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Wednesday, October 17, 1990/ University Daily Kansan
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Hayden says organizers might re-evaluate strategy
By David Roach
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - State Democratic party chairman Jim Parrish trumped volleys with Gov. Mike Hayden's press secretary Frank Koehler, a former Democrat, page entered its third week before elections.
Parrish said at a news conference at Jayhawk Tower that the only way Hayden could hope to win the election was by winning the presidential campaign, a negative campaign that the state has seen.
He called the news conference to respond to assertions by Hayden supporters that Democrats rapidly were abandoning Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney
Vhara responded by accusing Finney of turning her campaign over to "high-dollar spin doctors" from the state Democratic party headquarters.
Earlier in the day, Hayden said that his campaign organizers might re-evaluate their campaign strategy in order to address the question of Finney's competence to be gover-
Parrish said Hayden would resort to negative advertising in hopes of a low voter turnout.
"At the current time, there are no ads made or plans to run them that would address that issue," Hayden said. "More and more people are asking this question every day. We may have to adjust the issues to reflect those questions."
Hayden denied that he wanted a low voter turnout.
"We don't want voters to stay home on election day," he said. "We have to prove to voters that we are not a puppet."
Parrish said he wanted to remind the
media of Hayden's poor performance record during the past four years.
"Perhaps this campaign has focused too much on Joan Finney and not enough on competency and the record of service." Parrish said.
Parrish attacked Hayden for breaking his promise to Kansas voters in 1986 to return the state's tax windfalls. Those windfalls resulted from changes in federal tax policy.
He said that Hayden passed up an opportunity in 1867 to provide property-tax relief for Kansas when he vetoed legislation that would allow the state to send back to cities, county school districts.
He also compared Hayden to Saddam Hussein and said the governor called special legislative sessions so that he could "shake the big angry finger of Manuel Norgeia" at legislators because his own plans were dismal failures.
"How can you believe a governor now who tells you that if he's re-elected, he'll provide property tax relief?" Parrish said. "This is the same governor who telling you in the last three weeks of the campaign that he's competent? One hallmark of competency is honest. How can you brag of competency when you're dishonest?
Joan Finney has a plan to reduce prop.
erty taxes by one-third. This is Joan F'inney's goal. Have you ever known her to break a promise? Never in your lives."
He said voters should trust Finney to accomplish that plan.
Yharras sidestepped questions on Hayden's role in property taxes and the tax windfall, saying that it was Parrish who was being untruthful.
"If they want to be making accusations like that then Mrs. Finney ought to be the one doing it," he said.
Parrish said Finney was not at the news conference because she was campaigning.
Hayden had said earlier that his own polls showed that Democrats were rapidly abandoning the race.
"I'm here to tell you that this party is initiated and strongly behind Joan Fines' work."
"All the internal numbers are moving in a very positive direction," Hayden said. "They're blowing so fast that if a poll is a few days old, it's obsolete."
Parrish denied Hayden's claim that Democrats were abandoning Finney.
"Perhaps the governor's assertion that there are some Democrats supporting his candidacy is a way to mask the fact that Republicans are jumping ship, and the huge chasm that he has created in his own party will not heal by election day," he said.
However, Hayden said the race was still close, and Ybarra refused to disclose the results of polls conducted by the Hayden campaign.
Parrish also scolded the media, especially the Wichita Eagle, for doing a "hatchet job" on the Finney campaign. He would not elaborate on the statement.
Program gives students early warning about college math
Kansan staff writer
By Tatsuya Shimizu
A program aimed at informing Kansas high-school students of math requirements at Board of Regents universities will expand this year to include six Regents universities and about 100 high schools.
The Kansas Early Mathematics Testing program, also called the
early alert program, tests high-school students in January and February of their junior year, said Jack Porter, KU professor of mathematics and director of the program. Students receive test results that list math courses they will need to complete at Megens universities, be said.
ber of participating schools, the program will expand its expendit. Porter said. This year, students were tested to find whether they were prepared for Math 022 intermediate algebra, and for Math 101, college algebra. To be tested, a book will be tested to learn whether they are prepared for calculus.
In addition to increasing the num-
replaced for Calendar Many high-school students do not
know which math courses they need to earn a degree at a university, he said. For example, high-school students do not know that they need calculus and statistics courses to undergraduate business schools.
If they do not take senior-level math classes in high school, they will need five semesters of math to meet
requirements for the KU business school, Porter said.
A pilot program, conducted by the University of Kansas, was tested in 23 high schools in January.
Ray Wilbur, chairperson of the math department at the Lawrence High School, which participated in the study. The early test is great. It does give
students a chance to know where they are and what they have to do. We would like our students to know what they need in math."
Students who have finished the two years of math required for high school graduation think they can forget about math for the rest of their lives, he said. "This certainly wakes them up, that, in fact, they cannot."
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