KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Friday, November 20, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 64 USPS 650-640
JOHN EISELE/Kansan Stat
David Adkins (left) and David Welch (right) get ready to toast their victory as student body president and vice president.
Perspective Coalition wins majority of Senate seats
By MICHAEL ROBINSON and MARK ZIEMAN Staff Reporters
The Perspective Coalition, led by student body presidential and vice presidential candidates David Adkins and David Welch, swept the Student Senate elections by taking
Adkins and Welch received 1,033 votes to 825 for the Working Alternative Coalition and 731 for the Groucho Marx Coalition candidates.
Loren Busby, Hutchinson junior, and David Cannatella, Opelousas, La., graduate student, ran for president and vice president on the Working Alternative Coalition.
Perspective captured seven of the 10 leather seats, and two of the four Engineering seats.
The Grouch Marx Coalition was led by Dr. Phillips, Overland Park junior, and Dr. Dijkstra.
"This comes as a nice surprise after a long campaign," Adkins said last night. "I'm really glad that we were able to make these people's efforts pay off in a very big way."
They took both business seats, all three Fine Arts seats and all 17 of the Nunakerem maker's studios.
BOTH HE AND WELCH gave their coalition members credit for turning out the vote. The two-day total of about 3,200 voters exceeded last years turnout by about 500.
"I think it was the kind of people we put together. Atkins said of his coalition's success," she added.
"They really worked hard," the newly elected vice president said.
The crowd of about 30 candidates was jubilant as the announcements of the Senate results came over the radio, but Adkins said relatively quiet during the victory celebration.
Adkins said that part of his reservation was caused by the fact that Donald of Donald of StudentServices
"I was pretty close to him," Adkins said. "He always had a vision for KU student government that could be so much better than it is.
"He was just a real friend to the students." The two said that their first order of business would be to make changes in the Senate office staff.
"I really would like to get the office in order," Adkins said. "We'll be offering positions of treasurer, executive secretary and (Student Senate Executive committee member)."
FORMER STUDENT BOOY president Bert Coleman was also present with the Persevere Collective.
"I think David Adkins and David Welch will do a fine job, and I think that David Phillips and Monte Janssen (Groucho Marx Coalfounder) would have done a fine job, too." Coleman said.
However, Coleman would not comment on the Working Alternative candidates.
Busy said that he would file a complaint against Coleman because Coleman looked at several ballots on Wednesday, a day before the ballots were officially counted.
Busby accused Coleman of drumming up support for Perspective after looking at the books.
Coleman acknowledged seeing some of the
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'Old Man Winter' storms into Kansas and Midwest
By STEVE ROBRAHN Staff Reporter
Cold wind and light snow blew into Lawrence yesterday as the Midwest received its first winter storm of the season.
Only a trace of snow was recorded at the National Weather Service in Topeka, but ice-coovered bridges and highways claimed the lives of three people in a two-vehicle traffic accident south of Osborne, and a Robinson woman was killed in another two-vehicle accident on an icy bridge near Hiawatha, the highway patrol reported last night.
Nearly a foot of wet snow fell in parts of the upper Midwest, causing at least six highway deaths, closing schools and snapping power lines.
road for at least three hours as vehicles were cleared.
About 11 inches of snow fell in the Minneapolis- St. Paul area, and about $5,000 of the Twin Cities' snowfall was from that city.
In Kansas City, Mo., a 34-car plow on an ice covered Highway 9 injured 16 people, one of whom was struck.
A low pressure system over Kansas brought wet gulf air up to meet cold Canadian air, causing the heavy snow, Ed Lung, meteorology said for the KU Weather Service, said last night.
The Dakotas, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Iowa and
Missouri also, as well as snows, and
residents of the roads and trails.
*Warm air went up the east side of the low and
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Weather
Today will be clear with a high of 36, according to the KU Weather Service.
Winds will be from the north at 10-20 miles per hour.
Tonight will be clear and cold with a low of 20.
Tomorrow will be cloudy with a high of 41.
By LILLIAN DAVIS Staff Reporter
Two KU students, who refused to answer questions at an inquisition Wednesday for fear of incriminating themselves, are now possible suspects in the Nov. 6 arson at Naismith Hall, Mike Malone, Douglas County district attorney, said yesterday.
Uncooperative KU students seen as possible suspects
Neither student had been considered a suspect until each repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment to questions during the inquisition, Malone said.
A district attorney's inquisition is a legal investigative tool used to subpoena witnesses who are suspected of withholding information that could be important in a case.
the closed hearing. However, they must answer all questions themselves unless they plead the Fifth Amendment or they may be found in contempt of court.
The witnesses can have attorneys present at
Malone said his questions dealt mainly with who was where during the fire, which was set in an elevator shaft by igniting several pieces of furniture inside.
Malanese he liked using inquisitions and that he had found them to be very successful.
Aside from the two suspects, the inquisition turned up several more leads, Malone said.
The rest of the nine witnesses were all cooperative, he said.
Malone said he called the inquisition because he thought the students, one of whom is not a Naismith resident, were withholding information about the fire.
The four-hour process was helpful, but the case has not been solved. Malone said.
Arson squad officials began investigating the fire that caused $90,000 damage to the privately owned residence hall almost immediately after it was discovered.
"Right now there is not enough information to charge anyone," he said.
One student, John McMillan, Parsons freshman, was arrested last week and charged with making terroristic threats after Lawrence police received an anonymous telephone call.
The caller told police that he had heard Mc-
cormack had set the fire and was going to
set another house.
However, police determined that McMillan had been joking, and reduced the charge to failure.
The arson squad disbanded last Friday to await the outcome of the inquest.
Legislator wants state money withheld pending investigation into KU Greeks
By CONNIE SCHALLAU
Staff Writer
Staff Writer
A Kansas legislator plans to launch a campaign to end what he says is discrimination in the state.
State Rep. Norman Justice, D-Kansas City, said that next week he would send a letter to the House Finance Committee, the House Minority leader and the governor's office. He said that he planned to request that state money paid to KU's student loan be returned in verification of KU Greek houses was completed.
"There is some of my money that is supporting apartheid in these social fraternities," said Justice, a leader of the movement to remove Kansas public employees retirement funds from government. "It certainly feel as a black citizen of Kansas, our tax dollars should not be used in this manner."
The funds Justice is concerned with are a portion of the salaries paid to the Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic advisers, who also have faculty positions in campus. The two salaries together total $20,300.
Art Farmer, IFC adviser, whose salary is $14,500 a year, said that he spent about 60 percent
Third of three parts
of his time on fraternity activities. The Panhellenic adviser, Sheila Immel, said that she spent about two-thirds of her time on sorority activities.
With those rough breakouts, the state pays more than $10,000 per year for Greek advising. In addition, KU administrators occasionally advise fraternities and sororites.
Justice said that he also might take legal action to bring about change.
"Something will be done, because discrimination by any organization that receives tax dollars is illegal," he said. "These organizations have maintained some of the most highly discriminatory practices of any institutions."
The lawyer for the Kansas Board of Regents, William Kauffman, also said that he thought that specific instances of possible discrimination warranted investigation.
"I think that it is in the best interests of the state of Kansas to investigate these instances," she said.
"I am extremely disturbed. It is a critical commentary of the organization."
If an individual were to file a formal complaint charging discrimination with the dean of student life, the University of Kansas would hold a lawsuit against Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs.
He also said that if KU had sufficient evidence of its own, it would start an investigation.
However, because of the Greek national associations, the relationship between the Greek and Turkish peoples is complicated.
The sororites at KU are a part of the National Panhellenic Conference, which sets policy on college sororities.
Chemicals spill when truck overturns
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
A Lawrence firefighter checks bottles of chemicals that spilled when a truck ran off the road and into a ditch of Highway 24-40, northeast of Lawrence.
By TERESA RIORDAN Staff Reporter
A truck carrying toxic chemicals overturned yesterday 10 miles northeast of Lawrence, spilling acid along Kansas Highway 24-40 near Reno.
The spill of hydrochloric acid, which produces burning fumes, and hydrofluoric acid, a highly corrosive agent, caused officials to reroute traffic away from Reno for about three hours as a precautionary measure.
However, no one was injured from the fumes or in the one-vehicle accident.
"We looked like a bunch of frogmen running around." he said.
According to the Leavenworth County Sheriff's Department, the driver of the Penn State Industries truck, Jack Deschier, was arrested on May 18. He bolted out and the truck rolled over into a ditch.
Leon Mannell, coordinator of hazardous material response for the state, came to the
About 78 law enforcement and fire officials came to the site during the three and one half years of the operation.
Lawrence Firefighter JW Ise wise a sixman crew, clothed in masks and chemicals, neutralized the acid by spreading soda ash across the highway.
He said that although the acid and flammable materials were in the truck, none of the
Mannell said that the chemicals posed no permanent environmental problem.
"They did an excellent job cleaning it up," he said.
Robert Dickens Jr., who lives on K24-40 directly in front of where the accident occurred, said he was nearby when the truck's tire blew out.
"I was working on my truck when I heard the tire blow and I saw him hit the ditch and turn over. After that I didn't see anything, I was running." he said.
Dickens said he then called the police and ambulance from his home.
The Tonganoxic Fire Department, the American Red Cross, the Douglas County Emergency Medical Department, the Douglas County Sheriff's Department, the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Tonganoxic police all came to the accident site.
All traffic was rerouted around the Reno area during the cleanup. About five Reno residents prepared to evacuate from the area, but no evacuation was necessary.