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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, NOV. 18, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 61 (USPS 650-640)
Rain
Details page 3.
Comet is fuzzy dot in skies
By John Williams Of the Kansan staff
The cloudy, rainy sky finally relented Saturday night, allowing about 600 eager people at the Clyde W Tombaugh Observatory atop Lindley Hall a peek at a fuzzy legend — Hailie's Comet.
The last time Halley's Comet blazed in the skies over Lawrence was in 1910, and cloudy weather hampered viewing then as it has during the past two weeks, according to newspapers of the time.
Bill Remmers, 501 Mississippi St.
said that all of the comets he had
observed, Halley's Comet excited
him the most.
Many people, some with their own binoculars, considered waiting in the 40 degree weather Saturday night rewarding.
"It's nice," he said. "It looks like a Messier object, a nebula."
A Messier object is named after Charles Messier, an astronomer who catalogued cometlike objects such as Halley's comet and masses of interstellar gas or dust.
Saturday night, the comet was slightly south of a dipteral shaped star cluster called the Pleiades. The comet is moving south By next week, moving almost one degree a day, it be near the constellation of Aries.
Annette Kiene, Topeka senior, said she expected Halley's to be "more confident."
"It looks like, a cotton ball," Whitacre said "it not very comet-looking for the stereotypical comet that hasn't developed much of a tail veil."
Mara Whitacre, president of the Astronomy Associates of Lawrence, said more people showed up than planned, resulting in the observatory staving open until about 2 a.m.
Bruce Twarog, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, said he thought that the people who crowded the third and fourth floor hallways of Lindley Hall were impressed with a view of the comet.
Eran Yakar, Prairie Village senior, expected to see a tail, but did not realize that the best is yet to come.
"I thought this was one of the last times I would get to see it, but I guess this is one of the earliest times to see it," he said.
See COMET p 5 col 1
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The agony of defeat?
Receiving the regular season trophy didn't please Michal Corey; 11 son of Eugene and Maggie Corey; 1515 Powers St.; because his team, the Cougars, had just lost the Little League football championship. The Cougars lost to the Colts 12-6 in overtime yesterday afternoon during the Toy Bowl at Haskell Indian Junior College stadium.
Cuts in budget to hurt salaries of KU workers
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
Any hope for a budget increase at the University of Kansas was crushed Friday when the state's budget director announced severe cuts in the Kansas Board of Regents' fiscal 1987 budget.
Alden Shields, the budget director, said Friday that the state budget office was cutting more than $17 million from the Regents' lowest budget request for the seven Regents schools. That means no salary increases for Regents' faculty or classified employees
Shields, at a meeting with the Regent's Fiscal Affairs Committee in Topeka, outlined the recent reduction of $132.6 million from an estimate of state general fund receipts for the next two years.
As a result, he said, agencies that have access to special revenue funds — such as fee funds — will be required to draw on those balances rather than receive additional money from the general fund. The general fund is fed primarily by state income and sales taxes.
Keith Nitcher, University director of business affairs, said that the slashing of the Regents' budget planned budget increase for KU
"We are already underfunded compared to our peer institutions in the areas of salaries and supply expenses." Nitcher said. "We'll have no new programs and only a limited increase in supplies. We won't be able to catch up."
In September, KU officials set the fiscal 1987 budget at about $195.5 million — a 7 percent increase over fiscal 1986. Budget officials said that at that time, the increase was an attempt to bring salaries at KU in line with those of other universities.
Sidney Shapiro, University Senate Executive Committee chairman. said the salary freeze would widen the salary gap between KU and other schools.
If the University continues to fall behind other schools in salaries for faculty, Shapiro said, it will be harder to catch up.
Shapiro said the salary freeze would not help keep and attract faculty to the University. He said he thought that as long as the salary differences were not drastic, faculty members would not leave.
SenEx will discuss the proposed cuts in the Regents budget during its regular meeting at 8 a.m. tomorrow.
Shields said the reduction in recommended general fund money, offset by drawing from fee funds, would result in a cut of more than $17 million. The firm also budget request. He said the money saved at the Regents' expense would
See SALARY p. 5 col. 1
Ed Manning is fine despite chest pains
By a Kansan reporter
Assistant men's basketball coach Ed Manning was treated for chest pains and released from Lawrence Memorial Hospital last night.
The Douglas County Ambulance Service responded about 8 p.m. to a call at Manning's home, 3120 W. 23rd St. A member of the ambulance crew said Manning had passed out, but conscious when the crew arrived.
Manning was not in a lot of distress, he said, and the ambulance took him to the hospital's emergency room as a precautionary measure.
He was released at 10:45 p.m. after tests were conducted, a nursing supervisor said. She said Manning had not suffered a heart attack.
Head basketball coach Larry Brown said Manning had been at home after returning from a recruiting trip Brown said Manning had a bad chest cold.
Manning joined the KU basketball staff in September 1983. He played professional basketball from 1967 to 1975, and his college coaching career in 1977.
His son, Danny, is a starting forward on the KU men's varsity basketball team.
Cocaine blankets Lawrence, dealer says
By Bengt Ljung Of the Kansan staff
It snows every season at the University of Kansas.
Line after line, mile after mile, the nose candy sweeps into the nostrils
Chris, a senior who asked that his real name not be used, has dealt cocaine in Lawrence for the past 15 years. The majority of his income has between 3,000 and 4,000 users.
Most of them are students, Chris isst,
but he also says he has his customers in the KU administration in the Lawrence business community.
Miamian arrested by FBI
The snow white powder is poured into thin lines across a mirror. A straw can be used to follow the line through the snow. A dollar bill on $100 bill is more soothing.
The FBI, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and the Douglas County Drug Enforcement Unit have been investigating a drug trafficking ring that has been responsible for bringing as many as 15 kilograms of cocaine into Kansas City and Lawrence each month, Davenport said.
Cocaine is expensive. It is almost 10 times as expensive as gold. One gram, or 0.035 of an ounce, sells for $100 on the street. The amount of pure cocaine in an ounce lessens as baking soda or baby powder is added. Chris is putting himself through college by selling cocaine.
Mauricio Posada, 24, was arrested on cocaine distribution charges as a result of a two-year investigation of narcotics trafficking in Puerto Rico. She attended Lawrence areas, according to Robert B. Davenport, special
Posada was arrested yesterday afternoon when he attempted to sell cocaine to undercover agents in the city's shopping center, Davenport said.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Miami man thought to be involved in a drug ring operating in the Lawrence area was arrested yesterday as he tried to sell one-fourth of a pound of cocaine to an undercover FBI agent, authorities said.
Each month, he says, he distributes about a dozen ounces of cocaine. His gross sales range from $2,000 to $6,000 a month in profit.
United Press International
"And there are no taxes." Chris says with a smile.
Chris says he can spend $50 to $100 whenever he feels like it in good restaurants and clothing stores
Recently, at a restaurant frequented by students, Chris pointed out 15 of his customers as they walked by.
"You wouldn't think they are coaine users," he says. "Coke use has increased a lot the four years I have been at KU."
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agen-
agent in charge of the Kansas City FBI office.
ey two weeks ago said cocaine use had increased 11 percent in the
The network's surveys show an increase in cocaine use from 4.9 percent in 1983 to 6.7 percent in 1985 among 16,000 randomly sampled high school seniors. In the Kansas City metropolitan area, emergency advance to hospitals because of cocaine use jumped 37 percent from 1982 to 1984.
Lorraine Ferguson, an analyst with the Drug Abuse Warning Network, Rockville. Md., says all cases of drug abuse can be cocaine use is increasing nationwide.
"It looks like we're in a cocaine epidemic," she said.
Chris agrees with the experts and says that for casual users, cocaine is more potent.
Statistics for Lawrence or Douglas County aren't available.
"Gays use it to get girls." Chris says, "The pick-up line of the 80s is, 'Hey girl, want to go do a few lines?'"
Cindy, a senior who asked that her real name not be used, says that some men will give good-looking women a gift when they give hope for sexual favors in return.
Cindy also says that women will use the same ploy on men — although less frequently — to arouse sexual interest.
"Coke makes you horny," she says. "Having sex after you've done coke is the ultimate high."
But the experts say cocaine may not be the best thing for a user's sex
Marvin Snyder, a medical expert with the Drug Abuse Warning Network, says a user's sex drive depends on how addicted he is to cocaine.
"Some like cocaine so much that they give up on sex," he says.
Cindy has been snorting cocaine for six years. Along with doing coke two or three times a week, she also takes Valium and takes Vallum a tranquilizer.
She does most of her cocaine at weekend parties. The high from one
fourth of an ounce lasts as long as 45 minutes. Then she goes to a bathroom and gets out her mirror and straw
"I do as much as I can afford," she
See COCAINE n. 6. col. 1
says "In the beginning of the semester, when I had more money, that could be $50 to $75 a week. Now
Tumbling is simple. clean and only costs a quarter. Daring students stuff themselves into
Monday Morning
It's 3 a.m. Taverns and private clubs are closed. But some students have discovered a unique way to amuse themselves in Lawrence when the monetory of normal nightlife sets in; tumbling.
clothes dryers at local Laudromats, insert a coin in the machines — and away they go. The person in the dryer is in for a one- to three-minute ride, depending on how long they can take it.
"There are two versions of tumbling," Jay Wagon, Wichita senior, said yesterday. "You can leave the door open, stick your feet out and someone holds the button down. Or you can get all the way in and go around. It is not scary unless someone closes the door."
By Kady McMaster Of the Kansan staff
Students take rolls in dryers
Wagnon, who says he has tumbled about six times, said that because it could get hot in the room, he had to rest and rest after about one minute.
Joe Derks, Overland Park senior, said. "If you go around in a circle about six times, that's enough."
Margie Best, Evanson, III., senior, said she first heard of tumbling three years ago when
See TUMPLE I, vol. 4
See TUMBLE p. 5, col. 4