CAMPUS/AREA
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, October 7, 1992
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Take a breath
Paul Kotz / Special to the KANSAN
Daniela Daggy, Bedford, Ind., senior, swims practice laps during the KU Triathlon and Swim Club meeting at Robinson Center. The club, headed by Sean Fo land, Coffeerville senior, meets 7:30 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday at Robinson Center.
KU Republicans look to regroup
By Muneera Naseer
Kansan staff writer
By Muneera Naseer
College Republicans at the University of Kansas want to reactivate their organization on campus.
An informal meeting was held last night at Anschutz Science Library by seven members who are trying to move the organization forward.
Scot Hill was appointed acting chairperson and Kevin Admiral acting vice-chairperson for the organization. They plan to register the organization with the Organizations and Activities Center today.
An organizational meeting at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday will hold elections for the chairperson and vice-chairperson positions and for six chairpersons for the organization committees. A meeting place will be announced. Voting members will pay a $3 fee, of which $2 will go to the parent organization, the Kansas Federation of College Republicans, and $1 will go to College Republicans for events and operating expenses.
interested in the Republican cause in order to unify under one organization and not break up into several organizations on campus.
Admiral said he wanted people
David Olson, previous chairperson, said that to say College Republicans was a dead organization was a misnomer, referring to a Kansan article from yesterday. He said the organization had been dormant because of a lack of contact between the board members and the members last year.
Analysts say new cable law may not lower rates
"We don't have a preset agenda or plans mapped out," Olson said, adding that the organization wanted student input in reorganizing.
By KC Trauer
Kansan staff writer
Justin Bailes, former College Republicans chairperson, said he received several calls yesterday from people who wanted to replace positions in the organization. He considered that a positive sign in rejuvenating the organization.
One interested person, Manny Ortiz,
Condado, Puerto Rico sophomore,
called the current state of the Republic
organization on campus "pifull" and
said he would like to help make
the organization a reliable once again.
Congress on Monday overrode President Bush's veto of the cable television regulation bill designed to protect cable customers from soaring cable rates.
A newly enacted law regulating cable television rates may not significantly cut customers' cable bills, some analysts say.
Both houses of Congress voted by a 3-1 margin to enact the bill over Bush's veto in a vote that featured
Backers of the act said the average monthly cable rate increased 29 percent, or almost three times the increase in the Consumer Price Index, since the cable industry was last regulated in 1986.
Douglas Houston, associate professor of business at KU, said consumers still could lose if cable operators
support from members of both parties, including Kansas Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum.
David Lordener, a cable industry analyst, said, "cable prices are going to rise less rapidly than they have in the past."
"I believe on balance this is a good bill," Kassebauer said. "While I do not anticipate major rate reductions, this legislation will help stimulate competition and help hold down future rate increases."
Both cable industry advocates and independent analysts agree with Kassebaum's sentiment that regulators should not spur cable rate rollbacks.
reduced the number of channels they offered through their basic cable package while charging the same rates.
"I think what you'll see is that the quality of programming won't be higher, but the prices will be just as high," Houston said.
Ed Bolen, legislative assistant to Kassbeaum, said the new law required cable operators to carry certain programming in their basic packages, such as network programming and government channels.
If cable operators charge too much for extended basic service — including such channels as ESPN, MTV and CNN — the Federal Communications Commission could order a cut in rates. Bolen said.
Bolen said the law would increase
competition in cable markets by regulating monopolies that keep potential cable delivery systems such as satellite and microwave operators out of those markets.
Lynne Dalton of the U.S. Independent Microwave Television Association, the principal competitor to the cable companies, said, "We will see lower prices in the long run, once competition comes in."
But Houston said that he doubted satellite or microwave operators could become significant competitors in the phone companies, the cabie industry's only significant challenger, from competing.
The Associated Press contributed information to this story.
Low Lawrence cable rates
Cable operators will soon be subject to regulation of the equipment they charge their customers. The only cable company in Lawrence has the least expensive basic rate contract to cable companies in the more competitive market of Kansas City.
Telecable Jones American Sunflower
Source: KANSAN staff research
Phelps to come back to KU for appearance on KJHK
By Lynne McAdoo
Kansan staff writer
Fred Phelps is coming back to the University of Kansas, and some students are preparing for the visit.
the Topelia pastor, known for his outspoken beliefs about homosexuals, is scheduled to appear on "The Voice" and 4 p.m. tomorrow on KHR radio.
Some KU students and members of Phelps' congregation demonstrated when he appeared Sept. 29 on KJHKS "Think About It."
Troy Alldaffer, co-director of Gay and Lesbian Services Of Kansas, heard John Davidson, known as John Boss, on the radio encouraging students to protest Phelps's appearance. Alldaffer decided to contact student organizations about a peaceful protest.
But Aldlaffer said he did not want the protest to be seen as an effort to keep Phelps from speaking his mind.
"He helps us reach the indifferent," he said. "I am glad he is coming. I encourage him."
Phelps said that he agreed to do the show because he was asked and that the protest would not keep him from coming to Lawrence.
"Ive got things to say," he said.
"And when a person has things to say and someone asks him to talk, it a win-win situation.
"We have a few people coming. There's a nice boulevard with sidewalks that's good for picketing. We are used to it. That's what makes it interesting."
The executive board of AURH discussed the protest at its meeting last night and supported the idea.
Alldafer contacted Women's Student Union, Native American Student Association, Hillel and the University of Hall's Residence Hall.
arrange car pools to the station.
"I want a mob," he said. "I think that's what radio is all about, is stirring things up."
Alldaffar said he hoped the protest showed Phelps that it was not the gay and lesbian community who supported him but the whole campus.
"It's for the support of campus diversity." he said.
KJHK plans to have another minister on the show who will dispute Phelps' claim that a person can be a Christian and hate homosexuals, said Jonathan D'April, producer of "The John Boss Show."
Davidson said he wanted Phelps on the show because he was entertaining.
"Have you ever heard the Klan on Oprah?" he said. "Don't you just laugh?"
"The more you let people like Fred Phelps talk, the more idiotic they sound," Davidson said.
Professors refuse Senate service
No political scientist to be commissioner in student elections
By Stacy Morford
Kansan staff writer
Student Senate found only slamming doors in the political science department this semester as it searched for a political science professor to serve on its elections commission.
The commission, which was designed to be an objective committee to oversee Senate elections and elect replacement senators, traditionally consists of three undergraduate students, one graduate student, two law students, one representative from the Office of Student Life and one political science faculty member
But Kristin Lange, student executive chairperson, could not find any political science professors who would accept the position.
Lange said she called several professors after Ken Collier, who represented the department on the commission last year, declined the position. She said that one professor yelled at her
for 15 minutes and said that not only would he not do it but that he also did not know anyone in the department who would accept the position.
Collier, an associate professor of political science, said he would be too busy working on his thesis during the spring semester to attend the commission's weekly meetings.
"It's a pretty intense commitment of time, I think that was part of the problem," he said.
Collier said that he did not think the commission would suffer without a professional member and that having another student member could only improve it.
"I hate to say that we don't make any difference," he said. "But I'm really not any better tuned in to what people on campus want than anybody else. It's just that I've got a little more experience with these kinds of rules.
"Students get little enough input on campus anyway that there's really no reason why they should only do it under our supervision."
Only professor Allan Cigler said he would work on the commission, but he said he would only do it if Lange could not find anyone else to take the position. He suggested that Senate recruit a political science graduate
Cigler recommended Carey Ewing, a Topeka graduate student working on a master's degree in American politics and comparative political science.
student to do the job instead.
"It will be interesting to see how the elections are run first hand," Ewing said. "That will be a good experience I can draw on later as a professor."
The senators approved an amendment to the rules and regulations at their last meeting to allow political science to send a graduate student instead.
"I could have easily called the head of the department and said 'Look, I need a faculty appointment,' Lange said. "But I would rather have a well-qualified enthusiastic grad student than a well-qualified faculty member who did not want to be there."
Lange said that she still wanted faculty representation on the elections commission to continue, and she suggested looking for a faculty member in another department.
"But right now we really need to get the commission started," she said. "We needed it last week."
The commission's first meeting will be tomorrow.
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