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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
A lion with an umbrella.
TUESDAY, NOV. 26, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 67 (USPS 650-640)
Drizzly
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A warmly dressed student, partially obscured by a cloud of steam from the Blake Hall heating unit, walks between classes.
Winterlike weather creates havoc Travel is made difficult by hazardous conditions
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Winterlike weather created havoc yesterday for motorists and pedestrians as they tried to cope with icy roads and sidewalks.
Numerous traffic accidents — at least three of which resulted in deaths were reported throughout the state yesterday and Sunday night.
Officer Mark Warren, the technical services officer for the Lawrence Police Department, said last night that about 50 accidents, most related to the weather, had occurred yesterday. One injury accident was reported.
Warren said that all accident reports had not been processed.
Lt. Jeanne Longaker, KU police
spokesman, said icy roads resulted in nine minor traffic accidents on campus. No injuries were reported.
Slippery sidewalks, Longaker said, did result in one injury. She said a person was admitted to Lawrence Memorial Hospital after falling on an icy sidewalk in front of Haworth Hall.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said KU crews began applying salt and sand to campus roads late Sunday night. He said crews finally quit working yesterday morning when the situation was under control.
The priority when hazardous weather occurs, Anderson said, is to clear the main roads leading to
Pat Connor/Special to the KANSAN
See WEATHER, p 5, col. 4
Freezing drizzle Sunday night left a hazardous glaze of ice on Lawrence streets yesterday morning. Four cars tried — but failed — to make it up a hill on 11th Street leading to Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin Hall. Lawrence police reported about 50 accidents yesterday, most of them related to icy road conditions.
State to view Budig appeal of budget cut
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
In an attempt to head off imminent KU budget cuts, Chancellor Gene A. Budig submitted an appeal last week to Gov. John Carlin that calls for increased financial support from the state, the University director of business and financial affairs said yesterday.
Keith Nitcher, the director, said the appeal was a chance for the University to justify its budget proposal and respond to the state's proposed budget cuts.
In a Nov. 18 letter to Carlin, Budig said that state support for the University of Kansas was essential to the state's economic future.
Nitcher said, "It's an opportunity for the chancellor to say in his own words what effect the budget cuts will have on the University and the state."
Budig said in the letter, "The University is not unaware of the financial problems that the state faces but would point out that the recommendations made by the Division of the Budget would be devastating to the quality of research and instruction at the University at a time when the future of the state depends on a strong system of education.
"The budget for the University of Kansas was designed around a program that would contribute to the economic development for our state and to its improved economy."
Budig's appeal was a reply to an announcement made earlier this month by Alden Shields, the state budget director, indicating that he would chop more than $45 million from the Kansas Board of Regents' original budget request for the seven Regents schools.
The results of the cuts would be a virtual freeze on salaries and operating expenses during fiscal year 1986.
The state's recommendation was based on a report earlier this month that predicted state revenues would be $132.6 million lower through fiscal
year 1987 than was predicted previously.
David Dallam, an assistant to Shields, said yesterday that Budig's appeal would be considered by his office and the governor before a decision was made on the Regents' 1986 budget.
"We take the written appeals and when we work with the governor they are used as a guideline." Dallam said. "The final budget depends on what the governor thinks is right."
KU's budget proposal for fiscal 1987, submitted in September, calls for a 7 percent increase over this year's budget. Included in the budget is a 7 percent pay increase for unclassified and student employees as well as a 7 percent increase in operating expenses.
In his appeal to Carlin, Budig outlined KU's priorities for the next fiscal year. Foremost was the reinstatement of almost $1 million in operating expenses.
"The restoration of the request for an increase in other operating expenditures is so essential to the programs of the University as to warrant top priority," Budig said in the letter.
Shields has requested only a 3 percent increase in operating expenditures for fiscal 1986 compared with KU's 7 percent request. The operating funds are to acquire equipment, supplies and books for the University.
Next on Budig's list were the salary increases that had been requested for unclassified employees, which includes faculty and student employees.
To reach the 7 percent increase requested by KU, Carlin would have to restore more than $4.5 million for unclassified employee salaries and about $9,500 for student salaries.
A year of no increases would have a devastating effect on morale," Budig said. "Unfortunately it would be the best professors and researchers — the ones who are most in demand — who would leave, and it would be years before the University would recover such losses."
See APPEALS, p. 5, col. 1
2 students from KU competing Rhodes awards to be presented
Since 1994, 21 KU students have been chosen as Rhodes Scholars. Rhodes Scholarships are awarded each year to 32 students and offer winners as much as $2,000 a year to study at Oxford University, England, for as many as three years.
By a Kansan reporter
Fidler and Sanders will be interviewed in mid-December by the Kansas Rhodes Selection Committee. If they are selected by the committee, they will be interviewed by a district committee later in December.
Concerned students oppose liquor policies
David Fidler, Salma junior, and Sylvia Sanders, Lawrence senior, were chosen on the basis of their devotion to duty, academic excellence, moral courage, physical vigor and ability to handle ideas and values. Randa Dubrick, assistant director of the College Honors Program, said yesterday.
Fidler, who is working toward majors in political science and English, is a previous winner of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and of a KU Summerfield Scholarship. He spent last year studying at the University of Exeter, England, and this year was recognized as a KU Hilltopper.
Two undergraduate students have been nominated by the University of Kansas for 1986 Rhodes Scholarships.
Sanders, who is working toward a major in biochemistry, is a University Scholar and last summer was awarded an undergraduate research grant to study a biochemical enzyme. She also plays violin in the KU Symphony and recently was recognized as a KU Hilltopper.
By Bob Tinsley
Of the Kansan staff
The new policy that prohibits residence hall students from keeping beer, wine and hard liquor in their rooms doesn't make sense, according to 90 percent of hall residents who responded to a recent survey.
Thirty percent of the respondents are under
And 50 percent of the nearly 200 students polled said they regularly broke the policy by stashing alcoholic beverages in their rooms and drinking behind closed doors.
The survey, in which students answered seven questions about alcohol anonymously, appeared in the November issue of the Hall Street Journal, the newsletter for the Association of University Residence Halls.
About 5.000 issues of the Hall Street Journal circulate monthly through the eight residence halls
19, and 40 percent are 19 and 20. The rest are 21 or older.
Ninety percent of the respondents said hall residents who were of legal age should be able to keep and drink alcohol in their rooms.
Participants answered questions about the new Kansas drinking laws, their drinking habits and the housing office policy that prohibits alcoholic beverages in University housing. The policy took effect Aug. 1.
Wanda Wood, editor of the Hall Street Journal, said she included the survey in the November issue because "I wanted to do something people would respond to and I thought the alcohol problem would be a good issue."
Before the new policy, students who were old enough could keep and drink 3.2 percent beer in their rooms.
Repealing the policy would reduce drunken driving among residents of University housing,
said one student in his response. The residents wouldn't drive to taverns and private clubs as much, he said.
Another resident said the new policy drove residents off campus to party. They often return drunk, he said.
"Ims traught scares me to death," he said. Wood said, "a Lot of people sit in their rooms and drink. It's a lot better than drinking and driving."
Only 20 percent of the respondents said they supported a minimum national drinking age of 21. Seventy-nine percent said they opposed 21 as the legal drinking age nationwide, and 1 percent said they were undecided.
One respondent said youth had proven that they were incapable of responsible drinking.
"As is often the case, a few have spoiled things for the many," the respondent said.
Fifty percent of those answering the survey said it was a good idea not to have alcohol at
hall events. But respondents on both sides of that question said residents should be allowed to drink in their rooms.
Libby Sherwood, Topeka junior and McColum resident, said residence halls now had more money to spend on other things for their parties besides alcohol.
Sherwood was a member of Lewis Hall's social committee last year.
"We spent about $800 on beer alone," she said.
AURH has tried to prevent students from driving drunk by promoting an "I'm Driving Club." Wood said. But she said the office of student housing rejected the idea.
Under the plan for the club, a resident would pay $1 to join. He would receive a card that would provide him with free soft drinks at participating taverns.
At the end of the night, the resident could drive his friends home soberly and safely.
Hijack and rescue claim 60
United Press International
Greece and Egypt sent military planes to Malta to pick up the survivors and the bodies of those killed in the 30-hour hijacking that ended Sunday night when 25 Egyptian commandos blasted their way onto the plane, triggering a grenade and gun battle that set the aircraft on fire.
VALLETTA, Malta — Sixty people died in the bloody hijacking and rescue in history but one air pirate survived and was under armed guard, the government said yesterday. Egypt defended its decision to send commandos to storm the hijacked EgyptAir plane.
The commandos were firing indiscriminately when they stormed the plane, one survivor of the raid said, because they could not immediately tell the terrorists from the others aboard the plane.
The Middle East News Agency said that President Reagan sent a message of support for the raid to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, saying the "courage and decisive action offer a model of the determination to rid the world of terrorism.
Maltese Prime Minister Carmelo Mifsud Bonnici told Parliament that his government accepted Egypt's offer to storm the plane "because we had neither the means nor the knowhow to handle this situation ourselves" and that the hijackers threatened to kill other passengers.
The Maltese government said 60 people died in the hijacking and rescue. Fifty-eight bodies were found on board the charred Boeing 737, which was seized Saturday night en route to Cairo from Athens, Greece, with 97 people on board.
Ambulance crews placed the bodies — including that of a Canadian infant too young to be on the passenger list — in heavy plastic bags and took them to a morgue.
One passenger died on the way to the hospital after the raid and an American, Scarlett Rosenkamp, 38, of Oceanside, Calif., was shot in the head by hijackers before the commandos stormed the plane. Two other Americans were injured before
the commando assault.
The government initially said all the hijackers were killed. But spokesman Paul Mifsud said later that among the 30 people injured in the hijacking and rescue was an Arab identified by the pilot as one of the five air pirates.
Mifusd said the unconscious Arab was being held under armed guard at a hospital. The state-controlled Egyptian newspaper Al Ahram said Egyptian authorities asked the Malta government to keep him in custody for interrogation by Egyptian authorities.
Egypt identified the hijackers as members of a Palestinian faction opposed to the leadership of PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, and in an apparent reference to Libya said they were working with one or two Arab countries "interested in creating problems in Egypt."
Al Ahram also said today that Libyan intelligence was behind the hijacking and that its main "operations room" was in Athens.
The Associated Press
ISU team members die in plane crash
DES MOINES, Iowa — A twinengine plane carrying members of the Iowa State University cross-country team crashed and burst into flames in a residential neighborhood last night, killing seven people aboard.
The crash also knocked out power to about 1,600 homes, authorities said.
"It's a tragedy, but it could have been three or four times as bad," Mullins said.
1ne Aero Commander, one of three planes carrying members of the men's and women's teams and coaching staff from Milwaukee to Ames, crashed in a freezing drizzle shortly before 6 p.m., and missed a house by 50 feet, said Sgt. Bull Mullins of the Des Moines police.
Seven bodies were found.
Mullins said, as firefighters searched the charred wreckage.
Dave Tidler, assistant manager of the Ames airport, confirmed that the plane was one carrying part of the Iowa State team but added that he did not know how many people were aboard.
"The plane was built to carry seven, and we think that is all that are there," he said.
Bad weather forced the three planes to be diverted from Ames to Des Moines, and the other two planes landed safely. Mullins said. Twenty-one members of the men's and women's teams and coaching staff were aboard the three planes.
The cross-country team finished second behind Wisconsin in the National Collegiate Athletic Association championship meet at Marquette University.