VOL.101,NO.35
THE UNIVERSITY DA KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY,OCTOBER11.1991
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KU police to travel to game at K-State
Four departments to patrol postgame at Aggieville
By Melissa Rodgers
Kansanstaffwriter
Students will not be the only ones taking a trip to Manhattan this weekend for the Kansas-Kansas State football game.
Eighteen KU police officers will join K-State police, Riley County police and Kansas Highway Patrol after the football game at Aggieville, Manhattan's entertainment district, said KU police representative John Mullens.
This is the third year that KU police have helped at Aggieville after a Kansas-K-State football game.
Charles Beckom, K-State police chief, said a total of about 50,000 people would be expected tomorrow night at Aggieville.
Beckom said tomorrow's game was sold out. Thirty-five thousand tickets have been sold, filling regular seating and temporary bleachers at the north end of the stadium. Beckom said.
Alvan Johnson, director of the Riley County police, said about 30 Riley County police officers would be on duty at Aggieville tomorrow night. Additional reserve officers will be stationed nearby, he said.
A three-block area of Aggieville will be closed to traffic after the game, and four
access gates will be set up at each end for pedestrians entering the area. Johnson said.
He said Rialley County of dealers would mobilize the gates to make sure they never overbrake. They were carried in.
Mullens said the KU police would set up their command post, a specially outfitted van, at the north end of Aggieville. The Kansas Highway Patrol command center will be at the south end.
KU police, who will be wearing helmets, will spend a lot of their time talking to people and making sure that liquor is not taken onto the street. Mullens said.
Mulens said Kansas and K-State fans were spectacular, but he said that because of the weather and the rivalry, the emotional level of the crowd could be higher than normal tomorrow. Both Kansas' and K-State's football teams are 3-1.
Police will be present to make sure minor incidents do not turn into large ones, Mullens said.
Johnson said he did not anticipate any problems with the crowd but wanted to be enraged.
preparato During 1984 and 1986, riots occurred at Aggieville after Kansas-K-State football games.
Group calling for vote on Fulcher finds apathy
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansanstaffwriter
Students for Justice missed its self-imposed deadline last night to complete a petition calling for a recall election on Monday. Darren Eulcher should remain in office.
This is the second target date the group has failed to meet. The group originally had intended to present a completed petition to the Elections Commission on Sept. 26.
the guess we just underestimated the time it would take," said Matthew All, Students for Justice secretary.
All said that students were numbed by the issue and therefore were not signing the peti-
Students for Justice began the petition after the KU Judicial Board agreed to hear an appeal of Senate's Sept. 12 decision to remove Fulcher from office.
Senate had voted to expel Fulcher after questions were raised about his credibility.
said.
Fulcher had been charged with battering his ex-girlfriend, a KU student, during a domestic dispute in February, according to Lawrence police and court reports.
Desey Tziortzis, vice president of Students for Justice, said that the group had collected between 2,000 and 2,500 signatures.
The group needs 3,775 signatures,15 percent of the student body eligible to vote, to mandate a student recidell election.
Fulcher will remain student body president during the review process.
If the students don't want to vote and they don't want to sign, we can't force them," she
"We had no tables setup this week because the issue has been so drawn out that students have grown apathetic."
Tziortzis said the group also had no tables set up this week because members were studying for midterm examinations.
"If there is an election, with the apathy I see now, I don't know if people will even get out and vote," she said.
Tortizis said the organization would continue to collect signatures anyway.
"Just because things have slowed down now doesn't mean that a reason to give up," she said. "Students have a right to vote. That's the essence of a democracy."
Tioritzis said the group would continue to collect signatures if the Judicial Board decided in favor of Fulcher.
Regardless of the Judicial Board's decision, a recall election can still take place, she
All said that because it was taking so long to collect signatures, the group's primary concern to resolve the issue quickly had been undermined.
he said there was a good chance the Judicial Board would decide on the appeal to the Senate's removal of Fulcher before a recall election would take place.
"But that was 'tour only motive,' he said. "We're not ready to quit yet."
"We're certainly disappointed at how slow it's gone," he said. "I think there are a lot of people who just want to move on."
KU awaits OK to raze damaged storage barn
"There's no question in my mind that there are 4,000 students who want to vote."
Building could be oldest on campus
By K.C.Trauer Special to the Kansar
Peggy Woods / Special to the KANSAN
A stone barn, which could be the oldest building on campus, might be torn down because of structural defects.
because it is not accurate.
At a Board of Regents meeting Sept. 19, KU received permission to tear down the barn, also known as the Gardener's Shack. The Kansas Legislature must give its approval before the building can be razed.
Situated at the northwest corner of Mississippi Street and Sunnyside Avenue, the barn's brick work and stone arches contrast with the more modern Dole Human Development Center, which looms over the small building.
James Modig, director of facilities planning, said an architect hired to analyze the barn's structure recommended that the building be torn down and replaced. The architect said that parts of the roof and stone walls were defective.
Roger Beckwitt of Lawrence cuts a wooden sign for Strong Hall at the Gardener's Shack. It reportedly would cost $650,000 to repair the stone barn's structural defects
defective. A portion of the building is unused because the defects make it dangerous to work in that area. Modig said.
The architect's report said that the $650,000 needed to repair the stone barn would exceed the cost of demolition and construction of a new building by $230,000.
According to records at University Archives, the barn was built as an animal shelter in 1905.
However, independent research suggests that it was built before 1953 and designed by John Haskell, a prominent Kansas architect. He also designed the east wing of the State Capitol, the Douglas County Courthouse and other historic Kansas buildings.
Sandra Wiechert, a researcher for the state historical society, said that the barn was built in 1887 and that little of the original building remained after several fires forced recon-
"I it's just a storage building, and it's quite adequate for that," she said. "Although not much of the original is left, the stonework is so beautiful."
Wiechert said the building's design was typical of Haskell's work. Haskell designed several other buildings for the University, but only Bailey Hall remains.
Modig said administrators were aware of the building's age.
"We did look at it from the standpoint that it was old but that it is only a storage-type building, and the building has been significantly altered," he said.
"It hit KU like a war," said Domer, also an associate dean of architecture and urban design. "When 1965 came, they started tear-
record presen tions. He said many campus buildings were demolished in the '60s and '70s, including Haskell structures.
intered, he resigned.
Dennis Domer, president of the Lawrence Preservation Alliance, said he would be disappointed if the building were torn down — especially because KU did not have a good record for preservation.
ang everything down, like the old Fraser Hall,
was really superior to the present one."
Dennis Farney, president of the Historic Mount Oread Fund, said he thought the attitude toward historic buildings had changed since then.
"There wasn't much concern in those days for preserving what was there," he said. "But you can contrast that with the Hoch fire where
administration officials were talking the same way we were about saving the outer facade."
University officials are uncertain what will replace the barn if it is razed.
Del Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor, said that a more modern storage building might be built or that the lot could be converted into a parking lot.
Senate stage set for showdown between Thomas, Hill
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON— The Senate set the stage yesterday for a showdown between Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, the woman accusing him of sexual harassment. And a second woman was subpoenaed to testify against Thomas.
Wright has been called to testify at Senate Judiciary Committee hearings that are scheduled to begin today. The hearings will pit Thomas against Hill, a University of Oklahoma law professor who has said Thomas was wrong when she won his assistant at the EOEC.
The Associated Press learned that the wit
ness is Angela Wright, a former employee at
the Equal Employment Opportunity Com-
munity, an editor at the Charlotte
(N.C.) Observer.
An official of the Bush administration said Wright was prepared to testify about being asked for a date by Thomas before she went to work at the EEC as the chief public affairs officer. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.
It was not clear when she worked for the agency or for how long.
"The White House has been notified by the Judiciary Committee staff that they intend to call another witness to testify against Judge Thomas," White House representative Sean Walsh said last night. "We cannot discuss the details of this matter, but Judge Thomas will deal with the allegations in the course of the hearings."
A second woman is subpoenaed to testify against Thomas. Nominee, supporters prepare to rebut allegations.
Walsh complained that the committee had not requested or pursued an FBI investigation of Wright's complaints. He said request for FBI investigation was the normal practice.
Hill spent yesterday consulting with her quickly formed legal team, said Louise Hilsen, a publicist hired to be Hill's representative during the hearings.
"He knows it's been terribly damaging, but he wants to do what he can to clear this cloud off his character," said Sen. Orrin G. Hatch, R-Uttah, who will act as 'Thomas' chief Senate defender during the hearings.
Hill is expected to be the lead witness when the hearings begin tomorrow morning. At stake in the proceedings is Thomas' bitterly fought nomination to the Supreme Court.
President Bush, meanwhile, continued to express support for his choice to succeed Thurgood Marshall on the nation's highest
court.
"I support him 100 percent," the president said. However, he added, "I'm simply not going to inject myself into what's on in the Senate. Let's see the Senate get on with this business in a fair fashion and get this matter resolved."
The hearings could last through the week end. The Senate is scheduled to vote at p.m.
Sen. Joseph R. Biden, D-Del., the head of the hearing panel, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., a former prosecutor, and Sen. Howell Heflin, D-Ala., a former judge, will ask questions for the Democrats.
Hatch will question Thomas while Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., former Philadelphia district attorney, will question Hill, aides said.
Two witnesses to whom Hill once told her allegations of sexual harassment were among those subpoenaed to testify, said sources familiar with the arrangements.
Susan J. Hoerchner, who graduated from Yale Law School in 1980 with Hill, told investigators that Hill once confided to her that she had been sexually harassed at the EOEC, said sources who spoke on condition of anonymity.
At a Capitol Hill news conference, Sen. John Danforth, R-Mo., Thomas's mentor and chief Senate champion, introduced several women who vouched for the nominee's character and sensitivity to the issue of harassment.
Search committee advertises vacant vice chancellor post
By Alexander Bloemhof Kansan staff writer
The search committee for a new vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service this week started advertising the open position.
Despite a request by University Council last month to take time for re-evaluating the position, the search committee has for the most part retained its original schedule.
The application deadline is Nov. 22, and the committee expects the new vice chancellor to start work in July, said Don Green, co-chair of the committee and distinguished professor of chemical and petroleum engineering.
The vice chancellor's position became vacant after Frances Horowitz, who held the position for 13 years, left the University of Kansas this summer to become president of the graduate school at City University of New York.
howard Mossberg, dean of pharmacy, is serving as interim vice chancellor until a successor for Horowitz is found.
Green said that some people thought graduate studies had been neglected.
In addition to being responsible for research, graduate studies and public service, the vice chancellor is also dean of the graduate school.
The Council had asked the committee in September to re-evaluate the position because faculty members were concerned that the vice chancellor had too many duties.
Kelley Hayden, assistant to the executive vice chancellor and staff coordinator of the search committee, said the committee had spent some time discussing the position with Mossberg, Chancellor Gene A. Budig and Deil Shankel, interim executive vice chancellor.
Therefore, Green said, the committee is looking for a candidate who is strongly interested in both graduate studies and research
However, Green said there were no significant changes in the job description.
cant change in the journey. "Our initial task was not to redefine the description," he said. "A thorough re-evaluation would have delayed the search by a year."
He said it had been the committee's understanding that Budig and Shankel wanted the position filled next year.
The University Senate Executive Committee earlier this month passed a resolution criticizing the fast pace of the search.
izing the workspace.
SenEx "regrets that the chancellor and executive vice chancellor did not make a sincere commitment to a full review of the responsibilities of the vice chancellor for research, graduate studies and public service ... before moving to the development of a job description," the resolution stated.
description, 'the belief'
Shankel said Mossberg had agreed to
be sent for only one year and that it was
necessary to start the search to find a good
candidate by next year.
Shankel said that and Budig were concerned about strengthening graduate studies but that the University could not afford to split the position.