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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THURSDAY, NOV. 14, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 59 (USPS 650-640)
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Vietnam vet angered over drawing's theft
By Karen Blakeman Of the Kansan staff
Within 24 hours of its being placed at the site of the planned Vietnam memorial Monday, an architect's drawing of the memorial was stolen. A Vietnam veteran says this isn't a typical college prank.
typical college portrait.
The drawing, in a Plexiglas and stainless steel frame, was placed on a metal pole at the planned memorial site during a consecration ceremony at 3 p.m. Monday and was discovered stolen at 7:45 a.m. Tuesday, KU police said.
Sea said. Police said they had no suspects.
"I don't know why anyone would do something like this," Lisa Ashner, a member of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee, said yesterday.
John Musgrave, a veteran of the Vietnam War, said he remembered a time when people did this sort of
thing too frequently, and why they did it.
"This is a cowardly act made by a person or persons wishing to make some sort of twisted statement about the war or the policies that led us there by attacking the first physical evidence of the memorial," he said.
Mustgrave, who has worked for two years to see the memorial become a reality, said the theft had not been the first act against the memorial project. The pole the drawing was to be placed on was stolen before the ceremony, he said.
Tom Anderson, director of facilities operations, said his staff worked to replace the pole in time for the concession ceremony Monday.
the connective he first considered the theft of the pole a random act that had nothing to do with the memorial
"But of course, that's not the case now," Musgrave said. "Speaking as a Vietnam veteran, as a member of
the committee that has worked for two years for this memorial, my impression is that this is not a random act of vandalism or a high-spirited college prank."
college prince, who joined the peace movement after returning from Vietnam, said he thought whoever took the drawing was behaving in the same way some people behaved during the war — blaming the veteran for a situation he had not created.
"Far too often the Vietnam vet has been held up to ridicule and to blame, when we did nothing more that what our forefathers had done — we served our country."
House, Senate buy time to hash out budget plan
See VANDAL, p. 5, col. 1
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate yesterday approved different versions of a small increase in the federal debt limit to buy another month to work on balanced budget legislation and avert a U.S. default while President Reagan is in Geneva.
But because the two houses failed to agree on how to approach the short-term increase in the government's borrowing authority, the issue was still unresolved.
The House agreed to an $80 billion increase in the debt ceiling, up to $1.9 trillion, which they said was enough to cover the nation's bills through Dec. 13.
But the Senate, citing routine Treasury Department actions that
raise money, approved an extension only to Dec. 6.
Senate leaders said the shorter extension, combined with regular revenue-raising measures, would have the effect of covering the nation's bills about the same date as the House measure.
The Senate action was taken last night on a voice vote with no debate.
Because the bills are different, the House and Senate will have to resolve the short-term extension issue by today, before the government runs out of money.
But Reagan himself was threatening not to accept the one-month extension. The threat would keep the pressure on balanced-budget legislation tied to a year-long increase in the federal borrowing authority. Without an increase, the government runs out of money at midnight tonight.
But neither deputy press secretary Larry Speakes, Treasury Secretary James Baker nor budget director James Miller would say flatly that the president would veto the short-term hike.
Assistant Senate Republican leader Alan Simpson of Wyoming said Reagan must be allowed to go to the Geneva summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev-Saturday "in the essence of strength."
"The ball is in Congress' court, not in the White House court." Baker said.
Assistant House Republican leader Trent Lott of Mississippi said the overriding factor in favor of passing the short-term debt extension was that the president is going to Geneva and to have a government in default would be a weakening of his position.
Under cover
Treacy Knorr, Greely, Colo., sophomore, and Barbara Stokes, Tuisa, Okla., sophomore, escape the cold mist for a moment as they pass under an arch leading to the chancellor's fountain. Similar weather is expected today. See story page three.
Wolf Creek denied rehearing on rates
United Press International
TOPEKA — The Kansas Corporation Commission yesterday denied a rate rehearing to utilities that own the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant, but did adjust its order to permit two of the firms to earn an additional $6 million.
In an administrative meeting, the commission rejected utility arguments that it had acted arbitrarily when it declared $3.05 billion Wolf Creek plant should be valued like a cheaper coal-fired plant. Also rejected was a lengthy list of other arguments aimed at reopening the rate case.
The KCC did agree with utility
arguments that it miscalculated a formula to allow the utilities eventually to recover the cost of their investment through depreciation over the life of the plant. Kansas Gas & Electric Co. and Kansas City Power & Light Co. — which together own 94 percent of the plant — contended that the commission incorrectly reduced the rate base upon which the utilities may earn a return.
The commission also agreed with KCPI's argument that the utility incorrectly calculated the cost of nuclear fuel inventory.
The resulting depreciation
See WOLF CREEK, p. 5. col. 1
N.J. college offers to postpone game
KU set to play Detroit and Louisville
By Liz Maggard
Of the Kansan staff
The on-again, off-again men's basketball game with the University of Louisville, proposed for Jan. 25 but never officially scheduled because of legal snags, apparently is on again.
Ships, apperance is on June
So is the game with Detroit University on Jan 6.
Barring an unforeseen circumstances, the men's basketball team will play both the Detroit Titans and the Louisville Cardinals this season. Gary Hunter, assistant athletic director, said last night.
Hunter said scheduling both games became possible after officials from Rider College, Lawrenceville, N.J., offered to postpone until another season the KU-Rider basketball game scheduled for Jan. 8 in Allen Field House.
Because of the 28 game limit imposed by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the University of Kansas could not play both teams without dropping a game with another team from its schedule.
schedule
to U-Louisville game will be nationally
televised by NBC TV. Hunter said. The network,
which was "very anxious" to telewise the game,
had informed Rider of the scheduling conflict.
"In the spirit of cooperation and good sportsmanship, Rider College came forward and volunteered to reschedule their game with Kansas to a later date," he said. "This was not at the request of KU."
An injunction issued Oct. 29 by Judge Susan D. Bordman of the Wayne County Court Court in Detroit prohibited KU from playing Louisville unless it also played Detroit.
The injunction had been sought by Detroit officials to force KU to play ball. Detroit filed a breach of contract suit against KU after KU officials announced Aug. 27 that the Jayhawks would not play in Detroit this season.
The KU announcement came after Detroit officials refused to postpone the game. KU officials had requested the postponement because of the chance to schedule the nationally televised game with Louisville.
with Leonard. He said he would meet this morning with Athlete Director Monte Johnson to obtain Johnson's go-ahead before officially announcing the schedule change.
Last night, Johnson said that he would have to check to make sure all details had been arranged before confirming that the Rider game would be dropped.
dropped.
"Assuming that there aren't any last-minute difficulties, I'm relieved that this matter apparently is resolved," he said.
Hunter said he didn't know whether the Rider game would be rescheduled for next season.
"I'm not sure when we'll play them," he said. "But we definitely will give them a game in Allen Field House in a future year."
William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body president and vice president, end their terms next Friday. The two say their greatest accomplishment was to "restore organization" to Student Senate.
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Easlev. Polack look back on their terms
This is the second in a series of stories dealing with Student Senate and the Senate elections scheduled for next Wednesday and Thursday.
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
William Easley and Jeff Polack, student body president and vice president, won their offices a year ago by the largest margin in the history of Student Senate. They promised a campus safety package and a revision of financing practices.
financing practice.
Their unspoken promise, however, was to return the Sustainable conservation – to bring back the gavel. That is the promise that students and administrators say Easley and Polack lived up to best.
"William and Jeff restored a level of integrity and civility to the Senate, therefore adding credibility." David Amber, vice chancellor for student affairs, said recently.
Polack said that besides surviving the entire year, the biggest accomplishment of the term was settling things down.
down.
Easley said, "We've brought organization back to student government. I think we've also enhanced the communication between us and the administration.
They take us more as a force now than they used to. They know that they can't pull the wool over our eyes or ignore us ...
Polack added. "And they know that we are capable of rational thought. They know they can sit down and have a
discussion with us without us breaking into chants."
Easley and Polack's method of running the Senate, said Tim Henderson, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was "very Machiavellian."
"Machiavellian implies efficiency, political cleverness and expediency," he said.
Efficiency, however, is not necessarily effectiveness, said Michael Foubert, graduate senator. He said the two worked well with the administration but did not always direct the Senate.
he said, "the selves capture something" Foubert said, "you have to describe what to do with it. They never did that."
Easley said political philosophy in the Senate swung back and forth like a pendulum.
He said the Senate had been conservative until Carla Vogel and Dennis "Boog" Highberger, last year's student body president and vice president, put more liberal ideas into practice.
Highberger said, "We came out of left field. We tried to take the Senate to the streets, to the students. I think their approach is to stay in the office."
ideas into practice. The day after Vogel and Highberger were elected, they put a poster of Che Guevera, a revolutionary leader, on the Senate office door.
a more liberal Senate. These days, John F. Kennedy stares down into Easley's office from a framed portrait on the wall. Posters of Billy Crystal and Madonna hang over Polack's door. The gavel
Easley said the pendulum was now back in the middle. He said he and Polack were traditional leaders governing a more liberal Senate.
sits on Polack's desk, not much worse for the year's wear.
wear.
Rayley and Polack say the responsibilities that come with their jobs have sometimes put them in awkward positions. They are accountable to the administration for Senate actions that they may have fought against.
The Senate rejected Easley and Polack's financing plan early in their term.
nor early in the day.
"The votes weren't there," Easley said. "We wanted to make it so that Student Senate was encouraging student organizations to become self-supportive."
"Some of the senators who voted against it were members of organizations that may have been affected. It would have made them work a little harder."
It would have made the bill fail. He said they were frustrated when the bill failed because they thought the finance plan would have revolutionized the way the Senate distributed money.
Two-thirds of the Senate would have had to vote in favor of the bill, Easley and Polack were five votes short.
"There are sour grapes here because it was a very important bill and one we built our whole campaign around," he said.
member said Enesley and Polack could not accomplish many of the things they wanted to because many students in the Senate could not separate issues from personalities.
personalized added Easley and Polack "below average" for tangible accomplishments but "well above average" for
See SENATE. p. 5, col. 3