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The University Daily
KANSAN
Vol. 95, No. 24 (USPS 650-640)
Thursday, September 27, 1984
Deputized students boost registered voter count
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
More than 3,000 newly registered voters can mark a ballot in November because of registration drives sponsored by student organizations, the Douglas County clerk said yesterday.
Patty James, the clerk, said she had deputized about 65 students from different KU groups to make them eligible to register voters in Douglas County
"There's a lot of students interested this year," she said.
For the students to be deptuted, they must go to the county clerk's office to be instructed
by, Jaimes. Then they are deputized and sign
up oath.
an oath.
The deadline for voter registration is Oct.
16.
DELTA SIGMA THETA sorority and the College Young Democrats sponsored voter registration drives Sept. 10-14 and Sept. 17, 19 and 21. Jaimes estimated that the two groups combined had registered about 1,300 people during the drives.
people don'ng the information.
Kelli Frey, a member of Delta Sigma
Theta, said that 18 people from her sorority had been deputized to register voters.
"We felt like a lot of students were not aware that they could register in Lawrence if they were out of state," Frey, Topeka senior, said. "People don't think about it, and
then they're walking through the Union and see tables set up and realize how easy it is to register."
London Bonds, assistant director of the office of student organizations and activities, said several groups had applied to her office to have voter registration drives.
"There's definitely been an increased student interest this year." Bonds said.
student interest this year. SANDRA BINYON, WICHTA senior, is the coordinator for the Associated Students of Kansas voter registration drive. The ASK drive is a statewide effort called Task Force 84.
"This is a voter registration and education project throughout the state," Binyon said. "We've registered over 1,000 students here at KU in two separate pushes."
Student reaction to the voter registration on campus has been good, Binyon said.
"People are glad it's there," she said. "It makes it hardy because they don't have to go down to the courthouse or vote by absentee ballot."
ballot.
Binyon said about 20 deputized students had been working at the organization's registration tables. Task Force '84 now is holding a drive that will continue through tomorrow in front of Wescoe Hall.
ALSO THIS WEEK, the College Young Democrats and the Association of University Residence Halls are sponsoring a drive at the residence halls on campus.
Leo Redmond, vice president of the College Young Democrats, said the group had
registered about 800 students with the residence hall drive as of last night. The drive will continue through the week.
drive will commute to a large number of people registered who otherwise wouldn't be," said Redmond, Overland Park junior
Redmond also said that the county clerk had deputized about 20 people from his organization.
Wes Naylor, president of the KU chapter of Youth for Reagan-Bush, said his organization was planning a voter registration drive in October.
Steel policy is theme of campaign rhetoric
drive in October
"We will be working with people in the College Republicans." Naylor said. "We hope to visit every fraternity and sorority to give them a chance to register. We'll also have a booth on campus."
By United Press International
Both President Reagan and Democrat Walter Mondale stumped across industrial Ohio yesterday condemning each other's plans for putting the nation's slumping steel industry back on its feet.
Mondale, renewing his call for limits on steel imports, said in Cleveland that Reagan had "turned his back" on the needs of the industry and told the United Steelworkers convention the president wanted a environment tree of unions.
THE BIG INDUSTRIAL states of the Midwest are a key battleground in the presidential election — an area Mondale now trails in but must sweep if he has any hope of unseating Reagan.
Reagan toured a steel plant in Canton, Ohio, defending his plan to solicit voluntary limits on imports, and saying that the Mondale plan for quotas would end up burting the steel industry in the long run.
is percent. Mondale delivered a speech aimed as much at arousing his supporters as winning converts.
Mondale has proposed limiting steel imports for five years to 17 percent of the total sold in the United States. Reagan said he would work toward voluntary restraints that would result in an effective limit of about 18 percent.
converse.
"I'm mad," he said, accusing Reagan of sidestepping the issues in the campaign. "We're mad because of what they've done to us. This is our country and we're not going to take any more of it."
take any more of me.
"Let's have a fight. Let's take it to 'em. ...
Let's point out what's really going on and
let's win this election."
MONDALE CLAIMED Reagan "turned his back" on the needs of the steel industry, despite the campaign pledges four years ago to help it.
"He forget you, now it's your turn to forget him." Mondale said.
He warned the steelworkers that the administration seems "to think this nation needs a union-free environment. I think this nation needs free unions."
nation televison in Mondale's speech at the union's 22nd biennial convention was interrupted 18 times by use and loud cheers of "We Want Fritz" from 4,000 USW delegates and supporters who wore blue T-shirts saying "Get Reagan Off Your Back."
As Mondale blamed the industry's blues on Reagan, the president dramatized economic recovery by visiting a $500 million plant under construction near Canton, Ohio
IN PREPARED REMARKS to employees and construction workers at the Timkin Company plant, Reagan addressed Mondale's trade policies.
"There are those who call for protectionism and quotas, which are shortsighted and temporary at best, and which will make all of us a lot worse off in the long run," he said.
ruth, he said.
He contended that the future of the steel industry lay in strong economic growth, vigilance against unfair competition abroad and modernization like that undertaken by Timkin.
Timkin
"But a blunderbuss approach of quotas and trade barriers — encouraging stagnation by stiffing competition — is not the way to a better future," Reagan said. "It's a giant step back into the misery of a failed past."
step back into the耻人 the president promised aggressive enforcement of his decision to ensure retaliation against countries that dump industrial products "using unfair and illegal subsidies."
sides:
MONDALE LEFT FOR New York after his speech to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko this afternoon. Reagan will meet with Gromyko at the White House tomorrow.
Proposal to shut down reactor gets Senate OK
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A resolution that asks the Kansas Legislature and the Board of Regents to provide money to shut down the Nuclear Reactor at the University of Kansas was passed by the Student Senate last night.
But the five-hour meeting was interrupted near its end when Thom Davidson, Senate Elections Committee chairman, announced that a car owned by a friend of Ruth Lichtwardt, president of the Gay and Lesbian Services of Kansas, apparently had been sabotaged that night.
the radiator of the Senate. The Senator also passed by voice vote an election rule reforms aimed at preventing problems that plagued last November's elections.
Student Senate last night.
The resolution's request for funds is contingent on the University's discontinuing the radiation biophysics program.
He said Lichtwardt and a friend, whom he did not identify, were driving down Jayhawk Boulevard when a wheel on the car came off.
DAVIDSON WARNED senators to be careful if they publicly had stated their views on a petition calling for a referendum to determine whether GLSKO will receive money from the Student Senate in the future.
"It's getting nasty out there," Davidson said. "I'm walking home, and I'm scared."
The discussion at the Senate follows the appearance in recent weeks on campus of T-shirts that have "Fagbusters" printed on
from KU.
Steve Imber, Lawrence senior, collected 2,100 signatures on the petition last spring. Imber has said that he considers the issue to be financial. He has said that GLSOK could support itself without Senate money
them above a picture of a limp-wristed ghost. The shirts are a take-off on the popular movie "Ghostbusters."
The petition says, in part, "Included in this petition is my belief that the GLSOK could be self-supportive, and for this reason, I believe that they (GLSOK) should not receive funds of any kind from any student organization from KU."
so that in response to the petition, the Senate passed a resolution condemning discriminatory action and organized intolerance at the University.
The Elections Committee will debate the petition tonight.
THE NUCLEAR REACTOR resolution was amended on the floor to include the discontinuance of the radiation biophysics program.
program
Ken Wheeler, courtesy professor of radiation biophysics and biochemistry, said Monday that the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences had considered discontinuing the program since last spring when the program's chairman, John Zimbrick, resigned.
He said the college thought that the
But Dennis "Boog" Higbberger, student body vice president and the sponsor of the
See SENATE, p. 5, col. 1
He said the college thought that the program was no longer productive. He asked a student
People kill time studying for classes and writing letters while doing laundry at the Independent Coin-Op Laundry, 900 Mississippi St. At the Lauromat yesterday were.
seated left to right, Dave Smith of Lawrence; Susan Miller, Morristown, N.J., senior; Phil Weideman, Colorado Springs. Colo., junior; and Sandy Higgins, St. Louis, Mo., junior
Group peddles idea of white bikes
Staff Reporter
By JOHN HANNA
A bicycle - painted white down to its tires - sits in the Student Senate office of the Kansas Union.
Kansas city
The white bicycle could be part of a new transportation system that Carla Vogel, student body president, and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, student body vice president, want on campus by November.
"A lot of people are excited about it." Highberger said yesterday. "I've talked to literally hundreds of people. It's a good idea."
idea.
HIGHBERGER SAID that about six people were actively involved in planning the white bikes project. He said they had acquired about 10 bikes that were either abandoned at residence halls or donated.
Highberger could not say exactly how many bikes would be needed to make the system work, but he said he would like to obtain several hundred.
"As soon as we decide we've got enough, we'll spring them on an unsuspecting population," he said.
Highberger said. Under the system, Vogel said, the bikes would be left at various places around campus. A student who needed to use the bike would ride one to another spot, where he would leave it for another person to use.
The system would resemble one started in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in the late 1960s, Highberger said.
use.
Highberger said the system would use existing bicycle racks around campus as bike stops. The bikes will be painted white, or they will be marked so that they can be identified, he said.
HE ALSO SAID the group working on the project wanted to have off-campus stops. The system will cost less than running a bus for the KU on Wheels bus service, he said.
Mark "Gilligan" Sump, secretary of the Transportation Board, which oversees KU on Wheels, said running a bus cost about $35,000 for an academic year.
Vogel said the group would seek financing for the project from the Senate or the Transportation Board. Or, she said, the group could sponsor a fund-raising event such as a white bikes concert.
Highberger said he might present a proposal for the white bikes system to the Transportation Board at its next meeting on Oct. 4.
BUT HE ALSO said he would be hesitant to take a proposal through a Student Senate board or committee because he didn't want it to be tied down or limited. He said the Senate would probably require that the bikes be insured to prevent lawsuits after accidents.
"Nobody would be responsible if they just appeared," Highberger said. "I think the spirit of it would keep people from suing."
He said he liked the idea because he thought some students would consider it outrageous.
"They'd be so surprised that they'd go along with it," he said.
TV station may use student broadcasters
By JOHN EGAN
Staff Reporter
The faces of broadcast journalism students may appear in living rooms around town next semester after Lawrence's first television station begins transmission.
transmission.
TV 30, a low power television station owned by Low Power Technology Inc. of Austin, Texas, tentatively will be on the air in November. Christopher Fager, the company's vice president said yesterday
And Max Utsler, chairman of the radio-television film department, said that starting next semester, the company would include about 12 students on its staff.
"What they are willing to do for the University is incredible," he said. "It's like a giant donation. They have just bent over backwards to help us out."
over backwards to help
FAGER SAID THE link between a
low-power station and a university would be a first for the industry.
"We're taking a chance," Fager said.
"We think it's worth it. We think it will work out."
work out
Low Power Technology applied for a license to broadcast in Lawrence in 1982, and the Federal Communications Commission granted the license in February 1984. The company and the University of Kansas have been discussing merging corporate and academic resources since June.
June
Officer said the opportunity for students to work part time or earn credit at the station could boost broadcast journalism program.
ONLY STUDENTS AT THE University of Missouri-Columbia have the chance to get
"I don't think it takes long for the word to get out on something like that," he said. "This is something that no one else is doing."
hands-on television experience; at a commercial station, he said.
common classroom situations.
"I think there's a real excitement and motivation on the part of the students to make this thing work." Utsler said.
mSHA students will experience the gamut of television station operation, from news anchor or reporter to sales and promotion, Utsler said. Also, some of the station's six employees will teach broadcast journalism courses at KU.
ish courses at a VCE.
In return, the University will offer transmission space on KANU FM's broadcast tower for TV 30. Utsler said
broadcast on television.
"We are not putting up a nickel for this."
Utsler said. "They are giving us everything the state cannot provide for us."
tiring the said staff to Students will participate in the station's $100,000 news operation and will play key roles in the station's newcasts.
**WE'LL HAVE AS big and as fullfledged of a news operation as any of the
See TV, p. 5, col.1