November 8,1984 Page 3
CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily KANSAN
Nicaraguans to discuss their country's election
The Sandinista vice presidential candidate and the president of the Nicaragua Supreme Electoral Council will discuss Nicaragua's election in the fifth annual Conference on International Affairs on Dec. 1 in the Kansas Union.
Sergio Ramirez Mercado, the vice presidential candidate, and Mariano Fiallo, the council president, will discuss the election and troubled relations with the United States at the conference. "Concerns for Prospects for Peace in Central America."
The Contadora process consists of negotiations between Central America and some Latin American countries to ratify a peace plan to balance United States and Soviet policies in Central America.
Parachutist to address club
The Parachute Club will meet at 7 tonight in the International Room of the Kansas Union.
William "Hit" Gibson of the Green County Sport Parachute Center will speak on "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Parachute But Did I Know What to Ask."
Kansan taking applications
The Kansan is accepting applications for editor and business manager for spring semester.
Application forms are available in the Student Senate, B105 Kansas Union; the Student Organizations and Activities office, 105 Kansas Union; and 119 and 200
Applications must be turned in to 200 Staufer Flight Hall by 5 p.m. Nov. 15.
Workshop to teach steps to job
A workshop for women interested in learning how to build a network of information and support will be from 7.30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at International University Union.
Music teachers to gather here
The workshop, sponsored by the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, will focus on the steps to follow in resume building for women entering the working world.
More than 200 Kansas teachers are expected to attend the 73rd state convention of the Kansas Music Teachers Association at the University of Kansas from Nov. 16 to 18.
Registration for the convention will begin at 1 p.m. Nov. 16 in the lobby of Murphy Hall Saturday's activities include general business sessions, activities associated with the group's high school and college student music competition and a banquet at the Lawrence Holiday Inn Holdrome, 200 McDonald Drive.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy. The high will be in the upper 60s and winds will be light and variable. Tonight will be partly cloudy and the low will be around 40. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy. The high will be in the low to mid-60s.
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Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International staff.
County's voter turnout hits high point
A RECORD NUMBER of voters cast ballots Tuesday in both Douglas County and Kansas, elections officials said yesterday.
Statewide, 1,019,325 voters went to the polls, or 79 percent of the state's registered voters. In the 1980 general election, about 979,000 Kansans voted. This election marked the first time more than 1 million Kansans voted.
In Douglas County, 32,453 voters voted, or 81.5 percent of the county's 39,826 registered voters. The previous record was 28,129 voters in the 1980 general election.
Bake Jrier, Kansas secretary of state, last week predicted that 1.07 million, or 80 percent of registered Kansans, would go to the polls. He said Tuesday that voter turnout ranged from heavy to swamped across the state.
The number of registered voters in Kansas also reached its highest level in state history. Brier said, with 1.29 million Kansans, or 78 percent of eligible, register to vote in this election.
Patty Jaimes, Douglas County clerk, said the county's heavy turnout this year stemmed from voter awareness.
"PEOPLE HAVE BEEN well-educated about registering to vote and about exercising their right to vote," she said
No figures are available to show the number of students who voted Tuesday, James said, but more students seemed to have gone to the polls.
The comments I heard from some of the poll workers were that there was a lot of young voters this time, a lot of first-time voters." James said.
In four precincts where traditionally many students live, the number of voters increased an average of 7.9 percent in each precinct over the 1980 number of voters.
In the county as a whole, the number of voters increased 15.3 percent over the number of 1980 voters.
David Berkowitz, chairman of the Douglas County Democratic Party, said yesterday that high voter turnout in affluent areas, coupled with the popularity of President Reagan, led to the presidential landslide Tuesday.
IN DOUGLAS COUNTY the large turnout probably helped the Republican candidates, he said.
"The interesting thing about Douglas County is the really heavy backing that
Republican candidates got outside of the city," Berkowitz said.
Attempts to reach several local Republican leaders last night were unsuccessful.
perkowitz said that man voters split tickets and voted for candidates from both sides, which was the result of a change in the voting system.
"Reagan carried 49 states," Berkowitz said, "but Republicans clearly didn't do that well in congressional races. Slatter got more votes than Reagan in Douglas County."
Rep. Jim Slattery, a Democrat, was re-elected in the 2nd congressional district, which includes Lawrence.
A Democratic Congress and a Republican president could mean Congress will not get much legislation passed in the next sessions, he said.
Yard signs must fall but stickers may stay
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
That Reagan-Bush bumper sticker can stay on the back of the car until the 1988 election, but Lawrence residents have less than two weeks to remove campaign signs and posters from public view.
The city's sign ordinance requires all political signs to be taken down within two weeks after an election. Gene Patterson, chief building inspector, said yesterday.
BUT SHIMGINESSY said that after previous elections, the city had not prosecued anyone who had failed to remove political signs within the two
"Normally, people take the signs down themselves," he said. "Every once in a while people put signs up and forget all the others." He said they just stonem and ask them to take them down.
Shaughnessy said campaign managers for most political candidates informed campaign workers that the signs needed to come down after the election.
Jim Wells, 3301 W. 22nd St., yesterday
The College Young Democrats took down their display in the publicity booth across from Bailey Hall on Election Day, Cohen said.
"We mainly put them up on UDK boxes and bulletin boards around campus." Cohen said. "We had to check to see exactly where we could put them." There are some places, like in the residence where you need special permission.
"There really isn't much left to do," he said. "Bulletin boards usually get taken down on their own."
Besides distributing the red-white-and-blue campaign materials of the Mondale-Ferraro campaign, members of College Young Democrats had put up posters and fliers for several local candidates Cohen said.
spent five hours driving around Lawrence take down signs for Nancy Welsh, Republican winner in the Douglas Country treasurer's race.
TODD COHEN, Mondale Ferraro committee chairman for College Young Democrats, said he doubted whether his committee would organize a cleanup drive to remove the hundreds of posters, signs or decorations the group has displayed on campus.
He estimated that he picked up 40 signs at various locations throughout the city
"I just had some time and took off in my pickup," said Wells, who had campaigned for Welsh during the election.
Jim Wells, 3301 W. 22nd St., plucks a placard from the yard of a Nancy Welsh supporter. Wells, who worked for Welsh during her successful campaign for Douglas County Treasurer, spent about five hours retrieving yard signs yesterday.
Elections draw response from foreign students
Staff Reporter
By MARGARET SAFRANEK Staff Reporter
Many foreign students were interested in Tuesday's election results even though they didn't cast their ballots at polling places.
Students from several countries expressed a variety of opinions on what a second term for President Reagan meant for their countries.
Rathnam Indurthy, Hyderabad, India graduate student, said cool relations between his country and the United States might have warmed up had Mondale won the election.
"Relations will not improve until the Reagan administration modifies its position toward Pakistan, and I don't think that is going to happen." he said. "Relations between the two nations will probably continue to be cool."
BUT A MONDALE victory would have been an encouraging sign for his country, indurthy said.
"There is a perception among Third World countries that Democrats have been sympathetic to ,,jdaa in particular and Third World countries, but especially liberal Democrats," Indrury said.
Optimism about the president's economic policies had some foreign students apologize.
Bajenjamin Ippecheung Chan, Hong Kong graduate student, said Reagan's supply side economics had been good for people of the United States and Hong Kong.
Reza Shams, Sibraz, Iran, graduate student, said the outcome of the election would make little difference in his home country.
"I THINK THAT the bottom line of this country's foreign policy is not run by parties. They may change the style, but overall policy remains. And I think what had Montale won the election," he said.
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Some foreign students who expressed concern with the Reagan victory focused on the need for social reform.
People in South Africa will be more comfortable with continuing apartheid with Reagan in the White House, said Marion Scheepers. Potchefstroon, South Africa, graduate student.
"I think Walter Mondale would have been much harsher in his condemnation of South Africa's political system," he said, "and he also communicated this more than Reagan did."
'Conservative white South Africa is undoubtedly comfortable with having Rea
"Reagan is the stronger person when bargaining with whoever is the military power that in some way threatens the West," he said. "And I have respect and sentiments for such toughness; it's a pragmatic point of view.
But a student from the Philippines said she had hoped to see Mondale win the election because she considered him a better alternative than Reagan.
"Reagan supports the Marcs dictatorship," said Magdalena Revatoris Meijlano, Manila, Philippines, graduate student. "In the debates, he said that he sees a communist takeover as the only alternative to the Marcs regime — that's not the only alternative."
MEJILLANO SAID THAT a Monday victory would not have eliminated human rights violations in her country, but that the situation might have been minimized.
Had Mondale won, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, knowing that the president opposed human rights violations, would
If Filipinas here had been allowed to vote, it might not have been a landslide," she said
Mejilano said many Filipinos in the United States disagreed with Reagan's support for the Marcos regime but did not have the capacity to make that known by casting ballots.
"The reason Marcos is so strong is that he is confident that the U.S. will be with him all the time."
"Mondale has too strong a belief in the humaneness of mankind."
it might not have been a landslide," she said Dan Ganah, a Gorey, Wexford County, Ireland, graduate student, said that although he and a strong minority of other Irish people disapproved of Reagan's foreign policy — especially the U.S. role in Central America — a second term for the President also meant little for most of Ireland.
DESPITE HIS CONCERNS with apartheid and Reagan's reluctance to take a stronger position against it, Scheepers said, he would have done like millions of Americans and voted for Reagan — had he been eligible to vote.
NOR WOULD A Mondale victory have meant any more. Gahan said, except for a possible increase in discussion of Northern Ireland in the United States.
have been more careful of his moves, she said.
"The U.S. government always tries to be neutral as far as the Northern Ireland situation is concerned." Gahan said. "Walter Mondale might have been subject to some Irish American influence within the Democratic party though, especially from the Northeastern congressmen — the ones who traditionally try to exert some influence."
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