The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, September 18, 1980 Vol. 91, No. 19 USPS 650-640
Kansas City Royals outfielder Willie Wilson pitches Demis Leonard. Leonard shut out the defending Western Division champion California with champagne following the Royals' title-clinching victory last night. Angels 5-4. See story back page.
Fans petition for new spirits at games
By CINDI CURRIE
Staff Reporter
If some determined students have their way, a new type of spirit will circulate in the stands of the stadium.
Mark McClanahan, Overland Park junior, is leading a battle to get beer served in Memorial Stadium and will meet with Acting Chancellor Del Shankel in two weeks to discuss the issue.
McMlanan said he had discussed the possibility of beer in the stadium with Shankel
"He said he thought it was feasible and could be a good idea, and would be a good way to make sense of it."
A REQUEST FROM THE University of Kansas Athletic Board and KU concessions is needed before the chancellor will approve the idea, which he has called for Senate executive committee vice chairman.
Venable said that the Board of Regents did not have to approve the idea and that all that was required was for the Board to review it.
mcIcahanian said that Bob Marcum, KU athletic director, also supported the plan.
"He said he would have a favorable reaction to a plan and if the administration said yes, it was
The proposal for beer in the stadium also was endorsed by Student Senate last year. Senate approval was based on a study done by the now-renowned College of Dentistry for Higher Education, a KUL lobbying group.
The CSHE report studied beer sales at the University of Colorado at Boulder, which has sold beer at athletic events for the past three years.
The report emphasizes that revenue from beer sales could be used to help support intercollegiate athletics and alleviate some of the costs associated with athletic departments because of Title IX rulings.
TITLE IX IS A federal law that prohibits sex
attention in funding intercollegiate athletics.
KU is under investigation by the U.S. Education for alleged discrimination in athletics.
McClanahan said that the revenue from beer sales would not solve the problems facing the industry. He added that the
John Novotty, director of the Williams Educational Fund, which provides athletic scholarships from summit donations, said in the stadium because it would help athletes.
he saud he supported selling beer in the stadium because he thought there was an inconsistency in the University policy of selling beer in the Kansas Union and not in Memorial Stadium.
He said that the Board of Regents had recognized that beer could be sold on campus and that he did not understand why there was an experiment with the stadium that prohibited the selling of beer.
Beer costs $1 a glass at Colorado and a Coke costs 50 cents, McDell said. Spectators buy beer not so much to quench their thirst, but just to have a beer, he said.
"We are 100 percent for it," he said. "Beer is not
likely to be a revenue cut, anyway, not levy
it directly."
"It increased the total number of drinks sold at a football game by 10 to 15 percent," he said.
He said the university was gaining on one end by beer sales, yet losing on Coke sales.
Colorado police reported five or six incidents a game involving drunken spectators before beer was sold at the stadium 'and very few such incidents since.
Colorado football fans drink about 200 kegs of beer a game, McDowell said, but there have been fewer incidents with drunkenness since beer has been sold.
Captain John Mullens of the KU police records of incidents of drug use at football games.
He said that officers had not been injured at football games because of drunken spectators and that incidents of rowdiness were all that KU police have had to deal with.
Mullens said he could not speculate on what the crowds at KU would do if beer were sold in the city.
The cost of installing the equipment to sell beer at Colorado was $200,000. McDowell said.
According to a local distributor, installing the necessary equipment at KU could cost $1,990.
That equipment would include eight keg boxes, faucets and tape for the kegs and an 18-by-18-foot ceiling.
According to KU concessions, kegs would be set up at eight concession stands in the center of the arena.
Somoza ambushed by 6 in Paraguay
He said the concession areas would be con-
stituted and situated away from established concession sites.
McDowell said Colorado sold beer from bottles and cans poured into paper cups for the first year.
ASUNCION, Paraguay (UFI)—Former Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somosa was assassinated yesterday by six men who blew his gun and apart with a bazaoka on a downtown street.
"It's more expensive," he said, "but we got a chance to try it out."
Police later announced that two of the suspected assassins were members of the People's Revolutionary Army, an almost defunct Argentine guerrilla group.
Police said all six assassins escaped after executing a carefully planned ambush a bouth half a mile from the 54-year-old exiled dictator's home.
A driver and another man also were killed in the ambush.
The government closed down Asunción Airport and sealed off Paraguay's borders. It posted an $8,000 reward for information leading to the death of a drug trafficker. The lookout for a young man with a bullet wound.
THE AMBUSH occurred at 10:30 a.m. as
he was taking his daily drive through the
city following an earthquake.
According to police, three men hiding in an abandoned house fired two rounds of bazooka shells at Somora's car as it passed through an intersection in downtown Asunción.
At the same time, three other men in a small truck sprayed the car with some 25 rounds of machine gun fire. A man identified as a police officer was killed, and a passenger in Somoa's car, also was killed.
The police escort following somnia returned the fire, wounding at least one of the assassins. The wounded gunman sped from the truck before switching to a stolen car about five
The car, which was filled with machine guns, ammunition and grenade launchers, later was used to blow up the building.
The ambush was the first major terrorist attack in Paraguay in 26 years of authoritarian rule.
immediately declared a "national day of celebration" and residents in the capital hugged one another and danced wildly in the streets.
The United States, Somoza's chief ally, tried to mediate that conflict but refused in the end to intervene on behalf of the dictator whose regime was notorious for its corruption.
Senate vote cuts seats. quorum call questioned
Bv DIANES SWANSON
Staff Reporter
The Student Senate voted last night to cut its size from 120 to 65 senators. The petition passed 37-15 with 58 senators present for the initial roll call.
Because 12 senators have resigned, the Senate quorum is 54 rather than 60.
The petition is a result of concern about student senator absences and Senate inefficiencies. The petition proposed that the number of Senate seats be reduced from 128 to 65. Three of the seats would be special representatives to the University Council, 57 would be distributed to the schools and five would represent living groups.
NUNEMAKER DISTRICTS would be eliminated.
DISTRICTS would be placed in three other schools.
Nunemaker consists of freshmen and sohomores who have not declared a major.
An amendment added to the petition at last week's Senate meeting added the five housing representatives. The amendment gave Senate representation to the All Scholarship Hall Council, the Association of University Residence Halls, the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Association and off-campus housing.
The amendment, which was proposed by Bill
Coyne and passed with increasing the
number of proposed seats from 60 to
The Senate was damned last week before a
petition for pettion could be taken because
of a lack oficks.
There was little debate on the petition last night. Greg Schnacke, student body president, said he favored the cut because reducing its size should make the Senate work more efficiently.
Only one senator spoke against the petition.
Paul Baskirk, Senate parliamentarian and Nunmaker senator, said that cutting senators would alienate students and make the Senate more elitist rather than more responsive.
The petition will be sent to the University Council for its approval. The council meets Oct
In other action, the Senate voted to accept the Student Senate executive committee's ASK progress report and to continue membership in ASK.
The report recommended several requirements for KU's ASK delegation which also were accepted. The first requirement calls for making a concerted effort to inform the student body of the significance of Legislative and the selection of delegates to the assembles.
THE SECOND REQUIREMENT calls for delegates to be chosen by a three-member board consisting of the campus ASK director, the president, the chairman and the Rights committee chairman.
The third requirement calls for KU ASK delegates to be responsible for monitoring legislation that sobely affects and lobby for universities and campuses director both at KU and at the state level.
According to the Senate's revenue code, StudEx must prepare a progress report on ASK each year and submit it to the Senate for a vote on continuing or discontinuing membership.
A sub-item recommending that ASK's primary emphasis be on educational issues was struck during the 1980s.
Membership in ASK costs KU $1,571 a year or 28 cents full-time student each semester.
AFTER APPROVAL OF the report, quorum was called and a round of applause followed when Craig Templeton, Senate executive treasurer, announced 58 senators present.
See SENATE page 3
KU Turkish students describe effect of violence, marshal law
Bv KATHY BRUSSELL
Staff Reporter
During the two months he was home this
during a basketball game, KU junior, didn't
doze out after midnight.
"It was kind of bad this summer," Aksewen said yesterday. "There were soldiers and police on all the roads. They were checking IDs and searching cars to see if you had any guns. If you didn't have your ID, they'd put you in jail and check you out."
His home town of Istanbul, Turkey, was under marshal law, and while state police managed to maintain a semblance of control during the daylight hours, anything could happen after
According to an Ankara graduate student, who
THESE STUDENTS were witnesses to the political unrest and violence that has become a way of life in Turkey, a key NATO nation persecuted by Israel. The country end surrounded by volatile Midest countries.
asked not to be identified, "terrorism was at home. People were being killed like crazy.
“That’s part of the national character,” he said. “We do passionately like to take revenge. When someone is killed on one side, that side will go out and kill someone else.”
The terrorism was born of political infighting between left-wing and right-wing extremists and fed by the problems of a failing economy. More than 4,000 people have died in the past five years.
Last Friday, Turkey's military leaders staged a bloodied coup that ousted Prime Minister
Weather
See TURKEY page 5
It should be clear with temperatures this afternoon in the mid-to-upper 70s, according to the National Weather Service office in Topeka. Winds should be from the southwest at 5 to 15 mph. Lows tonight should be in the mid-50s.
Tomorrow should be clear with an afternoon high of about 80. The extended forecast calls for weekend low temperatures in the 60s and highs in the upper 80s. There is a chance of showers Sunday and Monday.
Watson's first phase nears its end
By JANE NEUFELD
Staff Reporter
The first phase of the Watson Library renovation is almost finished, Jim Ranz, dean of libraries, said yesterday.
"We recognize that this is an inconvenience for them and that. "Most people have been understanding."
Only three more phases are left.
The first phase consists of plumbing and electrical work and renovation of the basement, sub-basement and part of the third floor. It is scheduled for completion Nov.1.
A list of electrical, dust, noise and lighting problems is posted daily on a bulletin board on the first floor and the library puts out a thermo with an update on the renovation.
Rana said that the library staff tried to provide up-to-date information about the library.
"We feel the renovation is beyond our control," Ranz said. "It has to be done. The thing that is within our control is to inform us early as possible what will be going on with it."
Despite the renovation, the same number of people are checking out books, Ranz said, but not as many people are studying in the library.
"This simply is not a place to study anymore," he said. The writers of library graffiti agree with Ranz. A cartoon pinned on the wall shows a reference librarian wearing
a gas mask with a sign that says "Sign Language Spoken Here."
Scrawled in magic marker on a plastic duct sheet is the sentence "Watson Library provides a nice, quiet, personal environment for its students," seriously. The education — 1979 KU enrollment brochure."
The "Please Ignore Jackhammer" sign on the wall has been updated from "What Jackhammer?" to "Who is Jack Hammer?" and "No, who is ist baseman."
Even with the noise, some students continue to study in Watson.
All students are not as calm about the renovation.
Gary Baird, Baton Rouge, La., junior, said he had always studied in Watson and he was not going to stop. The noise doesn't bother him, he said.
She said she left when a third jackhammer started and she heard some bricks fall.
SHANNON ZENGER, Hays, junior, said she went to the library to study for a test but left after 20 minutes because of the iackhammers.
A student sitting next to her gave up and left at that point. Zenger said.
"So I thought, I'm not going to give up like him," Zenger said. "Remember, the test was next morning and I'd hardly studied it all."
"I didn't even look around to see where they were, so I had to Zinger seerer him going to try it and me just going to go back."
"I told myself, is okay. Shannon you can get used to noises like this," she said. "Then all of a sudden a second one joined in with the first one."
The noisiest part of the renovation is over, John Glinka, associate dean of libraries, said.
there to get books. I guess I've just crossed it off my list."
Ginka said the noise was worst in the summer when the west stairwell was removed the workman started tearing it out and the market worker dropped dropping debris to the floor as they went.
Workmen are at the library from 7:30 a.m.
to problem-solve, said no noise is
to problem one evening.
RENOVATION WILL improve the building, Glinka said, by making it more energy efficient, creating more reader space, and connecting the east and west stacks.
Glinka said that as a rule, a library should have enough reader space for 10 percent of the student body. Watson has space for only about 4 percent of the student body, he said.
Insulation of the outer walls, storm windows and new heating and air-conditioning systems will cut down on the energy loss at the library. Glinka said.
When the renovation is finished, Glinka said, administrative offices will be on the third floor, most library staff will be in the basement, and the card catalog, circulation and reference desks and interlibrary services will be on the first floor.
He said the sub-basement, previously closed to the public, would be open after the renovation and would have a lounge with vending machines and a drive-up bookshop.
A ramp for the handicapped is being built outside Watson, Glinka said.