KANSAN
The University Daily
Wednesday, April 7, 1982 Vol.92, No.128 USPS 650-640
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Marcel Francisco enjoys Commissioner Barkley Clark's presentation of flowers after she was re-elected mayor of Lawrence last night.
Apartment plan OK'd Francisco re-elected Lawrence mayor
By STEPHEN BLAIR Staff Reporter
"I'm pleased," Francisco said.
Lawrence Mayor Marci Francisco was elected to a second year as mayor by other commissioners last night.
I'm pleased, Francisco said,
Commissioner Barkley Clark nominated
Francisco and Commissioner Nancy Shontz
nominated Commissioner Don Binnis for the post.
Shontz advocated returning to a system in which the two commissioners to receive the most votes in an election became mayor on a rotating basis.
The commission abandoned that system two years ago and adopted a system in which the mayor is elected by the commission.
"The new election method is a political one." Shontz said. "Now mayors are elected on a different basis. I've noticed that commissioners are beginning to care who becomes mayor."
However, Binns abstained from voting, and Shontz was the only one to vote for him.
Francisco voted for herself, as did Gleason and Clark.
Clark said his two reasons for nominating Francisco were that she was in tune with the present political line-up of the commission and she works well with City Manager Buford Watts.
"We don't want someone as mayor who's out for the city manager's blood." Clark said.
Although Binns works well with Watson, Clark said, he is not in the mainstream of Lawrence's current political situation.
The present system of election by other commissioners strengthens the office of mayor, Clark said.
"It's still the same system, but we just put a little more emphasis on the mayor, which is important in the city manager system to balance the power the city manager has," he said.
the power the mayor was elected as vice-mayor. She will appear on behalf of the commission at functions when the mayor is absent.
In other business, the commission unanimously approved a site plan for the construction of 102 apartment units southwest of the campus, with walking distance of the KU Campus.
A site plan is a real estate development map of proposed construction.
See COMMISSION page 5
Committee to study abolition of B.G.S.
By ANN WYLIE Staff Reporter
A KU committee will soon begin studying the possibility of abolishing the Bachelor of General Studies degree.
The College Assembly voted 85 to 74 yesterday to have Robert Lineberry, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, assign the committee.
The decision was a reaction to a motion to abolish the degree for all students who enter the college.
In other business, Lineberry announced yesterday that James Seaver, director of western civilization, would not discuss his department's 1983 budget at the assembly.
But for yesterday's assembly, the B.G.S. degree is the issue of the day, and committee members will continue to work.
soever, who had planned yesterday to speak at the assembly, said that he, Lineberry and other members of the western civilization attended the meeting and bring it up at the next assembly, April 27.
The B.G.S. degree requirements are too similar to the Bachelor of Arts requirements to require two separate degrees, Andrew Delcki, professor of Spanish and Portuguese, said.
The main difference between the B.G.S. degree and the B.A. degree is that the B.G.S. is
more flexible, according to the KU undergraduate catalog.
Also, the B.A. degree requires western science and the B.G.S. degree requires laboratory science and the B.G.S. degree.
science and the B.A. degree.
The B.G.S. requires a world civilization and culture sequence, not required by the B.A.
degree.
But several people defended the B.G.S. degree.
John Miller, Topeka junior, said that the language requirement was a big enough difference to warrant keeping the B.G.S. degree.
"We can't appreciate the value of taking a foreign language course when we plan on staying there."
Debicki said, however, that advising B.G.S. degree candidates was a problem because it was confusing. The program's flexibility allows a wide variety of degree emphases, he said.
But Mark Giltill, Leavenworth junior, said he thought that advisers should take the responsibility to advise B.G.S. candidates well, even though advising was complicated.
"What is essential to the B.G.S. program is that what's important that's what will make this program work," he said.
Proposed bill to allow increased police patrol
programmer.
John Wright, professor of human development,
said that the B.G.S. degree offered
students options that no other degree did.
He said, "The point of the program was not to
see ASSEMBLY page 5
BvCOLLEEN CACY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-A -A bill that would expand the jurisdiction of campus police at Board of Regents schools was approved yesterday by a Kagasa House committee.
The bill would allow university police at a city hall to enforce the law, or all property associated with it.
At the University of Kansas, the bill would give police jurisdiction at fraternity and sorority houses, property owned by the Kansas University Endowment or of Kansas Athletic Corporation, and streets, highway and property surrounding the campus.
"we have a good working cooperation in on-the-scene events," he said.
Ron Olin, Lawrence assistant chief of police, told the House Federal and State Affairs Committee that KU police needed the legislation to keep them safe. Now they now had with the Lawrence Police Department.
And he said a city ordinance, established last fall by the city manager to give KU police the
autonomy to enforce laws off campus, had problems.
City Manager Buford Watson used the ordinance to create a special police commission that allows KU police to enforce traffic ordinances, investigate crimes, make arrests and conduct searches in connection with crimes that originate on campus.
but Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephen has questioned the legality of commissions created by city governments, and officials feared that the KU Police Department's off-campaign authority would be removed if it was not guaranteed by a state law.
gun aliberty of a sake. The bill would not change the extent of the KU Police Department's authority, just allow it legally to continue.
"This solidifies KU's ability to be a law enforcement agency." Ollin said. "Routine investigations require cooperation between the University and the city.
"It takes all the KU Police Department and the vast majority of the Lawrence Police Department just to handle the football crowd. If we had a winning ticket, I don't know what we'd do."
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Haig holds peace talks to end Falkland dispute
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Argentina's foreign minister emerged from a meeting with Secretary of State Alexander Haig yesterday and expressed confidence that the country's downslope with would be settled peacefully.
"As a diplomat, I am confident we will reach through negotiations—even if they are long—an honorable and just peace," said foreign Minister Nicandor Costa Mendez.
"I am confident we can solve our problem with Britain."
Haig emerged during the day as the point man in U.S. efforts to head off a military clash between Argentina and Britain over the Falkland Islands. Argentina seized the islands from Britain over the weekend and on Sunday, a British naval armada was dispatched to recapture the crown colony, which is located about 450 miles off the coast of Argentina.
Haig's meeting with Costa Mendez was preceded by separate talks with the British ambassador to Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson, and Argentine ambassador Esteban Takacs. All the diplomats are attempting to reach some sort of nepal peace in Washington, before the British war fleet reaches the deterned islands. The trip will take about two weeks.
weeks
Meanwhile yesterday in London, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was asked by party legislator Robert Cryer whether
she was planning to resign as a result of the crisis.
Thatcher staunchly held her ground and responded to the situation by imposing a trade embargo on Argentine imports that went into effect at midnight last night.
European support for Britain was evident, as West Germany, Austria and the Netherlands took steps to cut off arms sales to the South American nation.
Earlier in the day at the White House, Deputy Press Secretary Larry Speaks turned aside a question as to whether the administration is favoring one side over the other in the snubble.
Following up the President's offer Monday to act as "honest broker" in the territorial dispute, Speakes told reporters the United States "stands by its position," and warned that it be beguilting in promoting a peaceful solution.
Catto did say, however, that the United States had an obligation under a 1962 agreement to let the British military use the American-built, 10,000-foot runway on Ascension Island, a speck of British land in the Atlantic off the west coast of Africa and about midway along the 8,000 mile stretch of ocean between Britain and the Falklands.
The U.S. military "hands off" position also was emphasized yesterday by Herry Catto, assistant defense secretary for public affairs, who said the department should not going to give anybody any help, either way.
Speaks assured reporters that there was no plan to involve U.S. armed forces in the dispute.
Weather
The high today will be an unreasonably cool 50, with winds from the south at 10-15 mph, according to the National Weather Service in Topeka.
The temperature should dip to 30
tought and is expected to reach only 45
degrees.
Skies will be partly cloudy to cloudy today, tonight and Thursday.
OB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
Fencing requires strategies, fancy footwork
Karl Jole, St. Joseph, Mo., senior, practices fencing by hitting a golf ball suspended from the celling of Robinson Center. Jole is in his second year as a member of the KU fencing club.
By BARB EHLI Staff Reporter
The two masked figures glide gracefully up and down the black rubber mat. Dressed in white and protected by canvas, they resemble mobile mummies, silent except for the steel
With a flick of the wrist, the larger figure sends the opponent's foil crashing to the floor.
"It's physical chess," said Steel Smeller, member of the KU fencing club and Topeka
"Everyone knows which way you can move, but it's how you put the moves together."
junior emuot, Lawrence graduate student and fencing club coach, said fencing was truly a lifetime sport, and could be played by anyone at any age.
"In fencing, because it's very much a head game, age doesn't make a difference," she said. "You learn strategies in games that are more important."
She said the youngest person she had ever fenced against in competition was 12 years old, and the oldest was a woman in her mid-50s.
Her fencing instructor was in his 60s. Elliot had seen a 70-year-old man in competition before.
"He used his head a lot and his feet just a little," she said.
Stamina is the most important trait a fencer has, and is more im-
brute strength.
Before a fencer begins a "bout" or game, he does a series of limbering stretches to warm up. The standard bouts last six minutes and the scores five "hits," whichever comes first.
A hit is a point in the player's favor that is scored when the tip hits the opponent and causes a light to flash at the "director's" or judge's desk.
Elliott said she was once in a bout that lasted 30 seconds.
Fencing is not a native American sport, but has been popular for centuries. It started in Europe, and was imported to America with the concuisitors and Columbus.
Since that time, New York has become the
undisputed fencing center of the United States, Elliott said...
"You can find anything in New York," she said. "They have a much larger population to
AN EVOLUTION in fencing introduced electricity to the sport.
The mat used in competition is different from the one used in practice. It measures about two meters wide by 14 meters long,
Also, she said, the fact that the Eastern seaboard settled more quickly helped fencing to become established in the Ivy League. The formation of fencing is firmly established there.
Most of the other equipment hasn't changed a lot over the years.
In competition, the hits are scored when one player hits the tip of his foul against the canvas protruding from it. The ball causes a light to flash at the table where the director sits.
smaller feet.
This metal mat provides grounding that prevents a player from scoring by merely touching the floor with the foil.
made of finely woven copper or brass. Elliott said it resembled a window screen but was a smaller mesh.
When using the epee, which has no edge and tapers to a blunt point, the player's target is the whole body. With the saber, which is a hook, the player uses the hip bones to the head, are the target.
The weight of the canvas, and the reinforced breast-plate for women, provide adequate protection, Elliott said. Fencers wear a heavy glove over their hands and a screened mask. A concave guard through a blade gives more protection to the hand.
The only area that really has no protection is the back of the neck, Elliott said, so if a person's opponent has a deadly aim, the person should not try to run away.