KANSAN
The University Daily
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, September 23, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 22 USPS 650-640
Senate panel denies 3 groups' funding
By DIANE SWANSON
Staff Reporter
Supplementary budget requests from three student organizations were cut to zero last night in preliminary action by the Student Senate finance and auditing committee, constituted by 13 groups.
The first cut was the Architectural and Urban Design Council's request for $4,166.68 to pay off a $2,616.68 debt incurred in the operation of a campus art and drafting supply store. The $1,500 remainder was requested to finish payments on a print machine and to pay someone to operate
Jeff Hayes, president of the council, said the request was a "please for any help we can get."
He said a loan was taken out seven years ago to establish the store in the basement of Marvin Hall. The loan was carried over from year to year.
Now that the store has gone out of business, Hayes said, the group needs to pay off the debt himself.
THE GROUP *did receive* $80 in Senate fund
in the spring for student publications and
offices.
However, Bren Abbett, Senate treasurer, said Senate funds could not be used to pay debtals incurred during previous fiscal years. A bill would have to be introduced to the Legislature requesting that state funds be used to pay the debt, he said.
The committee also decided that funding for the print machine was not justified because of a Senate policy that states "no funds shall be allocated for items in a budget whose primary purpose is for the fulfillment of academic requirements."
ON A RULING from Mikl Gordon, committee member on the machine was classified as an investigator.
The second organization request cut during preliminary discussion was the Undergraduate Engl
It requested $276 for a field trip to the Botanical Gardens in St. Louis, Mo.
The request was cut, according to the committee, because it was not considered "worthwhile" to a large segment of the KU population.
The Art Education Club request for $50 to cover photo-cooking and postage also was cut.
The club had received $188 from Senate last spring.
THE CLUB CHARGES $1 dues, and
raising dues to $2 the club
could cover and聘任 them.
The Solar Energy International Club, which was formed this semester, requested $369.05 for office supplies, newsletter and handbook printers, energy supplys, telephone and travel expenses.
The committee cut the $124.75 requested for
library supplies and voted to give the club
$213
Alpha Rho Gamma, a professional society of jewelry and silversmithing students, requested $375 for equipment repairs, advertising and travel expenses.
After short deliberation, the committee decided to put the request on hold until an interpretation could be made on whether Senate could pay $250 for trips to other universities.
According to the Senate rules and regulations, no funds shall be allocated for sending letters or memoranda.
BLACK STUDENT UNION'S $6,844.55 request and Black American Law Students Association's $3,298 request also may be severely cut depending on the interpretation. A large portion of their requests are to send delegates to national conventions
Gordon said he would prepare a written statement today interpreting the rule and its effects.
The six other organizations presenting their requests were Iranian Student Association, $772; KU Model United Nations, $86.70; Kansas University Advertising Club, $65.19; Chinese Student Association, $400; Occupational Therapy Association, and Israel Student Organizations, $657.75.
The committee will hear 14 more groups' requests tonight.
ASK begins campus voter registration drive
Abbott said all decisions were preliminary and the committee would make final recom-
By BILL VOGRIN Staff Renorter
Special registration tables will be set up on campus at two locations this week to make it easier for KU students to register to vote, enroll in class or receive the student leader who is coordinating the project.
The registration, a service sponsored by the Associated Students of Kansas, will be held in front of Wescole Hall and in the Student Senate office on the third floor of the Kansas Union, today through Thursday. Registration begins each morning at 10 and ends at 2 p.m.
"This is the last on-campus voter registration drive," Kuo said. "It is basically a service sponsored by ASK to promote voter registration."
A similar registration program was held at Allen Field House during enrollment. Kuo estimated that 500-600 students registered at that time.
"I really don't have any idea how many student registrations to expect," she said. "We hope to have more students than during this semester and have central locations and will be very visible."
POSTERS, PAID for by ASK, will advertise the registration, and student volunteers and workers from ASK to handle the registrations. We will handle the coordination with the Douglas County clerk's office.
"We have had excellent cooperation from the county clerk and his people," she said. "Two people from that office are going to help us out with the registration, and they helped it up."
Registering someone to vote is a more complicated procedure than Kuo had expected, she said. Besides complying with rules requiring legal notices, registration assistants must complete numerous forms, and even be deputized.
"We all were made temporary deputies to carry out a function of the office." Kuo said. They had to show us a map, tell us the rules and instructions for registering, and how to fill out the forms."
REGISTRATIONS ARE being taken during business hours every day at the Douglas County Courthouse, according to Dorothy Baldwin, deputy election officer for the county.
"Anyone who wants to vote in Douglas County can register at the county courthouse or at the city clerk's office in the city hall," Baldwin said last week.
Besides the campus registrations, there will be several other registration times in the county, including:
Registration also will be taken today through Saturday at four Rusty's grocery stores in Lawrence. Registration will be taken from 10:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. each day. The Rusty's stores are at 23rd and Louisiana streets, 901 Iowa St., 808 N. 2nd st. and 6th and Kassol streets.
THE CLERK'S OFFICE in the county cour
thouse will extend its business hours and stay open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. starting Oct. 1. These hours will be in effect for two weeks, until the registration deadline on Oct. 14.
The extra registration times have been established to make it as easy as possible to register. However, Baldwin did not expect the number of voters in the county to reach the record total set during the last presidential election.
"There are 32,658 registered voters in Douglas County and according to 1979 population figures there are 74,257 people living in the county," she said.
"It is always hard to say what kind of turnout to expect, but I doubt we'll reach the highest registration. That was about 36,000 a few years ago," Baldwin said.
OUT-OF-STATE students who now live in Kansas can register to vote in Douglas County if they are not registered.
"If they consider this their legal residence, they can register and vote here." Baldwin said.
But if someone from out-of-state would rather write a letter to that county clerk is all that is necessary.
"Write to your home county and they will send you an absentee ballot," she said. "It is easy to vote by absentee ballot, but the ballot must be returned to that county by election day."
Any change of residence, even from an up-
stairs apartment to a downstairs one, makes
registration necessary. The clerk's office also
handles re-registration.
Yoshio Okawara, Japan's ambassador to the United States, spoke on "United States-Japan Relations," last night at the Kansas Union. Okawara is the first lecturer of the 1980-81 University Lecture series.
Auto competition healthy Japanese diplomat says
Bv VANESSA HERRON
Staff Reporter
Industrial competition between Japan and the United States is healthy because it promotes efficiency, Yoshio Okawara, Japanese Ambassador to the United States, said last night.
Okawara, who was the first speaker of the 1980-81 University Lecture Series, said competition between the two countries—particularly their automakers—stimulated production.
"In our relations there have been ups and downs," he said, "but the friction was always untouched."
OKAWARA TOLD the students and faculty who overflowed the Kansas Union's Forum Room, that the Japanese government recognized that many American autoworkers and was trying to help.
However, he said, the Japanese government could not help slowing its exportation of cars to the United States.
Instead, the Japanese government is considering a plan that would simplify import inspection and eliminate import dates on auto parts shipped to Japan, Okawara said.
"We hope through these measures to
improve our investments and import from
America," he said.
In addition, Okawara said, a group of Japanese buyers searched the United States for likely investments in early September, and a second group now is touring the northern states.
AS A RESULT the Honda Motor Co. has agreed to produce cars in an Ohio plant, and the Ford and Toyota companies may work together to produce small cars, he said.
"The door between the United States and
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Olympic ban ruins promotion; Baskin-Robbins bears losses
By KARI ELLIOTT
Staff Reporter
What do you do with 2,300 stuffed Misha Bears worth $13,800 when the United States boycotts the Olympics?
Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream Co., of Glendale, Calif., faced a "Rocky Road" when President Carter announced in May that American athletes would not compete in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
The international company had planned a sales promotion contest in which each local store was to give away a one-foot Misha Bear, this week. The store will be responding to Lawrence's store manager, Dou Shade.
But Baskin-Robbins is not mourning its losses.
Also, the grand prize was to be a free trip for two to the Olympics, Barbara Brooks, national advertising and sales promotion manager, said yesterday.
Other prizes included several four-foot bears,
dobblins ice cream and double-scoop ice cream creeps.
Brooks said the company lost about $100,000 it
had spent for the Moscow trip when it was canceled.
THE COMPANY also had to pay the shipping costs of the Misha Bears to the 2,380 Baskin-Robbins stores throughout the United States. Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Curacao.
Instead of throwing away thousands of Misha Bears, the company removed the bears' Olympic Ring belts and replaced them with a red polka dot bow ties, making them circus bears. Brooks said. The name of the contest also was changed to Circus World Sweepstakes.
Now the grand prize will be a five-day, free
vacation for four to Riu Palace, and Barramundi
The winner will be chosen by an independent
seller. Brown and even will be notified
around the time of voting.
Runner-up prizes will be the same as the original contest, although vintage circus posters
Iraqi warplanes bomb nine Iranian airports
The local drawing for the small circus bear will be Seet. 30.
By United Press International
Iraqi warplanes, retaliating for attacks on four foreign ships, struck at the heart of Iran's military complex yesterday, bombing nine Iraqi airfields, including Tehran International airport.
Iran struck back within hours, sending its American-made jet fighters on bombing missions against two Iraqi bases, ordering a convoy of ships and declaring its coastal war zones.
BY THE END of the day, conflicting reports from Baghdad and Tehran claimed that at least 200 people were killed.
or captured, four Iraqi missile boats were sunk,
or captured, five Iranian and five Irianan
planes or helicopters were lost.
A complete wartime blackout was ordered across Iran last night. Troops were dispatched from garrisons and "the committed youth of the country" were asked to join the fighting.
Both countries closed their air space to commercial traffic.
The latest battles between the feuding countries began yesterday morning when Iran shelled four foreign ships flying Iraqi flags in the strategic Shatt-Al-Arab waterway.
LAST WEEK, IRAQ invoked a 1975 border treaty with Iran and announced that ships using the sea route would be subject to U.S. inspection.
the move meant "naval clashes are likely in the next few days."
The 75-mile waterway at the top of the Persian Gulf on Iran's western frontier provides access to Iran's vital port of Khoramshisb and the city of Khorasan, some of the biggest oil refinery in the Middle East.
Iraq is the fourth largest oil producer, but its only way to the world is a vital supply route to the war zone.
Shortly after the attacks on the ships, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein went on radio to announce he had ordered "deterrent strikes," and then asked if they would have been hitting all nine of Iraq's major airfields.
Ohiat El-ESlam Hashem Rafsanijan, speaker of Iran's Parliament, went on Tehran Radio shortly before the president and announced the nation was on full alert.
THE STRIKES left an Iranian Air Force jet burning at Tehran's international airport, sent thousands of curious Iranian citizens flocking to the airport. The Iranian's authorities to order a wartime blackout.
"Iran will not allow any merchant ship to carry cargo to Iraqi ports," President Abhassan Bani-Sadr announced on Tehran Radio. "In view of the Iraqi armed forces' violations, all waterways near the Iranian shores are declared war zones."
Weather
Today should be most cool with fair skies and a high near 70, according to the KU Weather Service. Winds should be southerly at 10 mph.
Tomorrow should be sunny and warmer with a high in the mid-70s.