Lawn talk
The message yesterday on the lawn in front of Stauffer-Flint Hall wasn't the usual fire and brimstone from itinerant soul-savers. But conversation occasionally did heat up
as representatives of the seven coalitions running in this week's Student Senate election participated in a freewheeling lunchtime debate before 150 people. See page 3.
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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 57 (USPS 650-640)
Leaders reflect on Senate revolution
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
More than eight months have passed since the revolutionaries took over.
They promised change and relevant issues. "They said they would be different from what we were saying."
Tuesday, November 13, 1984
Cara Vogel, student body president, and Demis "Boog" Higgberger, student body vice president, will end their nontraditional terms in office this week as student voters choose their replacements tomorrow and Thursdav.
True to their promises, Vogel and Highberger sparked disputes on new issues and stirred interest in student government.
"I think the impact that they've made on people is that they've made Senate more accessible," said Caryl Smith, dean of student life and adviser to the Senate. "We're now looking at what we can create a climate, a situation where students can look at Senate differently."
Vogel and Highbinger take credit for introducing to Senate a new class of students — non-traditional and off-campus — who, like themselves, had not voted before.
They point to this year's election and the seven coilitions of presidential and vice presidential candidates, the most since 1971, as proof of the increased interest. They also note that nearly 175 students are running for Senate seats.
"Some applauded their proposals, some opposed them, and some laughed at them," said Russ Ptacek, co-chairman of the Minority Affairs Committee and a candidate for governor, who sparked more interest in Student Senate but I've seen since we've been here at KU."
Apartheid and GLSQK
In past years, senators battled over rules change, activity fees, shuffle-hate policies.
Vogel and Highberger raised new concerns, including University ties to South Africa. Senate financing of Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, the nuclear reactor on campus, "white bicycles" and an overhaul of the Senate's structure.
day to determine whether student organizations will be able to use Senate money to buy products from companies that do business in South Africa.
The two students are behind much of the Senate's discussion about ending the University's ties to South Africa's practice of outward, a form of racial segregation.
Students will vote tomorrow and Thurs.
Last month, the Senate passed a non-binding resolution that asked the Kansas University Endowment Association to end the contract companies that do business in South Africa.
Another of their concerns that has sparked controversy on campus is financing of GLSOK through student money appropriated by the Senate.
In April, the Senate Finance Committee voted not to give student money to GLOSK, but Vogel vowed to veto any budget that did not include an allocation for GLOSK. The Senate gave GLOSK $505 for rent and telephones in fiscal year 1985.
A student started a petition to call a campuswide vote on the question, but the Senate Elections Committee last month rejected it. The student has appealed the decision to the University of Kansas Judicial Board.
Vogel and Highberger also have pushed for the removal of the nuclear reactor on carbon.
At the end of September, the Senate passed a resolution asking the Kansas Legislature and the Board of Regents to provide the money to shut down the reactor upon the discontinuance of a radiation biophysics program.
Highberger wrote the resolution
'White bikes' and overhaul
Vogel and Highberger are working with a group of about 10 students on the project.
The two also want to place a fleet of "white bicycles" on campus. The white bikes plan calls for a fleet of used bicycles to be get on campus for use by students.
They also have supported the elimination of their jobs in a massive overload of student workload.
Last month, Highberger wrote a proposal that calls for a student assembly of 400 representatives and a seven-member executive committee that would replace the president and vice president Vogel and Highberger are running (for Senate) as part of & Tofo Too, a coalition that helps form and that endorses the plan.
Some of these issues, especially South Africa, probably would not have come up
See BOOG & CARLA, p. 5, col. 1
Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president, joke about how publicity has affected Highberger. "Being in the newspaper a lot, it's really schizophrenic." Highberger said recently. "I started to lose touch with myself."
Astronauts secure stranded satellite, damage solar cells
By United Press International
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Two space-walking astronauts seized a wayward satellite 223 miles above Earth yesterday and had to wrestle it into the shuttle cargo bay because engineers on the ground overlooked an obstacle that thwarted use of the ship's robot arm.
Flight director Randy Stone said the spacewalkers were "100 percent successful" in manhandling the 1.265-pound spacecraft with its camera and a "what-if" scenario just two weeks earlier.
satellite called Palapa to its birth five hours after the spacewalk began.
"All right, we got her!" shouted Joseph Allen when he and Dale Garder eased the
It was an example of man's ability to deal with the unexpected, and insurance underwriters financing the historic salvage operation said they were "forever grateful."
"oh, my goodness, Joseph." exclaimed a relieved Gardener.
THE PROBLEM WAS that an electronic unit protruded a fraction of an inch too high from the top of the satellite, keeping Gardner from installing a fixture to be used by the mechanical arm while he worked on the other end.
As a result, the 47-year-old Allen, who at 130 pounds is the smallest man in the astronaut corps, had to hold to the 9-foot, barrel-shaped satellite for 90 minutes while
Although the satellite was weightless, it still had mass and once it started moving in relation to the shuttle it was hard to stop. Allen were repeatedly warned to move it very slowly so the $35 million satellite would not bang into the shuttle.
Gardener covered a dirty rocket nozzle on the other end and attached a mounting bracket.
Despite the spacewalkers' care, mission commander Frederick Hauck said some of the glassy, power-generating solar cells used in the 7-foot-wide spacecraft were damaged.
"THERE'S NO QUENTION some of the solar cells on that satellite were damaged," he said when he, the spacewalkers, co-pilot and commander of a spacecraft, Fisher gathered at a television camera to
discuss the day's activities with mission control.
Hauck said if a similar problem occurs with retrieving the identical Westar 6 satellite tomorrow and another manual rescue is required. "You can probably plan to do that, but it damaged on Westar 10. I don't think there are any significant number I think it should be expected."
Gardner, who will swap roles with Allen tomorrow, said he hoped a manual retrieval system would be installed.
"Frankly all that manhandling of satellite — it was not a piece of cake," he said. "We could do it again if we had to, but I don't think that's the way we ought to start out."
"Frankly all that manhandling of satellite
See SHUTTLE, p, 5, col.1
Report finds KU campus needs repair
By MARY CARTER Staff Reporter
More than $15.5 million is needed to bring the academic buildings at the University of Kansas up to satisfactory condition, accorded by the Board of Regents, released yesterday by the Board of Regents.
About 22 percent of the square-foot area of KU's academic buildings was rated satisfactory or better in the report, compiled for the Regents this summer by Warren Corman, Regents director of facilities.
No buildings were named in the report.
Allen Wiechert, University director of facilities,yesterday said he was surprised at the small amount of satisfactory academic space at KU.
THE REPORT SAYS $44.8 million would be needed to make academic buildings perfect, and $61.3 million would be needed to make all KU buildings perfect.
Wiechehr said he could not comment in detail because he had not studied the report
"It's staggering once you add it all up." he said.
On all Regents campuses, almost 77% million is needed to bring all the academic buildings in the report says. More than $13 million would be needed to put the buildings in perfect shape.
Corman said that perfect buildings were an ideal and that universities strove to maintain them.
An average of about 37 percent of the academic area is in satisfactory or better condition.
THE OTHER REGENTS campuses are the University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas State University, Wichita State University, Emporia State University, Pittsburg State University, Port Hays State University and the Kansas Technical Institute.
Under Corman's evaluation, a perfect building would receive 100 points. Each part of every building was awarded points. Buildings were classified in one of five categories: "best," "standard," which was 90 percent or more; "to should be razed," "which was less than 30 percent."
"We're using a lot of buildings in the 60 to 80 percent or 'major remodeling' category." Corman said. "Ideally, we like to have them in the 90 to 95 percent range. You can use them in the 60 percent range. You just have more problems."
"It's a serious situation. That's why the Kegens have made maintenance and repair their equipment."
THE REGENTS DIRECTED Corman to compile the report to document the Regents schools' need for more money from the Kansas Legislature, Corman said.
The Legislature appropriates maintenance and repair money for the Regents schools each year from the state general fund. The Legislature appropriated funds from the Kansas educational building fund.
Corman said that Gov John Carlin last year agreed to give $4 million each year for the next five years to Regents schools from the state general fund.
"That's $20 million, and it will help a lot," Corman said. "But there were some legislators who thought that we really didn't
See BUILD, p. 5, col. 5
David Imbili (center), 17, Namibia, speaks to a crowd about racial prejudice in South Africa as Jacqueline Jimenez, 16, Chicago, and Seng Ty, 16, Cambodia, listen to his statements. The youths spoke yesterday in Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union about the suffering and conflict in their native lands.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Peace tour teen-agers speak at KU
By SUZANNE BROWN
Staff Reporter
Inside the comfortable auditorium, students yesterday sat among friends and chatted about their worlds. But they tell silent when three teenagers from a national children's peace tour told them of another one ravaged by war and gang violence.
"I am now not even afraid of seeing bomb blasts and corpses in the road," said one, a 17 year old Nambian student named David Chow. "I was scared and afraid when I saw this — but no more."
The three teen-agers, representatives from the Children of War Tour, told about 60 people in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union about their struggles to survive amid circumstances far different from those to most University of Kansas students.
BY DOING SO, they said, they hoped to alert American youth to the perilous conditions that plague other countries and to prepare the United States to resist the threat of war.
"I really want to tell people," said Song Ty. a 16-year-old from Cambodia, "because they are so hard to get."
"Maybe some young people will stop and talk, or they can do something about it in the future."
Imbili, Ty and Jacqueline Jimenez, a 16-year-old Puerto Rican from Chicago, were included in one of six groups of youth visiting U.S. cities in a two-week tour sponsored by the Religious Task Force, an interfaith religious group based in New York.
THE TOUR GROUP comprises teen-agers from 14 countries, including Lebanon, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Northern Ireland, and 11 youth from U.S. churches and peace groups. The teen-agers began their sojourn in New York, where they met with United Nations and Bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa, who recently won the Nobel Peace Prize
"I ate anything I could find," said Ty, who
Ty, a refugee who has lived for two years in a foster home in Massachusetts, told the audience how he had fended for himself when he was nine years old after Communist soldiers invaded Cambodia and scattered his family.
"But I couldn't do anything. Just keep my mouth closed and my eyes closed."
w was dressed in typical Western clothing.
"Like mice, insects, snakes, frogs, leaves.
One day, I try to eat rice from the fields. The Khmer Rover soldiers caught me, bound my hands and hit me. I thought, 'in a few hours, I will be killed.'
EVENTALLY, TY SAID, he escaped to the Thai border, where an American missionary in a refugee camp helped him get to the United States. Most of his family died in Cambodia, so Ty journeyed alone. He said he didn't know whether any of his brothers or sisters were still alive, but he suspected they were not.
"I don't think so," he said. "And I am afraid
"I don't move if我 kill you back."
Nevertheless, Ty said, he would like to return to Cambodia, if it were ever safe, to teach his people what he had learned in the United States.
"I want revenge for my people, but my revenge does not mean to fight." he said. "I revenge does not mean to fight."
IMBILI SAID HE, too, wanted peace, but
See CHLDREN, p. 5, coI, 1