Tonight's the night
Jayhawk basketball returns to Allen Field House tonight as KU takes on the Soviet National team at 7:30 p.m. The game is sold out, but it will be televised.
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Low blood count
Despite increasing concerns about the risk of contracting AIDS through blood transfusions, few Kansans have taken up the practice of stockpiling their own blood.
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Drizzle fizzle
Skies will be mostly cloudy with a 30 percent chance of rain. The high temperature will be in the upper 40s with southerly winds at 15 to 25 mph.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No.63 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Wednesday November 19. 1986
Large budget cuts force hiring freeze
By ALISON YOUNG
Staff writer
Anticipating significant cuts in state spending, the University of Kansas has imposed a freeze on the hiring of administrators, faculty and staff. However, the University will honor all previous hiring commitments, a University official said yesterday.
Officials also said that the University had no intention of canceling courses because of the freeze and that reports of possible cancelations were inaccurate.
Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, announced the freeze Friday in a memo to vice chancellors, deans, directors and department chairmen, citing projected state-revenue shortfalls as the reason for the freeze
State budget officials recently predicted that tax revenues would be $33 million short of the expected $1.86 billion of the state budget goes to education
Today, Governor-elect Mike Hayden is scheduled to announce his plan to cut state spending and off set the revenue shortfalls.
Cobb said yesterday that administrators would pay close attention to Havden's budget proposals.
"Our objective is not to incur any additional obligations for the University during this time of uncertainty." Cobb said.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said the University would honor all previous hiring commitments.
"Things have slowed down, but they haven't stopped," Brinkman said
According to the memo, any exceptions to the freeze must be authorized by Cobb or Keith Nicher, director of business and fiscal affairs.
Nitcher said the freeze was a precautionary measure.
"If the University has to have its budget reduced, then it will decide if an appointment is more important or having a piece of equipment," he said.
Brinkman said KU had imposed hiring freezes several times in the past when it had been uncertain about its financing.
Mel Dubnick, chairman of the University Senate and Faculty Executive Committees, said yesterday that the freeze was just the first stage of a response to what could happen as a result of Hayden's announcement.
The enrollment crush at the beginning of the semester and the hiring freeze could result in closed sections, fewer course selections and crowded classes for the spring semester, Dubnick said.
"I don't think it can help but have an impact on the quality of educa-
See FREEZE, p. 5, col. 3
Nicaragua may let Hasenfus go home
"As you know, it is a political decision," Ramirez said in a stopover at Kansas City International Airport en route to the University of Kansas.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The government of Nicaragua may be willing to release convicted flier Eugene Hasenfu in an attempt to improve relations with the United States. Nicaraguan Vice President Sergio Ramirez said yesterday.
Ramirez will speak at 8 p.m. today at Wooldruff Auditorium in the Kana-
Hasentus, 45, of Marinette. Wis was convicted Saturday of crimes against Nicaragua by a three-member tribunal and received the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. He was accused of hauling arms to rebel forces after Sandimista troops shot down the plane in which he was a cargo handler Oct. 6.
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"We are looking for an opportunity for this issue to help improve the
climate of relations between the United States and Nicaragua because we know it is a cause of natal disasters. But in the United States, Ramirez spud
"A decision in this case would necessarily have to do with an illustration of good will on the part of the government of Nicaragua to relax relations between the two countries," he said.
"We have got the feeling that the release of Mr. Hasenfus could in some ways help or widen the possibility of a future understanding that could lead to improve relations," said Ramirez. He added that a pardon would have to be approved by the Nicaraguan National Assembly.
Nicaragua charged that Hasenus was involved in an operation sponsored by the U.S. government. The United States, however, has insisted the cargo flight was a private arms deal conducted by mercenaries.
David Epstein and Kris Kurtenbach, student body president and vice president, are nearing the end of their terms in office. Student Senate elections are today and tomorrow.
Leaders reflect on year
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer
When David Epstein and Kris Kurtenbach look back on their terms as student body president and vice president, they say they see success.
They helped to bring credibility to the Senate by dealing with administrators in a businesslike manner, the two said last week. And in the process, they started programs to directly benefit KU students.
KU administrators who worked with Epstein and Kurtenbach also say the two have been effective student leaders who have developed beneficial programs and dealt maturely with the administration.
Chancellor Gene A. Budig called Epstein a creative student leader.
"He did an excellent job in reflecting student views," Budig said yesterday.
He added. "I will miss him."
A new student body president and vice president will be elected today and tomorrow. Despite praise from University administrators and their own feeling of success, Kurtenbach and Epstein said they still had frustrations during their term.
"It's been a good year," Epstein said. "But I have bittersweet feelings about some things."
"In order to do the job well, you have to be on 24 hours a day," he said.
Epstein said he would not run for a student office again because of the toll being president had taken on his academic record.
Kurtenbach said she had faced frustrations with Senate procedure since becoming vice president in May.
Kurtenbach was named student body vice president after Amy Brown, Epstein's original running mate, took a newspaper job in South Dakota.
Kurtenbach said she had expected to end the first Senate meeting she ran this semester by 11 p.m. but was quickly disillusioned. The meeting ended well after midnight.
"Too much time is spent on philosophical issues." Kurtbach said. "Something will be argued into the ground."
However, Epstein said he thought the two had helped turn Senate back into a student service
See EPSTEIN, p. 5, col.1
Shultz to resign, report says
From Kansan wires
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State George Shultz told President Reagan he plans to resign, but the president asked him to stay in his post until the furor over the secret U.S. arms deal to Iran died down, National Public Radio reported yesterday.
But a White House spokesman, who talked with State Department spokesman Charles Redman, denied Shultz planned to resign despite reports he was at odds with the administration over the covert deal with Iran.
NPR, citing administration sources, said Reagan planned to name retiring Sen. Paul Laxalt, R-Nev., as Shultz's successor.
NPR said Shultz told Reagan he planned to resign but the president asked him to stay on the job for a couple of months until the controversy over the administration's secret U.S. arms sale to Iran died down.
"It's not true," said State Department spokesman Bruce Ammerman.
Administration sources told NPR the change in leadership at the State Department could occur after the president's State of the
Union address or sooner
Laxalt, a close friend of Reagan's, served as the president's special emissary in the final days of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos's regime.
Shultz spoke out about Iran after White House and State Department officials attempted to allay speculation that he was out of step with the administration about Reagan's authorization of arms shinings to Iran.
Reagan said that on Jan. 17 he secretly authorized small arms shipments to foster contacts with moderate elements in Iran in an effort to get Iran to halt its support of terrorism, end its war against Iraq and help create conditions for the release of the American hostages.
In a television interview Sunday, Shultz said he opposed further arms shipments to Iran but that he did not speak for the administration on the issue, raising questions about his supervision of U.S. foreign policy
Reagan confirmed his "secret diplomatic initiative" toward Iran in a nationally televised address Thursday.
to answer questions about the Iran dealings.
Earlier yesterday, White House Spokesman Larry Speakes was asked whether Shultz would resign.
The president will go on television today for a press conference
"He hasn't told me that he is," Speakers said. "The president hasn't told me I don't know if he is going to resign."
Speaks also said yesterday that Reagan wanted John Poindexter, national security adviser and the president's assistant for national security affairs, to remain on the job.
Poindexter has been widely reported to have coordinated the administration's secret diplomatic contacts with Iran.
Also yesterday, unnamed Defense Department officials confirmed widespread reports that the deals with Iran had been concealed from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
If asked about that during congressional testimony next week, they said yesterday, Adm. William J. Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, would be prepared to acknowledge that Pentagon officials knew nothing of the arms operation.
Panel offers drug proposals
Staff writer
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The state Attorney General's Task Force on Drugs spent six hours yesterday listening to members of the public and representatives from area drug abuse programs propose solutions to the drug problem in Kansas.
The meeting at Kansas City Kansas Community College was the first of six such hearings that have been subdued throughout the state.
Only nine members of the 29-member task force attended the hearing.
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Proposals included mandatory drug sentencing and stiffer penalties, the use of lottery and parimutuel wagering money for drug prevention and treatment programs and mandatory drug education programs in schools.
solutions to the Kansas Legislature.
Other proposals included giving tax credits to businesses that contribute money to schools for drug education, changing teacher certification requirements to include knowledge of drug issues and giving law enforcement officials the right to purchase small tanks in order break through steel doors of drug houses.
Attorney General Bob Stephan formed the task force in September to assess the extent of the drug problem in Kansas and to recommend
The group has scheduled other hearings in Topeka, Wichita, Dodge City, Pittsburgh and Hays.
If the demand for drugs is cut through education, the supply will naturally dwindle, he said.
Sgt. Richard Johnson, a detective with the Topeka Police Department and task force member, said education is the focus of solving the targe issue.
Johnson called the problem a matter of supply and demand.
"I could put a policeman on every corner in Topeka, but as soon as they pick up one drug dealer, another will take his place," he said.
After drug dealers are convicted, Johnson said, law enforcement officials conduct a financial investigation and turn over the money from any illegally acquired assets to the Federal Law Enforcement Agency
He suggested that only one-third of this money should go to the Federal Law Enforcement Agency and that the rest should be allocated to drug prevention programs.
Brenda Braden, task-force member and representative from the attorney general's office, agreed on the importance of education, but said mandatory drug education in schools should be imposed by education boards and not by the state.
Jackie Anderson, task-force member and representative of the Wichita school district, expressed concern that unqualified people, who call themselves drug counselors, were using state dollars to establish programs that weren't benefitting anyone.
Schools are opposed to state-mandated curriculum, she said. Citizens should use their voting power in school board elections to encourage drug education, she said.
"They're riding on the hype," she said. "The old programs that began before the drug issue wasn't chic aren't getting the funding they deserve."
The Department of Social Rehabilitation Services, the state organization in charge of allocating funds to substance abuse programs, spent $500,000 on prevention programs and $4 million on treatment programs last year.
Consequently, worthwhile programs that are desperate for money are sharing donated money with ineffective operations, she said.
Betty Blackman, director of the Johnson County Citizen's Committee, proposed that the state establish a committee to evaluate the effectiveness of programs in the state.
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