The boys of fall No, it isn't really spring. And yes, it's more than training. But the KU baseball team will warm up to the fall "spring training" season on Saturday at Quigley Field against Johnson County Community College. Those games will begin a weekend of play that should give Coach Marty Pattin a good look at his players for this year. See page 16. Sunny High, 83. Low, 53 Details on page 3. The University Daily KANSAN Vol. 95. No. 18 (USPS 650-640) Wednesdav. September 19. 1984 AURH votes to drop a breakfast, raise base rates By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter An $80 increase in the base housing rate and the discontinuance of Saturday breakfast were two proposals endorsed last night by the general assembly of the Association of University Residence Halls. About 70 hall residents, staff members and AURH representatives debated for nearly four hours in the cafeteria of Joseph R Pearson Hall before approving five AURH recommendations for the 1983-86 housing contract. The recommendations, along with those of the University of Kansas department of housing and other KU housing units, will be presented at the Residential Program Advisory Board The Advisory Board develops policy recommendations for all KU housing units: residence hall, scholarship halls, Jay hawker Towers, Stouffer Place and Sunflower apartments THE AURH GENERAL assembly recommended that the following items be included in the 1985-86 housing contracts: - An $80 increase in the base housing rate - $17 less than the base rate proposed last week by the housing department. The housing department recommended that this year's base rate of $1,974 be increased by 4.7 percent, or $97, to $2,071. The base rate is the starting point for figuring the costs of a double-room contract at the eight halls. Single rooms cost an extra $1,000 a month. The $97 increase proposed by the housing department included per-contract increases of $30 for food, $30 for salaries and $37 for utilities. THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY voted to cut the increase for utilities to $20, citing recent decreases in the consumer price index for fuels and utilities. - Discontinuance of Saturday breakfast at all halls. Curt Worden, Housing and Contracts Committee chairman, said Saturday breakfast was an "unnecessary meal" and should be replaced with a Saturday brunch to reduce *Last year at JIRP, only 20 to 30 residents out of 400 showed up for Saturday breakfast.* Instead of a regular breakfast, residents will be able to sign up for a continental breakfast. - Creation of a task force to review hall visitation policies and guest-registration systems. - "The SYSTEM NEEDS to be revised by a group of people on the inside — residents, hall directors, security monitors," said Andy Gutteriez, chairman of the Contract Recommendations and Coordinating Subcommittee. - The general assembly also voted to hire owing desk assistants to monitor security next year in JKP and Templin from 11 p.m. to 3 a.m. seven days a week. The extra desk would be hired on a one-year trial basis. Mike Hark, a resident assistant at Tremplin, said the roving desk assistant would be more effective and less costly than installing more elaborate security systems at the two halls. Both all male halls currently have no security monitors "We don't need the security that bad." Bart said. "To set up a high security fence, we have to spend more than $10 billion to upgrade it." - Reclassification of McCollim Hall to house all classes of students instead of only upper class and graduate students AURH recommended the reclassification to accommodate the approximately 100 freshman who are assigned to McCollum each year on a temporary basis because of overcrowding at other halls. For the next five weeks, the Advisory Board will review contract proposals from all University housing units. It will make its final decision on contracts on Oct. 24. His decision then will be forwarded to David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, and Chancellor Gene A. Budig. The Board of Regents must give final approval to the 1965-86 contract. James Jeffley, AURH president, said AURH's Housing and Contracts Committee each year submitted recommendations to the Advisory Board, and then tried to hammer out the terms of the next year's housing contract. "The purpose of this process is to solicit the views of students, Jeffrey said. "I don't want that to happen." "If they are going to disregard all these recommendations, what's the purpose? You might as well appoint some Supreme Authority of Housing." Senate panel approves election-rule reforms By JOHN HANNA Staff Renorter Staff Reporter The vote followed a five-hour meeting in which committee members hammered out a compromise. A package of reforms in Student Senate election rules aimed at preventing the problems that plagued last November's election was passed. Last Student Senate elections last night. The reforms, approved by acclamation, will be considered at today's Student Senate Executive Committee meeting, Jeff Polack, chairman of the Rights Committee, said yesterday. He said ShuadX would place the committee on the rolls of the Senate's next meet- ing on Sept. 26. Polack said the reforms that the Rights Committee would send to the Senate would not represent a dramatic change in current rules. Most of the reforms, he said, resulted from additions to rules that were not specific. The reforms include: - Requiring students to write a “reasonable representation” of a candidate’s name on the ballot. Coalition names and stamped-on names will not be allowed. - Requiring write-in candidates to notify the Elections Committee chairman of their resignation. - Requiring candidates to be in "good academic standing" at the University of Kansas and to be enrolled in at least one class. - Allowing candidates to remove themselves from coalitions after they have filed with the coalition. - Requiring an audit of a candidate's or coalition campaign expenses the day before - You can obtain an audit from the Election Commission. - Allowing independent candidates for office to form a coalition with other independent candidates within five days See RIGHTS. p. 5, col. 1 Reagan starts farm relief denies steel-import limit By United Press International President Reagan acted yesterday on two key campaign issues — steel industries and depressed farming – while Democratic leaders rallied away at the administration's foreign policy Reagan met with Cabinet advisers at the White House and decided to reject domestic industry requests to restrict steel imports. Instead, he opted to ask other nations voluntarily to control "surges" in their steel exports to the United States. "The president clearly determined that protectionism is not in the national interest," William Brock, U.S. trade representative, said yesterday in his announcement of the plan. "It costs jobs and raises prices and undermines our ability to compete at home and abroad." ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS have advised Reagan to force foreign producers to cut back imports to about 19 percent of the U.S. market from an average 24 percent in recent years. They said steel imports were flooding U.S. markets and depressing domestic production. Reagan also announced a four-point relief program for farmers beset by staggering debts, including $630 million in federal loan guarantees. "Our approach to the farm economy and the problem of farm credit is based on the belief that the future will be better than the past." Reagan said. The transitional program will help farmers move from high inflation, high interest and economic disasters of the previous administration to a more stable inflation and lower interest rates, he said. Mondale met with supporters yesterday morning before appearing at a rally at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, where he blasted Reagan's foreign policy. He also stopped in Fresno and Stockton. IN AN INTERVIEW published yesterday in the New York Times, Montale said he would attempt to quarantine Nicaragua if it rejected vaccination required to remain in Central America. Today, Reagan returns to the campaign trail with a trip to Connecticut and New Jersey. He stumps tomorrow in Iowa and Michigan REAGAN OPPOSES MONDALE'S call for a moratorium on foreclosures of mortgages Students fooled by pop-tab hoax But first, he said, he would establish clear U.S. objectives in Nicaragua and make a good faith effort to settle differences amicably with the Sandinistas. Alison Sheafer, Topeka sophomore, displays pop tabs, which she collected for a month to pay for a boy's dialysis treatment. She discovered yesterday that the story about the boy was false, and that she had been the victim of a hoax. Steven Purcell/KANSAN By CHRISSY CLEARY Staff Renorter Alison Sheafor and other residents at Hashinger Hall started collecting pop tabs from soda and beer cans one month ago. They thought each pop tab would pay for one minute of kidney dialysis for a boy in the Kansas City area But Shearer, Topkea sophonore, and her friends learned yesterday that no such boy existed, and the pop-tab collection was a hoax. The students were fooled by a common trick, said Carolelee Scott, an administrative assistant at the National Kidney Foundation in Kansas City. Mo "WE GET CALLS ALL the time from people who are collecting pop tabs or cigarette wrappers or whatever and think they can purchase time on a dialysis machine." Scott said. "But it just isn't sanctioned by the Kidney Foundation. I don't know where these things get started." Shearer first heard about the pop-fab collection in Topaeka at a picnic for the group. "A lady told my dad and my brother about it, and they started collecting the tabs." Sheafor said. "I started collecting to help people." The woman at the picnic told the Sheafors that each pop tab bought one minute of dialysis time. However, Medicare pays for 80 percent of the cost of dialysis, so raising money to offset the cost is not needed. Scott said ALSO, BECAUSE THE Kidney Foundation won't accept the pop tabs, the only way to receive money for them would be to recycle the tabs, said Sharon Slusher, dialysis nurse at the University of Kansas Medical Center. "Dialysis costs roughly between 50 cents and $1 a minute." Slusher said. "Even if they recycled the aluminum tabs, it still cost a lot more than one minute, one minute of dialysis. It's unrealistic." Sheafor她 father had been picking up her collection of pop tabs on weekends and dropping them off at a Topeka grocery store. A woman who also had been dropping off pop tabs at a grocery store called the Kidney Foundation recently to ask about the program. Scott said Even though the pop-tab collection didn't work out for Sheafer and other Hashinger residents, Sheafer said she would participate in another cause if her need was met. "I would help, and I'd get my friends to help too," she said. "Even though it was a book, it was a great idea. It made people here do something good, and that's neat." Spirit of debate violated, College Young Democrats say By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter The KU College Republicans are violating the spirit of a coming campus debate between their group and the College Young Democrats by choosing a debater who is not a KU student, the president of the College Young Democrats said yesterday. The president of the Democratic group, Kristin Burtterbaugh Myers, said the selection of Deever was an attempt by the Republican group to dissuade her from being secretary of the Republican group denied Kay Deever, president of the College Republicans of Kansas and a student at Kansas State University, will participate for the College Republicans in the Oct. 4 debate. Myers's the Republicans' action was left without regard for KU student publicity. "That's not even the point of the whole debate." Myers said. "This is not a war. This is not to see who can use the biggest words." Susan Sanjean, secretary of KU College Republicans, said yesterday that the group Sanjan said Deever had been chosen because she was a qualified debater, not because the Republican group keenly hoped for a victory. had chosen Deever and Chris Edmonds, former campus director of Associated Students of Kansas, as the two Republican debaters in the event, sponsored by Oliver Hall. "I'm sure the Democrats have qualified debaters on their side, and I would certainly want to be." Sanjean said that Myers' charge was prompted by fear of Deever's ability. Patty Sullivan, director of Oliver Hall, said the selection of Deever was not in violation of debate rules "They're afraid she'll put them under the table," she said. Sullivan said only informal guidelines for the debate had been set up, and according to those rules, anyone who was a member of the state Republican or Democratic group could participate in the debate. The College Young Democrats have not selected their debaters yet. Myers said the group would choose two students from among 10 College Young Democrat members who wanted to debate Sanpean said the College Republicans would not replace Deever with a KU student so long as her participation did not violate debate rules. She said the Republican group might have been willing to work more closely with the Democratic group to lay down debate guidelines and to discuss other issues. But the College Young Democrats were uncooperative, she said. "They're so bitter about everything we can't work with them," she said.