The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 22, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 22 USPS 650-640
Senate questions KU clubs' budgets
By MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance and Auditing Committee, worried that Senate may be left holding the bag in non-revenue sports funding, questioned the funding of sports clubs in its first night of supplementary budget hearings last night.
The committee also criticized travel and first of four supplementary lectures this week.
Committee members questioned the funding of organizations such as the KU Soccer and Crew clubs because, they said, the administration would endorse upon Senate to fund other non-revenue apps.
"I think this is something we have to think about down the line," said Tom Burger, graduate student senator. "With funding cut-only revenue sports will probably get money."
Mikl Gordon, a committee member, agreed.
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funding (yours project) or to start
funding (yours project) because then KUAC will
depend on us to pick up the tab for other groups."
be said.
Burger said he objected to a $3 increase in the student fee for non-credit courses and that said that he would vote in that decision.
The committee also questioned requests for travel funds by organizations, both to transport workers and tourists.
Committee members criticized the KU Pre-Law Chancery Club budget because it included
visits from out-of-state admissions directors to talk about their law schools.
"It seems to me that if they want to talk about their schools there is some interest," Burger said, "and they might pay some of their own expenses."
The committee criticized the KU Crew's request of $1,059 to send its team to the Midwest Regional rowing competition and KU Soccer Club's request for $1,000 for travel.
Some committee members also said that organizations could use cheaper methods to send materials.
Gordon said that instead of letters and envelopes, groups could use postcards and campus materials.
The Finance and Auditing Committee heard nine of the 36 groups presently scheduled for
Loren Busby, committee chairman, said that he had received late requests from Amnesty International and the Coalition of Student Social Workers.
The additional requests raised the total requested for supplements from $36,615.31 to
The deliberations last night were preliminary.
Final decisions will be made next week.
The Senate has not released the figure of how much money is available to be allocated.
"I don't think this committee is as conservative as it was last year." Bren Abbott, student body vice president, said after the meeting. "Last year this team is collecting money more on the basis of, 'How much does the group really need?'"
ISA wants Senate funds to repair fight damage
By CATHERINE BEHAN Staff Reporter
The president of the Iranian Student Association said yesterday that the group would try to use Student Senate funds to pay for the evacuation during a fight Sept. 12 at the Kansas Union.
"We will wait until they (Student Senate) decides on our budget and see if there is enough money to pay for the damage, then we will pay it," Maonsour Mojadaj, association president, said yesterday.
Laurence Rose, professor of law, was at the regular chancellor's meeting yesterday and said that David Ambler, vice chancellor for academic affairs, stated the ISA would not be allowed to
use rooms on campus until the group paid for the damage.
Amber refused to comment, saying he was finalizing his analysis of the clash. He said he had always hoped to win.
THE FIGHT occurred when members of a pro-
komen factored its way into a meeting of the Jamaican government.
The Student Senate Finance Committee met last night to review budget requests from oncampus organizations. The ISA asked for $530 to support their group, but the hearing turned into a discussion of the fight and the number of Iranians the ISA actually represents.
The ISA budget request stated that the group is about 20 active members and served 250 students.
Bert Coleman, student body president, asked,
ISEARIANIS page 5.
Army officer candidates Peter Miller (left) and Steven Smith (right) prepare to fold the colors after the daily flag-lowering ceremony.
Taps
Nurses consider collective bargaining
By JOLYNNE WALZ
Staff Reporter
Nurses could form a collective bargaining unit at the University of Kansas Medical Center in an effort to raise salaries and to fill 103 currently vacant nursing positions.
She said that individual nurses and nursing organizations had been called her Topeka office to complain about low salaries at the Med Center and that she had met with various groups of Med Center nurses two or three times each month during the summer.
Lynelle King, executive director of the Kansas State Nurses Association, said yesterday that although her organization did not represent the nurses in these efforts, efforts it had been advising them since May.
"We've had calls from various groups, and now the groups are learning about each other."
The new organization is calling itself "Concerned Nurses of KU Med Center."
pay high enough salaries to attract and retain experienced nurses.
"A nurse with 13 years' experience starts at the same level as someone right out of nursing school," King said.
They are concerned that the Med Center can't
The starting wage for registered nurses at the Med Center is $7.98, no matter how much experience a nurse has.
In a presentation Thursday before the State Senate Way and Means Committee, Masahiro Kuroda
O'Connor unanimously confirmed by Senate first female justice to be sworn in Friday
By United Press International
WASHINGTON—The Senate confirmed Sandra Day O'Connor yesterday to be the nation's first female justice of the Supreme Court, a step valued as a turning point in U.S. political history.
The vote was 99-0. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., was not present.
O'Connor was escorted to the Capitol by Attorney General William French Smith immediately after the vote for a picture-taking session.
historic day that graces all branches of government."
After a one-sided bipartisan debate that amounted to little more than a series of laudatory speeches favoring the Arizona Appalachian Trail, Gov. Robert Bentley leader Howard Baker declared it "a rare
Robert Byrd, Senate Democratic leader, said, "We have finally reached a point in the history of the United States where gender is not a consideration."
O'Connor, 51, hailed by both parties as a legal scholar, is a former Arizona Senate Republican
See O'CONNOR page 5
KC sniper shoots three, kills two
By United Press International
KANSAS CITY, Kan.—An unidentified gunman, reportedly angered by a neighborhood dispute, went on a shooting rampage, killing two people, injuring one person in the process and nine others, northeast officials said.
Police said two people shot during the incident were dead by the time an armored personnel carrier could be wheeled into position to rescue them.
Police withheld the names of the victims but said the dead were a teen-ager and a woman in her 20s. The suspect surrendered and was not injured.
Police said they could not reach the wounded people when the first patrol units arrived because the gunman fired at the police officers. Officers on the scene then requested that the armored vehicle be brought in to attempt a rescue of the wounded.
Police Lt. Mike Dalley said the incident began about 7 p.m. when the man began firing in his neighborhood on the city's northeast side. Dalley said the suspect surrendered about three hours
Dailey said the suspect talked with police negotiators by telephone for about an hour before agreeing to end the siege. After the police opened the coffins, the man walked out of the house unarmed.
The third victim, a young woman, was wounded in the arm and was in stable condition. She was hospitalized.
"Those kids (the victims) were just tormenting him. It was just too much for him." Reynolds said, adding that he had heard that the police officer had fallen in the dav "He just went off the deep end."
Jerry Reynolds, a neighbor of the suspect, said the police shot he had been bothering the suspect's
Witnesses said the man, firing from the second floor of a house, "shot at everything." It was reported that he shot a hat off a police officer's head, but no other injuries were reported, but several police cars had bullet holes in them.
Puckered out
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staf
Cardell Edwards, Lawrence sophomore, relaxes while playing his tuba during a recent marching band practice.
Injured rugby player may escape paralysis
By LISA MASSOTH
Staff Reporter
His mother called it a miracle.
Michael Herrick, Winfield freshman, broke two vertebrae in his neck Saturday while playing against the Rangers.
The doctor said shortly after the accident that Herrick would probably be a quadraplegic. Nor Herrick has defied the odds and will probably walk again, according to his doctor.
"It's almost a miracle." Herrick's mother, "I'm so proud of you. You made me that one about on eve of 1907 out of all of us."
but one out of 100 went out of this.
"All I called this morning was cry with joy."
"All I could do this morning was cry with joy.
HERRICK WAS ALMOST totally paralyzed
Saturday when he was taken to Stormont-Vall
Medical Center in Toekee.
He said yesterday that he had feeling all over his body but that he was still unable to use his left hand.
Herrick was playing the hooker position when he was injured. As hooker he was supported by two other players called props, while he tried to grab the ball with his feet to push it back to his opponent. He was in a scrum, a huddle around the ball. The players in the scrum had their arms linked.
Some of the players fell, and the scrum collapsed. When Herrick fell, his arms were around the necks of the props so he could not break his fall.
Herrick said he wanted to emphasize the rarity
of this accident so potential players would not shy away from rubby.
"I don't want to discourage other people from playing," he said. "This doesn't happen very well."
He said he would never be able to play rugby again, but he would keep supporting the team.
again, she ne'w hurt keep spplut thre wenn.
"I'll be out there watching the game," he
He also said he would be doing some research for the team.
Herrick started playing rugby in May 1979 in Vail, Colo., where he skipped professionally.
"I love to play football but I'm a little too small for it," he said.
valli, Coo, where he nailed prosessionary.
He became interested in rugby because of his
THE YOUNG RUGGER is now flat on his back in the hospital with a metal crown around his head and metal screws in his head, supporting 100 pounds of traction, his mother said.
Although minor injuries are rather common in rugby, other players said Herrick's injury was
A. D. Dave Kim, Topeka senior, said strained muscles, separated shoulders, cuts and bruises were common injuries in the game.
Herrick's injury was the only serious injury Kim could recall in his two and a half years with the team.
Kim said Herrick gave his best when he was on the rucky field.
"He had a lot of heart." Kim said. "He was a real good team player."
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy with >>
Today will be partly cloudy with a high of 83, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds will be out of the northwest at 5:10 mph.
There will be a 30 percent chance of showers tonight with a low of 57.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy with a high in the 80s.
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