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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL. 102, NO.32
TUESDAY,OCTOBER 6,1992
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College Republicans inoperative
Inactivity results from disorganization
By Kristy Dorsey
Kansan staff writer
In the midst of an election year, College Republicans has ceased to exist at the University of Kansas.
Ann Eversole, director of the Organizations and Activities Center, said the group had not registered with her office this fall. She said the center's last official contact with the group was on May 14 when the College Republicans submitted change-of-office and change-of-adviser forms.
Those forms named Justin Bailes, Derby junior, as executive chair, and David Kelsey, Lawrence freshman, as
vice-chair, Kendall Simmons, library associate, was listed as the group's adviser.
Eversole said her office had received several calls from students asking about College Republicans.
"They're wanting to connect with the group," she said. "We've had no information or contact from them since May 14. They haven't registered this year, and as you can imagine, in an election year, we've gotten quite a few inquiries."
"The main reason is that there are a lot of people on executive council that aren't students here anymore." Bailes said. He added that Kelsey, who was responsible for various organizational duties including registering the group, had dropped out of school last week.
remaining, including himself, did not have enough time to run the organization.
Bailes said the group broke down because several of the officers were no longer students at KU, and those
Bailes took over as chairperson last
"I've been very inactive," Bailes said. "I've been trying to find someone to take over the chair. Until we can find someone to reorganize the executive group, we're basically defunct."
David Paul, former treasurer for College Republicans, agreed that the group's present problems were an extension of last year's troubles. He said the current officers had not done a good job of running the organization.
spring when the former chairperson, Doug Brubaker, resigned after controversy about his admission that he paid members' dues before being elected last year.
"I think they got what they wanted,
that was to get Doug out, and they
let it slide from there," he said. "As far as I'm concerned, the organization doesn't exist. There's been some rumor that the state office will appoint officers if the inactivity continues, which it apparently will."
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Simmons, temporary adviser for College Republicans, said she had not heard from the group's officers since they first approached her last December. She said unless someone came forward to run the group, she would resign as adviser.
"This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever been involved in," she said. "They never named anybody else, and they never kept in touch with me, and I just kept assuming I was the adviser. I would love to know what I'm advising."
ASK begins final registration drive
Group expects 800 more to join 'Hawk the Vote'
By Stacy Morford Kansan staff writer
Associated Students of Kansas members averaged more than a voter a minute during the first day of their final voter registration drive yesterday morning in front of Wescoe Hall.
By noon, 100 Douglas County residents had registered to vote at the ASK table. When the group stopped registering people two hours later, that number had more than doubled to 232.
KU radio station KJHK broadcast live in front of Wescoe Hall and interviewed ASK members and students to publicize the event.
ASK co-directors John Schwartz and Kathryn Price said they were pleased with the high turn-out and expected the numbers to continue to rise throughout the week.
"I guess we've always assumed this was part of ASK's job," Schwartz said. "It a service to the students that someone has to do."
More than 20 ASK members were deputized by the Douglas County Clerk so they could register their peers to vote in the Nov. 3 election.
The "Hawk the Vote" registration drive began during KU's summer orientation. Schwartz said that more than 1,000 voters had already registered with ASK, and the group expected to register as many as 800 more this week.
"It just takes about five minutes —
it's the easy thing to do." Schwartz said, "All you need is a Lawrence student."
Mike Ward, Homewood, Jl., junior,
took three minutes after his 11:30
class ended and before his bus arrived
to register at the ASK table.
"It great that they have it set up on campus," Ward said. "Otherwise I don't know if I would have registered and then I was quick and easy — no pain at all."
He said he registered to vote in Lawrence two years ago, but he had re-register because he changed addresses in August.
"It's going to be a close election, and every vote is going to count with Perot coming in like this, so everyone should register and everyone should vote," Ward said.
Dan FitzGerald, Kansas City, Mo., junior, said he registered to vote when ASK was set up in front of Wescoe Hall two years ago, but his registration was canceled because he did not vote.
He said he did not think that his single vote would make any impact on the election's outcome anyway, but he felt that he did have a responsibility to cast a ballot.
"I'm registering again just for my conscience sake, and I hate George Browder."
Kansans have until Nov. 19 to register with the county clerk's office at the Douglas County Courthouse, 11th and Massachusetts streets.
ASK members will register voters from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. this week in front of Wescoe Hall, at 5:30 tonight at Ellsworth Hall and Hashing Hall and at 5:30 p.m. Thursday at McColum Hall. The last day of ASK's registration drive is Saturday.
Above, Jennifer LaMell. Lake Forest, ill., junior, assists Dorian Asch, St. Louis junior, as he举出 a voter-registration form. At left, students line up to register as part of an Associated Students of Kansas registration drive.
Coroner to look at bones
Lawrence police say case will be treated as homicide for now
By Joe Harder
Kansan staff writer
A scaled-back investigation continues into the unidentified human bones discovered a week ago by a University of Kansas student, police said yesterday.
A team of 11 Lawrence police investigators spent Friday afternoon and Saturday morning digging in the basement crawl space of the house in the 700 block of Connecticut Street where the bones were found. The team has been cut back to about four investigators, said Lawrence Police Chief Ron Olin.
In the meantime, the case will be treated as a homicide, he said.
"As far as I am aware there will be no more digging," he said in a news conference yesterday. "It is yet to be determined if they are the result of a crime."
"Any unexplained or unattended death we conduct as a homicide case until we determine that it's not," he said.
Sgt. Mark Warren of the Lawrence police said that the bones were scheduled to be turned over to the Douglas County coroner's office for further investigation.
"The FBI is not directly involved in this case," he said.
The Associated Press reported yesterday that Olin said the FBI was asked to assist in the investigation.
"There are probably very few investigations we do that don't involve the KBI or the FBI," he said.
Warren did not rule out the possibility of using the FBI's laboratory and expertise in analyzing the evidence.
Olin said that even if the evidence did point to a murder, the FBI would not be called in.
"At the present time, we have no evidence that this was a crime, and the FBI has no jurisdiction in this case," he said.
The bones were discovered by Ron Worley, Wichita junior, as he explored the crawl space in the basement of the four-apartment house he has lived in since Aug. 15.
Worley gave the bones to David Frayer, head of KU's anthropology department, who identified them as being of human origin and notified authorities Oct. 2. Frayer said that he examined about 15 bones, including bones from a left arm and hand and two lower-leg bones.
Frayer said that the state of decomposition of tissue still attached to the bones led him to believe that the tissue and bones had been there for less than two years.
Using the unions
The number of students using the Kansas and Burge Unions has remained the same this fall, despite construction at the Kansas Union, said Jim Long, director of the unions. But fewer students have visited the Student Union Activities box office and SUA Travel office since they moved from the Kansas Union to temporary facilities at Burge Union.
See story, Page 3.
Documenting his environment
From his early days in a street gang, Dan Williams wanted to be an art teacher. He made good on his dream and now uses his talent and experience to document the African-American culture.
Engineering school to use fee money to buy computers
See story, Page 5.
1990 fee increase will finance purchase of new Macintoshes
By Muneera Naseer Kansan staff writer
The KU School of Engineering will purchase new Macintosh computers with the $15-a-credit-hour equipment fee imposed on engineering students in Fall 1990. The computers will be used in the engineering laboratories.
Kansan staff writer
Nancy Skifer, director of the computing facilities in Learned Hall, said the use of the labs had increased because of the new equipment purchased in the two years from fee-generated money.
"There is a fantastic amount of use of our computers," she said.
Ken Pearce, assistant support person for the computer labs, said that about 12 to 15 new Macintosh computers that could process information faster than the current 20 Macintoshes would be purchased. One Macintosh costs $4,000 to $5,000, he said.
Pearce said the current equipment did not meet the demand for the computers.
Troy Downen, Wichita senior, said he was looking forward to the new computers.
Dowen said there were about 30 to 40 seniors with projects due every other week in his aerospace engineering design course.
"We have to share the 16 computers in this lab, one of which is not working right now," he said. "It gets pretty rushed. Everybody is printing out at the same time. Things get backed up."
Downen said there was often a line of students waiting to use the computers, even at 2 a.m. But he said he considered the money from the $15 fee to be well-spent on the current equipment. Those computers also were purchased from the $15 fee.
Grace Yee, Hong Kong senior and a computer lab monitor, said the new computers had reduced the waiting period for students. She said the only problem was that a lot of non-engineering students used the computer resources that engineering students had paid for.
"It's unfair," she said.
Yee said she found it hard to ask those students to leave the lab, which is for engineering students only.
▼ $120.000
Engineering fee revenue used for new computers
Money from the $15 per credit hour equipment fee imposed on engineering students in Fall 1990 was used to purchase new computers for engineering labs.
$120
(Part of 30 personal computers
(CPSPOS))
▼ $130.000
Cost of 20 engineering computers (486 workstation)
▼ $50.000
New Macintosh computers will be purchased with the remaining fee revenue
Dan Schauer / KANSAN