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SINCE 1889
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 11, 1985, VOL. 96, NO. 13 (USPS 650-640)
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kurt Kaywood, Hutchinson junior, and Linda Fletcher, Lawrence freshman, share the walk to class as well as an umbrella during yesterday's rain.
Ines Guadalupe Duarte de Navas,
Duarte's oldest daughter, was abducted as she arrived at the Nueva
San Salvador University yesterday
afternoon. Lt. Carlo Aviles,
chief military spokesman, said.
Troops hunt captors of Duarte's daughter
The abductors shot and killed one of the bodyguards and wounded a second, who died later at the military hospital, police said. A retired army colonel who witnessed the attack the gunmen but apparently missed
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — Two heavily armed men kidnapped the daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte yesterday, dragging her from a vehicle by her hair and killing two of her bodyguards, witnesses and authorities said.
From Kansan wires
After the kidnapping, all roads into and out of the capital were closed.
Students said Ines Duarte was studying advertising and public relations at the university and apparently was grabbed as she left the building.
A dry idea
Witnesses said she was parking her jeep at the university when the gummen drove up in another vehicle, shot out her tires, fired at her bodyguards and dragged her from the car by her hair.
Troops and presidential security guards swarmed the area on a main street on the west edge of the capital, where the New San Salvador University is.
and security forces barred people from leaving or entering the city. Troops using helicopters launched a massive search for the kidnappers
"We saw her fighting with the men. They began to shoot, and we threw ourselves to the ground," a witness
President Duarte canceled plans to hold a news conference yesterday night because he was depressed and sad, a spokesman said.
No group took immediate responsibility for the kidnapping, but a captain from the presidential security office, who would not give his name, said. "Certainly it was the guerrillas."
said. "When they finished, she had disappeared."
Local radio stations said spokesmen for the president had ordered them not to broadcast any stories about the abduction.
If so, it would be the most spectacular urban action by the rebels since rebel gunmen killed 13 people, including four off-duty U.S. Marines, at two outdoor restaurants here last June 19.
See KIDNAP p 5 col 1
Students beg for tickets
Rv Liz Maggard
Of the Kansan staff
"Help me," the classified ad read
"I enrolled late and need an all
sports ticket badly . . . "
Steve Smith, Topeka sophomore who transferred from Washburn University, said yesterday that he placed the'ad in the Kansan on Monday. So far, he has had no callers.
"I'm thinking of putting posters up on campus," Smith said. "Maybe that would get a better response."
All-sports tickets, which sold for $45 each, allow students into all football and basketball games, as well as the Kansas Relays.
Students who missed out on all-sports tickets can still buy season football tickets, but no more student
The tickets sold out faster this year than in recent years because of increased interest in the men's basketball team, said Kent Weiser; KU ticket manager.
season basketball tickets will be sold,
Weiser said.
Many students who want all-sports tickets this year haven't been able to get them.
Unless Smith and others buy all-sports tickets from people who already have them, their chances of getting into Allen Field House to see a basketball game this season are slim. Weiser said.
Weiser said 7,000 seats were allotted for students at basketball games, and 7,000 all-sports tickets were sold. No general admission tickets for basketball will be sold this year, so students will have to buy reserved seat tickets — if any are left.
Whether any reserved seat tickets will be offered will depend on how many season tickets are sold before the season starts, Weiser said.
He said people who had season tickets for basketball last year had until Sept. 16 to reorder season tickets for this season After Sept. 16, basketball season tickets will be
available to the public for $132 --
about $8.50 a game
Steve Maize, Lenexa junior, and Dan Melochier, Topeka senior, no longer have to worry about tickets. They finally received a response to their recent classified ad in the usan pleading for all sports tickets.
Maize said that the ad had been running since the Thursday, but that Monday was the first day he and Melchior had any callers.
Maize said one person called Monday afternoon while he and Melchior were out, so they missed one chance.
But Monday night they received a second call. A woman offered them two tickets at $65 each.
Melichor said he told her, "I'll give you $70, and I'll be there in 10 p.m."
Melchior said he was surprised at the number of students he knew who were without all sports tickets.
KCC mav cut Wolf Creek bill in half
"I thought I was one of the few," he said.
From Kansan wires
TOPEKA — In their first public discussions of the case, state utility regulators yesterday talked seriously about denying the three utility owners of the Wolf Creek nuclear power plant half their investments in the $3.05 billion plant.
At an administrative meeting of the Kansas Corporation Commission, Chairman Michael Lennen said he was leaning toward a decision in the rate case denying the utilities up to 60 percent of their investment or "a figure approaching $1 billion or $1.5 billion."
That would mean only $1.55 billion of Wolf Creek's costs would be charged to the 460,000 Kansas ratepayers who would be served by the
Wolf Creek would provide electricity to much of southeast Kansas as well as metropolitan Wichita and Kansas City. Lawrence is not in the plant's proposed service area.
With words of agreement sounded by Commissioners Keith Henley and Margalee Wright, Lennen unveiled a rough outline that calls for penalizing Kansas Gas & Electric Co. of Wichita, Kansas City Power & Light Co. of Kansas City, Mo., and the Kansas Electric Power Cooperative Inc. of Topeka for failing to control costs.
The three utility companies own and have built the plant together.
But the final decision is far from being reached. By law, the commission must hammer out its order and sign it by Sept. 30. Without any action, the utilities' requests to cover all Wolf Creek costs with rate increases will take effect automatically.
The discussion centers on the utilities' requests to charge their customers nearly $508.9 million in higher rates to pay for Wolf Creek, in Burlington, about 60 miles south of Toonek.
of testimony and mountains of evidence and legal briefs in the case.
Officials of KG&E, which operates Wolf Creek and owns 47 percent of it, have said the utility could go bankrupt if it is denied a rate cover the cost of the plant, which is Kansas' first nuclear station
The meetings follow three months
Estimating that a coal-fired plant costs $1,500 per kilowatt of capacity, about $1.5 billion could be excluded from the rate bases of the three utilities, solely by comparing Wolf Creek to a coal-fired plant.
Gary Haden, KCC spokesman, said he did not think any other utility-regulating commission in the country had made a comparison on a nuclear plant before.
That does not include possible exemptions due to excess capacity, inefficiency, wasteful construction or other factors.
Lennen said it was obvious that they were in over their heads in building a nuclear power plant. He
criticized KG&E, the lead partner, for its poor oversight in the early stages of the project.
"The companies seemed to be performing reasonably well early, but there were problems with early decisions." Lennen said.
"The owners did not define well enough the scope of the project and did not understand the magnitude and complexity of the project. And (KG&E)'s monitoring of the project was not appropriate."
Lennen criticized KG&E investors for voting in 1980 and 1981 to proceed with Wolf Creek when it appeared that costs for nuclear plants were increasing rapidly and that electric rates could double. In addition, he said, the utilities did not "rigorously analyze" canceling the plant when fiscal and regulatory factors turned against it.
Regulators have a traditional responsibility to protect utility customers from unwise investments, he said.
By Gary Duda
Perkins gives boot to all-night studiers
By Gary Duda Of the Kansan staff
Managers at Perkins Cake & Steak want to make themselves perfectly clear: They are in the restaurant business, not the library business.
Kathy Todd, dining room manager at the restaurant, 1711 W. 23rd St., said yesterday that because of an increase in business, the restaurant recently imposed a one-hour study limit.
Over the years, Perkins has become one of the most popular off-campus spots for students to study for as long as they like.
But those days are over.
"We're not a library; we're a restaurant." Todd said. "We're here to make money."
Todd said that in the past students took up space for other
customers. The restaurant tried to restrict extended study by students before, she said, but decided over the summer to try the one-hour limit.
"You've got to look out for your other guests, too, not just students." Todd said.
So far, the time limit has worked, Todd said. But some students have complaints.
Lisa Kaskel, Overland Park sophomore, said she liked to study at Perkins early in the morning. She said she didn't like the new time limit but could understand Perkins' point of view.
"I think they do an awful lot of business from students that study there," she said. "By putting this rule into effect they decrease
Book offers advice to sorority hopefuls
See PERKINS, p. 5, col. 1
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan Staff
Of the Kansan Staff
Women in sororites talk about cutie shoes, vacation in the Bahamas, drink Margaritas, go to the library to see people, dress appropriately and major in education, according to a new book advising women on how to get into a sorority.
The same book says women in sororites don't watch the news, don't talk about politics, don't vacation in Las Vegas, don't drink nondiet soda and don't major in biology.
The book, titled "RUSH: A Girl's Guide to Sorority Success," was written by Margaret Ann Rose, Lexington, Va. It was published by Villard Books and became available yesterday in the Oread Bookstore for $19.95.
Rose, 24, a third-year law student at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, said yesterday that she wrote the book to help women all
First impressions important, author says
over the nation make a good first impression at rush.
But Kristin Audridge, Salina sophomore and member of Alpha Chi Omega, said, "Girls in sororities are just like other girls. Everybody talks about vacations, and my roommate is a biology major."
"Things in the book are meant to be funny, but they are also true observations of what a lot of girls do."
"I wanted the book to be humorous." she said. "But I didn't write it to make fun of sororities.
Rose said she had observed the conversation and actions of women in sororities in their free time and during rush parties.
Rose, who was a Zeta Tau Alpha at the University of Texas at Austin, said she met a lot of women during rush who were charming and had
outstanding school records. But, Rose said, the women weren't asked to pledge because they made a bad first impression.
"I think first impressions are important, but it's not everything," she said.
But Amy Johnson, Onaga sophomore and member of Alpha Delta Pi, disagreed.
"If they had known how to dress and carry on a conversation, they could have done it."
Johnson said women should be themselves so the members could get to know them.
Amy Deterding, Turon senior and member of Delta Gamma, said first impressions were important because members met the rushes only three times. But the second and third meetings are more important, she said.
Deterding said people had individual styles and characteristics and didn't need to conform to any standards.
"There aren't particular things that sororities do or don't do," she said.
Rose said the book also could help women decide whether they wanted to go through rush.
The book also covers topics such as sorority policies, sororities and academics and sorority houses.
Rose said she sent 200 question.
"More than half the book is about sorority life." Rose said. "Some girls may read it and say, 'This isn't for me.'"
The book informs rusheses about such things as how they will be judged by sororities, how to write resumes and the appropriate dress and conversation for rush parties.
"I was surprised to find that sorority systems across the country are very similar," she said. "I expected to find more differences."
naires about rush systems to university panhellenic presidents across the nation, including the University of Kansas.
Her data came from the questionnaire results, from women in sororities and by comparing university rush systems, she said.
The methods of how to get into a sorority outlined in the book have worked for many women, Rose said, although other methods may work just as well.
"Girls should be themselves while going through rush." Rose said. "Sororites want a diverse membership."
Rose, who is from Abilene, Texas, graduated from UT. During the summer of 1983, she offered seminars to inform high school graduates about rush and sorority life.
Photo illustration by Alan HagmanKANSAN
A new book by Margaret Ann Rose called "RUSH: A Girl's Guide to Sorority Success," advises women on how to get into a sorority.