KANSAN
VOL.101.NO.27
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANSAS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
TOPEKA; KS 66612
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1990
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Minority enrollment increases by 53
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Bv Hollv M. Neuman
Kansan staff writer
Although overall minority enrollment at the University of Kansas increased by 53 students this semester, American Indian enrollment decreased by 61 students, and Black enrollment increased by only two students.
Minority Enrollment
Fall 1990 minority enrollment figures were released yesterday by the KU department of educational services.
Among the enrollment of American Indians declined fairly drastically, their enrollment in general has remained relatively steady, said Jeff Weinberg, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs.
| | Fall 1987 | Fall 1988 | Fall 1989 | Fall 1990 |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| American Indians | 106 | 148 | 219 | 158 |
| Asian | 380 | 415 | 465 | 521 |
| Black | 716 | 675 | 642 | 644 |
| Hispanic | 338 | 359 | 368 | 424 |
| Total | 1,540 | 1,597 | 1,694 | 1,747 |
Weinberg said that in Fall 1989, a group of American Indian teachers enrolled at the University to participate in a special program. Those instructors were counted as enrolled students in Fall 1989 figures. Therefore, the figures show a significant jump in American Indian students
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from 148 in Fall 1988 to 219 in Fall 1989.
Those teachers left the University when the program was over, and they are not included in the Fall 1900 figure of 158 American Indian students.
In a statement released yesterday,
Chancellor Gene A Budig said,
Ministry enrollment is in more than a
decade. We are pleased, but cer
tainly not satisfied. '
Minority enrollment includes Black, American Indian, Asian and Hispanic students.
Total minority enrollment is 1,747 students. In Fall 1989, it was 1,694 Minority students make up 6.6 percent of KU's enrollment. Last semester 6.4 percent of total enrollment was minorities.
The University's total enrollment this fall is 28,909, an increase of 136
since last fall, according to University Relations.
"We can and will do better," Budig said in his statement. "But that will require the continued involvement of faculty, staff and students. KU needs their ideas, commitment and participation."
Overall, minority enrollment has increased during the last few semesters. In Fall 1987, 1,540 minority students were enrolled.
This is the first time since Fall 1987 that Black enrollment increased. Last semester there were 642 Black students enrolled, and this semester there were 598.
Darren Fulcher, executive board member of Black Men of Today, said he was disappointed with the small use in Black student enrollment.
"I thought that with all of the work we have done to bring more Black students to KU, that it would have been better," he said. "so 'he' said. He's a little surprised."
Fulcher said the figure showed that KU still has work to do when it comes to recruiting minorities.
Asian-American enrollment has been increasing since 1987. An additional 56 Asian-American students were enrolled in this fall, bringing the total to 521.
There also was an increase in the number of Hispanic students enrolled at the University There are 424 students, 56 more than last semester.
Angela Cervantes. Hispanic American Leadership Organization president, said she was pleased with the Hispanic student enrollment
"I think the increase reflects the national trend of Hispanics getting into colleges around the country," she said. "Still more needs to be done, but the numbers are exceptional; they're wonderful."
Foreign-student enrollment also increased from 1,876 last fall to 1,933, an increase of 57 students.
Court decides to rule on crime-impact case
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON  The Supreme Court, issuing its 1991九 term one justice short, agreed yesterday to decide whether paroles may impose stiffer sentences because of a crime's effect on the victims or their family.
The court said if it would use a case from Ohio to consider reversing recent rulings banning such victim-impact evidence.
The case was among 1,000 acted upon by the eight justices as they returned from a three-month summer recess. They rejected appeals in the vast majority, agreeing to hear and decide just 25.
David II. Souter, President Bush's first nominee to the high court, is expected to fill the vacancy created by the July retirement of Justice William J. Brennan. The Senate is expected to confirm Souter today, making him the 105th justice in the court's history.
In other matters, the court
■ Agreed to consider letting states outlaw all barricade-style nude dancing. The court will consider reinstating such an Indiana ban.
Rejected an appeal by an Ohio woman who gave birth to a healthy boy after she underwent an unsuccessful abortion. The woman was barred from using a doctor and hospital for the costs of rearing the child.
■ Asked the Bush administration for its views on the power of employers to bar workers from joining or serving in the military reserves. The
court is being asked to revive the Baltimore Police Department's policy of limiting the number of employees allowed to be in active reserve
In the victim-impact case, the court said it would consider reinstating the death penalty for Ediberto Huertaus in a love triangle murder.
Huertas tatally stabbed Ralph Harms Jr. in Lorain, Ohio, on June 7, 1986. He is serving a life sentence for the crime.
A state jury imposed the death sentence after hearing evidence that Harris' parents wanted Huertas to die for his crime. Elizabeth Harris, the victim's mother, also testified emotionally that she was proud of her churchgoing son and that his death had devastated the victim's young
The Supreme Court in 1877 ruled that such victim-impact evidence should not be considered by sentencing juries.
The four justices who dissented from last year's decision said then they were ready to overturn the 1967 Roe v. Wade case, testifying in criminal sentencing.
And last year, the justice voted 5-4 — with Brennan writing for the court — that a jury generally may not be told about the victim's character. The court said a South Carolina murderer unfairly was sentenced to die because the jury heard such testimony.
The Ohio Supreme Court relied on both U.S. Supreme Court rulings when it reduced Huertas' death sentence to life in prison last May.
Third year of Margin still faces cloudy future
David Roach
Kansan staff writer
State budget shortfalls and a dismal economy may combine to doom the third year of the Margin of Excellence, despite promises from both gubernatorial candidates to support it.
State Sen. Gus Bogina Jr, R. Shawnea, said the Margin probably would not be financed unless the Legislature provided additional sources of funding.
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
"We don't have enough money to fund what we did last year," he said. He said that a downturn in the economy, which many economists have forecast, could further hamper the Legislature.
Republican candidate Gov. Mike Hayden is proposing an additional tax on cigarettes to finance the Martin
A similar proposal was defeated in the Legislature last year, and the federal government is considering its own boost in tobacco taxes, which could make increases at the state level more unappealing.
Democratic candidate John Finney wants to cut off financing of the Economic Development Initiative money that finance the Margin.
Some legislators have said that the Legislature will not finance the third year of the Margin without a significant increase in tuition.
Bogina said that the state would be $100 million in the red on budget overruns alone and that Social Rehabilitation Services would need another $30 million to $50 million this fiscal year.
"Nobody is going to vote to put a big load on the taxpayer if it doesn't look like the people who receive the direct benefits are doing their fair share," said State Rep. Joan Wagnon, D-Topeka, ranking minority member on the House taxation committee.
Besides $12.5 million for the Margin, the Regents have requested about $40 million more than they received from the Legislature last year.
Legislators' estimates of the state's budget shortfall for this year range between $100 million and $200 million.
About $6 million of the development fund's $14.7-million fiscal 1991 budget went to state universities.
However, he said that current austerity measures taken by the state, such as a hiring freeze, should cover the SRS bill.
Wagnon said the Regents could get the Legislature's attention by matching Margin appropriations with tuition increases.
"They want to do a pittance in tuition and a big, huge jump on taxes," she said.
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Jeff Hattie, employee of Capital Electric of Leavenworth, works on leveling a new traffic light at 19th Street and Ninth Drive. The lights will operate when improvements to the intersection are complete.
Above the traffic
Hayden stands by tax plan
By Carol Krekeler
OVERLAND PARK — Supporters of the governor's proposal to finance theMargin of Excellence with a higher cigarette excise tax need not worry about a new federal proposal to increase tax on the same product.
Kansan staff writer
den said yesterday.
"I think we should push ahead with our plans to fund the Margin of Excellence in spite of what the federal government may
He says federal proposal for cigarettes won't threaten financing of the Margin
The Margin of Excellence was the Board of Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its seven institutions to 95 percent of their peer schools and to bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature financed the first two years but not the third.
Havden said the federal proposal to
government may do" Daven said Mike Hayden
increase the tax on cigarettes would not affect his support of financing the Margin.
"Let me say that concerns me, but I think we must not let the federal government pre-emp us," he said. "We cannot let their solutions interfere with the solutions to state issues."
The federal government is proposing a 4-cent-per-pack increase on cigarettes effective Jan. 1 and another 4-cent increase in 1983.
Hayden is supporting a 10-cent-pack increase that he hopes will be approved during the 1991 legislative session.
"We don't advocate these programs because of their popularity," Hayden said. "We advocate them from a financial standpoint — that is, where can the money be gained from these programs necessary to finance these programs."
"It makes it a little more difficult at the state level to do," he said.
Michael O'Keefe, state budget director, said the proposed federal increase would not have a big effect on Hayden's proposal.
O'Keeffe said the federal government's proposed increase on cigarette taxes reinforced how people felt about Hayden's proposal.
Hayden said he would not look for other alternatives to financing the Margin unless he had to.
"I think that those people that were opposed to the cigarette tax will say that it is unfair," he said. "Those in favor will say it won't affect it."
"I don't think we should look for those until we've exhausted all other efforts to increase the cigarette tax," he said.
Hijacked airplane explodes Dozens killed at airport in Canton
The Associated Press
The hijacked Boeing 737 was carrying about 90 passengers. The number of people on the other two planes was not immediately known.
HONG KONG — A Chinese airliner bliked on a domestic flight crashed into two other planes and touched off an explosion today at Canton's international airport. Dozens of people were killed, hospital officials said.
Western diplomats and a reporter at the Canton People's Broadcasting Station said the three planes exploded in the 8 a.m. collision on the airport tarmac in the southern city about 70 miles from Hong Kong.
Xiamen is a subsidiary of China's national carrier, the Civil Aviation Administration of China, or CAAC
The reporter said the planes were all government-owned and that one, a Boeing 757, was believed to be carrying 160 passengers boarding passengers for Shanghai.
China's official Xinhua News Agency did not report the crash until about seven hours after it occurred, saying only that a "passenger plane of the Xiamen airport company was hijacked in accident at the Canton airport."
The news agency did not say who hijacked the plane or why.
Casualties were rushed to at least five area hospitals and officials said they closed the airport soon after accident
The hijacking and crash come as China is playing host to its first major international sporting event, the Asian Games. Security forces nationwide have been on alert to prevent any attacks that might embarrass the government
The city health department refused to comment on the death toll.
President addresses assembly Bush blasts Iraq suggests way out The Associated Press
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — President Bush said yesterday that Iraq must be held liable for "crimes of abuse and destruction" in the takeover of Kuwait. But he also suggested to Baghdad that an unconditional mili
tary withdrawal could help speed an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Bush, in a speech before the U.N. General Assembly, said all nations hoped that military
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force would not be required to drive Iraq from Kuwait. He won applause by vowing that Iraq's annexation of "will not be allowed to stand."
Praising the U.N.'s resolve, Bush said. "This challenge is a test we cannot afford to fail. I am confident we will prevail."
Nearly every seat in the General Assembly hall was full as Bush combined a blistering indictment of Iraq with an overture to Baghdad to end the two-month old Persian Gulf crisis.
"Iraq's unprovoked aggression is a threat to another era, a dark relic from a dark time." Bush said. "It has plundered Kuwait, it has terrorized innocent civilians, it has held even diplomats hostage."
Aligning himself with remarks last week by Soviet Foreign Minister Edward Shevardnadze, has said Mr. Siddiqui will raise the crimes of abuse and destruction.”
Bush met with Shevardnadze later to discuss the gulf crisis, the plight of the Soviet economy and lagging arm control talks. Emerging from the meeting, Bush said Shevardnadze was confident that a treaty between NATO and the Warsaw Pact to cut U.S. and Soviet non-nuclear weapons would be ready for signing at a 35-nation summit in Paris.