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VOL.101, NO.41
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
MONDAY. OCTOBER 22, 1990
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Finney has one-point lead over Hayden
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
The candidates in the governor's race still are neck and neck, according to a poll published yesterday in the Wichita Eagle.
The poll showed Democrat Joan Finney, state treasurer, leading her Republican opponent, Gov. Mike Hayden, 38 percent to 37 percent. About 21 percent of those surveyed were undecided, and 3 percent said they favored independent candidate Christina Campbell-Cline.
The poll, called the Kansas Survey,
was conducted last week by
Research Center Inc. of Wichita and
surveyed almost 850 registered voters
by telephone, according to the
margin of error was 3.4 percent.
The results are similar to a poll published Oct. 7 by the Topeka Capital Journal. That poll showed Fimney with an percent, with an percent undecided.
According to some political observers, the poll underscores voter disenchantment with both candidates.
there is no momentum in either campaign," said Allan Gieler, professor of political science. "This is an election where neither candidate is on the ballot." It is what we call in political science, an avoidance-avoidance election."
He said that when faced with two unpopular choices, people would vote for the candidate who is better known, in this case Hayden.
Dennis Lowden, Lawrence graduate student, said, "The fact that we're stuck with those two candidates shows how bankrupt the system is. The two parties in Kansas want to be here for that where it's a matter of voting against someone rather than for the other person."
David Stein, Kansas City, Kan.
senior, said he would wait until the last week of the campaign to make up his mind.
I wouldn't really go out now and vote for either one of them," he said. "It really comes down to the lesser of two evils."
Cigler said the main significance in the poll was the increasing amount of unfavorable attitudes toward Finney during the past month.
The Eagle poll shows that Finney's unfavorable rating tripled during the past month from 11 percent to 34 percent. Hayden's unfavorable rating decreased from 44 percent to 41 percent.
During the same period, Finney's favorable rating decreased from 47 percent to 35 percent, while Hayden's rating increased 2 points to 38 percent.
"There is no doubt that Joan Finney has not enhanced herself over the past month," Cigler said. "It has less to do with her position issues than in the way she has handled herself during the campaign."
The Associated Press
Hayden, Finney clash in television debate
KANAS CITY. Mo. — Describing Gov. Mike Hayden in missing action, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney attempted Saturday to undercut the Republican's questioning of her compe-
roney criticized what she said was Hayden's miserable record and his inability to work with the Legislature. She also said the governor had led the state to the brink of financial bankruptcy in his $30 million settlement.
In their first televised joint appearance, Hayden
continued to attack Finney's 15-year record as state
champion.
The two candidates appeared together in an hour-long live program broadcast from WDAF-TV, the NBC affiliate in Kansas City. Six other television stations across Kansas also broadcast the program live.
Finney acknowledged after the appearance that her strategy was to turn republicans recent questions about the budget.
"It's time they put the focus where it is," she said. "It's his record. Get the focus off me. Let's put it on him. Let's call attention to all of these inadequacies that occurred during his administration."
During the joint appearance, Finney alluded to Hayden's military record, saying, "Now, I commend the governor for his service in Vietnam, but I want to see him be missing in action for four years as state governor.
Hayden and Finney last appeared together in September, at an afternoon event at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson, but it was not broadcast on television and had to be added to two more televised joint appearances.
However, Haydon alleged that what Fünney called the 'check in the mud' incident in questioning her colleagues.
"Of course, there was the famous $2 million check found in the back alley of Topka, which was from her office. he said. "Fortunately, that was recovered, and you know that money in that incident. Leadership is important."
Office to add position
Finney replied, "That was really below the belt.
That was a bank runner."
Assistant would research gay, lesbian issues
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
A graduate assistant position will be added to the staff of the Office of Student Affairs next spring to research gay and lesbian issues.
Students and administrators are preparing a job description, which is expected to be advertised within the two next weeks, said Caryl Smith, associate vice chancellor for student affairs.
Smith; Del Shankel, interim vice chancellor; and David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, met with five members of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas on Friday to discuss the plans for the position.
Tom Emerson. GLSOK member, said all that was certain at this time was that the position would exist.
"We would like the G.A. to act as a liaison between the gay community and the administrators." Emerson said. "We would hope that the office organized research on how other campuses treated with gay and lesbian concerns."
He said the graduate assistant would take over some of the functions that GLSOK traditionally has covered, such as acting as a mediator between students and administration, acting as a source of information to students and preparing and financing informational publications.
Christopher Craig, GLSOK peer counselor adviser, said administrators and GLSOK members would be required to job description next week.
"My guess is that the G.A. would work out of the Student Affairs office." Craig said
Emerson said he wanted the graduate assistant to be as close to Amber's office both geographically and hierarchically as possible.
for this week.
"This office should be a more direct route to the administrator's offices," he said.
Smith said that GLOSK members and administrators would make a list of tasks to be done and should be and what the job should entail. More meetings are scheduled
She said the biggest question in her mind was available office space. But administrators will be ready to advertise the position soon.
Craig said that at Friday's meeting, GLSOK members also had requested that the Office of Student Affairs help pay for student delegates to attend a national gay and lesbian conference in November in Minneapolis.
He said he hoped that at least five GLSOK delegates would attend the conference.
The conference will be conducted in conjunction with the American Civil Liberties Union's "About Face" program, which focuses on theiversity of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Emerson said GLSOK received $1,000 from the office of Student Affairs to use for conference expenses.
Craig and Emerson said they were pleased with the immediate response to the request for money and the position.
Rap band found not guilty
Jurors say music has artistic merit is humorous, fun
The Associated Press
FOR LOCKEDDALE, Fla. — The six jurors who helped 2 Live Crew beat an obscurity say their "not insignificant" instantaneous as it was unanimous.
The moment they took the case behind closed doors and sat down to a pre-deliberation lunch, they discovered a common opinion: Not only was the Miami rap group's music a form of art, it also was fun.
"We found many of the things very humorous," said Beverly Resnick, 65, who met shortly with the other after court was adjourned Saturday.
"Our feelings were that the musicians in the band were telling the public how they felt inside of themselves, and they were doing it with
music. We thought it had some art in it."
Band leader Luther Campbell and members Mark "Brother Marquie" Ross and Chris "Fresh Kid Ice" Wongwon each faced up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine had they been convicted on the one-count misdeaner of staging an obscene performance.
Assistant State Attorney Pedro Dijols said after the verdict that he was unsure whether a similar case would be prosecuted in the future. But he said the verdict showed that Broward authorities needed to do a better job of gathering evidence. Jurors had noted that the recording police made of the disputed concert was difficult to hear.
The charges stemmed from an adults-only show at a nightclub in nearby Hollywood on June 10. On June 6, a federal judge in Broward County ruled that the group's album "As Nasty As They Wanna Be" was obscene. On June 8, a merchant was arrested for selling the album.
The jurors said that although they took more than two hours to finish their meal, elect a foreman, wrap up their debate and fill out the verdict form, their feelings about the music were never in doubt.
The jurors also said they didn't think race was an issue. 2 Live Crew is a Black group, and part of their defense was that their music represented a hateful hour-hour-devices such as exaggeration, humor and badwareness.
"It was humorous," said jujor David Gilliand, 26, a mechanic. "And I do believe humor is an art form."
Juror Helen Baille, 76, a retired sociology professor, said the band's performance was the face of armed arrests may have been an act of political defiance.
Foreman Garsow, 24, said prosecutors made a mistake in repeatedly playing tiny, garbled tapes of the concert, although the words were barely discernible due to the poor quality of the recordings
Keith Thorpe/KANSAN
Balloon check
Dana Stephens of Coffeeville checks the train of balloons at the KU-CU football game. As a promotion for Alcohol Awareness Week, thousands of balloons were given to spectators for release at the opening kickoff of the game. See game coverage, page 11.
Parties near agreement on tax plan
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Democrats and Republicans narrowed differences yesterday about new taxes on the rich, gasoline levies and Medicare cuts, an administration officials angryingly talked up of deficie-reduction talks.
Congressional leaders of both parties negotiated not until about 11:30 p.m. EDT yesterday over a $250 billion package of tax increases and spending cuts in agriculture, student loans and dozens of other programs. They said they would resume talking today.
"We've made good progress in many areas," said Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine. But he conceded, "The remaining areas of disagreement are important ones."
Weekend bargaining saw the two sides move toward each other in several areas, including the question of how and how high, to raise taxes the right.
The talks proceeded on the eve of what lawmakers hoped would be Congress' last week before adjournment for the year. In the scant time left, House and Senate leaders say they would still like to tackle bills dealing with civil rights, air pollution and child care.
Budget negotiators seemed willing to raise the income-tax rate on the wealthy to 31 percent, up from its current 28 percent. They were also close on proposals to limit the deduction the wealthiest taxpayers could claim.
But Democrats were insisting on a 7.5 percent surtax on incomes exceeding $1 million annually. The proposal, if adopted, would allow Democrats to claim that rates on incomes were raised substantially.
"We think it's good public policy and fair," said Mitchell.
Republicans were adamantly against that idea, and instead wanted higher limitations on millionaires' deductions.
White House Chief of Staff John Sumuun accused Democrats of being too divided to respond to the latest GOP offer.
Grissom testimony today to focus on KU grad disappearance
Richard Grison Jr., right, talks with his defense attorney, Thomas Erker. Testimony began Friday.
Pool photo by Dave KaupOLATHE DAILY
Bv Eric Gorski
Kansan projects writer
OLATHE — The Richard Grissom Jr. murder trial will continue today, with testimony centering on the June 1899 trial of Dudley Wiley for murdering his wife.
Grissom, 29, faces three counts of first-degree murders and nine other charges relating to the disappearances of Butler, 24 of Overland Park, and Lenae roommates in Springfield, 24 of Rusch, both 22. Brown and Rusch last were seen June 26.
Johnson County District Attorney Paul Morrison made opening statements Friday, giving jurors what he called a 'road map' of the state's case against Grissom. Mr. Morrison told the judge that opening statements until after the state's case is presented.
The women never have been found. Grissom pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
In his opening statements, Morrison said he planned to call witnesses who would link Grissom and the women who were in contact with him. The objects recovered from Grissom's car and DNA-test evidence of blood samples found in Butler's rental car.
Most of the 10 witnesses who testified Friday had
testified earlier this year in preliminary hearings, but new evidence involving the morning Butler last was seen was presented by a neighbor of Butler at Comanche Place Apartments in Overland Park.
Sara Blanx, who lived in an apartment beneath Butler, testified that between 4 and 5 a.m. June 18, she was awakened by a "thump" above her. Butler last was seen walking to the apartment when she left a friend's apartment in City Kansas, Mo.
Blanz, who described herself as a sound sleeper,
testified that after she heard the sound, she walked to
a window, where she looked out to the parking lot and saw
nothing.
Butler's parents, Ralph and Jada Butler, also testified Friday. After taking a moment to compose himself, Ralph Butler testified that he was disappointed — but not worried when his daughter did not make a promised Dep. phone call to him June 18. He became disturbed when his daughter's boss at the Montague-Sherry advertising firm in Kansas City, Mo., called June 19 and told him his daughter had not come to work.
Ralph Butler testified that he had found three gold chains among his daughter's belongings, which the
Butlers had moved to a storage facility in Wichita in July 1989.
In opening statements, Morrison said that during the weekend Butler disappeared, the apartment of Carla Dipple, Butler's neighbor, was broken into while she was not home and jewelry was stolen, including a gold chain matching the description of one found in Butler's apartment.
Pete Hansen, deposit services manager at Capitol Federal, testified that withdrawals of $300 were made from Butler's account at 5:59 a.m. June 18, 3:48 a.m. June 19 and 2:14 a.m. June 20.
Other testimony heard Friday included that of a Lawrence police officer who was dispatched about 9 p.m. June 25 to Trailridge Apartments, 2500 W. Sixth St., in response to a call by a Trailridge resident who said he saw Butler's missing Chevrolet Corsica rental car at the complex.
The officer, Brian Edwards, testified that he asked a man near the car for identification and whether he knew whom the car belonged to. The police said he might have been married was in the courtroom. Edwards said yes and pointed toward Grissom.