Too close for comfort
The KU junior varsity football team won its second and last game of the season 20-19 yesterday in a controversial thriller against Butler County Community College.
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Two finalists have withdrawn and three remain for the Honor for Outstanding Progressive Educator award, to be announced Nov. 15. Seniors will vote for the award tomorrow and Thursday. Inside, profiles of the finalists.
HOPE hopefuls
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Rainy days
Today will be cloudy with a 70 percent chance of rain. The high temperature will be in the mid-40s and the low will be around 40. Tonight also will be rainy and cloudy.
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Vol. 97, No. 52 (USPS 650-640)
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Tuesday November 4,1986
Candidates watch as Senate control is left to the voters
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The campaign for control of the Senate, notable mostly for its excesses of money and mudslinging, wound down as Democrats and Republicans made their final pitches and then waited anxiously for the voters' response today.
The Democrats, with history and the election-year arithmetic on their side, were trying to regain the majority that was swept away six years ago in the landslide that carried Ronald Reagan into the White House.
The Republicans — still hoping Reagan can rally the public one more time with his "last hurrah" blitz — nonetheless were talking more and more about the long odds facing GOP candidates.
In person in California and Nevada, on television screens around the country and even via automatic telephone machines that delivered prerecorded personal appeals, Reagan seemed to be everywhere at once urging the public not to let him down.
The fight in Nevada to find a replacement for the president's long-time friend, Paul Laxalt, who is retiring from the Senate, has become a key battle, with the Republican hierarchy from Reagan to Republican National Committee Chairman Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. to Laxalt taking a personal role in the effort.
However, some Republicans counted the campaign of Jim Santini, a former House member and former Democrat, a lost cause against Nevada Democratic Rep. Harry Reid.
Reagan kept slugging yesterday, suggesting Santini's rival was "a tax-and-spend liberal" who, in the House, "voted against me more often than Teddy Kennedy — and that's saying something."
After the one-hour airport stop, Reagan moved on to the campaign finale, an outdoor rally in Costa Mesa, Calif., to boost Republican Rep Edz Schau, who is struggling in his bid to unseat three-term
See CAMPAIGNS, p. 5, col. 2
Electronic machines to facilitate voting
Staff writer
By ATLE BJORGE
When the 38,001 registered voters in Douglas county go to cast votes today they won't be met by the usual sight of volunteers counting boxes of ballots.
Eight other counties in Kansas, including Leavenworth and Riley, now have electronic vote counting, Jaimes said.
Two electronic vote-counting machines this year will take care of that tedious part of elections, said Patty Jaimes. Douglas county clerk.
But election results won't be ready earlier this year because each voter will have to cast their ballot.
One ballot will be for the candidates and one for the five proposed amendments to the Kansas Constitution.
She said in 1964, the county had tour people who counted ballots dar-
ing from the election.
"We had problems recruiting enough people," she said.
Now the ballots will be brought back to the Douglas County cour
house and counted after polls close at 7 p.m.
Jaimes said that, although the counting machines cost $42,500 each, she thought the new system would be less expensive in the long run.
"It will eventually pay for itself because the county won't have to pay as many ballot counters," she said.
A normal election costs the county about $40,000, she said.
This year, fewer people will work at the polling locations. A fivemember receiving board will sit at each of the 33 polling locations. Before, a receiving board and the four counters were at each location.
Voters will get a pen to darken ovals next to the candidates names and the constitutional amendments and take a standardized test, she said.
In addition, about 30 people will work at the courthouse.
Then the voters will put the ballot into a plastic sleeve and drop it into the ballot box.
See BALLOTS, p. 5, col. 2
Tom Magee, Kansas City, Mo., senior, points out areas of Lawrence to be assistant attorney general, and Donielle Dodson, Ottawa sophomore. The covered by volunteers Lisa Lewis, left, Atwood senior, Rachel Lipman, state distributed Republican campaign literature Sunday.
Campaign helpers keep tense vigil
By KAREN SAMELSON
Tongt, political hopefuls and their helpers will wait nervously until the last winner is declared.
Tomorrow, the election will be history, and students who have been giving their time to various candidates will begin to pick up the books they had shoved aside in favor of campaign fliers.
"The worst part is waiting." Tom Magee, Kansas City, Mo., senior and president of KU's Students for Havden, said yesterday.
Mike Horak, Emporia junior and campus cochairman for Tom Ecking, agreed, saying that
"I'll be relieved to get back to studying." Horak said.
Horak and Magee are two of the students who have spent the fall helping candidates for state offices with their campaigns. Other campus coordinators began working before the August
thought he had spent as many as 30 hours a week on it recently.
in the past few weeks, they sometimes have let their studies slide to accommodate campaigning
Horak estimated that he had spent more than 20 hours a week on campaign work, and Magee
Over the weekend, Magee, vice president of College Republicans, and Horak, president of KU Democrats, mobilized their ranks to distribute campaign fliers throughout Lawrence.
camping. "I was cold, and I was tired, and my feet hurt," Horak said of the six hours he spent going door to door on Sunday. "It was worth it."
At the same time, Magee was in a southern section of town, trying to deliver Republican fliers fast enough to stay warm.
Besides the campaign fliers, the student coordinators have helped with voter registration, debates and vard signs.
As county coordinator for Judy Runnels, Democratic secretary of state candidate, Todd Cohen, Alta Vista junior, has made arrangements for advertisements in local newspapers.
or the other side, Andy Heidrick, Glascas law student and campus co-chairman for Bill Gravens, said his team had distributed Graves cups, including about 400 to local bars, so voters would
Some coordinators, like Heidrick, knew the can
didates before the election, and others got involved because of their interest in politics.
"It's really fun." Horak said. "It gives you a chance to see how a campaign works."
But, Torak said, his bathmates aren't quite excited about the hours he has spent on the phone. Magee agreed, saying, "They all said they can't wait until Wednesday."
Cohen said that the work wouldn't end until the polls closed at 7 tonight.
"Students have got to vote," he said. "Liquor by the drink is by no means assured of victory."
the crime is so no matter about the victim.
Cohen also said he would help the Democrats call Lawrence residents this afternoon to remind them to vote.
Tonight, the coordinators will head for Topeka, where they will celebrate — they hope — with their respective candidates.
The students were optimistic yesterday that their candidates would win tonight, although they admitted that the races were close.
Magee said he was eager for it to be over but he knew he would feel let down when it was over.
Cohen added, "We'll either be trying high or sitting around and rationalizing everything."
Ballroom crowd hears 'Naked Lunch' author
By SHANE A. HIL1c
The author of "Naked Lunch" slowly ablended across the stage, sunk into a chair behind a small table, sipped water from a glass, and started to droll rasply into a microphone.
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He read from type-written and scribbed-upon drafts, and in one portion of his reading revealed his revision of several of the Ten Commandments. His long, 72-year-old memoir on the pages he had finished reading.
The silent crowd at the Kansas Union Ballroom listened intently as Lawrence's most famous contemporary author, whose fame evolved from semi- professional humorous novels about drug addiction and homosexuality, read excerpts from his latest letters.
The eyes of about 600 onlookers fixed on William S. Burroughs.
Much of the text was riddled with obscenities and sardonic disgust over people who thanked God for the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima or people who simply did not know how to mind their own business.
Burroughs' first novel, "Junky." published in 1953, was an
Burroughs, in a drug-related accident, shot and killed his wife in Mexico. His son, William S. Burroughs, Jr., also an author, died a drug addict at age 31.
autobiographical account of a homosexual drug addict who escaped to Mexico City to avoid conviction on drug charges in the United States.
After his reading, when he sat and autographed books for dozens of admirers, Burroughs said. "It's hard to imagine a sensitive person who has not felt a lot of pain."
Burroughs' reading was cohesive and interrelated, bringing together a unique combination of humorous vignettes, abstract philosophies about nuclear war and God, and twisted, sarcastic remarks about politicians.
"Here comes Nancy and Ron, hard-in hand, saying no one has the right to mind his own business," he said, sneering.
Nevertheless, Burroughs' reading reflected disgust with the latest wave of anti-drug hysteria.
"Lying comes as naturally as breathing to a politician," Burroughs said, "and is just about as essential in their case."
Fred Sadowski/KANSAN
William S. Burroughs, an author from Lawrence, who has written such books as "Junky" and "Naked Lunch," spoke to about 600 people in the Kansas Union Ballroom last night.
Veterans concert to move to Kansas City
By SALLY STREFF
Short writing
A Vietnam veterans benefit concert, originally scheduled for Nov. 11 at Allen Field House, has been moved to Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan.
The concert's organizers say they are disappointed by the change, which was necessary because of low attendance and will think the concert will be a success.
Reducing costs will ensure that the group will raise enough money to set up a scholarship fund. Krueger said.
Youth for Vietnam Vets, the student organization sponsoring the concert, is moving the concert to reduce its costs, said Craig Krueger, Sioux City, Iowa, graduate student, and one of the concert's organizers.
"It was a business decision," Krueger said. "We can't afford to
About 5,000 tickets had to be sold to break even if the concert took place at the field house. Krueger said, but only 2,800 tickets have been sold so
The concert's proceeds will go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America, a national non-profit organization, to establish a scholarship fund for the Vietnam veterans who were killed or disabled or are missing in action.
break even. We have to go for the sure thing "
Anyone who has purchased a ticket and wants a refund because of the location change may go to the place where he or she bought the ticket to get the address of Capital Automated Ticket Services. The time frame for the capital for a refund before the date of the concert, Krueger said.
He said he wasn't sure why only 2,800 tickets had been sold. He said students' procrastination and a lack of advertising by the concert's sponsors may have been responsible. Also, many people doubted that the concert would take place, he said.
Staging a concert at the Field House would cost about $75,000. Krueger said. That price includes a $1 a person charge by the University of Kansas Athletic Corporation, an investment security, and the cost of renting a protective tarp for the Field House floor.
Also, because Nov. 11 is a legal holiday, all University officials would have to be paid overtime, Krueger said.
In contrast, staging a concert at Memorial Hall will cost only $15,000. Krueger estimated. Memorial Hall
See CONCERT, p. 5, col. 1