University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
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Wednesday, January 19, 1983 Vol. 93, No. 79 USPS 650-640
Republican senators dislike selection of Lady as Regent
By JEFF TAYLOR Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Several Republican senators yesterday said they would oppose the confirmation of former House Speaker Wendell Lady to the Kansas Board of Regents.
Gov. John Carlin's appointment of Lady in December was seen as a political payoff by some members of the Senate confirmation committee, including a prominent Kansas City, and Paul Reederson Jr., D-Wichita.
Lady, while in the House, strongly supported Carlin's proposed severance tax on oil and natural gas industries. He also refused to endorse Republican gubernator nominee Sam Hardage after Lady lost to him in the 1982 primary elections.
Rehorn said the Republicans' opposition to Lady was in response to his support of the severance tax, which was defeated twice in the Senate in the last two sessions.
AMONG THE Republicans opposing Lady's appointment were Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Concordia, and Senate Vice President Charlie Angell, R-Plains, said Sen. Norman Gaar,
Gaar also said there might be a few Democrats who would oppose the appointment.
"As far as I can tell, the Republicans like Doyen and Angell are keeping it very quiet, because they're embarrassed. well they should be." he said.
Gaar said he did not expect enough support among other committee members to block Lady's confirmation. He said the opposing Senate members would not be able to withstand pressure from the senators who favored Lady's appointment.
Hearings on Lady's confirmation could begin late next week.
LADY SAID HE did not know of the opposing Republican bloc in the Senate committee.
"I'm sure there are some who haven't
forgotten my role on the severance tax and have been waiting for the chance to get even, "he was
Angell said there was no real coalition among senators. He said that his opposition to Lady was not retaliatory, but that the speaker's delaying actions last year on an education issue during the closing days of the session were not appropriate for a prospective Regents member.
"I don't know why Mr. Carlin would even want to appoint such a highly controversial Republican to such a position," he said. "It has some of the aura of political favorism."
the table, two. Another Regents appointee, former KU Chancellor Archie Dykes, said he had not heard any discussion on Lady's appointment.
REP. BETTY JO CHALLTON, D-Lawrence, and Dykes and Dykes were good choices. She said she thought the opposing senators would not have enough clout to defeat Laila's confirmation.
Some Republicans blamed Lady for their losses in the 1982 governor's race, she said.
See LADY page 5
Budig gives red light to broadcast project
By DON HENRY
Staff Reporter
Chancellor Gene A. Budig yesterday postponed indefinitely the construction of a new broadcast communication building that was to be built on West Campus.
Del Brinkman, dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications, said he thought that Ralph L. Weir, a KU alumnus who contributed $3.5 million for the construction of the building, had requested the postponement.
Wear declined to comment on the reason for his request.
"I just thought it needed a little more study," he said yesterday from his home in Brownsville.
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IN A STATEMENT circulated throughout the campus, Budig said, "Given the fiscal restraints being placed on the University of Kansas at this time, we believe that it is wise to study further the project."
Budig was not available for comment.
Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, declined to comment on why fiscal restraints at KU were an issue in the postpone-mentation period which is financed almost entirely by Weir's gift.
"We have been and will continue to review the programs in all academic areas," she said, "and we want to do that in this area.
"We have to proceed very carefully in order to respond to the changes in this rapidly changing environment."
TACHA DECLINED to say whether the postponement was implemented because Weir wanted closer control of the faculty at the new building.
David Dary, professor of journalism who teaches broadcast news, said the postponement probably would not affect the students in broadcasting.
Faculty in the radio-tv-film sequence were moved out of Flint Hall when it was remodeled
KU Rhodes recipient takes award in stride
See WEIR page
Bob Hockett, Stillwell senior, was among 32 students in the country to receive a Rhodes scholarship last year. He will travel to
England in September to study at Oxford University.
By ANNE FITZGERALD Staff Reporter
Although Hockett has plenty of room to brab about winning a Rhodes Scholarship, he sees it as just 'another step in life my process, in what I hope will be a decent life of contribution.'
It's the humble side of Bob Hockett,
21-year-old Stillwell senior and KU Rhodes
Scolbar, that makes him so unusual, according to his professors, parents and friends.
Hockett is the first KU Rhodes recipient since 1974, when Ted Burk of Scranton received a scholarship.
Cecel Rhodes, an English statesman and financier, established the scholarship program, which was funded by a foundation.
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Thirty-two Americans are named scholars each year. A scholarship pays for up to three years of study in any field of the recipient's choice at Oxford University in England, and provides money for living and travel expenses.
IN HIS WILL. Rhodes specified the requirements for a scholar: academic achievement, truthfulness, moral force of character and leadership.
Hockett said he was unaffected by all the hoopla surrounding his appointment because there was too much to learn between now and when he started with Oxford, which is more than 4,000 miles away.
run eyes lt up when he talked about learning.
"The more you learn, the more you want to know."
Hockett's professors said his openness was what made him an outstanding student.
"As he's involved in opening up to new ideas, he's not uncritical," said Elizabeth Schultz, professor of English. "He doesn't test ideas in the vacuum of his ego."
BUT HOCKETT hasn't always been an ideal student.
"The fifth grade was the last time I was a good student until I was a senior in high school," he said. "Up until senior year, I was kind of bored with school."
Hockett said that he was rebellious then and that his grades suffered until he took the responsibility to learn.
Hockett's love of learning transcends the classroom. He enjoys all kinds of music, from classical to punk. He said he played bass and guitar in music with a local group in the summer of 1981.
Running, swimming and bicycling are Hockett's favorite sports. He said he liked the "deliberate release of energy directed toward fast motion."
Paul Bastin, KU student of aerospace engineering and Hockett's friend since the seventh grade, said his roommate was outrageous to drive for intellectual growth and higher ideals.
See RHODES page 5
Medals given to Thorpe's descendants
By Staff and Wire Reports
LOS ANGELES — The International Olympic Committee yesterday returned Jim Thorpe's medals from the 1912 games to his children, as the great Indian athlete's descendants gave yells of triumph and shed tears of joy.
or chaplet One son, the present chief of Thorpe's tribe, appeared for the ceremony feathered and fringed in full tribal regalia.
The return of the medals ended a 70-year-old controversy surrounding Thorpe, a former student at Haskell Indian Junior College and Carlslie Indian School. Thorpe is considered by some to be the greatest all-around athlete of the century.
Thorpe won the medals for placing first in the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 games, but was forced to return them the next year. The Amateur Athletic Union ruled he had lost his amateur standing by playing baseball for money in small towns in North Carolina in 1910.
"MU SURE father is with us here today, and he did say I thanked," said William Thomas. "I thought of Texas."
The return was hailed as a victory for "the Indian people of America" by Jack Thorpe, Shawne, Okla., chief of the Sac and Fox tribe, who appeared in a fur hat bedded with feathers, a scarlet tunic dripping colorful Indian hair, a white neck scarf and beaded mocasins.
"I wish he could have been here," said a granddaughter, Dagmar Thorpe-Seeley, 36, of Reno, Nev., tears rolling down her face.
As IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch presented the medals to Thorpe's children, warhoops burst from the group where many of Thorpe's 29 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, including a number of small children, stood watching.
"We never gave up. It's been a long fight," said Gail Thorpe, 63, the oldest child, of Tahlequah, Okla. "
"I CAN't believe it — I've been working on it all my life," said Grace Thurpe, also of Tahquah. "I'm not young anymore and I kind of might my children would have to take up the fight."
right. "We've gotten calls from fans of Dad's from all over the United States. Everybody I've talked to is pretty tickled."
Thorpe himself never asked that the medals be returned, and in fact refused to discuss the matter, even with his family, the children said.
"It just wasn't his nature to go around beering." said Grace.
See THORPE page 5
New enrollment procedures painful for students, facultv
By SALLY JOY OMUNDSON and ELLEN WALTERSCHEID Staff Reporters
The long lines of students waiting to drop and add classes in Strong Hall are gone, but both students and faculty said yesterday that the inconveniences of the new enrollment system were still causing headaches.
Last week students stood, sometimes for more than four hours, in lines which snaked through the corridors of Strong, but yesterday they were not so as 15 minutes to make schedule changes.
The lines were moving smoothly despite the fact that seven of the 15 computer terminals being unoccupied. Gary Thompson, director of student records and registration, said some
of those who had been working on the terminals were needed in other departments.
He said the lines were long because lines in individual apartments had been combined.
HIS OFFICE is monitoring the number of students waiting in line and will add more people to the terminals if the need arises, he said.
Many students and faculty said they thought the new enrollment system, first used last fall, worked well, but that dropping and classing had been easier in previous semester.
James Seaver, chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee, said he thought the new system for adding and dropping college credits was less notice of enrollment changes than before.
See DROP page 5
Francisco not planning to try for re-election to commission
By NED STAFFORD
Staff Reporter
Mayor Marci Francisco said yesterday that she was not planning to file for one of three seats on the Lawrence City Commission, which will be decided in this spring's city election.
She said she might change her mind, but would not specify what could cause her to do so. She said it was important to her to let people know what she was thinking.
Francisco's four-year term on the commission ends this year. She has been mayor for the last
Francisco said she spent much of her day dealing with city staff and the public instead of concentrating on her career and personal life. She works at Architectural Services on campus.
"I CAN'T WAKE up in the morning and know what I'm going to do today." Francisco said.
I'm going to do this. I'm finished.
Francisco first said she might not run for
re-election at a meeting of the Downtown Improvement Committee Monday afternoon.
one told the committee, which is assisting the City Commission in the downtown redevelopment project that she was not involved with for re-election, she wanted to resign her post on the committee
The mayor, who makes appointments to the committee, said yesterday that if she had resigned, she would have named Commissioner Nancy Shontz to take her place.
Commissioner Barkley Clark also is a member.
THE COMMITTEE has seats for two city commissioners. The commission created the committee slightly more than a year ago.
Commissioner Toni Gleason, who is up for re-election but has not yet filed, said that
The committee asked her to stay on until April, when the city election will be held, regardless of whether she seeks re-election.
See MAYOR page 5
Weather
Today there is a 70 percent chance of snow with an accumulation likely, according to the National Weather Service. The high will be in the low 30% with southeast winds at 10 to 15 mph.
Tonight there will be a 30 percent chance of light snow. The low will be in the low to
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Tomorrow will be mostly cloudy with a high in the mid-30s.