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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday November 11,1987 Vol.98,No.58
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Gephardt stresses free trade policy
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Rep. Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., talks about his **Reps."** Gephardt spoke yesterday during a brief news conference at plans to start a campaign headquarters in Kansas City by looking for "Gep" Downtown Airport
Presidential campaign reaches K.C.
By VIRGINIA McGRATH Staff writer
Gephardt shorthold to about 100 University of Missouri-Kansas City students in a speech sponsored by the UMKC Economic Club. Gephardt also attended a private fund-raiser in Kansas City.
Gephardt said the United States needed a trade policy that was open and anti-protectionist. The United States, he said, needs to negotiate with countries that have unfair trade policies to encourage them to pursue more open policies.
An open trade policy must be coupled with excellence in manufacturing and production in the United States. Gehardt said.
"Even if we get the markets open, we still have to produce as good a product as the competition and still maintain a decent standard of living," Gephardt said.
One way to reach that excellence is to have the most educated people in the world, Gephardt said.
"If we're going to pay our workers $15 an hour compared to the $2 an hour Taiwanese workers are the workers need to be worth it," he said.
Gephardt listed three ways to reach excellence in manufacturing and production. He said that workers must be educated and welltrained; that money should be spent on research and development so the United States can be on the leading edge of technology; and that management efficiency must be improved.
lence in manufacturing, we need to learn from the Japanese, and we need a president willing to bring management and labor together.
"It in manufacturing in America, management has been more deficient than efficient. We need business schools to be teaching excel-
"After we've done all that, we'll need a little bit of luck," he said.
The quest for leadership capable of accomplishing such measures is what the 1988 presidential campaign is all about, Gephardt said.
At a news conference before the speech, Gephardt announced his appointment of Kansas City attorney Marsha J. Murphy as deputy manager of his Missouri campaign.
Gephardt said his campaign was concentrating on February primaries in Iowa and New Hampshire, and on Super Tuesday, March 8, when more than 20 states will have primaries or caucuses.
"We'll be making hit-and-run strikes into Iowa and New Hamshire," Gephardt said. He is soliciting supporters, whom the campaign has digedep Hubes, to go
door to door seeking support in Iowa.
Gephardt was the first Democrat to announce his candidacy in the 1988 presidential race. He announced Feb. 23 in St. Louis.
City rejects KU rep
Panel also OKs more parking in complex
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG Staff writer
The Lawrence City Commission last night rejected a proposal to place a KU student on the commission and modified a plan for additional parking at Colony Woods apartments.
John Cissell, chairman of the Student Senate student life subcommittee, said that having a KU representative sit on the commission as a non-voting member would open the lines of communication between the student body and the city government.
Kira Gould, a member of the University Affairs committee, had already been designated by Student Senate as the representative.
"We want the communication line because we have 26,000 students living here but are really not represented." Cissell said.
KU students would feel more comfortable voicing their concerns to the commission if there were a KU student seated. Currently, Cassell said, students don't voice their opinions.
Commissioner Bob Schumm said, "I don't agree there is a good line of communication." Schumm noted that two commissioners, Mike Rundle and Dennis Constance, are employed by the University.
But City Commissioners weren't so sure.
Mayor Mike Amyx said, "The City Commission is always open to the student body — any concerns that they have."
Commissioner Sandra Praeger said she thought it was a good idea for a KU student to be a part of the meetings, but that taking that idea one step further by reserving a seat was not necessary.
Several commissioners said they were concerned that other interest groups also would want a seat on the commission.
Although commissioners encouraged Gould to attend city meetings and to voice student opinions, they were leery of adding another seat.
But Cissell argued that students, unlike interest groups composed of Lawrence residents, were not particularly interested in them often were registered to vote in their
hometowns. For the four or so years that students live in Lawrence, they need to be represented, he said.
Amyx said it was students' responsibility to make their views heard. He said city staff would start sending commission agendas and calendars to Gould and encouraged her to speak on issues important to students.
The Colony Woods parking dilemma also make a return to the commission floor last night when the complex's attorney, Ed Collister, made his pitch for 78 more parking spaces at the development, home to almost 900 KU students.
Collister proposed extending the pavement three feet to the south so that there would be room for 31 perpendicular parking spaces. The commission approved that idea, but rejected his plan for 47 additional spaces within the development, in areas now reserved for landscaping.
Because students are resisting parking in remote lots, many are parking illegally in an area on the south edge of the development. Because of fire lane requirements, signs remind tenants that only parallel parking is allowed on the southern edge. But, to get more cars in, students are continuing to park diagonally.
Commissioners said Colony Woods management needed to be more creative in encouraging students to park only in designated areas, by using measures such as stricter enforcement and rebate incentives.
Colony Woods has had several confrontations with the commission, dating back to early September. Because of problems with signs and landscaping and the lack of parking, some commissioners were annoyed by Colony Woods' continued noncompliance with city ordinances.
Commissioner Dennis Constance said the commission needed to address a larger issue of allowing employees with inadequate planning.
Schumm said, "We keep getting the same stuff up here, and I'm getting tired of people not cooperating with what we want to do."
See CITY, p. 6, col. 1
"It's like putting too much furni
Professor endeavors to discover what makes the hornworm tick
By JENNIFER ROWLAND Staff writer
Gerrit de Boer, assistant professor of entomology, stood at a black counter in Haworth Hall yesterday afternoon, looking for one of several tobacco hornworms that were feeding on leaves of a tomato plant.
"These are the ones you find in your back yard," said the 6-foot-4 professor, picking up a tiny limegreen hornworm and putting it on his index finger.
De Boer, in his first semester at University of Kansas, is researching the feeding habits of the tobaccoorm,称 Manduca sexta in Latin.
Chris Roesner/KANSAN
De Boer said his research focused on the chemicals the hornworm looked for in food, how it detected these chemicals, which organs were needed to sense the food, and what signals were sent to the brain from those organs.
The taste and smell organs for the hornworm are hairs on the insect's head, near the mouth opening.
Gerrit de Boer, assistant professor of entomology, examines a tobacco borrowm
"How does the brain know that this is a tomato plant and this is not a tomato plant?"
"This insect is selective in its feeding, and that's one of the things I'm studying," he said.
"I'm using this particular insect as a model for other plant-eating insects."
De Boer said hornworms were used for the research because they were easy to take care of. They don't require a certain temperature or humidity to survive, and research had been conducted on the hornworm, making it a familiar specimen, he said.
De Boer receives about 300 hornworm eggs each week from the U.S. Department of Agriculture laboratory in Bellsville, Md., and he studies about 10 to 15 hornworms every 10 days.
The insect feeds on nightshade plants, which include tomato plants, tobacco plants, potato plants, egg plants and some wild weeds.
De Boer said one method of research was to put the hornworm in a plastic jar with alternating leaf
specimens to test which ones the insect would eat.
In one example, de Boer said the hornworm had eaten a tomato leaf rather than a radish leaf.
Hormorns grow to be $2\frac{1}{2}$ inches long and live three to four weeks before transforming into a moth that is about the size of a hummingbird, de Boer said.
Once the hornworm becomes a moth, it lays its eggs only on nightshade plants, another behavior de Boer is researching.
De Boer's research also includes training hornworm specimens to eat a certain plant, and then testing the
See WORM, p. 6, col. 1
Lottery opening only one day away
Several outlets plan to compete to sell first ticket
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
In Lawrence, the Jayhawk Bookstore is trying to be first with a promotion called "Late Night with JBS."
The Kansas Lottery will begin tomorrow as tickets go on sale around the state. And the race is on for some lottery outlets to sell Kansas' first lottery ticket
"The big prize is for the right to be the first purchaser of a lottery ticket in Kansas," he said.
Bill Muggy, the owner and manager of Jayhawk Bookstore, said that the store would open at 10:06 p.m. and would hold drawings for prizes.
The big prize is for the right to be the first purchaser of a lottery ticket in Kansas.
Bill Muggy
Owner and manager
of Javhawk Bookstore
He said that at one second past midnight, the winner would buy the ticket, and then other counters would open for ticket sales.
Muggy isn't the only merchant in the state trying to be first. Nancy Zogleman, director of public information for the Kansas Lottery, said that many ticket outlets were doing something similar, and that there would no way to find out who actually sold the first ticket.
But she added. "It's a great idea to create excitement about the lottery."
The 30 percent that the state gets is further divided. Ten percent will be used to help alleviate overcrowded prisons, with an emphasis on building new juvenile detention centers. Thirty percent of the state's share will go towards county expenses for house and property reappraisals. Sixty percent is slated for state economic development.
Forty-five percent of the money from ticket sales will go toward prizes, 25 percent will go toward the cost of sales and 30 percent will go to the state.
Zogleman said that economic development included improving the quality of life in addition to expanding business developments.
Not everyone is positive about the lottery. State Rep. Betty Jo Charlton voted against the lottery in the Legislature, but said yesterday that she wished it well even though she didn't like it.
KU students have a variety of views on the lottery.
"I think we should have one." Chris Otto, Overland Park freshman said. "Mouriou already has one. It would bring revenue to Kansas."
Lynda Garney, Kansas City, Mo., sophomore, said, "I've bought less than five tickets in my life. I think the chances of winning are slim."
According to the Kansas Lottery, the overall chances of winning are about one out of five. The game is called Up and Away. As the lottery gets underway tomorrow, the lottery will offer an instant-winner game. Later, a computerized game will be offered without instant winners, but with larger prizes.
In the instant game, players buy lottery tickets for $1 and scratch a latex coating off until six dollar amounts are revealed. If three identical amounts show on one ticket, it is an instant winner.
The winner returns the ticket to the retailer it was purchased from if the prize is a free ticket, a $2 prize or a $10 prize.
If the prize is $50, $500 or $,500 the winner fills out the back of the ticket and then completes a claim form. The ticket is stapled to the claim form and mailed to the Kansas Lottery offices in Topeka. The grand prize is $100,000.