The shirt off his back
A KU art professor paints "portraits without people" featuring some of his favorite shirts. The paintings have generated some recent recognition and many interesting stories.
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Coach Val's debut
The North Carolina Tar Heels come to town this weekend to help the Jayhawks open their season. KU head coach Bob Valesente says the Tar Heels have an advantage in that they played last week — and won.
Lend me your clears
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Today should be sunny and mild with a high in the low 80s. Weekend temperatures should stay in the mid-80s.
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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Vol. 97, No. 15 (USPS 650-640)
Friday September 12, 1986
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
Communication classes closed
More students, fewer instructors lead to overcrowding
By ATLE BJORGE
Hopeful undergraduates are stopped at the door to the department of communication studies by a sign that reads "All COM 130 & 150 classes are closed."
Jeanne Torneden, a secretary in the office, said the sign was intended to turn away some students.
"We have had such a problem with it," she said. "We have opened new sections, and they all have filled up rapidly."
All the undergraduate courses in communication studies are closed, which is very unusual, said William
Linkugel, chairman of the department.
The number of sections in classes that fulfill College of Liberal Arts and Science requirements, COMS 130 and 150, has been increased from 29 last semester to 51 this semester. Each section has about 25 students.
The estimated 20 percent increase in enrollment in department programs is tightening the screws on the nationally acclaimed department. Since 1982, it has lost two key faculty members without getting permanent replacements. Linkuel said.
In 1982, Professor Kim Griffin retired, and in March, Professor
Karlyn Kohrs Campbell transferred to the University of Minnesota.
Campbell, a native of Minnesota, received a large increase in salary and fringe benefits by transferring, Linkugel said.
"They offered her $3,000 to computerize her office." he said. "I had problems squeezing out a computer for the whole department."
A visiting professor is providing temporary relief, but will stay at KU only this year. Linkugel said the department didn't have the funds to place the visiting professor on the permanent payroll.
division of speech and drama, said that at the end of this semester, the department of communication studies would lose another faculty member who had not been awarded tenure.
Bobby Patton, chairman of the
The department now has 10 full-time and four part-time professors
The situation has reached a crisis point - a large student demand but a small faculty, Patton said.
"It is possible that we will need three people just to stay even," he said.
See ENROLLMENT, p. 5, col. 1
Robert Adams, associate dean of
Between July 1985 and June 1986, the University of Kansas Medical Center received $10 million to cover the cost of caring for people who were too poor to pay their bills.
By COLLEEN SIEBES Staff writer
The allocation was one sign of a statewide and national problem
More than a half-million Kansans, or about a quarter of the population, are considered medically indigent because they cannot afford needed medical care, according to a recent report issued by an advisory board to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
About 60 percent of the hospitals in Kansas are significantly affected by the problem, according to the report. At the Med Center, state residents are the only medically indigent persons to receive care; out-of-state residents receive care only in emergencies.
If the situation is not an emergency, out-of-state residents are sent to other clinics.
Med Center sees struggle of poor
Spotted lunch
"We try to give care within the constraints of our budget." said Eugene Staples, vice chancellor for hospital administration.
See HOSPITALS, p. 5, col. 1
Alyssa Chase, Overland Park junior, tempts her Dalmatian, Gus, with a piece of salad. The two were eating lunch together yesterday.
Senators will change replacement process
Staff writer
By SALLY STREFF
The Senate on Wednesday night passed a bill allowing all interested students, instead of just those who ran in the original Senate race, to be considered for replacement seats.
After its November elections, the Student Senate will choose replacements for vacant Senate seats; rather than allowing a committee to fill the positions with students who ran in the last election.
"The current election process has been a problem because now the next person in line is just bumped up," said Betsy Bergman, Nunemaker senator.
Nunemaker senators represent freshmen and sophomores in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The bill was amended to stipulate that the Senate Elections Committee conduct the replacement process. The committee will receive applications and will recommend three persons for each vacant position. The Senate then will vote.
Any vacancies before the November elections will be filled according to the old system.
"It's arbitrary. The new system gets students who want to be involved. involved." Bergman said.
"This is way better than what we have now," said David Epstein, student body president. "It opens up Student Senate more to the student body. This is a perfect way for people who become interested in Senate
over the year to get involved.'
Before, the elections committee gave the replacement seat to the candidate who had received the next highest number of votes.
If that person was no longer interested or eligible for the seat, the committee then went down the list of original candidates, including write-in candidates, until a replacement senator was found.
In the case of a tie among candidates, the replacement senator was selected by lot.
Several senators said the previous system had allowed students who had received only a few votes to gain a Senate seat.
The Senate had considered two bills proposing two different changes to the election process.
One bill retained the previous election process but eliminated candidates receiving less than 10 percent of the votes received by the lowest-elected senator in that school.
The second bill stipulated that all interested persons be allowed to apply for the replacement seat. The chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee and a panel of senators then would review the applicants and recommend three to the Student Senate, which would select a replacement.
Senators amended the second bill so that the Elections Committee will be responsible for accepting applications instead of the chairman of StudEx.
Jackson visit unlikely according to officials
Bv TONY BALANDRAN
Staff writer
The Rev. Jesse Jackson probably will not visit the KU campus this semester despite earlier expectations that he might, according to student officials who are trying to arrange his appearance.
David Epstein, student body president, said yesterday that because of "massive miscommunication" between the Student Senate and Jackson's group, the Rainbow Coalition, based in Washington, D.C., it was highly unlikely that the political activist and former presidential candidate would appear this semester.
Spokesmen for Jackson said they could not recall any correspondence with the University.
"I'm not aware of any invitations from the University of Kansas," said Frank Watkins, Jackson's press secretary. "I wasn't aware that he had been asked to speak there."
In a letter received in early June from Jackson's executive assistant, the Rainbow Coalition stated that it had received an invitation to speak and added that it had an interest in accepting the invitation, said Victor Osmolki, Student Union Activities Forums Committee chairman.
Craig Kirby, administrative assistant and student organizer for Jackson, said he was not aware of any plans for Jackson to speak at KU.
Both SUA and Senate sent Jackson letters, but the coalition apparently had accepted SUA's offer and declined the Senate's. The Senate plans to help SUA finance the visit if Jackson accepts the offer.
Stephanie Quincy, chairman of the Student Senate Executive Committee, said then that the Senate was only in touch with the coalition.
Osmolak said last month that Jackson had accepted the invitation. Jackson's acceptance also was confirmed by Epstein.
However, Osmolak said yesterday that the coalition's letter was not a formal acceptance.
"If the Rainbow Coalition had no idea that we invited him, they should not have written me," said Osmolak.
Epstein put most of the blame for prematurely announcing Jackson's visit on members of the Rainbow Coalition. He said he and the Kansan also were at fault.
Watkins, who said he was familiar with Jackson's schedule up to 1988, said Jackson usually did not confirm dates more than a month in advance.
"None of it is Jesse Jackson's fault," he said. "I don't think he heard that there was a problem."
Quincy said the Senate had received what she described as unsatisfactory treatment from the coalition. She said, every time she called the coalition, she received different information.
Chilean exile denounces Reagan
By SHANE A. HILLS Staff writer
"Reagan is so confused," exile Luis Ramirez said to about 50 people last night at Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. "He has no idea how to create a solution for the Latin American situation, let alone that in Chile."
President Ronald Reagan remains oblivious to intolerable human rights violations in Chile just as he does to those in South Africa, a Chilean political exile said last night.
After the lecture, sponsored by Latin American Solidarity, the 39-year-old Ramirez sat at a table and related his opinions about Chile with zealous enthusiasm.
He said he adamantly opposed the government of Augusto Pinochet, who marked his 13th anniversary as dictator of the South American country yesterday.
Guerrillas attempted to assassinate Pinochet on Sunday
ought. The event prompted Pinoche to declare a state of siege, giving Chilean police power to kill anyone involved in an uprising.
"I am not saying that Pinochet faked the attack," Ramirez said. "But I have close friends in the Chilean guerrilla movement. And believe me, they have no intention of killing Pinochet. That would solve nothing. It would create a hero out of him, and he doesn't deserve that."
In 1973, Pinochet overthrew Chilean president Salvador Allende, who ran the first Marxist government ever freely elected in the Americas. A Congressional investigation later discovered that the CIA had aided the coup.
"Pinochet knew there would be unrest on the day of his anniversary as dictator. He needed a reason to declare a siege, 'Ramirez said.' "The people have seen no solution to their problems. After 13 years of his repressive rule, the situation is only
worse."
Pinochet's secret police have killed, tortured, jailed and exiled 350,000 Chileans suspected of belonging to parties opposing his regime, Ramirez said.
Ramirez, a member of Popular Unity Government, a party with a moderate socialistic bent, said he was subjected to electrical shock and psychological torture. He said he was forced to watch while his wife and sister were raped in a Santiago torture house.
Ramirez spent one year in a Chilean concentration camp before the United States was able to arrange his exile and that of 3,716 other political prisoners in 1976.
Ramirez had friends in the Midwest and settled with his wife in Kansas City, Mo. He is an electrical engineer for St. Luke's Hospital there and spends his free time trying to make the public more aware of the Chilean situation.
"In order to keep the people from complaining, he has to repress and kill them," Ramirez said. "But the people never saw the improvements that those billions were supposed to have provided. Where are the new roads, the schools, the power plants?"
Ramirez said the United States had a strong motive to keep Pinochet in power because Pinochet was able to collect taxes to pay back more than $30 billion to foreign debtors, including banks in the United States.
'Check the banks in Switzerland and Miami, that's where the money is — in the accounts of Pinochet's friends, the rich people.'
Despite the atrocities Ramirez was exposed to in Chile, he said he wanted to return to his native country.
"I am not an American. I don't belong here. I belong in a poor country where I can make a big contribution," he said. "If I were to retire here, it would be to say I have no more hope for Chile."
Pinochet condemns democratic opposition
United Press International
SANTIAGO, Chile — Military President Augusto Pinochet, who imposed a state of siege after an assassination attempt on him Sunday, marked his 13th year in power yesterday by condemning the democratic opposition and foreign interference.
During his two-hour anniversary address to the nation, Pinochet accused the United States, Soviet Union and Roman Catholic Church of forming alliances and planning anti-government protests.
"The same people who tried to transform Chile into another Cuba today present themselves as the tameest of democrats." Pinochet said.
The nationally televised address came four days after leftist rebels tried to assassinate the 70-year-old general, who responded by declaring a state of siege. Authorities say 44 leftist leaders have been arrested.
At least three government opponents also have been murdered in the crackdown, six opposition magazines closed and two foreign news agencies,
British-owned Reuters and Italian ANSA, are baned from sending dispatches from Chile.
In his speech, Pinochet accused the Soviet Union of promoting a communist revolutionary uprising by supplying arms to the rebels who ambushed his motorcade Sunday with grenades and rockets, killing five guards.
Striking out at foreign interference, Pinochet referred particularly to the U.S. government, which has increased pressures on the military government to restore democracy.