University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 16, 1986
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News Briefs
A-V center reports stolen VCRs and TVs
The Campus Audio-Visual Center reported to KU police yesterday that three videocassette recorders and one television set had been taken from various campus buildings.
The report said that a videocassette recorder, valued at $350, was taken between 10:30 p.m. Monday and 10 a.m. Tuesday from Nunemaker Center.
The center also reported that two videocassette recorders, valued together at $700, were taken from Fraser and Lippincott halls before Aug. 30. The report said a television, valued at $225, was also taken from Lippincott Hall.
Group to give info
Youth for Vietnam Vets will make an announcement concerning a proposed benefit rock concert at 10 a.m. today at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Kansas City, Mo.
The organization, composed of KU students, is trying to sponsor a concert that would feature George Thorogood and the Destroyers on Nov. 11 at Allen Field House. Proceeds from the concert would go to the Paralyzed Veterans of America to aid the children of Vietnam veterans.
Filing deadlines for candidates in November's Student Senate elections have been announced by the Senate Elections Committee.
The deadline for filing as a candidate for student body president or vice president is 5 p.m. on Oct. 22. The filing deadline for senatorial candidates is 5 p.m. on Oct. 29. Coalition lists also are due Oct. 29.
The filing deadline for independent coalitions is 5 p.m. on Nov. 5.
All declarations of candidacy must be submitted in person in the Student Senate office on the first floor of the Burge Union.
Directories out soon
Elections are Nov. 19 and 20
The KU telephone directories will be distributed next week. Karla Carney, associate director of communication services, said Monday.
Carney, who is in charge of compiling the sections in the directory from information obtained through the personnel and student records offices, said the directories usually were distributed at this time each year.
NAPCO Inc., a telephone directory company in Fairfax, Va., sells the ads for the KU directories and has them printed in Arlington, Texas.
After next week, the directories will be on sale at campus bookstores.
Band to perform
A Latin American band will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday at Cogburns, 737 New Hampshire.
Sabia, a six-member group from Los Angeles, has performed throughout much of the United States. The group's Lawrence performance is sponsored by Latin American Solidarity, the KU Latin American Studies and Spanish departments, and Mass Street Music, 1347 Massachusetts.
Weather
Today will be sunny with a high temperature near 70 and southerly winds 10 to 15 mph. Tonight will be mostly clear skies with a low temperature around 40.
From staff and wire reports.
Panel says state law allows divestment
By SHANE A. HILLS
The Kansas University Endowment Association has no legal reason to avoid divesting from companies that do business in South Africa, three KU professors and a lawyer said yesterday at a forum.
About 35 people attended the forum, in which Richard DeGeorge and Don Marquis, professors of philosophy; John Gergacz, professor of business; and Jeff Southard, a lawrence lawyer and former Kansas assistant attorney general, discussed the legal aspects of divestment.
The Prudent Man's Rule, a state law that requires fiduciaries to refrain from letting moral or political opinions interfere with prudent investment decisions, does not necessarily mean the Endowment Association cannot divest from companies that do business in South Africa,
Each member of the forum spoke for about 15 minutes on the responsibilities of fiduciaries. The forum was sponsored by the Undergraduate Philosophy Club and held in the Kansas Union.
Gergacz said.
A fiduciary, such as the Endowment Association, invests money for the benefit of a person or group. The returns on Endowment investments are used for student loans and scholarships, the financing of professorships and other University needs.
During the last two years, student activists have protested Endowment Association investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Activists were pacified in April when Todd Seymour, president of the association, announced it had started a policy of "selective divestment."
Selective divestment, Seymour said, means the Endowment Association will not keep an investment in a company that has not signed an agreement to promote equal opportunities among its employees in South Africa.
"Profit maximization is not necessarily the only factor that a fiduciary must consider in making investment decisions," Gergzaez said. "It must make decisions that are in the best interests of the firm as a whole. Being that the University is supposed to be a lighthouse in a sea of darkness, I think the KUEA has room to make ethical decisions.
"Of course, it hasn't been litigated much yet. Basically, the law is written to prevent fiduciaries from making irresponsible, wild investments, and to keep them from absconding with the beneficiary's money."
From a moral standpoint, Marquis compared investments in South Africa with investments in child pornography or, for a more historical comparison, to an investment in a company that sold gas jets to concentration camps.
"One perception of investments in South Africa is that the profits obtained from them are dirty," Marquis said. "They are obtained in ways that turn our stomachs."
"Another idea is that we, as a university, should be concerned with changing the racist system in South Africa."
DeGeorge said ethical investments did not necessarily preclude large profits.
"Some fiduciaries that have acted with specific ethical policies have actually done better than Dow Jones (average)," he said. "It is possible to get satisfactory rewards with ethical investments."
U.S. Congress debates future of local bypass
Bv IOHN BENNER
Staff writer
The fate of a proposed $38 million Lawrence highway bypass remained undecided last night as a U.S. House-Senate conference committee tried to reconcile the differences between their respective national highway financing bills.
The proposed highway would bypass Lawrence to the south and west. Price Banks, city planning director, said it would make access to Clinton Lake easier from the east and north of town.
Congress was scheduled to adjourn last night. If it did so without reaching a compromise, it would put the $10 million federal contribution to the bypass on hold until at least January.
Several differences between the two proposed versions are making a compromise on the four-year $52 billion national highway bill difficult, said Brent Bahler, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole's press secretary.
Bahler said Dole toured Kansas in early 1986 to decide
where to spend the $34 million in federal money earned for Kansas projects.
He said Dole selected the Lawrence bypass for federal funds because it was one state project most in need of funds and because it demonstrated cooperation between county, state and federal officials.
The Senate measure includes a provision for a 65 mph speed limit on some rural stretches of interstates. It also would give the state control of the $10 million bypass funds contributed by the federal government.
The House measure favors retention of the national 55 mph speed limit and authorizes the money directly to the city.
Banks said he didn't think the Senate version, if adopted, would jeopardize the bypass funds.
"I just think it would add a little more red tape to the process." Banks said. "There's some support for the direct funding method because it's feared that otherwise some of the money might be skimmed off for administrative costs."
The proposed bypass project would include a new turnpike interchange providing access both to the highway and to Lecompton.
Two additional lanes are planned for the proposed 14.3 mile bypass, which would bring the final cost to about $38 million.
Douglas County and Lawrence have each committed $4 million to the bypass. This sum would be combined with the $10 million federal fund and money from the Kansas Turnpike Authority to complete the initial $21 million two-lane project.
Sousaphones hang on the wall and sit on the floor in the band storage room in Murphy Hall. Murphy's space shortage has forced the instruments into not-so-ideal storage conditions.
Murphy is short of storage space
Bv KIRK KAHLER
Staff writer
Storage space at Murphy Hall is so limited that state fire codes are being violated to satisfy storage needs, says Bob Foster, director of bands.
Foster said Tuesday that hat boxes were being stored in the stairway of one floor because of a lack of space. The state fire code, he said, prohibits storing boxes in stairways of public buildings.
The inadequate facilities, Foster said, have become obsolete and antiquated as the band department has grown.
"It was an adequate facility 30 years ago," Foster said. "Most high schools in the state have better facilities than we do."
Many other areas of the building also are cramped, he said.
Foster said something needed to be done or the poor conditions might cause faculty and students to abandon the band program.
Although Foster said he wasn't upset with the conditions, he said he wanted to bring the problems to the University's attention.
For example, the ceiling in the uniform
storage room leaks, Foster said, and uniforms have been damaged. The department's reception area, he said, houses four or five secretaries and also serves as a computer room and waiting room.
The office of Thomas Stidham, assistant director of bands and associate professor of fine arts, was used as a computer room, classroom, lesson room and audio equipment storage room. Foster said.
Even the instructor's offices are used for multiple purposes, he said.
George Boberg, professor of percussion, said his office also was used for many other purposes.
He said the room served as his office, classroom, lesson room and work room. Three days a week, he said, he teaches a class of 16 in his office.
Most of the percussion instruments, he said, also are stored in his office.
Another room was created to house the instruments that wouldn't fit in Boberg's office, Foster said. Water floods the floor of the room when it rains, so the University installed a pump to prevent damage to the instruments, he said.
In the band's music library, which doubles as a storage space for ladders, file cabinets full of music line the room and extend to the ceiling.
Foster said that this was the case, even though the library was one of the three or four best music libraries west of Washington, D.C.
"It's really incredible," he said. "Where do you go?"
Foster also said that storage areas often were not close to rooms where the instruments were needed. Because of this, and because of an elevator that only goes to three of five floors, students and instructors often carries heavy equipment up stairs.
An addition to the building easily would solve the department's problems, he said.
Murphy is a three-winged building with a large open courtyard. Foster said he wanted to see a fourth wing, but he also wanted to keep the courtyard open.
Foster mentioned difficulties recruiting band members because of the poor conditions of the building.
Evidence presented in drug trial
Staff writer
By RIC ANDERSON
A Douglas County prosecutor yesterday presented evidence in the trial of a Lawrence man who was indicted on cocaine-related charges in July along with 20 others.
Christopher Clark, 24, 2516 Morningside Ct., was indicted in Douglas County District Court on July 22 on one charge of selling cocaine. Clark's trial began at 9:30 a.m. yesterday in the courtroom of James Paddock, Douglas County district judge.
After jury selection, Jim Flory, Douglas County district attorney, presented his opening statement, telling jurors the state would prove that Clark had sold or distributed
$2^{1/2}$ grams of cocaine May 1 to a confidential informant for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration.
Thomas Stephenson, the informant, was the first witness to testimony against Clark. He testified that he paid Clark $250 in return for five, $1<sub>2</sub>-ounce packages of cocaine at Clark's residence May 1.
Stephenson also said Clark bought the cocaine from a neighbor and, in turn, sold it to Stephenson. He said he had given the cocaine to Richard LaMere, special agent for the DEA, after leaving Clark's house.
LaMere. She said the powder was 58 percent cocaine.
Flory then called Jana Goelz, Kansasville, Wisc., a chemical analyst who analyzed the white powder that Stephenson gave
LaMere, the state's third witness, said he was outside Clark's house May 1. LaMere played a tape of the incident, which was made by a concealed recorder Stephenson wore.
The state's final witness, Carroll Crossfield, a Lawrence police detective, said he also was outside Clark's house May 1. Crossfield testified that he saw a woman walk to Clark's home from a nearby residence
Crossfield said the woman stayed at Clark's house about three to four minutes and returned to the nearby residence.
Clark is scheduled to return to court at 9 a.m. today
KC rape suspect who says he's innocent, fails polygraph test
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A rape suspect who faces a third trial said yesterday that he had failed a lie detector test he hoped would clear him but that he planned to undergo more tests.
The Associated Press
Evan Williams, 36, said he was innocent of the August 1985 rape of a 28-year-old woman in Kansas City's Westport area — and said he planned to have independent polygraph operators conduct more tests next week.
Williams told the Kansas City Star that prosecutors had told him they would consider dropping the case if the lie detector test indicated he was not involved in the attack. The Jackson County prosecutor's office
A Jackson County Circuit Court jury convicted Williams in January on charges of rape, sodomy, armed criminal action and burglary. Judge Tom J. Helms created a furor when he overturned that verdict, declaring that it went against the weight of the evidence. A second trial ended in a nung jury Oct. 2, and the prosecution said there would be another trial.
Williams has been in jail since Sept. 4, 1985, when a woman who had been raped in her home about a month earlier spotted him mowing a neighbor's lawn and identified him as her attacker.
and Williams' lawyer said they were under court orders not to comment on the case and refused to discuss Williams' remarks.
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