VOL. 101, NO. 56
THE UNIVERSITY DAIL KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY NOVEMBER 12, 1990
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Budig has no plans to leave KU, he says
By Yvonne Guzman and Kathryn Lancaster
Kansan staff writers
Chancellor Gene A. Budig is one of four people being considered to fill the vacant presidency at the Universi
sity of Nebraska, Nebraska officials said Friday.
But budd, who earned a doctorate in education from Nebraska, said he would not consider accepting an appointment.
Budig
"It is gratifying to be well regarded by your alma mater."
Budig said Friday, "but I have no plans at the present time other than continuing to address the unfinished agenda in Kansas."
Specific goals Budig mentioned were completion of Campaign Kansas and the Margin of Excellence.
Campaign Kansas is the University's five year, $177 million fundraising drive. The campaign is $4 million from its goal.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Naele Coppie, acting assistant to the chancellor at the Lincoln campus and dean emeritus of Nebraska a journalism college, said the president was over four courses, two in Omaha, one in Lincoln and one in Kearney.
When asked if he knew that Budig did not intend to leave KU, Coppie said, "I have read that. That's been published. But I'm assuming Nebraska is home. There's always a little bit of love about coming home."
Joe Rowson, director of public affairs at Nebraska, said the university's 20 member search committee made its recommendations Friday to
No salary has been set, but a new
president would receive pay comparable to salaries at Midwest universities, he said.
Interim President Martin Messenger earns $124,000 an year as chancellor of Nebraska at Lincoln and an assistant vice president, Rowson said.
Messengale has been acting president since August 1989, when former president Ronald Roskens was fired, Rowson said.
Rowson declined to explain the reasons for Roskens' dismissal.
"The board is interested in moving as quickly as possible to get a president named." Rowson said.
University of Northern Colorado;
Martin Gischek, chancellor at
the University of Missouri at Rolla;
and Katherine Henney, chancellor at the
Kidney University.
The other three candidates are Robert Dickeson, president at the
In addition to recommending four candidates, the search committee recommended that additional candidates from within the school be considered, but it listed no specific names, Rowson said.
The search committee was appointed by the Nebraska Board of Regents in October 1989. Because the Nebraska Legislature was considering changes in higher education, the search was put on hold. The committee has been seeking candidates since May.
Rowson said the committee received about 175 nominations or applications. The search committee's task was to narrow the list to a group of candidates, any of whom it would be comfortable with as president.
Budig was born in McCook, Neb.
He earned a bachelor of science degree, master's degree and doctorate from Nebraska. He served as an administrator and professor at Nebraska from 1967 to 1971.
Big boom
Sgt. James Gerlaugh, U.S. Army ROTC, fires a howitzer, and Sgt. Arthur Phelan waits to reload as the Jayhawk football team takes the field in Memorial Stadium. Gerlaugh and Phelan fired the cannon
after each of the Jayhawks' two scoring plays during Saturday's 41-9 loss to Nebraska. Kansas will play its last game of the season Saturday against Missouri. See story. Page 9.
Senate to hand out cultural guide
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate will distribute a campus publication, "Culture Shock," today to increase student awareness of cultural activities on EMPRPS.
The magazine is sponsored by the Special Events subcommittee of Senate. The purpose of the committee is to increase student awareness of world diverse cultures and to help Ki students understand their
Aimee Hall, student body vice president, said the four-page publication would contain a calendar of cultural activities, along with information about different cultural groups on campus.
"Culture Shock." a free publication, will be distributed one more time this semester.
Jason McIntosh, cultural affairs chairperson, said the committee would distribute to 750 copies of the book "The American hailstorms and the Kansas Union."
"In terms of cultural awareness, there is not one place to get all the things that are going on," he said.
He said the publication would focus on different groups and their activities.
Breven Parsons, "Culture Shock" coordinator, said the main idea of the program was to involve students in campus activities.
Money for the publication will be allocated from Senate's special project account.
tional students," he said. "We want to get the average Joe to realize that there is so much going on at KU."
Jessmond Hong, president of Malaysian Students Association of KU, said it was a good idea to have a conference that would information that might pertain to him.
"I feel that foreign students have limited access to most of the happenings at KU." he said.
"This is not just for the interna-
Students gain, then lose, Allen seating
He said the association had contributed material about organizational activities to the publication.
Athletic Department allots 46 more student seats but takes 26 from behind KU bench
Rv Karen Park
in the seating section behind the KU bench and below the concourse, students lost 26 seats, said Bob Frederick, athletic director.
Even though KU students obtained 800 more seats in Allen Field House this season, many students are angry behind the bench was decreased.
Kansan staff writer
In addition to taking four seats from each row in the lower-level seating area, seats were taken away in the second and third sections above the lower-level section. Those seats now are for reserved seating.
KU basketball players entrance.
Frederick cited two reasons for the seating redistribution.
"We had reserved seats in section V1, but students in the section next to V1 would stand up and the people in
Frederick said 46 new tickets were designated in section V1 for students V1 is the section of seats above the
Frederick said the seating changes would help the Athletic Department collect more than $500,000 in new seats that he pays for those reserved seats.
"We are under a lot of financial pressure," he said. "We are trying to raise $3 million for scholarships and $5 million for building maintenance."
Frederick said the Athletic Department always had made the commitment to retain 7,000 student seats in the school. The athletic department can accommodate 15,000 people.
the reserve seating area could not see." he said.
Financial problems also prompted the seating changes, Frederick said.
"It's going to be important to keep these boundaries." Frederick said.
He said that the Athletic Department and the basketball team appreciated the students' support and that they would appeal about the seating redistribution.
"I didn't realize the significance of
the redistribution," Frederick said Saturday. "All of a sudden, it became real last night."
KU played its first game Friday against the Australian National Team.
"Sometimes their enthusiasm, like
standing up during the game, create
a problem," he said. "We had to do
people in the residence who could
the reserved seats could see."
Frederick said he would meet with student body representatives and student fans today to discuss the reasons for the redistribution.
Expanding the reserved-seating section in the lower-level bleacher seats was an answer to the problem, Frederick said.
Joel Hool, St. John graduate student, said he felt as though student support no longer was important to the basketball program.
Tracy Hood, Joel Hood's wife and a 1987 KU alumna, said, "We road-tripped to Iowa State. We camp out
for days. What do we get for it? They take our seats away."
Joel Hood said athletic officials had promised in the past that students would not lose any more seats behind the bench.
Hood said it was obvious to him that the Athletic Department was going to take away the entire student section behind the bench.
"When recruits come here to visit, they don't get excited about alumni money. They get excited when they see students in the air during timeouts." Hood said.
Minnis said it was good to have a mixture of alumni and students close to the bench.
Don Minnis, a Lawrence resident who bought basketball season tickets, said he liked to sit in the lower bleacher section behind the bench.
"It's good to have students here," he said. "But they want to have people who will buy every year."
Students gather for Wescoe rally
Nationwide event focuses on ethnicity
By Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
In some ways, the student rally outside Wesley Hall at noon on Friday resembled other rallies on campus this year.
But the words and sentiments expressed by KU students at this rally echeated across the country on the National Day of Action.
National Day of Action was organized by Students' Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism, a group in Washington, D.C., said John Lewis, Black Men of Today executive board member.
The coalient sent a flier to the University of Kansas to inform student groups of the plans for the day. Lewis said this was the first time a National Day of Action rally had sponsored by student groups at KU.
According to a flier distributed at the rally, the National Day of Action was designed to encourage students to participate in an increased recruitment and retention of Black students and faculty, a more balanced core curriculum, stronger ethnic studies departments, an end to the browning of African-American and a tuition tretment at all colleges.
At the rally, KU students spoke about each of the demands.
Cedric Lockett, president of Black Student Union, told the group that KU needed to teach all students about Black history.
"What you don't know about my history makes you appreciate me less because you don't know me," Lockett said. "We are taught a White supremacist's history. We are all experts on European-American history."
Kristin Lange, Women's Student Union member, told the group that KU needed to include more women's and ethnic history courses because students were not learning about themselves.
"The courses here deny our very existence in American history," she said. "They tell us we aren't as sensitive as they consider themselves."
The Rev Mac Charles Jones, from the Saint Stephen Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kan., gave a speech that left many of the students cheering.
Jones said a college education was a White-dictated education because curricula were not balanced.
"Movements for justice, for freedom, for peace have always been fueled by students," he said. "You want freedom - freedom - you have what it takes."
Students leave universities as if they were cookies cut from the same cookie cutter, he said. American students will accommodate personalized learning.
Jones said poor students were discriminated against by not having access to the education that wealthier students received.
Students have to make their dreams come true. Jones said. Black and White students have to work together to overcome racism in soci-
"You have to, in or 30 years we'll be further apart than we are now," he said. "If you work together, mountains will move, universities will change and your objectives will be achieved."
GLSOK director quits cites personal reasons
Kansan staff writer
By Monica Mendoza
Resigning as the director of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas was a personal decision. Amy Myers said,
Myers was elected as director of GLSOK last spring to a one-year term. She resigned from the position last week.
"I had some personal pressure not to be involved with the political side." Myers said. "I wasn't interested in the direction the group was going. There is a small group that wants to be as political as it can be, but I'm not so interested in providing services for the members."
Myers said the political involvement that the group had engaged in during the past few months had taken a large amount of time and had caused some people to shy away from becoming involved.
"I have tried to put more positive elements into the meetings," Myers said. "But I've never tried to take away from the political side."
Wendy Griswold and Karen Cook, GLSKO members, are the two candidates for the director's position. Members vote at their meeting right away.
"I think we all agree that the political involvement is very important to the group." Myers said. "But the social part is important too."
Myers said she had been confronted by several GLOSK members who had said the group's political orientation was distorted too much on negative things.
Jarrod Brown, GLSOK Speakers Bureau coordinator, said both candidates had been active in GLSOK for a long time.
The group will not suffer from the change of leadership in the middle of the term, he said.
"The transition will be smooth," Brown said.
He said he hoped the new director would bring balance to the group's agenda.
"I would like the group to continue working with the administration," Brown said. "But I hope that we are able to protest when necessary."
Christopher Craig, GLOSK peer counseling adviser, said GLOSK was founded as a political group.
"It says in our constitution that GLSOK exists to make society more accepting of gays and lesbians," Craig said.
GLSOK originally was founded on the KU campus as the KU Gay Liberation Front.
"I think it's really important not to give up the political part because things are really starting to change," Craig said.
Myers said that for the remainder of the semester, she would continue to work on keeping the group active politically but that she also would concentrate on creating a social atmosphere within the group.
Some members had suggested dividing the group into one political group and one social group, but Mvers said she did not like the idea.
"Hopefully, we can put together a social committee that would be an offshore of the group to meet twice a month to plan the social part," she