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Forget about the debates, the exit polls, the campaign politics — Election Day has arrived. Polls open today for this year's HOPE Award, given annually by seniors to an outstanding progressive educator. Profiles
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of this year's candidates, prepared by reporter Chrissy Cleary and photographer Chris Magerl, appear today on page 6. At left is Erica Stern, last year's winner and an associate professor of occupational therapy
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The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, October 24, 1984
Vol. 95, No. 43 (USPS 650-640)
Candidate passing new petition against GLSOK
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
A graduate student running for student body president is circulating a petition that calls for a campus election that could be "a condemnation by popular vote" of the Gay
Tom Crisp, Lawrence graduate student and presidential candidate for the Navy Jack Coalition, started circulating the petition Saturday. He said yesterday that several other students were helping him distribute the petition on campus.
He said he didn't know how many students had signed the petition.
THE PETITION SAYS, in part, "The passing of this referendum is to be taken as a condemnation by popular vote of this organization. We urge the University administration to take the necessary steps to remove GLSOK from state property and rescind the University's recognition of this organization."
In a handwritten statement to the press, Crisp said the intent of his petition was to offer students an opportunity to call an attorney to let them decide the issue for themselves.
"I strongly believe people with valid complaints must be fairly recognized," he wrote.
Crisp also said that the petition drive was
not connected with his candidacy and that members of his coalition were not helping him.
"I'm sure a lot of other candidates will try to connect my personal views with what I do during the campaign," he said.
CRISPS'S RUNNING MATE, Jacqueline Hirre, Lawrence junior, said that she supported the petition but that the petition did not represent the views of all Navy Jack coalition members.
Hirbe said some senatorial candidates of the coalition supported the petition, some were lukewarm on the issue and some disagreed with the petition.
"We don't want to make this a part of our
platform," Hirre said. "We don't want to make this a campaign issue."
Ruth Lichtwardt, president of GLSOK, said she was not surprised that the petition had been circulating. GLSOK will watch the progress of the petition before its members decide whether they will take any action, she said.
"I think he's trying to play on other people his ignorance. Other people his knowledge. The guy's talking about
"I think Tom's wanting to keep this separate from his election campaign is disproved by the timing of it."
DAVID AMBLER, VICE chancellor for student affairs, said student groups had a right to register as campus organizations.
whether the administration agreed with their purposes or not.
"Our purpose is not to disagree or agree with an organization," he said.
Ambler said the administration could rescind a group's registration only if it violated state or federal law or University guidelines.
The petition says GLOSK is unfit to be a student organization because it promotes a lifestyle that violates state law and serves as a political lobby instead of a service organization. It also says that many of GLOSK's public functions, such as "Wear
See GLSOK, p. 5, col. 4
Steven Purcell/KANSAN
Mary Douglas, 7, left, and Stephanie Eason, 8, second-graders at Hillcrest Elementary School, skate along near their homes in West Lawrence. The children said yesterday
that they both wanted to be cheerleaders someday. Mary is the daughter of Vicki and Joe Douglas, and Stephanie is the daughter of Sandra Eason.
Report blames seven for murder of Aquino
By DAVID LASSITER Staff Reporter
A report released yesterday on the assassination of Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino may have prematurely excluded one of the nation's top military leaders, said Albert Ravenhoit, an expert in Asian affairs.
Ravenholt, who was a correspondent in the Far East and Southeast Asia for many years, talked about the Aquino assassination yesterday to a journalism class in Stauffer-Flint Hall. Ravenholt is a member of the Universities Field Staff International, a program among several universities that sponsors scholars in foreign countries who spend part of each year lecturing at member universities.
THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT REPORT blamed Brig. Gen. Luther Custodio, 50, and six soldiers for the assassination but cleared Gen. Fabian Ver. Philippine armed forces chief of staff.
The report was completed by the head of a civil investigative panel, Corazon Agrava. The six soldiers named are Sgts. Claro Lat, Arnaldo de Mesa, Filomeno Miranda and
Armando de la Cruz, and Constables Rogelio Moreno and Mario Lazaga
The other four members of the panel will issue their statement today. Agriva said Ver would be identified as a member of the assassination group in that report.
Ravenholt said, "It's tough to establish evidence of Ver's connection with the assassination. However, he and many others in the military feared losing their jobs if Aquino came back and was elected president."
AQUINO WAS ASSASSINATED Aug. 21, 1983 at Manila International Airport as he stepped off a plane. He was returning to the Philippines after a three-year self-imposed exile in the United States.
"Aquino was returning to the Philippines believing that Marcos was about to die." Ravenholt said. "His death would have meant the election of a new president within three months. Aquino hoped to win the election."
President Ferdinand Marcos had appointed Ver instead of others who were more qualified, Ravenholt said. Ver was not a graduate of West Point or the Philippine
See AQUINO, p. 5, col. 5
Beirut bombing victims remembered
By United Press International
The handful of U.S. diplomats left in Beirut stayed at home yesterday amid threats of new attacks, forging a memorial Mass on the first anniversary of the suicide bombings that killed 241 U.S. servicemen and 58 French troops.
The service was held in a heavily guarded sandstone church in Christian east Beirut and was attended by about 150 people, including the French ambassador and members of his staff.
"No Americans from the embassy attended because it was not convenient to do so," said U.S. Embassy spokesman Jon
Stewart, underscoring the threat felt by an estimated 10 to 15 American diplomats still in Beirut.
FORTY-FIVE EMISSARY staff members had been in the city until the State Department ordered a staff reduction following the Sept. 20 truck bombing that killed two Americans and at least 2 Lebanese. The reduction also came amid reports that new attacks were being planned before the presidential election Nov. 6.
Twenty six staff members left during the weekend and a Beirut newspaper reported that nine others flew Monday to the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
The remaining diplomats have been ordered to take strict security precautions
and are no longer allowed to travel freely in the city or dine in restaurants. Most of them work from the residence of U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholowem.
In Washington, State Department spokesman John Hughes characterized the servicemen who died in Beirut as "instruments of peace."
"THIS ANNIVERSARY AND the recent attack on our embassy are grim reminders of the obstacles we face in our pursuit of peace in the Middle East," he said. "Nevertheless we will not be diverted from pursuing a just, honorable and lasting peace in the Middle East. We will persevere."
See LEBANON, p. 5, col. 1
Prepdom's priestess goes 'radical' in leather pants
By JOHN EGAN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sometimes, instead of a monogrammed sweater, a plaid skirt, a strand of pearls and penny loafers, the self-proclaimed "high priestess of prepedom" dons leather pants.
to do. I didn't want to be the first guest on MTV not to wear them. I'm a follower. I'm not a leader."
"I have to tell you that I wore leather pants. I had to," Lisa Birnbach, the priestess, said yesterday. "I was going on MTV. It was kind of a radical thing for me
Three years ago, when "The Official Prepy Handbook" soared to the top of the best-seller list, Birnbach reigned as queen of the prepy culture. But Birnbach's crown has tarnished. Now she occasionally wears leather pants. And her loyal prepy subjects have become part of the mainstream.
See BIRNBACH, p. 5, col. 2.
Library crunch impending
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story is the second in a two-part series on the library system at the University of Kansas.
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
"You can see how packed we are." Richardson, science librarian, said last week, pacing through the stacks on the sixth floor of Malott Hall. "We're getting everything on the shelves right now, in a couple of years I don't know what we're going to do
Jeanne Richardson poked her right index finger at a shelf crammed with chemistry books. The books didn't budge.
THE NEXT FEW years won't be easy ones for Richardson or other workers at libraries and reading rooms at the University of Kansas.
Until the proposed science and technology library becomes a reality, library workers will have to squeeze more books, periodicals and students into buildings that soon will be bursting at the seams.
"It's definitely time to get some more space."
university officials expect to present preliminary plans for the library to the Kansas Legislature next session. Construction could begin as early as 1987
ton books to go. Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said, ‘When the shelves are absolutely full, it's a disaster. You're constantly shifting books to make
room for new acquisitions and returns,
constantly squeezing shelves, tighter than
previously.
“it's a terrible inconvenience, but that's what we'll be doing for the next few years”
PLANS FOR A second central library on campus — one that would consolidate collections for primary sciences, architecture, business, engineering, music and some social sciences — have been discussed for almost a decade.
By 1893, when the first of two phases of the new library is scheduled to be finished, the shelves at four libraries and reading rooms will exceed 100 percent capacity, according to a study completed in June.
Books and periodicals for several of these disciplines are scattered at libraries and reading rooms across campus. Many students and faculty members have complained that they must shuttle from one library to another to track down research materials.
Lack of state funds has delayed construction of the science and technology library Branch libraries and reading rooms have access to books, CDs, shelves and a lack of study space and staff.
"BUT FOR ALL practical purposes, the shelves reach capacity when they hit 80 percent." Ranz said. "We're getting everything out now, but it may get so tight that we'll have to place some books in storage."
"As knowledge continues to grow, the University must continue to grow," Davidson said. "But if we have to put books and journals in storage where it could take as long as 48 hours to get at them, that's just awful."
John Davidson, professor of physics and astronomy, said that acquiring new library materials didn't make sense if students and faculty couldn't get their hands on them.
Instead of putting books in storage, libraries could move shelves closer together or increase shelf heights. Ranz said Both options, however, would inconvenience library workers and patrons.
THE STATE BUILDING code requires that three feet of space be between book shelves to provide adequate accessibility for the handicapped. Taller shelves could be built, Ranz said, but only if the library floors could support the extra weight.
In addition to the shortage of shelf space, Ranz said, a shortage of study space has plagued libraries.
"If you go to Watson or Malot, particularly in the evening, you can see it's just jam-packed," he said. "At most universities, the libraries should seat at least one-fourth of the student body. We're way, way below that."
See RESEARCH, p. 11, col. 1
SHELF CAPACITY AT KU LIBRARIES
Library % full 1989 projection
1. Engineering 51% 61%
2. Music 95% 112%
3. Proposed Science/Technology (not available)
4. Business 69% 79%
5. Science 86% 101%
6. Math/Computer Science 98% 114%
7. Spencer Maps 106% 124%
8. Watson 74% 87%