It wasn't pretty, but . . .
KU's 88-69 victory over Tennessee-Martin on Saturday night in Allen Field House was a little tougher than expected, but it did break an Allen Field House record for consecutive victories.
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Mr. Pickle
At 15, he started his own underground army in war-torn Poland. Forty-five years later, Jaroslaw Piekalkiewicz is a KU professor of political science who is called Mr. Pickle by many of his students and colleagues.
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Definitely December
The first day of December is expected to be cold and wet with cloudy skies and a 70-percent chance of rain. The predicted high temperature is 40.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 68 (USPS 650-640)
Monday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
December 1, 1986
Officials propose Iran inquiry
United Press International
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Edwin Meese reportedly has decided to recommend a Watergate-style special prosecutor and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole called yesterday for the first special session of Congress in almost four decades to investigate the Iran arms-Contra aid scandal.
Republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill. White House aides and former administration officials agree President Reagan faces a critical period in the crisis and his effectiveness as president — if not the fate of his presidency itself — depends on quick, decisive action in the next few days.
Reagan, away at his California ranch during the worst hours of his presidency, flew back to Washington saying he was determined to do everything to crack the case.
But in the Dec. 8 issue of Time magazine, released yesterday, Reagan refused to disavow the Iran arms deal and called the chief U.S. contact in the scheme, Lt. Col. Oliver North, a national hero.
"I think we took the only action we could have in Iran," the president told the magazine. "I am not going to disavow it. I do not think it was a mistake."
Vice President George Bush, in a separate Time interview that was his first statement on the affair, flatly denied any part in the covert financing of the Nicaraguan contrasts with profits from the Iran arms sales.
Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate increased pressure on Meese to recommend appointment of the same type of independent counsel that was used in the Watergate investigation that toppled President Nixon.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Meese had decided to ask a federal court in Washington to appoint an independent counsel to take over the Justice Department's investigation.
A White House aide was quoted as saying, "It's a close call as to whether laws were broken, but politically it might be defensible if we just get the facts out."
A Justice Department official said Meesie would consider appointment of an independent counsel when and if the investigation discovered evidence that any high-ranking White House aide were involved in any illegality.
"The investigation has found no such proof yet," the official said. But he said FBI agents were conducting interviews and had been dispatched to travel anywhere including Israel, which denies
Meese's revelations that it played a role in diverting profits from Iran arms sales to the Contra rebels.
"I would hope he would call a special session of Congress next week," Dole said.
"There ought to be a special session of Congress. There isn't time to sit around until Congress comes back January 6," Dole said. "We can't afford another failed presidency."
He said such a session had not been called since Harry Truman did so in 1948.
Reagan planned to meet today with a special three-man panel he appointed to look into the controversy. North, who was fired from his post on the National Security Council for his activities in the arms deals, was reportedly ready to testify today at the opening session of an investigation by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Former national security adviser John Poindexter, who resigned Tuesday, CIA Director William Casey and other members of Reagan's Cabinet who may have known about the deal will also be called to testify at separate investigations.
Interest increases in foreign language
By KAREN SAMELSON
When Molly Kirk finished her master's degree in East Asian languages and cultures from the University of Kansas in 1980, she thought her degree wasn't going to be of much use. So she decided to pursue a master's degree in education.
But after finishing her second master's degree, Kirk landed a job with the Kansas Department of Economic Development, where she speaks Chinese on the telephone almost daily.
Kirk spent two years teaching English in the People's Republic of China before she finished her degree. Now, as an economic development representative, she uses her language skills about 25 percent of the time, acting as a liaison between Kansas and its Chinese sister state,
"It's ironic — I haven't taught since," she said recently.
Henan Province.
The language training helped her find a job that she enjoyed and in which she could grow, she said.
Kirkland my life! Kirkland is one of many KU students who recognizes — and reaps the benefits of knowing a foreign language
Fifty-one undergraduates and 32 graduates are pursuing degrees in business, marketing, engineering or management.
Andrew Tsukiaki, chairman of the department, said that unlike 15 years ago, when about one-third of the department's majors were interested in language and literature, about 90 percent of the majors now were following the broader East Asian cultures program.
Deans submit budget proposals
Because the department does not have a doctorate program, it doesn't attract many students who are in-
Staff writer
Bv PAMELA SPINGLER
KU's professional schools will be hit hard next semester if statewide budget cuts, proposed last month by Governor-elect Mike Hayden, are adopted.
Deans of the 10 professional schools and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences on Tuesday submitted their school's proposed budget cuts, which Peter Thompson, dean of fine arts, referred to as "painfully etched on my mind."
Hayden proposed a 3.8 percent across-the-board budget cutback, but KU officials plan to cut 2.3 percent from academic budgets and let support services shoulder the remainder of the cut.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University must identify its 2.3 percent budget cuts by Thursday.
"There is nothing definite." Brinkman said yesterday. "We are looking at all the possibilities."
If the Kansas Legislature adopts Hayden's proposed 3.8 percent cut, KU will face a cutback of $3,166,697 this fiscal year with another $2,044,450 in cuts from the University of Kansas Medical Center
Fiscal year 1987 doesn't tend until June 30, 1987.
"When you can't spend as much of your budget as you planned, the quality will suffer a bit." "We'll continue all contingency planning so far."
said the cutbacks would delete almost $84,000 from his school's budget.
The business school recommended cuts to areas such as supplies, student hourly obligations and reducing teaching hours where contracts would permit, he said.
He said he was concerned about the cutbacks to supplies and to student hourly helpers because of the budget cuts, but the backups would place on the faculty.
John Tollefson, dean of business.
"It may induce people to just go through the motions." he said.
Budget cuts will be difficult to make this far into the fiscal year, Tolleson said, because a large percent of the budget already has been committed.
Summer semester classes would be affected by a reduction in the number of classes offered, creating larger classes, he said. The school has no plans to cut courses that are program degree requirements.
"We may have to postpone some beginning classes and not allow students to enter the school in the summer session," Lucas said.
But he added that the school might cut summer beginning classes for students entering the school in the summer.
Max Lucas, dean of architecture and urban design, said the school wouldn't cut the summer classes enrolled in the course currently enrolled in the school.
The school would face cuts of around $40,000. he said. In the report submitted to the vice chancellor, the school recommended cuts in all areas from part-time faculty to copy costs.
"We had to take cuts in every segment of our operation," Lucas said. "Nothing was spared.
"Yes, we can survive. But it's going to be very difficult."
The school has already initiated the cost-cutting procedures, he said, but added that administrators were hoping for additional funds to become available later in the year.
"This University is one with a spectacular reputation with many schools nationally ranked," he said. "And it's hard to maintain a level of excellence without sufficient funds. Everybody will be hurt."
Thompson said the nearly $100,000 cut the school would face could severely limit the "genuine quality of classes offered"
The fine arts school proposed heavy cuts in the operating and supply expenses, lecture funding and travel expenses.
"We took almost everything, there is nothing left," Thompson said.
He said for the short term, cutbacks in supplies were necessary, but in the long run teaching positions would be eliminated.
KU attracts older students
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
BY JENNIFER ROW
Special to the Kansan
Things aren't as easy for Ruthe Herbek as they used to be.
She uses a cane to get around her apartment, and her eyesight is failing, but the 70-year-old Lawrence resident has decided to return to college and get a bachelor's degree in psychology.
"It's not as easy to learn as when you're a kid," she said. "You just don't need it."
Herbeck is a non-traditional student
Monday morning
The exact number of nontraditional students is unknown because they are figured into the University of Kansas total enrollment, said Sara Martin, assistant director of the Student Assistance Center.
Martin said the center had sent 990 letters to potential non-traditional students last August. The center has adjusted to the college atmosphere.
Mabelle Hutchings, 81-year-old sophomore, is enrolled at the University as a non-traditional student. Hutchings, Lawrence resident, read a J.R.R. Tolkien book during her English class recently.
Under the University's definition,
non-traditional students are 21 years old or older who enter KU as new or
"Most of their needs are the same as those of other students. They want to do well in their classes. They may need help with study skills, or finding the resources on campus," Martin said.
transfer students or are readmitted with fewer than 20 hours of college credit.
Going back to college, or going to college for the first time may be difficult, but many non-traditional students get used to the routine, Martin said.
an issue for non-traditional students," she said. "It is an issue about which they are more aware than traditional students, because their lives are so full of so many responsibilities."
"Time management is very much
Herbeck, Lawrence junior, return
See STUDENTS, p. 6, col. 1
Civil War history repeats itself for Virginia student
Mark Bugay, Falmouth, Va., senior, is a Civil War buff and participates in re-enactments of famous battles. He is a member of the 23rd Virginia Volunteers "Richard Sharpshooters," a militia that was called into action by the Confederacy as part of Stonewall Jackson's troops when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861.
Brenda Steele/KANSAN
By PAMELA SPINGLER
Staff writer
Men sit huddled around a glowing campfire as smoke drifts through the surrounding trees. Clothed in tattered gray uniforms, they talk of tomorrow's battle — the one that will make those Yanks run. They talk about Gettysburg.
The year is 1863.
Or 1986?
For Mark Bugay, Falmouth, Va., senior, history keeps repeating itself. He participates in Civil War battle reenactments every summer in Virginia.
Bugay, who is a geology major at the University of Kansas, started re-enacting battles in 1979 when he acted as a Confederate soldier in the battle of Chancellorsville in Spotsylvania, Va.
"My father thinks I'm crazy." Bugay said. "He doesn't understand why anyone would march in formation and shoot a rifle if he didn't have to."
Charles Bugay, Mark's father, was a career Marine, and retired as a master sergeant in 1978.
Charles Bugay said he was glad to see his son interested in the Civil War.
"I thought it was great," Bugay said. "We all like history, and I know he's learned a lot and that I've learned a lot from what he has told me about his re-enactments."
"I would call Mark patriotic," he said. "I think he's a clean-cut, all-American kid."
Mark Bugay's interest began and has continued because the Bugays lived near Civil War battlegrounds and campsites, his father said.
Mark Bugay is a member of the 23rd Virginia Volunteers "Richmond Sharpshooters," a militia that was called into action by the Confederacy as part of Stonewall Jackson's troops when Virginia seceded from the Union in 1861.
Bugay said that when he was in high school he re-enacted battles all year around, but that most of the re-enactments were in the summer.
He said that he always had been interested in history, especially the Civil War, and that he had started going on Civil War artifact digs with his father when he was three years old.
"Where I grew up, there were lots of battlegrounds," Bugay said. "My house sits where there used to be camp sites."
He has re-enacted most major battles of the Civil War including the battles of Fredericksburg Chancellorsville, Sailor's Creek, Cedar Mountain, Gettysburg and the First Battle of Damascus, known by most historians.
his unit's picture was in this month's Civil War Times Illustrated, a magazine about the Civil War. The unit was re-enacting the First Battle of Manassas.
With the Confederacy
Bugay said he re-enacted battles because he wanted to understand how individual soldiers felt.
"I wanted to see how they lived" he said. "I wanted to see what it was actually like back then. Since I can't really relive the war, I want to relive their other problems.
"I have always found that time period fascinating. I wish I could have lived in the 19th century instead of the 20th century."
Bugay said he usually died in the battles
"We want to try for the most effect in realism, and that means a battlefield with dead soldiers."
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the warriors were soldiers."
Of all the battles he has re-enacted, Bugay said he enjoyed the Battle of Sailor's Creek the most.
"It is more for the re-enactor and not just the public," he said.
See CIVIU WAR, p. 5, col. 1