Dog day afternoon
Kansas' junior varsity players yesterday might not have had any idea what a Griffon was, but they spent all afternoon in dogged pursuit of the team from Missouri Western.
A series of miscues hounded KU, but Salina freshman Tony Harvey, at left, who scampered for 79 yards, was one Hawk definitely not in the doghouse. See page 12.
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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 52 (USPS 650-640)
Tuesday, November 6, 1984
Jara Rudzik, Ulysses junior, concentrates her efforts as she team, was practicing yesterday afternoon near Memoria attempts to put the shot. Rudzik, a member of the KU track Stadium.
By United Press International
President Reagan stood poised on the verge of an apparently easy re-election victory yesterday, despite a last-minute surge by Walter Mondale in some polls on the eve of Election Day.
The two presidential contenders started their final full day of campaigning in Reagan's home state of California. Reagan planned to spend the night in Los Angeles, while Mondale headed home to Minnesota — the state he has the best chance of capturing if Reagan wins by a slide.
REAGAN TOLD VOTERS that peace and arms control would be the main goals of a second term. Mondale asked voters to make history by giving him an upset and electing the first woman vice president, Geraldine Ferraro.
A National Public Radio Louis Harris poll broadcast yesterday showed Mondale has closed to within 11 points of Reagan - a gap that stood at 19 points in the poll last week. It showed Mondale gaining strength in the East, particularly.
Most polls gave Reagan a wider lead. His biggest lead, 25 points, came in a USA Today poll published yesterday that gave Reagan 60 percent and Mondale 35 percent.
It was a sentimental journey home for Reagan in his final campaign. Twenty years ago in California he gave up acting to go campaigning for Barry Goldwater, and two years later he was elected governor of the state.
IN SACRAMENTO, CLOSING his cam
The capitol was decked out in bunting for Reagan's first return as president. Frank Sinatra, the Reagans' longtime friend, was recruited to perform.
paign in the state capitol where he served two terms as governor. Reagan said the top priorities of a second term would be peace and arms control. Campaign workers estimated a crowd as large as 25,000 for a late-morning rally on the steps of the capitol.
Reagan spoke with pride of a nation that has changed course under his leadership and declared, "Tomorrow, the voters are going to decide if we keep that dream alive."
"Number one is peace, disarmament and the reduction of world nuclear weapons," Reagan said. "On the domestic scene, to continue with the policies that have led to the growth we now have and make that an ongoing expansion, so we have a growing economy that will provide jobs for the people that need them."
THE HIGHLIGHT OF MONDALE'S final full day of campaigning was a rally of 50,000 people in downtown Los Angeles, where he called on voters to out of office "a president who insults our intelligence every day."
"Either they will make history or we will make history. Reagan knows that." Mondale said "That's why he's calling for a clean sweep. Now if they make history, I'll call it a historic mandate. So before you decide, pause a moment and think about that."
"The choice is clear: if you let them make history, they'll turn your vote into a future one."
Young voters' shift to the right may be exaggerated
Staff Reporter
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
The new wave of conservatism supposedly sweeping over young people this election year may not be of the tidal proportions estimated.
"I think the average student here is pretty damn superficial politically," Robert Antonio, associate professor of sociology, said yesterday. "He doesn't read newspapers; he
Professors and student party leaders, as well as national and local statistics, suggest a less well-defined trend among young voters than recent polls and news analyses have indicated.
has almost no knowledge of American history.
"IM NOT SO SURE there's that much difference in the average student from the
Antonio said that most students then and now were not so much radical or conservatism as liberal.
"With both the liberal students in the 70s and the ultra-conservative ones now, there is a minority of people that are committed and have highly articulated political ideas," he said. "Most of the rest of them don't really know what any of the issues are."
Recent national polls, such as Harris, Gallup and the New York Times/CBS News polls, have shown that voters in the 18- to 24-year-old age group prefer President
Reagan to Walter Mondale by about to percentage points more than any other age group.
However, these polls also indicate that young voters often side with the former vice president on such issues as foreign policy and abortion.
ANTONIO SAID THAT MAN KU students' support of Reagan was a reflection of their faith.
"I'd be real interested to see how students here would react to a real conservative program on campus, like curties and drinking restrictions and things like that," he said. "I have a feeling conservative students here ways aren't very different from liberals."
science, said he thought students appeared to be more conservative now. But he said he wasn't sure how much his view had been influenced by my reading recent articles on the satire.
Earl A. Nehring, professor of political
"When this conservatism has lasted a period of time," he said, "then I'll believe there really is a movement in that direction."
OTHER FINDINGS INDICATE the difficulty of defining the political preferences of young people. Polls taken on campuses on the East coast and in California found Mondale was preferred to Reagan by substantial margins.
Amy Kelley, national coordinator for the National Student Campaign for Voter Registration, said that Mondale had been drawing
college crowds as large and as enthusiastic as those that had turned out for Reagan.
"It's just really hard to tell what the trend is," she said. "It seems the press has really been playing up this conservative thing, so they don't pick up on anything else."
Kelley said that young people seemed to be moving away from party politics
"I think that neither party right now is answering the interests of this younger audience."
IN THE FIVE precincts encompassing the University of Kansas and many student residences, voters who registered as independent outnumbered both Republicans and Democrats.
See TRENDS, p. 5, col. 1
Liquor store, bar owners criticize election day law
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Kansas liquor laws require taverns and retail liquor stores to be closed until the polls close at 7 p.m. But one option remains for the clerks to drink. Private clubs do not have to close today.
Voters hoping to toast their favorite candidates' imminent victories early in the day are pretty much out of luck unless they stocked up on libations last night.
"It's ridiculous and hypocritical, but that's the way it reads," said Ace Johnson, owner of The Sanctuary, 1401 W. Seventh St., a private
club. "Of course I am not complaining, but it is still kind of a joke."
KEN WALLACE, OWNER of the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio, agreed with Johnson.
"Obviously it's its hypocritical." Wallace said. "But, it just is part of the archaic laws of Kansas and its attempt to pull off a Kansas prohibition."
Bob Hazzard, assistant chief enforcement officer of the Kansas alcohol beverage
Computers to evaluate students' writing skills
See LIQUOR, p. 5, col. 1
"These are left over from bygone days. How fair is it that you can go into a club and order a mixed drink, but you can't go into a tavern and order a 3.2 beer?"
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Instead of banging out compositions on typewriters, students can enter their work into computers that will provide immediate critiques.
Some English 101 students will step into the comuter age next semester.
As part of a pilot project in computer-aided instruction, the department of English this semester will purchase a computer system that first will be limited to use by some English 101 students, Michael Johnson, chairman of the department, said last week About 200 students will have access to the system next semester.
EVENTUALLY THE SYSTEM will be available to other departments and schools at the University of Kansas, he said.
Students will write compositions into the system, which then will criticize the compositions and alert students to problems with punctuation, spelling and grammar. An
The system includes a super-micro computer, 10 terminals and a printer. The University recently approved about $30,000 for the pilot project, Johnson said.
The system will use a computer software program, "Writer's Workbench," to assist students in writing compositions. Johnson created the Writer's Workbench system by cell tutor.
See ENGLISH, p. 5, col. 3
Students brave 39 degree weather to buy student season basketball tickets at Allen Field House. About 700 students lined up yesterday morning to buy the 1,000 tickets available.
Cold fans wait for basketball tickets
By BRENDA STOCKMAN
Staff Reporter
Under cold, clear skies at the break of dawn, students wrapped in blankets and sipping coffee waited all Overfield Field on a cloudy day. At 1,000 student season basket ball tickets.
But a half-hour after the ticket sale began, everyone in line had walked away with a ticket in hand. About 300 tickets remained.
Kurt A. Ick, Overland Park freshman,
bought the 100th ticket at 1:55 p.m.
yesterday, said Terry Johnson, ticket
manager.
THE 1,000 TICKETS available yesterday were part of the 7,000 basketball tickets reserved for students this season. But 5,283 tickets were sold earlier this year in all-sports ticket packages. The remainder of the tickets were for other members and members handicapped people first-aid personnel, and fraternity and sorority house mothers.
Athletic director Monte Johnson said yesterday that the last time 7,000 student tickets were sold was the 1980-81 season. That same time was a senior standout on the team
Johnson said he didn't expect tickets this year to be available for long.
"It just worked out ideally," he said.
For students who didn't buy the all-sports ticket, season basketball tickets went on at 6:30 a.m. yesterday.
The first seven students who bought tickets said they had set up camp at 10 p.m. Sunday to wait for tickets to go on sale.
Handy Cold, Mulvane senior, said that despite the cold air and concrete mattress,
Others led the vigil at midnight. LANCE VOGEL, DODGE City senior
said, "I drove by and saw people in line and I thought I better get my stuff."
Greg Garvin, Overland Park senior,
said he and his friends had been planning
on camping out since last week when they
spotted a camper on sale. Garvin arrived at midnight.
Terry Johnson said some students had trouble writing checks for the tickets because their hands were too cold from the air. The morning low was 39 degrees.
But Garvin, like many others in line,
said he didn't mind waiting. He said he
thought the first come first served,
but the second system was a fair
way to sell tickets.
Not everyone waiting yesterday morning agreed, however.
Alison Knop, Prairie Village junior, said. "I think this is crummy. You have to wait in lines for everything around here. We wait in line to enrol. We wait in line to pay fees and now we wait in line to buy a crummy basketball ticket."
said.
"I know, but I'm mad." Knap said.
"IT'S NOT A CRUMMY ticket," a friend said.
know, "but I'm mad," Krop said
him. "So Louis, Louis junior, had
similar sentiments."
He said he thought the all-sports tickets were a bad deal for students. "They're trying to support a loss program with a winning program," he said.
The all sports ticket package contained student season tickets to the KU relays,
See TICKETS, p. 5, col. 5