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University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Thursday, October 22, 1981 Vol. 92, No. 44 USPS 650-640
Senate rejects plan to put ballot boxes throughout city
By DEBRA BATES and MICHAEL ROBINSON Staff Reporters
Student Senate last night summarily defeated
the Democratic leaders, who boxed
during the city's Senate elections.
The bill, Bill 022, failed to gain the two-thirds
of the vote that the Senate Rules and
Regulations in an 18-7 vote.
"I was a damn Greek vote," said Bren Abbott, student body vice president." I was the saddest one of them."
Bert Coleman, student body president, emphasized different sentiment about the bill's final outcome.
"I'm pleased that it didn't pass," Coleman said, although I still agree with the philosophy of the bill.
COLEMAN ACKNOWLEDGED that there was a split in the vote according to living group, but he said that it was more of a split between those off campus and those on.
"I think it was presented in an attacking nature," he said. He had said earlier that he would veto the bill if it passed, but in an attempt to support it, he might support the bill if changes were made.
"I don't think this bill was it," Coleman said. "In reality it is impossible to implement."
Bill 022 was one of two bills written by a group of senators that specified the location of ballot boxes during elections. No such rules now exist in the Rules and Regulations.
a first bill, Bill 021, was defeated in a Senate meeting last week and a quorum call prevented the Senate from dealing with Bill 022. Last night's meeting was called for that purpose.
THE BILLS were written to equalize student access to ballot boxes during elections because boxes are now placed in only fraternities, sororites, scholarship halls and residence halls.
Bill 021 called for removing boxes from all living groups. Bill 022 would have increased the number of boxes and distributed them evenly on and off carus.
David Adkins, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman, also was against the bill.
"I don't think it was necessary to put in the Rules and Regulations more constraints the elites would have."
"I think you would have to put a ballot box on really every floor to call it accessible. What the bill would have ended up doing was spinning the wheels of the elections committee."
BECKY PYLES, graduate student senator and the co-autor of the bill, bitterly denounced the action.
"Senate has just made an ass out of itself in front of the whole student body," she said after
the meeting. "You can't get anything through this body. It's all Greek."
rose Kuo, liberal arts and sciences senator,
said that many senators didn't understand the
new laws.
Staci Feldman, Nunemaker senator, said she was disappointed by the action Senate took.
"The issue tonight was to make Student Senate voting more accessible to more students," she said. "The only thing this bill could do was benefit the students as a whole."
"It was so quick and there was no debate," she
people really want me.
"I'm going to run for re-election, but it really
droveprotest."
DAVID ZIMMERMAN, off-campus senator and another co-author of the bill, was also disappointed by the vote, but he said he would try to keep the issue alive.
"Off-campus students got kicked in the teeth," he said. "We're going to look for another route."
Abbott said that a group of senators had defeated a bill that a majority of the students were against.
"For a year now I've been happy with Student Senate because at least they attended the meetings," he said. But he added, "I agree with you—that Senate just made an ass out of itself."
"It was a gutless Senate."
Horrible Hats a hit with KU fans
Student businessman starts fad
By LISA BOLTON Staff Reporter
Entrepreneur Tom Hall, St. Louis senior, has a hit on his hands with Horrible Hats.
Horrible Hats are blue and white billed hats with a Jayhawk and the slogan "Go KU" on the front. "HORRIBLE HAT," of course, is emblazoned across the back. Hall and six or seven of his friends hawk the hats to KU football fans for $2 each.
Sometimes the price is negotiable. One middle-aged woman at the Oklahoma State game told Hall she really wanted a hat, but she didn't have any money with her.
She got her hat.
IN THE TRADITION of “Let's Make a Deal” host Monty Hall—no reaction—Hall told the woman he'd give her a hat if she would wear it, and he shouted, "I love KU and I want a Horror Hat."
Hall said he had sold 300 to 500 hats at each football game this season. That's about half his initial order of 4,000, in which he invested $3,000 on his own money.
"I knew I'd at least break even," he said, and he has.
As for profiting from the venture, Hall said,
"this is way. If I sell all my hats, I'll make
some money."
The fun he's had and the marketing experience he's gained are invaluable, especially because he's a business major, he said.
HORRIBLY HATS are not Hall's first enterprise. At 16, he and a friend started a tennis camp one summer. They'd previously trained for the national championships at camps run by pros, who made the profits.
"It was a quick way to make a lot of money," he said. "We decided to get rid of the pros, start our own camp and make our own money."
Hall said he wanted to come up with a new kit. He said it was "sea of blue" on the KK side of the football stadium.
"A lot of people have tried to do what I'm doing, some successfully, some not so successful. It could be hard."
and I just had a gut feeling that Horrible Hats would work."
Towels to wave from the stadium in support of their team.
FOR JAYHAWK FANS, Horrible Hats seemed practical to Hall.
The idea came from a friend at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., where similar hats were promoted as a takeoff of the Pittsburgh Steelers "Terrible Towels."
"In Kansas, not too many people know and that," said Hall, who explained that Steele was a former governor.
"The good thing about the hat is that it's inexpensive," he said with a salesman's enthusiasm. "Girls and guys can wear it, and it's not just a football hat—it can go right on a shirt."
See HATS page 5
Tom Hall, St. Louis senior, displays his popular "Horrible Hats."
BOB GREENSPAN/Kansan Staff
Light switch
Eko Sheepard, facilities operations maintenance
worker, changes a light bulb outside Wescoe
Biologist says concern necessary for survival
Staff Reporter
By JoLYNNE WALZ
Everyone should get involved in politics to prevent the erosion of the environment and the extinction of mankind, Stanford University biologist and best-selling author Paul Ehrlich
"I know it's idealistic, but all of our problems,
including being blown to you know where by nuclear war, could be stopped by people who really want to do something about them," he said.
Ehrlich, who studied and taught at the University of Kansas in the 1950s, wrote the best-selling book, "The Population Bomb," which has grown rapidly starting the zero population growth movement.
See EHRLICH page 5
Staff Reporter
By SHARON APPELBAUM Staff Reporter
Student directory omissions caused by computer error
The mystery of the missing names in the new KU Directory of Faculty, Staff & Students has been solved, Robin Eversole, director of University Relations, said yesterday.
"They had an equipment failure. The computer glitched," she said.
The fault lies in the computer at the printer, she said.
Litings for the University of Kansas Medical Center specifically the Q's, srs. part of the s's and every severity level.
The University hired the National Advertising and Publishing Company of Fairfax, Va., to compile the directory, and it in turn hired another company to print it.
At first, Eversole wasn't sure whether the computer failure happened at the printer or back on the server.
But after she asked the company to do some checking, she learned who the culprit was.
The next step lies at the Med Center, she said. Officials there will decide today whether they want a supplement or an entirely new directory filled with complete Med Center listings.
Robert Howell, assistant director of telecommunications at the Med Center, said that even a complete KU directory would have inculcated administrative listings for the Med Center.
'The pages in the administrative section don't include the detail,' he said.
To make up for the lack of detail, the Med Center usually pays the University Printing Service for a separate 52-page directory.
Howell said that although few people on the Lawrence campus would need to know the complete listings for the department of hungary, the time was greater at the Med Center.
Weather
The National Weather Service in Topeka forecasts clearing skies and cool temperatures with a high in the morning. The low tonight will be in the low 20s.
Taiwanese students react to surveillance charges
Tomorrow will be clear, with a high in the upper 40s and a low in the upper 20s or low 30s. The weekend will be cool, with highs in the 50s and low 60s.
By CATHERINE BEHAN
Several students from the Republic of China (Taiwan) said yesterday that they doubted allegations made by Taiwanese faculty members that spies for the Taiwanese government were sending surveillance reports back to Taiwan.
Staff Reporter
"They have no reason to be afraid at all"
"I don't know," Taiwan, graduate student,
said yesterday.
Several of the students said they did not believe there were spies on campus and would welcome the Federal Bureau of Investigation inquiry that Japanese faculty members had
"All they want to create an atmosphere here so that Taiwan could be an independent country."
The faculty members, in a letter to the American Association of University Professors
and Chancellor Gene A. Budig, asked for help in solving the problem of informant sending information to students.
MAINLAND CHINESE Communists, led by Mao Tse-Tung, defeated China's Kal-Shek and his followers in 1949. The ousted group established itself on the island of Taiwan, a former Chinese province, and now leads the Nationalist Party, the Kuomintang.
Some students from Taiwan they thought of themselves as Chinese because their ancestors came from China, and they said the students and faculty who referred to themselves only as Taiwanese and never as Chinese wanted to overthrow the Kuomintang.
One student, who asked not to be identified because she was afraid of anti-government terrorists, said the anti-government students and faculty were a minority on campus and in Taiwan. She said those people wanted Taiwan to be completely independent from China.
"They are extremists, not suggesting solutions, just criticizing," she said. "We're not
saying our government is perfect, but it doesn't need to be overthrown."
But Wu said, "I just want a peaceful environment to study. I don't want those people to use this campus as a political arena to achieve their political goals."
UNIVERSITY officials do not want the campus to be a political arena either.
Cobb said he expected to have some results this week.
would say there were spies on this campus," Wu said.
Budig said yesterday that Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, was spending "an inordinate amount of time reviewing the matter."
"I feel hurt by my fellow countrymen that they
The Chinese students who doubted there were crises on campus also said that felt awkward.
SHE ADDED that most Chinese students would become an investigation by the FIU into
Budig, who refused Tuesday to comment in the issue, said yesterday. "I was reluctant to comment because the letter from the Taiwanese government also covered map confidential. I felt very awkward."
Jun-Sheng Sung, Taipei, Taiwan, graduate student, said he was not sure there were spies on the plane.
"Maybe there were spies on the campus; it's one of the possibilities," he said.
He said the Chinese community at KU was a small circle of people and information on people's political ideologies might be passed very easily.
"Many students would go back to Taiwan and maybe information was passed, but we cannot trust that."
Yun-Sheng added that most students on campus were not interested in political activities.
"Most are not involved with political action or have no personal relationship with themselves. They study too hard to get involved, so they are not."
    - *Graylock*