VOL.101.NO.30
THE UNIVERSITY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
FRIDAY OCTOBER 4,1991
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Mail-in fee payment may be in KU's future
By Blaine Kimrey
Cincinnati staff unit
Mail-in fee payment and multiple
enrollment centers may be on the hori-
zor.
Rich Morrell, KU registrar, said yesterday that the University was working on establishing the two programs
With decentralized enrollment, Strong Hall would no longer be the only place to enroll. Satellite enrollment centers would be created across campus.
He said the decentralized fee pav
ment program could be in place for fall enrollment in 1993.
The mail-in fee payment program could be available as early as the fall 1992 semester, Morrell said.
The Fee Policy Committee met this week and will be sending a proposal to the administration asking for the fee system for next fall, Morrell said.
"I frankly can't wait to get there." Morrell said. "I just feel awful when I see those students standing in line."
David Ambler, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the new fee payment system would be much more efficient than the current three-day process, in which payment must be made at the Kansas Union.
Ambler said that with the new fee payment program, students would fill out fee request cards in July. The students would include planned class schedules and any desired optional bus pass, on the payment notice.
Ambler said the students could mail in their payments later in August and
avoid having to shuffle through long lines the week before classes started.
Early fee payment will allow earlier late enrollment, Amber said. "I will help the school because we know in will August who will be coming back."
Morrall said the current fee payment procedure occurred too late in the year for the University to prepare efficiently for class sizes.
"The problem we have now is classes are tight, and what we're finding is, when the dust settles, there is room in some of the classes," he said.
priority, he also would be working to instill the decentralized enrollment model.
Ambler said the proposed decentralized enrollment program would create enrollment satellite centers in the professional schools and possibly in the Kansas Union and the residence halls.
At the satellite centers, students could self-enroll by entering their schedules into computer terminals, or they could include enrollment instructions.
Although the students could enter their schedules without the help of
computer operators, advisers would be at the satellite centers. Ambler
He said students could enroll with the decentralized system without ever leaving home. "It is possible that students could access the system through a modem from their office or home." Ambler said.
The satellite centers would help reduce lines during enrollment and allow students to enroll at their leisure a week-long period. Ambler said.
U.N. team begins surveillance by air
"It will make our enrollment stu dent-friendly," he said.
The Associated Press
MANAMA, Bahrain — Weapons inspectors searching for Seud missiles and launchers flow U.N. helicopters over Iraq territory yesterday for the first time since Iraq backed down and gave its permission.
The U.N. inspectors planned to make unrestricted surveillance flights in remote areas and to stage surprise visits at sites suspected of holding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Earlier teams have been restricted to the Baghdad area by lack of transportation.
The 20-member team took off from Baghdad's Rasheed military base, and Abu Shaul Livingston, an official at Alabat Special Commission's office in Rahim.
The commission's chairman, Rolf Ekeus, arrived in Bakhrain yesterday en route to Baghdad with his deputy, Robert Gallucia, to discuss the inspections with Iraqi officials, Livingston said.
The inspection teams work for the commission, which is overseeing the elimination of Iraq's long-range missiles and nuclear, chemical and biological weapon programs under the Persian Gulf warsease-fire.
Saddam Hussein's government long opposed the U.N. helicopters, saying the inspectors should fly aboard Iraqi aircraft. But it gave in to demands by the U.N. Security Council last week after warnings from the United States
that the lack of cooperation could bring new military action.
Last week, the Iraqis detained a team of U.N. nuclear experts for more than four days in an attempt to prevent them from taking documents that could detail Iraq's clandestine program to produce nuclear arms. Iraq finally allowed the team to carry out 25,000 pages of documents.
Gallucci was part of the team, which had camped out in a Baghdad parking lot. In an interview in Bahrain yesterday, Gallucci acknowledged he had used a satellite telephone to report the documents directly to Washington.
He said he asked officials in Washington to pass on the report to U.N. authorities after the Iraqis prevented him from transmitting the information by laptop computer to U.N. offices in Vienna or New York.
U. N. officials reportedly were embarrassed that information had been sent to Washington first. Iraqi officials had accused the chief inspector of being a U.S. spy and said Gallucci's call was further evidence of espionage.
Gallucci also said he had no information to lead the team to think the Iraqs had a secret uranium enrichment facility. The New York Times reported yesterday.
The newspaper said the commission had been hunting for an unidentified mastermind behind the entire Iraqi war weapons development program.
Yearbook photos
In Strong Hall's rotunda, photographer Paul Evans of Carl Wolfe Studio takes a test picture of Christi Wier, Overland Park senior. Undergraduate photographs will be taken until Oct. 25.
Diane Simpson, Liane Davis and Joanne Collins discuss women's rights, the Supreme Court and Clarence Thomas.
Future of abortion rights debated
By Rochelle Olson
The Supreme Court most likely will have the chance to overrule the landmark abortion case Roe vs. Wade within a few days, a Lawrence attorney said last night.
"The prediction is that Roe vs. Wade will be overturned in some respects," an analyst wrote.
Kansanstaffwriter
Simpson was one of four women who spoke to about 30 people at a forum about women's rights and the Supreme Court at the Pine Room in the Kangas Union.
Clarence Thomas, the nominee to the Supreme Court who recently completed Senate confirmation hearings, has supported the Senate's return Roe vs. Wade, Simpson said.
Roe vs. Wade is the 1973 Supreme Court decision that gave women the constitutional right to vote.
Simpson also said that Thomas had
indicated that he had strong anti-crime leanings and would be willing to take away some rights of criminal defendants.
Rights of the accused are important because many people charged with crimes often cannot afford an attorney and may be sent to court-appointed attorney, Simpson said.
In the case, Rust vs. Sulivan, the court prohibited doctors who receive federal money to operate clinics from mentioning abortion to their patients.
Liane Davis, associate professor of social welfare, said she thought one recent Supreme Court ruling was particularly disturbing for women's rights.
Davis said it scared her to hear that the federal government could dictate what the state would do.
The decision also indicates that the court is going to push the conservative agenda.
the ones who are going to be most affected by a group of privileged people sitting in the lobby of a building.
"Poor women and women of color are
Davis feared that Roe vs. Wade would be overturned but hoped it would be protected in some states, she said.
Joanne Collins, a former Kansas City, Mo., councilwoman, disagreed.
She said she thought Thomas would have a positive effect on the Supreme Court.
"I don't feel that the court would overturn Roe vs. Wade." Collins said.
"We have some problems in this country," Collins said. "I think he's a pathway to getting through them."
Collins said that to balance the power of the court, women should pay close attention.
Margaret Hu, Manhattan junior, said, "It's important that women demand a certain level of information."
Positive HIV tests decline as low-risk groups enter study
ATLANTA — More than 1.3 million AIDS tests were administered at government-funded sites last year and the highest infection rate was found in prisons rather than clinics or drug centers, officials said yesterday.
The Associated Press
The national Centers for Disease Control said 65,171 AIDS tests were given in prisons, and 3.8 percent detected HIV, the most infectious virus that causes Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome.
That's compared with a 5.3 percent positive rate at drug treatment centers, 2.9 percent at clinics for patients with sexually transmitted diseases and 0.8 percent at colleges.
Overall, about 51,000, or 3.7 percent, of the 1,368,000 AIDS tests at public sites were positive. Two years earlier, such tests had 645,000 AIDS tests, with about 30,000, or 4.7 percent, positive.
spread, according to the CDC.
"The increase in testing is primarily in heterosexuals," who are less frequently infected with the virus, said Carl Campbell, chief of program development at the CDC's sexually transmitted disease-HIV prevention division. "The percentage of positivity declined. We'd expect that."
Among people with varying risk factors for AIDS, the highest rate of positive tests occurred in acknowledged homosexual or bisexual men and women who use drugs, 19.5 percent. Gay male sex and use of drug needles are the two chief ways AIDS is
Tests among heterosexuals who reported a risk for AIDS, either multiple sex partners or a partner already infected, showed a 1.9 percent infection rate. But those people accounted for more than 40 percent of the AIDS tests given at public sites last year, the CDC said.
The Atlanta-based CDC's report cautioned that the data do not include AIDS tests given in private doctors' offices, hospitals, blood centers, military installations or other sites. Thus, "the findings are not representative of all persons in the United States," it said.
The CDC said an estimated 3.3 million people have been tested for AIDS since 1985 in public programs, such as those at government clinics and drug centers. About 185,000 of those tests have been positive.
"A large proportion of the estimated 1 million HIV-infected person in the United States were infected with their infection," the CDC said.
A CDC report last year, detailing the largest collection yet of AIDS test results, cited infection rates of 0.1 percent in military testing, 0.7 percent at large urban hospitals and about 8 in 100,000 - at American Red Cross blood centers.
That report found a somewhat lower rate at drug treatment centers, 4.1 percent, and a higher rate in clinics cited in the new report.
OAS group to ask leaders in Haiti coup to step down
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - As U.S. officials closely tracked the safety of Americans in Haiti yesterday, a nine-member international diplomatic mission made plans to visit the island nation to ask the military junta to step down.
The Pentagon reviewed contingency plans to evacuate the estimated 8,000 Americans in Haiti, but the need for that measure seemed to diminish as the U.S.-Prince were generally calm.
Meanwhile, deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide received an unprecedented recognition from the organization of American States.
It also authorized a delegation to visit Haiti to inform the junta of the *rejection* by the Americas to the destruction of constitutional order.
Shortly before 2 a.m. e.year, OAS foreign ministers meeting here recommended that all member states sever ties with the U.S. and financial ties with Haiti and refuse to recognize the judi.
Aristide said as he made the rounds on Capitol Hill. "With the support of the international community, there is no doubt that we will be able to save democracy in Haiti."
Marlin Fitzwater, White House press secretary, said Alvin Adams Jr., the U.S. ambassador, talked with coup leaders about the safety of Americans. Fitzwater said there were no plans for an evacuation.
"We are watching the situation very closely," he said.
Pentagon sources disclosed Wednesday that a contingent of Marines was sent to the area to investigate an incoherent rescue operation needed.
Since Monday, violence has reportedly claimed more than 100 lives in Haiti.
The OAS mission will include representatives from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, the United States, Jamaica, Trinidad and Venezuela. The head of the delegation will be OAS Secretary General Joao Baena Soares of Brazil. The departure date had not been set.
"We are very, very pleased with the way this resolution came out," said Bernard Arsonon, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs. He said he expected all OAS member states would abide by the voluntary sanctions.
Aristide, who plans to meet today with President Bush, said he hoped the crisis could be resolved peacefully.
"It's better to think of the force of the international community than to think of other forces," said Aristide, who arrived here Wednesday from his temporary exile in Venezuela to attend the OAS meeting.
Japan joined the international campaign against the junta yesterday, suspending its $8.3 million aid program for Haiti. The Soviet Union also supports the OASresolution.
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