The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, January 20, 1983
Vol. 93, No. 80 USPS 650-640
Indians voice anger to Watt's statements
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
Native Americans in Lawrence and across the country voiced disbelief and anger yesterday in response to Interior Secretary James Watt's comments about social problems on Indian reservations.
Roberta Ferron, the new director of KU's office of affirmative action, said that her first response was anger. She said that Watt showed a lack of understanding of Indian culture.
Walt said in a television broadcast yesterday, "If you want an example of the failure of socialism, don't go to Russia — come to America and go to the Indian reservations."
FERRON SAID she was speaking as a native
Boehring Sieou, and not for her office.
Watt also said that Indians who lived on reservations maintained by the government experienced overwhelming social problems, unemployment, divorce and venereal disease.
One Wisconsin Indian trien immediately voted to urge President Reagan to force Watt to resign, and Elmer Savilla of the National Tribal Chairmen Association scheduled an afternoon press conference in Washington, D.C., yesterday to call for Watt's replacement.
"As an Indian, I'm very concerned about that kind of statement and can understand why tribes would react as they do," said Gipp, president of Haskell International College.
THE INTERIOR Department has jurisdiction over Haskell, and the federal government is the school's primary source of income.
schools' primary
Martha Kreipe, KU political science graduate student and a Potatowatom Indian, said, "Watt must have some ulterror motive in mind."
Kanasa, a Menominee Indian and president of Haskell's student body, said, "Watt's idea of social failure is limited."
He said that Indians wanted more people to be aware of the underlying issue, which he said was a desire on the part of the government to take the Indians' land and its resources.
Rob Doherty, director of American Indian Studies at Haskell, said, "I think he's more concerned with what's underneath these reservations than with what's on them.
"When you have cancer, you don't just kill the patient. You go in and try to cure the disease," said Doherty, who called himself an urban Indian.
NANNETTE ROUBIDEAUX, Danforth Scholar and assistant instructor of American History at KU, said that Watt's statements reflect nothing new and came as no surprise to him.
Roubideaux, who was active in the American Indian Movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, said that she saw a pitched battle in Indians' futures.
Clarence Skye, the director of the United Sioux Tribes in South Dakota, said that the whole country was filled with social problems, and that the fair of Watt to concentrate on the reservation.
ROBERT THOMPSON, an attorney based on the Ute-Ouray Indian Reservation in eastern Utah, said, "There are numerous non-Indian interests that look at Indian reservations with respect."
"What I think Mr. Watt may have failed to consider is the affinity the Indian people have for their land."
Lawrence firemen sprayed a Kansas Union truck with foam yesterday to prevent gasoline vapors from exploding, while a wrecker raised it from the pavement. The Kansas Union delivery truck overturned yesterday afternoon, after it slid off a
snow-covered service road west of a facilities operations building near Flint Hall. The driver was not injured. See related story and picture, page 5.
Debra Bates/KANSAN
Carlin plan seeks high-tech research
BY JEFF TAYLOR
Staff Reporter
Gov. John Carlin's 1984 budget contains a $1.5 million proposal for high technology research at state universities which could attract new research programs for the University of Kansas, a KU professor said yesterday.
said. The state funds would have to be matched by private high technology industries.
JAN ROSKAM, professor of aerospace engineering, said efforts by Carlin's administration to attract high technology to the state would help university graduates who want to do research
THAT MONEY would be used by universities to buy equipment and to pay for research. Carlin
by private high technology mansu. Carlin said the Regents money would allow universities to do research work for state technology industries.
Carlin, in his budget proposal issued to the Kansas Legislature Monday, said he wanted to allocate $1.5 million in state funds to the Board of Regents, which would distribute the money to
Roskam said that when he heard Carlin's proposal on his car radio, he drove to his office and called aircraft industry executives in Wichita.
Those executives responded favorably to the plan, Roskam said, although he would not elaborate further on his discussions with them.
“This is the sort of thing we want in Kansas,” he said. “It attracts clean industry. It helps to keep it clean.”
Charles Schwartz, Kansas secretary of economic development, said high technology had provided 68 percent of Kansas' recent growth in manufacturing jobs.
Across the nation, high technology industries have been responsible for 75 percent of the
growth in the number of manufacturing jobs, he said.
A governor's task force on high technology, whose chairman is former U.S. Sen. James Pearson, R-Kan., also began work this week to develop strategies for luring high technology industries to the state.
ALSO, a New House Committee on Communication, Computers and Technology was formed by House Speaker Mike Hayden, R-Atwood, said Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Dr Lawrence.
Branson, who was named to the committee, said that committee members hop to visit the KU Lawrence campus to look at its high technology resources.
The House committee will work closely with the governor's task force, she said.
KU already has faculty members qualified to develop high technology research, Branson said, and the state also has workers who can fill high technology jobs.
Carlin aide says Lady's confirmation certain despite Republican rumblings of discontent
By JOEL THORNTON
Staff Reporter
A spokesman for Gov. John Carlin said yesterday that Republican opposition to Wendell Lady's appointment to the Board of Regents would not be enough to block his confirmation.
Mike Swenson, Carlin's press secretary, said he had heard "rumbles of discontent" from Republicans ever since Carlin appointed Lady in December. The president has asked her to keep Lady from being appointed.
KU OFFICIALS declined to comment yesterday on the opposition, which was voiced Tuesday by several members of the Senate. State Sen Tom Rehorn, D-Kansas City, had said he thought Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, and Senate Vice President Charlie
Angell, R-Plains, would oppose Lady's confirmation to the Regents.
Rehorn said Carlin's appointment of Lady was seen as political payoff by many Republicans, because of Lady's support for Carlin's proposed severance tax, which many Republican legislators oppose.
Richard von Ende, executive secretary of the University, said Lady's confirmation was not up to the University, but to the Legislature and Carlin.
Lady's decision not to support the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Sam Hardage in November was credited by many state political observers with swinging the election to Carlin.
VON ENDE said the University's official position was that it was inappropriate for the KU administration to comment on the issue.
Lady was defeated by Hardage in the gubernatorial primary election and is a resident of Johnson County, which is heavily Republican.
Swenson predicted that Lady's appointment would be unanimously by the confirmation committee, which could begin hearings by late next week.
"I don't think there's anyone in the building or state who could deny that Lady is qualified to serve on the Board of Regents." Swenson said. "There are many terms of his commitment to higher education."
SWENSON SAID Lady's appointment should be considered in light of his qualifications for the Regents post, not in a political sense.
Lady, who will be attending the Board of Regents meeting in Topeka today and tomorrow, declined to comment on the matter.
Officials seek better security for women at Robinson gym
By ELLEN WALTERSCHEID
Staff Reporter
Reports of intruders in the women's locker room at Robinson Center have prompted University of Kansas officials to seek better security for the women who use it, Al Johnson, assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs, said this week.
Johnson said his office hoped to install a one-way, floor-to-ceiling turnstile exit in the locker room soon to replace the door that is there now.
HE SAID THE turnstile, which would cost about $4,000, would ensure that everyone who went into the locker room used the front entrance only. The front entrance is next to a service desk, where employees can see who goes in.
The back exit, which is adjacent to a more isolated area than the front entrance, now has a door with a handle.
But some women have been propping the back door open with soap and paper towels so they can return through that door instead of using the chair. Some women do not know the doctor of Robinson Center and recreational services.
Johnson said he had heard at least three reports of men entering the women's locker room within the last two years. Although no
women were physically harmed, he said, the problem worried officials.
"It's something that women should not have to put up with," he said.
SANDRA ZIMDARS-SWARTZ, assistant professor of religious studies, said she had reported a man in the locker room in December 1981, but no changes had been made in entrance
She said that last month she saw a man coming out of the locker room again, and she notified her husband.
"I'm fairly convinced that he was checking around to see whether anyone was in the locker room besides a young woman who was in the sauna." she said of the intruder.
She said the woman had told her that the man looked into the sauna.
"I really think that if I hadn't walked in, that young woman could have been raped," she said.
Zindars-Swartz said she thought the man, who was dressed in athletic clothes, was a student.
A woman could have owed ten repayments. JOHNSON SAID he hoped to earn money for the theatre through a vice chancellor's office because of waiting to request it at the Board of Regents meeting in April, when Regents schools usually submit their formal resign and improvement requests.
Johnson said a sign had been installed on the back door asking women not to prop the door open.
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Weather
Today will be mostly cloudy, with highs in the mid-30s. Winds will be from the east.
Tonight will be cloudy, with lows in the lower 30s.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a chance of rain or snow, and highs of 35 to 40.
Southwestern Bell's Tower, 714 Vermont St., takes on a different look; when certain angles of it are examined closely.
Momentum continues to appeal vote
Bv SARA KEMPIN
Staff Reporter
A Kevin Walker, who ran for student body president, and David Teoporten, who ran for vice president, said they had appealed to the NCAA during November when they learned that they had lost.
Two University of Kansas students who lost their bid last fall to be elected student body president and vice president on the Momentum Coalition are continuing an appeal of the election, the students said yesterday.
HE AND TEPOORTEN then appealed to the University Judiciary Board, a group of about 70 people that includes KU administrators, undergraduates classified employees and students, he said.
Walker and Tepoorten talked with Laurence Rose, professor of law, Tuesday about the correct procedure for continuing their appeal of the election.
They filed the appeal because they thought the Elections Committee and the Elections Review Board violated Senate election rules, said Walker. St. Louis, Mo., junior.
"In my opinion they did not do the minimally job of working the elections," he said.
The Board, created by the Student Senate, denied their allegations of unfair election
BALLOT BOXES were kept in the Senate office overnight illegally, Walker said. He said he had signed an elections agreement with David Adkins, then student body president, stating that the boxes would not be left unattended in the Senate office.
Walker said that Elena Brito, Elections Committee chairman, said that she forgot the vote.
"The other keys to the box were in the Douglas County Bank vault," she said.
Tepoorton, Vancouver, Canada, senior, said the election was fraudulent and corrupt.
"We're pretty sure we can prove that ballot boxes were stuffed," he said.
Brito, who said there was only one box in the Senate office, said it contained blank ballots and she was the only person who had a key to the box's padlock.
HOWEVER, ADKINS said that all ballot boxes used in the election had been locked in the Kansas Union safe.
One ballot box was kept in the Senate office, but there were only unmarked ballots in it, he
Adkins said the claims were not true and could not be proved.
Adkins said that throughout the election, Walker and Tepoorten had made outrageous claims about past election irregularities.
To prevent election irregularities, Walker and Teportoon wanted KU police to collect and document the votes.
He said that because he had no concrete proof of problems with the elections he could not justify keeping the police from their regular duties
LBA ASHNER, now student body president,
she did also not know that Walker and Popeiontor
were running for governor.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he knew that the two students had appealed the election to the Election Review and intended to appeal to the Judicial Board.
He said that if Walker and Tepponen had proof of elections violations, it was their right and responsibility to present it to the Judicial Review Board.
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