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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday September 9,1987 Vol.98,No.13
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Reunion begins with a blast
By JULIE McMAHON Staff writer
See related story p. 9.
Those at the Kansas Union ballroom last night might not have known much about the poets scheduled to read before they took the stage, but afterward the crowd had Andrei Codrescu and Anne Waldman firmly impressed upon its mind.
The poets read from their works for about 45 minutes to an enthusiastic crowd of about 250. Even though both poets have had long,
See POETS, p. 6, col. 1
Anne Waldman reads a selection of her poetry "Crack In the World" at the first night reading of the River City Reunion in the Kansas Union Ballroom. Andrei Codrescu, a native Romanian who arrived in the United States in the early 1960s, also recited selections of his poetry last night.
Bennett wants criteria based on student efforts
By JENNIFER ROWLAND
Staff writer
Accreditation of colleges, universities and postsecondary schools should be based more on student achievement than on library resources or faculty Ph.D.s. Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said Saturday.
But many local educators said that student achievement has long been a part of the accreditation process, and it is important for students with library and technical resources.
KU was accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, based in Chicago. In June 1985, it received a 10-year accreditation, the maximum given to a university.
Four areas were considered for accreditation: the quality of academic programs, financial stability, and the strength of student and support services, including physical plant services.
Last week, Ronald Kimberling, the U.S. Department of Education's assistant secretary for postsecondary education, said that Bennett's proposal cited student achievement such as job placement and receiving certificates and degrees as being necessary for accreditation.
Federal money for universities, such as student aid and federal education program allowances, depends on accreditation.
Shankel, who works as part of an on-site accreditation team that visits various universities once or twice a year, said the accrediting process involved evaluating libraries, but not necessarily just counting books.
Del Shankel, professor of biochemistry and a consultant evaluator for North Central, said Bennett's company did not affect the accreditation process.
"We don't do bean counting." Shankel said with a laugh. "It's more 'Does the institution have the resources, the books to do a quality job of whatever it's decided its mission is?""
He said one of the team's duties was to make sure university catalogs and recruiting material accurately described each school's programs.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that most accreditation procedures already considered the student achievement factor. Bennett was making a point to emphasize student learning, but there were many factors necessary for an effective education. Brinkman said.
"I don't think it should be based on any one thing; it should be a combination." Brinkman said. "All of it has to be considered together."
Joe Semrow, associate director of North Central, said the agency considered the academic goals in student coursework set by faculty.
See EDUCATE, p. 6, col. 1
Highway plan not forgotten
Hayden emphasizes positive results of special session
Staff writer
By KIRK ADAMS
Gov. Mike Hayden, speaking in Lawrence just three days after his special legislative session broke up in failure, said he would work again next session to gain approval for his massive highway proposal.
And he thinks the plan will have a good chance of passing next time,he said.
ledgeable about the state's highway needs, he said.
"The fact is that it is inevitable that the Legislature will address the needs of Kansans and make the necessary changes in the future." Hayden said.
Although the Legislature did not pass any type of highway bill, the session did make citizens more know-
The special session, the first called in 21 years, ended Saturday afternoon after the House overwhelmingly defeated a compromise bill. Hayden had initially proposed a $1.7 billion highway maintenance plan that would before the state's crumbling highways and help its economically depressed areas.
About 150 people listened to Hayden early yesterday morning during a Lawrence Chamber of Commerce meeting in Seventh and Massachusetts streets.
"Our infrastructure is in terrible, terrible condition," he said.
terrible condition," he sau.
In 22 months, the state will no longer be able to match federal money available for state highway improvements and thus lose that money. In 2015, the state will not have enough money to do even minimal highway upkeep, Hayden said.
Hayden asked the Lawrence residents present to imagine the University of Kansas without Memorial Stadium or Fraser Hall, or Lawrence without Interstate 70 or the Kansas turnpike.
In addition to highways, Hayden said he would concentrate next session on the state's budget difficulties and its bid to become the site of a proposed federal Superconducting Super Collider, a 92.8-mile diameter that would be the largest in the world and would cost $4.4 billion.
He said the state's economy was on an upswing, and although not making rapid gains, was doing better than experts had predicted. But if Kansas were picked as the construction site for the super collider, the state's economy would benefit greatly, he said.
The state submitted its bid to the federal Department of Energy last week.
Hayden said he was hopeful that the state had a good chance of being
awarded the super collider
"We've got the right physical characteristics to be very competitive," he said. "I think we have an excellent opportunity, and I think we put together the very best proposal that we could."
Next year, the state will commit at least $16 million to strengthen its super collider proposal. So far, the state has spent about $250,000 toward the bid. If the state did receive the project, the Legislature would have to commit about $60 million to buy and construct roads, Hayden said.
Hayden also mentioned several other recent legislative achievements, especially those that benefited KU.
He said he was proud that the Legislature had released excess fees to KU last spring. He also praised the University of Kansas Medical Center, in Kansas City, Kan., for being in good financial condition.
He said he also was enthusiastic about a new Board of Regents program for alcohol and drug abuse that he said would help identify students on campus who needed counseling. Hayden said the new program would promote rehabilitation over punishment, which he said had been shown to be counter-productive to persons with drug or alcohol problems.
City incorporates state drinking law
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
Staff writer
The city can now prosecute any liquor law violations in municipal court. The state's new liquor law requires that 1, only the state had enforced them.
The Lawrence City Commission last night incorporated the new state law legalizing liquor by the drink in Kansas into the city code.
One of two approved amendments to the city code requires that caterers, Class A clubs, drinking establishments and temporary permit holders be licensed in addition to those establishments already included in city code. KU sororites or fraternities that serve alcohol may receive admission are included in the temporary permit holders classification.
The second amendment deletes a previous ban of those under 21 entering bars after 8 p.m. The old law made enforcement difficult because only the licensee and the minor were entered after 8 p.m. But now if the minor is drinking, both the minor and the licensee are liable.
Although the state law that also requires a temporary license has been in effect for several months, that license must be obtained from both the city and the state seven days in advance. A temporary permit costs $25 a day.
Mike Wilden, assistant city manager, said that if a drinking establishment had a band and had a cover-up for their drinks, they would not drink soft drinks and not be in violation.
The second amendment also added churches to the ordinance that previously had restricted the location of drinking establishments only near schools. It defined "near" as within 400 feet and allowed the city to grant waivers of the distance requirement.
Statesman has seen a century
In other action, commissioners:
"Unanimously approved a sign vignance request for Colony Woods, 1301 W. 24th St. The apartment complex owner, Randall Davis, had constructed, without city approval, two ground-mounted signs on the property, which include the business's address and phone number, in addition to a wall sign.
City code limits apartments to only one wall sign — with only the business name — not larger than 90 square feet. Commissioners allowed Colony Woods to keep the two signs, 24 square feet each, with the stipulation that it remove the wall sign and not construct any other signs.
But Commissioner Dennis Constance noted that this type of after-the-fact OK was not the way the commander was meant to be enforced.
Colony Woods will face the commission again next Tuesday for approval of site plan changes. Colony Woods constructed about 100 additional parking spaces last week without city approval. City and apartment officials said there was confusion about city approval.
Unanimously approved the final plat of the Sanctuary Addition, 1401 W. 7th St., which clears the way for owner Ace Johnson to transform the house and sell the adjacent lots where 81 apartments are being built.
Landon today can look back on 100 years of fighting for his beliefs
By MICHAEL MERSCHEL Staff writer
Alf Landon turns 100 today, marking a century in the life of a man who, although best remembered for losing a presidential race, also is remembered as a man of integrity who fought for the causes he believes in.
Donald McCoy, University distinguished professor of history and author of the biography "Landon of Kansas," said Landon's most important accomplishments were in how he promoted and lived by his beliefs in the U.S. Constitution.
When it wasn't fashionable to do so, Landon believed strongly that even minorities and people with radical political views deserved the rights guaranteed in the Constitution, such as the right to vote and the right to speak freely.
When a Socialist presidential candidate was booed off stage, pelleted with eggs and refused his right to speak in New Jersey in 1933, Landon only national figure to express outrage at the treatment, McCoy said.
"These things we often take for granted, basically he spent his life in action and in word saying, 'Hey, McCoy said, protect these things,'" McCoy said.
Landon's record of acting the way he said he would make it easy to see why he was known as a man of integrity, McCov said.
Landon was the first Kansas governor to appoint a black Republican Party vice chairman and fought a battle with the members of the candidate's anti-semitism.
"Today, it seems pretty primitive," McCoy said. "For his time, it
was something he didn't have to get into."
Although Landon is called the Grand Old Man of the Grand Old Party today, McCoy said that Landon was willing to go against the main party line, deserting the Republicans in 1912 to campaign for Teddy Roosevelt, who had left the party to run as a third-party candidate.
He also told the party that he didn't agree with some planks on the party platform on the eve of his nomination in the Republican presidential candidate.
McCoy said that the biggest influences on Landon included his father, a county Republican Party chairman who took a teen-aged Alf to see politicians such as Teddy Roosevelt and William Jennings Bryan, and an uncle Methodist parson instilled in Landon a sense of day to other men.
After earning a law degree at the University of Kansas, Landon became a banker. Then, with money from his work, he took over the oil business in his father's had.
Landon worked on Teddy Roosevelt's campaigns for president and in 1924 helped William Allen White run for governor of Kansas on an anti-Ku Klux Klan platform.
Lanson became nationally known for organizing a boycott of Standard Oil Co. during the depression, after Standard tried to buy out smaller oil producers.
After serving two terms as governor, Landon entered the 1936 presidential race as the Republican Party nominee. He was defeated by Franklin D. Roosevelt, winning a majority only in Maine and Vermont.
That race was his last bid for public office. And McCoy said that Landon preferred to remain an outside critic of politics.
Since then Landon has voiced opinions on many issues and advised politicians of both parties, including presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy.
A statesman's 100 years
Alf Landon
- Born September 9, 1887 in West Middlesex, Pa.
- Moved to Independence, Kan., in 1904.
- Graduated from KU with a law degree in 1908.
- Chairman for the Republican State Committee in 1928.
- Elected Governor of Kansas in 1932 and re-elected in 1934.
- Republican nominee for
Elected Governor of Kansas in 1932 and re-elected in 1934.
Republican nominee for president in 1936.
Landon has remained active in the oil business owned several radio stations, and remained active politically by advising leaders in both parties.
Alfred Mossman Landon
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