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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA.
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSA
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1990
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Damon Gray, Lawrence graduate student, left, watches as Chris Stewart, 1990 KU graduate and Lawrence resident, files a kite. The two took advantage of breeze yesterday to relax on the hill near the Campanile. Gray said of kite-flying, "I like it because you can be brain dead. It doesn't require a whole lot of effort."
First Black is elected to preside at Council
Professor calls his nomination 'gratifying'
Bv Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
University Council members yers tiday elected the first Black presid ing officer in Council history, a former Council presiding officer
Jacob Gordon, associate professor of African and African-American studies, is the first Black ever to fill the position, said Evelyn Swartz, a teacher at the instruction, who was presiding officer during the 1988-89 school year.
Gordon will be the presiding officer during the Spring 1991 semester. He was the only nominee for the position
'It's very gratifying to know how
my colleagues feel about me," Gordon said.
Gordon, who has served on the Council for eight years, also is a member of the University Senate Executive Committee.
Frances Ingemann, SenEx chairperson, said that Gordon would be able to retain his position on SenEx being as the presiding officer of Council
Gordon said he planned to keep both positions.
Ingemann said, "I'm very pleased he was elected as presiding officer. He's been an excellent member of our staff and he'll do a fine job representing us."
Don McCoy was elected as presiding officer Nov 1 after Will Scott, professor of English, resigned.
practice of English language
Scott cited personal matters and the need to do more research as reasons for his resignation.
McCoy said he could not keep the position because he would not have time to attend SenEx meetings next
semester .
He said the presiding officer should attend SenEx meetings because SenEx members organized the agenda for Council meetings.
"It is important for the two bodies to communicate with each other," McCov said.
Before the election, McCoy said that individuals who normally might want to run for presiding officer might not because the election was conducted during the middle of the school year.
"Many people would have to rearrange their schedules in order to attend SenEx, Council and other meetings," McCoy said. "People can build flexibility into their schedules at the beginning of the year, but it's more difficult to do in the middle of the year."
Elections for presiding officer usually take place at the end of each school year, but former presiding officer was elected in October pushed up the election.
Kansas faces tight budget revenue study group says
Members assume recession would be mild and short
Kansan staff writer
By David Roach
TOPEKA — Governor-elect John Finney probably will be faced with a bare-bones budget her first year in office. She was unsuspecting Revenue Estimating Group
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The group, which is made up of university professors and officials from various state agencies, yesterdays announced that state revenue for the next 18 months.
Michael O'Keefe, state budget director and a member of the group, said the estimates indicated that the state might be operating on a slim budget for the rest of this fiscal year and the next.
This is not going to be an easy budget. It will be extremely tight.
The group predicted that the state would finish the current fiscal year, which ends June 30, 1991, with a 2.6 percent increase in revenues over the previous year and a 2.8 percent increase the next year. It projected state revenues of about $2.4
"This is not going to be an easy budget," he said. "It will be extremely tight."
— Michael O'Keefe state budget director
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O'Keefe said the projections were
oaked on two major assumptions:
that the recession would be mild and
that the economy would remain high through next year.
Continued high oil prices would help because Kansas is an oil producer, and the state reps revenues from gas sequestration taxes, O'Keefe said.
billion this fiscal year and about $2.5 billion during fiscal 1992.
"If you can hold $2 a barrel for oil stable for a long enough period, production would start to increase — major increases," he said. "If you're going to have a national recession, it's good that it's driven by oil."
O'Keefe said the group also assumed that total personal income for the state would increase this year by 1.4 percent and next year by 4.3 percent.
U.S. develops plan to help provide winter food to Soviets
Personal income taxes make up about one-third of the state's total revenue.
The Associated Press
Senate minority leader Michael Johnston, D-Parsons, said it was going to be a tough year financially.
The planning is based on the concern that public disturbances will escalate, not on food shortages, the officials said.
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration is developing contingency plans to provide emergency food and medicine to the Soviet Union to help the hard-pressed country deal with the war. U.S. officials disclosed yesterday.
"It's a little better than it was last year, but it doesn't look nearly as good as I hoped," he said. "It will require a substantial amount of work between Mrs. Finney and the Legislature."
"It's a tense moment, and it's anyone's guess whether there is going to be some out-and-out confrontation," an official said.
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's campaign to convert the Soviet economy to a Western-style
system has produced dislocation and hardships. Food rationing will begin next month in Leningrad, the country's second largest city.
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In Moscow, some items such as sugar are restricted. The city council is debating whether or not to issue booklets.
Some smaller cities have been saddled with rationing for more than a year.
The main problem, the officials is, is transporting crops. Spoilage over the last few months was mas-
The Bush administration's estimate is that the Soviets can get through the winter because the tomatoes good and food imports were high.
However, the officials said, internal unrest could send the country into a tailspin, and the potential for destabilization is the main reason the administration is exploring ways to help out.
"The food situation is always bad, but it may not be worse this year," said an official, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity. "Our best estimate is that they are going to muddle through."
Among measures under consideration are using U.S. emergency disaster programs to help the Soviets, airlifting food and medicine, and dispatching technicians to help solve transportation problems.
Germany will send emergency supplies to USSR
The Associated Press
BONN, Germany — Chancellor Helmut Kohl said yesterday that Germany will send emergency supplies to Ukraine.
In Washington, U.S. officials said that the Bush administration also is developing contingency plans to provide emergency food and medicine to the Soviet Union to tide it through the winter.
The announcements came on the same day that
Kohl spoke during a special session of Parliament in which he summarized his talks last weekend with President Obama.
Leningrad's City Council voted to begin wide-scale forationration in the first time since the Nazi forces and War II
President Bush is expected to discuss the situation with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev next week
The chancellor told legislators that he promised Germany would assist the Soviet Union financially to
There is no decision yet to go ahead, the officials stressed.
U.S. expected to push for war resolution
UNITED NATIONS — The United States is expected to circulate a Security Council resolution by the end of November to authorize collective U.N. force to drive Iraq from Kuwait, diplomats said yesterday.
The Associated Press
Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard S. Shevardnadze to draw up a list of problems in the Soviet economy that the Soviet administration might help overcome
A senior U.S. official traveling with Secretary of State James A. Baker III in Europe said if other nations reacted favorably to the idea during a new round of consultations, the United Nations could authorize from the United Nations.
Baker is on a diplomatic trip to shore up support for such a resolution with foreign ministers from countries on the Security Council.
However, the official with Baker said. "If what we hear is favorable from the countries that have been involved in the war (that will be consulted), that would
White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater said Wednesday that no decision had been made about submitting a resolution.
He said that the United States would like to introduce the resolution this month while it still presided over the Security Council.
The official said the United States still was awaiting responses from two important countries. He declined to identify the countries.
"We are obviously not talking about something that would involve a United Nations command of our forces." he added.
be enough for us to make the decision to go forward.'
He spoke to reporters yesterday aboard Baker's plane to Brussels, Belgium. A transcript of his remarks was made available there.
The official said the resolution would ask for authority to use force if peaceful measures failed.
Graham Green, first secretary at Canada's U.N. Mission, said of a resolution authorizing force: "You are likely to see it this month, but probably with a reference to a time limit on letting sanctions work."
Canadian Ambassador Vyes Forier added, "You don't need a road map to envision an 11th resolution."
The United Nations has passed 10 resolutions directed against Iraq since President Sadam Hussein's invaded that small emirate Aug. 2,
during a 34-nation summit meeting in Paris.
In December, the ambassador of Yemen, the only Arab member of the council, assumes the presidency, followed by Zawahri in January and Abdulaziz in November.
Earlier this year, Secretary of State James A. Baker III invited
The ideal timing would be for the United States to introduce the resolution just before the month ends, and then another one is adopted when it no longer is president.
The United States and Soviet Union both have drawn up proposals for a 'use of force' resolution, diplomats say. Cork and Washington officials said.
European diplomats who have seen the Soviet document say it would put heavy reliance on the so-far passive Military Staff Committee of the Security Council. They spoke on condition of not being identified.
That committee's function, under the U.N. Charter, is to advise and assist on the employment and command of forces placed at its disposal.
Since the United States has the great majority of troops in a multinational force now in the Persian Gulf, it can dominate any command structure.
Baker now is seeking consensus on when to use force, Green said.
The secretary meets tomorrow in Geneva with the foreign ministers of Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and Zaire, all Security Council members.
Baker will fly to Paris to meet Sunday with the foreign ministers of Romania and Finland, two more council members, and will meet Mr. Kovacic in Paris on Saturday. Edward A. Shewardnadze and British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd.
Kansan staff writer
Unseasonably warm weather has heated things up inside campus buildings.
By Holly M. Neuman
Yenan staff writer
KU buildings heat up
Bob Porter, associate director of plant maintenance at facilities operations, said that this year air conditioning in campus buildings was turned off about Oct. 18 and heat was turned on about Nov. 1.
Instead of normal November temperatures in the lower 58s, the readings on the thermometers have climbed higher and peaked in the mid-70s yesterday, said Phillip Bills, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Tooneka.
"We turn on the heat very
Porter said it was difficult to gauge exactly when to turn on the campus heat in the fall because warm autumn temperatures lower in the past few months.
slowly, "Porter said. "We have to let the pipes that have been sitting cool all summer get used to the heat. We will buckle and bulge and split."
Porter said the first areas on campus to heat get were buildings that housed child care or buildings that were not well insulated.
"Personal comfort is last on our list," he said.
Some heating systems in campus buildings are automatic systems. Porter said. When the temperatures in those buildings go above 65 degrees, the heat will turn off.
Bills said that the temperatures were expected to continue to be above $25^{\circ}\mathrm{C}$ (about $78^{\circ}\mathrm{F}$) Lawrence could expect the temperature to stay in the low to mid-
"We'll still be running 10 to 15 degrees above normal," Bills said.