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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
NEWS 864-4810
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1996
ADVERTISING 864-4358
SECTION A VOL.103, NO.48
(USPS 650-640)
Violent outbreak follows funeral on West Bank
JERUSALEM — Palestinians clashed with Israeli troops in the West Bank yesterday after the funeral of an 11-year-old boy. Witnesses said the boy had been beaten to death by a Jewish settler. A court ordered the settler held until the end of the week.
In Hebron, Jewish settlers shouting, "This is our home!" pushed and shoved two of Yasser Arafat's aides, who were touring the city. Israel police escorted the two Palestinians away from the area.
Despite the tensions, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators resumed talks yesterday on Israel's seven-month overdue troop withdrawal from Hebron.
The army clamped a curfew on the West Bank village of Hussan, 11 miles north of Hebron, when hundreds of Palestinian stone-throwers clashed with Israeli soldiers after the funeral for Hilmi Shawsh.
U.S. teen-ager survives apartment's collapse
CAIRO, Egypt — For 36 hours, Sananna Mikkeus was entombed in the darkness of a collapsed 12-story apartment building. The American teen-ager heard the cries of other survivors, the barking of search dogs and the rumble of equipment boring through the ruins.
"I'm very tired," said Miksche, a 17-year-old from Los Angeles whose mother was among dozens of people still missing as the desperate search for survivors entered its third day.
Yesterday, exhausted rescue workers pulled her and a friend from the rubble — bruised and bleeding, but alive.
Smoking foes call for blunter warning labels
Hundreds of people waited near the wreckage, some demanding justice and others begging for their trapped friends and relatives to somehow leave the rubble.
WASHINGTON — Smoking foes say the warning labels on cigarette packages aren't doing enough to teach Americans the consequences of tobacco.
Citing the bigger, blunt warnings some other countries require — such as Australia's "Smoking Kills" anti-smoking advocates are planning to launch a new effort to strengthen the notices for the first time in 12 years. They want the Surgeon General's warning to declare smoking addictive.
"The warnings are insufficient and have been insufficiert over a period of decades," said Rep. Martin Meehan, D-Mass., who is offering the legislation.
The tobacco industry denies that cigarettes are addictive or kill. It says Americans know that smoking poses health risks.
Low turnout is expected at this year's election
WASHINGTON — The election is almost upon the country, and about all that remains is to browbeat Americans for the next six days to shame them into voting.
That may not work. Experts say that less than 55 percent of eligible Americans will participate.
In the last 30 years, turnout has decreased. From 64 percent in 1960, when John F. Kennedy was elected, it slid to just barely above 50 percent in 1988 before squigling up to 55.2 percent four years ago.
But the 1992 race had an incumbent president on the ropes, an attractive challenger and a feisty third-party insurgent. This time around, none of those elements apply and that has a lot of people worried that participants will barely outnumber nonvoters.
The Associated Press
Center requires support
Senate passes resolution University to meet terms
By Spencer Duncan Kansan staff writer
Student Senate supports the construction of a campus child-care center, but it does not want students to pay for it all.
Student Body President Grey Montgomery presented a resolution to Provost David Shulenburger and David Amber, vice chancellor for academic affairs, yesterday that stated Senate's support of the construction of a new center.
The resolution outlines terms that must be met by the University of Kansas in order for Senate to finance the construction.
"I have been pushing for this to get underway for a while now. I'm glad to see the Senate supports it also," Montgomery said.
Senate stipulations
Some Student Senate stipulations for a new child-care center. The stipulations are negotiable and subject to change.
Chris Hamilton/KANSAN
The center would be run by Hiltop Child Development Center, a current campus child-care provider.
Half of the facilities must be open to children of students.
The facility only can be used by students, staff and faculty at the University of Kansas. The only exception is for students with disabilities who live in the Lawrence community.
The facility must serve at least 308 children.
The site should be constructed at Stouffer Place apartments.
The University should look into the creation of a faculty fee to help pay for construction of the facility.
For a new child-care center to be built it must have Senate support, said Scott Sullivan, liberal arts and sciences senator, who co-sponsored the resolution.
The center has been estimated to cost between $4 million and $5 million. As of now, students pay a $2 campus fee that goes to a bank account to be used to build the center. To date, about $250,000 is in the account.
Senate is willing to foot a large amount of the construction bill, but it can't on a $2 fee, said Kelly Huffman, finance committee chairman and a resolution sponsor.
Huffman said the new fee could be about $5 or $6, depending on what the University offered.
One stipulation asks the University to pay at least 30 percent of construction costs if Senate is going to finance the project.
Pat Pisani, Hilltop Child Development Center She coid University funds
The stipulation passed Senate, but Sullivan said the subcommittee that formed the resolution did not favor the idea.
"Ins is a center the faculty is going to use," Schwartz said. "They should help pay for it."
Another stipulation asks the University to examine instituting a faculty fee to help pay for construction.
"We were told originally that state funds could not be used," Pisani said. "But the University can help us find a donor."
"We represent the body of students, not the faculty," Sullivan said. "We didn't feel it was our responsibility or right to suggest something like that to another body."
Rachel Schwartz, liberal arts and sciences senator, expressed a different view.
Roy Wedge, a 4-year-old Lawrence resident, plays with friends at Hilltop Child Center, 1314 Jayhawk Blvd. Student Senate is trying to find a way to finance a new child care center.
Child-care advocates cry for help
Center supporters seek support for senate plan from administration
By Lindsey Henry Kansan staff writer
Once upon a time, when Edward Meyen was the executive vice chancellor, he was a major administrative supporter of the proposal to build a new campus child-care center.
But after last year's administrative reorganization, Meyen is back in the classroom as a professor of special education, leaving many wondering if any administrative support remains to back Student Senate's proposal to improve campus child-care.
"I'm not sure where the administration stands," said Kevin Lafferty, Student Senate Executive Committee chairman. "There hasn't been that much communication."
"This is a major need on campus," Meyen said. "There are more students with child-care needs, and it is not
Meyen said that although he no longer worked in Strong Hall, he still had interest in the construction of a child-care center.
"I'm not sure where the administration stands. There hasn't been that much communication."
Kevin Lafforty committee chairman
uncommon that when recruiting faculty, child-care is an immediate concern. But I have no administrative power."
Lafferty said Senate had continued Meyen's initiative to make building a new center a top administrative priority.
Provost David Shulenburger said that the administration continued to support campus child-care but that he was not sure if the proposal fit into the University's plans.
"A lot of folks would like to see this," Shulenburger said. "But it is going to have to compete with other good things we want to do."
Jason Fizell, off-campus senator, said
there was considerable confusion regarding the administration's position.
they seem to be interested when we go in to speak with them, but from what I can see it is not going anywhere," Fizell said. "But I can't say what they are doing or not doing."
Linda Eakin, associate provost for support services, said he was not sure what the administration was doing to pursue funds to construct the center.
One solution Senate proposed was finding a private donor to supply the needed money, Lafferty said. Whether a donor is being pursued is unsure.
"Is it actively happening now? I don't know," Eakin said. "It is clear that there is not enough money to support it."
The lack of administrative commitment has frustrated Sean Haley, holdover senator.
Haley said that although the administration had acknowledged the importance of the center, it never would receive the same political support as Crumbling Classrooms or technology advancement.
"There has to be some level of administrative support," Haley said. "Students shouldn't have to back this 100 percent. It is a shame to not have it expanded. But if we don't receive some kind of support, I think we ought to discontinue it."
KU students still make jack-o-lanterns
Pumpkin patches, stores provide fruit for creative carving
By Megan Jordan
Kansan staff writer
Janet Schaake and her four children own the only pick-your-own patch in the area, Schaake's Pumpkin Patch, which is three miles east of Lawrence.
Not many KU students are on a search for the perfect pumpkin this Halloween. But for those who are, there are plenty of places to obtain the orange fruit of their dreams.
She said the pumpkin crop was better than expected this year. Normally, pumpkins require a hot, dry summer because it is difficult to pollinate them during rain. However, Schaake said, the unusually wet summer weather allowed for healthy vines, which produced a lot of pumpkins.
There are more than 25 different types of pumpkins, ranging from two pounds to 200 pounds. The Schaake's patch has 14 varieties and charges 14 cents a pound. So far, not many college students have come to the patch, Schaoke said.
Amy Tumlin, Overland Park junior,
does not have time to go to a pumpkin patch, but she is still looking forward to carving her store-bought pumpkin.
"You have to find the perfect one," she said. "I like them big and really round. I don't like the long ones."
Most Lawrence grocery stores have stocked pumpkins. Bridgeette Keller, assistant food store manager for Hy-Vee Food and Drug, 3504 Clinton Parkway, said the store had ordered about 3,500 pumpkins this fall for people who didn't have time to pick their own. The pumpkins weigh five to seven pounds each and cost 99 cents.
Darren Hoffman, Topeka freshman, said most college students did not bother to carve pumpkins.
"It's a mess, and they would have to go out and buy a pumpkin," he said.
Brebecca Marshall, Kansas City, Kan., junior, agreed that jack-o-lanterns were a hassle for busy students. When they do decide to carve a pumpkin, however, students get creative.
Tumlin said she stuck with the classic three-triangle, squigglymouth pumpkin. Even more than carving the pumpkin, however, she likes to toast the seeds.
The pumpkin season is coming to a close. This symbol of
Halloween can weigh two pounds to 200 pounds.
Steve Puppe / KANSAN
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