Polished 'Boots'
Custodians work into the night to keep its just finished look. Waiters in its private club wear the classic black and white. The K.S. "Boots" Adams Alumni Center, that $5
million palace of elegance at 1266 Oread Ave., has been a source of pride and occasional grumbles since it opened in June 1983. See photos and story, page 6.
Sunny
High, 93. Low, 70 Details on page 3.
The University Daily
KANSAN
Tuesday, September 11, 1984
Vol. 95, No. 12 (USPS 650-640)
South Africa investments to be debated
By JOHN HANNA Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate Finance Committee tonight will discuss attempts to cut KU ties with companies that do business in the Republic of South Africa.
The committee will consider a bill that would prohibit the use of student activity fees for the purchase of products from companies that do business in South Africa.
In a similar move, the Senate Minority Affairs Committee on Sept. 19 will debate a resolution that calls for the Kansas University Endowment Association to sever connections with such companies.
And the University Council's Human Relations Committee is studying the possibility of a University Council resolution to allow its board resolution, its chairman said yesterday.
DENNIS "BOOG" HIGIBERGER, student body vice president, is sponsoring the Student Senate bill and resolution. He said both were a response to South Africa's practice of apartheid, a form of racial segregation.
Carla Vogel, student body president, also supports the bill and resolution.
"The reason that we're focusing on South Africa is that it's most bluntable there," he
"This is definitely a student issue." Vogel said. "U.S. students should stand up and say, 'We will not tolerate this to happen.'"
Higherberger's bill would cover all groups that receive money from the $24 student activity fee that each student pays at the beginning of each semester. For fiscal year 1985, the Student Senate allocated more than $493,000 in student fees.
THE BILL ALSO would establish a Social Responsibility Subcommittee that would enforce the restrictions.
Vogel said she expected a fight when the measures reached the Senate floor after they went through the committees.
"I feel this is something senators need to discuss," she said. "I don't think they should let it slide.
"Sure, there will be a fight. I'd be surprised if there wasn't . . . It is natural."
A construction worker stands on the peak of the Fred B. Anschutz Sports Pavilion roof as he watches work below him. The building is scheduled to be completed Oct. 15.
WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Donald Reagan said yesterday he was afraid Walter Mondale's newly announced tax plans could kill "the golden goose," and increase taxes to the highest proportion of the economy ever.
Mondale, telling President Reagan "enough is enough," yesterday presented a four-year plan to slash budget deficits by slowing the military buildup and increasing taxes, mainly on the wealthiest Americans.
By United Press International
"He is again relying on what I would say was a tried and true Carter-Mondale principle," Regan told a news conference. That is, spend more tax money. Less taxes to pay in the new money supply, inflate the economy and gain more taxes that way."
REGAN SAMD HIS "cursory" analysis "seems to indicate even using his figures it would bring taxes to close to 21 percent of our gross national product by 1983. That's the highest we've ever been taxed in our history."
Began said additional taxes under Monday would total about $250 billion through 1989.
The average family, he said, would pay about $1,000 more in taxes if Monday's spending cuts were realized.
"But if he doesn't achieve all of the blue smoke that's in there, he would then have to cut the defect to get to his promises and be able to say, 'That would be over $1,800 per household.'"
But even that figure was far less than the possible total Regan only a week earlier charged would be the case. In A Reagan-Bush campaign analysis of promises attributed to Monaco, he said that time. Regan said his household could pay up to $8,300 more in taxes by 1989.
MONDALE AIDES SAID 75 percent of the new taxes — amounting to $85 billion a year at the end of a first Mondale term — would be paid by the upper 14 percent of the wage earners. A family of four making $100,000 would pay $2,600 more a year in taxes, they said, while the same family earning $30,000 would pay about $85 more.
See AFRICA, p. 5, col.1
All money raised by the tax hikes would go into a trust fund that could be used only to reduce deficits. Mondale said he would also institute a "pay as you go" plan to forbid new spending unless there was a source of revenue to pay for it.
President Reagan, asked about Mondale's plan during an Oval Office photo session, dismissed it. "It's new thing," he said.
dissatisfied he said. "He told us several weeks ago he was going to raise the people's taxes, and now he's repeating it," the president told reporters.
REAGAN'S POLITICAL ADVISER, Lyn Nozger, was even tougher, calling Mondale's plan "a recovery-killing concoction
ready-made to produce a recession that will throw millions of Americans out of work again, pile new and higher taxes on the backs of the average citizen and make deficits higher, not lower."
When fully implemented in 1989, the Monday plan would cut the projected annual budget deficit of $263 billion by two-thirds, to $86 billion, roughly half what it is forecast to be this year.
Mondale would modify the 1981 Reagan tax cut program, which slashed federal revenue by an estimated $750 billion over five years, for those with higher incomes.
Indexing — adjusting tax tables to account for inflation — would be restricted for families making more than $25,000 only to the amount that inflation exceeds 4 percent. Inflation has been running below that level this year.
THEER ALSO WOULD be a 10 percent tax surcharge for families with an income over $100.000. And there would be a minimum 15 percent tax imposed on all businesses.
Mondale said if the deficit was not cut, Reagan's budget policies "will double the national debt, raise interest on the debt by $100 billion a year, hike interest rates, choke off investment and clobber trade even more destroy rural America, attack entire industries, kill more jobs and shrink our future."
"This is the most detailed and specific plan any candidate for president has ever written."
"I challenge Mr. Reagan to stop avoiding the deficit issue and start telling you what he intends to do about it. Mr. Reagan, all my cards are on the table — face up Americans are calling your hand."
But Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, R-Kan., said Monday failed to address the spending side in any substantive way. He's going to reduce the deficit by reducing interest rates, and he's going to reduce interest rates by cutting federal aid that he didn't present. "That sounds to me like a dog trying to catch his own tail — no clear direction there."
Engineering research labs reorganize after professors' departures
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ
Staff Reporter
Two KU engineering research labs have been combined as part of a reorganization made after several engineering professors left during the summer.
Lab will operate under a joint budget as the Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Lab, said Richard Moore, director of the Remote Sensing Lab and professor of electrical and chemical engineering.
The Remote Sensing Lab and the Telecommunication and Information Research
electric and chemical facilities.
"It is important to stress, however, that the two labs will retain their individual identification." Moore said yesterday.
at the earth and atmosphere. Moore said. He said the KU lab was known as the best remote sensing center at a university. Some work is done from airplanes, and additional work involves the use of satellites.
The Remote Sensing Lab studies the application of microwaves for use in looking
THREE PROFESSORS FROM THE Remote Sensing Lab left during the summer, two of them taking grant money and graduate students with them. Three other professors in the engineering department also left.
The grants had been awarded for specific projects, so when the professors left, the grant money followed them to the schools where the professors would be working.
Fawwaz Ulaby, former director of the Remote Sensing Lab, moved to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Adrian Fung, former professor of electrical engineering at the lab, moved to the University of Texas at Arlington.
Ulaby was not available for comment, but Fung estimated that the grants Ulaby received while at KU averaged between $500,000 and $750,000 a year. Fung had taken grants for $2,000 for a NASA project and about $600,000 for a National Science Foundation project with him to Texas, he said.
Fung said that if he had stayed at KU, the
See REMOTE, p. 5, col. 4
Government rejects equipment after microcircuits test poorly
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Defense Department yesterday rejected use of military equipment containing suspected faulty microcircuits that may have been installed in thousands of weapons and gear ports, the Pentagon said.
The microcircuits — tiny silicon chips that are used in everything from stereo equipment to aircraft carriers — were produced by the Texas Instruments Corp. of Midland, Texas, and were suspected faulty after testing irregularities were uncovered by the company, the Pentagon said.
As many as 4,700 different kinds of microcircuits are involved, but it is not yet known how many of the devices have been installed in weapons and other military gear, a spokesman for the Defense Logistics Agency, John Goldsmith, said.
Lighthouse Agency said no lives had been lost or aircraft or other equipment destroyed because of part failure.
whose device are in many parts and equipment." Goldsmith said in a telephone interview. "This stuff is so universally used now. We don't know how many (parts) are involved."
BUT THE IMPLIICATIONS of the problem were enormous because of the widespread use of the microcircuits
As an indication of how widespread the problem could be if the chips were found to be faulty, Goldsmith said an earlier review of 546 devices used by IBM "resulted in an estimate of 15 million involved parts over a period of about eight years."
Texas Instruments, which produces home computers and calculators for the commercial market, discovered the problem following a complaint by the IBM Corp. to Y. A. about a "potential problem" with the services, the Defense Logistics Agency said.
Texas Instruments is providing a list to the Pentagon of as many as 80 defense contractors who have ordered the microcircuits from the company for use in parts that go into weapons and other military equipment. Goldsmith said.
A resulting complete investigation by the technical staff at Texas Instruments "revealed a more extensive problem which affected all of their 90-plus customers," the agency said in a background paper.
"I're terribly complicated." Norman Neuerstein, a spokesman for the company at its Dallas headquarters said. "We've had to be very careful of collecting a self audit in this general area."
Change urged in state scholarships
The company informed the Defense Logistics Agency of the problem Sept. 6.
By MARY CARTER
Staff Reporter
More than 1,000 winners of state academic scholarships did not chose to attend Kansas institutions of higher learning last year, an official of the Board of Regents said yesterday.
If the Regents and several other education groups have their way, those scholarships will soon provide a better incentive for Kansas' brightest students to attend state colleges and universities.
Between $70,000 and $800,000 worth of scholarship money were awarded last year to new and renewing scholars, said Gene Casper. Regents director of special projects.
"We named about 1,000 new scholars last year and awarded 2,000 scholarships including renewals. Casper said, "A lot of people don't know in the 1,000-plus range, don't stay in state."
STUDENTS RECEIVE THE scholarship money only if they attend college in Kansas Officials hope that the greater monetary awards being contemplated will prompt more of the students to study in the state.
The Legislative Educational Planning Committee, a joint committee of the Kansas Legislature, last month heard three groups endorse plans to make state scholarships bigger and based more on merit than they are now.
The scholarship program is not on the agenda of this week's meeting, but State Sen Joe Harder, R-Moundridge, committee
chairman, said that he hoped the committee would squeeze in some discussion of the program.
The committee could vote on scholarship recommendations as early as its next meeting, but Harder said he wasn't sure when that would be.
The scholarship money comes from State Student Incentive Grant funds. The federal government finances 50 percent of the awards, with the state providing the rest.
THE PRESENT STATE scholarship program, established in 1934, gives $500 annually to each state scholar 'The number of scholars受资助 according to the amount of available
Scholars are selected on the basis of American College Testing program scores, but the financial awards are based on need. Scholars are ineligible for the need-aid program.
"As a result, many State Scholars' receive nothing but a certificate," says a report by the Pew Research Center.
Scholarship applicants would have to have
"We have proposed 125 awards of $2,000 each, based on merit, to attend Kansas College."
THE REGENTS' PLAN calls for the phasing out of the present state program and for the creation of a Distinguished Scholars program based solely on merit.
"It seems quite apparent that we are losing our very brightest high school students." Casper said. "We want to make a real effort to teach them how to be them a financial incentive to stay in Kansas."
composite ACT scores of at least 30, he said. The scholarships would be renewable with a 3.5 grade point average.
we're talking about $250,000 during the first year and as much as $1 million in four years," he said.
The money would come from the state general fund, he said.
The Regents' plan also calls for the establishment of a Kansas Higher Education Opportunity Grant program. State Student Incentive Grant funds would be given to institutions of higher learning and carmarked for need-based scholarships.
THE ASSOCIATED STUDENTS of Kansas endorsed the Regents' program during a presentation to the committee Aug. 14, but the attention be given need for scholarships.
we saw need as the top priority," said Mark Tallman, executive director of ASK. "We hope they will at least be flexible on the maximum award."
The Kansas Independent College Association also endorsed changes in the state program.
we basically agreed with everybody else that the maximum award is too small." said Bob Kelly, executive director of the association. "We recommend a first merit competition in the spring of the junior year, based on ACT scores."
ACP scores
According to the independent college association plan, students whose ACT scores were in the top 3 percent or 4 percent would be guaranteed an amount of money, to be between $500 and $1,000.