VOL.100,NO.25 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY SEPT.29,1989
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Braniff leaves fliers stranded holding tickets
By Kate Lee and Stacy Smith
Kansan staff writers
The first thing William Tuttle, professor of history, heard when he woke up yesterday was that Braniff Inc. had filed for bankruptcy.
"My stomach dropped," he said. "I thought I had lost $800 in tickets."
Tuttle had planned to fly to Boston today on Braniff. He was able to make other flight arrangements with the airline, but he had to purchase a new ticket.
"I thought Brannif provided excellent service," Tuttle said. "I always
enjoyed my flights on Braniff, unlike other airlines."
Braniff filed for bankruptcy yester-
under Chapter 11 of the U.S.
banks.
Filing under Chapter 11 is a reorganization procedure. Creditors cannot collect from the company until a new chapter is being created how the creditors will be paid.
Tuttle's situation was not unique.
Other KU students and professors were left with Braniff tickets they might not be able to use.
Ruth Hughes, owner and manager of Holiday Travel Inc. 2112 W. 25th St. New York, NY 10003
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different policy on honoring tickets from other airlines.
"It's a really tough situation for passengers," she said. "They buy in good faith."
See BRANIFF, p. 6
Hughes said she received the news at 4 p.m. Wednesday. There were no earlier indications that the company would take this action.
Regents to hear KU proposal for high school math exams
Tests would predict college placement
By Doug Fishback Kansan staff writer
Marti Hammond, Regents director of academic affairs, said yesterday that the department's staff would be attending meetings with receptatives this morning in Topeka.
A KU delegation will meet with Board of Regents and state Department of Education staffs today to discuss a proposal to test Kansas high school juniors' readiness for college math.
David Shulenburger, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs; Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the math department and Jack Porter, professor of mathematics, will represent the University.
The proposal follows the recent announcement of a Board of Education plan to test math abilities of third-, seventh- and tenth-grade students.
Porter said the proposed KU program would use the results of tests administered to juniors to predict placements in math sequences for specified majors at Kansas universities.
He said the proposal called for $45,000 for a pilot program to test juniors in 12 Kansas high schools this academic year.
The proposal calls for an additional $72,000 to bring the school total to 100 for 1990-91, he said. A third-year budget of $86,000 would finance testing in all Kansas high schools, which number more than 300.
Porter said math teachers from eight high schools already had expressed willingness to participate in the program.
"We would like somewhere between 20,000 and 25,000 high school juniors to be taking this test," Porter said. Money for the program would come from the Regents budget and from requests to the state Legislature.
The plan is modeled after one implemented by Ohio State University in 1978. Since then, Nebraska, Indiana and Michigan have adopted similar programs.
The Ohio State program lets juniors specify two majors at one of several Ohio schools. The students then receive a report of their performance on a standard math test and an explanation of where they would enter the math sequences required for their chosen majors.
"It's been successful in Ohio because it's such a personal message to the students," Porter said.
Cutting Edge wins BOCO election
See EXAMS. p. 6
By Holly Lawton Kansan staff writer
After a month of intense work and two days of handing out fliers, the coalition Cutting Edge swept the election for the freshman Board of Class Officers last night.
Jeff Robbins, sophomore class president, said only about 800 people from the freshman class voted.
The winners were Greg Mosher,
president, 471 votes; Stephanie
Warden, vice president, 494 votes;
Megan Morrison, secretary, 445
votes; and Hudson Deeter, treasurer, 493 votes.
The Cutting Edge candidates netted almost three times the votes of the second-place finishers, the coalition Self Expression. The group also defeated candidates who were under Choice and The Instigators. Four independent candidates also ran for president and secretary.
"We had a pretty low turnout," he said. "It really was a small percentage vote."
Mosher said immense support from friends helped Cutting Edge win the election.
"We had 29 people out there today campaigning for us," he said.
Some candidates went out of their way to attract voters. Brad Unruh, Hutchinson freshman, dressed up in a gorilla suit and passed out fliers in front of Wesco Hall for the Instigators coalition.
Despite the low voter turnout, Warden said she was excited about the election results.
"I think it's great," she said.
"We really worked hard all day today. I have a killer sunburn."
Warden said Cutting Edge was formed about a month ago. The candidates filed applications last week and started campaigning Saturday. The group posted filers and spoke at residence halls, fraternities and sororites.
Warden said Cutting Edge intended to improve new student orientation and had discussed starting an anti-drug program or a Students Against Drunk Driving chapter. Mesher said cutting Edge was one of the few best man council on the board to freshen more representation.
"Our main goal is to work with the freshmen and make them more aware," he said.
Brad Unruh, Hutchinson freshman, tries to get Meredith Loveland of Lawrence to vote.
Amtrak train hits fire truck in Virginia; 2 dead
The Associated Press
CALVERTON, Va. — An Amtra-train smashed into a fire truck at a rural railroad crossing last night and derailed, killing two firefighters and injuring more than 150 passengers.
Two other firefighters and two train passengers were listed in critical condition in area hospitals. The collision broke the truck into several pieces.
Both engines and 11 cars of the southbound Crescent, bound from New York to Atlanta and New Orleans, derailed when the collision occurred about 6:40 p.m. CDT about 40 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., said Amtrak spokesman John Jacobsen.
Two firefighters died at the scene, said Sgt. Butler Grant of the Fauquier County Sheriff's Department. Another firefighter had died at a hospital but he retracted that later and said a third death had not been confirmed.
The fire truck with five men aboard was responding to a call from the nearby town of Callett when the accident occurred, Grant said. In addition to the two killed and two critically injured, state police spokesman Lucy Caldwell said the fifth firefighter was treated and
The train was carrying 379 passengers and a crew of 20, he said. Five cars of the 16-car train remained on the track, said Pat Jeffrey, another Amtrak spokesman.
Fauquier Sheriff's Deputy R.R. Crawford said 150 or more people on the train were injured. Most were transported to nearby Prince William Hospital in Prince William County and Fauquier Hospital.
released at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton.
One firefighter and two passengers were in critical condition at Washington, D.C., Hospital Center, said a man who declined to give her name.
One firefighter, in critical condition with head injuries, was flown by helicopter to Fairfax Hospital in Nashville and spokewoman Mary Stuart-Rivk
Roger Baker, administrator of Fauquier Hospital, said 27 passengers were treated for minor injuries and released. He said the hospital was expecting a busload of another 30 passengers with minor injuries.
about 26 people. Steve Givens, a Prince William spokesman, said three were in serious condition and the hospital expected a total of 34 injured.
Thomas Ryan of Prince William Hospital said the hospital had treated
"I understand there are a great many people who are not injured," he said.
The truck had driven south on Virginia 28, which parallels the track, and had turned onto a private drive leading to a house when the accident occurred, authorities said.
Westport clubs offer deals to non-drinkers
For years, some KU students have been lured to the clubs in the Westport section of Kansas City, Mo., only to face the dangerous task of getting home after they have had too much to drink.
By Bryan Swan Kansan staff writer
In June, the Westport Security Association started a designated driver program that encourages non-drinkers to accompany their friends. The program offers discounts and gives Westport establishments a cost-effective means of dealing with the problem, operators say.
The program's participants offer a variety of discounts to customers who declare themselves designated drivers for their groups.
"The discounts vary from establishment to establishment," said Kyle Kelly, owner of Kelly's Westport Inn. "Some give free admission, others give free sodas, some give free hors d'oeuvres."
He said that 24 clubs in Westport were participating in the program and the program was endorsed by the Drug Abuse On Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
Tim McKay, manager of The Lone Star, said the program worked well and was better than calling a cab for someone. He said customers at the Lone Star received free soft drinks if
they identified themselves at the bar as designated drivers.
However, Kelly said because each club supported the program differently, there could be no guarantee that some designated drivers had not consumed alcoholic drinks.
"The intent of the program is to make the streets safer," he said. "If someone has had two or three beers and then has a soft drink and decides to participate, the program is working."
Kelly said the program had to be flexible or it would seem overbearing and not work.
*In previous years, many Westport clubs operated a taxi voucher system
He said other programs had been expensive to operate and not as effective.
— a credit line with a taxi company
— so clubs could get people who had
had too much to drink home for
free," Kelly said. "If you let the word
out, though, a lot of people will take
advantage of it and figure they can
come to Westport, get drunk, and
then get a free ride home."
He said that some bartenders now handed out cards informing customers that they had too much to drink, that the customer's business was valued and that a cab would be called for them.
Aquino will not allow return of Marcos' body
Marcos, who ruled the Philippines for 20 years before being ousted in February 1986, died yesterday morning. Francis Medical Center. He was 72.
The Associated Press
HONLULU - Ferdinand E. Marcos died of cardiac arrest yesterday, but even in death he remained an unwanted exile, his remains barred from public view, and his political legacy still stirring passions in his Philippine homeland.
Doctors said kidney and lung failure and a widespread infection contributed to the cardiac arrest that was listed as the cause of death.
Philippines President Corazon Aquino yesterday refused to allow Marcos to be buried in his homeland, as anti-militarist leaders urged her to rescomber.
Manila radio stations interrupted their programming to announce his death, and the former president's fellow northerners went at the news.
Aquino said in a statement: "in the interest of the safety of those who will take the deah of Mr. Marcos in widely and passionately conflicting ways, and for the tranquility of the state and the order of society, the remains of Ferdinand E. Marcos will not be allowed to be brought to our country until such time as the government, be it under this administration or the succeeding one, shall otherwise decide."
Senior military commanders met after the death was announced, but there was no sign of additional secu- rations of pro-Marx demonstrations.
One Marcos supporter, Oliver
Lozano, said loyalists would stage a symbolic funeral march to protest Aquino's decision, but he did not say when.
Marcos' only son, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., told Manila television station GMA that the family would try to persuade Aquino to change her mind. Nicanor Yniguez, former speaker of the National Assembly, called Aquino's refusal "the height of sacrilege."
Marcos' death was announced after the close of the business day in the Philippines, and there was little public reaction to the passing of the man who ruled 21 years, longer than any other Filipino leader.
"I'm not surprised," said Jazmine So, 42, a Manila merchant. "It was expected. I don't know what will happen, but the situation will not affect me."