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FRIDAY, SEPT. 13, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 15 (USPS 650-640)
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Prehistoric art
Tom Swearingen, director of exhibits at the Museum of Natural History, paints one of the exhibits at the museum
Panel seeks eye on ticket sales
Rep. Denise Apt, R-Iola, chairman of the Legislative Educational Planning Committee, said the panel voted to send a letter to the State Board of Regents, asking the board "to monitor the ticket situation."
Spokesmen for the University of Kansas and Wichita State University testified against the proposal during a committee hearing in late August, when the panel was studying a bill left over from the 1985 Kansas Legislature that would prohibit mandatory donations linked to season ticket purchases.
TOPEKA - A legislative committee took steps yesterday to dispose of a proposal that would ban universities from requiring donations as a prerequisite for buying season tickets to athletic events.
Wichita State, which requires donations before fans buy basketball season tickets, is the only university in the state that has a mandatory donation policy. KU has considered a similar donation requirement for basketball season tickets.
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However, Apt said the committee has decided that there is no reason to
TOPEKA - The three utility companies that own the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant can pass on to their customers only about two-thirds of the cost of the plant, the Kansas Corporation Commission tentatively decided yesterday.
The plan, still subject to revision, would allow the companies to raise their customers' $3 bills to recoup $2.17 billion of the $0.50 billion they have sunk into Kansas' first nuclear generating station.
The KCC, Kansas' three-member utility regulatory board, also appears to have decided that Wolf
In other action, the committee voted to send a letter to the Kansas congressional delegation asking interpretations of federal laws that govern Haskell Indian Junior College in Lawrence.
Haskell President Gerald E. Gipp told the committee during a hearing in August that state aid would help in the formation of a vocational technical training center at the school. Plans call for the center to be open for area residents as well as American Indians.
However, Apt said the committee needs clarifications on whether the school can legally accept state money and not indian-instudents would be allowed to attend. The committee also will consider a draft of that letter during its next meeting, she said.
She said the panel would approve language in the letter to the Regents at the committee's October meeting.
Plan trims Wolf Creek bill by one-third
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meddie with the schools' season ticket programs.
"I think the committee feels that we've gotten their attention and if there are any abuses in the future, the committee would review it at that time." Apt said.
Under the KCC plan, the three utilities would recoup the $2.17 billion from rate increases reflected in monthly electric bills of their customers.
Creek's owners can earn a rate of return on less than one-third of their investment.
Wolf Creek, a sprawling cement and steel complex, sits just north of Burlington, a small town about 60 miles southwest of Lawrence.
Although the utilities would recover the bulk of their investments
Kansas Gas & Electric Co. of Wichita and Kansas City Power & Light Co. of Kansas City, Mo., each 47 percent of the plant. The Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc. of Topeka owns the other 6 percent.
The utilities serve 460,000 persons in southeast Kansas and metropolitan Wichita and Kansas City.
Stockholders of the three utilities would be forced to absorb a $291.5 million penalty leveled by the KCC because of "construction imprudence."
The money would roll in over the projected 30-year life of the plant.
The plan took shape at an administrative meeting yesterday. Another is scheduled in 10 days to look at specific numbers generated by the KCC staff.
That's because a rate of return — about 11 percent for KG&E and KCPL — would be earned on such a small portion of the money they would get back from rate increases.
under the plan, they would suffer financially.
Financial experts have predicted that the utilities may experience cash flow problems in the near future if the KCC approves such a plan.
The companies also may be forced to choose between taking on large capital improvements and paying dividends to stockholders. In addition, other money that is normally considered profits may have to be used to meet cash flow requirements.
K&GE already has seen the price of its stock plummet recently. Company officials warned at the start of the KCZ rate hearings in May that a decision such as the one tentatively approved yesterday would drive the utility "to the brink of bankruptcy."
Michael Foley of the National Association of the Utility Regulatory Commission in Washington, D.C., said the KCC's plan would be seen by industry experts and investors as fairly rough on the utilities. He said
there was considerable interest around the country in the Wolf Creek case.
KU spirit promoted by council
By Bonnie Snyder Of the Kansan staff
"Begin the Drive in '85, Show your Pride, Wear Blue" is the slogan that's being broadcast across Lawrence on radio stations, in bars, in posters, in newspaper ads and even on a 5-foot banner on Hoch Auditorium.
This year the University Sports Council wants football fans, to be blue.
Draft success frees student aid funds
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Luce gives $500,000 for study
"Registration is a success story," said Joan Lamb of the Selective Service System. "Almost 14.9 million have registered since July 1980. Compliance has been 99 percent of the draft-eligible men."
With that in mind and based on its own surveys, the Department of Education has decided to drop a requirement from the federal student
and they sat.
He said that last year during the game against the University of Nebraska, Memorial Stadium had been filled with more Cornhusker red than Javakh blue.
WASHINGTON — Compulsory registration for the draft has been such "a success story," the government will not require universities and colleges to verify the federal financial aid statements of students this year, officials said yesterday.
"I'm sure there will be a knee-jerk reaction from people who say, 'If you don't register, you shouldn't be funded,'" said Mike Reck, a CAC member. "But the issue is not draft registration. The issue is freedom of education."
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Messinger said the Education Department's two samplings found 98 percent had registered and sampling errors could mean more had done so.
"The Solomon Amendment helped us," Lamb said. "Registration is not part of the corporate consciousness of 18-year-olds, but something like this gets their attention."
The University yesterday received a $500,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation Inc., New York, to finance a study of Christianity in China.
The six-year project will be directed by Daniel Bays, director of the center for East Asian studies, who has done previous studies about Chinese Christians.
Aware of the prospect of administrative work problems, the department conducted two samplings and found "an extraordinary level of compliance," said Sharon Messinger of the department's post secondary education office.
"Baker said, "KU students are known as being apathetic about supporting the football team. The students have something to be proud of and they should show it."
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aid program that had been troubling overworked school administrators.
"The project will try to fill in some gaps in our knowledge of Christianity in China," Bays said yesterday. "It will not attempt to provide a comprehensive detailed history. That would be too large and unwieldy a task."
Collegiate Associations Council voted 9-7 at a meeting earlier this week to create the fund from mandatory student fees. The fund requires approval from Philip Hub-
have to sign a statement confirming he has registered, relieving university authorities of obtaining the draft board letter. The system will be the same as is now in effect.
The Solomon Amendment, sponsored by Rep. Gerald Solomon, R-N.Y., recently spurred a University of Iowa student government group to allocate $7,500 for students who were denied federal financial aid because they refused to register for the draft.
hard, vice president for student services.
Under the terms of the 1982 "Solomon Amendment" linking draft registration and student aid, schools beginning this year were required to have each student who received financial aid produce letters from Selective Service acknowledging that he had signed up.
Sunni Schlegel, Topeka junior, said that she would wear blue to the game.
"It's about high time students went out and started supporting KU's football team," said Greg Baker, Merriam senior and chairman of the University Sports Council, which, along with the Athletic Department, is sponsoring the spirit drive.
Nebraska fans support their team even when it isn't doing well, Baker said.
said
"I don't see any reason why the students at KU couldn't do the same."
Bays said several scholars from the People's Republic of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong would be invited to participate in the research.
The Luce Foundation takes its name from the New York publisher who helped found Time magazine in 1923.
So, Messinger said, a student seeking federal financial aid will only
Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Terrill E. Lautz, Luce Foundation program officer, set final terms of the agreement yesterday.
"Steve Aleman, Hutchison senior, said, "This first game will be really important."
Baker said the council began its push for Jayhawk spirit for tomorrow's home game against Vanderbilt, but hoped the momentum would last through the season.
important.
He said that if the Jayhawks won, enthusiasm would be strong for the rest of the season.
"I haven't seen the signs, but I'll do it," she said.
"It is a significant development for the University of Kansas," Budig said of the grant. "It underscores our role of an academic leader in the humanities. We're honored to have been selected."
Experts hail Soviet's timing
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"I think it is a great break," said Ray Cline, former CIA deputy director for intelligence and former head of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence. Britain announced yesterday that Oleg Gordievski, the Soviet's KGB espionage chief in London, had detected to the West and that 25 Soviets, including six diplomats, were being expelled — apparently on information supplied by Gordievski.
WASHINGTON — Intelligence experts yesterday hailed the defection of the Soviet spy chief in London as a bonanza that could give the West a jump on the "secret underside" of Soviet diplomacy before the superpower summit.
"It comes at a time when there has been a tendency both in Europe and America of wishing think about Soviet policies and anticipation of the summit" in November between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Cline said in a telephone interview.
"It is through such occasional defections that the free world has got the best insights into the real working of the Soviet political system," he said.
The Soviet Embassy in London had no comment on Gordievski's defection, but condemned as "unwarranted" and "unfriendly" the order expelling the 28 Soviets.
David Allee Phillips, former head of the CIA's Latin American and Caribbean operations, said London was a key spot in the KGB's overseas network.
London, Phillips said, ranks with Paris, Washington and Tokyo as prime KB listening posts. London “is terribly important,” he said, “because it is what we
call an 'information channel' for important messages."
sages.
This could weigh on a possible link in Gordievski's defection with the forthcoming summit, Phillips said. "One of the major responsibilities of an intelligence service is to advise political chiefs on the eve of any important conferences. It would seem that the head of their (KGB's) London office would know what is planned, what the position is."
planned, what the position is An intelligence source, who asked not to be identified, said that "speaking for the intelligence community, obviously we are delighted."
community in the intelligence community" embraces all U.S. agencies engaged in that field ranging from the CIA, State Department intelligence and the FBI's counter-intelligence branch to the intelligence sections of the armed services.
A former CIA official, who requested anonymity, said the senior level defection "should turn up a bonanza of top intelligence" that could provide vital guidance in determining Soviet intentions at the Geneva summit.
Cline, now a senior associate and intelligence analyst for the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, said Gordievski's defection "will be a very important development."
"Most people don't realize how valuable it is when we get a deflection like this," he said.
Cline said the detection may prove the most important since that of Arkady Shevchenko, who bolted his position as undersecretary at the United Nations in New York in 1978.
New SenEx leader elected
Sidney A. Shapiro, professor of law, was elected yesterday as committee chairman of the University Senate Executive Committee.
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Shapiro replaced Robert J. Friau, professor of physics and astronomy, who resigned Sept. 5 for personal reasons.
Friauf was arrested Aug. 25 on charges of lewd and incessive behavior. Police said several persons reported seeing him sitting naked between two cars in the 2100 block of Harvard Road. The charges have been reduced to indecent exposure.
Shapiro, who was elected by acclamation, was not at the meeting.
He was out of town yesterday and could not be reached for comment
Arno Knapper, professor of business and SenEx member, said Shapiro had expressed interest in the job under the condition that someone help him with the work.
"Any SenEx chairman needs help," Knapper said.
The committee is composed of six faculty members, one of whom acts as chairman, and three student representatives. The members are responsible for relations between University faculty and administration.
Michael Foubert, SenEx member,
said he thought Shapiro would be a
good SenEx chairman.
Med Center sued in mishan
By a Kansan reporter
The mother of a 15-year-old girl who has been in a coma since April when she fell out of a window at the University of Kansas Medical Center has filed a $33 million federal lawsuit against the Med Center.
The suit, filed Wednesday by Donna Borland, Kansas City, Mo., states that the Med Center was the site of a serious Borland hospital were hospitalized there.
Kimberly Borland was being
treated at the Med Center in April for head injuries she received in an automobile accident, according to Richard Niederhauser, an attorney for Borland.
Niederhauser said yesterday that Kimberly Borland had made several attempts to escape from the hospital and on one attempt fell from a second-story window.
A spokesman for the Med Center said an attorney had not been appointed but would not comment further on the case.