The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Monday, April 18, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 136 USPS 650-640
China, Vietnam continue border artillery attacks
By United Press International
PEKING — China said its gunners unleashed artillery barrages all day yesterday leaving Vietnamese defenses "in a mess" in the second day of fighting. Vietnam said targets in three provinces were under fire.
Each side said small intrusions had been stuared by the other.
"The shelling destroyed the enemy's surface fortifications," said the official Chinese news agency Xinhua. "The Vietnamese position is in a mess."
It same the Chinese artillery barrages, begun Saturday in retaliation for weeks of escalating Vietnamese attacks that caused "heavy losses in the war," according to a morning and were "still going on" by early evening.
THEERE WAS NO immediate word on casualities in what appeared to be the worst fighting along the Sino-Vietnamese border in several months.
The Chinese Communist Party newspaper People's Daily said Vietnam had opened attacks on China to divert world attention from its offensive in Cambodia.
For two weeks, Vietnamese forces in Cambodia have attacked guerrillas fighting to oust 180,000 occupying Vietnamese troops.
China and Vietnam fought a brief war in 1979 when Chinese troops crossed the border to "teach a lesson" to the Vietnamese following their invasion of Cambodia.
Diplomatic analysts, saying they had no reports of unusual troop movements, expressed doubt that the current border fighting heralded another Chinese incursion.
People's Daily said artillery units opened fire because Vietnam's "wanton provocations have reached intolerable proportions" and "must be stopped at once."
IN VIETNAM, RADIO Hanoi condemned the attacks on what it said were three northern Vietnamese provinces.
He dismissed China's assertion that the shelling was retaliatory.
"These serious actions, coupled with recent armed provocations and incursions by Chinese troops into the northern border area of Vietnam, have further strained the Sino-Vietnamese border situation," said a Vietnamese foreign ministry spokesman quoted by the radio.
"Such allegations of 'thief crying stop thief' can in no way cover up the crimes and mislead public opinion," he said. "The Vietnamese armed forces and people in the northern border area have . . . duly punished the Chinese criminals."
Regents employees' salaries won't be frozen, Carlin says
By JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
Taking jabs at the Kansas Legislature's handling of budget issues, Gov John Carlin Saturday discounted rumors of plans to freeze Board of Regents salaries and said the sluggish Legislature had avoided tax increases.
Carlin asked the Legislature this month to delay decisions on faculty, student and classified employee salary raises until January. However,
he said, some legislators suggested freezing salaries at 1983 levels for the next fiscal year.
"There's a major, major difference between a six-month delay and a total freeze," he said.
Carlin joined Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kansas, in rousing spirits at the Douglas County Democratic Central Committee's "Dinner With Winners," in the Knights of Columbus Hall, 2206 F. 33rd St.
SLATTERY HEAPED PRAISE on Douglas County Democrats for electing him to office last November and blasted the Reagan administration and economic policies of Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Capitol Hill.
"There's been a massive effort all across this country that paints the Democratic party as the party of fiscal irresponsibility," he told about 80 party members. "It's not the Democratic party that's going to double the national deficit."
In a brief speech, Slatterty blamed President Reagan's supply-side economics for putting
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Kansan staff applications due
Applications for summer and fall Kansan staff positions are due at 5 p.m. today in 200 Flint Hall. Forms are available in the student
Senate office, 105B Kansas Union; the office of student organizations and activities, 220 Strong Hall; and the Kansan business office, 118 Flint.
An array of street lights and moving cars light up Naismith Drive.
Panel approves tuition increase
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
A Board of Regents committee Friday approved a 10 percent tuition increase to be effective in fall 1984, but left an earlier commendation to earnark $15 of the increase for library acquisitions and academic computing at each school.
And the committee approved a request by Chancellor Gene A. Budig for a $10 academic services fee - down from the original request of $15 - to finance library acquisitions and academic computing.
The tuition proposal, if passed by the full board next month, would raise tuition for Kansas residents to $450 a semester at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University, and $355 at Pittsburg, Emporia and Fort Hays state universities.
RESIDENT GRADUATE students would have to pay an extra $40 a semester and non-resident graduate students would have to pay $80 more.
On Thursday, a special committee on tuition and fees had recommended that $15 of the proposed increase be used only for computers and library acquisitions, and that the Legislature be asked to match the fee. The fee would generate about $2.3 million.
However, several regents said that the Legislature might not be willing to fulfill its end of the bargain if it saw that the schools had already designated money for libraries and computers.
establishing a precedent for earmarking tuition," said Regent Wendell Lady. "I had a concern if we did that, that they would deduct that out from our OOE (other operating expenses)."
LADY, FORMER HOUSE Speaker, said he knew the Legislature well enough to know that designating tuition money for specific purposes was not a good idea.
"I think that there's a concern about
Regent Jordan Haines said that the proposal would limit the budget flexibility of the Regents schools.
However, Lasa Ashner, student body president, said she favored the proposal because it was aimed at two of KU's biggest needs, yet would not be in the form of an extra fee.
would notATHICH REGENTS AND KU administration regarded the tuition increase as reasonable and even conservative, the Student Advisory Committee voted 5-1 against it. Kevin Faulkner, student body president of Fort Hays State, voted against the proposal and was not in the room for the vote. The committee voted to student body presidents from Regents schools.
However, Ashner said, she thought that the increase was fair.
intended. The increase would make students pay 25 percent of their education, Ashner said, an amount that the Legislature has always aimed for.
for.
"Even though I wouldn't say that we favor the increase, we recognize the necessity of it," she said. "I think other people do, too. If we have accepted that ratio, then we have a responsibility to hold to that."
ASHNER AND FAULKNER said that they would oppose additional special fees.
She said that she thought that the proposed academic services fee was needed for next year but that it should be discarded when the 10 percent increase took effect in 1984.
"I think for next year that would be fine because it would still leave us with a 25 percent ratio," she said. "But if the tuition increase took effect in two years, that would put us at 28 percent. I would worry about that."
percent. I would worry.
The Regents also passed a resolution asking the universities to submit a document showing what areas they emphasized in planning next year's budget and what changes they would make for fiscal year 1985.
The resolution also asked each university to submit a plan to the Regents, beginning in September 1985, of how it would make better use of a minimum of 2 percent of its budget.
KEITH NITCHER, KU director of business affairs, said he thought the directives showed that the Regents wanted each state university to carefully decide in what programs its strengths and weaknesses lay.
In other action, a Regents committee approved two special fees requested for next fall by the School of Engineering and the School of Architecture in Urban Design to supplement laboratory costs.
Engineering is requesting a fee of $3 a credit hour, to a maximum of $27 a semester, and Architecture is requesting a $15 per semester fee. The proposals will come before the full board in May.
Athletes say academics can get lost in shuffle
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
By WARREN BRIDGES
But opinions vary as to what extent that opportunity is now offered to KU student athletes and what, if any, steps need to be taken to ensure that it is continued.
that it is common
Mike Fisher, KU athletic academic counselor,
said setting high expectations for the student athlete was important. At the same time, he said, the student must remain realistic about his academic and athletic goals.
Past and present KU student athletes and athletic administrators agree on one thing - student athletes need to be given the opportunity to excel in academics as well as in athletics.
"LET THE KID dream." Fisher said. "Give him the positive side of things. There is no need to emphasize the bad side."
to emphasize the need to However, Don Fambrough, former head football coach, said that many of the student athletes who came to the University of Kansas already had misconceptions, and that inflating those misconceptions would do more harm than good.
Fambrough, who was head coach from 1971 to 1974, and again from 1979 to 1982, said student athletes' misconceptions about their abilities probably began in high school.
"A vast majority of the athletes that come to KU feel they have the ability to play pro ball." Fambrough said. "Actually, a very, very small percent even get the chance."
"IT CAN'T BEGIN when they get here." Fambrough said. "Many times, by the time the colleges get to the kid, it's too late."
He said high school administrators and coaches needed to be more realistic with high school athletes who had ambitions of participating in collegiate athletics.
In response to concerns about the quality of athletics' educations, the National Collegiate Athletic Association approved a provision in January requiring high school athletes to meet specified academic standards to participate in collegiate athletics during their freshman year of college.
The provision requires high school students to have a 2.0 grade point average in a core of basic college-preparatory classes and a minimum 700
combined Scholastic Aptitude Test score or a 15 composite American College Testing score.
A February issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education reported that had the rule been in effect, "More than 60 percent of the black athletes now attending institutions in the Big Eight Conference would have been barred from competing in any state-level year." At the same institutions, only 10 to 27 percent of white athletes would have been barred from competing in their freshman year.
FISHER SAID THAT to remain eligible to participate in athletics at the University of Kansas, athletes who had compiled fewer than 60 credit hours of college work had to maintain a 1.6 GPA. Those with more than 60 credit hours are required to maintain a 1.8 GPA, he said.
Several former student athletes said that although tutors and private study halls were
provided by the athletic department, it was up to the individual athlete to decide how much time to spend studying and practicing.
spend studying and played in the Russ Bastin, Emporia senior, who played football at the University for four years and is now finishing his fifth year of college, said that although help was available to the student athlete if he needed it, the individual needed to inform the department of any problems if he wanted help with them.
"If you don't ask for help, one is going to baby you." Bastin said.
HE ALSO SAID THAT student athletes' misconceptions of themselves and their desire to play professional ball were an added problem.
"There is always the dream," he said. "And it's hard to swallow the truth."
Fisher said that only 2 percent of college athletes ever played professional football.
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Weather
Today will be partly sunny with the high temperature in the mid-60s, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka. Winds will be from the southeast at 10 to 15
Tonight will be fair with the low about 10.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with the high in the mid- to upper 60s.
Kansans plan pleasant home for return of ruffled grouse
Staff Reporter
By JEAN MANN
Nearly everyone, it seems, hopes he'll stay for dinner. Some Kansans plan to tempt him with his favorite delicacies: wild grapes and apples, young gooseberries and greenbriers. Others hope that he will be the dinner himself — cooked
Monday Morning
to a juicy golden-brown, perhaps wrapped in bacon and stuffed with an onion.
They're thinking about the North American ruffed grouse, a shy woodland bird that has not graced a Kansas wood in more than 60 years.
grips an effort to coax it back, the Kansas Fish and Game Commission is making a detailed study of the bird's habitat in preparation for a re-introduction program.
"SINCE THEY WERE here before, we'd like them back," Roger Wells, one of the commission biologists in charge of the program, said recently.
the grouse will be trapped in southwestern Wisconsin and flown to Kansas, which lies at the extreme southwestern limit of the grouse's habitat range.
habitat range.
Three states have negotiated a trade deal with a vigor that rivals international relations, Wells said.
"Commissioners have to make sure that sportsmen in the state don't feel they are giving away a natural resource," he said. "So our
grouse will be arriving in a somewhat complicated three-way deal between Missouri, Wisconsin and Kansas. The result is that Missouri will get 20 percent of our grouse catch from Wisconsin, and Wisconsin will end up with wild turkeys from Missouri."
Wells said the trades were not always "critters for critters."
"WE HAD A TRADE last year where one of the things Idaho had to give North Dakota was a bearskins." Wells said. "But we got sharp-tailed grouse out of it for re-introduction to northwestern Kansas and we gave Idaho some wild turkeys."
Jim Bennett, a supervisor for the Fish and Game Commission, and that the grouse project was part of a larger plan to re-introduce all the native Kansas wildlife that had disappeared.
He said that so far, the commission had re-established prong-horned antelope, sharptailed grouse, and Rio Grande and Eastern turkeys. River otters are next, he said.
turkeys. I have used these.
Changes in land-use patterns from better conservation, Bennett said, have enabled the animals to exist once again in Kansas.
wens said that the prelude to the grouse's homecoming began several years ago but that legislative cuts had stalled his plan.
HE FOUND A BENEFACTOR in the Kansas City, Mo. chapter of Safari Club International, a world-wide group comprised of hunters and nature enthusiasts that raises money for wildlife projects.
Safari Club agree to underwrite the cost,
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