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It's now or never for top KU tennis player Mike Wolf. He will make his third and final attempt at becoming an All-American this weekend at the Volvo All-American Tennis Championships at UCLA.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Hayden stopped in Lawrence today to speak on campus and to attend a rally at the local Republican Headquarters.
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Today will be partly cloudy, windy and mild with a high temperature in the 60s Tonight will be cloudy and cool.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 49 (USPS 650-640)
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Thursday
October 30,1986
Skyline of KU to lose stack in the spring
By KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
KU'S 257-foot smokestack will be demolished and replaced with two 15-foot smokestacks in the spring, the university director of facilities planning said yesterday.
Allen Wiechert, the director, said the smokestack, which is behind Staufer-Flint Hall, could be torn down in April or sooner.
"It all depends on the heating need." he said.
The smokestack has been operating at the University since 1921 and is used to discharge residue from the burning oil or natural gas fuel used to create steam in the power plant's boilers.
At the end of the winter heating season, two boilers at the University power plant will be modified for the pl-
KUEA reports drop in contributions, increase in donors
By NANCY BARRE
Contributions to the Kansas University Endowment Association decreased by about 4 percent in the 1965-86 fiscal year, but the number of donors, money allocated for scholarships and investment income increased significantly.
According to the Endowment Association's annual report, released yesterday, 32,326 donors contributed $13.4 million to the Endowment Association to support the University. This figure is down from $13.9 million contributed by 30,000 donors in 1984-85
Staff writer
10 DECISION '86, OCTOBER 29, 1986
Moore slowly gaining on Stephan
Ob Stephan is looking over his shoulder at challenger Dennis Moans, who appears to
drives, he said.
However, Seymour said he was concerned that the tax reform law that President Reagan signed recently, in addition to the state of the Kansas economy, would discourage possible donors.
Stephan, the Republican incumbent who has held the office for the last eight years, was leading by as many as 25 percentage points in the polls in early October.
"From a future standpoint, these modest donations are a key factor." Seymour said. "It gets people into the habit of giving, and these people will probably give more later, when they are able."
more, who appears to be gaining ground in the race to be the state's next attorney general.
By John Benner
By last week, however, Moore, current Johnson County District Attorney, had closed to within 6 points as the contest nears the Nov. 4 general election.
Dennis Moore Democrat Challenger
The new tax code, which goes into effect in January, will reduce the number of deductions taxpayers can declare for contributions to
Both candidates support reinstating the death penalty in Kansas, though Moore, the Democrat, has said he would recommend the penalty only for "heinous" crimes.
Both men advocate sentencing reform, though their views on how to accomplish this are different.
Stephan, 53, is also a Wichita native who graduated from Washburn law school. He was first elected to the attorney general post in 1978.
Moore, 40, is a Wichita native who graduated from Topeka's Washburn University law school.
But the most noticeable issue in the campaign has been Moore's questioning of Stephan's integrity.
Both candidates have said they will lead the state in a war against drugs and against abuses of people. Again, their methods sometimes differ greatly.
Moore said the stipulations and execution of the settlement were not proper campaign issues, but also said he would not apologize for making integrity part of the campaign.
During his campaign, Moore
Though at times the issues have taken a back seat to the controversy, several important issues divide the candidates.
Though Moore said last week that his campaign had been an "issues-oriented one," he has repeatedly attacked Stephan on the question of the settlement.
ATTORNEY GENERAL
has questioned Stephan's 1965 out-of-court settlement of $24,000, paid by Stephan in a sexual harassment suit brought against him in 1982.
Stephan said he would "strongly support the re-institution of capital punishment for the crime of first-degree murder in Kansas."
Moore said he would support the death penalty against criminals who have committed heinous crimes.
The sexual harrassment suit was filed against Stephan by Marcia Tomson, a former clerical employee in Stephan's office.
Stephan has refused to comment further about the issue because a second related case is still pending. Stephan said Tomson alleged in a second suit that he violated an agreement of the settlement when he spoke about it in public.
Stephan was defended with public money, and he said the settlement was paid for by his friends. Only the names of those who contributed half of the settlement were made public.
"I would like a minimum sentence to mean what it says," Moore said. "I don't want to see someone who has received a five-year sentence receive parole after just three years."
Moore said that if elected he would try to eliminate time off for good behavior by inmates and work for mandatory minimum sentences.
He said examples of such crimes would be contract killings, child kidnappings and murders, and murders committed by criminals in correctional institutions.
Both candidates said they believed in making criminal sentences stick.
Bob Stephan
Republican
Incumbent
He said the public has also been encouraged by the Board to make comments about potential paroles.
Stephan said that through his efforts, the Kansas Parole Board now publicizes in advance of parole consideration the names of inmates eligible for parole hearings.
In 1981, Stephan said, he developed a "victim impact statement" to aid judges in setting restitution levels for repayment by criminals.
Moore said he recommended that a state toll-free hotline, currently used to report child abuse, be broadened to include reports of spouse and elderly abuse.
He said he had in the past supported legislation that would require law enforcement officers and nursing home employees to report suspected cases of elderly abuse.
Bell seeks sixth consecutive term
The race for state insurance commissioner pits a long-term incum-
pact, going a relatively
bent against a retractively unknown insurance agent from southcentral Kansas.
The insurance commissioner reviews advertising practices of insurance companies, helps citizens get insurance claim
money, monitors compliance of state insurance laws and examines companies' licensing procedures.
Fletcher Bell, the incumbent Republican, has served in the office since 1971. His Democratic challenger, Dan Landers, is a Mulvane insurance agent.
INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
By Bill Raynolds
Fletcher Bell
Republican
Incumbent
"Fletcher Bell is so strong."
Dan Landers Democrat Challenger
Landers, 40, is a licensed securities and insurance broker from Mulvane. He has been in the insurance industry for nine years, and he owns Regional Tax Services, an insurance agency in Mulvane.
State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton, D-Lawrence, said recently. "The Democratic candidate is typically a sacrifice."
"I can't afford to take off on the campaign trail." Landers said, referring to his lack of campaign money and renown in Kansas.
Landers said insurance companies' financing part of Bell's campaign was conflict of interest.
"The insurance companies are staying with the incumbent, and this ties up anybody running against Bell." Landers said.
"This financing by the insurance companies compromises the credibility and integrity of the insurance commissioner's office.
"You can't make a commitment to control and regulate the insurance industry if your campaign funds come from insurance companies," Landers said.
Landers said he had traveled extensively throughout Kansas the past three years listening to and evaluating the insurance needs of Kansans.
"I can do a better job in the office since I have a better perspective on what people want and need." he said.
If elected, Landers said he would push for legislative action to ban or greatly reduce campaign financing from insurance companies, with $500 being the limit on insurance company-based campaign funds.
Landers also said he would form a committee to grade the performance of the insurance commissioner's office to ensure that the commissioner served the best interests of Kansans.
"If elected, I will continue to rigidly enforce insurance laws and I will bring services to all people in the state."
Bell said, "It is my duty as state insurance commissioner to ensure that companies fulfill their responsibilities to Kansas policyholders.
As state insurance commissioner. Bell has installed a toll-free WATS line for consumer assistance, advocated no-fault automobile insurance and initiated public seminars and forums to provide Kansans with insurance information.
Bell, 57, won his first term in 1970 and has been re-elected five consecutive times.
Bell has been a staff member of the state Insurance Department since 1957. He served as assistant commissioner from 1961 until his election as commissioner.
"There's no way to substitute for that kind of experience," Bell said.
Bell said the key issue in the election would be how to keep insurance companies from earning excess profits because of changes in state laws.
He said he had proposed a bill to the 1967 Kansas Legislature that would require insurance companies to refund excess profits to policyholders when profits exceeded 10 percent.
He also is chairman of the state Committee on Surety Bonds and Insurance and a member of the advisory committee of the Kansas Public Employees Deferred Compensation Plan and the state Health Care Commission.
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