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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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FRIDAY, NOV. 15, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 60 (USPS 650-640)
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Tacha appears before Senate hearing
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, told a Senate panel yesterday that her work as an administrator, teacher and lawyer had prepared her well for a judgeship on a federal appeals court
Tacha, nominated by President Reagan for a seat on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, also disputed allegations by a KU English professor that she has worked against equal employment opportunities for women and minorities at the
University.
University
"As a matter of personal commitment as well as in response to regulatory mandates, Have placed a high priority during my administration upon attracting and retaining qualified women and minorities for faculty positions," Tacha said in a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Most of the hearing was devoted to statements lauding Tacha. The exception was testimony by Myra Hinman, the English professor who is suing the University for sexual discrimination in its salary and promotion practices. The lawsuit was filed before Tacha became an administrator.
Tacha, 38, has served since 1981 as vice chancellor for academic affairs and has been on the law school faculty since 1974.
"It itens to me that Tacha's attitude toward civil rights matters suits perfectly her environment," said Himan.
She contended that Tacha did not enforce equal employment guidelines in her role as an administrator.
"Deaniell Tacha is obviously a woman, however, mere gender does
not guarantee that any single woman will protect the rights of minorities and women," said Hinman.
In her prepared statement to the committee, she called Tacha a paper person who was unqualified for a federal judgeship and who was wholly unfriendly to civil rights.
"Dennell is, to my view, just the sort of person President Reagan would have chosen to aid in his campaign to turn the clock back on civil and constitutional rights," said Hinman.
The Rev. D.D Miller, Wichita, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, did not
appear at the hearing although he also has lodged similar civil rights objections with the committee about Tacha's nomination.
Tacafo's motto was Tacha noted that the percentage of women and minorities hired for new positions at KU had increased during her tenure as an administrator, and that affirmative action officials at KU had found remarkable progress in that area in 1983 and 1984.
Richard Vone, KU executive secretary, told the panel that the allegations against Tacha were baseless and blatantly ridiculous.
To further attack the allegations, letters were submitted to the com
mittee from a number of University officials, including Chancellor Gene A. Budig, testifying to Tacha's support of affirmative action goals and her qualifications for a judicial appointment.
Budig wrote that Tacha had been an aggressive advocate for the recruitment and retention of qualified minority and women faculty.
Jacob Gordon, president of the University's black faculty and staff council, wrote that Tacha had done
See TACHA p. 5, col.
Reagan's wary of undue hope on summit eve
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan said yesterday that it was not an impossible dream that his summit meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Grobache could begin the process of wiping out nuclear weapons. But he warned Americans that fundamental disagreements would not change.
In a nationally broadcast speech from the Oval Office, Reagan said that his trip next week to Geneva for two days of talks with the Kremlin leader was a mission for peace and that his aim was to narrow the differences between Washington and Moscow.
Moscow. He also said that he hoped to build new ties between the Soviet and American people with expanded cultural, academic and sports activities that would lessen the suspicions that have spurred the arms race.
race.
In light of the history of strained relations between the superpowers, Reagan cautioned against high expectations, but he did say that he thought the meeting could set a steady, more constructive course to the 21st century.
"While it would be naive to think a single summit can establish a permanent peace." Reagan said, "this conference can begin a dialogue for Peace. So we look to the future with optimism and go to Geneva with confidence."
With arms control at the top of the Soviet agenda for the summit, Reagan made clear his determination to emphasize the issues he sees as being equally important, particularly the Kremlin's role in regional conflicts around the world and their abuses of human rights.
and then subject. Although there have been suggestions that Reagan and Gorbachev might agree on a framework for U.S. and Soviet negotiators to follow in arms talks, George Shultz, secretary of state, told reporters that such an accord was unlikely.
accord was unlikely.
White House aides have indicated that, even without an arms accord, Reagan and Gorbachev are expected
to agree to further summits, perhaps with the next one to be held in Washington in 1986. They also were expected to announce accords on civil aviation and the opening of new consulates in New York and Kiev.
Reagan said that he was going to Geneva with the realization that the arms race must be stopped, and he repeated his pledge of last week that the United States was willing to reduce comparable nuclear systems by 50 percent.
by weep. Week reductions that would result in a stable balance between us — with no first strike capability — and verified compliance."
Reagan also repeated his defense of the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative - the multibillion dollar Star Wars anti-missile research program that has drawn sharp fire from Moscow and has been the biggest obstacle to the arms talks in Geneva.
"If we both reduce the weapons of war, there would be no losers, only winners," he said. "And the whole world would benefit if we could both abandon these weapons altogether and move to non-nuclear defensive systems that threaten no one."
"My mission, stated simply, is a mission for peace," said Reagan, who leaves for the Swiss city tomorrow.
Reagan, at 74 the oldest U.S. president to go to the summit, used a broad, philosophical brush to paint the backdrop for his meeting with Gorbachev.
GIBBONCE
"When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war," he said. "True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law...
"In Geneva, our agenda will seek not just to avoid war, but to strengthen peace, prevent confrontation and remove the sources of tension."
tertiary organization specifically cited conflicts in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Angola, Ethiopia amd Nicaragua as examples of conflicts that threatened to spill over national frontiers and bring the superpowers into confrontation.
Steve Goetz, a professional juggler from Santa Cruz, Calif., is protected from the elements under an oversized umbrella. Goetz is in Lawrence visiting his family, but says he would rather be back in California where the weather is better.
Rain may leave; cold to continue
By David Silverman Of the Kansan staff
Unhappy, wet people trudged through rainy, cold weather yesterday as Lawrence endured its seventh consecutive day without sunshine.
Students on campus were looking for any kind of relief.
ing for any kind of relief
Sheryl Hampton, Overland Park
sonhomore, hoped for snow.
"Anything would be better than this," she said. "This is the kind of weather that makes you want to climb into bed with an electric blanket. I wish I had a fireplace in my dorm room."
Paul Charity, Boston, England,
junior, said the wet, wintry
weather reminded him of home.
To combat it, he recommended
"thermal underwear, flippers and a snorkel."
Today, the dismal weather is expected to continue. Steve Kisner, a meteorological technician at the weather service in Topeka, said the first big winter storm of the season was expected to bring snow to most of the western half of Kansas.
He said there was no chance for snow in the Lawrence area today, but rain was expected with temperatures remaining in the low to mid 40s.
The heaviest accumulations should be about six to eight inches near Dodge City and Garden City. The snow will stretch as far east as Russell, where four to six inches are expected and as far north as Goodland, where one to two inches are expected.
Kisner said the "mixed bag" of weather plaguing the area was the result of a cold front that stretched from El Paso, Texas, to the bootheel of Missouri.
Travelers' advisories were posted for most of Kansas last night and will probably continue today, according to a spokesman for the Kansas State Police.
"That front has combined with warm air from the south and moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to produce rain, snow and sleet over a four-state area," he said.
for the Hassle. The sun may make a canoe appearance on Saturday as the clouds begin to break up, Kisner said. However, temperatures will remain in the low to middle 45s.
football fans planning to follow the yahawks to Lincoln, Neb. for this Saturday's game should expect conditions that will be somewhat worse, Kisner said. Forecasters predict an 80 percent chance of snow or rain in the Lincoln area with temperatures in the mid to upper 30s.
The wintry weather of the past week should signal motorists to prepare their cars for the cold months ahead, according to Officer Richard Jump of the Lawrence Police Department.
"People should use common sense," he said. "Change your oil. Make sure you have enough antifreeze. It's also time to put on snow tires. People should also make sure they have a blanket in their car or in their trunk."
Motorists should also keep a tin can and a candle in their cars, Jump said.
Friends help schedule KU-Louisville
By Liz Maggard
Of the Kansan staff
Rich Hussey, NBC-TV director of programming,
knows it pays to have friends such as John
Carpenter, athletic director at Rider College. But
Hussey also knows that friends don't come cheap.
KU.Louisville game, jeopardized by KU's legal problems with Detroit, until he learned a heartening fact from Gary Hunter, KU's assistant athletic director.
Hussey and knows that Rider, in Lawrenceville, N.J., recently offered to reschedule its Jan. 8 basketball game with the University of Kansas, so that KU could play the University of Detroit and the University of Louisville this season.
"When Gary read me the list of teams KU had on its schedule and came to Rider, I thought 'Aha, there may be a way to save the KU-Louisville game yet,'" he said.
KU plans to play Louisville at Allen Field House on Jan. 25.
Hussey said the outlook had been bleak for the
Hussey said he was optimistic because he knew that Rider had helped NBC solve a similar scheduling problem two years ago.
At that time, he said, NBC wanted to television Ray Meyers' last game as basketball coach at DePaul University. NBC officials were trying to arrange for that last game to be between DePaul and Marquette University.
Yesterday, Hussey said that Rider's offer helped NBC salvage one of the key games on its schedule this season — the proposed KU-Louisville game.
this Basics.
"The KU-Louisville game is very important to our schedule," Hussey said. "We have a basketball doubleheader series starting Jan. 25 that runs into
See GAMES, p 5; col 3
LEAVENWORTH — Dean Braa, graduate teaching assistant in sociology, spends his Tuesday evenings in a different academic atmosphere — behind the walls of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary. Braa instructs a group of inmates working on bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
KU offers classes behind bars
By Jill White Of the Kansas staff
By Jim White
Of the Kansan staff
LEAVENWORTH — The students in Dean Bras's class aren't typical junior and senior sociology majors. They classify as "non-traditional."
The man in the third row is serving two life terms for assault and bank robbery, and extra time for attempted escape. The man in the back row is a convicted bank robber.
Other students are embezzlers or racketeers.
Braa's students are inmates at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary, the second-highest security prison in the United States. But they are also KU students. Four nights a week they take classes from KU lecturers who travel to the prison.
future. I was nervous the first time I came up, but I was never intimidated by any of them," Braa, a graduate student who first taught at the prison in 1982, said recently. "You forget that they're convicts."
The inmates don't wear striped uniforms, they're clean-shaven and look like inquisitive and intelligent KU students.
Daryel Garrison, supervisor of education at the penitentiary, said the benefits of that success, for the prisoners and the penitentiary, ranged from the obscure to the obvious.
A federal contract, scholarships, grants and inmates' wages pay for tuition and books and make the program financially stable. The dedication of sociology and psychology professors make the program a success.
offenses. In the past five years, almost 50 incarcerated men have benefited from the University's continuing education program. Since 1982, 12 inmates have received bachelor's or master's degrees in sociology or bachelor's degrees in psychology
However, iron bars on the windows serve as a reminder that the men have been convicted of federal offenses.
The penitentiary's Internal Disciplinary Court sees fewer cases invading inmates who are in the
"The biggest benefit is the constructive involvement of the inmate," Garrison said. "We have many 'lifers' who are taking classes solely to have something constructive to do with their time."
Scott McNall, chairman of the sociology department, who has been teaching at Leavenworth for nine years, said it was important for the students to develop some sort of self respect. Doing well in school is one way to do that, he said.
"The inmates who attend college are least involved with internal crime activity such as drugs, homosexuality or violence," he said. "The people we have to lock up are the people who are less educated."
educational program, Garrison said
"It allows inmates to have that freedom of their minds that they don't get with their bodies," McNall said.
Wallace May, associate dean of continuing education, is involved with the penitentiary's graduation ceremonies. From 1968 to 1971, before the degree program was offered, he taught basic speech classes in the penitentiary.
May said KU began offering classes to inmates at Leavenworth in
See CONVICTS, p. 6, col. 1