Looking out for No. 4
The Kansas Jayhawks got off to a fast start on Saturday against the Missouri Tigers as they ran up a 28-14 halftime lead on almost 300 yards of offense. Mother Nature threw
both teams for a loss in the second half, but KU slid onward for 70 more yards and won 31-24. The Jayhawks finished a surprising fourth in the Big Eight. See story, page 12.
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High, 40. Low, 20.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 61 (USPS 650-640)
Monday, November 19, 1984
Frontier Coalition takes majority of Senate seats
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
The Frontier Coalition, whose presidential and vice president candidates won a decisive victory in last week's elections, also took a large majority of Student Senate seats.
Carla Vogel, former student body president,
and Dennis "Boog" Highberger,
former student body vice president, also won
Senate seats.
Frontier Coalition candidates won 34 of 58 soots that were decided in the election. Of the other soots, & Tofo Captured 18 soats and & Tofo Captured 17 soots. The Momentum Coalition won one seat.
Thom Davidson, chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, said all results would remain unofficial until the committee had checked all final campaign expense audits. He said yesterday that the checks could be completed by today.
DUCHING THE CAMPAIGN, William Easley, student body president, and Poljeack, student body vice president, emphasized the need for prioritized priority, or more traditional, issues.
Easley and Polack received 1,936 votes
Second-plain finishers Chris Coffelt and Tim
Boller, & Toto Too presidential and vice
presidential candidates got 1,903 votes.
Their margin of victory, 843 votes, was the largest since the Student Senate system was adopted in 1969. In 1973, the winning bid was suppressed and received more than 2,200 votes.
"The only explanation that I have is that the freshmen and sophomores got out to vote," said David Epstein, a victorious candidate for a Nunemaker senate seat.
Frontier picked up the nine seats that represent the schools of Allied Health, Business, Engineering, Journalism and Pharmacy.
THE COALITION ALSO took five of 10 seats that represent the schools of Architecture and Urban Design, Education, Fine Arts and Social Welfare, and special students.
But Frontier did the best in balloting for Nunemaker seats, where they won all 17 seats. Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Epstein said he thought freshmen and sophomores may have voted heavily for Frontier.
"I don't think the same people voted in Boog and Carla," he said.
Highberger also said that Frontier received the majority of its votes from younger students.
"They're probably more susceptible to shiite advertising than some of the older peers."
HE POINTED TO the results in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and among others, the authors, to present the results.
of 20 seats, compared with Frontier's three seats.
"There's much more of an age gap than a living group gap," he said. "The older students have been around long and have been taught to know and know really what a charade it is."
Epstein gave credit for Frontier's victory to a well-run campaign and a strong coat-tail' effect, where the results of the group were compared with winning group's other candidates in office.
Highberger agreed that the coat-tail effect had helped Frontier Senate candidates.
"ITS MORE PRONOUNCED in Student Senate elections," he said, "because people tend to campaign as coalitions and not as individuals. For big schools, when people are running as a group, they get elected as a group."
Michael Foubert, an independent candidate who won re-election to a graduate
student seat, said Frontier's victory could be attributed to campaign planning
& tooto 100 did not begin campaigning until four weeks before the election," he said. "William and Jeff decided to run in the spring.
"Think about it. They've spent six months campaigning."
Highbester received 415 votes, the most of any candidate for one of the nine College of Liberal Arts and Sciences seats. He attributed his victory partly to name recognition.
"My name's well known," he said. "I didn't vote for me. It's not my fault."
RUTH LICHTWARDT, PRESIDENT of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, also said name recognition helped her win her off campus seat.
"It's a fact that I've met so many people this year," she said.
Photo historian adds flash to department
By CHRIS CLEARY Staff Reporter
Foubert said an unusually high number of
Visitors often find him on the phone waiving a finger at them to sit down - he'll
Tom Southall, assistant professor of art history, is not just a teacher. He also is a historian, an art buyer, an exhibit coordinator, a researcher and a curator for the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
Old, worn editions of Esquire, Harper's Bazaar and Holiday magazines line the walls of his office. The door, dotted with students' appointments, is usually airy.
And according to a colleague the 35-year old photography historian is responsible for the highest student interest.
MONDAY MORNING
in photography ever at the University of Kansas
See ELECT, p. 5, col. 1
"EY TEACHING PHOTO history, he gets people interested in the art of photography both past and present," said Stephen Addiss, chairman of the art history department. "He has taken a small part of our program and made it a large part of the school because he combines serious scholastic with great enthusiasm.
"He's very informal and approachable, and that has made this a lovely department."
In class. Southall brings more than a syllabus to students.
"Sometimes I'm at a disadvantage.
There is the potential for two or three full
outside of class, the New York native dashes from the print room to the exhibition galleries and back to the phone. He said he enjoyed all the activity
"MY POSITION IS a fascinating combination with many different opportunities and advantages." Southall said. "I enjoy the way you can combine all of these things to be a better teacher. It's not any easier. It makes it exciting, it's all of them combined."
Betsy Wright, an art history graduate student, said. "He talks about his projects and dealings with people in the real world of photography."
time jobs. It can be really time demanding."
Valerie Heedquist, art history graduate student, said Southall's job fit him well.
"He'd be bored by accounting," she said. "In photography, there are always stories."
One excellent source of new ideas for students is the Esquire collection, donated to the University four years ago. Southall said
SOUTHAIL'S LASTEST PROJECTS, a book and a photo exhibit featuring the work of Diane Arbus, a controversial 1960s photographer, stemmed from the Esquire
"It was a real exciting treasure hunt." Southall said. "It was one of the first projects to come out of the Esquire collection."
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Hedquist said Southall was excited about the Arbus pictures because the original photos were in one place instead of scattered throughout the country.
The Airbus exhibit is scheduled to appear in 12 museums across the nation including The Museum of Science, NASA and
"He was able to develop a real sense of the pictures as a group," she said. "He's a very hands-on person. He's very dexterous." She added that he is not enough that we just look at slides."
"He's very excited about the book," she said. "It has played a great part in his life for the past four years. We've never had such a wonderful set set attendance in Minneapolis."
"I FOUND OVER 200 photos that had been published, but they were essentially isolated and fragmented in display." Soultah said "The photographs were in over a dozen different magazines in over eight different articles spread over a decade.
After digging for Arbus photographs in the Esquire collection and other publications for more than three years, Southall has struck gold.
Using the photos, Southall has edited a collection of Arbus' magazine work. An exhibit of the photos is presently touring the country.
Wright said Southall was enthusiastic about the book and the exhibit.
Tom Southall, associate professor of art history, sees his work with the practiced eye of a photographic historian. Southall, also a curator at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, recently assembled an exhibition of 200 photographs by Diane Arbus, whose work stirred much controversy in the 1960s. In the background is one of the photos, titled "Woman with Veil on Fifth Avenue."
D. C. the st. Louis Art Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The exhibit and the book are part of the
SOUTHHALL SAID THE Arbus exhibit had been favorably reviewed in Newsweek and the Atlantic Monthly.
University's growing art collection, but Southall said he wanted to do more
See SOUTHALL, p. 5, col. 4
"This museum works better than any other museum," Southall said, "but it's not a weaighy museum. I want to develop
College working to correct advising problems
By HOLLIE B. MARKLAND
Staff Reporter
Students for the past two weeks have been juggling this semester's classwork while trying to plot a course for the next semester and beyond.
Time constraints, scheduling problems and certainty of requirements often confuse students and professors and make academic advising a burden.
The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, with about 11,000 students, recognizes that advising will always cause problems for some students and faculty members, said J Michael Young, associate dean of the College of the College was trying to simplify advising.
YOUNG SAD A variety of classes made admiring especially difficult for freshmen and sophomores in the College who have not chosen majors yet.
Students in engineering and fine arts, for
"The College offers 75 to 100 degrees with different prerequisites and course structures. There is so much information I think about the requirements of the school as much as anyone, but beyond a B.A. or a B.S., I have to look in the book."
"They shouldn't feel pressured into making a choice yet," he said. "They should use their time in the College to look at different majors, courses and career options
example, have made at least tentative decisions, he said. But the majority of students in the College haven't made any decision about their majors. Young said
IT CONTAINS SUGGESTIONS from departments and programs in the College and from professional schools about which courses are being taken during their freshman and sophomore years.
The "book" is a handbook for advisers of reschmen and sophomores that the College distributes. The handbook, a supplement to the curriculum, provides the spring of 1983 and is revised each spring
The handbook also contains degree requirements, and rules and requirements affecting undergraduate students, including total hours needed for graduation.
Randa Dubnick, coordinator of academic advising in the office of academic affairs, said the advising handbook was one of the books the College had taken to improve advising.
"The adviser can open the handbook and find out what a student majoring in a department should take." Dubinck said. "The information in the handbook is updated through computers. It's one of the best aids to keep advisers informed."
Dubnick the handbook was better than pad handsheets because the format was more user friendly.
Young said organizational problems also hinder advising.
"ADVISING OCCURS IN mid semester in the midst of grading, serving on committees, doing research, writing and reading," he said. "Every faculty member feels harried
— suddenly there is one more thing to do.
"But given all that, the faculty is very responsive to the needs of freshmen and
The biggest problem with advising, he said, is that centrally scheduled advising is impossible because the schedules of faculty members and students vary.
"Faculty members become frustrated when students don't show up at their scheduled times." Young said "Students became frustrated when the adviser does not have a time available that is convenient to them."
Dennis Quirin, professor of English who has advised students for about 30 years, sardonicly recites the English language.
"I HAVE A carefully constructed schedule so I have free time to prepare for classes, think and write," he said. "Advising comes early, the most time in the semester toward finals."
See ADVISING, p. 5, col. 4
By United Press International
Libyan chief calls Reagan 'mad, mad'
VALLETTA, Malta — Libyan leader Col Moamair Khadaty yesterday denounced President Reagan as "mad, mad" and said U.S. and NATO forces should withdraw from the region.
Khadady, making a surprise appearance at a political rally during an official visit to Malta, made no reference to Egypt's announcement Saturday that it foiled a Khadady-backed hit squad sent to Cairo to help Prime Minister Abdel Hamid El-Bakoush.
But Egyptian officials speculated that Khadady flew to Malta to punish the head of the Libyan intelligence station who was duped by Egyptian officials who sent him faked photographs of El-Bakoush covered with blood.
THE OFFICIAL LIBYAN news agency Jana, monitored in Rome, "categorically" denied Egyptian accusations that Libya is the source of moderate Arab and Western leaders.
In Cairo, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak called on the West to unite to "stop" Khadady, saying he was financing organizations plotting assassinations of Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. French President Francois Mitterrand, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Saudi King Fahd.
Jana called the accusations a plot "drawn up by imperialist forces" to create "a suitable occasion for an aggression against the United States," and should be entrusted to President Hosni Mubarak.
"We are not afraid of Reagan, America and NATO." Khadiyda said in a 15-minute speech in Coscueira six miles outside Madrid. The party's leader, Party of Pride Mpistor Dmimintoff
"THE MEDITERRANEAN PEOPLE do not want the Americans and NATO in the Mediterranean," he said.
"And the president of the United States is mad, mad," Khadiyah said.
He charged that NATO and the United States did not wish to see Malta independent and that they wanted to station their forces there.
"We don't want the American forces either in Libya or in Malta," Khadiyad said. "We will not give them a chance to occupy Libya and Malta again."
The Egyptians tricked Libya into believing E Jakabouss's assassination by leaking to the Libyan embassy in Malta take photographs against the opposition leader covered with blood.
On Friday, Jana announced that EI Bakounah had been assassinated by one of its members.
EGYPTIAN OFFICIALS HAVE said the kit squad was recruited by Libyan agents in Malta and speculated Khadaby went to Maliha and the two officers were duped. The four man hit team was arrested
In an interview in a Carro newspaper yesterday, Eil Bakouk, who took refuge in Egypt in 1977, said intelligence agents have conducted Khadif interrogated his staff at Mafia.
"According to our information, the Libyan reaction so far took the form of an interrogation conducted by Khadady of the staff of the Libyan people's bureau (embassy) in Malta, whose chief was their connection with the death snail," he said.
The Libyan leader, who last visited the Mediterranean island in 1982 and is scheduled to leave today, accused the United States of having a hold on the people of the Mediterranean.