THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 100, NO. 14 (USPS 650-640)
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
THURSDAY SEPT.14, 1989
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Drive resets goal Response heartens fund-raisers
By Angela Baughman
Kansan staff writer
A new goal of $177 million has been set for Campaign Kansas, the University's five-year fund-raising drive, campaign officials announced yesterday.
The new goal, which represents a $27 million increase from the original, was arrived at by the campaign's executive board members, who determined that more than $50 million in campaign projects remained unfinanced.
The board members also determined that if the campaign concluded at the $150 million goal, potential donors who expressed interest in contributing to the campaign would not all be able to do so. After 16 months of fund-raising, commitments to the campaign stand at $125.9 million, more than 83 percent of the original goal.
"The generosity of KU's loyal friends has given us the confidence to push even harder," national campaign chairman Jordan L. Haines said in a statement released yesterday "We don't want to lose this opportunity to do something truly historic for KU."
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Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, "Response to the campaign has been overwhelming. It has exceeded all of our expectations. The success of Campaign Kansas represents an overwhelming vote of confidence in the University of Kansas. It is a grafting experience."
According to campaign data, endowment for academic and student support, museums, equipment, opportunity funds and main campus and University of Kansas Medical Center construction has fallen short of stated campaign objectives.
However, libraries and program enhancements have exceeded stated goals by a total of $10 million. The campaign has also raised $17 million that does not correspond specifically to its objectives.
James B. Martin, executive campaain director, said gifts were made
earlier and at a higher level than was anticipated.
"At this point, we have achieved more of our goal than we expected, and we are delighted," he said. "The response to the campaign is a great
Regional campaigns will begin this fall in Chicago, San Francisco, Denver, New York, Atlanta, Houston and Kansas City.
Kansas could profit from Bush plan
The Associated Press
► See related story p. 7
WASHINGTON — Kansas could gain from $460,000 to $1 million in extra federal aid under President Bush's proposed anti-drug package, receiving more grant money than it would lose from budget cuts required to pay for the initiatives, according to two studies.
If adopted by Congress, Bush's program would send an additional $3.5 million to fight drugs in Kansas in the next budget year, but the state would lose almost $3.1 million in a host of other programs because of spending cutbacks proposed by the president, said a study by Federal Funds Information for States. The research group is affiliated with the
National Governors' Association and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
The study, released yesterday, projected that Kansas would be among 28 states to receive a net increase in federal money under the drug strategy unveiled last week by Bush.
In general, the president proposed increases in federal grants for law enforcement agencies and for drug prevention and treatment programs. The president also called for more money for programs to reduce drug problems in public housing projects.
To pay for the anti-drug initiatives, Bush has suggested cuts in a number of programs, including eliminating juvenile justice assistance grants, Economic Development Administration grants, and health and welfare aid to states to help them with newly-legalized immigrants. Many of the proposed reductions have been rejected in the past by Congress, the studies said.
Bush's drug proposal has been criticized in Congress, both by lawmakers who say more spending is required and by those who object to the way the president wants to pay for it.
According to the studies, the biggest loss for Kansas would be about $2 million in EDA monies.
The FFIS study estimated that Bush's initiatives would provide increases to state and local governments in Kansas of $1.9 million in law enforcement grants, $1.4 million in drug prevention and treatment programs and $179,000 in housing monies.
The Democratic Study Group projected increases of nearly $2 million in law enforcement monies and slightly more than $1.8 million for drug abuse programs.
Graduate senator springs a boycott
By Lara Weber
Kennon staff writer
Kansan staff writer
The first Student Senate meeting of the year opened with a bang last night as James Muir, graduate holdover senator, announced a boycott of Senate by graduate students.
"Most of you are undergraduate students, and you address your interests," Muir told the Senate. "Your interests are vastly different than ours."
Muir, who is also executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council, said that he had had a meeting Monday with representatives from the graduate student organizations about problems with Senate and that they were in favor of a walkout tonight.
"The general concern from graduate students," he said, "is that issues and concerns discussed by Senate do not parallel those of the graduate students."
He said graduate students were seeking control of the amount of student fees actually generated by graduate students.
Muir expressed concern that the graduate students only received 5.5 percent of student fees allocated by Senate while graduate students made up 25 percent of the student population at the University of Kansas.
"Graduate students are not happy with the situation as it exists today-" Muir said.
"I have to talk with James and Jake (White, student body president), and then I can respond." Lusaka said after the meeting. "There are other things to check into."
There are 11 graduate senator positions, but only three are filled.
No senators indicated any prior knowledge of Muir's plans to boycott.
After Muir announced the boycott he left the meeting. The only other graduate senator at the meeting, Rashid Lusaka, did not leave.
"This is the first I'd heard of any of this," White said after the meeting. "Senate is definitely open to all graduate students. I am unclear as to whether this is indicative of the entire GSC. Is it the concern of one person or the concern of all?"
During the Senate meeting, a response to Muir's action was drafted by White, Jeff Morris, student body vice president, and William Sanders, Student Executive Committee chairman.
The resolution was presented to the Senate after all other legislation had been considered.
It stated that Senate was open to all students, including graduate students. It went on to clarify how Senate provided for graduate student representation and how it was confident of its abilities to address the concerns of the graduate students.
The Senate erupted into a heated debate regarding the appropriateness of the resolution, with many senators expressing concerns that it was an inappropriately fast response to the situation.
Bill Haldeman, law school senator, was in favor of giving the Senate time to consider the resolution before discussing or voting on it last night.
"It's a tremendously important issue to us," he said. "We don't even know what the hell is going on. This is totally inappropriate at this time . . . Get the students involved. Slow down."
Michael Diggs, off-campus senator, spoke in favor of considering the resolution last night.
"It would be nice to have 72 hours to work on this," he said. "But we didn't get that courtesy from the graduate students . . . This is a response to what Jim said, and I think he deserves a response."
After about 10 senators spoke for or against considering the resolution, a vote by the Senate defeated any
See SENATE, p. 6
Matt Clark, Washington State graduate student, and Merrie Jo Pitera prepare experiments.
Students become subject matter
By Anita Meyer
Kansan staff writer
Some students may find that being enrolled in Psychology 104 means playing juror, taking a lie detector test or answering a questionnaire about their dating lives.
Each semester, psychology professors and graduate and senior psychology honors students submit ideas for experiments to the Committee on Human Experimentation
Many students consent to be subjects in experiments like these, which are conducted by psychology majors and professors.
After ideas are approved, those
"We have 1,800 students each semester taking Psychology 104," he said. "With five hours for each student, this is a major way of advancing knowledge in psychology."
performing the experiments make hypotheses and set up laboratories in Fraser Hall, said Dennis Karpowitz, professor of psychology.
Psychology 104 students have the option of either writing a term paper or participating in five hours of experimentation. he said.
Professors and graduate students often use these experiments for these or submit results to technology journals. Karpowe said.
Senate panel OKs KU grant
Merrie Jo Pitera, Hammonton N.J., graduate student, who helped with experiments, said, "We hope to make practical use of our information. We could go to different organizations who are looking for volunteers and tell them what to advertise and what to say so that they could attract the kind of people who would make the best volunteers."
Because not all of the experiments had been finished, Karpowitz could not release this semester's subjects.
During the Spring 1869 semester, students were tested to determine what types of people would make the best volunteers.
By Derek Schmidt Kensan staff writer
A U.S. Senate committee yesterday approved $1 million for construction of a bioscience center at the University of Kansas.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted for the financing as part of an appropriations bill to finance operations of the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of National and relational agencies the 1980 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1.
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole said the total cost of the new building is estimated at $7.2 million, with the University contributing $2 million in
financing from various sources.
It was not clear yesterday whether the approval of $1 million was a final proposal or a step toward full funding.
Frances Horowitz, vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said last night that she had not been aware of the committee's action, but was pleased by it.
"We need that space very much," Horowitz said.
The money would be used to construct an addition to the Higuchi Bioscience Center on West Campus, Horowitz said. She said the expanded facilities would house research on such things as drug design and genetics.
Dole said the full Senate was expected to consider the appropriations bill next week. The committee stressed contributed information to this story.
Horowitz said the research projects that the new facility would house were related to economic development in Kansas.
The University had requested $7.2 million to fund the project, Horowitz said. She said she had worked with Dole and Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., to help secure the funding. However, she had not had any recent word on the progress.
Horowitz said she was pleased that the committee approved the $1 million, but it would not be enough to finance the center.
Soviet refugees await U.S. action
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration told Congress yesterday that it wants to admit 50,000 Soviet refugees.
But the administration doesn't have the money to resettle many of the applicants, and suggested that some might want to go to Israel or return to the Soviet Union.
There are already 17,000 Soviets waiting in Italy for permission to enter the United States, and those who are rejected can "always go to Israel or return to Russia." Jewel S. Bauer of the United States coordinator for refuge affairs, told the House subcommittee on immigration.
"In these days of glasnost, that's not an impossible thing," she said. Rep. Hamilton Fish, R-N.Y., was critical of Lafontain's solution.
"I don't think this is an appropriate response to someone who's been languishing outside his country with the expectation of being allowed to come here," he told reporters. "You can't turn around and send them back."
Most of the Jews who leave the Soviet Union do so on Israeli visas, shifting direction for the United States once they reach processing centers in Vienna or Rome.
The administration, testifying on its worldwide refugee plan for fiscal 1990, said it didn't have sufficient
▶ See related story p. 6
- Princeton Lyman director of refugee programs
With no sign of decline in applications from Soviet citizens seeking admission to the U.S., we judge that 50,000 is, if anything, a conservative estimate of the potential admission requirements.'
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money to finance the 125,000 refugees it wanted to admit beginning Oct. 1. That figure represents about an 8 percent increase from fiscal 1989.
Soviet refugees are the largest group among the 125,000, followed by Vietnam with 26,500, East Asians with 25,000 and 6,500 each from Eastern Europe, the Near East and South Asia.
The figure for Eastern Europe, the same as this year's, is designed mostly for Poles and Hungarians who already have applied, as well as for a possible increase in Romanian and Bulgarian applicants, administration officials said.
The most controversial element in the administration's proposal centers on Soviet refugees, whose numbers have swelled as a result of President Mikhail Gorbachev's liberal emigration policies.
"The increased refugee flow brings problems in its wake." Lafontant said. "But how much better it is to have to deal with the problems of success of one's policies than to deal with problems caused by failure."
In an emergency move last spring, the administration nearly doubled its Soviet refugee quota for fiscal 1969 to 44,000.
Jewish goups estimate at least 72,000 Jews, and more than 100,000 Soviets altogether, will apply for refugee status in fiscal 1990.
"With no sign of decline in applications from Soviet citizens seeking admission to the U.S., we judge that 50,000 is, if anything, a conservative estimate of the potential admission requirements." - State Department's director of the Office of Refugee Programs.
Lyman said the administration's proposed fiscal 1990 budget included financing for only 84,000 refugees, placing the onus on the congressional appropriations committees to come up with about $60 million to pay for the remainder.
About 10,000 of the 125,000 slots will be funded by private organizations, be said.
See SOVIETS, p. 6