KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
The University Daily
Thursday, October 23, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 44 USPS 650-640
Senate members criticize coalition campaigning
Bv MIKE ROBINSON
Staff Reporter
When students go to the polls for the Student Senate elections Nov. 19 and 20, they will find that many of the candidates on the ballots are members of coalitions. Yet, these candidates may not make the best senators, according to Matt Davis, student body vice president.
Davis, who was elected as one of the leaders of The Coalition in last year's election, said this week that although coalitions were ad- dressed with promises to show them, they often did not offer the best candidates.
The candidates receive better advertising and publicity, but the voters don't get to know the candidates.
He said that only the presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the coalition were present.
Davis also said that in order to have a candidate for each Senate seat, coalitions often persuade reluctant students to run for Senate. He said he was not sure what effect next term, would lesson that problem.
THE STUDENT BODY would be better represented if all candidates had to campain and work for themselves, Davis said, because the students also would hard work once in Senate.
Coalitions at KU have outlived their usefulness, he said.
However, the leaders of two coalitions said the groups offered several advantages to the student movement.
Bren Abbott, candidate for student body vice president on the Impact Coalition, said increased visibility helped the students know the can-do better and helped them make better choices.
Large living groups are given the opportunity to view the candidates for different seats at the local council.
KRISTY KOSSOVER, vice-presidential candidate on the Spectrum Coalition, said coalition platforms gave students a way to identify candidates.
She said that while independent senators often worked harder and made excellent senators, most senators came from coalitions and also did well.
Although some candidates, such as those from the School of Law, are concerned with their own
issues and gain no advantage from running on a coalition, the coalition members usually have a definite advantage in Senate elections, Kossover said.
She said it was up to the leaders of the interlocutors to interact and would represent the strong well.
He said students were encouraged to run who often were not being represented.
Larry Metzger, candidate for student body president and Kossover's running mate, said the recruitment of students for Senate was a positive aspect of coalitions.
Metzger said he disapproved of recruiting candidates simply to have a senator running for
"Unless there is a tremendous number of people you personally know who are highly
qualified, it is virtually impossible maintain a high standard of members and run with a full team.
HE SAID THAT IDEALLY all the candidates would run independently and speak to all of the students, but that, realistically, coalitions were more practical.
Jim Borelli, liberal arts and sciences senator, and Mild Gordon, engineering senator, have run for Senate on coalitions and as independents, criticized the coalition system of campaigning.
Borelli said that the students looked at the coalitions instead of the candidates and that the candidates simply "pipe back out" the campaign issues given to them by the coalition.
See COALITION page 5
Art, tea ritual of Japanese shown at KU
By JANE NEUFELD Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The main guest turned the ceramic bowl twice in her hands, then slipped the thick green liquid in it. She bowed and passed it to the second guest, who repeated the actions.
Aiko Yamashita, the main guest, and Ken Wainright, the second guest, demonstrated a Japanese tea ceremony to a crowd of about 200 at the Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art.
The ceremony was one of several events on Japanese culture that the museum will present in conjunction with its exhibition of Japanese wood block prints, "Tokaika: Adventures on the Mountain."
All four people who performed the ceremony are from Hilo, Hawaii.
The ceremony was hosted by Chieko Yarnashita and her assistant Keilin Collins.
THE NARRATOR of the ceremony, Richard Wilson, Hilo, Hawaii, graduate student, arranged for the four to come to KU to demonstrate the authentic tea ceremony. The Japanese because it embodied the Japanese proverb of "one chance, one meeting" he said.
During the ceremony, Wilson said, the participants have a chance to be together that may never happen again. Therefore, each person tries to make the most of the occasion.
A poem of the ceremony says, "A ladle of water washes all dust from the heart."
The tea ceremony uses formal, ritual motions in the serving and preparation of the tea. Even the surroundings and the way the participants move must fit the correct form.
"Tea students often study two or three months to just learn how to walk correctly," Wilson said.
The accessories of the room are important in creating the proper mood, he said, and are chosen to reflect the personalities of the guests, the season and even the weather.
The guests carefully study the flower arrangement, the tea kettle, the water jar and the tea bowl because they have been selected especially for the guests and the occasion.
Wilson said the examination was another reflection of the 'one chance, one meeting'
"They may never see this bowl again, and they don't want to lose the opportunity of examining it."
The ceremony begins with a mutual bow of the host and the guests.
Before having tea, the guests are served sweets from a laquered box. Wilson said the sweets were to complement the tea, which is the original thick, strong green tea of Japan and not the brand of thin green tea that usually is sold today.
"Without the sweetness of the candy, the tea is very hard to take," he said. "It's kneaded to a consistency that I think has been compared to snimach soup."
See TEA page 5
BEN BIGLER/Kansan staff
Chileo Yamashita prepares a package of Japanese green tea during a Japanese tea ceremony last spring at the Tokyo Collezione. In the background, the ceremony was held in conjunction with the Tokio collection. Japanese
Photo ID cards to be printed next semester
Gly Dyck, dean of admissions and records, said yesterday that he still was negotiating with companies for photographic equipment to produce the cards.
By CINDI CURRIE Staff Reporter
KU students will be able to get a permanent identity when the University begins producing new picture identification cards at enrollment next semester.
The new IDs have not yet been issued because the new IDs have been too busy to deal with the real risks.
Departments that give tests to large numbers of students have not been able to positively identify students with the IDs now in use, Dyck said.
BECAUSE OF COMPLIANTS from these departments and from students who said picture
The University decided to change from the current IDs to picture IDs to ensure positive results.
KU had picture cards two years ago, but when the photographic equipment began to wear out, Dyck said, University Relations decided to design and purchase the current IDs.
Dyck said the new IDs would cost $1.50. If a student loses his card, a new one will cost$1.
IDs would be more useful for identification,
Dyck said he decided to return to picture IDs.
The camera, which can take four pictures on one film unit, and a laminator for the cards to be printed.
He said he did not think the price of IDs would increase unless the price of film increased
"Our goal is to break even." he said.
The new photographic system could cost the University as much as $3,000, Dyck said.
HE SAID KU probably would purchase three
lawrence campus and one for
Kansas City, KS.
Dyck said he had not received complaints about the temporary paper IDs for freshmen and
Warner Ferguson, associate director of the Kansas Union, said the temporary paper IDs did not help the identification process at the check cashing station in the Union.
than they are with the paper, he said, because they still do not have positive identification.
Students are not any happier with the plastic
He said that when he worked at the cashing window he sometimes asked for other identification, such as a driver's license or social security card.
"Just the white card is not nearly as good as the other IDs," he said, "but you can't deny the others."
"We haven't done that all the time because there are so many of them," he said.
"We had a run of about 30 or 40 before the first football game," he said.
Dyck said that about five or six students a day requested replacement IDs for cards that had
Ferguson said he did not think there had been an increased problem with returned checks.
He said students had to come to the office of admissions and records for a replacement, but the department didn't.
School of Engineering feels shortage of profs
By VANESSA HERRON
Staff Reporter
The KU School of Engineering, which has 10 percent of its faculty positions empty this fall, needs professors badly, David Kraft, dean of the school, said this week.
However, because of a nationwide shortage of engineering professors, the school will have to wait in line with most engineering schools in the country.
Kraft said the vacancies should be filled by next fall. In the meantime, engineering professors carry heavy classloads, and learning labs and classrooms are filled to capacity.
Edward J. McBride, a KU mechanical engineering professor, was the last engineer in 28 years at the laboratory.
"My average class has 60 students," he said, "and that's terrible."
LAST WEEK. a National Science Foundation
report said 10 percent of the country's engineering faculty positions were unfilled. The foundation said the shortage was partially caused by an exodus of engineering professors to jobs in private industries, which pay about 20 percent more.
Another cause could be declining student interest in doctoral study that would qualify them for a PhD. The question is whether
"It's a growing problem," Kraft said. "We had about seven vacant faculty positions, and that was it."
In the past six years, Kraaf said, the number of students in the school has doubled. In the same period, the number of KU engineering professors increased 15 percent.
This year there are 77 full-time faculty members in the school.
"But we are still 10 to 15 percent sh of the number we need based on our enrollment," he said.
The school has organized search committees and has advertised to fill the positions. However
See ENGINEERING page 5
Voter registration sets record high election turnout expected
About 40 percent of the 37,916 registered voters in the county have declared no party affiliation. There are 15,385 unaffiliated voters in the county.
Republicans outnumber Democrats by more than 5,000 voters. There are 13,995 Republicans and 8,566 Democrats, according to the clerk's figures. Other parties drew 30 voters.
Despite a decline in the number of voters registered in Lawrence, voter registration in Douglas County has reached an all-time high, and the governor yesterday by the Douglas County Clerk's office.
"I am highly pleased with your registration went," Delibert Mathia, county clerk, said. "I'll be honest with you; I didn't expect it to go so high."
In 1976, the last presidential election year, there were 29,766 registered voters in Lawrence. That figure has dropped this election year to 29,752.
The areas in Douglas County with the biggest increases were the Wakara and south Eudora
townships, according to Patty Jaimes of the clerk's office.
"The growth areas were a surprise. We also saw an increase in the Pinkney and Deerfield area."
There was an increase of about 1,000 voters in the townships in Doulasa County.
"I'm expecting a really high turnover on
Mahalia, but don't ask me to explain why."
Mahalia said.
This summer, Mathia had been pessimistic about the chances of a high turnout, and as late as September he did not think registration totals would reach the record.
"I think a lot of it had to do with the Kansas primary," he said. "It man have added 1,000 or
The number of affiliated voters did not surprize Mattshe, he said that he did not see a candidate. He registered.
"Party isn't a factor in this type of business," he said. "This is an all-time high. That says more than words."
Basketball season tickets to go on sale Nov.11 at Field House
Student season tickets for basketball will be sold Nov.11 to 14 at Allen Field House, Nancy Welsh, ticket manager for athletics, said yesterday.
"The procedure is the same as last year's." Welsh said. "Each student is limited to one seat per ID, and the seating is in a reserved area, not reserved seats."
Welsh said students could not buy more than two tickets apiece.
Tickets will be sold in the east lobby from 10 to 11am and will cost $15. There will be 14 home games.
To buy a season ticket, a student must have a valid ID. Welsh said.
Welsh said the North Carolina game Jan. 3 at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Mo. was not inCLUDEd.
"It is classified as an away game," she said. "He will have a special block that we will hold for KKR."
"If they have lost their ID cards, they have to get a temporary one at the admissions office before they can get a ticket," she said. "People who want to buy tickets for busses must show some proof of marriage, such as checks with both names on them."
Students graduating in December who buy season tickets should check with the ticket office between the end of first semester and the first home game of second semester. Welsh said.
The student athletic seating board decided this week to make provisions for graduating seniors to attend the rest of the games, although they would be held at the gym and said specific details had not yet been worked out.
Approximately 7,200 student season tickets
are available, and Welsh said she expected all of
their appearances to be in person.
Weather
It will become increasingly cloudy today with a slight chance of rain, according to the KU Weather Service. The temperature is 25 mph, and the high will be around 6%.
Tonight the skies will be mostly cloudy with winds coming from the northwest at 10 to 20 mph. The overnight low will be about 36.
Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and unseasonably cold with a high in the low 50s. The extended forecast for the weekend calls for a warming trend pushing the temperatures into the 60s with lows in the 30s.