VOL.101.NO.46
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1990
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Congress adjourns for year
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Congress that adjourned yesterday stumbled, stalled and scandalized but then passed dramatic national policy changes for taxes, the environment, military spending, foreign policy and
"A Congress of significant accom- plishment," said Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D Maine.
The history books, making a cold, hard assessment, may agree. But that wouldn't do justice to the raucous and unpleasant took too much pleasure in accomplishments.
one interest two-year lawmaking session was the United States' joint. At the end, lawmakers were referring to it as "The One Hundred and Twenty."
"So many of us wasted so much time." House Republican Leader Robert Michener, R-II, said "What a horribly poor example of Congress at
It started with Senate rejection of President Bush's nomination of John Tower for Secretary of Defense. Tower was turned down because of his reputation as a boozer and a womanizer
The House then weighed in with its own ethics scandal, which culminated in the resignations of Speaker Richard Cox and Majority Whip Tony Coepho, D-Calf.
An attempt at a meaningful bipartisan budget deal in the first year collapsed into a nasty, partisan fight. The United States cut in the capital gains tax rate.
The first session passed a publicly supported federal minimum wage increase, and Bush and the Democrats agreed to end aid to the contra
early in 1898, Wright tried and failed a storm of public outrage to protect former President Ronald Reagan's proposed 50 percent boost in congressional pay. But it wouldn't die.
Over taking over as speaker at midyear. Foye engineered a compromise: a big salary boost in the team, and interest money for making speeches.
Congress returned this year to resume a slow legislative pace with only mixed results.
The House approved it, the Senate didn't bite. House salaries, which were $89,500 last year, will soar to roughly $125,000 next January. With only cost-of-living increases, the senators will make just over $100,000.
A new law designed to reduce chances of major oil spills was enacted. The Americans With Disabilities Act, giving new rights to people with impairments, became law.
Democrats succeeded in defeating Bush's proposed constitutional amendment to ban flag burning but could not override the president's veto of legislation guaranteeing workers six weeks of paid leave for childbirth or family medical emergencies.
The 101st Congress never overrode any of 16 Bush vetoes.
And the ethics scandals continued One House member was disciplined and another quit after sex-relate charges.
In the Senate, a group of lawmakers known as the Keating Five was under investigation for the senators'
See CONGRESS, p. 9
A dav on the hill
A homecoming crowd of about 9,500 watch the Kansas-Kansas State football game from the hill overlooking Memorial Stadium. Spectators on the hill, along with 45,000 inside the stadium, watched as the Jackson defeated the Wildcats 72-24 on Saturday. See story. Page 11.
Some minorities dislike fellowship proposal
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
A proposed Board of Regents fellowship that would give $20,000 a year to Kansas minority graduate students from some KU minor groups.
Stanley Kopik, executive director of the Regents, said the fellowship was designed to increase the number of minority graduate students and, ultimately, the number of minority members at Kansas universities.
But some KU minority groups are dissatisfied because graduate teaching assistants who become professors seldom remain at the institution where they did graduate work. Even if minority GTAs did stay, the University of Kansas should be pursuing accomplished faculty members, they say
"We need more faculty members, we need more professors, we need more tenure-track professors," said Darren Fulcher, executive officer of Black Men of Today. "We need people who will stay here."
Martine Hammond-Paludan,
director of academic affairs for the
Regents, said the fellowship will be
proposed during the next legislative
session to give $80,000 a year
for four years to 60 minority graduate
students.
Eight of the awards would go to KU students at the Lawrence campus, and 11 would go to students at the University of Kansas Medical Cen
Spokespersons for gubernatorial candidates Mike Hayden and Joan Finney have indicated that both be likely to support the program.
ter. The award is designed to be split among Hispanics, Blacks and Asians.
The only requirement for keeping the fellowship is that students would have to be employed by an educator in Kansas, Hammond-Palauan said.
Fulcher said that the fellowship would increase the number of minority GTAs but that it would not be the largest group or the number of minority faculty members
across the country rather than focusing on the graduate level, he said.
The Regents should recruit established minority professors from
Even if the fellowship attracted quality GTAs who eventually became professors, it would be better to attract people who could add to the minority representation among faculty now. Fulcher said.
"I'll just putting a Band-Aid over the wound," he said. "They should be going after some of the top quality minority, faculty that are in this
Angela Cervantes, president of Hispanic American Leadership Organization, agreed.
"Are they going to stay or are they going to go?" she said. "Every university is fighting for minority faculty right now."
Edward Hammond, president of Fort Hays State University, and chairperson of Council of Presidents, said that he realized some GTAs would leave Kansas but that targeting minority graduate students was the best way to reverse the shortage of minority faculty members.
The only way to increase the number of minority faculty members in Kansas is to train more of them, and the more stress we steal from other institutions.
'Forecaster' predicts trends coming in the 1990s
Hammond-Paladun said that even if fellow winners did not stay in Kansas, increasing the number of minority students who attend graduation from a minority faculty university in the United States would be beneficial.
The Associated Press
DENVER — "Success surgery" for executives, organic coffee and gourmet ice will be all the rage next year, predicts a forecaster, who says the United States quickly is approaching a time when baby boomers will just want to have fun.
Other trends to expect in 1991, according to "The American Foreaster 1991," include: "retro-chic" appliances with a post-World War II look, resived interest in station wagons and libraries, the 1960s look in clothes and Italian fast-food franchises.
baseball doubleheaders will go the way of Shoeless Joe.
Author Kim Long says desktop lunches and executive facillities will be symptomatic of U.S. citizens' intensified interest in their work, but 1991 will not be the dawn of an age of workahol
On the homefront, the Santa Fe home interior look will be out, as will be Japan-bashing. And
"I think the '90s is going to be a fun decade," Long said. "Most people in the big 'baby boom' age group will be in their 40s and 50s. They will have earned a living and raised families I think that equates to a potential situation where people will look to do fun things, to worry less about what the neighbors think or families think.
"They may drop out of career to do what they always wanted to do, to be what they want to be."
But the corporate United States will not turn on and drop out altogether. Companies will be streamlining their operations to remain competitive in 1991. Long looks for more workers to eat lunch at their desks so they can become more productive.
Along the same line, executives will turn to cosmetic surgery more often as a way to prop up their corporate image. Long said. The sought-after look will be 'relatively small noses, not a prominent chin — but a chinless look is acceptable — and wrinkles would be
Long, 41, of Denver, began writing the Forecaster in 1983, and his book sells about 10,000 copies a year. This year's edition, which will be released in November, has a new look to it. It is pocket-size, and its cover is illustrated with an arm head with lightning bolts shooting into it.
Long said he researched trends by reading numerous newspapers and magazines, by keeping files on particular topics and by monitoring computer data bases.
out." he said.
In the book, Long predicts that organic coffee, grown without pesticides, will hit big in the
Campus group rallies for peace in gulf
Members of peace group Voice protest U.S. involvement in Persian Gulf
Darrell Lea performs "Give Peace a Chance" at the protest rally.
Rv Mike Brassfield
Kansan staff writer
A picture of Bart Simpson saying "Peace, dude. - UU out of the Middle East," was drawn on a sign at a peace rally Friday on campus.
Using 1908s methods with 1990s themes, 15 members of Voice, a campus group and group leader at the University Union and marched down Jayhawk Boulevard. They chanted, "Stop the war before it starts!" and "No new Vietnamese."
A group ranging from 20 to 50 people gathered to watch the protesters, who carried signs that read, "Are you willing to die for cheap?"
Rachel Rutledge, Wichita freshman, spoke at the rally. She
said that the Vietnam Memorial, the Campanile and Memorial Stadium all were memorials to war.
"We don't need any more memorials on this campus," she said. "Dying for big oil is not patriotic. Peace is patriotic."
Rutledge said the United States should encourage mediation between Middle Eastern states while avoiding a military involvement in the Pernigal crisis.
"We have 240,000 men and women over there, with possibly more on the way," she said. "That's not defense, that's war."
Tom Berger, vice president of the local chapter of Veterans for Peace, said he supported the abolition of violence as a foreign-policy tool.
"The theory of war as a method to
solve international conflicts is now out-of-date," said Berger, who also is KU's assistant director of affirmative action.
Berger called for the elimination of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. He said a comprehensive step would be the step in disarmament.
Burger said that U.S. citizens must elect congresspersons Nov. 6 who would not be afraid to say no to war.
"The gentle rejection of those who tell us to hate is the single most significant principle of the new peace movement," he said. "Who is the enemy now? Ignorance and apathy are the enemy."
Ziad Delaim, a native of Iraq and a London resident who is visiting Lawrence, said people in the United States tended to stereotype all Iraq as "obedient little Nazis who blindly follow Saddam Hussein."
"We ourselves are fighting for justice and human rights, but we live in a state of perpetual apocalypse." Delaimi said. "Where they are once again being dictated to by the West. Where the West sees a bully, Arabs see two bullies — Saddam and Bush."