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The University Daily
KANSAN
Wednesday, September 5, 1984
Vol. 95, No. 8 (USPS 650-640)
Slattery says students like Republicans
By SUZANNE BROWN Staff Reporter
"It's cool for young people to be conservative now," Slattery said. "But when they come out, they're not."
Slattery, who is seeking his second term as U.S. representative for the 2nd District, was the featured guest at last night's opening of the Douglas County Democratic Party Headquarters, 1903 Massachusetts State. The opening event included a lecture on democratic candidates for state and local offices and members of the KU College Young Democrats.
SLATTERY ADMITTED THAT college students seemed taken with the Republican Party this election year. But he said the conservative shift among young voters was due more to Reagan's magnetic television personality than to campaign issues.
"Ronald Reagan is an actor on TV," he said. "Walter Mondale is a wimp."
Slattery said the university students he had talked to were disturbed by the current U.S. policies on issues such as military aid for Central American countries, the mounting federal deficit and the country's worsening relations with foreign powers.
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S POPULARITY dipped only temporarily among many Americans after the tragedy.
"Lebanon was just stupid," he said, referring to Reagan's decision to send American troops into war-torn Lebanon. More than 200 U.S. soldiers were subsequently killed in a suicide bomb attack by a member of a fanatical Arab sect.
Young people are genuinely attracted to the president, Slatterty said, but they fail to look beyond the man to the Republican platform on which he is running.
Joe Wilkins III/KANSAN
Shattery the Reagan had shown no sympathy for students in his policies, such as
See SLATTERY, p. 5, col. 5
Jim Rix, Sac City, Iowa, senior, skate-boarded home along Jayhawk Boulevard after classes yesterday. Rix said he skated to class daily to avoid long walks from Hashinger Hall, where he lives.
Candidates go east on campaign trail
By United Press International
President Reagan defended his prayer in school and missiles in space proposals yesterday, asking veterans to join in an "agenda for America's future." Democratic nominee Wendle Mondaole preferred to focus on Reagan's past, saying he is ignoring education for "our children"
Reagan spoke to the national convention of the American Legion in Salt Lake City — an audience that Mondale, also campaigning in the West, is to address today.
Reagan also had his political bases covered in Washington, where Treasury Secretary Donald Reagan said Mondale "will end the recovery and drive us right back into recession" if he is elected.
IN A NEWS CONFERENCE organized by the Reagan-Bush 84 campaign committee, Regan said Monday's pledge to cut the deficit by two-thirds in four years would force taxes to be raised so high that economic growth would stop.
Mondale, through his press spokeswoman Maxine Isaacs, responded: "First they cooked their own figures. Now they're trying to cook mine.
"I's all designed to avoid responsibility for deficits of $200 billion and the fact that the Republican platform adds an additional $160 billion. It's time for them to come forward with a responsible and fair plan."
with a reappointment.
Earlier, Reagan met with leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, key players in Utah politics.
Mondale and his running mate,裴. Geraldine Ferraro, remained on the West Coast, where they ended their Labor Day reelection campaign with appearances in California and Oregon.
appearances in cannonade of REAGAN, WORKING HIS WAY eastward after also opening his formal campaign on the West Coast, offered the legionnaires a pointed defense of his position on church-state relations.
He said his support for voluntary prayer in schools "is in the spirit of the Constitution as our forefathers wrote it and as we have lived it for most of our history.
"I can't think of anyone who favors the government establishment a religion in this
country, I know I don’t." Reagan said. "But what some would do is to twist the concept of freedom of religion to mean freedom against religion."
Arriving later in Chicago, Reagan told reporters he spoke on or religion before the legionnaires because his comments on the issue had been "greatly distorted."
"MY CONCERN WAS NOT with government invading religion," he said. "It's with all those people that are trying to make government turn around and interfere with people's right to practice religion."
"I guess it just lost something in the translation," he said.
The president, who wore an American Legion cap for his speech, told the audience of about 7,000 that his "agenda for America's future ... will create growth, opportunity and progress at home and pursue peace and freedom abroad."
Reagan said his opponents in Congress "want to hinder our attempts to help El Salvador" and "desert the freedom fighters in Nicaragua." He said his policies had "resisted Soviet expansionism" while opening "a wide series of diplomatic avenues eventually bear true trait not just in arms contretains, but in arms reduction treaties."
OF THIS PROPOSAL FOR development of missiles to combat enemy weapons in space, he said. "Some call this 'Star Wars.' I call it prudent policy and common sense."
Buckley borough council. While he was searching for support in the West, Reagan gained some in Washington. The Rev. Joseph Jackson, former head of the 5.5 million-member National Baptist Convention U.S.A. Inc., one of the largest black denominations in the nation, gave Reagan his personal endorsement.
Jackson said he was speaking only for himself and not the church body.
In Eugene, Ore., Ferraro criticized Reagan for tax policies that favor corporations and the rich, then defended her own wealth, saying, "Nobody handed me anything. I worked for my money."
WORKED BY THE DEMOCRATIC VICE PRESIDENTIAL nominee spoke at a news conference after appearing before an exuberant crowd of about 4,000 people crammed into a shopping plaza in the university town.
Former Jayhawk West tenants suing for security deposits
By JULIE COMINE Staff Reporter
Tenants at dayjayhw West Apartments, 524 Frontier Road; were cleaning out cupboards, packing suitcases and canceling utility services as they moved out last spring.
But three months later, seven tenants have gone to small claims court seeking return of
Default judgments have been awarded in three cases, two cases are pending and two cases were dropped by the plaintiffs.
delayed security deposits and penalty payments from Jayhawk West and its management company, Management USA, of Euless, Texas.
KANSAS LAW REQUIRES landlords to refund security deposits 30 days after the tenant's lease expires, or 14 days after
damages are assessed Otherwise, the tenant may sue for one and one-half times the amount of the deposit withheld.
Donna Higdon, regional vice president for Management USA, said that delays in returning deposits were caused by a recent shift of Jayhawk West's paperwork from the company's regional Florida office to the Texas office.
exas office
Management USA, which also has an office
But Clyde Chapman, director of the Lawrence Consumer Affairs Association, said that last month he filed a complaint with Robert T Stephan, Kansas attorney general. The case is not yet decided by the attorney general to find out why Jayhawk West and Management USA had "consistent
in the Los Angeles area, oversees more than 200 apartment complexes throughout the country. Higdon said.
tly failed to return security deposits to tenants."
BESIDES THE SEVEN TENANTS who filed papers, Chapman said that between 10 and 15 other tenants recently had called Consumer Affairs to complain about getting security deposits back from Jayhawk West.
"Obviously, we haven't heard from every
See TENANTS, p. 5, col. 1
Bicylists may receive fines for violating state statutes
By JOHN REIMRINGER
Staff Reporter
Bicyclists on Mount Oread may soon be paying traffic tickets if they don't pay attention to Kansas traffic laws.
"We are at that time of year again when we're going to start a stringent enforcement," said Lt. Jeanne Longaker of the University of Kansas Police Department
At this time of the year, police begin receiving complaints about bicyclists from motorists and pedestrians, she said. Pedestrians have complained about bicyclists trying to hit them. Motorists have complained about bicyclists ignoring stop signs.
BICYCLISTS ALSO COMPLAIN about motoris not yielding the right of way, Longaker said.
Bicyclists must obey the same traffic laws as motorists, Longaker said.
"It's a 50-50 debit."
It is pedestrianed, though, that are in the institutional position, and KU police had several tips for those who choose to walk on campus.
"Part of the problem we have with pedestrians is people will take shortcuts," she said.
campus.
On campus, pedestrians have the right of way when they are walking in marked crosswalks. Longaker said That right is not guaranteed when pedestrians cross the street outside of crosswalks. We are here, with
"It's a 50-50 deal," she said.
e said.
Lt. John Muliens of the KU department
According to figures released by the National Safety Council, the number of annual fatalities involving bicyclists under the age of 15 has remained fairly constant during the past 30 years. But the number of fatal accidents involving riders older than 15 has jumped nearly 1,000 percent.
said that pedestrians were on their own as soon as they stepped outside of crosswalks
Doug Buchanan, Fairway junior, tends bar at the Jayhawk Cafe, 1340 Ohio St. Some Lawrence taverns, private clubs and grocery stores have reported low sales of LA, a low-alcohol beer brewed by Anheuser Busch.
"Technically they're jaywalking," he said.
While pedestrians have the right of way in crosswalks, Mullens advised that they use good judgment
MULLENS SAID THAT adult bicyclists tended to forget the safety rules they were taught in grade school.
Mullens said that the increase might be due to more adult bike riders on the road in recent years. He said another possible cause was less concern for safety by many riders.
SOME INTERSECTIONS ON or near campas are particularly dangerous for bicyclists, Longaker said. Riders should be especially careful at the intersection of Crescent and Naismith drives, the intersection of Memorial Drive and West Campus Road and the traffic circle at the Chi Omega Fountain.
Bicyclists can be ticketed for the same traffic violations as motorists. Mullens said, including running stop signs, failing to yield the right of way and speeding.
LA beer receives frosty welcome
City law requires bikes to be licensed. Longaker said. Licenses may be purchased in 332 Carruth-O'Leary Hall for 25 cents.
By LAURETTA SCHULTZ Staff Reporter
Dave Hornback/KANSAN
Anheuser-Busch claims that LA beer is "for the way you live today."
But around Lawrence, many people aren't buying that line, and they're not buying the new low-alcohol beer either.
In May, Anheuser-Busch, the nation's largest brewery, introduced LA, which contains half the alcohol of its regular beers. Several other low-alcohol beers have since been introduced, but LA is the most conspicuous brand in Lawrence.
several tocat clubs, taverns and grocery stores have found the new beer hard to sell. Dillons, 1740 Massachusetts St., has decided to stop carrying LA because of low sales.
"WE TOOK IT ON as a promotion thing for a trial run. It didn't work," said Keith Romero, an employee at the store. "We've decided to discontinue it, and the trucks have come already to pick up the remaining stock."
stock.
Hugh Ekengren, an employee at Rusty's,
901 Iowa St., said that the store may quit
selling LA also.
"I would describe sales as 'not fantastic.' " Ekengen said. "It just doesn't sell very well, and we might end up scrambling it."
scrapping
Dave Kiner, bar manager at Gammon's,
1601 W. 23rd St., hasn't seen much demand for the low alcohol beer either
low-alcohol beer in 800s.
Britain, Lawrence junior, agrees
"Requests for LA are very, very low."
Kiner said "We have a few signs up
"People don't really go out to drink a low-alcohol beer around here."
advertising L.A. but we haven't served much of it.
Bill Britan, Lawrence junior, says "COLLEGE STUDENTS DON'T drink beer for taste," he said. "They drink to get beer. Why dish out more bucks for more beer and more calories to get the same effect?"
LA has 110 calories and contains 2.4 percent alcohol by volume, or 1.7 percent alcohol by weight. Locally, LA is usually uiced about the same as regular beers.
If the price is low enough, LA will sell Food Barn, 1900 W. 23rd St., recently put the beer on sale for $6.99 a case as a promotion
See BEER, p. 5, col. 1