Last chance
Tomorrow's football game against Missouri at Columbia presents a chance for the Jayhawks to save face and escape their losing streak in the Big Eight.
Long arm of the law
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Jeanne Longaker, KU police lieutenant, says she is working hard to recuperate from a shoulder accident that has kept her on sick leave since Sept. 18.
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One fine day
Skies will be mostly sunny today with the high temperature around 60. Winds will come from the south at 10 to 20 mph.
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Vol. 97, No. 65 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday November 21, 1986
Campus voters give victory to Cheers
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
The Cheers coalition's presidential and vice president candidates won a narrow victory early this morning in student body elections, after two days of relatively high voter turnout.
Students chose Brady Stanton and Kelly Milligan as student body president and vice president by 151 votes, according to unofficial results. They received 1.693 votes or 51.3 percent of the vote.
Their opponents, Betsy Bergman and Stephanie Quincy, presidential and vice president
candidates for the Initiative coalition, received 1,542 votes or 46.8 percent of the vote.
In all, 3,298 valid ballots were cast in the presidential race, and 63 votes were for write-in candidates.
Results are unofficial until the Elections Committee audits campaign spending.
Cheers won all 17 Nunemaker seats in the elections. But as of 2 a.m., only 23 of 64 Senate seats were decided. Cheers had gained 18 seats, and Initiative had won five.
freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
Cheers' victory call came at 12:50 a.m., as they and about 12 supporters waited in a small room at Ichabod's Tavern, in far north Lawrence. About 250 other supporters danced outside in the main room.
Stanton listened to the caller for a moment, then handed it to Milligan.
"Mr. Vice President," he said.
Supporters screamed and poured champagne on the two as they hugged across a table.
Minutes later, Stanton, doused with champagne, stood hugging three fraternity brothers until supporters dragged him into the main room.
"We could not have done any of this without all of you." Stanton told cheering supporters, as he, Milligan and campaign managers Martie Aaron and Jason Krakow,
stood on a bar counter.
"I sat there for four hours pacing," said Aaron, who called Stanton from election headquarters at the old and then drove to Ichaob's.
"I feel like, I came, I saw and I conquered," "she said.
Stanton said he was relieved by the victory but worried that the margin was so close. He said he would have to vote himself, might want a recount of the votes.
See CHEERS, p. 5, col.1
He and Milligan won because many of their campaign promises,
Dan Ruettimann/KANSAN
Brady Stanton, newly elected student body president, is surrounded by friends and well- mate, Kelly Milligan, received 51.3 percent of the votes. Initiative received 46.8 percent of the wishes congratulating him on his victory. Stanton and his Cheers vice presidential running- votes, and 1.9 percent were write-ins.
KU to lose $5 million of budget
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
The University of Kansas will lose $5.1 million because of a 3.8 percent state spending cut ordered Wednesday.
The Lawrence campus will lose $3.1 million and the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Kan., will lose $2.5 million. The University must absorb the budget cuts in the next 71 months.
However, KU's academic areas should experience only a 2.3 percent cut. Chancellor Gene A. Budig told members of the University Council yesterday.
"We once again will make every possible effort to protect academic publications."
Budig said the 2.3 percent figure was consistent with the University's reaction to 1983 state cutbacks.
Support services will absorb a larger portion of the cuts, Budig said.
Governor-elect Mike Hayden announced that state spending must be cut by 3.8 percent to make up for a loss in spending to keep the state budget balanced.
"We must have these dollars," Budig said.
But, he said, key individuals have indicated that this year's cuts will be reinstalled next year.
Budig said the University had not recovered from the cuts made in 1983 because that money had not been restored to KU's budget.
If the money cut this year were reinstated and the fee money released, Budig said, the cuts would be less than hurt the University in the long run.
KU had a record enrollment this fall, with an increase of more than 1.000 students.
Because of the additional students, the University was forced to add 311 course sections, hire 96 additional graduate teaching assistants and some part-time lecturers at a cost of about $700,000. Budig said. The extra students will use more than $100,000 in supplies and equipment in a single year, he said.
The reduction of KU's academic budget is comparable with that made in 1983. However, in 1983, KU did not experience such a huge enrollment increase.
"It is more important than ever
See BUDGET, p. 5, col. 2
Von Ende warns of drug use in talk
Regents schools react to systemwide report
By PATRICIA FEENY
Staff writer
TOPEKA Representatives of the Board of Regents schools reacted with dissatisfaction to a Regents systemwide report that tells schools what programs to emphasize during a meeting yesterday.
The so-called mission, role and scope report explained the purpose and mission of each Regents school. In the report, the Regents staff recommended that schools emphasize different programs, but representatives of the seven schools took issue with what the board asked them to stress.
Robert Cobb, KU executive vice chancellor, told the Regents that University officials had agreed with KU's mission — to emphasize every program it had — as outlined in the report.
However, other schools' spokesmen argued that if a program was not emphasized, then it might be used to encourage students when the state made budget cuts.
Because of a 3.8 percent cut in state spending that Governor-elect Mike Hayden announced, Regents schools will lose $12.1 million. The Regents schools are the six state universities and Kansas Technical Institute in Salina.
Kansas State University officials, told to emphasize the college's agricultural programs because of its tradition as a land grant college, wanted to amend the report to include its educational program as a main area of emphasis.
Jon Wefald, K-State president, said that not emphasizing the educational program was going backward.
Wefald said that if the education program at K-State was not one of the emphasized programs it might be subjected to budget cuts.
"Educational programs play a vital and fundamental role in the function of the school."
The mission report emphasized every KU program. The University is comprehensive and well-suited to offer degrees that encompass a large academic spectrum, the report said.
The report also said that the University's priority was the preservation and improvement of its research and graduate programs. It said, this did not lessen the importance of the undergraduate programs.
"It is an accurate reflection of
KU was the only school that agreed with its own purpose and mission as outlined in the report.
See REGENTS, p. 5, col. 2
WICHITA — At a law enforcement seminar at McConnell Air Force Base yesterday, Richard von Ende, former KU executive secretary, said he was typical of many drug users who sought a way to escape reality.
"There was a time that I was extensively depressed," he said. "If there's one thing that characterizes this, it's that we get tired of dealing with reality and we try to alter it. Believe me, there's plenty of people to profit with your misery."
Von Ende, former University executive secretary and chief legislative lobbyist for KU, pleaded
"My problem dealt with cocaine."
guilty to one count of distribution of cocaine and one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine Sept. 22.
He begins serving a 3-year prison sentence Dec. 8 at a minimum-security federal penitentiary in Fort Worth, Texas.
The seminar at McConnell, part of a Kansas Law Enforcement Coordination Committee meeting, drew more than 75 federal, state and local law enforcement personnel to the two-day event, which ends today.
"The best way to deal with young people is to stress what can and will be lost if they get involved in drugs,"
Von Ende emphasized the need for drug education in his 15-minute address to law enforcement personnel.
he said. "You can lose your self-esteem, and it's hard to regain."
After speaking, von Ende answered questions from the audience and went into greater detail about his drug problem.
He said his drug problem spanned an 18-month period, beginning in fall 1984, when he snorted a line of cocaine at a party. By November 1985, von Ende said, his drug use escalated to about 1 gram of cocaine a day.
In January, von Ende said, he abruptly stopped using cocaine and thanked his family for support.
"If there's anything I have learned about all of this is that you have real friends and you have acquaintances," he said. "If I didn't have my
Attorney General Bob Stephan also attended the seminar and spoke about measures his office was taking to prevent employees convicted on drug-related charges.
"If you show that they had it, they didn't pay taxes on it," Stephan said. "There's only one problem, and that's the U.S. Constitution, and we're trying to get around that."
"With the help of my friends, I can be honest with myself and with my friends ... and I can get back to where I was."
First, Stephan said that those caught with illegal drugs should be sent to prison.
family. I wouldn't have been able to quit cold turkey.
Great Smokeout challenges reporter
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Editor's Note: Millions of smokers participated yesterday in the Great American Smokeout sponsored by the American Cancer Society. Staff writer Kirk Kahler gives this first-person account.
The other day, I agreed to a foolish thing.
I mindlessly consented to stop
smoking for a day because of something called the Great American Smokeout. For some reason, I allowed a fellow reporter to talk me into participating.
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"I'll bake you a batch of M & M cookies," she said. "They're better than sex."
I started smoking immediately after eighth grade. I'm not sure why I started. I fear it probably
I had every intention to cheat.
What did I have to lose but a batch of cookies with a false billing?
Besides, I've been smoking for nine years. I couldn't stop, not even if the American Cancer Society wanted me to. They've tried to get me to quit for the last nine years, but I doubt that they've lost much sleep because, I haven't.
"Sure," I said. "Right. You bet. Anything you say."
had something to do with being cool. Anyway, I've been smoking far too long, and a little more than a pack a day.
I saw a chance to write a first-person story, and thought it might make a good story for my portfolio.
I've tried this quitting nonsense before, but obviously had forgotten about the pain associated with the
See SMOKEOUT, p. 5, col. 3