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Monday, March 28,1983 Vol. 93, No. 122 USPS 650-640
AURH savs new election necessary due to violations
By WARREN BRIDGES Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Association of University Residence Halls will have another election for president and vice president because the winning coalition violated AURH campaign rules, the current president of the association.
Bob Dowdy, the current president, said that AURH's elections committee Friday found the two candidates in violation of the AURH Campaign Procedures and Offenses.
Alan Rowe, who was president-elect, said that he and his running mate, David Walker, would
Dowdy said that both Rowe and Walker violated a section which stated, "Electioneering, distribution of campaign literature and extortion of voters within fifty feet of any polling place
of voters, within fifty feet of any poiling place
. . . is hereby prohibited."
COMPLAINTS FROM TWO of the four presidential candidates were filled with the elections committee on March 10, charging that Mr. Bush had not followed up on his practices during the election, March 7 and 8.
trowe, Emporia sophomore, said he would appeal the committee's decision because he had been a substitute.
Rowe said that although he was unsure of what the appeal process was, he would contact Rowe directly if he could.
"It have not received a definition of the word *cough*. He said, "That makes it difficult to get according."
"The charges against us are invalid," he said. "It seems some people went a long way just to go."
Rowe said that having to go through all the procedures in determining whether the viola can be used is not an easy task.
WERE NEED TO GET TO work, and all the
Walker, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, was unavailable for comment.
publicity with the press is hurting the entire propagation." he said.
James Jeffery, Kansas City, Kan., sophomore and one of the candidates, said his complaint with the committee cited three violations, including bribery, illegal electiveeering practices and possession of liquor by a minor on state property.
"I am glad to see justice served," he said. "The gentlemen knew the rules before the election, and the decision seems to show how dear the candidates held the rules."
The committee also found Dewayne Nickerson, Haytown, Mo., sophomore, who was a supporter of Rowe and Walker, in violation of the campaign rules.
ekerson was unavailable for comment.
JEFFLEY'S COMPANT SAID that Nickerson two residents of Hasinger Hall that it
they voted for Rowe and Walker, Nickerson would give them a bottle of rum. He added that Nickerson was seated at the election table, a violation of the AURH rules.
"Nickerson was in no official capacity at that table." Jeffey said.
Chris Bell, Shawne junior, and Roy Vickery, Lenexa junior, were named in Jefley's complaint as having received the bottle in exchange for votes. They were unavailable for comment
Dowdy said the bribery charge against Nickerson was included in the definition of electioneering and the liquor possession charge was not under the jurisdiction of the election
DOWDY SAID THAT although no action could be taken against Nickerson because he was not a candidate, his actions affected the outcome of the election and needed to be noted.
Dowdy said voters would have another
opportunity to elect a president and vice president, but he did not know when the election would be held. Both Rowe and Walker will be run in the election, despite the violations.
Jeffley said he did not know if he would run again.
Milton Scott, East St. Louis, Ill., junior and the other presidential candidate who filed the complaint, said he was also pleased with the committee's decision.
"I'm just glad it's over and I'm looking forward to the next election," he said.
SCOTT'S COMPLIANT SAID that Walker was illegally electioneering within 50 feet of the polling table at Joseph R. Pearson Hall.
Scott said he had mixed feelings about whether Rowe and Walker should be allowed to participate in the election.
The second election will not affect the winning treasurer and secretary.
Wheelchair racer enjoys challenge
Rv Rv SUSAN STANLEY
Staff Reporter
Runners clad in colorful sweat suits or shorts fought off the cold before Saturday morning's running of the Dam Run on Clinton Parkway, where it swept circles or jumped up and down to keen warm.
While most runners' minds were on the weather and how it would affect their performance, one competitor was wondering how the water would affect his tires.
Randy Fisher, 33-year-old communications consultant for American Bell in Topeka and a KU graduate, raced the hilly six-mile course in his purple wheelchair.
Fisher, a veteran of more than 20 race roads, was the only entry in the wheelchair division of the NASCAR Cup Series.
"the damn run is sight," Fisher said from his home in Topoka the night before the race. "I just got there and I was fine."
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"Originally, I was planning on doing the 20K but that corpse is even hellier."
By Saturday, hilly course problems were coupled with a freezing rain that had been falling for most of the morning, a strong wind and 30-degree temperatures.
Because of the weather, Richard Jump, a spokesman for the Red Cross, lectured the runners on their increased susceptibility to hypothermia.
Randy Fisher strained for more effort as he came down the final stretch of the Dam Run held Saturday morning. Only 20 no-shows were reported, and over 180 runners ran in the wet 40 degree weather. Fisher finished with a time of 57:08.31. He was the only competitor in his category.
He warned them to keep an eye on their neighbors while running and to watch for any
"When you run in wet sweats and the wind is blowing, you're running in a refrigerator," Jump said.
Fisher said, "I almost didn't come today. It's hard to get psyched for anything on a day like this."
AS THE STARTING TIME approached,
Fisher rolled into a space behind the starting
step.
He had never raced in rain before and was concerned about the slippery conditions of the
As the official shot a gun signaling the start of the race, Fisher swiftly began pumping his arms to propel the chair in front of surrounding runners.
Fisher suffers from osteogenesis imperfecta. The disease has crippled his right legs and ankle.
"I've never let the disease interfere with the rest of my life," he said. "I've always been fine."
"When I was young I broke it once when I
rolled over in bed. That's how brittle the disease makes your bones."
The last time he broke his leg, in 1970, he was playing touch football with his father, brother
FISHER WALKS WITH a brace and a crutch. The brace straps around his thigh and helps to support his weaker right leg. Fisher's right foot fits into a shoe built onto the top of a ankle ankle and foot. The brace equalizes the length of his legs.
In his two years of racing he has developed a trademark — he always races in purple.
Fisher said his penchant for purple began two years ago while playing on his first wheelchair basketball team with his friend, Joe Greve, the executive director of the Kansas City, Kan. Wheelchair Athletics Commission Inc. The team's jerseys were purple.
"Joe once told me that he picked the color because purple was the color of royalty." Fisher said. "I just told him that it was because he was from K-State."
Whatever the reason, Fisher always races in
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Senate plan would ease budget woes
By JEFF TAYLOR
TOPEKA — A Senate committee scraped up an extra $215,000 for the 1984 KU budget, a move some senators Friday said would loosen the Legislature's squeeze on Board of Regents universities.
The 4 percent reductions, made permanent
The Senate Ways and Means committee sent the proposal to the full senate for approval and the measure must be retracted by May 25, the state's last week ago tightened the state's allocation to Regents universities.
Staff Reporter
In response to the state's financial bind, the House reduced a requested increase of 7 percent for other operating expenses to 5.3 percent. Members of the Senate Ways and Means committee complained that the House move required the OIE budgets below 183 levels, because of inflation.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, told the committee Thursday that the 7 percent OCE increase would actually amount to only 2 percent, because Gov. John Carlin did not return 4 percent reductions assessed against Regents schools last summer.
AN ADDITIONAL $162,000 was inserted into the operating budgets for Regents universities. The University of Kansas would receive more than one-third of that money.
STATE SENS. FRANK Gaines, D-Augusta, and Joe Warner, D-Macleay, asked the Ways and Means Committee to kill a $1.5 million project that would enhance the technology development at the Regents schools.
through a vote this session, helped prevent the state from ending the year in the red, but took over the state's ballot in 2014.
The senators said the money should be used instead to pay for classroom materials and to finance the installment of unused equipment at the universities. Warren told the committee that compulsory payment would be made. Compulsory was sitting idle, because no money was available to put the computer on line.
Critics of the House 5.5 percent OEE increase said the Legislature in recent years tried to balance too much of the state's budget on the shoulders of the Regents universities.
The Senate OOE bill would allocate $41.1 million to the Regents schools.
Winter, who sided with Gaines and Warren, asked the Senate committee to award an increase greater than 7 percent to the Regents schools.
He said state universities had been used too often as a crutch to support the state's crippled general fund and said a lack of equipment and funding for state universities had hindered students' educations.
However, the committee killed the proposal to use the $1.5 million for OOE.
WINTER SAID HE did not expect opposition to the proposal on the Senate floor.
"I'm going to do all I can to make sure there are no measures passed to reduce OOE," he said. "I'm still working on the library, computers and equipment issue."
In other action, the committee recommended that the state finance a $902,000 work-study
A recommendation to increase funds for library, computer and equipment acquisitions by $1.4 million was sent to subcommittee for study.
A proposed increase for utility budgets at the universities was removed, along with the University of Kansas Medical Center budget. These changes should be considered in a separate bureaucratic office.
ALSO, THE SENATE committee defeated a proposal to change the way budget allocations for 1984 were calculated, a move that would have cost $20 million at $450,000. The House defeated similar proposals.
State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said he was willing to explain that the House would concur, but said he did not think the House would concur with the increase.
In conference committee, Senate and House Ways and Means members will debate the different forms of the Regents budget passed by both chambers.
By MICHAEL BECK
Staff Reporter
University of Kansas Medical Center officials are praying for cool summers in the next few years because some patients' rooms and employee work areas may go without air conditioning, the facilities planning director said Friday.
Unless it gets nearly $5 million from the Legislature for fiscal year 1984, which starts in June, the Med Center must endure several summers with inadequate air conditioning in many of its buildings, said Gerald Immaging, facilities planning director at the Med Center.
"If we see some 100-degree days this summer, we'll have a lot of buildings that will go without air conditioning, and many employees and patients will suffer." Imning said.
THE MED CENTER HAS already had some problems with the lack of air conditioning, he said. Two summers ago some patients' rooms were between 90 and 95 degrees.
In its FY 1984 budget request to the Legislature, the Med Center asked for about $3 million for its power plant expansion, which would involve supplying a new cooling system to 11 buildings that now have little or no air conditioning.
If the financing and construction of the project go smoothly, the new system would be ready.
However, the governor's recommendations to the Med Center's 1984 budget did not include that
$8 million, nor did it provide any alternative to the new system.
The Med Center did, however, receive $237,000 from the Legislature last year to start planning for the new system, and contractors will start working on the project within two weeks. Imming said.
SOME BUILDINGS IN THE Med Center, such as Bell Memorial Hospital, and Orn-Major, the basic sciences building, are air-conditioned with fresh water systems to circulate air from chilled water lines, Imming said.
Those areas that do not have the water-chilled air conditioning system must revert to several locations for cleaning.
However, in the power plant's present condition it would be impossible to extend that type of air conditioning to other parts of the hospital without overloading the system, he said.
One problem with such a diversity of cooling systems is that many are obsolete, he said, and replacement parts must be made at the Med Center.
"MANY PARTS FOR the existing air conditioners are unavailable, he said. "And many of the air conditioners are totally and grossly worn out."
"We have to cannibalize some air conditioners just to keep the other ones running."
mming said it would not be feasible to replace the old window units with new ones because of the low cost.
The new system, he said, would be more efficient because it could be more easily used.
Staff Reporter
By DON HENRY
False bomb threat sends 700 students into cold
More than 700 KU students evacuated their residence halls late last night after KU police received a threat that bombs would explode at midnight at Ellsworth, McCollum and Naismith Halls.
However, police and residence hull staff found no bombs, and there were no explosions.
Jim Denney, KU director of police, said a resident of Joseph R. Peason Hall notified police about 9:30 p.m. that a caller told him bombs would explode at midnight in the three halls. A northward Hall also received a threatening that a bomb has been planted in the hall, he said.
HALL OFFICIALS SAID Ellsworth's 675 residents were ordered to evacuate the building at 11:45 p.m., and about 75 residents of McCollum Hall left the building voluntarily after staff members notified every student. Naismith's resident director said he did not notify residents of the threat.
Beginning at about 11:30 p.m. Ellsworth residents began to pour from the building, bracing against the cold, windy night of 30 degree temperatures. Many residents formed a caravan and retreated into the warmth of Hashinger Hall, where they crammed the lobby and entrance.
Chris Admissen, Clayton, Moe, freshman, left the building with his blender and a lime.
Kip McpCormick, Blue Springs, Mo.
sephomore, carried his snow skis.
"YOU CAN SEE we're taking this thing
seriously," he said. "We're gonna make dairis, then I'm gonna ski on the ice," he said.
Tom Coombs, resident director at Eilworth, said he chose to evacuate the hall to ensure the safety of all students.
Bucky Fisher, Belle Plaine freshman, said she thought Coombs had made the right decision. She is now a graduate.
"But I'm not taking this thing seriously," she said.
Some residents played friesie or danced in the parking lot of Edworthy, while others sat inside a wooden shed.
Carl Kulczyk, resident director at McCollin, said he did not evacuate the building because the residents were adults and could make their own decision about whether to leave the building.
DENNEY SAID police policy allowed the resident directors to make the decision whether or not to evacuate the buildings — except in instances when the threat was more certain.
About 75 McCollum residents left the building before midnight and were not readmitted until 12:30.
Brad Tennant, resident director at Naismith Hall, said he he had not notified his residents because he did not have enough evidence to assume that the threat was real.
He said staff members searched all the public areas and trash cans for the bomb.
Coombs and Kulczyk said that staff members, under the supervision of KU police, had searched all the public areas in their halls and the roots, stairwells, builer rooms, cafeterias and around the school.
Neither Coombs nor Kulczyk allowed visitors into the halls after the threat was received.
Two fire engines were at the scene near Elkworth and McColmum, but they left the scene as swiftly as possible.
Weather
Today will be cloudy and warmer, with a high in the mid- to upper-40s. The National Weather Service in Topeka said winds will be light and variable.
Tenight will be mostly cloudy with a low about 30.
Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high about 58.