University Daily Kansan / Wednesday, October 3, 1990
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Protesters cancel sit-in, march in front of Watson
By Karen Park
Kansan staff writer
Student protesters yesterday decided against their initial plan of a sit-in at the Military Science building and instead con-
tended a demonstration in front of Watson Library.
About 80 students gathered to express their concerns about issues ranging from improving campus lighting to changing a Department building. The students members based on sexual orientation.
Jay Johnson, who served yesterday as spokesperson for a newly formed minorities coalition, said the purpose of the rally was to show unity.
The minorities coalition includes members from various campus groups.
He said the groups would have more power if they acted together.
"Together we are not a minority," Johnson said.
Members of several campus minority groups held a nightiday to discuss yester两天ally, he said.
At the meeting, groups decided against their original plan of protesting at the Military Science building because the administration refused to allow some of their demands, Johnson said.
Administrators met with minority groups Sunday to discuss the groups' concerns and challenges.
Johnson said the groups reserved the right to protest at the Military Science building in Washington.
He said the coalition was doing the administration a favor by not protests at the bickering.
student demands.
The February Daughters, a women's rights group, presented a list of demands to the Secretary General.
Marla Rose, who spoke for February Daughters, said, "It is beautiful and wonderful to have a child with Ms. Rose."
"A number of students on campus are very angry at the administration." Johnson said. "This is not a complete and total moratorium on protests."
If the groups do not receive a written response by Oct. 5 from Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, the February Daughters will stage another protest, Rose
Eddie Lorenzo, a member of the executive board of directors of the KU American Civil Liberties Union, said that KU ACLU condemned Chancellor Gene A. Budi's refusal to disallow ROTC commissioning ceremonies from being held on University property.
said.
Lorenzo said that the group commended the University's lobbying efforts to change the Department of Defense policy but that these efforts were not enough.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, read a prepared statement from Budig at the
In the statement, Budig said that in recent months he had received disturbing reports of acts of discrimination against students and colleagues.
"The University must be a place where diverse cultures, ideas and lifestyles are celebrated," Budd said in the statement. "Regardless of an individual's race, sex, national origin or background, that person has the right on our campus to be free of intolerance and harassment."
Budig said that diversity at the University was cherished and that the administration was committed to preserving and enhancing that diversity.
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, he hoped students realized that working together with administrators was the best way to meet minority groups.
Kanan reporter Holly M. Neuman contributed information to this story.
Finney cuts tax proposal by one-half Change would net state $460 million
By Carol Krekeler
Kansan staff writer
OVERLAND PARK - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joan Finney yesterday announced a modification that would cut by about half her annual revenue to tax the million in revenue for property tax and other indebted areas of the state.
Finney's new proposal would place a 1-percent sales tax on enough items that are now sales tax exempt to pay $400 million for property tax relief
"I inreview this and preparing this tax revision, which amounts to two-and-a-half times the amount that was proposed by the governor, that million is all that we would need for this conference." F'miley said in a news conference.
Her original proposal was to place a 1-percent sales tax on all sales tax exempt items to create $800 million property tax and budget deficit relief.
Finney did not elaborate about why she had cut the proposal, saying $460 million was adequate for the proposal.
"The mechanics, well, they'll be worked out by the Legislature," she said.
Finney said that she did not know which items would be sales tax exempt under her proposal. If elected, Finney said that she would let the Legislature decide which half of the exemption items would have sales taxes.
Finney said that $210 million would go to local units of the government to provide maintenance and improve property in addition to property tax relief.
Under the proposal, the remaining $250 million would be given to state school districts' general fund to bring state financing of elementary and secondary schools to more than 50 percent.
She said, "Kansas doesn't need another blue-bribon panel and another year of studying the property tax mess."
Gov. Mike Hayden announced yesterday that he would create a new commission to study ways to eliminate wasteful government spending.
Frank Ybarna, Hayden's campaign press secretary, said Hayden's proposal for an increase on all sales taxed items remained unchanged.
"From day to day, from week to day, (Finney) changes her position." Ybarra said. "We've begun to call her 'flip-flow' Finney."
Ivy league
Don Reed, a facilities and operations employee, plants ivy in front of the Dole Human Development Center yesterday afternoon. Workers are trying to landscape all of the bare ground around the Dole Center before the first freeze.
Judge rules that jail inmate may testify in Grissom trial
Students find protests effective
Johnson County District Judge William Gray ruled Monday that the Johnson County Jail inmate was not acting as a police agent during a jail cell conversation the inmate said he had with Grissom.
The Associated Press
OLATHE — A judge will allow a jail inmate to tell a jury about statements that Richard Grissom Jr. allegedly made to implicate himself in the murders of three missing women.
Gray has now ruled on all but one of several defense motions aimed at preventing jurors from hearing evidence that Grissom's attorneys claim was obtained illegally or improperly.
In rejecting a defense motion to suppress the evidence, Gray ruled that police did not try to get the inmate to elicit more statements from Grissom after the inmate had contacted authorities.
has not been made public
The content of the inmate's claim
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
Gay and lesbian students at the University of Kansas rising up to demand equal rights do not stand alone.
Campus demonstrations at other universities and colleges have proven to be the approach gay and lesbian student leaders have taken, according to a national survey of lesbian and gay college programs conducted this month by The Advocate magazine.
The survey said that many universities had revamped programs and that some had opened offices for gay and lesbian concerns.
The survey lists 24 universities and colleges that had established programs to help address these students' concerns. The programs include initiating educational programs and lobbying for the elimination of ROTC programs. Some have succeeded in moving ROTC of campus.
Among the universities with gay and lesbian programs is Rutgers University in New Jersey, which designed and installed a program to address the concerns of gay and lesbian students in every aspect of the university.
David Hardy, assistant director of the organizations and activities center at KU, said that Rutgers was known as the premiere model at
other universities.
"It is a comprehensive program that deals with everything from health care to alumni associations," Hardy said. "This model was designed for their university, and we should use it only as a model. We have to create a program for KU training with a needs assessment of KU!"
He said a KU program must meet the internal needs of the gay and lesbian population.
Christopher Craig, peer adviser for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, said neighboring universities were making progress toward eliminating discrimination on campus at a much faster rate than KU.
The Washburn University School of Law in Topeka will not allow the department of Defense to recruit law students on campus because of the department's discriminatory policy, Craig said.
Craig wants to see progress at KU. He said that KU administrators were taking too much time to start programs for gay and lesbian students and that these issues were not new ones.
"Six years ago, KU and (Chancellor Gene A.) Budig were critically aware of violence toward gays and lesbians," Craig said.
Craig said universities were engaging in staff training, open recruitment of gay and lesbian students and
the creation of a minor in gay and lesbian studies.
In an Oct. 9, 1990, article issue of The Advocate, 16 universities were involved in protests about gay and lesbian issues. The concerns were expressed during KU students have expressed during the past two weeks of protest.
Henry Schwaller, GLSOK member, said the KU protests represented a movement toward eliminating discrimination on the larger scale.
He said that these issues had existed for a long time but that the ROTC discrimination policy was so clear that it gave students a chance to bring other issues out into the open.
"We are just in the embryonic stages," Schwaller said. "That's not criticism, we just have to work."
During the past week, gay and lesbian students presented KU administrators with a list of objectives.
Schwaller said some of the ideas were much like those included in the Rutgers model.
"The thing with the model is that it is comprehensive." Schwaler said. Where KU has some policies, this campus provides specific programs.
Students carry torch to Iowa State
But he said the programs would be developed toward the needs of KU students.
Kansan staff writer
By Mike Brassfield
Fifteen Iowa State University students began a long journey last night by running down Jayhawk Boulevard with a torch.
They lit the torch at Kansas Memorial Stadium, made a circle around campus and headed north on Mississippi Street.
The torch will be carried 360 miles to Ames, Iowa, where it will be used to light a bonfire for a pep rally Thursday night. The Iowa State football team will play the Jayhawks in their homecoming zamee Saturday.
Brian Heintz, co-chairperson of the run, which is called Torchonath, said it was a 9-year-old homecoming tradition at Iowa State.
The runners who left Lawrence will run about 100 miles to Union Star, Mt., where they will give the torch to the next team of runners, Heinz said. The torch is carried by three teams of 15 runners each.
The students run in shifts of two runners at a time, he said. They are preceded by a car and followed by a bench. The runners run three shifts of five miles each.
"You get to rest while you're in the van, but toward the end you get really tired. Your legs feel just fine now, and has made the run three times before."
It was drizzling in the stadium just before the runners began, but they weren't worried about rain.
Carrie Scott, co-chairperson of Torchathon, said, "It gets cold when you're running on the highway at night. It's freezing, but it's fun."
"It rained on us two years ago," Heintz said. "You just kind of deal with it."
Scott interviewed each prospective runner, Iowa State students must apply to be part of Torchathon, and those accepted are excused from running. Torch runners were chosen out of about 90 applicants this year, Scott said.
"They have to have a good attitude, and they have to be able to make the run," she said. "Also, each runner has to collect at least $30."
The runners raised $1,500 when they ran to Ames from the University of Kansas two years ago, and they raised $1,800 when they ran from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo., last year. The runners hope to raise $2,000 for farm crisis scholarships this year.
In addition to pumping up players and fans, Torchathon raises money for scholarships for Iowa State students affected by the farm crisis.
Andrea Schmeal, Iowa State senior, said she couldn't wait to get started.
The torch runners will follow a path along Highways 59, 169 and 30 to reach Ames, IA.
"I've had a really good time so
far," she said. "Torchathon is fun.
You get to meet people you wouldn't normally have met, and you make a lot of new friends."
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