University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
KANSAN
Thursday, October 28, 1982 Vol. 93, No.49 USPS 650-640
K-NEA head blasts Hardage
By JULIE HEABERLIN Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The president of the Kansas National Education Association yesterday called Sam Hardage a "rude, sarcastic man," and charged him with a commitment to education and teachers in Kansas.
At a news conference at K-NA headquarters in Topeka, Nancy Lindberg, K-NEA president, also accused the GOP gubernatorial contender to be a Republican teacher in a campaign letter mailed last week.
Hardinge's letter, which was mailed to 27,000 elementary and secondary school teachers, said that K-NEA was "inaccurately disseminating" the message. It also claimed it was highly unprofessional endorsement procedure.
THE ASSOCIATION endorsed incumbent Gov. John Carlin after questioning both candidates in separate, hour-long interviews this summer, and interviewed to a KNE questionnaire, Lindberg said.
K-NEA, the largest teachers' organization in Kansas, has about 20,000 members, with 601 members who are faculty at Kansas institutions for higher education. The organization lobbs the state Legislature for elementary, secondary and higher educational needs.
JOHN LLOYD, K-NEA executive director, said that K-NEA decided to endorse Carlin largely because Hardage told them of no specific plans for financing education, and only reiterated his views.
"There was little or nothing in what Mr. Hardage had to say. He seemed to be baffled by the situation."
"We asked him again how that would produce the millions and millions of dollars needed for education and Hardage just said, "Through better management." "Lloyd said.
Hardage's recent attack on K-NEA was a response to an article by Lindberg in the association's October publication of the Kansas Teacher. In the article, Lindberg discusses an interview held with Hardage after he learned that strongly endorsed incumbent Gov. John Carlin.
LINBERG SAID that she and Charles Johns, the K-NAE director of governmental relations, met with Hardage again because they wanted to clarify any misunderstanding about the endorsement procedure, and to present their concerns about education in greater depth.
According to Lindberg, Hardage also accused the association of behind-the-scenes political deals, and lectured her and Johns about a selfish concentration on salaries.
In an interview after yesterday's news conference, Lindberg was equally abusive in a
ALSO IN THE ARTICLE, she said that Hardage refused to be specific about where he would find financial support for teacher's education and had no sarcasm and ridicule for substantive answers."
"There is nothing in my article that is a lie." Lindberg said. "I repeated precisely what Mr. Hardge said. He was rude, sarcastic and arrogant.
"Carlin has been going down, the Harris brooded showed us far ahead today," Matthews said. "Sam is not that kind of person, regardless of what Lindberg might say."
"Who is the true Sam Hardage? Is he the man that his PR specialist portrays on TV ads, or is he a fraud?"
When asked about specific plans for financing education, Matthews did not comment other than that he was confident.
Chamber supports two site proposals
By DOUG CUNNINGHAM Staff Reporter
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce yesterday endorsed two proposals for separate industrial parks in different areas of Douglas County.
The chamber will help the developers of each site in getting the land annexed to the city, in obtaining proper zoning ratings and in marketing the sites once the parks have been completed, said Gary Toebben, executive vice president of the chamber.
HOWEVER, the Lawrence-Douglas County Planning Commission, which considered a
One of the proposals is for 275 acres north and west of the Lawrence Municipal Airport. Toeben said that site was well-suited to industrial use because its access to transpor-
request for annexation of that site at its meeting last night, decided on a $3- vote to defer further action.
Terry Sutcliffe, a partner in the Lawrence Industrial Park Limited Partnership, which is working to develop the 275-acre site, said the deferral indicated only that the planning commission wanted to study the proposal further.
He also said the partnership had held discussions with five firms that indicated they were interested in locating in the partnership's proposed site.
Sutcliffe would not reveal the names of the firms, but said that some of them were local.
SEVERAL PLANNING commissioners said the issue of annexing the property into the city for an industrial park needed further study to ensure that the best decision was made.
But Commissioner Dean Harvey said the 275-acre site would take up valuable farmland.
"You're going to take some good agricultural land out of production — land that should not be taken out of production," he told one of the engineers working on plans for the site.
The city-county planning department recommended the deferral to the planning commission.
THOSE QUESTIONS included what additional development would come about in the area if an industrial park were built, and how drainage from the site would be handled. The commission will also look into sewage treatment and the extension of water lines.
Sutcliffe said the partnership would be able to answer those $n$-actions to the satisfaction of the
Several commissioners said they did not want their votes to defer an education to be labeled as a graduation requirement.
"This is a very important item to Lawrence. I
See PARK page 5
Brother Dominic shows KU unduplicated salesmanship
By JOHN HOOGESTEGER Staff Reporter
The little monk stood in Learned Hall passing out stickers and posing for pictures while he joked with KU students.
"We've got the Howdy Doody brothers here," said Brother Dominic as he ran up to each of the three red-haired men and put stickers on their collars.
Comedian Jack Eagle, who plays Brother Dominic, the chubric little star of the Xerox copier commercials, visited the KU campus and was a series of promotional tours for the company.
Brother Dominic visited the copy centers at Learned and Wescoto halls and had lunch with several KU officials, including Robert Cobb, executive vice chancellor, at the Kansas Union.
"I M A LITTLE mischievious person and Brother Dominic and I are very much alike in that sense," said Eagle, who will finish the year
having done about 240 personal appearances as the popular monk.
"Brother Dominic is a sweet little aesthetic guy who probably just sort of fell into being a monk because his mother wanted him to. He's doing what he's good at." he said.
"The Franciscan monks were the happy monks. They were out in the fields, and were making sandals and wine. They brought some happiness into life. Brother Dominic fits that image, and Jack Eagle is a cherubic, fun little guy like Brother Dominic."
Eagle, who is in his early 50s, spent 20 years working as a trumpet player and stand-up comedian before finding stardom as Brother Dominic. Xerox has now made six commercials creating what has become known as the "Brother Dom Phenom." Eagle is about to sign a three-year contract that will extend Brother Dominic's life to at least 10 years.
See MONK page 5
EAGLE HAS BECOME more closely involved with the character and Xerox every year since
Weather
It will be fair tonight and tomorrow. Tonight will be cooler with a low in the mid-to upper 30s. The high today will be in the mid-60s.
There will be a 20 percent chance of showers this morning followed by decreasing cloudiness during the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy rain with a high around 60. Winds will the west to northwest at 10 to 20 mph.
Eldridge Cleaver, former leader of the Black Panther Party, describes his experiences in changing from a communist to a Christian. Cleaver's speech, sponsored through the Unification Church, drew comments from members of the audience, many of whom opposed the church.
Cleaver's vocal crowd critical of sponsor's ties
By VERONICA JONGENELEN
Staff Reporter
The United States is the last obstacle standing in communism's way of total control of the world, Eldrird Cleaver, a former communist leader and a vocal critic of other Party, said in a press conference yesterday.
Cleaver spoke later to a Wesco Hall audience on "America's Future and the World Revolution." His speech, part of a two-month nationwide tour that began on Sept. 28, was delivered in an online conference on the Research of Principles (CARP), a branch organization of the Unification Church.
That sponsorship brought criticism from many in the audience, which numbered more than 300 and spilled into the aisles and hallways of Wescoe Hall.
DURING THE press conference, Cleaver, who said he was not a member of the Unification Church, said that the United States was targeted by communist countries, mainly the Soviet Union, for destabilization. Those countries accomplish this in several ways, he said, including donating to the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Panther Party.
They want to keep the youth in the United States in a peaceful mood and opposed to the war and its causes.
“As far as I'm concerned, it's a clear and present danger that we need to be aware of.”
He said that he now felt democracy was the best form of government.
Cleaver, 46, who is slightly gray, wore an American flag pin in his lapel. His political
change of heart came about as a result of the oppression he witnessed in communist countries.
"THAT EXPERIENCE forced me to take a broader look at things." he said
Blacks should not look back in anger, with hatred and hostility, he said. Instead, they should treat them with kindness.
"That's the process we are in, and huffing
and buffering won't blow the house down," he said.
"I think they should get off the fence and embrace America. If they would vote, they would not."
Cleaver proposed several changes that he felt were needed in the United States, including a national identification system to put America on computers.
MORE THAN an hour of Cleaver's speech dealt with his personal development from a Black Panther revolutionary and communist to a Christian.
Cleaver began his association with the Black Panther Party, a revolutionary black group, in 1968.
The group felt that change was necessary through an armed overthrow of the government, he said. The group thrived in areas where Martin Luther King's non-violent doctrine was not well-established. Within two days of King's assassination, the Black Panthers were involved in a shoot-out with Oakland police, which led to Cleaver's arrest.
Cleaver jumped bail and fleed to Canada. From there he went to Cuba, where his disillusionment with the United States led.
HIS RELIGIOUS conversion came about at the time he was rejecting the ideologies of
See CLEAVER page 5
ASK struggles for life as KU considers severing ties
By JULIE HEABERLIN
Staff Reporter
After a rocky four-year relationship with the University of Kansas, the Associated Students of Kansas, a statewide lobbying group, once again is fighting for its life.
Entwined in ASK's stubborn existence is a profusion of problems and personal motivations
In the noted concern of the organization is a lack of revenue that may, in January, strike down more than one student organization.
KU students paid almost $15,000 in dues to the statewide organization last year, yet most of them know neither that it exists, nor what it does for them.
But legislators, student senators and ASK leaders agree that ASK A forrest problem is
Some laugh at its lobbying efforts, while others say its statehouse presence is invaluable.
In a recent attack on ASK, Paul Buskirk,
student senator, proclaimed that its constitutional purpose was to represent the student voice in the Kansas Legislature.
Baskirk suggested a student referendum on KU's participation and financing of ASK, but his idea was voted down 9-1 by the Student Senate. He said it would be "very important" for Responsibilities. The defeat came after committee members protested Buskirk's failure to present an alternative to ASK and the notion of tossing ASK' future to the vote of an uninformed student body.
Baskirk originally planned the referendum for the November Student Senate election ballot but said that now the measure could be considered for approval. The senators also recommended the senators to put it on a Senate agenda.
Opponents also argue that KU is ASK's largest member institution yet has failed to dominate ASK's legislative assemblies. At assemblies, delegates from Washburn University andlegislatures meet two or three times each year in front of the issues ASK will job for in the legislature.
Twenty-six percent of ASK's budget for fiscal year 1982 was contributed by KU, which collects 40 cents from each student every semester as part of the student activity fee. Each ASK school sends one delegate to the legislative assemblies per 1,000 students it has enrolled
"KU does one thing strategically wrong," he said. "We go in there and tell our representatives to vote the way they feel about the issues. So we vote democratically and our votes pretty much catch each out because the other schools vote in blocks."
"I've been to legislative assemblies for the past three years and it has been a circus," said
David Welch, KU student body vice president.
agreed. He said the University should pull its membership from ASK and create its own institution.
"Realistically, ASK lobbying for all the Regents institutions is not effective," Welch said. "It looks great on paper, but it simply does not work practically."
"There are too many differences between schools, too many different priorities. And I think ASK jumps on the bandwagon, they win back the votes." Another group is supporting issues that will obviously lose."
Several legislators interviewed, although not enthusiastic about ASK's effectiveness, said that a separate lobbying group for KU would only solicit students' lobbying power.
The state allocates the University budget through the Regents system.
"The only legislators who are going to listen to a separate lobbying group from KU are those from Lawrence," said State Rep. John Solbach, D-Lawrence.
"What about those from Topeka, Manhattan and Wichita? They won't care," he said. "You would lose power and divide the interests of higher education.
"I think the organization is reasonably effective. Just the fact that it is there, and not elsewhere," he said.
"Legislators know if a student is sitting in on the ways and Means Committee. Sometimes it is not."
But State Sen. Bill Bunten, R-Topke, co-chairman of the Senate Ways and Means Committee, said thought one of ASK's biggest challenges was work closely enough with legislative leadership.
"This is something I've spoken to the boys about down there," Bunten said. "I've never been asked to speak before a student group studying a budget issue, and I've been a member of the Ways and Means Committee for 12 years and co-chairman for four years."
"ASKS to be an extension of the Regents. I think they are a benefit, but they would be more influential if I was really convinced they had tried the matter and made a decision on their own."
Both ASK and the Regents supported a 13 percent faculty salary increase and an 11 percent increase in operating expenses last quarter, significantly all other budget requests were identical.
"After all, they are not General Motors," Steineger said. "Those guys have two full-time
Because of impending revenue problems, the state only approved a 7.5 percent increase in faculty salaries and a 6 percent increase in operating expenses.
State Sen. Jack Steiniger, D-Kansas City, said that ASK could not increase or improve its lobbying efforts without more financial aid from donors. The group would make each time the group's budget is reviewed.
lobbyists and spend a couple hundred thousand dollars each year.
"Most legislators are aware of ASK, but many legislators think they are somewhat biased in presenting testimony. They take a position and then they only present the facts that support
Mark Tallman, ASK executive director, agreed that the group, as a student lobbying organization, was fighting internal problems that would take more than money to mend.
The biggest problem is the traditional apathy among college students, said Tallman, whose power lays dormant in 80,000 students who usually do not vote.
Tallman, who opposes the timing but not the philosophy of Buckirk's legislation, has said he could support student referrals on fees for teachers. But she also holds ASK accountable to the Student Senate.
ASK supporters and critics agree that Tallman has made a marked improvement in the organization's structure since he was hired as executive director last February. Tallman and his staff, including legislative director, research the issues and lobby the legislature for ASK's member institutions.
Both 22, Tallman and Linenberger have quit school temporarily to work full-time for ASK.
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Tallman and ASK leaders have recently re-focused ASK's lobbying on issues that directly
See ASK page 7