Making a splash
Susan Bloomfield is one of the freshmen on the women's swim team who has contributed to the success of the team so far this year.
Meet the candidates
Story, page 9
Elections for student body president and vice president are next week. The four students running for the positions were all elected last year as part of the same coalition.
Profiles, page 3
Still a chill
Today will be a little warmer, with cloudy skies and a high temperature near 40. Tonight the skies will be partly cloudy and the low temperature will be around 30.
Details, page 3
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 60 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Friday November 14,1986
Campus street to get new lights
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Jayhawk Boulevard could have a new, better system of lighting by the end of next summer, a facilities planning official said yesterday.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said the University awarded the $100,655 contract for installing the lights to Huxtable and Associates Inc., 815 E. 12th St., about two weeks ago through the state bidding system.
The state then will have to approve the contract, said Jim Modig, associate director of facilities planning. After that, the company has 100 days to complete the project.
"It should take approximately two weeks to process final contracts, and the 100 days will start shortly thereafter." he said.
Wiechert said the University would install more
light posts. In addition to providing more light, he said, the new fixtures also will produce less glare.
said, the new fixtures also will produce less glare. The new lights will extend along Jayhawk Boulevard from Lindley Hall to Bailey Hall, he said.
Modig said the University also had asked Huxtable to provide additional lighting in several areas besides on Jayhawk Boulevard.
These areas include the grounds around Lindley Hall, Strong Hall and the Chi Omega fountain, he said.
Modig said the University was waiting for the contractor to get bonding and insurance on the project before contracts could be finalized and the project could begin.
Bonding is when a company gets another entity's promise to assume the responsibility for fulfilling a contract if the original company cannot.
Wiechert said he hoped installation of the lights would begin by the first of the year.
David Epstein, student body president, said he was pleased that the lighting was being provided so that his team could see.
The campus lighting issue dates back to 1969, when the current Student Senate was formed. Epstein said he had gone to Topeka and lobbed extensively at the Kansas Legislature for more lighting at KU.
"I think it proved to them and the Regents that this was a problem. We did a lot of lobbying, and I think it was worth it," he said.
Earlier in the year, Student Senate allocated $25,000 for the project, and the rest of the money came from the University's operating budget and the Board of Regents.
Color coordinated
Heather Salerno, right, Miami, Fla., freshman practices her camouflage painting on Doug Horn, Chesterfield, Mo. junior. The camouflage class
Former KU punter denies comments on team drug use
was part of the Army ROTC lab yesterday afternoon. The lab was designed to give cadets practical experience.
By NICOLE SAUZEK
Sports writer
Bucky Scriber, a punter for KU from 1979 to 1882, denied that he used cocaine while he attended the University. He also denied that players used cocaine widely or that former football head coach Don Fambrough knew about the problems and ignored them.
A former KU football player yesterday denied using drugs or saying drug use was widespread on the KU football team when he played, and he claimed that a television station misrepresented his comments.
A story that appeared Wednesday in the Kansas City Times said Scribner had described his drug use and drug use by the football team during a Monday night broadcast on WDAF-TV in Kansas City, Mo.
John Rinkenbaugh, producer for WDAF-TV, declined to comment on Scriber's accusations. However, Rinkenbaugh said the station hadn't used the term "widespread drug use" or Fambrghu's name.
Scribner said the meaning of his comments was changed because of the way WDAF-TV edited the newscaster's questions and statements he made on-camera.
"How they got what they did from what I said is a mystery to me," Scriner said. "If you would watch and listen to what I say and black out the announcer, you'd see what I mean."
According to Scribner, the newscaster read from a news script that Scribner had used cocaine, and the station flashed a picture of Fambrough behind Scribner when they asked him whether coaches were aware of drug abuse by athletes.
"I never said I took cocaine, because I never have," Scribner said. "What I meant about widespread use was that drugs are no more distant to members of the Jayhawk team than anyone."
"As far as the thing with Fambrough, I was referring to beer drinking as well as other drugs. Not just cocaine, like they were."
Fambrough was traveling in western Kansas as a field representative for Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole. He said yesterday in a telephone interview that he was shocked and baffled.
"If they would have told me that
someone else but Bucky would have said it, I would have believed them." Fambrough said. "I couldn't believe it. And, what hurt the most was that I was so close to Bucky.
"I don't want to say anything about Bucky until I hear his side of the story. I just know that he was misquoted."
Fambrough admitted that drugs were a problem on his teams, but said that the problem was nationwide.
"I'm not denying that we had a problem," he said.
During Fambrough's last years at KU, he was fired after the 1982 season, drug testing became an issue. The National Collegiate Athletic Association was beginning to consider required drug testing
Fambrough was head coach for eight seasons, from 1971 to 1974 and from 1979 to 1982.
According to Lynn Bott, KU director of sports medicine, the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation did not design a formal drug testing policy until spring 1983.
Fambrough said, "I was a lenient man. Maybe some people thought I was a little too lenient. Maybe I was. Sometimes I'm sure that there were problems that I was not aware of. But, even if I had suspicions, I had no way to prove it.
In 1982, coaches had no way of proving a football player was involved with drugs unless they caught him in the act, Bott said.
"I'm certainly not guilty of turning my back on the problems that I was aware of."
Scribner and other players from Fambrough's teams say they don't think Fambrough would have ignored the problem either.
"People aren't going to believe me now." Scribner said. "But, I'm not going to retract (WDAF-TV) should. I would be a fool to say that I use cocaine when I'm trying to make a living in Kansas City.
"They're making it difficult for me after what they made of what I said, and I'm very bitter. I went on the show to tell high school kids that athletes are not exempt from drug abuse."
"Instead, it ends up like this. I'm really, really, really mad and I want WAF-DT TV to know it."
Smoking ordinance under consideration
By JOHN BENNEP
Staff writer
A smoking ordinance for Lawrence is in the works, for public places and even some private homes.
The city staff has drafted a preliminary ordinance that city commissioners will discuss at a study session Monday.
Commissioners expect more changes at Monday's meeting when they will work on the draft and the proposed smoking ordinance.
The preliminary draft is based on a Topeka smoking ordinance but contains some changes proposed by the commissioners at an earlier study session
The preliminary draft of the ordinance would prohibit smoking in public places, with numerous exceptions, and would penalize a convicted
Some of the places in which smoking would be prohibited if the preliminary draft becomes law are elevators, rest rooms, buses, the sales area of retail stores, grocery stores, banks, public areas of libraries, schools, public assembly rooms and polling places.
The ordinance also would prohibit smoking in private homes when they were used for child care or health care.
Some places that would not be affected by the proposed ordinance are
bars, public places 500 square feet or fewer, restaurants that seat 30 or fewer people, rooms being used for private functions, and bowling centers during league play, if the league decides to permit smoking.
"As an employer, it makes me uncomfortable." Longhurst said. "I don't like the fact that the discretion is given to the business once over that of the business owner."
Commissioner David Longburst said he could not support the current draft of the ordinance.
Commissioner Ernest Angino said yesterday that he was pleased with the preliminary draft.
One aspect of the preliminary draft has caused the most controversy among city businesses and among commissioners. The draft states that, if asked, an employer must provide separate lounges or cafeterias for smokers and nonsmokers.
"I like it the way it is, but some parts of it will change after we talk about it." Angino said.
Longhurst said he didn't want a smoking ordinance to create a hardship for business owners by requiring some to build separate lounge areas or to take an area out of production to allow for an extra lounge or lunchoom.
Harold Terry, office manager at All Star Dairy, 1800 W. Second St.
See SMOKING, p. 5, col. 1
Task force proposing tuition by mail
Fee system could be more flexible if plan overcomes Regents policy
By TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
Students attending the University of Kansas in spring 1989 may be able to pay their tuition in installments through the mail, if a nine-member KU tuition task force has its way.
The Tuition Task Force, composed of University administrators, is proposing a change in the process of paying tuition, to allow more flexibility for students and to eliminate some of the current system for the Lawrence campus, Gary Thompson, director of
student records and registration,
said yesterday.
Under the current system, which Thompson called "archaeal," students have to appear on campus on a specific date to pay tuition, otherwise their pre-enrollment is canceled.
However, a problem with the proposal, Thompson said, is that it contradicts current Board of Regents policy.
With the task force's proposal, students would be allowed to mail in
their payments either in full or in two installments over a period of two months.
Thompson, the chairman of the task force, said the details of the proposal, which still is in the planning stage, would allow students the option of paying half of their tuition on Aug 1 and the second half on Oct. 1 for the fall semester.
The task force has been working on the proposal since March 1985.
Students can make payments for spring tuition Jan. 1 and March 1.
Students would receive tuition statements in the mail in mid-July for the fall semester and mid-December for the spring semester, he said. They would be required to return the statement along with their payment.
The fee cards, which students use to pay tuition, are punched with
One of the reasons for the change, he said, is that the 30-year-old system used punched computer cards.
See ENROLLMENT, p. 5, col. 1
Reagan denies weapons deal with Iran
United Press International
WASHINGTON — President Reagan last night denounced as "utterly false" charges that U.S. arms sent to Irian were ransom for U.S. hostages and said small amounts of weaponry were delivered to encourage better relations with Teheran.
"The United States has not made concessions to those who hold our people captive in Lebanon, and we will not." Reagan said in a nationally televised address from the Oval Office.
Stung by charges that he had committed a key foreign policy blunder by apparently foresaking
his vow to never negotiate with terrorists, Reagan stated flatly, "The United States has not swapped boatloads or plane loads of American weapons for the return of American hostages. And we will not."
But, in baring details of a secret 18-month program of overtures and inducements aimed at currying favor with moderate factions in Iran, Reagan said one goal of his policy was to win the release of Americans held by pro-Iranian extremist Muslim factions.
all hostages held there.
Iran, he said, had been told that one way to improve relations would be to use its influence in Lebanon to secure the release of
Three U.S. hostages — the Revs. Lawrence Jenco and Benjamin Weir, and the recently released David Jacobsen — have been freed by the Islamic Jihad since the secret contacts with Iran began. Five Americans still are captive in
"Some progress has been made," he said. "Since U.S. government contact began with Iran, there has been no evidence of Iranian government complicity in acts of terrorism against the United States. Hostages have come home, and we welcome the efforts that the government of Iran has taken in the past and is currently undertaking."
Lebanon.
In admitting some U.S. arms had been shipped to Iran, Reagan failed to mention any third-nation deliveries, including an U.S-approved transfer of military hardware from Israel last year, about the time Weir was released.
Describing Iran as some of the most critical geography in the world, Reagan pointed to its strategic importance as a check on expansion by the Soviet Union into the oil-rich Persian Gulf, and reminded his listeners of the Kremlin invasion of Afghanistan, which neighbors Iran.
See REAGAN, p. 5, col. 3