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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Tuesday September 1,1987 Vol.98.No.8
Published since 1889 by the students of the University of Kansas
(USPS 650-640)
Gov. Mike Hayden speaks to members of the Kansas House and Senate about his $1.71 billion highway plan.
Hayden presents his highway plan
By AMBER STENGER
TOPEKA — Gov. Mike Hayden urged the Kansas Legislature to approve his comprehensive highway plan yesterday morning at the beginning of the first special session called in 21 years.
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"I firmly believe in your responsibility to either adopt my plan or to develop a responsible alternative of your own," Hayden told legislators.
Special Session '87
Hayden's
Highway Plan
Hayden presented his two-part plan to a joint session of the House and Senate in the House chambers. One part of his plan is a $1.71 billion resolution for highway construction projects. The second part is a bill that would finance the plan through increases in gasoline and diesel fuel taxes and in vehicle registration fees.
"The plan that I present to you today is based on user fees." Hayden said. "Since 1928, user fees have been the primary source of funding for this state's highway system. I continue to believe that it's the best and most efficient way in which our roads and highways should be financed."
If Hayden's plan is approved, the state's gasoline tax would increase from 11 cents to 16 cents a gallon, and the diesel tax would increase from 13 cents to 18 cents. Vehicle registration fees would increase about 50 percent
for trucks and 100 percent for passenger cars. The state also would issue $1.3 billion in revenue bonds. The taxes and fees would be adjusted annually for inflation.
State Sen. Wint Winter Jr., R-Lawrence, said he favored Hayden's plan but had some reservations about it.
He said he agreed that user fees were the best way to finance the highway improvements, as opposed to the increase in state sales tax that some other legislators have proposed.
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"The fuel tax and registration fees proposed ensure that those who use the roads and benefit directly will pay for them." Winter said.
Hayden especially stressed the need for a new highway between Wichita and Joplin, Mo., to help economic development in southeast Kansas.
Charles Krider, a KU professor of business, has publicly supported highway development in the southwestern portion of the state for the same reason.
One of the designated projects in Hayden's plan is a trafficway that would bypass Lawrence on the southwest. Seventy-five percent of the trafficway's cost would be financed by the state, and 25 percent would be
By VALOREE ARMSTRONG
As the 1988 presidential race gathers momentum, candidates and national leaders are beginning to cross the country looking for money and votes. A few of them will even hit Kansas and Nebraska in the coming months, party officials say.
Michael Dukakis, Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate, will visit Wichita on Sept. 27. He will appear at a public fund-raiser in support of former Democratic Lt. Gov. Tom Docking, who was defeated in a 1986 bid for the Kansas governorship. Money raised will go toward paying the debts Docking accumulated in that race against Gov. Mike Hayden.
Other politicians scheduled to appear in Kansas are:
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a probable Democratic candidate for president, will appear in Hutchinson at the Kansas State Fair, which runs Sept. 11 to Sept. 20. The exact date of Jackson's appearance has not been decided, but a public fund-raiser has been planned.
President Reagan and Sen. Bob Dole, R-Kan., will visit Topeka briefly Sunday to celebrate former Kansas Gov. Alf M. Landon's 100th birthday. Dole is a probable Republican candidate for president.
Kevin Yowell, communications director at the Kansas Republican Headquarters in Topeka, said that because the state Republican party had endorsed Dole, few other Republicans would visit the state.
"They don't see the point in coming here now," he said.
In Nebraska, an agriculture forum for presidential candidates will take place Sept. 18 in Lincoln in conjunction with the Farm Aid III concert. The forum was intended to include all presidential candidates, but only two have tentatively consented to appear.
Because of candidates' unwillingness to commit to the forum, it has been changed to include leaders on farm issues.
Larry Hall, an official of Farmers Union of Nebraska, said that after inviting every candidate from both parties, the organizers had received tentative commitments from only Jackson and Richard Gephardt.
The forum instead will be led by Jackson and Gephardt and various interested agricultural leaders, including leaders in organized labor, farm crisis hotline workers, a member of Women Involved in the Farm Economy, and the presidents of the National Farmers' Union, the American Agriculture Movement and the National Farmers' Organization.
"But it's still an important idea — a meaningful discussion of farm
The forum will be in Stuart Theater in Lincoln, which seats 900.
Also in Nebraska, former president Jimmy Carter will speak Sept. 22 at Creighton University in Omaha, as part of the annual John B. Begley Lecture Series.
Stench still lingers despite Union efforts
A breakfast at 7:30 a.m. will precede the 8:10 a.m. speech.
See SESSION, p. 6, col. 1
Only time will clear the air in Woodruff Auditorium, Jim Long, director of unions, said yesterday.
A stench that filled the auditorium in the Kansas State in October 1968 has abated, but it's still noticeable in the back right section of the auditorium. Long said. It's especially noticeable when the auditorium ventilation system is turned off, as it was this summer.
By NOEL GERDES
Staff writer
The stench was noticed after Student Union Activities showed the film "Hail Mary" on Oct. 8 and 9 in the auditorium. The film was a contemporary version of the biblical story of Mary and Joseph.
The film portrayed Joseph as a cab driver, showed Mary nude and contained profanity. About 150 people, mostly Roman Catholics, protested in front of the Union during the film.
One theory about the stench is that someone released a stink bomb during the release as a protest. However,
Long sai no one had complained about the odor since last spring.
Robert Taylor, lecturer in business, teaches two sections of Business 240 in Woodruff Auditorium this semester. He said that no students had complained but that a teaching assistant had noticed a peculiar odor near the far right side of the auditorium.
"Whatever it was, it did create a problem," Long said. "Right after it happened it was pretty tough to handle."
Long said Union staff had tried industrial-aerosol strength aerosol sprays, professional carpet cleaners and new ventilation filters to get rid of the unpleasant smell. But nothing will remove it completely, save time.
Long said that no one knew for certain what chemicals caused the smell and that Union officials had found no evidence of a stink bomb.
"It's such a faint odor," Taylor said. "It has not disrupted the class at all."
Students returning to KU create job opportunities
By MARK TILFORD
Staff writer
KU students looking for part-time employment should find a wealth of opportunities around campus and Lawrence this fall.
With the return of students, a dire need for help has come up, many employers say.
Residence hall caterakers, for example, are one of the best places to hunt for jobs. Fifty positions there remain unfilled, said Lenoir Ekdahl, director of food services for the student housing office.
"We don't have enough." Ekdahl said of her student employees.
Part of the problem is that students haven't had a chance to settle into their residences yet, she said. "After Labor Day, we might be able to pick up more people," she said.
"We make it, but it is much more comfortable to have full staffs," she said. "We also like to have them on the team. We have every other week off."
Ekdahl said that a reduced number of workers did not provide a real problem for diners but that it could be taxing on the staff.
But even after full staffs have been set, lunch time is a problem because of student workers' schedules.
"We will never be good on noon meals," Ekdahl said. "We also
need people to stay to clean up after breakfast, but students have to leave for their 9:30 classes. "
Carol Cooper, payroll clerk in the student housing office, said most positions for security monitors and desk assistants in the residence halls had been filled. She said the housing office employed about 750 students on a part-time basis.
Difficult student schedules are also a problem for some off-campus employers.
See related story p. 7
The primary handler of on-campus jobs, the student financial aid office, is waiting for students who have been accepted into its program to come to the office to pick up eligibility cards, said Julie Cooper, director of student employment.
She said that about 400 to 450 students had been accepted into the college work-study program,
He said the service, which is run by the state, handled the placement of about 5,000 to 6,000 employees a year, 20 to 25 percent of which are students.
Ed Mills, manager of the Lawrence Job Service Center, 833 Ohio St., said scheduling around student class schedules was the main problem between students and employers who were matched by the service.
Only about one out of every five of the students, though, has picked up his card. Students need the cards to prove they're eligible for work-study cards.
The state job program, Cooper said, is not applied for as a financial aid service, but the office does match employers and employees for it.
"We would like to tell students who applied to please come and pick up their cards." Cooper said. "These are crying for help right now."
For students who apply for either the college or state work-study program, cards listing available positions are posted outside of the financial aid office in the basement of Strong Hall.
which is directed by the federal government and for which students apply through financial aid packages.
The office also handles student hourly positions.
Cooper said Watson Library and the residence hall system were the two places on campus with the greatest need for employees.
Most students average about minimum wage on campus jobs. Cooper said her office recommended that students not work more than 15 to 20 hours a week because of their class schedules
See JOBS, p. 6, col. 1
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Haymond Magness, Fairland, Okla., junior, reshelves books in the stacks at Watson Library. Magness works 13 hours a week through the federal work-study program.
Russians may allow bomb test
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A leading Soviet arms control official said Monday the Kremlin would consider a U.S. proposal for monitoring nuclear tests and might permit the United States to explode its own bomb at a Soviet test range to check monitoring equipment.
Col. Gen. Nikolai Chervov, an official of the Soviet defense ministry, said that in such a case the Soviet Union would expect to be permitted to explode a Soviet nuclear device at the U.S. test site in Nevada.
The proposal, linked to negotiations for a new test ban agreement, appeared to catch U.S. officials by surprise.
Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator for arms reduction talks in Geneva, heard Chervov's remarks at a Capitol Hill luncheon, took notes on it and told reporters it was worth pursuing.
In Santa Barbara, Calif., an aide with vacationing President Reagan said there was no immediate official White House response to the announcement.
"As we have seen so many times in the past, they (the Soviets) say something and then subsequently attach conditions, and that may well be the case this time," said the official, speaking on condition he not be identified.
Chervoy, a member of the Soviet delegation to last week's conference on U.S.-Soviet relations held at Chautaqua, N.Y., said through an interpreter that "the Soviet Union is prepared to accept any type of verification" on a test-ban agreement.
The official said a formal response might wait until the Soviet proposal was formally presented at negotiations in Geneva.
"There is no problem on verification." Chervov said.
He also said he thought there was no barrier to prevent the early signing of an agreement eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles from Europe but that problems remained on negotiations for large reductions in strategic missiles.
Chervov said Soviet willingness to accommodate U.S. efforts to verify a test-ban treaty might include adoption of the U.S. bid to implant the Cortex monitoring system at Soviet nuclear test ranges.
The system involves placing a monitoring device in a hole bored near the site of an atomic explosion.
"If you want to deploy the Cortex system, we would be prepared to consider that proposal on a mutually acceptable basis." Cherov said.
"If you want to calibrate the instruments, feel free to come to our test ranges with a nuclear device of your own, and explode it there to make sure that everything is all right.