TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31. 1995
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NEWS 864-4810
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SECTION A VOL.102, NO.51
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TODAY
KANSAN
SPORTS
Whoa, nelly!
ABC announced yesterday it will televise the Kansas-Nebraska game Nov.11. Page 1B
CAMPUS
Getting your voice heard
KU students can get involved with city government. Page 3A
NATION
Woman wins implant lawsuit
Dow Chemical Co. must pay nearly $14 million in damages to a woman whose silicone breast implants made her sick. Page 7A
WORLD
Russian politics out of control
Election campaigns are going haywire as two parties are banned and Yeltsin remains bedridden with heart problems. Page 7A
WEATHER
CHANCE OF RAIN
High 58° Low 43°
(USPS 650-640)
Weather: Page 2A
INDEX
Opinion ... 4A
Nation/World ... 7A
Features ... 8A
Sports ... 1B
Scoreboard ... 2B
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Students converge on Jayhawk Boulevard during a 10-minute time period between classes. Some students think 10 minutes is not enough time to fight the congestion and make it to class on time.
10 minutes equals a fast walk
Some say break between classes too short to get across campus,be on time
By Josh Yancey
Kansan staff writer
When 120 decibels of steam whistle turn an empty Jayhawk Boulevard into a mass of pedestrians, dogs and cyclists each hour, 10 minutes of freedom between classes doesn't seem like much.
It also doesn't help when not everyone is in a hurry.
"I hate it when people walk slow and hold up traffic," said Jennifer Carter, Lenene senior. "And when people walk against the flow."
The 10-minute break, however, is here to stay. At least for a while.
Tom Waechter, planning coordinator
for facilities management, said the prospect of extending the break between classes wasn't highly considered during
the formation of the University's 20-year campus plan for development and renewal. Extension of the break would mean extension of the academic day, he said, and it wouldn't change the distance that people would have to travel on campus.
"There are practical limits we have to consider," he said. "Even if the break is
A brisk walk — 7 to 8 miles an hour — would yield a mile in about seven minutes. Although the distance on Jayhawk
Amy Wolf, Lawrence senior, had back-to-back classes in the Kansas Union and Haworth Hall one semester. She said she usually made it from building to building just in time.
extended, people will still have to walk the same distance."
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"That was if I walked really fast," Wolf said. "And if I didn't stop anywhere."
walking too slow
walking against the flow
old-fashioned teller
Bad sidewalk etiquette
sidewalk talkers
Boulevard from the Kansas Union to the Chi Omega fountain is less than one-half mile, steps, crowds and pit stops keep many students from making it on time.
For one semester, John Estes, Lawrence senior, had 10 minutes to get from a gym class in Robinson Center to a physics class in the Kansas Union. He said his physics
professor wasn't fond of tardiness. Estes rarely made it on time.
One recurring pet peeve for students: sidewalk gabbers.
"I hate it when people stand in the middle of the sidewalk when it's packed and talk while other people have to go around them," said Brad Gustafson, Hinsdale, Ill., senior. "I mean, I really hate that."
Quebeckers vote against secession
Separatists lose battle by less than 1 percent
The Associated Press
MONTREAL — By a perilously narrow margin, Quebeckers heeded pleas for national unity and voted against secession yesterday, sparing Canada a traumatic fracture but leaving the French-speaking province split down the middle.
With 97 percent of the 22,400 polling stations reporting, the federalists led by 50.37 percent to the separatists' 49.63 percent. Federalists celebrated raucously at their headquarters, while separatists — who came closer than many had dreamed just a few months ago — wept.
ANALYSIS
Quebec's separatists, who lost a 1980 independence referendum by a 60-40 margin, improved their performance so dramatically this time that they are sure to shake off their disappointment and launch another try.
About 82 percent of Quebeckers are French-speaking, and roughly 60 percent of them voted for separation. As expected, roughly 90 percent of English-speaking and immigrant Quebeckers voted against secession.
The vote will leave scars in Quebec. But it will hearten the throngs of Canadians from other provinces who joined marches, rallies and vigils last week beeeching Quebec to stay.
A separatist victory would have spelled economic turmoil for Canada — and perhaps the greatest political crisis of its history. The nation would have lost one-fourth of its people and one-sixth of its land, a fracture without precedent among prosperous Western democracies.
The turnout, after a passionate campaign, was exceptionally large: 92 percent of the approximately 5 million registered voters.
In Verdun, a working-class suburb of Montreal, unemployed Bertrand Fontaine, 48, explained his Yes vote.
"I worked 18 years for a company, and now I've been unemployed for two years," he said. "That's enough. Maybe with new companies here, I'd have new chances. I have nothing to lose."
Annette Dupuis, 83, said she was proud to cast a No vote in the Montreal suburb of Aniou.
"My country is Canada," she said. "This is very important to me. If the Yes vote wins, I will shed tears. It will be the death of Canada."
The separatists' most charismatic voice, parliamentary opposition leader Lucien Bouchard, said Quebeckers should take pride in the campaign — one of the few times in world history where citizens were offered a vote on whether to secede.
"We demonstrated in Quebec that we are a democracy — that we can talk to each other." Bouchard said.
The federalists steadied themselves in the closing week with rallies across Canada that expressed support for Quebeckers and national unity.
Possible budget deficit threatens KU on Wheels
By Sarah Wlese
Kansan staff writer
KU on Wheels is in quite a predicament.
Last night, Student Senate's transportation board met to discuss options to keep KU on Wheels out of the red and restore its $120,000 reserve account.
Worse-case scenario budget projections put the campus transportation system about $60,000 in the hole by the end of the school year.
David Hardy, the board's adviser,
said board members needed to
come up with a way to deal with the
deficit and plan for the future.
Ideally, KU on Wheels needs $160,000 — about $60,000 to overcome the budget shortfall and about $100,000 to bring the reserve account to the necessary level.
"There is no 11th commandment that says Student Senate has to run a bus system," Hardy said. "But there is a 10-A that says if you're going to run one, it's got to be fiscally right, and that means no red ink."
To get that money, the board's two main options are requesting funds from Senate or cutting the hours that the buses run.
KU on Wheels' financial problems didn't appear overnight. Many factors fed into the current situation.
As students move farther away from campus, the bus system's routes have expanded to meet those students' needs.
expanded to meet those students' needs.
The bus system's annual subsidy from Student Senate has decreased.
Semester pass prices have gone from about $35 in 1989 to $60 this fall.
in each of the past three semesters, the pass price increased by $5.
Bus pass sales are down substantially from past years.
Residence halls students who have been in school for 10 or more years.
Bob Grunzinger, Senate treasurer and St. Louis senior, said if KU on Wheels received money from Senate, the majority of that money would be paid back over time.
Residence halls students, who have been the system's financial mainstay, have decreased in number.
Ken Martin, board member and
Lawrence senior, said the board shouldn't look only to Senate for financing.
"How many times are we going to go to Student Senate and say, 'Look, we need more money?'" Martin said.
The other option is cutting about 17 hours from the daily bus schedule between December and May. But even with 2,200 fewer bus hours, KU on Wheels would only break even.
Martin said he thought using a combination of both options would work the best.
Grunzinger said that he and others wanted more time to weigh the financial aspects of all options and then come up with different proposals.
After more than two hours of discussion, the board voted to delay deciding on a solution until its meeting Tuesday.
HALLOWEEN FUN
University groups treat children to Halloween fun
By Phillip Brownlee Kensan staff writer
Instead of trick-or-treating all over Lawrence, area children can collect their candy tonight at the University of Kansas.
KU residence halls, Jayhawker Towers, Alpha Chi Omega sorority and the Black Student Union each are sponsoring trick-or-treaters this evening. Hashinger and Ellsworth halls had trick-or-treaters Sunday night.
"The kids had a blast," said Jeremy Howard, Colby senior and Ellsworth Hall
resident.
Various residence hall members will be giving out candy from their rooms.
Besides giving out candy, Alpha Chi Omega, with the help of Alpha KappaLambda fraternity, is serving punch and cookies, having a "mild-mannered" haunted house, and providing special games and activities, such as face painting. It is the ninth year Alpha Chi Omega has opened its sorority house to area children.
One of the most popular attractions at Alpha Chi Omega will be the baby Jayhawk mascot, said Aimee Crawford. Bartlesville.
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The Black Student Union and the National Society of Black Engineers also are sponsoring a Hallowen party and games for children in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
"Everyone gets excited to see the Jahawk and to get their picture taken," she said.
Times for trick-or-treating are from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in b.Lynn Hall, from 6:p.m to 8 p.m. in Templin and Gertrude Sellars Pearson-Corbin halles and Alpha Chi Omega, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Oliver Hall, from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Jayhawker Towers, and from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Kansas Room at the Kansas Union.
In addition to inviting children to the University, Hispanic American Leadership Organization, the Asian American Student Union and the Greeks for Responsible Education Enhancing Cultural Sensitivity sponsored a Halloween party yesterday at Cordelle Elementary School. 1837 Vermont St.
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Although the Halloween events are for children, KU students said they also had fun.
"We get to act like kids again and have a good time," said Tiffany Ball, Arkansas City junior and Alpha Chi Omega member.
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