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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday November 12,1987 Vol.98,No.59
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Bells toll, guns fire at Veteran's Day ceremony
os wave in front of the American Legion Hall, 3408 W. Sixth St., in honor of Veterans Day.
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ROTC units others honor KU veterans
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer.
On the eleventh hour of the eleventh month in 1918, a treaty marking the end of World War I was signed. That day has been remembered every Nov. 11, first as Armistice Day, and now as Veterans' Day.
The University of Kansas had its own service yesterday to honor U.S. veterans. Members of the Army ROTC, Navy ROTC and Air Force ROTC, as well as members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, gathered for the second annual Veterans' Day memorial service at 11 a.m. at Potter Pavilion.
The brief service, organized this year by the Navy ROTC, began with the tolling of the Campanile bell. The Campanile is a memorial to veterans of World War II.
Navy ROTC Capt. Richard Shurts who spoke at the service, said the first Armistice Day was a celebration of the end of World War I.
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"But today is the day we honor those who have fought for their country," he said. "Veterans have left us a legacy of honor."
"Veterans' Day is a day of re-dedication to the principles of the armed forces; duty, honor and country. It is also a time for re-dedication to the principles of the United States, which are peace and freedom for all."
Shurts said that a look around the KU campus showed the tributes paid to war veterans. Memorial Stadium and the Kansas Union were built in honor of veterans of World War I. The Campanile and nearby Memorial Drive were built in honor of veterans of World War II, and the Vietnam Memorial was built last year in honor of veterans of that war.
Tom Berger, a program assistant in the executive vice chancellor's office and a veteran of the Vietnam War, told the crowd it was important to remember those who had died for their country. "Here we remember the price they paid," he said.
incorporate special reference to Vietnam veterans after these long years when they have often been ignored," Berger said later.
Berger said Veterans' Day should be a day for veterans of all wars. The inclusion of Vietnam veterans in services such as the one today is important to them, he said.
Berger fought in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. "I am particularly proud of the fact that we have been able to
"As America comes to grips with Vietnam, it's learning more and accepting more, and that makes these kinds of ceremonies important to me." he said.
KU's first Veterans' Day memorial service took place last year in conjuction with dedication ceremonies for the Vietnam Memorial. Shurts said the memorial service probably would be an annual event.
Members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars delivered a 21-gun salute at the close of the ceremony. Then taps were played.
Members of the KU Army ROTC, Navy ROTC and Air Force ROTC, along with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion, gather at Potter Pavilion to observe Veterans Day.
Reagan picks new nominee for court
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — After two failed attempts to put a hardline conservative on the Supreme Court, President Reagan nominated federal appeals judge Anthony M. Kennedy for the bench yesterday and dropped his partisan attacks against the Democratic-run Senate.
Reagan said that Kennedy, 51, had earned a good reputation as a jurist in his 12 years on the 9th circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
"He's popular with colleagues of all political persuasions." Reagan said. "And I know that he seems to be popular with many senators of varying political persuasions as well."
Kennedy is considered to be a moderate conservative and less ideologically rigid than Reagan's two earlier nominees, Robert H. Bork, who was defeated by the Senate, and Douglas H. Ginsburg, who quit after it was revealed that he had smoked marijuana.
The new choice drew favorable comments from Democratic and Republican senators across the political spectrum.
Reagan said he would not actually submit Kennedy's nomination until completion of a full-field FBI background check, which could take weeks.
The president abandoned his earlier promise to give the Senate a nominee that "they'll object to just as much" as Bork, his first candidate, who was rejected on a 58-42 vote.
"Sometimes you make a facetious remark and somebody takes it seriously and you wish you'd never said it," Reagan said.
Choosing Kennedy appeared to be a clear effort to end a politically embarrassing episode for Reagan, who once said that winning Bork's confirmation was his No. 1 domestic priority.
Amonnaming any pretense of confrontation with the Senate over filling the vacancy, the president said. "The experience of the last several months
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Panel argues pros, cons of 'Star Wars'
Special to the Kansan
Bv MICHAEL CAROLAN
President Reagan's "Star Wars" defense strategy was both praised and criticized by three panelists at a discussion last night at the Kansas Union.
"Star Wars," which is officially known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, is a cruel hoax as a defensive weapon, said John O'Brien, professor of systematics and ecology.
The Soviets know we can't work out a perfect defense system, but with 20 to 30 satellites, we can have a powerful offensive weapon.
— John O Brien professor of systematics and ecology
Current technology won't allow the United States to defend itself against all Soviet weapons, O'Brien said. But, the United States could go on the offensive, place several satellites over Soviet missile fields, launch an attack, and then destroy Soviet missiles as they left their silos.
"The Soviets know we can't work out a perfect defense system, but with 20 to 30 satellites, we can have a powerful offensive weapon," he said.
Jan Roskam, professor of aeronautical engineering, said that the United States currently didn't have the communications ability to reach a 99 percent accuracy rate for destroying incoming missiles with SDI. But future technology can make that possible, he said.
He also said that other options, such as high-altitude aircraft equipped with laser weapons, could be cheaper and still serve
the same defensive function. Such options need to be researched, he said.
Lt. Col. Dennis Quinn, of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, called the SDI system a defensive and moral strategy.
U. S. nuclear strategy has long been based on the concept of mutual assured destruction, he said. That concept assumes that the United States and the Soviet Union would not attack one another knowing that retaliation would be certain and catastrophic.
That strategy places an empiosis on taking lives rather than saving them, a strategy Quinn described as immoral.
Faculty to vote on union issue next week
The discussion, presented by the KU Coalition for Peace and Justice, followed two films, one supporting SDI and one against it.
He said he could not understand how groups that claimed to favor peace could not support a program that would save lives.
Another member asked whether the United States would regard it as a threat if the Soviet Union developed a similar anti-missile defense system.
Another member of the audience complained that scientists received the highest-paying job among military personnel, instead of non-military research.
Roskam agreed but said that the United States had to have a credible defense against its adversaries.
A member of the audience asked whether there was any political situation in which nuclear weapons should be used.
A forum for questions from the 60-member audience followed the panelists' views.
The panelists all said they were opposed to the use of nuclear weapons in any situation.
O'Brien said that both nations, under current treaties, were not supposed to deploy any anti-missile defense system.
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
When five KU faculty members took the first step toward collective bargaining in 1975, a union probably was one of the last things on Robert Hohn's mind.
"I had just become an associate professor. Like most younger professors, my mind was on publications and trying to get promoted." Hohn, KU professor of educational psychology and research, said recently.
But 12 years later, Hohn finds himself on the front lines of the union movement at KU, urging his colleagues to give collective bargaining a try.
Tom Madden, organizing director with the Kansas National Education Association, spurred the recent movement to form a union when he and volunteers from the KU chapter of NEA collected enough signatures on petitions last January to call a faculty union election.
About 1,000 KU faculty members will vote Tuesday and Wednesday whether to form a union represented by KU-NEA, a union represented by the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors or no union. If none of the three options receives a majority of votes, then there will be a run-off election between the two highest voter getters.
Hohn, chairman of KU-AAUP's committee on collective bargaining, said he began to consider collective bargaining seriously after he attended a national AAUP convention in June.
Collective bargaining is negotiation for a contract between an employer and a union representing employees.
"It was an eye-opener," Hohn said. "There were professors involved in collective bargaining who didn't feel divisive or hurting their universities."
Also, Hohn, like many KU faculty members, said he was tired of the University's "constant falling behind financially."
Low salaries, eroding health insurance benefits and heavier workloads have forced many faculty members, who traditionally thought unions were inappropriate in higher education, to reconsider their positions.
Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part series about next week's faculty union vote.
Today: The issues and history behind the vote
■ Monday: What KUNEA, KU-AUP and KU Independent Faculty want faculty to know.
Tomorrow: The changes a union might bring.
The solution, faculty members agree, is more money from the state. The question is how to go about setting it.
KU-NEA and KU-AAUP spokesmen urge their colleagues to vote next week in favor of a faculty union.
A union would give faculty an equal voice in decisions that affect them, they said, and a union would be able to communicate to state legislators the financial needs of the faculty better than either the KU administration or the Board of Regents.
"Funding is available." Madden said. "It just depends on priorities."
But Marion "Pat" Bickford, professor of geology, and other members of KU Independent Faculty disagree. KU Independent Faculty formed in mid-September expressly to oppose a faculty union.
Bickford argues that unions are adversarial by nature and would create unnecessary rifts between the faculty and the KU administration.
He said the way to get more money from the Legislature was to let the traditional lobbyists lobby. Kansas is a conservative, right-to-work state. A union most likely would not pull much weight with state legislators, he said.
In a right-to-work state, law prohibits unions from forcing employees to join
"If the Regents keep trying, sooner or later the Legislature will under-
Union organization began here in 1975
Staff writer
By NOEL GERDES
Collective bargaining may seem like a new issue on college campuses, but it didn't spring up overnight.
The first faculty union on a U.S. campus was organized at the City University in New York City in 1969. Since then, about one-sixth of the nation's 3,200 colleges and universities have organized faculty unions, according to a report from a 1986 KU ad hoc committee on collective bargaining.
KU's faculty union movement began in 1975 when five faculty members petitioned the state Public Employee Relations Board to determine who would be eligible to join a union.
The board determined that professors, associate professors, assistant professors, instructors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, curators and scientists with at least half-time appointments were eligible. Also, full-time assistant instructors and full-time teaching associates who teach at least one regularly scheduled class may join
Those who are not eligible to join are people with titles that include the words chancellor, dean, director, general counsel, department chairman, department head or student health physician. Most graduate teaching assistants also are not eligible.
The School of Law contested inclusion, and in 1979 the board decided to exclude them from
union eligibility.
stand what's happening," Bickford said.
A no-union option is automatically on the ballot.
Then the union issue didn't go to a vote.
KU-AAUP later collected about 400 signatures on a separate petition to earn its own place on the election ballot.
However, last January, Madden and volunteers from KU-NEA collected about 440 signatures on a petition to call for a union election with KU-NEA on the ballot. By law, a group must submit signatures at of least 30 percent of the people eligible to join a union in order to call an election.
After 1979, talk of unions died down until Tom Madden, an organizing director from K-NEA, came to Lawrence in February 1986. Madden then met with the executive committee of KU-AAUP, which told him there hadn't been enough interest among KU faculty to organize a union.
Since then, each group has run a mostly low-key campaign, holding forums and inviting speakers to try to convince faculty to vote KUNEA or KU-AAUP. In mid-September, KU Independent Faculty formed specifically to oppose a faculty union, providing organized opposition to the proposed union.
But some faculty members, such as Margaret Arnold, associate professor of English, are tired of waiting for long-promised salary increases. She is willing to try a union, despite arguments from KU Independent Faculty that a union would be unprofessional.
If KU faculty decide to form a union, they will be the second Board of Regents school to do so. K-NEA has represented the faculty at Pittsburg State University since 1974.
"It's making ourselves like coal miners, and we like to think that we're above all that," Arnold said. "But we're really not."
Next week, the campus will find out whether other faculty members agree.