VOL.101, NO.37
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSA
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1990
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Shutdown ends with emergency bill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A government shutdown ended early today after a night of budget breakthroughs in Congress that also saw the Senate give final approval to a $300-billion
The Senate passed an emergency bill on a vote notice last night that would let the government open normally this morning at 12:30 a.m. and the House concurred, 362.3 about 12:30 a.m.
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anow the government to operate normally through Oct. 19. Congressional leaders hope all budget work will be completed by then and that the members can adjoin to work on their re-
House Council, so she shortly after midnight, the Senate voted 66-33 for final approval to a separate measure, a five-year, $500 billion package of tax increase.
"Tonight we reap the bitter harvest of a decade of national indulgence," said Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, D-Maine.
This outline plan mapped the way for specific spending cuts and tax increases, which Congress planned to put in a separate bill and pass by Oct. 19. The outline does not require the president's signature, but the later bill does
and spending cuts. The plan envisioned smaller cuts in Medicare, but possibly higher tax increases, than an earlier version the House rejected last week.
The emergency spending measure would
The Statue of Liberty, museums and national parks have been closed since Saturday because the budget crisis had prevented Congress from approving any spending legislation for the new
1524 year. Earlier in the day, lawmakers warned of chaos if the White House and Congress failed to resolve their months-long impasse over the
federal deficit.
"We're not just dealing with programs," warned Mitchell, urging his colleagues to pass the measure quickly. "We're dealing with a lot of families, and their hopes and fears and dreams."
"This has just been playing marshmallow stuff" so far, said Sen. Alan Simpson, R-Wyo., the Senate's assistant Republican leader, referring to the limited effect on the government during the Columbus Day holiday weekend.
Qualified admissions considered Regents could save money, director say
By Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
TOPEKA - Kansas could save $3.9 million every year if the state's seven Board of Regents institutions adopted qualified admissions for Kansas residents, the Regents executive director said yesterday
Qualified admissions would reduce the number of students who spend five to seven years earning their degree, he said. *Koukil*, the executive director.
"The state of Kansas is subsidizing every student who just lingers in a university, proceeding at his or her own pace," he said to no preparation. "Koplik said to no preparation."
But John Koepe, executive director of the Kansas Association of School Boards, said tougher high school graduation requirements would be a fairer way to ensure the students entering Kegers institutions.
"Every Kansas high school graduate ought to be granted the option to attend a Regents institution," Koeenek said.
Kopik and Koepek spoke yesterday at a conference sponsored by the Legislative Educational Planning Committee. About 100 educators and legislators gathered to hear discussion about the Regents proposal to end open admissions in Kansas, the only state that does not have qualifying criteria for admission of residents to its universities.
The plan would require students at all Regents institutions to have scored at least a 24 composite on the ACT, to have graduated in the top third of their high school classes or to have completed a recommended set of college-preparatory classes with a 2.0 grade point average.
Qualified admissions would serve more to prepare students than to keep them out of college, Kolplik said.
Protesting violence
Marchers walk down Massachusetts Street for "Womyn Take Back the Night." Last night's march began at Seventh and
See ADMISSIONS, p. 10
Massachusetts streets and ended at South Park, where 150 people protested violence against women. See story, page 3.
Bush hits the road to reduce spending
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush, noting the shutdown of "non-essential" government services, forsook his helicopter and limousine yesterday and returned to Camp David. He then became stuck in traffic.
Despite a police escort, Bush and the other 11 vehicles in his motorcade ran snack into a half-mile backup at a construction site on the heavily travelled Capital Beltway, about 10 miles from the White House.
the motorcade slowed, came to a crawl and then proceeded at a crabwallet with other traffic at the bottleneck, where four lanes had been reduced to
That wasn't the only mishap for Bush's 90-minute motorcade in its trip here from the presidential residence in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland.
Along the way, a tree blew out on the accompanying Secret Service "war wagon" and the heavily fortified road had to pull to the side of the road.
The president elected for the 90-minute drive — both Saturday on the way to the retreat and yesterday for the ride back — because of the partial government shutdown, said White House aide Laura Melillo.
Agents toting machine guns hopped on, commanded a Park Service police car and used it to return the motorcycle.
She said it was far less costly to drive than Bush's usual mode of travel, a 25-minute helicopter ride.
The government lost its authority to spend money on all but essential services at 12:01 a.m. Saturday in a budget deadlock.
State poll suggests public is disgusted with politics
out yesterday, Bush; his wife,
Barbara, and the presidential dog,
Millie, rode in a tan Chevrolet Subur-
ban.
Kansan staff writer
By David Roach
Usually presidential motorcades include two black Lincoln Continental limousines — one for the president and one as a backup.
serve.
The most significant results of the state's most recent policy may be that people are less politically with politics.
A poll published during the weekend by the Topela Capital-Journal showed that by more than 2-10, Kansas voters favored implementing public initiative and referendum. That process would allow voters to bypass the Legislature and pass laws by popular vote.
"The electorate is fed up with politics as usual," said Allan Gierl, associate professor of political science. "The word 'reform' sounds good."
Kansans also favor, by almost 4-to-1, limiting to 12 the number of years legislators could
Michael Woolf, executive director of Common Cause of Kansas, a non-profit, public advocacy group, said that limited terms and public funding would be bad for protomoot problems.
solutions to problem problems "We all know the problems we had at the federal level," he said. "We've got our problems here in Kansas, too and we people's problems
tired of things, and they're not seeing any solutions, that they're grasping for straws.
Woold said that both solutions would erode representative government and actually would increase the influence of affluent special-interest groups in the political process.
est groups in the politics.
He said that politicians were losing credibility with the public because of the influence that special interest groups had on politics.
"The public realizes that all this money is being thrown into the system, and they don't feel that they are part of the system any longer," he said.
Both Woolf and Cigler said that polls did not have much effect on voter opinion.
"The impact of polls on campaigns is a myth." Cigler said. "They do energize or demoralize campaign and party organizations, and the results are the cause of changes in the polls."
woot said that the polls during the primaries did not have a chilling effect on Joan Finney's campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Proposed credit-hour fee for engineering students to go before Board of Regents
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By Amy Zamierowski
Board of engineers
Carl Locke, dean of engineering, met yesterday with leaders of engineering student organizations to discuss the proposal.
The fee would generate about $400,000 each year for the school to replace and repair classrooms.
Kansan staff writer
Engineering students would have to pay $15 more for each credit hour under a proposal to be considered next month by the Board of Regents.
"If the fee is approved at this time, senators and representatives may feel they are off the hook in supporting the Margin of Excellence," Gill said. "Then funding of improvements will be placed on the students."
National Society of Architectural Engineers, said that enactment of the fee could reduce the amount of financing the University received from the Margin of Excellence.
John Gill, student representative of the
Locke said that if the equipment teh hampered Margin financing, he would have paid more.
grids.
It would be fee passes, it could set a precedent for other KU schools and departments, as well as other Regents institutions, to establish student equipment fees, Gill said.
"I don't see legislators and the state allocating money to maintain the quality of education in the school," Loeck said. "I also can't see money coming out of other programs."
money was crucial to maintain and improve the school's equipment.
Student Senate will consider the engineering equipment fee proposal tomorrow night
and will decide whether to recommend that the Regents pass it.
The Regents will consider the proposal at a November meeting. Locke said if the proposal passed, the equipment fee probably would be 191 to students with engineering classes.
If the fee proposal is approved by the Regents, departments in the school would receive money based on the number of credit hours in that department. Locks are.
Individual departments would decide how
to spend money as long as it is for instructional laboratory equipment," he said.
Gill said that some of the departments needed to improve their computer systems.
"The computer systems are down all the time, and it limits their uselessness if the facilities are闲置." We need more money. It is just a question of where we will get it.
Gill said he wanted engineering students to become informed about the equipment fee so they could organize a collective response to the proposal.
Two U.S. airmen killed in Saudi jet crash
The Pentagon said search and rescue crews had spotted the wreckage at of least one helicopter late yesterday but no bodies had been found.
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia - Two U.S. airmen who volunteered for duty with the multinational force facing Iraq in a crash yesterday in Saudi Arabia, and the Navy searched for two helicopters and eight crew members missing in the Arabian Sea.
The Associated Press
International forces in the Persian Gulf showed a new measure of teamwork when U.S., British and Australian warships upholding the U.N. trade embargo forced two Iraqi ships to stop and be searched.
to stop and be seated.
In one case, the Western ships fired shots. The other ship was diverted to
a port after food and other prohibited cargo was discovered.
U. S. military officials said a RF4C Phantom reconnaissance jet crashed in the southern Saudi Arabian peninsula.
The jet belonged to a unit of the Alabama Air National Guard on a training mission, said guard spokesperson Toni Long.
The official Iraqi News Agency said the actions amounted to harassment by "sea pirates."
Long identified the victims as Maj.
Barry K. Henderson, 40, a senior pilot from Tucsonia, Ala, and Maj. Stephen G. Schramm, 43, a master navigator from Birmingham, Ala.
Both were assigned to the 106th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron of the 117th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing and had volunteered for duty in Saudi Arabia, Long said. Their unit had not been activated.
A military spokesperson, Navy Cmdr. J.D. Van Sickle, said the crash was under investigation and that he could provide no other details.
The two Marine helicopters disappeared at dawn during a training flight over the north Arabian Sea, east of the Persian Gulf, Van Dieck
Naval officers ruled out hostile action and said there was no indication that the helicopters might have
collided.
condued.
Pentagon officials in Washington said the Marines were from Camp Pendleton, Calif.
The helicopters were operating from the carrier USS Okinawa, one of more than 12 ships deployed in the region after Iraq invaded Kuwait on
Before Monday, five U.S. service members had been killed in the region since the deployment began. In addition, 13 crew members died. Aug. 29 when a plane transport airplane came into a supply port for U.S. troops in the gulf crashed.
The United States is leading a multinational force of ships in the region and troops in Saudi Arabia, and the United Nations has imposed a land, air and air embargo to isolate Iraq and try to force it to withdraw
from Kuwait.
The warning shots fired at the Iraqi freighter Al-Wasit marked the first time a British warship has shot to enforce the embargo.
But the Al-Wasitti ignored repeated appeals and at daybreak the three vessels fired warning shots of the tanker, the ministry said.
The British Defense Ministry said the Iraqi freighter had been shadowed by the HMS Battleau, the USS Reasoner and the AHMs Adelaide during the night, then called to ston for inspection.
It said Royal Marines boarded the 5,888-tank vessel, with a Coast Guard team from the Reasoner following them. It was empty and was allowed to continue on its way, presumably to Iraq. British defense officials said
A RF-4C Phantom
Two Persian Gulf incidents E.4
A RF-4C Phantom reconnaissance jet crashed in the southern Saudi Arabian air base. Two crewmen killed
peninsula. Two crewmen killed.
Two U.S. Marine helicopters on a routine mission from USS Okinawa are missing in the North Arabian Sea.
Source: Defense Department, AP
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