November 7,1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
The University Daily
KANSAN
Phone company restores service to area customers
Telephone service should be restored tonight to 3,360 homes and businesses in south Lawrence that have been without electricity. The southeastern Bell officials said yesterday.
"We hope we'll be finished by 10 p.m." said Pauli Knight, manager of the residence service center of the Lawrence Southwestern Bell office. "Most of the customers should have their service back before then."
The outage was caused Monday morning when Kansas Power & Light Co. workers accidentally cut four telephone cables as they were standing pole at 19th and Massachusetts streets.
Knight said phones were out along 23rd street as far east as Haskell Indian Junior College and as far west as Alabama Street. School officials say that area may have occurred, Knight said.
Philosophy expert to lecture
The controversy between realism and anti-realism in modern philosophy will be the topic of a lecture by a British philosopher, Professor John Hunt [Intertextuality, Room Pf. of the Kansas Univ.]
Simon Blackburn, a lecturer at Oxford University in Oxford, England, is the author of several books on philosophy, including "Reason and Prediction" and "Spreading the Word." His lecture is titled "How Can We Tell Whether Induction Has Truth Conditions?"
KU official to head conference
Joyce Cliff, assistant director of residential programs, was named president of the Upper Midwest Region-Association of College and University Housing Officers at the association's annual conference Oct. 26 in Des Moines, Iowa.
As president, Cliff will coordinate programs such as student activities, fiscal management and building maintenance for residence halls and housing organizations in nine states.
Theatre. Senate offer discount
Students who vote in next week's Student Senate elections can buy tickets to the campus production of "1776" (for half price, University Theatre officials said
The half price tickets will cost $2, $3 or $4 at Murphy Box Office in Murphy Hall, said Charla Jenkins, public relations director for the theatre. Students must show their KUID as proof that they voted in the election.
Kansan taking applications
"1776" will be performed at 8 p.m. Nov. 15-17, in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall.
The Kansan is accepting applications for editor and business manager for spring
Applications must be turned in to 200 Staufer-Flint Hall by 5 p.m. Nov. 15.
Application forms are available in the Student Senate office, B105 Kansas Union; the Student Organizations and Activities Office, B106 Union; and 119 and 200 Stauster Flint Hall.
Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and very mild. The high will be from 65 to 70. Winds of 15 to 25 mph will be from the southwest. Tonight will be partly cloudy and the low will be in the low 40s. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and the high again will be between 65 and 70.
Compiled from Kansan staff and United Press International reports.
Correction
Because of a reporter's error, the Kansan yesterday incorrectly quoted Tom Rodenberg, student body vice presidential candidate for the Fresh Vegetables Coalition Rodenberg said it took more courage for him to speak out against what he called apartheid in the KU Greek system than to sit in an all-white fraternity and recruit black leaders for a coalition.
Brice Waddill/KANSAN
Charles Stansifer, director of the Center for Latin America offered Monday from Nicaragua where he observeded Studies, sits at home with his daughter's dog, Ginger. Stan- Sunday's election.
Nicaraguan vote fair, prof says
By DAN HOWELL
Staff Reporter
Nicaragua's national election on Sunday proceeded fairly and efficiently despite contrary claims, an expert on Latin America said yesterday after returning from a week of observation in Nicaragua
Charles Stansifer, director of the Center of Latin American Studies, said the apparent election of Sandhita junta leaders as vice president showed their party's immense popularity
"I have no reason to doubt the figures," he said.
RETURNS COUNTED as of yesterday gave Daniel Ortega and Sergio Ramirez, Sandista candidates for president and vice president. Of the three candidates, 26 percent of the polling stations accounted for.
Sandista officials had predicted that their candidates would receive 80 percent.
The election was the first in Nicaragua in 10 years. In 1979, the Sandinistas overthrew Anastasia Somoza Debayle, ending a 46-year rule by the Somoza family.
Stansifer was part of a team of 16 academic observers that went to Nicaragua on Oct. 28 and returned to the United States yesterday. He volunteered to educate the Latin American Studies Association.
"Our group was the most sophisticated and we stayed the longest," he said.
Stansifer said that the team would complete a draft of its official report by the end of the week, and that until then he could speak only for himself.
THE NICARAGUANS TREATED the team hospitally, he said, because they want to make good impressions on people who can influence public opinion of Nicaragua.
"They realize that the revolution depends upon international support," he said.
Stansifer said the election had been held for international consumption, to gain an advantage over the United States.
Most international observers in Nicaragua for the election are disgusted with the Reagan administration's view of the election, he said.
"The United States has taken a role inside the Nicaraguan political process to subvert its election," he said. "As a patriotic citizen, I believe that our government is involved in such duplicity."
HE SAID THAT DESPITE lack of hard evidence, it appeared that administration officials, including Secretary of State George Shultz, had encouraged or pressured opposition candidates to boycott the election in order to discredit it.
"You have to remember that Nicaragua is at war with the United States from the 1960s, when it fought for democracy."
Stanisfer said the observers had received an intelligence briefing about the strategy of the contras, or rebel groups supported by the United States.
"It was the clearest image of a country at war that we had," he said. "There were a lot of generals and colonels in uniforms and with maps."
The Reagan administration decided in December 1981 that Nicaragua's government must be removed, Stassler said, and it has been placed in its intention to undermine and remove it.
THAT VIEW, HE SAID, based on the idea that Nicaragua is already lost to the Communists, leads the administration to Nicaragua but accept them in El Salvador.
President Reagan and officials of his administration have called the Nicaraguan election a pretense and a lost opportunity to move toward democracy.
Some opposition parties in Nicaragua boycotted the election because of alleged unfairness and intimidation on the part of the Sandistas.
But Stansier said Sandinista control of the government and the press was not the real problem Nicaraguan opposition parties faced. The Sandinistas are so popular that opposition parties could not mount a serious challenge, he said.
Stansifer said he had enjoyed the experience of being close to the election and in the company of so many experts.
"EVERY NIGHT WE argued the subtleties of the Nicragan political process," he said.
Senators unknown, poll finds
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Most students do not know the names of their representatives in Student Senate or who the student body president or vice president are, a candidate for a Senate seat
Stonefield said he had conducted the poll in front of Wescoe Hall.
Peter Stonefield, Overland Park park more, who is running for a Nunemaker seat, said that he recently polled 100 students and asked them if they would like to be the names of their Senate representatives.
STONEFIELD SAID THE poll indicated that widespread apathy toward student government existed on campus.
"People don't know who their representa tae. And, therefore, they don't care, he said.
Stonefield is one of the more than 30 candidates running for 17 Nunemaker senate seats. He is a member of the Momentum Coalition. The election will be Nov. 14-15.
Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts.
Stonefield also said he asked the students whether they knew who Carola Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boo" Highlander, student president, were. He said most of them did not.
"Sixty-one or 62 had no idea and really didn't care," he said.
VOGEL SAID YESTERDAY that she was not surprised that most students did not know who their Student Senate representatives were.
"This is my sixth year here, and I never knew who my representative was when I was an undergraduate." she said. "That shows you that something is wrong."
But she said she was slightly surprised that more than 60 percent of the students polled did not know who she or Highberger were.
"Well, you know, a poll is a poll," she said.
"Well, you know, a polis is a poli," she said. Stonefield said the Vogel-Highlander student senators themselves were to blame for the spats among the students he polled.
The structure of the Senate is also at fault he said.
VOGEL ALSO SAID the Senate structure was part of the reason for the apathy in the students Stonefield polled.
"If they felt like they could have some impact on the decisions that are being made, they might find out who their representatives need to be re-examined."
Stonefield said he would like Senate meetings to be moved around campus to places as residence halls. A list of pictures should also be published, he said.
Stonefield said he would also work to change the attitude of the senators.
"I don't like someone to tell me what is good for me," he said. "Students should be able to walk up to student senators."
Student Senate candidates discuss platforms
By JOLIE OGG
Staff Reporter
The need to re-examine the structure of Student Senate highlighted platforms offered last night by candidates for student body president and vice president.
The candidates presented their platforms in a forum sponsored by the All Scholarship Hall Council.
"We want to bring the Senate back to an efficient working unit geared toward student issues and concerns without radical violence," said the presidential candidate for the Frontier Coalition.
Polack said the Frontier Coalition offered students a diverse selection of Senate candidates that would reach out to all candidates. William Easley is the presidential candidate.
One way to restructure Senate, said Chris Coffelt and Tim Bolzer, presidential and vice president candidates for the & Toto, Too. They would elect senators by geographic location.
Senate one year to straighten up.
"We feel it would be more effective because you would live with and know personally your representative." Boller said
Lawhorn said he and presidential candidate Mark "Gilligan" Sump wanted to call a referendum for a bond issue to increase campus lighting.
Chris Admusem, presidential candidate for the Fresh Vegetables Coalition, said students were concerned that they couldn't approach the student government. He said the Fresh Vegetables Coalition would try to make Senate more accessible to students.
Charles Lawn, vice presidential candidate for the Morpontum Coalition, said the new term would be more focused.
David Spear, vice presidential candidate for the Beautiful Day Committee, said he didn't want any votes but wanted to present two issues: equal representation for women
and minorities and free use of hospital services.
John McDermott and Pam Rutherford, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Reality Coalition, said that they thought their ideas and beliefs represented most students at the University.
"The University shouldn't be able to make moral decisions." Mcdermott said.
Tom Crisp and Jackie Hirte, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Navy Jack Coitation, said they would form a Free Speech Committee that students could approach with grievances.