16 Thursday, October 6, 1988 / University Daily Kansan Candidates follow script,prof says By Terry Bauroth Kansan staff writer Candidates in coming elections are following a script, the chairman of the KU political science department. the professor, Burdett Loomis, told an audience of about 50 people at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1294 Oread Ave, that the governor factor in the election was the role of the media. "Television is like an 800-pound gorilla in that it sits where it wants it," Loomis said. "Television is likely to shake the way canidation acts, so someone else shaping the way television works." However, the media have reacted to the scripting of candidates in two ways. Loomis said. The media cover the scripting of the candidate's name and to make it the tool to cover candidates when scripted, he said. "To get the quote the day on now, it has to have some semblance of news," Looms Media said to be most important factor in election said. "There is not much debate over what role we want television to play." Because some people's campaign interest came at a late date, it wasn't妙 for candidates to play the game. "I was not ready," she said. "Irony of scripting and handling is that it makes least qualified folks the best and it may hurt anyone who has real qualities." Loomis said. He said that last night's vice presidential debate was a chance for voters to see Dan.曼 Quayle when he is not so protected. "There won't be anyone protecting Lioyd Bensen because he's not going to say anything outrageous; he hasn't for the last six or seven years, and he not going to start now." Looms Allan长, director of lab geography and county coordinator for the Dakiks/Bentens campaign said after the speech that both candidates were being scripted. Looms agreed with the assessment that this year a presidential debate was more important than the GOP debate. "There is more riding on this vice presidential debate than there would be in an ordinary debate by quite a bit. Both campaigns hope to profit from the evening." Loomis said. Long said. "The handing is definitely helping Bush because 'public perception of Bush has changed'." Long said that the candidate with the best media handler would be the winner. Database accesses Congressional news By M. Meredith Relph By M. Meredith Relph Kansan staff writer Up-to-the-minute on the U.S. Congress is just a few seconds away with a new database system at the time being. And, for the time being, U.S. free Because Spencer is a federal government document repository, it was one of 61 libraries chosen by the U.S. Congress to support the LEGI SLATE system, which covers the U.S. Congress and the Federal Register. As part of a test program, the system was installed on December 12, 2003, until the end of December Several services are available through LEAGI-SLATE, including tracking legislation on a particular bill, tabulating attendance and voting records of any member of Congress and receiving full tests of the law to conduct research, and a full printout is available all at no charge. Used through the library's existing computer system. LEGI-SLATE is updated daily to include the latest Congressional votes or speeches. Dan Burkley, associate document chairman for the Reagan's reagent Den Reagan's speeches also were available, as were the texts of both Bush and Dukakis. "Most people who have used the system have been tracked legislation," Barkley said. "We've had a lot of success in use it as part of assignments." Barkley said the system could provide the latest status of legislation and press release information from government agencies. He pointed out that LEGI-SLATE could be used by everyone, not only those people interested in politics or legislation. "It reaches all sections of the community," he said. "It's not just for one or two niches." However, in order to keep the system after its trial expires, Barkley said the library would have to subscribe to the service and pay an annual fee. "Everything we get free now would cost about $2,000." Barkley said. "That's just about all of our annual budget." For that reason, Barkley said the library was encouraging use of the system while it was available through the testing. "Anyone can use it. We should take advantage of the situation while we can," he said. "If is successful, then the government may be convinced to ban." Donna Koepp, head of documents and maps, said she did not expect to keep the system past December. "It's very expensive, and we won't keep it," Koepe said. "The availability of electronic information is inundated. GLATE is just not cost-effective." "LEGI SLATE is most definitely a marketing tool for the Washington Post, but I think all libraries stand to benefit." She was hopeful that by introducing the Washington Post Co.'s sys tem, other manufacturers would be spurred to develop similar systems. Barkley said KU's trial use of the services was part of the Washington Post Co's attempt to convince the government to purchase the system. The Library of Congress now has a database similar to the LEGI SLATE, but its files are not available on a nationwide basis. Koepn said enough positive response to LEGI SLATE also could be used in other applications, allowing document depositories to use the existing database in the Library. She said some of the libraries testing the system had already bought the system. Mary Lou Warren, library associate at Spencer, said she had recently been trained to use LEGI-SLATE, and had found the system interest "A few people have used it, but I don't think too many know about it," Warren said. 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