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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Tuesday October 13,1987 Vol. 98,No.37
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
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Former governor Alf Landon dies
From staff and wire reports
TOPEKA — Alf Landon, the former Kansas governor whose presidential hopes ended with Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 landslide but who became the grand old man of the Republican Party, died yesterday afternoon at his home. He was 100.
Landon, the father of Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, once described himself as "a lawyer who never had a case, an oilman who never made a million and a presidential candidate who carried only Maine and Vermont."
He refused to be nettled about his epic loss and in later years gave his grandchildren ponies named for the two states he won.
"They might have forgotten me if it had been close," he once said.
Landon was hospitalized Sept. 28 at
Stormtorn-Vail Regional Medical Center after complaining of internal pain. He was treated for a galstones and worsened his shins before returning home Saturday.
Landon's wife, Theo, and housekeeper Rita Dwight said he simply stopped breathing at 5:25 p.m. at his home.
Kassebaum had been scheduled to speak last night in Hartford, Conn., but headed back to Topea after learning of her father's death.
Landon graduated from the University of Kansas in 1908 with a law
Last night, tributes to him poured in from around the state and nation.
Kansas Gov. Mike Hayden praised
their efforts, who "embodied the
soul of Kansas."
"Aff Landon was a great leader for his country, for his party and for his state," said Hayden, also a Republican. "As governor, he led Kansas through the stormy days of the Depression and kept the state on an even keel."
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole called Landon "a friend and mentor."
"He was a legendary Republican who taught generations of politicians what integrity and leadership were all about."
President Reagan issued a statement saying, "Alf Landon exemplified the very best in public service. He deeply loved his country, and he was motivated by a genuine desire to help his fellow man."
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for
"He was very faithful to KU and loved KU. He followed many of its activities, including sports, through the years. He loved to be where the action is and continued to be up until the time he died.
"I think his one hundredth birthday celebration was symbolic of the way he lived."
To celebrate that birthday, Landon received President Reagan and other guests at his home Sept. 6.
"Lots of people came to him and showed their respect for him," Brinkman said. "He was a gracious
man. I think that's part of the reason he endeared himself to so many people."
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said Landon's importance extended beyond the Republican party.
"He's meant a lot to the Republican Party, but more than that, he's meant a lot to the state of Kansas and to the whole country.
"Every politician would want to think he could affect the future in a positive way. Alf Landon has."
Chancellor Gene A. Budig said, the Universal Institute has lost 0.5 percent favored by Democrats.
Donald McCoy, University distinguished professor of history and
See LANDON, p. 6, col. 1
Former Gov. Alf M. Landon
MARGIN OF EXCELLENCE
The quality of an education at the University of Kansas is in jeopardy. Classes are packed, equipment is obsolete, teachers are overworked. Facing a crisis in confidence, KU is now seeking to reach a Margin of Excellence.
Regents seek extra financing
By NOEL GERDES
University of Kansas students would pay more tuition under the Margin of Excellence proposal, but they would be buying a better education, Chancellor Gene A. Budig said last week.
tution would increase 15 percent and non-resident undergraduate tuition would increase 36 percent.
Money for the improvements would come from tuition, the state general fund and revenues from the University of Georgia.
Margin of Excellence is the name of the three-year budget request that the Board of Regents plans to unveil today to state legislators in Topeka. Under the three-year proposal, resident undergraduate
"Students will pay more, but they will be purchasing an improved product," Budig said. "The University of Kansas will remain one of the best economic bargains in American higher education."
The proposal would bring in an extra 847 million during fiscal years 1988 to 1991 and improve education at the higher levels.
That means resident undergraduates at KU would pay about $85 more a semester in tuition by fall 1990. Non-resident undergraduates would pay about $95 more by then.
Specifically, Margin of Excellence would bring the schools' budgets up to 95 percent of the average budgets of their peer institutions. Faculty salaries would be increased to 100 percent of the peers' average faculty salary.
Stanley Koplik, Regents executive director, said that with Margin of Excellence, Regents schools would be able to hire and retain more teachers. Students would benefit from better research equipment and libraries, he said.
The Regents already have approved a 3 percent increase in resident undergraduate tuition and a 9 percent increase in non-resident undergraduate tuition for fall 1988.
About 14% would come from KU Medical Center.
KU feels peer pressure to improve
Bu MICHAEL HORAK
Richard Schowen's smile could not hide the concern in his voice.
"Some of my best and brightest colleagues are getting offers as much as 200 to 300 percent of their current salaries to leave for research field distinguished professor of chemistry and biochemistry.
"The ones that are staying are the ones with a real dedication to academic life," he said. "That is where, but they also have a limit."
That limit, Schowen fears, is quickly approaching for some faculty. "They can put up with waiting for more money and another six months. After that, I just don't know," he said.
At Strong Hall and across the state, education administrators are facing similar problems.
Margin of Excellence is a plan created by the state Board of Regents to counter the universities' faculty pay and financing problems. Statewide, the plan calls for an additional $47 million to be spent to improve the seven Regents schools. If approved by the Legislature, KU would get $1.8 million of that money over a three-year period beginning July 1, 1988.
"When we saw that we were below our peers in funding we had two choices — either we could get better or we could get worse," said Stanley Koplik, expert on the Regeneron "Getting wrong is not a耻辱."
Faculty pay scales are sagging, state allocations for basic research are declining and the universities are leaving state universities.
If approved by the Legislature,Margin of Excellence would bring faculty salary levels at KU to 100
KU's peers are five schools similar in size, scope and mission. They are the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University of Iowa, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Oregon-Eugene.
percent of the average at KU's peer institutions and would increase overall state financing of schools to 95 percent of their peers.
Half the money KU would receive from Margin of Excellence would be spent on increasing faculty salaries; the other half would be used to enhance academic programs by increasing money for KU
Comparisons with the 1986 budgets at KU's peers indicated that KU was financed $16 million less than their average.
Each Regents school has its own set of peers.
TOMORROW
See PEERS, p. 10, col. 4
How do students and faculty view education at KU7 Also, a look at the Resource Rescue Operation.
Thursday: Public schools are relying more on private contributions to pay the bills. A look at a growing dependency.
Lottery to kick off with $5,000 prize
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
TOPEKA — Ticket sales for the Kansas Lottery will begin Nov. 14, Larry Montgomery, executive director of the lottery, announced yesterday.
"I think this is to be a lot of fun," Montgomery said. "It's a joint effort to raise money for economic development." He added with some fun and entertainment."
Montgomery made the announcement at a ceremony at the Downtown Ramada Inn. Lt. Gov. Jack Walker opened the ceremony by removing a silver strip from a 3-foot-long lottery revealing the lottery's startup date.
The announced date is more than a month after the rough target date of Oct. 1 that lottery officials had been using in the spring and summer. But, Montgomery said, the average start date was nearly eight months.
In the first lottery game, titled "Scratch It Rich," players may buy $1 tickets and scratch off a latex covering to see whether they have won a prize. In that game, 145 of the tickets will contain $5,000 prizes. The odds that a ticket will yield a cash prize for that game will be one out of five. Montgomery said. Cash prizes will range from $2 to $5,000.
A $1,000 prize will be awarded for a non-winning ticket sold on the first day and picked in a drawing the first evening. So, even if a ticket doesn't
have a winning number, it could be a winner in the drawing.
Montgomery said that at 12:30 p.m. on the starting date, retailers would give out free tickets.
Montgomery also announced that, as part of the advertising campaign, the lottery would use the Isley classic song "SHOUT" for promotion.
Montgomery said that, as of last Friday, the agency had given approval to more than 2,000 retailers to sell lottery tickets. Lottery officials had originally said that at least 2,000 retailers would be necessary.
One of the places selling lottery tickets will be the Jayhawk Bookstore, 1420 Crescent Road, near the KU campus.
Montgomery said that setting up regional lottery offices and preparing a computer system were essential before starting the lottery. The regional offices are in Topeka, Great Bend, Wichita and Kansas City, Kan.
Lottery officials anticipate that ticket sales will bring in about $72 million in the first year of the lottery's operation. Thirty percent of that amount will go to the state. The officials estimate sales of $55.7 million for this fiscal year, which June 30.
The lottery was created by the Kansas Legislature during its 1987 session after voters hd approved, by a two-thirds margin, an amendment to the Kansas Constitution allowing a state-run lottery.
Staff writer
By MARK TILFORD
Punk rocker lashes at Reagan, censors
The hit list read like a who's who of the 1980s.
And when the dust cleared last night, Jello Biafra, lead singer for the now-defunct punk band The Dead Pink, wrote a song of about 250 were the only survivors.
"Shut up!" he shouted as he stepped on stage in a darkened Ruff-wrudd Auditorium in the Kansas Union, where he then trench coat and dark sunlasses.
See related photo p. 10.
"America is now under martial law," he said. "Anyone refusing to display embossed black velvet paint under Haig on their walls will be shot!"
Thus began an appearance that lasted more than three hours, with about two hours of Bifaf giving "spoken-word performances," one-man humorous skits victimizing U.S. conservatives.
Prisoners were not taken.
Biafra attacked the right wing, poked fun at patriotic institutions such as the United States Marine Corps and beat President Reagan like a gong.
"Are any of you here seniors?" he asked his diverse audience. "Have any of these corporate recruiters come around asking you to come work for them? Well, if they do, remember it; ask them if they're going to say you to take their cap. And if they say yes, you can just say no."
Biafra and four acquaintances were arrested June 2, 1986, for violating what he called an obscure California statute. They were charged with the distribution of harmful material to minors.
The arrest occurred because the band's latest album. "Franken-
christ," came with an erotic poster that shocked the mother of a 14-year-old girl. The mother complained to the priest, frequently put Bifra on trial this summer.
The trial ended in a mistrial because of a hung jury.
However, the poster can no longer be legally distributed with the abatement.
But the compact disc carries a leaflet with lyrics inside and a photograph of the poster.
"It was basically a set-up because The Dead Kennedys were a good target to pick on," said John Henderson of Pennylane Records and Tapes, 844 Massachusetts St. Pennylane sells the album without the poster and the compact disc with the photograph.
Asked if his store would sell the CD to minors, Henderson said, "Of course."
Biafra maintains he was victimized by the PMRC, a rock industry watchdog group, and its campaign to ban burning labels put on rock music covers.
"On the surface, I could see their point about some of the raunchy, really sexist music, but that's been part of rock and roll and other forms of music, including opera," he said. "I have seen a lot of people over an easy domino so people can get behind and campaign for more forms of censorship."
Audience members began to filter out as the evening grew late, but most staved to the end.
"It's pretty funny what he's saying
to everyone what he said Lawrence res-
ident."
Mangold had long blond hair, a white shirt and tattered canvas highon tennis shoes.
"I'm sure it's no more biased than anything else," he said. "Or anyone else."