THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL. 101, NO. 54
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1990
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Condom machines will be on campus
By Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
Condoms will be available in KU residence hall vending machines next semester, David Ambler, vice chancellor for college affairs, said last night at a Student Senate meeting.
The condoms will be sold in existing machines and should be in place by the beginning of the semester. The cost of the condoms has not been determined, Ambler said.
He said mechanical adjustments to the machines and orders for the condoms would also be before the end of this semester.
The condons will be removed from the vending machines during the summer because mostly minors will live in the residence halls. Amber said The University several camps during the summer.
The Office of Student Affairs has been considering including the condoms in residence hall facilities and has instituted for years. Amber said.
"No one is doing this lightly," he said. "We are very much aware of problems of sexually transmitted diseases, and we
want to be sensitive to that. We also want to encourage students to act responsibly."
Ambler said the decision to make condoms available in residence halls was made informally by instructors in the last several years.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said he thought that Ambler chose to make the announcement at the Senate meeting because Senate played a vocal role in the issue.
Last year Senate passed a resolution stating it wanted condions to be distributed on campus and asked KU to study a condion vending machine program used at the University of Minnesota
Schreiner said Ambler told him of the decision in a letter sent to him Nov. 1. According to Schreiner, Ambler said in the letter that the University would discontinue distributing the condoms if the vending machines were vandalized or if the condoms proved to be less than cost efficient.
"Student Senate has been pressuring the administration to do it for quite a while." Schreer said. "We are not the authority to do anything about it."
Senate opposes engineering fee
Student Senate passed a resolution last night stating that Student Senate adamantly opposes a proposal that would charge engineering students the $15-a credit-hour fee.
Bv Jennifer Schultz
Kansan staff writer
The resolution also requests that the School of Engineering consult and include engineering students and Senate in making decisions affecting students.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said the resolution would be sent to the Board of Regents
The fee was proposed by the deans of engineering at the University of Kansas, Kansas State University and Wichita State University. The proposal, designed to help schools cover the cost of equipment used in engineering courses, will be presented to the Regents in November
David Suroff, engineering senator, said, "If engineering equipment costs are going up, then raise our tuition gradually. But one school will always cost more to operate than others. Students should be able to choose their careers by interest and not what they can pay."
Locke said 40 percent of the engineering schools in the nation charged engineers a special fee to maintain, operate and replace laboratory equipment.
"One of things I think (senators) ought to be sure about is that they are representing the engineering community."
But Carl Locke, dean of engineering, said the fee was necessary to finance needed equipment.
Schreiner said this was not the first time a restricted fee had been imposed on students.
During the 1984-85 school year, a $10 academic services fee at KU and K State was used to finance
Schreiner said the fee was rescinded after state
Dean sees no alternative to fee
By Amy Zamierowski
Kansas staff writer
Kansan staff writer
Although student senators are opposed to an equipment fee, the dean of engineering sees no alternative to retain the quality of the School of Engineering.
"Without a substantial increase in funding to the school, we are going to degrade the quality of education," said Carl Locke, dean of engineering. "At this point, engineering equipment is not being funded by the state. We have been working with our private sources, which is an uncertain source."
Locke said the fee was needed to repair and replace existing lab equipment, including computer systems.
Locke said that although engineering senators passed a referendum against the fee, they did not propose other ways to guarantee the quality of equipment and education in the
David Suroff, engineering senator, said the
senators needed to defeat the fee before they began working to find a solution to benefit
Suroff said a concern was that a fee in one school could be a president and create a large student body.
Locke said, "The fees may spread, but they may be needed. While students may think they are paying a lot for their tuition, it is lower than many schools."
Brian Cullass, president of Engineering Student Council, said he opposed the fee because it would apply only to engineering students, and that he would not freshen away from the engineering field
Shaun Nicholson, co-president of an engineering fraternity, Tau Beta Phi, said he supported the fee because he saw the need to fund other programs in order to finance the movements.
Pat Warren, Student Senate Executive Committee chairperson, said it was possible that in 1984-85 the Legislature would have reduced KU's budget because the amount the University raised through the fee.
legislators threatened to cut KU appropriations.
"I am one of the few students who support the fee," he said.
State Rep John Solbach, D-45th District, said it was not possible for state legislators to stop finance
some changes," he said.
But they can use the power of the purse to affect
Schreiner also said the proposed engineering fee did not meet the Regents requirement to explore all other possibilities of financing before imposing restricted fees.
He said one of those options would be for the University to request money for the School of Law.
Kansan reporter Amy Zamierowski contributed information to this story.
Burdel Welsh. KU police officer. shows equipment he uses on the iob to children at the Language Acquisition Preschool in Haworth Hall.
Children learn safety from professionals
By Debbie Myers Kansan staff writer
Laughter rang out from the circle of 10 children as a police officer tried to handcuff one of their classmates.
In his talk with children at the Language Acquisition Preschool at Haworth Hall yesterday, Welsh explained various parts of his uniform, including his badge, whistle, radio, flashlight and gun.
But the young boy had not committed a crime — he had been chosen by Burdel Welsh, KU police officer, to demonstrate how the handcuffs
Betty Bunce, educational coordinator of LAP, said an equal number of children learning English as a second language, children having problems learning English as a first language and children who spoke English normally attended the preschool.
Bunce said Welsh was invited to talk to the children because the classroom's theme this week was safety Today, a Lawrence firefighters group of children about fire safety and help them go through a crawl-long-and-coourse.
Bunce said inviting professionals to the preschool gave the children different vocabulary to use and diminished any fears they might
"We don't want kids to be afraid of police officers because if they're afraid of police officers, they won't be able to ask a police officer for help or when a police officer might be trying to help them, they might be terrified or try to run away," Welsh said.
"In the case of the police officer, a lot of times the TV presents them in a very violent light, and we try to help them. But there is no help to them." Burce said.
have about police and firefighters.
He said police officers' reputations
Welsh said earning the childrens' trust was important.
"We really try to emphasize the positive — that police officers are their friend. 'Wish said.' We try to show them how we are a police officer so they know what to look for. Many times when we ask 'How do you know I'm a police officer?' they say a gun, but bad guys don't think we should point out the badge or the uniform."
sometimes were damaged by parents who told their children that a police officer would come to get them if they misbehaved.
Bunce said it was equally important to familiarize children with a firefighter's uniform.
Politicians predict rocky '91 session for Kansas House
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
Some Democrats and Republicans predict a rocky 1991 legislative session, the first time in 14 years Kansas has become democratic House of Representatives.
Democrats picked up eight House seats in the elections Tuesday to gain a one-seat advantage over the Republicans.
Democrats won 63 seats, the Republicans, 62.
It is the third time this century that Democrats will control the House.
Cathy Whitaker, executive director of the state Republican party, blamed Republican misfortunes on him and incumbent mood in the electorate.
Democrat Tom Laing, administrative assistant to House minority leader Marvin Barkis, disagreed. He said he thought Democrats solidly campaigned and took advantage of his sympathy to take control of the House.
Laing and Whitaker both predicted a stormy 1991 legislative session but disaffared on the reasons.
Whitaker said the new governor, Democrat Joan Finney, would have difficulty working with the Legislature.
"It's going to be raucous," she said. "It's going to be a disturbed session. I don't think the Democratic governor and the Democratic Legislature are necessarily going to get along."
"I don't know how well Finney's ideas are going to be accepted," she said. "You're talking about a lot of Democrats in the Legislature who don't feel comfortable with Joan Finney."
Whitaker said Finney did not have strong support from many Democratic lawmakers, especially some legislators, during her campaign.
Laing said the 1981 legislative session would be difficult not because Finney didn't fit in, but because the
Legislature would face difficult issues.
"There were a number of legislators who had reservations about the (abortion) issue," he said. "But there is a lot of fondness for Joan Finney. There are some question marks in the minds of some people, but they will be answered as we get rolling."
Laing said disappointment and frustration from the 1990 session, in which several issues went unresolved, would make legislators more willing to cooperate with the new administration.
Lalang said the Democratic party would benefit from a Democratic House when the state Legislature reapportioned Kansas' U.S. congress Redistricting has to be approved by the House, Senate and governor.
Kansas will lose one congressional seat as a result of the 1990 census. Republicans were targeting Rep. Jim Slattery, D-2nd District, one of two democratic congressman from Kansas, for elimination because Slattery was more vulnerable to being unseated than Rep. Dan Glickman, D-4th District. Slattery and Glickman retained their seats Tuesday.
"That process (of reapportionment) is made more fair by having a Democratic governor and enhanced a Democratic House." Laiang said.
Whitaker said a Democratic House would have a limited effect on the redistricting process because of geographical and demographical reasons.
She said three logical new districts would be western Kansas, the area around Sedgwick County and the area around Johnson County. The fourth district likely would have to be divided out of the 2nd and 9th districts.
"It's going to be a fight," she said.
More election coverage pages 3,5
Finney refuses to reveal the secrets of her political success
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — What is Joan Finney's secret?
Pollsters and political pundits asked themselves that question yesterday in the wake of her second consecutive upset victory that defied what the polls and analysts had concluded.
Finney's triumph over incumbent Republican Gov. Mike Hayden in Tuesday's election had observers asking what it was about Finney that defied analysis.
What does she and her supporters do that avoids detecting her true strength in public surveys? Why is she the only one able to read accurately her political barometer?
She wasn't saying yesterday in responding to the election post-memorial questions, but she coyly told her staff that the vote was being counted.
secrets about politics."
She said she knew she was headed for victory in advance of both the August primary election, when she knocked off former Gov. John Carlin to win the Democratic nomination, and Tuesday's general election, when she shocked Hayden and won the election as Kansas' first woman governor.
"It was just political strategy," she said. "I have to have a few secrets."
Poll taken during the final two weeks of the campaign both showed Hayden headed for a narrow win. Poll taken at the end of the campaign summer did not give her a chance against Carlin.
let she甩旧纱巾.
Did those surveyed by the pollsters mislead or
Yet she won both races.
conceal their true feelings? Did the polsters misapportion the large number of undecided voters between Hayden and Finney? Does Finney have a secret plan — as she implys implied — to confuse the pollsters and lull her opponents into false security?
One of those pollisters is Phil Lange of Central Research Corp, in Topela, which conducted the final Kansas Poll published in the Topeka Capital-Journal on Sunday. It forecast a close Hayden victory, breaking an almost perfect record of accurately calling elections.
"I think we picked up on her basic strength." Lange said yesterday. "What we couldn't pick up on what the undecideds would do at the very end."
Hayden takes break after loss
TOPEKA — What did Mike Hayden on the morning after he lost the Kansas governorship?
He drove a tractor around the grounds of Cedar Crest, the executive mansion in northwest Tooeila, that's what he did.
The Associated Press
Frank Ybarra, Hayden's press secretary, said the governor awoke early, went outside on a frosty morning and drove a state
tractor kept at the mansion for grounds work around a time. Hayden grew up on a farm near Atwood in burgesh Kansas.
Ybarra said Hayden declined to have a news conference until early next week.
"I think within a few days he'll be able to talk," the press secretary said.
Ybarra said that Hayden spent the day with his family.