The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Tuesday, November 2, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 52 USPS 650-640
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Phil Roger, Kansas City, Kan., freshman, fulfilled his duties as a pledge yesterday by cleaning the rain gutters of the Sigma Alpha Epidaurum fraternity at 130 West Campus Road.
Candidates battle,woo last minute supporters
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Staff Reporter
Gubernatorial and congressional candidates yesterday continued back-breaking campaign schedules during intense last-ditch efforts to drum up support for today's election.
Both major gubernatorial candidates, Democratic Gov. John Carlin and Republican Sam Hardage, made cross-state trips in a flurry of campaigning in a race many expect to be close.
In the bitterly contested 2nd District congressional race, Democrat Jim Slattery and Republican Harris Kary attempted to solidify their key area in another election expected to be close.
HARDAGE, A Wichita businessman, concentrated on highly populated northern Kansas, with campaign appearances in Topeka, Lawrence and Kansas City. Kan.
Northeast Kansas has become a chief battleground between Hardage and Carlin, with strong Republican partisanship threatened by强 pro-severance tax sentiments.
Carlin, who is seeking a second four-year term, has placed his political future on a severance tax on production of oil and natural gas. He also faces an alluring economy. Hardage opposes the measure.
Later in the day, Hardge traveled to southeast Kansas, where he hoped to receive
broad support behind the help of his running mate, State Sen. Dan Thiesen, an Independence
THE REPUBLICAN challenger ended his final day on the campaign trail by speaking to a group of doctors in Wichita.
"It is a very important area, and Sam went up there because we felt some areas needed bolstering, and in other areas we needed to shore up." Durrell Day, Hardgage's press secretary, said.
Hardage has struggled furiously to maintain the large Republican coalition in Johnson County. Day's job was complicated when Overland Park resident Wendell Lady, speaker of the Kansas House, refused to endorse Hardage.
"ITS HARD TO tell right now in Johnson County," Day said. "But I think we have done a good job in explaining the myths of the severance tax, that it's not the miracle cure all."
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Poll will be open in Lawrence until 7 p.m. today for the local state and national election, providing information on where to vote may call the Douglas County Clerk's office, at 841-7700.
Polls open till 7
Grad students may lose aid
By STEVE CUSICK Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A student political action group announced in Washington yesterday that the Reagan administration would seek small reductions in the 1984 budget for federal aid to college students.
According to KU officials, such cuts would make it harder for graduate students and students from poor families to attend the University of Kansas.
The Student Alliance of Voters for Education said the administration was planning to reduce the federal student financial aid budget by 20 percent, from $5 billion to $4 billion.
TIMOTHY MILLS, director of the group, said that sources in the Department of Education told him that she had been stung by a mosquito.
A department apokemian declined to comment on the matter but said the 1984 budget had not been released.
Mills said the proposed reductions would eliminate such financial aid as Guaranteed Student Loans for graduate students, special funding for minorities seeking post-graduate degrees and the Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program.
Jerry Rogers, director of financial aid, said that many KU graduate students relied on the faculty to get information.
ROGERS SAID that 450 to 600 students could
"If the graduate students lose their Guar-
anteed Student Loans that's going to put a lot of
them out on the street," he said. "If would cut
the number of graduate students at KU."
This is not the first time KU graduate students have faced the prospect of losing loan money. Last spring, talk of such reductions was spurred by a similar administration proposal.
be affected if the loans were made off-limits to graduate students.
THOMAS BERGER, executive coordinator of the Graduate Student Council and a KU graduate student, said he would not be surprised if the administration sought the reductions.
“It’s an outrage,” he said. “It should offend the sensibility of any interested in higher education in this country. If they do that, who in the hell is going to pick that money up?”
The state, with its latest fiscal crunch, and private business are not likely to foot the bill for the graduate student loans, he said.
BERGER SAID the possibility of further reductions showed how out of touch the administration was with higher education in the United States.
"When you're talking about cutting at the aid you're talking about cutting at the very edge of this country. It's simply making it easier for the poor to go to school, and harder for the poor to go to school," he said.
David Cannatella, chairman of the graduate
executive committee, said elimination of the GSLs for graduate students would make his life harder.
He receives loan money along with the money, he gets for his 20 hours of work as a graduate assistant, but he will have to get another job if the loan money runs drv. he said.
"It would really be difficult to get by without the loan," he said. "As it is now, I think I live a faraway place."
Rogers said a reduction in the SEOG program would affect about 900 KU students.
"IT'S THAT cut that's going to be tragic," he said, especially because the SEOG program was helped."
The average size of the SEOG is $500, he said, and it is given as a supplement to other aid to the SEOG.
Because students have other aid, they are not dependent solely on the SEOG so they may not have to drop out, but they will have a harder time attending college. Rogers said
The Student Alliance of Voters for Education, a new political action committee, announced the proposed cuts at a National Press Club News Conference in Washington.
MILLS DECLINED to name the sources in the department who provided the information.
Closing of Ward's to leave 50 jobless
"We're told they would lose their jobs at the Education Department if we identify them," he said.
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Staff Reporter
Fifty full and part-time employees of Lawrence's Montgomery Ward store will join the nation's growing ranks of the unemployed at about the same time most people start celebrating the holiday season, a company spokesman said yesterday.
Charles Thorne, a public relations official for the chain's Chicago office, said the store, 23rd Street and Ousdahl Road, would close Dec. 19. He said the store had been open since 1989 as a full service store and since last October as a catalog store.
"THE REASON is glitly economical," he said of the closing. "the store was simply not large enough to handle it."
Ed Mills, manager of the Lawrence branch of Kansas Job Service, said that the store's 50 employees would have a tough time finding work this winter because of a tight job market.
National unemployment reached 10.1 percent in September.
When Douglas County's unemployment fig.
ures came out in September, 4 percent of Lawrence area residents—1,400 people—were unemployed. But in winter, Mills said, the job situation in Lawrence usually gets tighter.
"There just aren't many full-time jobs available, he said, can't see the unemployment rate."
As poor as Lawrence's job market is, the employment situation outside of town is not any better.
"The problem is that the unemployment rate in Kansas is higher than in Douglas County," he said. "There's no relief in going somewhere else; the situation is bad everywhere."
A LAWRENCE CHAMBER of Commerce official said Lawrence's downtown development plans could be adversely affected by the loss of Montgomery Ward.
"Losing Montgomery Ward will cause some of the department stores that we are considering to close."
Toebben said other businesses in town probably would be able to absorb Ward's cause.
about coming to Lawrence," said Gary Toobben,
executive vice president of the chamber.
He said that other businesses would probably question the store's operators on the reasons for the shutdown, but that Ward was probably different from stores that would consider becoming part of Lawrence's downtown development plan.
He said that the community was losing a good employer but he hoped another retail store would take its place.
"GENERALLY SPEAKING. it's a good business area. The streets around it are well traveled." Toebben said.
"Nationalize we've been in a money-losing situation for the last few years," he said. "But we're really optimistic for the fourth quarter this year with the holiday season coming up."
Therne said that Montgomery Ward had closed other stores in cities close to Lawrence's size, but that it was not trying to pull out of smaller markets.
Turnout is key, parties say
Staff Reporter
By BRUCE SCHREINER
Thousands of campaign workers throughout the state will man phones and offer rides to the polls as both major parties urge their faithful to vote today.
Democrats, who traditionally benefit from high voter turnouts in Kansas, are projecting a larger turnout than was predicted by the secretary of state's office yesterday.
But a Kansas Republican Party executive expects low voter participation, boosting the chances of GOP candidates because Republican voters are more likely to vote than their Democratic counterparts.
JIM PLOGER, executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party, said that there had been "a tremendous amount of attention given to the governor's race and to the 2nd District race.
Ploger said, "Anytime you have two candidates like Sam Hardage, who has spent $1.5 million, and John Carlin, who has spent $900,000, that shows the intensity of a race and will bring out the voters."
PLOGER ALSO pointed to expected dry weather and a flood of voter registrants as indications that the turnout would exceed Secretary of State Jack Brier's predictions.
Brier has predicted that 743,100 of Kansas' 1.23 million registered voters would go to the polls.
Merlyn Brown, executive director of the Kansas Republican Party, agreed with Brier's estimate and said voters were hesitant to motivated in this non-presidential election.
"I EXPECT IT to be low because of the dramatic changes that came in the 1980 election," he said. "I've sensed that it is harder to generate excitement this year, and I think that
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Weather
Today will be partly cloudy, windy and cool, with a high between 50 and 55. Winds will be from the northwest at 15 to 25 mph and will be clear, with a low between 25 and 30.
rought will be clear, with a low between 25 and 30.
KU zoologist likes the idea
Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with a high between 40 and 45.
Nessie's just a log, new theory says
By BONAR MENNINGER
Staff Reporter
Recently, however, a new theory has shed some light on the Scottish creature. It states that the monster could be nothing more than pine logs that pop to the surface of the water after being pressurized at the bottom of the lake, 823 feet down.
The Loch Ness Monster, affectionately known as "Nessie" to residents around the Scottish lake where it supposedly dwells, remains an enigma 1,400 years after sightings of the beast were first reported.
Joseph Collins, a KU zoologist who specializes in amphibians and reptiles, said yesterday that he thought the new theory was plausible.
"It is a perfectly reasonable hypothesis," he said. "To be honest, I have always had concerns over whether such a creature exists."
COLLINS, WHO is also the editor for publications at the Museum of Natural History, has presented lectures on the Loch Ness phenomenon.
engineer, said that Scotch Pine trees, which surround the lake, may be made buoyant by the 360 pounds of pressure per square inch at the lake bottom.
GASES FROM the decaying wood are encapsulated in the log, forming pockets which eventually force the log to float. As it nears the surface, the log is close to bursting because its internal pressure is much higher than that of the water around it, the article said.
In an article in a british magazine, New Scientist, Robert P. Craig, a british electronics
The Scotch Pine is a very strong type of wood, and Craig said that after the tree had become waterlogged, it would gradually sink to the bottom.
The log then explodes up out of the lake, before the buoyancy pockets deplete. Craig noted that many observers say that the object they believed was floating above poles or logs, and went down in a boiling froth.
He contended that no large aquatic beast could *brash* the water vigorously enough to cause more than splashing, and that the frothing had to be caused by escaping gases.
Craig proposes that the pressure would then squeeze the wood and, with the resin of the tree, form a waterproof seal around the log.
The new theory would support other recent evidence that the monster does not exist.
IN THE LATE '70S, several important scientific attempts were made to find the creature. Although some interesting photographs were taken, Collins said, all the collected data was inconclusive.
"I think that the phenomenon at Loch Ness has been exposed to public and scientific scrutiny long enough that if there were Loch Ness monsters, they would be found by now," he said.
"Of course, taking this stance gets rid of all the romance," he said.
Indeed, much romance has surrounded the creature since the first sighting was made in 1865 by S. Columbia, who met a "water beast" at the dawn of the world and granted it "perpetual freedom of the loch."
SINCE THEN, thousands of people have reported seeing the creature, in varying degrees of detail. Some scientists are firmly convinced of its existence, although the hard facts have yet to surface.
A KU STUDENT from Britain, Gareth Tweese, recently that he camped on the shores of the island.
"It was pretty spooky," he said. "There is something out there."
Twose said he hoped the monster would be found someday.
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Morris Kay checked his notes while Jim Slattery answered a question yesterday in a debate on foreign policy. The debate, which was sponsored by the KU political science department, was held in the Kansas Union. See story page 2.