The University Daily
KANSAN
University of Kansas Lawrence, Kansas
Thursday, October 21, 1982 Vol. 93, No. 44 USPS 650-640
Dave Hornback/KANSAN
A flock of pigeons, silhouetted by a recent sunrise, circle above Broken Arrow Park in search of food.
Professor says KU preparing for cuts with budget plans
By STEVE CUSICK
Staff Reporter
Many KU faculty members, whose departments still are stinging from budget cuts earlier this year, fear that the University of Kansas is preparing for a future of fiscal anarchy, the president of the KU chapter of the American Association of University Professors said yesterday.
A new budget planning tool adopted by the office of academic affairs has helped fuel fears that the department's funding is cut.
Richard Cole, the president, said that steps taken by University administrators this fall have caused faculty members to expect more cuts in the future.
THE OFFICE has asked department chairmen to prepare their 1984 budget requests at 95 percent of full funding, with an accompanying percentage of items that could boost the budgets to 162 percent.
Cole said that signaled to faculty members that a 5 percent cut might be coming next year.
But Deanell Tacha, vice chancellor for academic affairs, said that the use of the 95 percent base budget was merely a planning tool that was not caused by the prospect of future
"It's really not a great deal different from other years," she said, adding that then the departments would submit straight budget requests to fill their needs.
UNDER THE NEW budget planning device, department heads are expected to set spending priorities so that the 95 percent covers the most essential items, she said.
"We're hoping for resources at least to the 102 percent level." she said.
Cole said the administration's revision of the graduate student teaching contract also was an effort to enhance the curriculum.
A clause added to the contract this summer says that "the appropriate dean, director or vice chancellor may cancel an appointment if funding is not available."
MOST OF THE teaching contract contracts had been issued before the revision, he said.
See BUDGET page 5
10,000 Poles go to funeral of slain youth
By United Press International
NOWA HUTA, Poland–Vowing they would rather “die on your feet than live on their knees,” more than 10,000 Poles turned out defiantly against the attack, shot by police in pro-Solidarity riots last week.
The mourners, weeping openly and flashing V-for-victory signs, carrier banners proclaiming "Solidarity is alive" in a final tribute to Bogdon Wosik. 20, the youth who was killed.
Wosik was shot by police during violent street clashes Oct. 13, the 16-month anniversary of martial law and the suspension of Solidarity. The officer in charge of the incarcerated man who shot Wosik did so in self-defense.
HIS DEATH touched off two more days of violence that led to hundreds of arrests.
The huge crowd that turned out for the funeral, comprised mostly of young men who work at the Lenin Steel Mill where Wosik was an electrician, formed a long, silent procession to Grabalow cemetery on the outskirts of Nowa Huta
Leaders of the process, including a young uniformed soldier, held up Solidarity posters.
The cemetery alley was lined with hundreds more people, all of them flashing the victory sign in a final tribute to Wosik. In the distance, workers who could not leave their shift at the Lenin Steel Mill were seen standing on a factory roof, also saluting Wosik with the victory sig.
"Solidarity is alive," one poster. "It is better to die on our feet than to live on our hands."
"IT WAS ONE of the most moving events I have ever witnessed," said a representative of the organization.
Many of the mourners wept openly. Wisik's mother, Irena, broke down in tears in front of his coffin inside the cemetery chapel.
In Moscow, the Soviet press attacked the Roman Catholic Church in Poland yesterday for allegedly inciting riots and leading opposition to the military regime.
The official Tass news agency published the same story, which accused priests of taking part in riots and offering financial support to "fascist thugs" arrested for crimes against the socialist
Oh, my child, my child," she went.
IN DOWNTOWN Nowa Huta, squads of riot police backed by armored vehicles and water cannons patrolled the streets to prevent a fresh outbreak of violence.
ZOMO riot police and red beret army commandees were stationed near God's Ark Church, guarding the spot where Wosik was shot.
Weather
Tomorrow will be sunny and warmer with a high around 65.
COOL
Tonight will be partly cloudy with a low in the lower 30s.
KU athletic director resigns
Today will be partly cloudy with a high around 60, according to the National Weather Service. Winds will be from the northeast at 5 to 10 mph.
By GINQ STRIPPOLI
Sports Editor
Athletic Director Jim Lessig has resigned and will be named commissioner of the Mid-America Athletic Conference at a news conference in Toledo, Ohio, today.
"I was sorry to help of Jim's decision."
Chancellor Gould said again yesterday. But I
wished he had success in his career.
"We are reviewing the situation and will have an early announcement on our future course of
LESSIG SUCCEEDDED Bob Marcum as athletic director on Feb. 12, after four years in the same post at Bowling Green University in Ohio.
Marcum left the University in January to
carve athletic director at South Carolina
Dolphin.
Lessig was considered an athletic director for the students and was the moving force behind two student promotions during this football season the original game was played on Parents' Day.
"ALL I CAN SAY is that i wish him well,
I CAN BAN, executive vice chancellor, aid
yesterday."
Floyd Temple, one of KU's athletic directors, said he did not have enough information to judge the team's ability.
"I'm sorry to see him leave," Dei Brinkman, dean of the School of Journalism and KU faculty representative to the Big Eight and NCAA, last night from Ruston, Va. "I don't know many of the details, because I found out when I was here.
"The commissioner of the Mid-America Conference is obviously something Jim wanted. It's too bad, though, because I thought he would be excellent for Kansas."
LESSIG, WHOSE six-month term as athletic director was the shortest of any, of the previous athletic directors at Kansas, was unavailable for comment.
Lessig, a Canton, Ohio, native, graduated from Bowling Green in 1867 and received a master's degree in school administration and speech from Bowling Green in 1967.
In 1989, Lessig joined former Bowling Green basketball coach Bill Fitch to the University of Minnesota. When Fitch was hired to coach the Cleveland Cavaliers in the NBA, Lessig went along as an assistant coach, head scout and director of special promotions. He left coaching
He joined the Bowling Green athletic department in August 1978 after seven years in the school's alumni and development office. During his years in the alumni office, Lessig was a color guard member at the school television network and a part-time announcer on radio station WWWE in Cleveland, doing
play-by-play with the Cleveland Indians. He remains an athletic director until taking the KU job.
THE MID-AMERICA CONFERENCE, which is based in Columbus, Ohio, consists of the University of Toledo; Miami University, Ohio; Central Michigan; Western Michigan; Ohio State; Northern Illinois; Eastern Michigan; and Lesli's alma mater, Bowling Green.
Jim Lessig
Senate blocks ASK, beer votes
By DON KNOM Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
KU students will not vote on the future of the Associated Students of Kansas in the Nov. 17 and 18 Student Senate elections, the Senate decided last night.
The Student Senate Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee voted 9-1 yesterday afternoon against referring the controversial bill to the Senate for debate. The bill, sponsored by Paul Buskiril, Liberal Arts and Sciences senator, would have let students decide whether to continue financial support of ASK, the student lobbying group based in Topeka.
"I AM DEEPLY concerned about this," Buskirk said after the Senate meeting. "The
BUT LATER EFFORTS by Buskirk to by-pass the committee's decision and get the bill placed on last night's Senate agenda also failed, on a third day. The senate two-thirds majority of the entire Senate.
Senate has simply denied students a hand in this matter."
But Buskirk he was more surprised about the failure of another bill he wrote, which called for a campus-wide vote on the sale of 3.2 beer in Memorial Stadium. The beer bill was defeated by a vote of 12 to 23. It also required a two-thirds majority.
"The beer vote was just not as controversial on political grounds." Buskirk said.
The Senate decisions followed almost an hour of heated debate at the Rights Committee meeting, with David Adams, student body leader, and the opposition to both of Baskirk's proposals.
"It's popular to say we'll throw an issue to the people and let them decide it," Adkins said. "But I wouldn't want to see ASK used as a political football on the same day as a Senate election."
ADKINS he favored a non-binding referendum that would solicit student opinion without forcing a decision that had no Senate input. Had students vote to withdraw from
ASK, Baskirk's binding referendum would have denied AKR any KU monev.
All full-time KU students pay 40 cents each semester to fund ASK, KU, the largest seven state schools ASK represents, contributes $14,582 every year to ASK.
Baskirk argued that his bill would have merely let the students decide whether their money should be spend on ASK — a decision he said the board had made for the students year after year.
"HOW MANY STUDENT senators went out and solicited an opinion from their constituents on ASK prior to voting to continue financial aid for students in decision and not the student as a whole," he said.
But Adkins said that any referendum to recall ASK funding would hamper ASK's effort to conduct forums with candidates in both state-wide and congressional elections. Akdins said Busikhr's bill would also have harmed ASK's ability to lobby for student issues.
See SENATE page 5
Staff Reporter
Candidates spar over issues at forum
By JULIE HEABERLIN
Congressional candidate Jim Slattery hinted throughout a forum last night that Republican Morris Kay was lacing his campaign for the and seat with political generalities and false promises.
During the rather subdued forum, Slattery, a Democrat, said Kay was supporting President Reagan's next tax cut simply because of its tactical use in bringing in votes.
"I SOMETIMES THINK we have lost our minds," said Slattery, who favors delaying the third leg of Reagan's tax cut in order to lower the federal deficit.
"I can't believe we are talking about cutting taxes when we are facing a $180 billion deficit. We would have to cut the federal budget almost 20 percent. We'd almost have to disarm the
country and would have to dramatically decrease Social Security."
BUT KAY SAID his opponent's route would be a "disincentive" to worker and business productivity and would keep interest rates and inflation high.
"He's not even in Congress yet and he's already raising your taxes," he said.
Slattery has opposed the tax reduction, a touchy issue in the campaign, from the position that inflation and interest rates will fall only when the federal deficit is erased. Both candidates support Reagan's proposed balanced budget constitutional amendment.
ALTHOUGH BOTH CANDIDATES favor a $25 billion to $30 billion reduction in the defense budget. Slattery accused Kay of not defining the target in reducing government bureaucracy.
Kay also said during a question-answer session that the U. S. defense program was not
yet strong enough to comfortably negotiate a nuclear arms freeze with the Soviet Union.
SLATTERY DISAGREED, saying defense spending should halt now. He said he would support immediate negotiations with the Soviet Union for a mutually verifiable agreement.
Kay and Slattery also addressed environmental issues. Slattery he opposed any decrease in the Environmental Protection Agency budget, while Kay said that local and community groups should share more of the burden.
Also speaking at the forum were state representative candidates Doug Lambert, Bob Schule, Joe Jo Charlton, Jessie Branson and Derek Ramsay, all of whom represent candidates Hank Booth and Nancy Hiebert.
THE FIVE LEGISLATIVE candidates voiced support for the proposed minerals severance tax, and opposed increases in regressive taxes. See FORM 6A 5.
Turnpike guardian gets unique view of travelers
By BONAR MENNINGER
Staff Reporter
If Lawrence had an ambassador, Howard McKenzie might be the man. For the past eight years, McKenzie has greatest motorists as tol collector at the West Lawrence interchange of
Recently, the large, jovial man in blue cap and jacket talked about working at the gates of the house.
"You meet a lot of interesting people in this job," he said, as trucks dislarded past outside.
"Since I've worked out here I’ve tried to build up a good relationship with people. I like to make them feel good. You can call it psychology or work, you do work. Hour is what we need these days."
OUTSIDE HIS BOOTH, a ripe tomato sat poised on the electronic pay teller as a couple of high-rollers hurried toward Lawrence in a Cadillac.
"I raise a lot of tomatoes, and when I've got an excess, I give them to people that come through. I had a man and woman pull up here once, fighting and arguing and cussing each other, and he saw the tomato slitting on the box, and he saw the tomato shattering. He laughed. I felt good when they left," he said. The day shift was over and McKenzie got ready to head home.
He said he had seen some well-known people coming and going over the years, including
"The first time I met John Riggins, he was on a motorcycle and he had a Mobawk haircut," McKenzie said. Riggins was a KU football player who is now with the Washington Redskins.
who is now with the Washington Redskins.
A YARF or so ago, Kansas City Royal Frank
"I didn't think he was too friendly, though," he added.
The hordes of Nebraska and Oklahoma football fans who annually invade Lawrence in their mobile homes and custom campers often cause a "ruckus" at the tailboom, McKenzie
"There are some folks who'll give you a rough time; Nebraska folks especially, with their toughness."
HE SAID the strangers often had rude things to say about the Jayhawks.
"You just have to know how to handle every situation and give it right back to them," he
Carl Perkins, country rockability star, who wrote the Elvis Press hit, "Burue Suede Shoes" rolled through in his bus one night after a show at the Lawrence Opera House, McKenzie said. Perkins got out of the bus, shook his hand and gave him an autographed record, he said.
FROM HIS LOCATION, the collector has seen students heading for the highway and has seen
"A lot of their attitudes have changed. It seems most of them are coming up here to get an education instead of coming up here on mom and dad's money and having a good time." McKenzie
Rich Suga/KANSAN
Howard McKensie relaxes inside his toll booth at the West Lawrence interchange while waiting for traffic entering the city limits. McKensie has worked as a toll collector for the city for eight years.