The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Wednesday, March 2,1983 Vol. 93,No.109 USPS 650-640
Mike Amyx and Don Binns, who placed third and fourth in yesterday's primary election for the Lawrence City Commission, waited for the final results last night in the courthouse.
Longhurst leads in primary
By NED STAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Six people moved a step closer to winning one of three open seats on the Lawrence City Commission after yesterday's primary election narrowed the field of 13 candidates.
The general election will be April 5.
"I'm enormously pleased, flattered and humbled," Longhurst said. "I hope my support will keep us going."
David Longhurst, owner of the House of Ushers,
838 Massachusetts St., finished first with an unofficial total of 3,608 votes. He received about
750 more votes than the second place finisher,
Ernest Angio, chairman of the KU department of geology.
Longhunter said his victory stemmed in part from letting the community know that if he was to be prosecuted, he would have to
Angino said that two issues he stressed during the campaign — the need to expand the tax base and have a more effective commission — were two of the reasons he did well.
JOINING LONGHURST and Angino in the April 5 general election will be Mike Amyx, 2,714
votes. Don Bins, 2,665 votes; Barbara Maxwell,
2,038; and Bonita Yoda, 1,961
"I feel very pleased the voters sought to make me one of the leading vole-getters," he said.
Amyx, a barber at Amyx Barber Shop, 842₁² Massachusetts St. said that stressing the need for job opportunities, especially for the young students, was a factor in his third-place finish.
"I plan to get everybody together and look where we did well and why," he said.
BHNNS, THE ONLY INCUMBENT city commissioner to file for the primary, said he was pleased to be among the top six candidates, but was disappointed that he placed fourth.
Bimns left the regular city commission meeting early to join the crowd of candidates
and onlookers watching the returns at the Douglas County Courthouse.
He said his eight years of experience would be important to the commission.
Commissioner Tom Gleason decided not to file for re-election, citing time constraints. Mayor Marci Francisco did not file for the primary election, but has said she would campaign as a write-in candidate in the general election.
BARBARA MAXWELL, director of guidance at South Junior High School, said she thought that her representation of everyone in Lawrence was diversity were reasons for her fifth-place finish.
"I'm just personally pleased that the people had faith in me," she said.
Bonita Yoder, a local attorney, said she thought that her qualifications were the main reasons for her sixth-place finish, rather than her stand on specific issues. When there are 13 candidates, it's hard to sort out each one's stand on the issues, she said.
Proposed 1984 budget would increase health fee
A proposed fiscal 1984 budget for Watkins Memorial Hospital would increase the student health fee by $5, to be used to hire three new nurses. The hospital's director of health services said yesterday.
By JIM BOLE
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee will consider the health fee increase Monday, along with $6.50 in other proposed University fee increases.
The loss of three physicians during the past two years has kept the current staff of eight
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physicians overworked, said James Strobl, the associate director, who is the acting director in his role.
"We have been hopelessly out-gunned," said Raymond Schwegler, chief of physicians.
The rest of the money would help defray the
$101,000 cost of an anticipated 5 percent
SCHWEGLER SAID HE feared that the physicians' long hours of work could lead to serious mistakes in treatment.
About three-quarters of the $206,000 increase,
which would raise the student health fee from $11
to $56, would be used for the new physicians'
salaries.
The additional doctors and possible pay increase were the reasons for a $140,000 projected deficit in Watkins' 1984 budget, compared with this year's projected $644,000.
*Watkins'* total fiscal 1984 estimated income, of which 80 percent would come from the health fee, will be about $2.8 million. Total expenses, 85 percent of which would be for salaries, will reach
maximum salary increase for state employees. Strobi said.
ALTHOUGH THE HEALTH fee increase has not been approved, a drawn-out recruiting process for the new doctors will begin this week
If recommended, the budget will then be submitted to the full Student Senate, University administration, the Board of Regents and finally to the Kansas Legislature for final approval.
Loren Busby, chairman of the finance committee, said that the health fee increase was needed to bring student health service to previous levels of quality.
The Student Senate already has recommended a $2 increase of the student activity fee, which would be reviewed in future addition, the Board of Regents has approved a 20 percent increase in tuition for next fall.
to assure that they are ready to begin working by the fall of 1984. Strohl said,
Bill to allow sterilization for retarded
Staff Reporter
By JEFF TAYLOR
The bill was introduced in the Kansas House Feb. 9 by state Rep. Lee Johnson, the
TOPEKA — Guardians of mentally retarded women could petition a district court for permission to have the women sterilized, under a proposed bill that drew controversial testimony yesterday.
The bill states that after a hearing, the court could order that a woman be sterilized if a doctor stated that her life could be endangered by a pregnancy.
SOME OF THE bill's proponents said that certain hormone changes that occur in a woman's body during pregnancy could be harmful to the baby, and man to handle, and might endanger her life.
Phyllis Madden, Dodge City, the mother of a 27-year-old retarded woman, told the House Judiciary Committee that allowing a woman to become pregnant could hurt the child and mother.
She said it would be unfair for a child to be raised by a woman who was retarded because she would be unable to handle the responsibilities involved in raising a child.
Madden told the committee that pregnancy was traumatic enough for a normal woman, and would be much worse for a woman who could not understand the responsibilities of bearing a child.
HE TOLD THE committee that he thought the bill should be restricted to sterilization of females, because it was not intended to make sexual intercourse illegal, but was intended to prevent a retarded woman's life from being endangered by a pregnancy.
She said her group supported a similar sterilization measure in the Senate, which would limit sterilization to more extreme, life-or-death situations.
A woman should not be involuntarily sterilized only because she is mentally retarded, the bill's proponents said, as the state used to sterilize all retarded women in state hospitals 20 to 39 years ago. Other factors should be considered under the bill, they said.
"BECAUSE WE ARE NOT far removed from the days of the many myths and misconceptions which surround mental retardation, and from the days of almost automatic sterilization of retarded persons, with little or no regard for human and legal rights," she said, "we believe the issue should be addressed within the broader aspects of guardianship with protection of judicial process, rather than singling out this issue alone."
However, Ethel Miller, of the Kansas Association of Retarded Citizens, who also is the mother of a retarded woman, said such legislation was a step back into a time when retarded people were treated unfairly and without concern.
Weller said he had represented a couple from Hill City who wanted their retal daughty to
Randall W. Weller, an attorney from Hill City, testified in favor of the proposal.
He said the couple feared that their daughter's life would be endangered if she became pregnant.
KU asks for bids on game broadcasts
By ANDREW HARTLEY
In a move that could lead to the abolition of the KU Sports Radio Network, the KU athletic department has asked for bids on the exclusive use for next season's football and basketball game.
Staff Reporter
Athletic Director Monte Johnson said yesterday that the department had asked six radio stations in the state to make a bid based on a set of department stipulations.
He said that the bidding was opened in mid-February and bids must be returned to the firm.
After the bids have been submitted, Johnson said, the department will decide whether to accept the bids or stay with the present arrangement.
KU GAMES NOW are broadcast throughout the state and parts of Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas by the KU Sports Radio Network, headed by Tom Hedrick. KU is one of the few schools in the nation that still operates its own sports network.
Last fall, radio stations began contacting the
He said the stations that eventually were asked to submit bids were the ones that showed up in the final list.
department about possibly changing to private broadcasts. Johnson announced last month that the department had discussed the possibility of selling broadcast rights with the stations.
Sid Wilson, sports information director, said the department would not necessarily take the big risks.
Johnson said that because the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation was a private body, it did not have to make the bids public or accept the highest bid.
WILSON WILL NOT have a hand in the decision of selling the rights, Johnson said, because he is leaving for a new position at the University of South Carolina on Friday.
"We're not doing this just for dollars' sake."
Wilson said, "There are other considerations too."
Wilson said the next step in the process after the bids was for the department to begin direct negotiations with one or two of the bidders. He said the department hoped for a decision before April 1 to allow more time for the broadcaster to sell advertising time.
He said the alternative to selling the rights would be to upgrade and add more personnel to the existing KU Sports Network, which made a net profit of only $30,000 last year.
"It really too early to tell whether we'll make a change," Wilson said. "There's a distinct possibility that we will make a change in our running the network."
Last month, Johnson said some of the stations that entered discussions with the department said they might be able to bring in more than a million new equipment in a department a few years after broadcasts started.
ALTHOUGH DEPARTMENT officials have not released the names of stations and companies asked to submit bids, representatives said they would be asked if they said they are considering making proposals.
Robert Fromme, assistant to the vice president of Stauffer, said one of the stipulations of
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Bob Nabazas, Topeka junior, is visited by a dog as he relaxes in a field. Nabazas said he took the couch out for relaxation.
AEC director criticizes bill to raise fees
Staff Reporter
By JOEL THORNTON
A bill that would increase the fee level for foreign students at Regents schools is unfair and could have a devastating effect on the quality of education at the University of Kansas, the director of the Applied English Center said yesterday.
The Applied English Center, which instructs about 350 foreign students in the English language, receives no state financing, said Elizabeth Sonpelsa, the director.
State Rep. George Dean, D-Wichita, said he introduced the bill because he thought foreign students were not paying their fair share of tuition.
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents, has said that he has received complaints from some college administrators that programs for foreign students, such as instruction in the English language, cost the colleges extra money.
"WHO MADE US missionaries to go around educating the whole world?" Dean said. "In our economic times, when times are so rough, we're paying some rich foreigners to go to school.
"My biggest complaint is that they are costing us extra money. There's no reason they can't pay."
Soppelsa said, however, that the English center was supported almost entirely by student teachers.
"It is the opinion of all the staff, including me, that foreign students would not come to KU if they did not want to."
"Kansas would lose in many ways if it could no longer attract qualified foreign students to the state. The loss in the quality of education would be devastating to the University."
The bill, which was approved in a Kansas House committee last week, would create a third class of fees for Regents students and eventually result in a higher fee level for foreign students.
DEAN SAID THAT while the state was enduring hard economic times, foreign students were taking advantage of the state by receiving a relatively inexpensive education.
Foreign students should be welcome to attend state universities, he said, but should have to pay 100 percent of the expense.
Students who are Kansas residents now pay 35 percent of the state's cost to educate them, and 20 percent to employ them.
Clark Coan, director of foreign student services, said the idea that the Applied English Center was costing the state extra money was unfair. The bill has confused many foreign students, he said.
"They don't understand why they would be singled out and why it would cost more to educate a person from Turkey or Venezuela than New York state." he said.
COAN SAID THAIR raising fee levels would put a great hardship on more than one-third of the foreign students who are supported by themselves or their parents.
He said he had received many calls from
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