New faces
Sean Alvarado, a 6-foot-10 center from Washington, D.C., joins five other new Jayhawks on the basketball team as KU seeks to replace three starters from last year's Final Four team.
The heat is on
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Campus classrooms should be a little warmer today as the University converts from air conditioning to heating to adjust to the early cold snap.
High brisk factor
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The high temperature will be in the upper 50s today as the skies remain partly cloudy. It should clear off tonight, but the low temperature will drop to about 35 degrees.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 38 (USPS 650-640)
Wednesday
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
October 15, 1986
By SALLY STREFF
Staff writer.
Women who choose to pursue careers need to realize that they may be giving up the chance for a good marriage or the chance to have children. Phyllis Schafly, a leading anti-feminist, said yesterday.
"The truth is there's a high divorce rate among career women," Schlally said. "They've obviously made their choice."
Schlaffy, 62, founder of Stop ERA, which fought against ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and of the conservative Eagle Forum, spoke yesterday in a telephone interview from her Alton Ill. home.
She will debate "issues of the '80s" with Sarah Weddington at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Kansas Union Ballroom. The debate is sponsored by the University of Kansas Student Lecture Series Board.
Weddington is the lawyer who successfully argued before the Supreme Court the Roe vs. Wade case which legalized abortion in 1973. She was former President Carter's top adviser on women's issues during his administration.
Schlafly received a master's degree in political science from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass., and a law degree from Washington University in St. Louis.
She spoke of her opposition to feminism, the new conservatism among college students and her fight against ratification of the ERA.
"Feminists look at every increase in the percentage of women in the work force as a social good." Schlahy said. "But all it really means is that we've left more children unattended."
Shelfały said she wasn't opposed to careers for women, saying every
woman had the right to choose for herself. But she said inflation had prompted large numbers of women to enter the work force
"I hope it will be practical in the future for a male to be the single breadwinner of his family again," she said. "That was the greatest accomplishment of our free-enterprise system."
During the 25 years she was raising her six children, she did not work outside the home, she said, and her political and volunteer work were just hobbies.
She said young women didn't realize how much responsibility and work were necessary to raise children.
Shelfly also said women did not have the same chance as men for a successful career, especially if they wanted to combine a career with a family.
"I believe in dealing with reality, not with some feminist flight of fancy," she said. "Anyone who's telling women that child rearing is going to be a mutually shared experience is telling them a lie."
Sehaily said the greatest problems facing women today were the high divorce rate, the number of out-of-wedlock births and the poverty resulting from those births.
Feminism helped cause those problems by fighting for more liberal divorce laws in the 1970s, she said.
"I think women of every level have done better under Reagan," Schlafly said. She said lower-income women had benefited from the drop in the inflation rate and that higher-income women had benefited from the economic recovery.
Since Reagan has taken office.
See SCHLAFLY, p. 5, col. 1
Gorbachev says SDI blocks peace
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — Mikhail S. Gorbachev told the Soviet people yesterday that the United States lacked the political determination to reach arms control agreements and wanted to "bleed the Soviet Union white economically" through an expensive arms race in space.
In a 65-minute address that was televised nationwide, the Soviet leader gave his first assessment since returning home from the Iceland summit with President Reagan on the failure of the two superpowers to agree to reduce nuclear arsenals.
He said the meeting was useful.
but foundered on Reagan's refusal to give up Star Wars, the space-based missile defense system.
"After Reykjavik it is clearer than ever for everyone that SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative) is the symbol of obstruction to the cause of peace, the epitome of military schemes, of the unwillingness to remove the nuclear menace looming over mankind," Gorbachev said. "There can be no other interpretation."
Gorbache described in detail his efforts throughout the meetings in Iceland to persuade Reagan to agree to major measures which, if they had been
Crowding ordinance stiffened
See SOVIET, p. 5, col. 1
Rv IOHN RFNNER
Staff writer
Lawrence city commissioners las night unanimously voted to increase the maximum penalty against businesses that allow overcrowding from $200 to $2.500.
The commissioners also received a 400-session petition asking that they consider raising the minimum age for attending public showings of, or purchasing, X-rated films from 18 to 21.
At last week's meeting the ordinance passed with the maximum fine set at $1,000, but several commissioners expressed an interest in setting the penalty even higher.
The overcrowding ordinance passed on the first reading at last week's commission meeting and must be published before it can become law.
Mike Wildgen, assistant city manager, said the maximum fine the commission could legally establish was $2.500.
The ordinance was drafted by Richard Barr, Lawrence fire marshal, to combat habitual violators who he said found it profitable to exceed their maximum occupancy load and pay a fine later, if cited.
Barr said last week that the fines would be aimed at bar and restaurant owners who blocked or locked fire exits before closing or who intentionally overcrowded their establishments.
The commission last night also accepted a petition from Jim Mullins, 3506 W. 10th Place, asking that the city consider drafting an ordinance increasing age restrictions on attendance or purchase of R- and X-rated films.
Mullins told the commissioners he had more than 400 signatures on the petition, which asked that minors be prohibited from buying, renting or attending R- or X-rated movies.
The petition also asked the commission to consider raising the minimum age to 21 for renting, buying or attending X-rated films.
Jerry Little, city prosecutor, said Monday that enforcing the code would be impossible because of the way the code defined obscurity.
Mullins said current city code was not strong enough to prohibit minors from attending or obtaining R- or X-rated films.
He said that the ordinance in the code prohibits distribution or display of "indecent or filthy" materials to minors, but that these terms had no accepted legal definition and could be easily contested.
"I'm not trying to stop them from making these films," Mullins said. "I just want to keep our children from watching them."
Mullins said he wanted to stress that the petition was not meant to interfere with the First Amendment rights of individuals.
Mullins said that increasing the minimum age to 21 for viewing or purchasing X-rated films had precedents in the current alcohol and handgun laws, which ban sales to those under 21.
Mitt Newton, left, of the Red team, goes up for a layup as Mark Pellock, of the Blue team, at tempts to block. The Red team won 70-67 during Late Night with Larry Brown, the Jayhawks first practice of the season early this morning at Allen Field House.
Along with hundreds of other KU students, Tim Nisly, left, Hutchinson junior, wait for Larry "Bud" Melman to sign his Late Night with Larry Brown poster. Melman, famous for his appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman" delivered a brief monologue and signed autographs last night at the Burge Union.
Larry Brown's Late Night delays bedtime for 13,000
By FRANK HANSEL
Honne New Year
About 13,000 KU basketball fans celebrated the start of a new basketball year early this morning at the Second Annual Late Night with Larry Brown.
"It's six minutes after midnight on the 15th of October; it is officially basketball season," the announcer said at Allen Field House.
"I never in my wildest dreams thought it could be like this," head coach Larry Brown said.
Rolls of toilet paper replaced confetti as the new year rolled in, and the Jayhawks took the floor for their pre-scrimimage warm up.
The new year's eve celebration began at 9:30 p.m. with a rally outside the Burge Union with the familiar chant of "Lar-ry, Lar-ry, Lar-ry."
"You made our season what it was last year, and this is just our way to say thanks for your support. And now without further ado, let me introduce you to the real Larry — Larry 'Bud' Melman."
"We've been waiting for this ever since Dallas." Brown told a crowd of about 500.
Melman, from television's "Late Night with David Letterman" show, stumbled through a routine, reading off cue cards to congratulate the Jayhawks on making the Final Four of the NAACP.
"I mean the NCAA," Melman said. "How about those Javhaws?"
Students and alumni alike came to see the
dayhawks, and the party shifted to the field house. Starting at 10 p.m., screaming fans counted down the end of a year that saw the Jayhawks win a school record 35 games and advance to the Final Four in Dallas where they lost to Duke 71-67.
"I've got a midterm tomorrow, but I'd rather be watching basketball than studying," said Kristin Bartling. Toneka sohomore.
The local singing group Harmonic Function and Melman helped the fans count down to midnight.
But the fans wanted basketball.
It didn't matter that this was the first practice and the play was sometimes sloppy — basketball season was here.
The Red team, which held on to win 70-67, took control in the first half, outscoring the Blue team 12-2 in the final nine minutes to take a 28-18 halftime lead.
Junior forward Danny Manning led the charge with 10 first-half points.
Manning and freshman forward Mark Randall took over for the Red, scoring six points, the last two on a Randall layup at the buzzer. Manning led all scorers with 22 points, and Mill Newton, of the Red team, added 14.
The Red lead grew to 46-24 on a Manning dunk. The official scorer then gave the Blue 20 free points to make the game more exciting.
Freshman guard Kevin Pritchard hit consecutive three-point shots to give the Blue a 53-50 lead with 6:17 left.
Negotiators agree on defense spending bill
United Press International
WASHINGTON — House and Senate negotiators reached agreement on a nearly $292 billion fiscal 1987 Pentagon spending plan last night, clearing the way for final work on the biggest federal spending bill in history.
The agreement on the defense authorization bill included arms control language — tentatively agreed to just before President Reagan's Iceland summit — that will apply to the $274 billion defense portion of a $60 billion catchel spending bill to keep the government running.
Both bills, the defense authorization and the continuing resolution, were expected to reach the House floor today.
Many of the policy decisions contained in the authorization bill have a direct effect on the spending levels required for the defense portion of the catchall spending bill.
The agreement reached by the negotiators is $28 billion less than what Reagan had asked Congress to give him (or defense in 1987).
Resolution of the $291.8 billion authorization bill, which provides the broad spending permission for Pentagon programs rather than the actual amount that will be spent in 1987, came in the evening after several days of negotiations to resolve two relatively minor items.
Negotiators decided to stay with the current law on a controversial labor pricing issue, keeping the trigger point for paying prevailing union wages on defense contracts at $2,500 rather than going to the $25,000 suggested by the House or the $250,000 figure proposed by the Senate.
They also agreed there should be a goal that the minority business share of defense contracts reach 5 percent in three years.
ment which allowed Reagan to go to Iceland without negotiating arms restrictions demanded by the House, negotiators merely urged the president to remain within the weapons launcher limits of the unratified SALT II treaty instead of forcing him to stay within those limits
They also gave the go-ahead for part of a new chemical weapons system, but put off until fiscal 1988 a decision on a controversial new chemical bomb.
Following up on Friday's agree
The authorization provides for $3.5 billion for research into Reagan's space-based missile defense program. Reagan had requested $5.3 billion.
The House had approved a one-year moratorium on underground nuclear tests exceeding one kiloton in yield, but Reagan and the Senate opposed the limit.
The conferees dropped the moratorium and accepted Reagan's pledge to ask the Senate to ratify two treaties on test restrictions signed in the last decade Reagan said he would begin talks with the Soviets aimed at achieving a comprehensive test ban treaty on a step-by-step basis.