Officer and a gentleman
Naval ROTC officers and students are trying new maneuvers on the dance floor. They have been taking ballroom dance lessons on Fridays in the Military Science Building.
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An unsettled land
At a time when student activism is at a new high on campuses across the country, KU student protests against the South Africa divestment issue have died out.
Too good to be true
Stories, page 6
Today will be mostly sunny and warmer than yesterday, with highs in the low 50s. Tomorrow will be cloudy with temperatures also in the 50s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol.97,No.66 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Monday
November 24.1986
State urges faculty pay freeze
By TONY BALANDRAN
The state Budget Division recommended to the governor's office last week that the Board of Regents schools receive no increase in four main budget categories for fiscal year 1988. a budget analyst said yesterday.
David Dallam, principal budget analyst for the division, said the recommendation, made Thursday, was in response to an estimated $13 million shortfall in state revenue projected earlier this month.
The recommendations included budget freezes for unclassified and classified salaries, capital im
provements and other operating expeditures for fiscal 1988, which begins July 1, 1987.
Both Gov. John Carlin and Governor-elect Mike Hayden were given the recommendations because it is Hayden who will, during the next two months, form the state's budget, be said...
"The recommendation was made," D dallam said, "to let (Hayden) have as many options as possible in determining where the
"I'm sure he will explore other alternatives."
For unclassified employees, which includes faculty members, the
University of Kansas had originally requested an 8 percent salary increase, said Ward Brian Zimmerman, KU budget director.
After the Regents approved the budget request earlier this semester, Zimmerman said, the University submitted it to the budget division of the Kansas Department of Administration.
The University had asked for $76,293,956 in unclassified salaries. Zimmerman said. The figure included $18 million of the percent increase and fringe benefits.
The budget division's recommended figure was unavailable.
"We will appeal their decision to
the governor," Zimmerman said.
Zimmerman, who did not speculate on the governor's response to the recommendations, said the budget division's recommendations historically had been the lowest figures in planning KU's budget.
A date for KU administrators to meet with the governor's staff has been set.
"I expect the (unclassified) salaries to be higher than what the budget division recommended." Zimmerman said.
Although the budget process is not complete yet, it is probable that the
See FACULTY, p. 5, col. 4
Regents considering '87 tuition increase
By PATRICIA FEENY Staff writer
TOPEKA — In response to Governor-elect Mike Hayden's plan to reduce state spending by 3.8 percent, the Board of Regents suggested an across-the-board 3.8 percent tuition increase for the 1987 spring and summer semesters.
Frank Becker, El Dorado board member, said students might pay between $15 and $25 more at state schools.
tution increases would vary from school to school, depending on tuition
The immediate tuition increase was one of two options the board suggested in its monthly meeting Friday to meet Hayden's request for a 3.8 percent budget or Owatell, the district would cut to cut $12.1 million from its budget.
rates and residency status. The Regents schools are the six state universities and the Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Hayden proposed the reductions after predictions that the state might
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 4
Brenda Steele/KANSAN
Stephanie Knaak, Holton, attempts to bowl with the help of Peter Willmert, a Lawrence High School sophomore. Knaak participated in the 12-15 age group competition in the Kansas Special Olympics.
Athletes help make tournament special
By PAM MILLER
Below, Vivian Sage, Beatie, happily displays her medal after winning second place in the special division with the help of Karen Calandrino, left. Lawrence resident.
Kim Mann, 12, walked to the lane and let the ball roll. As the ball fell into the gutter, she threw
Monday morning
But that didn't matter to her friend. Christopher Walter, a
her hands down abruptly in disgust.
Kim's smile returned. The Special Olympics bowling tournament this weekend, in which she participated, was about much more than who could knock down the most pins.
counterte from Lawrence High School. He walked up to her and gave Kim, Lawrence, a big smile and a hug.
More than 1,100 athletes from eastern Kansas participated Fri-
See BOWLING, p. 5, col. 1
Aquino fires Enrile Cabinet after army foils attempted coup
From Kansan wires
MANILA. Philippines — President Corazon Aquino fired her entire Cabinet, including Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, after the army foiled a coup attempt yesterday by dissident officers and political foes
Aquino credited army chief of staff Gen. Fidel V. Ramos with taking "preventative measures against the unnessess of some elements in the military."
She said sternest measures would be taken if anyone tried to undermine her nine-month-old government.
Ramos issued a statement confirming that politicians loyal to deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos, backed by supporters in the military, had planned to set up a rival government. He said the situation was under control.
Aquino, speaking on national television, also accused the rebels, who have waged a 17-year insurgency, of showing no interest in peace and said she would end negotiations if a cease-fire were not reached this month. Enrile and other critics accused her of being soft on the rebels.
He did not identify the plotters or mention Enrile. The defense chief, who also served under Marcos but helped oust him in February, has been increasingly critical of Aquino.
A senior government official said the plot involved taking over the National Assembly, reinstating the pro-Marcos National Assembly abolished by Aquino and calling presidential elections.
The official said he did not know whether Enrile had known about the plot.
The official, who demanded anonymity, said that more than 100 members of a military faction identified with Enrile were in on the plot and that the coup was set to begin at 2 a.m. yesterday. The government learned of it at 10 a.m. Saturday, he said.
Yesterday, after holding a lengthy Cabinet meeting, Aquino said she had asked all Cabinet members to
Traops loyal to Aquino and Ramos surrounded radio and television stations in Manila and elsewhere Saturday and tightened security measures at the presidential palace and other kev points.
resign.
Aquino said she would act on the other resignations within the next several days.
She said Enrile complied, and she immediately swore in his replacement, Deputy Defense Minister Rafael Ileto.
"We need a fresh start," Aquino said. She repeated her announcement and received a loud cheer from a crowd of about 15,000 standing in the rain.
The capital reacted calmly to the soft-spoken Aquino's uncharacteristic show of power and no trouble was reported. Political observers said other Cabinet members were expected to depart soon to bring about the fresh start demanded by Aquino.
Ileto, 66, later met with officers of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, who, like Enrile, wanted a tougher line taken against communist insurgents.
Enrile refused to see reporters who gathered outside his home at a fashionable suburban village, but sent out his daughter, Katrina.
Ileto asked for unity and officers of the group agreed to comply, said Col. Gregorio Honasan. Enrile's security chief.
She said Enrile was taking the situation well, and added, "We've waited for this day for such a long time," referring to her father's leaving government after more than 20 years.
Enrile has been viewed as having presidential aspirations.
"The game is over" navy Capt. Rex Robles, who is close to Enrile, said after the meeting with Ileto.
Ileto told reporters he did not think there would be a reaction from pro-Enrile soldiers. When asked whether he would discipline officers involved in the plot, Ileto said that an informal investigation was under way and that "if it calls for discipline, then we would."
"The first objective is basic discipline." Ileto said.
Small numbers of soldiers continued to guard the government television and radio stations, and palace security was at full alert. Otherwise, the capital appeared normal, with traffic light as usual for a Sunday.
Initiative coalition seeks recount of election results
By SALLY STREFF
Initiative coalition candidates have asked for a recount in last week's Student Senate elections, and three students have filed a
Staff write.
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complaint that accuses the winning coalition
Betsy Bergman and Stephanie Quincy, Initiative candidates for student body president and vice president, have asked the Elections Review Board to recount the ballots for president because they say some ballots were not counted.
In their complaint, Bergman and Quincy also ask for a recount in several senatorial races.
Among other complaints, they say that the name of an Initiative candidate was printed
incorrectly on the ballot and that poll workers allowed students living in fraternities and sororities to vote in off-campus elections.
The six-member board will meet at 5 p.m. today in the cafeteria of the Burge Union. Shirtliffe, two other members of his committee, a member of the Senate Rights Committee, a law student and an administrator are on the board.
The deadline for final campaign audits was at 5 p.m. Thursday. Initiative filed its audit Friday. Bergman said the coalition had been confused about the date of the deadline.
Glenn Shirtliffe, chairman of the Senate Elections Committee, said the Elections Review Board also would discuss the Initiative coalition's failure to file a campaign audit by deadline.
Shirtliffe said that of 3.578 votes cast in the
presidential race, the elections committee had invalidated 82 because they were blank, marked incorrectly or marked twice.
Another 199 were not counted by the computer because voters had filled in circles to the right of names instead of to the left, he said.
Bergman and Quincy want the Elections Review Board to consider counting those 199 ballots.
Bergman said another reason she and Quincy were asking for a recount of the executive race was because the election was so close.
Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan, presidential and vice presidential candidates for the Cheers coalition, won the offices by 151 votes, according to unofficial results released by the elections committee.
She said the main reason she and Quincy had asked for the recount was to challenge for seats where senatorial candidates had won by only a few votes.
Jason Krakow, campaign manager for Stanton and Milligan, said the Cheers coalition had expected the request for the reco
"In races that were decided by one or two votes, that is in order," he said.
"We're not counting on anything," she said. "We just want to make sure that as many Initiative candidates get seats as possible."
But Krakow was critical of the complaint that Cheers had overspent, which was filed by Michael Anderson and David Hardy. Initiative candidates, and Michael Foubert, an independent candidate.
The complaint says that the Cheers coalition failed to list in its campaign audit the costs of a party put on by a group of supporters Oct. 16. The three also complained that Cheers did not list advice received from Stanton's father, who is an Overland Park lawyer, as a donated service.
The three candidates complained that, although the advice was from a family member, the coalition mentioned the advice in a Nov. 17 article on the editorial page of the Kansan as advice from "one of the largest Midwestern law firms."
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Krakow said that he thought the complaint was an attempt to invalidate the election and that the Elections Review Board would determine that the items were not campaign expenditures.