Son of a gun
Richard "Scooter" Barry shares his father's name and talent for basketball, but says he's no reincarnation of his father, Rick Barry, one of the top forwards in professional basketball history. The freshman basketball recruit says he hopes to make a name for himself, but says "the jump shot is not hereditary." See story, page 16.
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KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 39 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, October 18, 1984
S. Africa bill would violate laws. KU counsel savs
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
A proposal that would attempt to cut Student Senate ties to South Africa would violate state laws if enacted, the University General Counsel said in an opinion issued this week.
The proposal is a bill that would prohibit groups that receive Senate money from spending it on products of companies that do business in South Africa.
"I'm pessimistic that anything can be done with this bill as long as compliance is mandatory." Vickie Thomas, general counsel, said yesterday.
IN HER OPINION. Thomas said the money affected by the bill was state money because it was kept in the state treasury for the University of Kansas.
Under state law, she wrote the state must buy all of its supplies, materials, equipment and contractual services through a competitive bidding process, with some exceptions, such as when no competitive situation exists.
Because the Senate money is technically state money, the Senate also must follow those guidelines, she wrote. The laws require that government agencies purchase goods at the lowest possible cost.
"Nowhere in the statutes concerning state monies do I find authorization to exempt from the competitive bid requirements purchases by student organizations," she wrote. "Nor do I find authority to remove from the competitive bid process certain obligations because the criterion of whether they conduct business in the Republic of South Africa."
DENNIS "BOOG" HIGHBERGER, student body vice president and co-sponsor of the bill, criticized the advisory opinion.
"it's basically what I expected," he said.
"It bothers me that people consider the rules more important than the facts."
Higherberger said that considering Senate money as state money made a mockery of student government. He said the Senate should control its own money.
"It's fairly clear that the state of Kansas does not think so," he said.
Jon Gilchrist, chairman of the Finance Committee, said Caryl Smith, dean of student life, requested an opinion from the board about the bill. The board had discussed the bill about two weeks ago.
CHRIST BUNKER, PRRAIRE Village law student and co-sponsor of the bill, and Charles Lawhern, Kansas City, Kan., junior and off-campus senator, now are rewriting
the bill to take the state bidding process into account.
Bunker said he did not want to comment about the opinion until after he met with
Lawhorn said, "It's a matter of perspective. The idea behind the bill is not to severely punish. The idea is to make a statement and encourage groups to do that."
The Senate last spring allocated $328,000 to various organizations for fiscal year 1985. The money comes from the $24 student tuition at the beginning of each semester.
Higherberger said the bill might affect only money that passed directly through the Senate office — the money the Senate allocates directly to student organizations and the money for its own use — or about $110,000.
OTHER MONEY IS allocated to revenue
code groups, which receive a set portion of the student activity fee. Higherger said the Senate probably would just encourage code groups to comply with the bill's provision.
Thomas said that only requesting compliance instead of mandating it would not be effective.
Bunker, Highberger and supporters of the bill are opposed to South Africa's system of apartheid, a form of racial segregation. Blacks are not allowed to vote there.
"I want us to put our money where our mouth is." Highbreeze said.
He said the bill revised by Bunker and Lawhorn would appear before the Senate Finance Committee at its next meeting on Oct. 31.
THE BILL HAS already appeared twice
See AFRICA, p. 5, col. 5
Sen. Bob Dole and his wife, Elizabeth, secretary of transportation. act as guest hosts at a fund-raising dinner for barbecue was last night at a Pleasant Grove ranch.
U.S. welcomes positive Soviet tone
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The White House yesterday welcomed a fresh overture from Soviet leader Konstantin Cherenkov, but rejected his call for arms control concessions by the United States as a condition of improved superpower relations.
"The United States stands ready to negotiate." White House spokesman Larry Speaker said "but we cannot concur in the apparent Soviet view that it is incumbent to impose a price so that the Soviet Union will come back to the nuclear negotiating table."
In a Washington Post interview published yesterday, Chernenko提到了 U.S. Soviet relations.
resolve "at least one of the essential questions" on the stalled arms control
- Talks on preventing "the militarization of space," coupled with a moratorium on testing of space weapons once the discussions begin.
Chenkoemil listed four areas where 'positive' steps by the United States could break
*An agreement to freeze U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals.
- A renunciation by Washington of the first use of nuclear weapons.
The interview, the first granted to a foreign journalist by Cherenko since he became
*Ratification of nuclear test treaties signed in 1974 and 1976.
Speakes said the administration found the timing of the interview "interesting." A senior administration official, noting the election was just three weeks away, said Chenkeno appeared bent on fueling the campaign debate.
Soviet general secretary in February, ... just four days before Sunday's television debate on foreign policy between President Reagan and Democratic rival Walter Mon-
Challenging Chernenkov's "version of recent history," Speaks denied the Kremlin leader's contention that Reagan had failed to maintain a commitment to arms control he stated often.
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 2
SPEAKES SAID THE administration was
DIC expresses support for riverfront proposal
By CHRIS BARBER Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The continuing saga of shopping mail proposals in Lawrence took another turn at yesterday's Downtown Improvement Committee meeting.
The DIC voiced its support for last week's proposal for a riverfront shopping mall and rejected a recent plan for a suburban shopping mall.
The riverfront proposal, from Steve Clark, of Steve Clark Commercial Real Estate of Lawrence, would allow the development of a hotel not mall on the riverfront next to City Hall.
THE PROPOSAL INCLUDES plans for a department store built over the existing City Hall parking lot and about 55 smaller shops. The actual request is for an extension on the lease to the riverfront Bowersock Mills and air rights to build over the parking lot.
The suburban balt m proposal, by Delta Properties Inc. of Baltimore, asks to rezone an area south of town. Delta has proposed a 61-acre, 450,000-square-foot development at the southeast corner of Iowa Street and Armstrong Road.
The DIC unanimously voted to recommend that the City Commission deny the request
These are two of three proposals for retail development facing the city.
In November, the commission named Town Center Venture Corp., a Lawrence company, as the developer of record for downtown improvements. Town Center has proposed an enclosed mail covering the 600 block of Massachusetts Street.
AT VESTERDAY'S MEETING, the DIC listened to Clark's presentation of the riverfront mail proposal, which he said was compatible with the Town Center project.
City Manager Buford Watson said Tuesday that any necessary information should be familiar to him.
Clark said that he was excited by reactions from City Commissioners at Tuesday's commission meeting. Commissioners said they supported the idea of the mall but needed the city staff to investigate the matter further.
Clark said he was negotiating with a department store, but he declined to name the company. He said the store was not national like a Macy's or a J.C. Penney and
would be able to specialize to Lawrence's needs.
"We don't want a prototyped store because they have specialized inventors. Clark
CLARK SAID HE would be able to disclose the information store if the commission approved his request.
Hank Booth, DIC president, said he was concerned that the store would have "staying power" and not fail.
Clark said that he was sure the store would not fail.
'We don't need any more discount stores.' he said.
Clark said his proposal could provide a stimulant to downtown development because major stores would be more likely to commit to development. The plan was committed to development in the area.
A commitment from the city also will
dourage Delta Properties from pursuing
them.
DIC members said they were pleased with Clark's pronosal.
"I hope you are able to pull it off," said DIC member Jack Arensberg. He said that he had talked to downtown merchants and that their store was to the riverfront mail had been favorable.
EARLER THE DIC, which acts as an advisory board to the commission, passed its motion against the suburban mall rezoning request.
The motion says that the DIC strongly reaffirms its support of the Town Center proposal and urges the commission to continue supporting it.
The DIC's recommendation also suggests that the commission reject any other proposal.
"Every successful downtown development has been subjected to suburban sites." Arensberg said. "The only way they got it downtown was to keep rejecting suburban sites."
before the suburban mall request will come before the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission on Nov. 14. The planning committee will then go to the City Commission on Dec. 5.
BOOTH SAID THAT both commissions must register their reeoming and not the insurer of the land.
"It is strictly a question of whether the city of Lawrence needs 61 acres of C-4," Booth said. C-4 is a type of zoning that allows
See DOWNTOWN, p. 5, col. 1
Challengers see rough race odds
By SUZANNE BROWN
Staff Reporter
He wanted to discover what Kansans thought about their government
And he was facing an incumbent in a senatorial race.
Jim Mahar, Kansas Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, had two reasons for traveling on foot from Wichita to Topeka in May and talking to voters along the way.
"Sure, you have to think of innovative things when you're running against someone so well known," said Maher, who opposes Republican Sen. Nagy Kassebaum, a first-term incumbent "incumbents don't have to do things like that."
MAHER IS ONE of hundreds of candidates in U.S. Senate and House races this year who have been using unusual publicity tactics in an effort to win recognition against an incumbent
Republican Jim Vim Slyke, a Topeka businessman, also faces an incumbent in the race for the 2nd District seat in the U.S. House. He is running against Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery, who was elected to his first term in 1982
From 1960 to 1980, 92 percent of House incumbents and 77 percent of Senate incumbents who sought re-election were successful. In 1982, only 27 out of 433 House members were beaten by challengers in their races.
"It is a very hard road to go up against an incumbent," Sylke say. "Being a challenger on the campaign trail is an experience everyone should have to go
Challengers in congressional races face overwhelming odds in their efforts to unseat
OUT OF 34 senators up for re-election that year, only two incumbents who ran were defeated.
The advantages politicians cite for members of Congress running for re-election include name recognition, franking, or free mailing, privileges up to 60 days before an election and the large amount of money incumbents by political action committees.
This access to money can weigh heavily against a challenger's efforts.
In 1982, political action committees gave $54 million to incumbent campaigns and only $18
Fred Wertheim, president of Common Cause, a nonpartisan citizen's lobby, comps statistics on incumbents to warn others about what he sees as a dangerous trend.
"PACs are investing in incumbents 3.4 to 1." he said.
Vin Sikey agreed that AC money was a primary priority. "The AC WANT to make sure they stick
See CONGRESS, p. 10, col. 1
Candidates' fund reports disclose gaps in financing
Staff Reporter
By SUZANNE BROWN
His opponent, Republican Jim Van Slyke,
should be glad to hear that.
Democratic Rep. Jim Slattery told students at a College Young Democrats meeting Tuesday night that money didn't vote, people did.
Financial disclosure forms for the period from July 19 to Sept. 30 filed by candidates vying to represent Lawrence in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate reveal a large gap between campaign contributions to incumbents and challengers.
The candidates are Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum and her Democratic opponent, Jim Maher, and Slattery and his challenger Van Slyke.
THE FIGURES SHOW that the incumbents, Kassaeum and Slattery, received large sums from dozens of individual contributors and political action committees. Van Slyke obtained a lot of his funds from large civic committees and a few large individual contributions.
Maher, an underdog in his race against Kassabeau, is financing most of his campaign with loans totaling $23,250 from his brother, William Maher.
In the two-month period, Kassebaum received contributions from individuals and political action committees totaling $65,914, bringing her year-to-date contributions to $243,013. She spent $53,387 during the two months.
Maher received $2,705 in campaign con-
See MONEY, p. 10, col. 4