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THURSDAY, NOV. 21, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 64 (USPS 650-640)
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Brian Hattaway, Stanley junior, takes the ID cards of students in the College of Liberal Arts and tions. Polls are open today from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at six campus sites. Today is the last day of Sciences at a voting booth. More than 1,000 students voted yesterday in Student Senate elect- voting.
Problems plague first-day voting
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
Polling places for Student Senate elections
Confusion and problems with the voting process plagued the first day of this year's Student Senate elections.
More than 1,000 students voted in Senate elections yesterday, but some students who wanted to vote discovered that the polls in their schools were closed.
All polls opened at least a half hour late. Although most voting machines began recording votes by 10 a.m., polls for two schools opened seven hours late — only two hours before they closed.
- Burge Union: architecture, fine arts, law and special students.
- Kansas Union: pharmacy, social welfare, liberal arts and graduate students.
Polls for four other schools closed more than two hours early.
Learned Hall: engineering students.
All polls were scheduled to be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., but booths for journalism and education students sat in storage in Stauffer-Flint Hall until 3 p.m.
Stauffer-Flint Hall: journalism and education students.
The booths for fine arts, law, architecture and urban design, and special students, which are in the Burge Union, closed at 2:30 p.m.
Strong Hall: liberal arts and graduate students.
Summerfield Hall: business students.
- Summerfield Hall: business students.
- Polls scheduled to be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
"How do you run an election when the polls are closed?" said Steve Vogel, candidate for an architecture seat from the Common Sense Coalition
He said he didn't appreciate that the polls closed early or that architecture and urban design students had to go to Burge to vote.
Charles Munson, candidate for a fine arts seat from the Chrysalis Coalition, said closed polls would hurt both coalitions because students wouldn't care enough to come back to vote today.
At Strong Hall, the busiest voting location, many voters waited 15 minutes in line to cast ballots.
David Day, chairman of the Student Senate Elections Committee, said he didn't have enough workers at the machines.
Day said that a student, whom he wouldn't name, was supposed to run the machine at Stauffer-Flint but didn't show up.
He said he had a core of eight committee members who were doing all the work. Some were at the polls all day.
because few students worked at the polls, each poll worker had big responsibilities.
Day closed the Burge Union polls at 2:30 p.m. so he could open the polls in Stauffer-Flint at 3 p.m.
Michelle Roberts, Olathe freshman, manned four voting machines on the fourth floor of the Kansas Union.
She had to mark IDs when students voted, find their names and classifications on an enrollment list, answer questions about the machines and try to make sure no one voted without having his ID marked.
Some students said they thought poll workers had so much to do that they couldn't see everyone who entered the booths.
A sophomore who didn't want to be identified because she had friends in both coalitions said she saw students walk into booths and vote without having their IDs checked.
She said students bypassed the poll workers and voted - some more than once.
"It's too easy," she said. "The workers were so busy concentrating on names that they couldn't see everyone."
Other students gave similar accounts, but none would allow their names to be used.
David Epstein, presidential candidate for Common Sense, said he heard rumors about people voting twice, but he didn't know for sure that anyone had.
Epstein said he planned to have observers at some polls tomorrow as other coalitions have done in past elections. Senate rules allow coalition members to act as observers.
Brian Hattaway, Stanley junior, handled all three booths at Strong by himself until about 2 p.m.
He said he didn't think anyone voted more than once, but he said it was possible.
See ELECTION, p. 5, col. 2
Final day of summit agreeable Two to announce reciprocal visits
United Press International
GENEVA — President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, finishing two days of intense talks, agreed yesterday to make a last joint appearance today to cap their "fireside summit" and to announce reciprocal visits.
"The news is so good we're going to hold it until tomorrow," Reagan said last night at a dinner he held in honor of Gorbachev.
White House deputy press secretary Larry Speakes, making a one-sentence announcement of the 10 a.m. (3 a.m. CST) joint appearance Thursday, would give no hint of what the two men might say, noting that the news blackout imposed when the summit started would remain in effect until then.
"The president's frame of mind is very good." Speaches said. "He will sleep well tonight."
The president extended the invitation for a 1986 U.S. visit to Gorbachev during one of their private summit meetings and sources said the Soviet leader accepted.
During the reception before last night's dinner, Gorbachev was questioned about the invitation. He said it had been extended but said only "We'll see" when pressed whether it would be next year.
Gorbachev invited Reagan to visit the Soviet Union the year after and the sources said Reagan would announce at today's appearance that he has accepted.
White House sources said the Americans had achieved what they wanted from the summit - a breaking of the ice between the two countries.
The most that Reagan had sought, they said, was to convince Gorbachev that the United States has no aggressive intentions toward the Soviet Union.
Reagan and Gorbachev made the decision on the final meeting sitting on a couch in front of a blazing fire, prompting Speakes to dub the superpower summit in six years the "fireside summit."
The two leaders spent more than half of their nine-hour summit meeting alone together except for interpreters. Several of those private meetings were held before roaring fires.
Reagan and Gorbachev held their fourth and final formal meeting yesterday afternoon. An hour into the meeting, ton aides from both sides
See SUMMIT, p. 5, col. 1
Clock runs down on players' suit
By Mike Snider
Of the Kansan staff
The battle isn't taking place on the turf in Memorial Stadium, but it does involve KU football players — and it may run longer than the season itself.
This battle pits Lynn Williams and Dane Griffin against the University of Kansas. The turf: the Johnson County Courthouse, Olathe.
The latest scrimmage will be at 11 a.m. today.
Williams, a senior tailback, and Griffin, a junior linebacker, filed suit Sept. 19 against the University, saying they were improperly advised by KU officials about the requirements of the National College Athletic Association's satisfactory progress rule.
Williams and Griffin were declared ineligible Sept. 12 by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for not making satisfactory progress toward a degree.
But a court order signed by Judge Phillip J. Woodworth on Sept. 27 declared the players eligible to participate in practice and games at head football coach Mike Gottfried's discretion.
If the suit hadn't been filed, Williams' college football career would have ended, and Griffin would have been ineligible to play this season.
In a deposition taken this month, Gottfried said that college players' potential careers in professional football could be jeopardized by being declared ineligible.
Although there aren't many spectators at the courthouse, at least one academic counselor at another Big Eight Conference school says he is watching the case.
"Basically, I'm interested to see what's going to happen." Chuck Patterson, academic counselor at
the University of Missouri-Columbia, said Tuesday. "I think all academic counselors should be aware of it."
In court today, Woodworth will most likely dismiss the case or turn down the University's motion to dismiss the case and send it to trial.
Ed Collister, Griffin's attorney, doubted that Woodworth would dismiss the case.
"Although he has the right to dismiss on constitutional grounds, I think it's more likely that he won't," he said. "I think there are controverted facts . . . issues of fact that warrant a trial."
Also, the KUKansas State University game, which KU won 38-7, could be forfeited later if the players are declared ineligible, he said. That is the only game KU has won since the two players were declared eligible.
"That means the University has never had a decision on the matter of the players having a right to play football." she said.
But Collier said Griffin's eligibility for next season might be leopardized.
Rose Marino, assistant University general counsel, said the lack of a court ruling before the end of the season allowed the players to gain everything they sought in the suit: the ability to play football this season.
"We've submitted everything," she said. "I suppose the plaintiff's attorneys could say something that would refute our motion, but they are arguing matters of law. I don't know what they could say."
Marino said she thought Woodworth could make a ruling today.
In the case, the players have never alleged that they had a constitutional right to play football, Collister said.
"We have alleged that their due process rights have been violated," he said.
In legal documents, the players say the two petition hearings before the College's Committee of Undergraduate Studies and Advising were insufficient because Williams and Griffin weren't allowed to be present.
Even if Woodworth dismisses the case on the grounds that that the players have no constitutional right to play, Collister said, the players still have a case.
The players' arguments that the College be kept from declaring the players ineligible, that the College was negligent and that the acts committed by University employees were "arbitrary and capricious" still stand, he said.
The University general counsel's motion for dismissal is based on two key arguments: that Williams and Griffin have no constitutional right to compete in athletics and even if they do, their rights were denied after due process.
"All we've done is say, 'Legally they don't have a reason to be in court.'" Marino said.
No contract exists between the University and the players that entitles them to play football, she said.
"It's a privilege, not a right," Marino said, "just like every student doesn't have a right to graduate."
The general counsel cited legal precedents that say no constitutional right to play football exists because courts have denied that participation in interscolloidal athletics is a protected right or a guaranteed part of an education.
The University says that due process was provided to the student-athletes because the College followed NCAA and Big Eight guidelines in declaring the players inelegible.
Carlin speaks today at KU of economics and Kansas' budget
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
Gov. John Carlin will discuss the state's somber economic outlook and its effects on higher education when he speaks to the University Senate at 4 p.m. today, a speech writer for Carlin said yesterday.
"The governor wants to stress that the state cannot afford just to spend money — we have to invest it."
"He will emphasize the notion of competition," said Diane Prentice, a member of Carlin's staff. "There is competition for scarce dollars and there is competition in the economic development arena. All areas are facing an economic squeeze. There are legitimate needs all over."
Earlier this month, the estimate for state general funds over the next two years was cut by $132.6 million. As a result, many recipients of state funds, including the Kansas Board of Regents, will face reduced budgets for fiscal year 1987.
Today's speech in Woodruff Auditorium of the Kansas Union is part of the governor's plan to inform the public about the state's serious economic situation. Prentice said.
Prentice said that Carlin had been meeting with civic groups, community organizations and government leaders since September to discuss the effects of the shortage of state funds.
Arno Knapper, presiding officer of the University Council, said that Carlin was invited to speak some time ago, but that the recently proposed budget cuts for the Regents added significance to the speech. He said the most prominent issue for faculty was the proposed cuts in the Regents budget.
On Sunday, Carlin met at the governor's mansion in Topeka with the heads of Regents schools.
Sue River, an official in Carlin's press office, said the meeting was "part of an effort to stay in touch with the heads of the Regents schools."
"The governor wanted to stress the seriousness of the budget situation," she said. "He was looking for input that could help lead him to a decision on the budget."
She said the meetings would continue as Carlin attempted to piece together a state budget proposal for fiscal year 1987.