Open arms
After languishing 19 years in a damp, dark warehouse, Venus de Milo, goddess of love, is once again welcoming the warmth of an adoring public. This replica of the
Mild
famous armless beauty is being shown by the department of classics along with some of her old friends, including Hermes and Apollo of Belvedere. See story, page 3.
High, 60s. Low, 50s.
Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 45 (USPS 650-640)
Jackie Kelly/KANSAN
Friday, October 26, 1984
OVERLAND PARK — Former President Gerald Ford draws economic policy. Ford endorsed Meyers for the 3rd Congress applause and a smile from State Sen. Jan Meyers, R- national District seat yesterday at a breakfast and news con Overland Park, as he speaks in support of President Reagan's ference at the Marriott Hotel.
Bush to help Republicans in House bids
By United Press International
WASHINGTON - Confident Reagan-Bush officials will move Vice President George Bush from the presidential campaign to help boost the congressional candidates, offi- cially said yesterday.
Reagan campaign manager Ed Rollins said there were about two dozen competitive
"It looks like we do have a chance to pull in some members of Congress, so we're certainly going to make that effort," said Bush spokesman Peter Teeley in Rochester.
REAGAN MET WITH his political advisers in the White House yesterday to plan the final phase of his campaign, during which he appeared to be on the road almost constantly.
Reagan has three campaign stops in the Northeast today, with appearances in Fairfield, Conn.; Nassau County, on New York's Long Island; and Hacksack N. J.
Reagan-Bush campaign officials, encouraged by public opinion polls and the financial condition of Walter Mondale's campaign, were a key factor in his campaign strategy Wednesday, aides said.
They said Reagan would carry the bulk of the re-election effort from now on, as well as help some GOP senators in tight re-election races.
ROLLINS SAID REAGAN held a lead of 20 percentage points nationally in the campaign's polls, an increase of 6 percentage points since the presidential debate in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday. But a new ABC Washington Post poll put Rep. Rubio ahead of Cruz and the latest Harris poll showed him to have 14 percentage points ahead of Mondale.
Reagan's polls show him leading substantially in states Mondale hopes to win — including a lead of 14 percentage points in New York, a 13 percentage point lead in Pennsylvania, an 11 percentage point lead in Massachusetts and more than a 10 percentage point lead in Oregon, Washington and California.
Rollins said the Reagan campaign, which has tracked the Democratic expenditures, was more financially sound than the Mondale campaign.
FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION reports yesterday showed that Reagan had nearly $2 million more than Mondale in federal money left for his campaign. Each campaign received $40.4 million from the income tax check off fund, which is the bulk of the money that each is permitted to spend on his campaign.
On the campaign trail in Syracuse, N.Y. Bush yesterday told a Mondale supporter that the Democrats couldn't win this year
See CAMPAIGN, p. 5, col. 3
Meyers gets campaign boost Ford stumps for Republican candidate
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
OVERLAND PARK — A 12-year-old girl, six years from being able to vote, played hooky yesterday morning to listen to former President Gerald Ford blast Walter Mondale's proposals for reducing federal budget deficits.
Ford spoke at a reception, breakfast and news conference at the Marriott Hotel on behalf of State Sen. Jan Meyers, R-Overland Park, for the 3rd District Congressional seat
But Ford's campaign rhetoric fell on at least two deaf ears. Brooke Helmers, 12, of Leawood, a seventh grader at Barstow School, paid more attention to the happenings around her at the 8 a.m. breakfast of scrambled eggs, bacon and fried potatoes.
At the breakfast, Ford attacked Mondale's proposals, one of which is an $85 billion tax increase to cut federal deficits.
FORD CALLED MONDALE'S proposals unsound and they would not be effective.
heavy burden of Mondale taxes," he said.
Few Democrats in Congress have supported Mondale's proposed solutions to the climate change crisis.
"Not one Democrat out of 300 plus embraced them," he said. "Now that's real presidential leadership."
"We could not afford now to have that
Brooke, meanwhile, said that she was fascinated to see a former president and that she liked watching Ford's Secret Service agents.
"I thought it was neat," she said with a grim, her teeth covered with braces. "I love water."
FORD LAUED PRESIDENT Reagan for his ability to cut interest rates and lower the unemployment rate after former President Jimmy Carter and Mondale left office. Ford said that Carter and Mondale "blew it" with their economic policies.
Brooke and about 250 other Meyers supporters — including two of Meyer's opponents in the August primary — attended the $10-per-person breakfast.
"The economic policies of the Carter Mondale administration were a disaster." Ford said. "And we were on the brink of the
Reagan has turned that disastrous situation around. Ford said.
worst economic recession in 40 years.'
"We are on the right track economically," he said. "We're doing very, very well as a
However, Ford said the large deficit still was a problem. He said Reagan would raise taxes to reduce the deficit only as a last resort.
BECAUSE MEYERS AGREES with Reagan's economic policies, 3rd District voters should elect her to help keep the nation on the right track, Ford said.
Both Reagan and Mondale have suggested cutting government spending to reduce the
The Republican National Committee arranged Ford's visit to boost Meyers' campaign against Democrat Jack Reardon, mayor of Kansas City, Kan. Meyers and Reardon had succeeded to succeed Republican Harry Winters, who is retiring after 18 years in the House.
Meyers, a 12-year veteran of the Kansas Senate, said the Ford visit bolstered her congressional bid.
U.S. needs third party leader says
Former candidate says system fails to serve its purpose
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
America needs a strong third party to give new life to its failing political system, John Anderson, 1980 independent presidential candidate, said last night.
Anderson spoke to about 500 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom about the future of U.S. politics. He said the Democratic and Republican parties were fulfilling the needs of the American public.
"Reforms in our system need to be made." Anderson said. "And the cutting edge of those reforms would be a strong, new third order to elevate the quality of the current system."
In 1980, Anderson gained 6.6 percent of the vote in the presidential election. In November 1983, Anderson formed and became chairman of the National Unity Party.
Last night, he spoke about problems he has had getting the public to seriously consider a change.
"FOR THE PAST 130 years," he said, "we have functioned under a two-party system to the point that it seems as if Moses, when he descended from Mt. Sinai, had an 11th commandment written in stone: 'Thou shalt have only these two parties.'
"We are not irrevocably bound to the present system."
Anderson, a former Republican congressman from Illinois, also spoke about his support of former Vice President Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro in this year's presidential campaign. Anderson is called Independents for Mondale-Ferraro.
"The overriding reason, although I have many, that I support Mondale is his stand on arms control," Anderson said in a press conference before his speech. "My concern is that the arms race begun by Reagan would continue for four more years if he was re-elected. His record is barren of any accomplishments with arms agreements."
"I feel the Mondale program is superior to that of the Reagan-Bush campaign," he said.
ANDERSON, WHILE ANSWERING questions for about 20 minutes after his speech, said he also supported Mondale's position onimental issues and the federal budget defect.
Anderson, who was interrupted by ap- plause eight times during his hour-long speech, said that the need for a third party stemmed from a "systemic failure" and that the two major parties no longer functioned the way they were supposed to.
"If a political party is to serve its intended
See ANDERSON, D. 5, col. 1
Kim Green, Rapid City, S.D., freshman, carves the nose out of a pumpkin. She said yesterday that she was going to use the pumpkin to decorate her room in McCollum Hall for Halloween.
Larry Weaver/KANSAN
Spoken English test to be required of TAs
BY HOLLIE B. MARKLAND
Foreign students eligible next fall for first-time appointments as graduate teaching assistants will have to pass a spoken English test before they may teach, under a policy issued last week by the office of academic affairs.
"It will be positive for students," Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said yesterday.
Tacha said complaints from students had spurred her office to draft the policy.
"There have been concerns voiced about some instructors not having the ability to speak good English," Tacha said. "We can be sure the graduate teaching assistants have the ability to teach by testing their English."
A MEMO SENT Friday to deans, directors and chairmen in academic affairs outlined the policy. Under the policy, foreign students must pass a test of spoken English in addition to the written English test they were are already required to pass before becoming teaching assistants.
Students who do not pass the written and spoken tests will be able to enroll in a special English class offered by the Applied English Center.
When students have completed the class,
they may reapply for a teaching assistant position.
George Woodyard, associate vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service, said the new policy was designed to provide a method for screening teaching assistant candidates.
"THERE IS NOT really much of a problem." Woodyard said, "but the test will be another way to calibrate the students we do bring in as graduate teaching assistants."
Some department chairmen said they were pleased with the new policy.
Twenty-four of the 57 graduate teaching assistants in the math department are not native English speakers. Himmelberg said.
"I think it's an excellent policy that should be helpful to us and students in our department."
Charles Himmelberg, chairman of the department of mathematics, said the test of spoken English would provide an objective way to test foreign students.
The bulk speak as colloquially as you or I do," he said, "but a few have an accent that is not clearly pronounced.
BEFORE FOREIGN STUDENTS are hired as teaching assistants in the math department, he said, they are asked to present a sample lecture to a committee of two
"We hire people we think are understandable," he said. "Sometimes a Midwestern
freshman doesn't have as much tolerance as a college professor.
"We would be better off if everyone spoke Midwestern English, but we can't get enough TAs. We depend on foreign TAs to fill out our teaching roster.
"The vast majority do fine."
J. P. Davidson, chairman of the department of physics and astronomy, said the department did not have trouble with foreign teaching assistants who were not proficient in English. Like the math department, the physics and astronomy department requires foreign students to present a lecture to a committee.
"We don't let them teach unless they can be understood," he said.
ABOUT ONE-FOURTH OF the graduate teaching assistants in the physics and astronomy department are not native speakers of English, Davidson said.
Teaching assistant jobs at U.S. colleges are different from similar jobs at colleges in other countries.
"In their countries, there is a professor in the classroom. But here they are the sole instructor in the laboratories," he said. "Here they are much more isolated and more independent. We make sure they can handle the students, the language and the
DONALD GYOROG, CHAIRMAN of the
See LANGUAGE, p. 5, col. 5