of a research park in Lawrence and would not vote against the issue.
The only other resistance to the proposal came from William Dann, 2702 W. 24th St. Terrace, who said that the concept of government investment in private industry fundamentally opposed a state-owned state share. He said city growth should be better spent on city business, such as money for schools.
Perhaps more immediate aid to the Lawrence area economy will come in the form of $224,000 that has been allocated to the city under the Appropriations Act, commonly known as the "Jobs Bill," as an additional appropriation to the Department of Development Block Grant (CDBG) program.
THE COMMISSION conducted a public hearing at the meeting to receive suggestions from citizens as to where the money should be snent.
Lynn Goodell, director of community de-
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Barry Shalinsky, 633 Connecticut St., presented his ideas to the City Commission Tuesday night about $224,000 allocated for Lawrence's Community Development Block Grant Program. Shalinsky said that the funds were special and should be used by the city for getting jobs for teenagers.
Computerized enrollment goes well, mainly
By MARY ANN COSTELLO
Staff Reporter
About four times as many students enrolled in a single day as in any one day since the new system began this year, said J. Michael Young, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and
Except for some lines that were formed early in the day by students picking up enrollment cards, most students and administrators said they were pleased with how the computerized summer enrollment procedure at Strong Hall proceeded on Monday.
"IT WAS WONDERFUL." said Loren Petten, Wayzata, Minn., graduate student. "The people
Mayson ibrahm, Tulsa, Okla., graduate student, agreed. She forgot to bring her staff fee card with her when she went to enroll at 111 Strong Hall.
But, she said, when she returned with it she was allowed to retrieve her place in line.
At about 2 p.m. Monday, Gary Thompson,
director of student records and registration, said
that enrollment was running 20 minutes ahead of
schedule.
BUT, HE SAID, in most cases he was not allowing students who were unable to attend their scheduled enrollment to enroll early. He
Carol Guggisberg, Lawrence senior, helps to enroll Kelly Patrick, Fairway junior, and other students as the summer term kicked off Monday at Strong Hall.
Budget cuts lead to cutbacks in summer course offerings
Staff Reporter
By LAURA FLEEK
Buret cuts and inflation are still causing problems for KU students. This time with a buret cut, 40 percent of cities
A. E. Johnson, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday that the University was short on funds and that the lack of adequate courses at the courses that the University wanted to offer
"The University tries to offer the classes that will do the most students the most good," said Johnson. "We always take that idea into consideration."
"We've had to make due with the amount of money we had." Lineberry said.
JOHNSON SAID the faculty of each department decided on the courses that would be offered.
Janet Riley, assistant to the vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that faculty members were being paid less to teach this summer than in previous summers.
Robert L. Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, said that the college had the same amount of money but that it didn't stretch as far as it used to.
W. MAX LUCAS, dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Design, said that the summer schedule for architecture students was reduced because of the budget situation.
Lucas said that architecture students followed a strict curriculum schedule and that in the past the school offered courses during the summer to help students who had fallen behind catch up.
"Fortunately, the courses we couldn't offer weren't required courses, but we couldn't offer them."
He said that because of the budget cuts, those courses couldn't be offered this summer.
JILL PEARSON, Boulder, Colo., sophomore, said she thought that budget cuts, as well as a lack of organization with the new enrollment process, were problems she had in getting required courses.
"I haven't been able to get into Western Civilization 104 for three semesters now because it's full," she said. "And I can't take Western Civilization 105 until I take Western Civilization 106."
Pearson said she waited in line at Strong Hall for nearly an hour to get her enrollment card
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"You're so rushed," she said. "It's hard to see your adviser, pick up your card, obtain your dean's stamp and get to your assigned computer enrollment on time."