University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 19, 1990
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Committee to be formed to support Margin
Regents director to select members
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
WICHTA - Private community leaders will join the Board of Regents, university officials, alumni and students to help campaign for passage of the third year of theMargin of Excellence, a Regents official toldthe Council of Presidents yesterday.
The official, Stanley Koplik, executive
director of the Regents, will appoint a 20- to 25-member committee made up of business and corporate leaders from all areas of government. The Margin during the next legislative session.
The Council of Presidents comprises the presidents or chancellors of each of the seven states.
The Margin was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Warren Armstrong, president of Wichita State University, said that the idea for the course was to help students understand how they
The committee probably will be appointed within the next 30 days, Koplik said.
"Each member suggested four to six names," he said. "There was some overlap."
Some concern was expressed during the meeting that no minorities were recommended for the committee. One woman was recommended.
In other business, the council considered in issue on the Nov. 6 ballot that would affect Bainbridge's high school.
The council resolved to campaign more strongly during the coming weeks against the education amendment that will appear on the ballot.
The amendment would place the Regents and the Kansas Board of Education under the jurisdiction of the Legislature.
Currently, the Kansas Constitution provides for the Regents to be appointed by the governor and for the Board of Education members to be elected. These sections of the constitution will be deleted if the amendment passes.
unpredictable. "Kopik said. 'In the next
give it another shot. It’s not unpredictable.'
"Voter behavior on this particular issue is
For the council to understand more completely gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney's positions on legislative issues pertaining to the job offer, her partner to explain her position before the election.
Gov. Mike Hayden visited each Regents campus last month to announce his support
ASK pushes for Margin
Members of the Puppet Theatre of Gorky perform skits for an audience of more than 300 children and adults at Central Junior High School, 1400 Massachusetts St. The troupe's performance last night capped the "Meeting for Peace," a cultural exchange program between the United States and the Soviet Union. ABOVE: Puppeteers perform a skit featuring two dancing duck nummets.
LEFT: Nelda Mayse of Lawrence, and her daughters Suzanne, 18 months, and Karen, 7, respond gleefully to a performance of "Treemok" or "Wooden Tower," a puppet play by S. Morschek.
Democrats angry about Hayden attack ad
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Supporters say television commercial distorts candidate Finney's position on the death penalty
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
Democrats want a Hayden campaign TV commercial off the air.
The ad for Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden features Hayden's wife, Patti, and an announcer talking about Hayden's Democratic opponent Joan Finney's views on the death penalty. The announcer says that Finney would not support the death penalty for the murder of a child and that she would not sign death-penalty legislation.
Mark Schmeller, a spokesperson for Finney, said that the ad distorted Flinney's death penalty stance and called it "an attack on people's away from the voting booth."
with negative advertising
Schmeller said Hayden was appealing to people's worst instincts in order to misrepresent Finney's stance about the death penalty.
Finney has said that she is personally opposed to the death penalty but that she would be willing to put the death penalty in place for certain men and abide by the results.
Her critics have said that no provisions exist in the Kansas constitution for such a referendum.
Finney also has said that if the Legislature passed a death penalty bill that she would not sign it or veto it, Legislation not acted on by the governor within 15 days after it is sent to his desk automatically
becomes law
Schmeller said Hayden knew Finney's position but took the most extreme stance he could to represent it in the ad.
"Hayden is the one saying, 'Let's talk about the issues,' and then he runs this. This is not the issue,' Schmeller said.
"Sometimes when a candidate takes a position, people want it pointed out exactly what that position
Rochelle Chronister, state Republican Party chairperson, said the commercial accurately illustrated the differences between Finey and Hayden. The commercial was an oriented ad that was meant to educate the electorate.
means," she said.
Schmeller said Hayden did not expect to pick up voter support with the commercial.
"His thinking is that he can disgust people with a very negative campaign and keep people away from the polls, and let his party stallwaters pull it out for him." Schmeller said. "That is a dishonest and none-too-democratic way to approach an election."
"I think the electorate is disgusted already," he said. "This isn't going to cause any more problems."
Allan Cigler, associate professor of political science, said negative political advertising probably would not have much effect on voters.
Cigler said negative advertising was acceptable strategy as long as it did not misrepresent the opponent's position.
"One thing you do when you run for office is you tear down the positions of the opponent," he said. "It's a fact of life.
"When politicians get in trouble and start complaining about ads, they usually haven't made their positions clear."
Cigler said the gubernatorial campaign would boil down to a question of competence and not specific issues.
"The public doesn't believe candidates on specifies any more," he said.
Fliers censuring gay men bring angry reactions
Bv Holly M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Fliers denouncing gay men were stapled to trees on campus Wednesday night or early yesterday morning, prompting outrage, sadness and pity from members of the campus community.
Danny Kaiser, assistant dean of student life, said that he learned of the fliers as soon as he arrived at his office yesterday morning. He telephoned KU police and went to find the fliers.
The fliers were found near Stafer-Flint Hall, Wescoe Hall, Malott Hall and in the area surrounding the Military Science Building.
Lt. John Mullens of the KU police said that one officer responded to
Kaiser's telephone call. Kaiser said that he never found any of the fliers but that he was given one that a member of Gay and Lesbian Services had sent. Neither Mullens nor Kaiser knew how many fliers had been posted.
"I think there were students on the roam who were tearing them down," Kaiser said.
The fliers stated, "This is a letter to the alloggers on campus," I hate faggots. I don't care if I am in a classroom or old apartment. I am a real man."
"They are so vulgar and insulting to anyone's intelligence," Kaiser said. "It is irrational hate that is just
Kaiser said that the fliers were abhorrent.
sick and disgusting."
"The only thing I can say is that I found them totally ugly and repulsive." Shankel said. "I am saddened by the deaths they have to publish like this."
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that he was offended by the fliers.
Shankel said that although he respected the rights of the individual or group of people who wrote and created this book, he never angered those they carried was not acceptable.
"This is not what the University is all about." Shankel said.
Henry Schwaller, a member of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said that the fliers, which make obscene references to women, also were sexist.
Becky Brewer, Women's Student Union member, said that she was insulted by the filers.
"I feel violated," she said. "Obviously this is not a man who likes women but is a man who degrades women. On a subhuman level he was probably trying to be masculine. It's frightening really."
The message of the fliers would not be effective because the tone and the message were so offensive that people would dismiss them, Schwaller
"It is my feeling that the fliers are offensive to not only gay people but to women," he said.
'I think that if students were to see the fliers that they would say, 'I don't
want that crap on my campus,' " he said.
Dennis Dailey, who teaches Human Sexuality in Everyday Life, said that he thought the fliers were the expression of a minority of students on campus.
"I assume this man is frightened by his sexuality." Dalley said. "Homosexuality upsets him and is in some way a serious threat to him."
"It certainly wasn't a very courageous way to tell people what he thought," Dailey said. "It is just kind of sad."
Dailey, professor of social welfare,
said he was offended by the references made to women and gay men.
Morgan pokes fun at Slattery with cake
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
The Republican candidate for 2nd District U.S. representative took a theatrical approach this week to criticize his opponent's use of monetary donations from political action committees.
The candidate, Scott Morgan, with a group of supporters, delivered a cake shaped like a "Pai Man" to the office of office of Rep. Jim Slattery, D-Kan.
"What do you do with a guy who says that there is nothing wrong with special interest PACs and believes its OK to finance his campaigns through money donated by big business and big labor?" Morgan said. "About all you can do is poke fun of his sense of self-importance and hope that he regains a sense of Kansas reality."
Morgan said Slattery had used about $1 million in PAC money to finance campaigns since Slattery's first race for Congress in 1981.
He also said Slattery had accepted $246,600 in campaign money from PACs during 1990.
But Dan Watkins, Slattery's finance chairperson, said Slattery had received $148,000 from PACs in 1990 and $51,700 from individuals.
Mike Broemmel, Morgan's campaign manager, said too many of the contributions to Slattery's campaign were from out-of-state committees such as the Detroit Edison and International Longshoremen PACs.
"I can't even imagine how the interest of Detroit Edison has anything to do with the interests of 2nd District in Kansas," Broemmel said. He said he thought the election donations should be coming from
Watkins said many of the out-of-state PACs that had given money to the Slattery campaign had members that lived in Kansas.
Pam Murray, Slattery's campaign manager, said much of Slattery's campaign money had been contributed by individual supporters from Kornelia
She said the Slattery campaign had received 650 individual contributions in recent weeks totaling more than $40,000.
Murray said that Morgan also had accepted PAC contributions.
Morgan has received about $6,000 from Republican Sen. Bob Dole's PAC, Campaign America, she said.
"I think it is kind of hard to justify when you yourself take money from PACS," Murray said about Morgan's criticism.
Broemmel said that Morgan accepted the contribution from Dole because he had worked for Dole in Washington.