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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
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SECTION A VOL. 103, NO. 47
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1996
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Israeli pullout of Hebron still up in air after talks
JERUSALEM — U.S. envoy Dennis Ross went to Jerusalem and the Palestinians' Gaza Strip headquarters yesterday. Ross was there to work out a deal that would begin Israeli withdrawal from Hebron.
With warnings of violence from Jewish settlers in the West Bank town and from Islamic militants, both sides wanted to reach an agreement soon.
Palestinian sources and a representative for the Israeli government said that an agreement did not appear imminent after the meeting.
Ross suggested that a new deal on the months-overdue pullback agreed to by Israel's previous government could be delayed if Yassar Arafat left today on a week-long trip to Europe.
interest groups spike upcoming elections
Bears and bobcats in Massachusetts. Parental rights and church taxes in Colorado. Marijuana and affirmative action in California.
it's ballot-branding season again.
Time for interest groups to spice up the vote with particular causes and crusades.
They range from the hugely divisive Proposition 209 in California, which would dismantle most of the state's affirmative action programs, to an effort in Colorado to eliminate property tax exemptions for nonprofit organizations.
This year's ballots are packed with a record number of citizen initiatives — 90 in the 24 states that permit such a process — and more state and local government proposals across the country.
GM negotiations stalled with auto labor union
DETROIT — As a midnight deadline neared, General Motors Corp. and United Auto Workers negotiators tried to complete a new labor contract yesterday to avoid a possible strike against the world's biggest automaker.
Neither GM nor UAW representatives would discuss the negotiations, which were believed to be hung up on the union's demand that GM follow the job-security pattern set by national contracts signed by Ford Motor Co. and Chrysler Corp.
GM cannot afford another strike while it recovers from the effects of the recent three-week walkout by the Canadian Auto Workers union, said Harley Shaliken, a labor professor at the University of California-Berkeley.
Kemp criticizes those who abandoned Dole
WASHINGTON — Calling Bob Dole a hero, Jack Kemp scolded fellow Republicans yesterday for appearing to abandon Dole in his "moment of need" to focus on keeping control of Congress instead.
With Election Day loaming and Dole still well behind President Clinton in the polls, Kemp also made another plea to Reform Party candidate Ross Perot, beaching Perot to drop out and throw his support to Dole.
"Ross, I beg you. You should be supporting the one man who can bring about these reforms in America," he said on CBS' Face the Nation.
The Associated Press
Perot, who last week rebuffed a direct endorsement overture from the Dole campaign, stressed again yesterday that he was in the race to stay.
Senate reforms elections
New bill demands kinder, gentler Senate campaigns
By Spencer Duncan
Kansan staff writer
"I think that the items outlined in this legislation will increase respect for the campaign process, and that will increase respect for Student Senate," McKee said.
Student Senate elections may become more voter-friendly thanks to new Senate rules.
Senate passed a bill on Wednesday restricting the ways students seeking Senate office could run campaigns.
The bill, sponsored by Jordan McKee, holdover senator, mandates campaign limitations and ethical responsibility.
However, the Senate did not limit passive table campaigning. A candidate may still set a table in front of Wescoe or the Kansas Union at any time. However, candidates must sit behind the table and cannot walk around talking to people.
"This bill means that candidates can't walk up to people and throw fliers into their faces until right before the election," McKee said.
Under the ethical responsibility portion of the bill, students campaigning are expected to abide by the elections commission's rules.
The bill originally contained a provision that stated that all campaigning was expected to be done in a mature, professional and legitimate manner.
However, this was struck when Jason Angilan, graduate senator, questioned the provision's meaning.
"This is not going to cure the ills," Fitzell said. "Right now, people spend thousands of dollars to get elected to this body. That is more than we are sometimes willing to give to student groups."
"Who is to define maturity or immaturity, who is to define professionalism, and unprofessionalism and who defines what legitimate behavior is?" Angilan said. "Anyone can be brought before the elections commission for a lot of different reasons under this."
However, Fizell voted for the bill, and it passed unanimously.
The revision was cut from the bill.
The only opposition came from Off-Campus Senator Jason Fizzell. He said the bill should be tougher.
"This isn't going to solve all the problems," he said, "but it is a good step."
New Reform Definitions
- "Active Table Campaigning" refers to the process of promotion and distribution of campaign paraphernalia from people stationed at tables.
- 6. 3.2 Campaign Limitations. All students campaigning for Student Senate positions and Student Senate Elections Coalitions will limit their active table campaigning to the week prior to the week of elections and the Monday and Tuesday prior to the two election days. Passive table campaigning shall not be limited unless dictated by the Elections commission.
- "Passive Table Campaigning" shall not include promotion and distribution of campaign materials away from...tables.
Rules:
6. 3.3 Ethical Responsibility. All students campaigning for Student Senate positions and Student Senate Elections Coalitions are expected to abide by all rules and regulations enacted by the Elections Commission.
Geoff Krieger/KANSAN
The Latin-American "Days of the Dead" exhibit at the Museum of Anthropology showcases skeleton art, which is made as a gift and to commemorate the dead. Below is an Alebrile (visionary beasts).
Museum revives icons in 'Days of the Dead' show
By Liz Musser
Kansan staff writer
The Museum of Anthropology
Every Halloween, kids in the United States dress up in costumes of post-mortem figures such as mummies, vampires and skeletons and participate in a holiday that says death is scary.
Intended to welcome deceased relatives back into the community, people in Mexico and other Latin-American countries spend late October and early November celebrating Los Dias de los Muertos, or the "Days of the Dead."
"It's like a reunion," said Maria Martin, public relations director for the Museum of Anthropology. "It's a way of not mocking death, but confronting something that is a part of life."
Late October is quite the opposite in Latin America.
opened its third annual Los Dias de Los Muertos exhibit Friday night. The exhibit, which will run through Nov. 17, features Days of the Dead icons that either have been borrowed from collectors or bought by the museum.
One of the prominent themes of the exhibit is skeletons. By giving toys to children that depict skeletons doing everyday things, elders in the Mexican culture hope to provide kids with an early awareness of death.
The exhibit has toy skeletons doing everything from riding bikes to playing instruments. One display case has toy skeletons hanging out in a bar.
"The bar case is definitely the most underrated part of the whole exhibit," said Mark Bussow, a museum assistant and LeCrous Wsse. senior.
Bussow said the exhibit showed
how another culture celebrated a holiday comparable to Halloween with a different twist. He stressed that reading the literature on signs that accompanies artwork made the exhibit more worthwhile.
"A lot of people come in to look and they say 'Oh, that’s cute,' but if you read the stuff on there, it’s interesting and actually kind of funny." Bussow said. The literature is printed in both
The literature is printed in both Spanish and English.
Guido Cubilla, who is visiting Lawrence from Asunción, Paraguay, said that he was very impressed with the exhibit.
"A lot of the stuff here is similar to what we have in Paragua during Los Dias de Los Muertos," he said.
Computer lab opening faces series of delays
By Bradley Brooks
Kansan staff writer
"I went over there and it still wasn't open. I've kinda given up on using it," said Jody Linn, Abilene sophomore. "I think it is pointless to keep trying."
A multi-departmental effort to open a new computer lab in Fraser Hall has again fallen prey to a series of delays. The lab was scheduled to be operational a few weeks into the semester, but it remains closed.
The lab, which will be located in 4 Fraser Hall, has been victim to delays in various departments on campus.
Beverly Davenport-Sypher, associate dean of social sciences, led the effort to move and make improvements to the lab, which was originally located on the first floor of Fraser.
Davenport-Sypher said the project was first delayed while acquiring funding. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences picked up the estimated $100,000 expense for the renovations and improvements.
Then, finding a room to use and converting that space took nearly a year. After the location was determined and the room was made computer-ready, 25 new computers and furniture for the lab had to be ordered.
While the computers arrived before the semester began, the tables for the computers did not arrive until early September.
Butch Larios, remodeling coordinator for facilities and operations, said that their responsibilities in the project were completed last week.
"We received the request last November, and the tables weren't ordered until May," Larios said. "We had to run power to the room, and once the tables arrived we set them in the room and bolted them down."
Larios said that it was now up to the networking and telecommunications department to complete the lab.
Jan Weller, director of networking and telecommunications, said that her department received word late last week that the room was ready to be wired.
"We have all of our materials. We're just waiting to be told 'Do your work.'" Weller said.
Weller said that her department would begin working on the lab by the middle of next week. They should complete it within two or three days.
Linn said that the delay in the lab's opening had caused her some problems.
"It has made it difficult to use a computer, obviously," she said. "I've had to take other options."
Linn said that she has had to go the Computer Center to meet her computing needs.
"There have been a few more lines there; I've had to wait in line," she said. "It's just more time-consuming."
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