Screen gems
Keeping viewers glued to the tube for rock videos is a tough job, but somebody's got to do it. So last night about 20 people turned out at Gammon's to test their talent as
video jockeys for TV-30, Lawrence's forthcoming low-power television station. Each had 30 seconds to impress (or distress) TV-30's general manager. See page 3.
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 59 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday. November 15, 1984
Campaign issues, coalitions spark Student Senate voting
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Exchanging their KUIDs for a rainbow of paper ballots, students lined up across campus yesterday to vote for a new student body president, vice president and student
"I've been surprised at how busy we've been," said Keri Hunter, a member of the Student Senate Elections Committee who supervised poll workers at the Kansas Union. "I expected to sit here and bore between classes, but it's been steady all day."
Thom Davidson, Elections Committee chairman, did not release first-day voter
But yesterday's steady stream of voters sent Davidson scrambling to pick up extra ballots for some polling places. He said 7,500 ballots had been printed for the presidential and vice presidential candidates.
"Sure, I'm pleased with the turnout," he said. "But I am a little concerned about ballot fraud."
Many students said several key campaign issues, along with the unusually high number of coalitions, had motivated them to vote in this year's election.
Rick Walters. Roeland Park senior, said the controversy over Student Senate financing for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas had interested him in the election.
"GLOSO WAS A big deal." Walters said, after casting his ballot for the Reality coalition in Strong II. "I've never voted in Strong II and not said what his happened in the Senate this year."
Walters said he didn't agree morally with the activities of GLOSK, and voted for a coalition that had pledged to cut student money for the organization.
"I don't think they should receive student funds," he said. "There are a lot of other student organizations that deserve that funding, and I gather, they appear to be self-supporting."
Tom Witwer, Overland Park senior, said he approved of many of the things Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president, had accomplished during their eight months in office.
"VOTED FOR & Toto Too — all down the line." Witner said, pointing to a line of 20 people waiting to cast their ballots. "Obviously, a lot of people are out voting. If anything else, Boog and Carla at least made people aware of Student Senate."
Higherger and Vogel are seeking Senate seats on the & Toto Too coalition, which has suggested reorganizing Senate so senators can elect by geographic districts instead of schools.
"Their ideas for restructuring Senate have some problems, but it's a start." Wipper said. "We don't have to make that happen."
"SOME OF THE OTHER coalitions have good ideas, but there are some coalitions out there that are almost neo-Nazis. All this crop up with funding — what's next with these people?"
Outside the Union, members of the Frontier and Momentum coalitions waved campaign fliers and traded insults in a last minute rush to get students to vote.
Reza Zoughi, a graduate student senator
seeking re-election on the Frontier ticket, had two green and yellow campaign buttons pinned to the pocket's of his jacket.
"Hey, have you voted today?" Zongliyu
yelled to a group of students. "Tell your
school about it."
A few feet away, Momentum candidate Kip Brinckman passed out sample ballots to students and urged them to vote.
"YEAH. I WAS annoyed last year when people bugged me to vote," said Brinckman, who is running for a Nunemaker senate seat. "But the important thing is to make people aware of the election and to get them to vote."
But Mark Preut, Olathe junior, said one of the reasons he decided to vote for the Fresh Vegetables Coalition was "because they haven't spent a lot of money on posters and buttons, and they don't stand in front of Wescoe passing out fliers and harassing people."
Prout said the Fresh Vegetables candidate also advocated to the "traditional Greek cuisine."
"I like the idea of not going along with tradition, of getting the petty politics and politics of other cultures."
Preel also voted to support the referendum that would prohibit student organizations from purchasing products from companies doing business in South Africa.
Paper ballots may cause late tally
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HANNA
Thorn Davidson stood in the center of the large, empty party room of the Frank R. Burge Union yesterday afternoon, his eyes scanning the unfit space.
Davidson, the chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, had been upstairs earlier, checking on workers at a construction site where he would leave the Burge Union moment later.
Davidson and 20 to 30 students and administrators will spend tonight and possibly a good part of Friday morning in the party room where they will be counting ballots for the Student Senate elections, which began yesterday and will continue today.
DAVIDSON SAID HE hoped all ballots would be counted by t.a.m. tomorrow, but he said it could last several hours longer. Students are voting with paper ballots — a system used in the Senate elections last November.
In that election, the top three coalitions divided 3.099 votes and finished within 50 votes of each other. After a recount, the three coalitions had 3.144 votes among them.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig invalidated that election in January because the University Judicial Board found that it was "fraug with inconsistencies and ambiguities."
Davidson, who was a member of the Elections Committee last year, said he hoped to avoid the problems of last year. But he defended the use of paper ballots as he made checks on polling stations yesterday
Another election was held in the spring, and voting machines were used.
"Paper ballots are not inherently bad." Davidson said.
PATTY JAIMES, DOUGLAS County clerk,
said that 101 of 105 counties in Kansas,
including Douglas County, used paper ballots
for voting.
Davidson said members of the Elections Committee had contacted elections officials in Shawnee, Johnson and Wyandotte counties earlier in the semester to see whether the Senate could use voting machines in this semester's elections.
None were available because of recent national and local elections, he said, and state law requires that voting machines be locked up for 30 days following an election.
"It was September when I found out that voting machines would be a long shot," he said.
ANN EVERSOLE, DIRECTOR of the office of student organizations and activities, participated in last November's counting. She said the box-by-box counting made sense because it was similar to counting by in national, state and local elections.
But part of the actual counting of ballots will be different from the process used in past elections.
Instead of removing all ballots from all boxes and counting the presidential and vice president ballots first, the counters will tabulate ballots box by box.
Jairnes said the actual counting method used for this Senate election was similar to the one used in the 2018 election.
Davidson said that last year, "People lost track of ballots. We also had no rules of what was allowed."
The Senate has 10 ballot boxes for five poll locations.
Counters will be divided into teams of four.
and one person will read off the names on each ballot. Two people will record the results on prepared tally sheets, and one person will watch the reading of the ballots.
LAST NOVEMBER, BALLOTS were counted in a room in the Kansas Union. The Elections Committee moved the location to the Burge Union.
Davidson said, "If those two people's faces were the same, they have to go through and do it again."
"It's a more remote location," Davidson said. "There's not going to be as much pressure."
Also, more people will be involved in the counting process. Last year, only to students
And ballot boxes will be more secure this year, Davidson said. Each has several locks, and one look on each box has a plastic seal. The voters are given the option to contain the signatures of the poll workers.
Today is the final day of voting in the Student Senate presidential and senatorial election.
Polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in four locations: the Frank R. Burge Union, Fraser Hall, Strong Hill and Summerfield Hall. At the Kansas Union, polls will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Today last day to cast votes
The offices of student body president and vice president and 58 Senate seats are up for election.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Phyllis Pancella, St. Louis senior, is the first woman to be selected to sing the national anthem before KU basketball games. Pancella, who usually sings operettas, hopes to someday sing in a beer commercial. See story, page 10.
Commitment required to realize mall project
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a series examining downtown redevelopment in Lawrence.
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
It's a rare day when downtown isn't the subject of discussion somewhere in Lawrence.
For several years, the city has been discussing ways to maintain downtown's vitality by building a shopping mall after fluctuating from plan to plan, city officials settled earlier this year on a proposal for an extension in the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.
Lawrence is not alone in its efforts to keep its downtown as the main retail shopping district in the area. Several cities in Kansas and other states are making investments downtown ally through retail development
THE EXPERIENCE OF these communities indicates that this process is a difficult, lengthy and extensive one, involving the time and efforts of much of the community.
One such city is Topeka, where a proposed downtown development has died. Others, like Manhattan, are handling the problems well.
Both offer lessons about downtown development for Lawrence — Manhattan in particular because of similarities between that project and Lawrence's plan.
in the late 1960s, Manhattan began planning for a downtown mall. The eventual site chosen was at the east end of Poyntz Avenue. Manhattan's main street downtown. Plans were drawn for a 325,000-square-foot mall with two major department stores.
The Lawrence project calls for a 300,000-square-foot mail, mounded by Town Center Venture Corp., which the Lawrence firm signed in January as developer of record.
METHOUGH MANHATTAN'S PROJECT is larger, it is similar to Lawrence because the location of the mail in relation to the downtown is the same as the block where the end of a window.
Gary Stith, Manhattan's downtown redevelopment coordinator, said progress on Manhattan's shopping hall was proceeding as planned, but he stressed the amount of money needed.
"The community understands that they need this development." Sith said. We can
See DEVELOP, p. 5, col. 4
Shuttle's crew captures second drifting satellite
By United Press International
Allen, perched on the end of the shuttle's 56 foot robot arm, held the glittering, 1,098 pound Westar 6 spacecraft "steady like a rock" above the cargo bay for more than an hour and half while Dale Gardner prepared to secure it.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Discovery's spacewalking salvage crew pulled a second satellite out of a useless orbit yesterday in a spectacular space triumph made easy by using Joseph Allen as a human skyhook 223 rules above Earth.
With Anna Fisher operating the arm and David Walker giving directions from inside the cabin, the two spacewalkers outside the cabin moved quickly to the Palapa satellite retrieved Monday.
**WE HAVE TWO satellites latched in the bay. Commander Frederick Hauck reported jibbilyan at 9:04 a.m. CST, nearly four hours after the snowpack began
"Roger, that gave us a big cheer down here," said Jerry Ross in mission control.
The astronauts are scheduled to bring their $70 million haul back to Earth tomorrow, landing at the Kennedy Space Center landing pad. The crew will pay they blasted away from last Thursday.
"I think you'll find that satellite is very clean." Hauck said, after inspecting Westiar from his vantage point at a rear window of Discovery's cabin. "We may have nicked it a couple of places but I can't see anywhere we did."
A television camera scanned the cargo bay and Ronald McNair in Houston control said, "It looks like you've got a full truck load there."
"We sure do, and you've got one happy crew up here," replied Fisher, two hours before the crew turned in for the night.
ALTHOUGH AN EARLIER shuttle crew retrieved a scientific satellite for repairs in orbit, never before had men rescued satellites written off as lost by the insurance industry because of rocket failure. No other nation has that capability.
"We absolutely delighted to be the beneficiaries of such a demonstration of skill and technical excellence," said Stephen Merrett, head of the British insurance syndicate that financed most of the historic salvage mission.
"All in all, there are literally hundreds of insurers who will benefit from the successful completion of this mission," he said, noting that the satellites will be overhauled and sold again to offset part of the insurance loss.
"As much as anything, this flight is a confidence builder that we should not set our sights too low on what we can accomplish in space," said Gerald Griffin, a former flight
"Oh, wow, look at that satellite," said Allen.
The $1\%$ hour spacewalk went much more smoothly than Monday's retrieval when an obstruction on the satellite prevented the astronauts from using the arm to hold the satellite while holding it against mounting surfaces, such a problem yesterday that Allen used the arm perch.
"WE FOUND THAT without exotic equipment that the astronauts, through the use of the gloved hand, were able to handle some large hardware and handle it precisely."
Hauck maneuvered Discovery to within 35 feet below Westar 6 while the astronauts waited at the ready, gazing up at their gently sunning quarry.
As soon as the sun appeared over the horizon, Gardner took off with his 24 jet backpack and soared toward Westar, ap-
director and now head of the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
LIKE THE CAPTURE operation Allen performed Monday, Gardner inserted a lance-grapple into a spent rocket in Westar, tightened some toggle bolts and secured himself to the satellite. A few bursts from his jetpack stopped the rotation.
proaching the 9-foot-long cylinder with the blue-white globe in the background, producing some of the most spectacular space television pictures ever seen.
Allen then locked his booted toe to the end of the arm and Fisher slowly raised him toward the satellite. With one hand he grabbed a tabular antenna and got a grip on a piece of spacecraft structure with the other hand, tucked away, leaving Wester in Allens hands.
"Establish a comfortable position and just kind of stay there." Walker told Allen.
See SHUTTLE, p. 5, col. 1