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good cookies
Open once more
The old house at the north end of Oread Avenue was home to a department store, a clothing store, a health food store and an ice cream shop before it shut its doors four
years ago. Various problems have kept it empty since, but a husband-and-wife cookie company hopes to revive the building's business tradition. See story, page 3.
Gray High, 60s. Low, 50s. Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No.30 (USPS 650-640)
Friday, October 5, 1984
Debate pits GOP against Democrats
Students discuss candidates, issues before crowd of 150
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
The KU College Republicans charged that the Democratic Party had "cast a gloom" over the future with its pessimistic economic predictions, while the College Young Democrats said last night that Republican programs favored the wealthy and had created an "economic drudgery for America."
Debaters for the two student groups exchanged rebukes about each other's parties in a debate that began quietly but later evoked frequent audience applause for
About 150 people attended the debate, sponsored by Harvard Hall as part of its Awareness Day event.
Two debaters argued for each side. The Democratic group was represented by Marty Sadler, a graduate student and assistant coach for the KU Debate Team, and Michael Stineman, Lawrence senior, who was on debate and speech teams from 1980 to 1984.
THE REPUBLICAN GROUP was represented by Kay Deever, a senior from Kansas State University and chairman of the Kansas State Tribal Indians, and Doug Neumann, Touke's friend.
The opposing teams' stands were divided sharply along traditionally liberal and conservative lines.
The Republican debaters emphasized that the strength of the U.S. economy could not continue if the government financed all of the social programs advocated by Democrats.
The Democratic debaters said the Reagan government was unfit to minority and majority groups.
A young girl runs through a tunnel under Sixth Street on her way to Pinckney School, 810 W. Sixth St. She was trying to make it to class before school began Wednesday morning.
Stineman contended that underprivileged Americans were without the freedom to choose their futures. He responded to a statement by Neumann that Americans had more freedom under the smaller government advocated by Reagan.
Store offers Lawrence a healthy option
See DEBATE, p. 7, col.1
By JULIE COMINE
Staff Reporter
Shoppers won't find computerized checkouts, double coupons or nice young men in neckties to carry groceries to their cars at the Community Mercantile Co-op. 700 Maine St.
Those who shop at the co-op don't rush it. for six-packs of beer and bags of chips They're looking for granola, organically made whole-wheat spaghetti and other heath foods
The co-op, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this month, has become a regular shopping stop for hundreds of Douglas County residents.
Some enjoy the coop's variety of nutritious foods: farm-fresh eggs, breads baked without preservatives, peanut butter ground without salt.
Some prefer to support the idea of a cooperative market, where many of the goods have been bought from local producers.
AND OTHERS ENJOY the savings they receive when they purchase goods at the store.
"I'm not a food health freak, but I like to be most of my dry goods and seasons here."
Sherri Bortner, Lawrence senior, yesterday stopped at the co-op to stock up on several spices.
With spicy smells perking up the air, she
surveyed the 170 jars of spices stacked six feet high on shelves in the corner of the store.
"I need rosemary, oregano, basil and parsley," she said. "They're really cheap here compared to any other stores. You can buy as little or as much as you want."
Linda Gwaltryt, one of the co-op's four managers, said the store had accomplished its original goal of making health food available to local shoppers.
"YOU COULDN'T BUY this kind of food 10 years ago except at expensive health food stores." Gwalainy said. "I think it's a testament to the store's success that you can go to supermarkets today and find some of these goods."
See STORE, p. 6, col. 1
Committee kills Imber's petition on GLSOK funds
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Student Senate financing for Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas will not be put to a student vote, a Senate committee decided last night.
The Senate Elections Committee invalidated by a unanimous voice vote a petition calling for such an election. Committee members said after 90 minutes of debate that the petition lacked the proper wording to force a vote.
Steve Imber, Lawrence senior, circulated the petition in the spring. Four attempts to get him in office have been made.
Thom Davidson, chairman of the Elections Committee, said that Imer could appeal the decision to the University of Kansas Judicial Board.
Last night's move by the Elections Committee effectively kills the petition — and the chance for a student vote this fall on GLSOK financing — unless Imber appeals to the Judicial Board and is successful.
DAVIDSON ALSO said the committee would not check the signatures to see whether they were valid, because of the committee's decision.
Ruth Lichtwardt, president of GLSOK,
praised the decision.
"I think I am more relieved than pleased, she said. "I thought from the first that the man had been good."
The committee last week recommended that the Senate reject the petition at its Oct. 10 meeting because committee members said it was discriminatory.
That vote followed the appearance last month of "Fagbusters" T-shirts on campus. The shirts, a take-off on the popular movie "Ghostbusters," feature a limp-wristed ghost entrapped by a red circle with a bar through it. The word "Fagbusters" appears above the ghost.
Imber sold a shirt last week to a University Daily Kansan staff member who neither stated nor denied his affiliation with the newspaper. Imber said Wednesday that the shirts were a parody and that they should not have affected the progress of his petition.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS objected to the wording because it did not say that legislation would be enacted Senate rules say such unacceptable exactness of the legislation to be enacted.
Stone Scott, a committee member, said that the words "self-supportive" were vague, and that most groups on campus had the potential to be self-supporting.
"The problem comes when you draw the line as to how much potential you have to have." he said. "I don't think it can be done on a fair, equitable, consistent basis."
Kerri Hunter, a committee member, said that the debate on the wording of the petition showed that it was ambiguous.
But Tom Crisp, Dayton, Ohio, graduate student, told the committee members that the writing on the petition would be clear to a majority of students. He also said he had no interest in GLSOK, just in the possible election.
He said it was difficult to write a petition and be exact.
See PETITION, p. 7, col. 1
Congress approves money to pay idle federal workers
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — Congress approved a one-day stoppage money bill yesterday to allow $500,000 idled federal workers to return to their jobs and the Senate passed a $472 billion fiscal 1985 money bill, increasing hope for an adjournment today.
"The president will sign the bill," a White House spokesman said. "Workers are to 'enport back tomorrow.'"
The stopgap measure, passed by voice vote
Local workers sent home, p.3
in the House and Senate, was needed to give Congress time to resolve its differences over the money bill needed to keep the government operating through fiscal 1985.
An hour earlier, the Senate — tacking on anti-crime measures — passed the $472 billion bill, but the late spendings spending authority was late to keep 500,000 workers on the job.
The stopgap measure will provide the government with spending authority through 5 p.m. CDT today
A SENATE REPUBLICAN leadership source put the chances of adjournment today at "one in five," adding that it work cannot be done without expecting he expected the Senate to return Tuesday.
President Reagan blamed yesterday's partial shutdown on House Democrats. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. said it was a "Hollywood stunt" by Reagan.
"He stopped the government today not for purposes of good public policy, but for purposes of self-preservation."
Blurry-eyed cenators, who worked through the night until 8:30 a.m. CDT, returned at 1 p.m. and in mid-midafternoon approved a bill to provide the funds to keep the government operating until the new Congress can act on the regular appropriations bills next year.
BOTH HOUSES APPROVED a one-day stoppage bill to allow workers to return to their jobs today and House Senate conferences adopted a provision ensuring that federal workers furloughed because the government closed down will get paid.
Essential government activity continued despite the hold up on the money yesterday, and military personnel remained on duty to prevent any threat to the nation's security
Schol hall living delights woman despite age gap
By BRENDA STOCKMAN Staff Reporter
Clad in blue jeans, a white Oxford shirt and tennis shoes. Janet Hallagin lounged comfortably in her room at Douthart Scholarship Hall.
But unlike the 47 other residents, she is the mother of two teen-age sons and has been married for 16 years.
The other residents of the hall are generally traditional undergraduate women between the ages of 18 and 23.
But the age gap between Hallagin, a Buffalo, Kan., junior, and the other women in the hall doesn't bother her.
"I love it!" said Hallagin, 36. "I love watching them培
She is quick to point out that she is not a mother figure for her roommates or any of
"I can't be anybody's mother but my own kids," she said. "And I don't desire to be."
She stressed that she was not that different from the other residents.
"Actually, I've learned a whole lot more from them than they have from me."
"I ENCOUNTERED THE SAME emotions as any freshman or transfer student," Hallagain said, "So even though there is an age gap, we basically the same."
When she made the decision to transfer to the University of Kansas from Neosho County Community College, she also filled out an application to live in a scholarship
"My attraction to the school hall was that it was a place to be." Hallagain said. "A place to meet people, stay drink a cup of coffee, and demonstrate that's at least concave to studying."
Hallagin came to the University to finish her bachelor's degree in cellular biology with a PhD.
Joyce Cliff, assistant director of the office of residential programs and adviser for the scholarship halls, said she was pleased that the scholarship hall selection process didn't take away from her experience. She said that few other non-traditional students had lived in the scholarship hall system.
"The decision was made over 16 years," she said. "It was the hardest decision that we had."
Hallagain said that her decision to come to KU was not a quick decision.
"I'm not here without storm and pain. I had to do it to be content inside myself."
HALLAGIN SAID SHE was separated from her husband, who is caring for their two sons in Buffalo.
Keeping the boys in Buffalo was a priority for Hallain, she said.
"He's learning a lot because he's both mom and dad," she said. "But I don't think that will change anything between us."
"It just seems right. I go home every weekend. It's very, very nice of him to do
Besides the strain of distance, Hallagin's mother was diagnosed as having cancer
"The death of a parent is something you can't actually participate in. It's very difficult to stay passive," she said.
HALLAGAN DOESN'T LET her mother's illness get her down, her roommates say
See HALLAGIN, p. 7, col. 4
Janet Halligan, Buffalo, Kan., junior, washes dinner dishes at Douthart Scholarship Hall during her work shift. Halligan, who is 36 years old and has two sons living in Buffalo, is working toward a degree in cellular biology.