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ROTC courses still count for graduation
Kansan staff writer
University Senate announced yesterday that ROTC courses will continue to count toward graduation requirements at the University of Kansas.
At a news conference, William Scott, presiding officer of Senate, said that members had decided against trying to change discriminatory policies in the Department of Defense by withholding credit from ROTC courses.
The resolution passed 359 to 270
Ballots were sent in the past week and a half to the 1,777 Senate members who were eligible to vote on the issue. The ballots had to be returned by 5 p.m. Monday.
Votes were counted by Senate on Monday night.
Scott, who spoke at the Governor's Room in the Kansas Union, said that the vote was not meant to show a lack of support for U.S. interests. "Nor was it a referendum on U.S. policy.
Scott said he thought that working with national associations and other universities would be an effective way to change the Department of Defense policy
"We have to find an action that will be effective." he said.
But he said there was no set time period for such a plan. Council members would need a definite time period in which to expect results.
The Department of Defense policy excludes members based on sexual orientation from receiving scholarships and being commissioned.
Council members had said that the Department of Defense policy violated KU's antidiscrimination policy, which prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, sex, disability, national origin, political affiliation, age, ancestry or sexual orientation.
She said it meant that Senate members could uphold credit from BOX.
Frances Ingemann, chairperson of the Senate Executive Committee, said the fact that the resolution was overturned did not mean the concern about discrimination had
courses was not a viable way to change the Department of Defense policy.
"It does not mean the Senate approves discriminatory practices." Ingram said.
discriminatory practices." Ingemann said. Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said he was pleased that the majority of the faculty was willing to let the administration work with the national organization to change the Department of Defense policies.
Army ROTCL. Col. William McGaha said that he was pleased with the outcome, but that he was surprised at the low ballot return rate.
Megah said that he was concerned that if the decision were reversed, it would have been difficult for her to come up with a plan.
Mike Schreiner, student body president, said that he was not overly surprised at the death.
Schreiner said that it had been University tradition for departments and schools to make their own decision regarding what course to take or not to count towards graduation credit.
He said that the Senate resolution would have institutionalized what courses would count and that the faculty wanted to preserve its autonomy.
Schreiner said the best way to change the policy would be to work with the national associations that the University was currently working with and to write compen-
Face to face
Roberta Woods, Lawrence junior, screams "My body, my choice!" at Lawrence resident John McDermott, who sings an
anti-abortion song. A rally against Supreme Court nominee David Souter became an abortion debate yesterday. See page 5.
U.N. will cut off shipments by air
The Associated Press
UNITED NATIONS — Iraqi ambassador has called “an act of war” the U.N. vote yesterday that extends the embargo on trade with his country by a slap on sting was issued by a bylaw speeches in the General Assembly.
The Security Council voted 14-1 yesterday to impose an air embargo against Iraq in an effort to force Iraq forces into Syria. Cuba cast the塞喀撒攻。
The council warned the Iraqi government of further punitive action and hunted at sanctions against him to honor the U.N. embargo on trade.
In addition to sanctioning the air embargo, the resolution calls for halting Iraqi shipping and freezing Iraqi assets overseas.
Both Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze suggested that the United Nations could take military action if all other efforts to urge into relinquishing Kuwait fail.
Iraq's ambassador, Abdul Al-Anbari, stalked out of the Security Council session after vote, saying "You know, boycotting a country by air embargos as well as an air embargo is an act of aggression, an act of war."
"But up to now we have been practicing self-restraint because we know that if war were to break out, it might be everything in the region," he said.
The resolution — the ninth passed by the Security Council in an effort to force Iraq to quit Kuwait — prohibits use of force in the air embargol but calls for searches and detention of aircraft.
The council warned that it would consider "serious action" if Iraq continued to flout the will of the international community, hinting at a U.N. military operation. It said countries that try to evade the embargo may themselves face secondary sanctions.
U. N. spokesman Francois Guliani said it was the first time in the 45-year history of the United Nations that so many foreign ministers had attended a meeting to vote on a substantive issue
Cuba, which on the receiving end of a U.S. blockade during the 1962 missile crisis, has said it opposed any sanctions on Iraq.
Earlier resolutions authorized ships to implement a maritime embargo and to stop and search vessels that may be violating trade sanctions. They also repudiated the annexation of Kuwait, demanded the abolition of bays and condemned Iraqi raids on foreign missions in Kuwait.
More Gulf coverage
Hayden pledges to support financing third year of Margin
Bv Yvonne Guzman
Kansan staff writer
Gov. Mike Hayden told KU officials yesterday that he would support financing of the third year of the Margi of Excellence during the next legislative session.
The University of Kansas was Hayden's first stop on a tour of the seven Board of Regents institutions yesterday to announce renewal of his support for the Margin.
After a private meeting with Chancellor Gene A. Budig and other faculty and student representatives, Hayden said that he would like to "indicate my support and willingness to participate in the third year of the Margin this year and asking for their help in getting that accomplished."
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.
Hydrangea plans to use a 10-cent cigarette tax to raise about $20 million for the Margin.
have in several areas. They are especially concerned about faculty salaries, which dropped this year in relation to the salaries at the peer institutions.
The total amount requested by the Regents for fiscal 1992 exceeds last year's higher education budget by about $7.5 million. The Martin is about $15 million of that amount.
At their latest meetings, the Regents and the Council of Presidents endorsed Hayden's cigarette tax. The University does not endorse candidates for governor, though.
Hayden withdrew his support for the Margin last January after announcing budget cuts in several areas. Hayden supported the first two years of the Margin.
Since it was announced that the University of Kansas would not receiveMargin financing this year, KU officials have been concerned about the effect the lost money will
"We were gratified by his declaration of support," he said. "He clearly is on line for me."
Budig said he was pleased by Hayden's announcement.
When asked if he would prefer Hayden's cigarette tax to Joan Finney's proposal to take money for higher education from the state's economic development fund, Budig said that he did not have a preference about the source of financing for the Margin.
"I would prefer to see the Margin of excellence tended, period," Budgid said. "My response is that I will keep it up."
Frances Ingemann, Faculty Senate president, said she thought support for the Margin
"I think the faculty will be much more encouraged by the strong stand that the management has."
Mike Schreiner, student body president,
said that he was encouraged by the governor's position and that he was optimistic about Student Seneca efforts to raise student interest in science.
"We've had a lot of student support behind our efforts," Schreiner said. "And I think it's going to be even easier to motivate students when they see candidates coming out this soon before the election date and stating their positions on the Margin."
Budig also said that it was important to maintain support for the Margin among all members of the University community, including students, alumni, faculty and staff.
"We think the Margin of Excellence is tied to the future well-being not only of the University, but of the state," Budig said. "We want this to be a statewide effort."
ROTC vote angers student association
By Monica Mendoza
Kansan staff writer
At 8 o'clock last night, a group of students tried to deliver a wake-up call to Chancellor Gene A. Budig.
Students in favor of the resolution were angry at University Senate for not passing the resolution. But most students felt the energy was directed at the chancellor.
More than 80 KU students marched from the Kansas Union to the chancellor's home singing and chanting.
The group protested the defeat of a resolution that would have withheld ROTC classes from counting toward graduation requirements.
Budig did not, address the protesters.
Lt. John Mullens, KU police spokesperson, said the protest was peaceful. He did not know whether Budig was at home during the pro-
Liz Tolbert, left, and Henry Schloalter, lead a GLSOK rally.
David Wacker, Gay and Lebbian Services of Kansas member, said that students were protesting to show the chancellor that they cared about
the direct discrimination in the ROTC policy, and its contradiction with KU's anti-discrimination policy.
David Orr, vice president of the KU American Civil Liberties Union, said that the ACLU participated in the protest to help emphasize that the majority of KU students wanted to fight against gay and lesbian students.
"I think they forced it to a mailing vote because they knew it wouldn't pass." Wacker said. "We're pretty much in the know andading to acknowledge that we exist."
Henry Schwaller, GLSOK member, said that he hoped the chancellor thought the protest was an inconvenience.
"There will be plenty more inconveniences." Schwaller said. "Wake up, chancellor, you are not here to serve the United States Defense Department. You are here to serve the students."
David Hardy, assistant director of the organizations and activities center, attended the protest. He said he would go to the GLOSK meeting
tomorrow.
"What if we came to the meeting, in a more relaxed setting, and discuss this?" Hardy said to the group.
Liz Tolbert, GLSOK member,
encouraged the group members to
take their energy with them to classes and remind everyone how mad they were about the policy violation.
"If ROTC can be allowed to discriminate, than what is next?" Tolbert said. "Who's next? The English department?" The history department."
Democrat votes delay budget spending cuts
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee shouted down President Bush's veto threat yesterday and voted to delay for 20 days deep spending cuts that would be triggered unless Congress and the White House agreed on a deficit-reduction plan.
The Associated Press
If the $85 billion in arbitrary spending reductions are allowed to take effect as scheduled Oct. 1, Chairman Jamie Whitten, D-Miss., told the committee, "it threatens to bring the economy to its knees. We can't afford
"A full-blown crisis" may be required to force negotiators into solving the deficit, said Rep. Silvio Berlusconi and Senate Representative Republican on the committee.
At the White House, an angry Bush said, "If there is no budget agreement with real spending reductions and real process reform by the end of the week, I will have to veto it. I do not want to see further delay in kicking this problem on down the road."
No deficit agreement was in sight, although top leaders of Congress and the administration claimed some progress. The goal is a combination of targeted spending reductions and tax increases that would reduce the deficit by $50 billion during the 2 months beginning Monday and an additional $450 billion from October 1, 1991, to September 30, 1995.
The House is likely to consider the bill later this week.
None of the 13 annual appropriation bills has been enacted — and a new budget year begins in less than a week. For the first time in several years, federal workers are taking the threat of furfuchs seriously.
"People are literally losing sleep over this," said Tom Doherty, an Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspector from Allen-town, Pa. "They have kids to feed them now they're having the rug swept out from under them by the system they work for."