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VOL.101.NO.11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
KANAS STATE HISTORICAL
SOCIETY
TOPEKA KS 66612
MONDAY,SEPTEMBER 9,1991
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Thousands protest Azerbaijani elections
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — The southern republic of Azerbaijan held its first popular presidential election yesterday, but its current leader, a former Communist chief, was the only candidate on the ballot.
About 50,000 people carried blank ballots to Freedom Square in Baku, the capital, to protest the election, the independent Turan news agency reported. The protesters called for the resignation of the government, urged the creation of strike committees and demanded access to the republic's news media, Turan said.
Despite the protest and a call for a boycott, voter turnout was heavy, and President Ayaz Mualibalw was expected to win approval easily. news agencies reported. In one-candidate elections, voters can approve or reject the candidate.
Mutalibov, leader of the republic since 1990, called the election in June, two months before a coup attempt by hardline Communist Party members led to the disintegration of the party. He quit as leader of the Azerbaijanian Communist Party after the coup.
A Soviet television report last night quoted employees of the election commission in Baku as saying Mualibalov's election "can be considered a fait accompli." The Soviet news
agency Tass said.
Official results were expected as early as today.
An opposition figure from the Social Democratic Party withdrew his candidacy last week to protest what the Popular Front of Azerbaijan called undemocratic elections. The front called for the balloting to be postponed because the opposition had not been able to organize.
In Baku, the Popular Front of Azerbaijan said the presidential election had been tainted by voting irregularities. It said that election observers were not allowed in some polling stations and that officials handed out multiple ballots to some people so they could vote on behalf of their families, Turan reported.
Such elections were a hallmark of Soviet politics before President Mikhail Gorbachev took power in 1985 but have been rare in recent years under his democratic reforms.
Scare goods, such as sugar, sausage, candy and cookies, were put on sale at polling places to attract voters, the Popular Front said.
The election commission estimated that 83.7 percent of eligible voters cast ballots.
Matalibov, $3, is an economist and technocrat who rose through the Communist Party
ranks to head the republic.
After the failed coup, Mutalibov quit as Communist Party leader in the republic and seized party properties. Azerbaijan joined other republics in declaring independence from the Kremlin.
Vagif Samedoglu, an opposition leader, told an anti-election rally that the Kremlin supports Mutalibov because he does not deserve complete independence, Turan exported.
Turan said the leader of the Popular Front, Abulfas Yelchibey, urged government opponents to rally again on Friday to protest the election.
The republic of 7 million, whose population is predominantly Muslim, is engaged in a conflict with the neighboring republic of Armenia, whose population is predominantly Christian. The dispute centers on Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave composed of a mainly Armenian population but is controlled by Azerbaijan.
In Stepanakert, the principal city of Nagorno-Karabakh, only the Azerbaijani population voted, Tass reported. Tass said six people were killed and four seriously wounded in violence Saturday between Azerbaijanis and Armenians in the enclave.
Some Soviet troops leave Lithuania after recognition of Baltic freedom
VILNIUS, Lithuania — A convoy of Soviet trucks and armored vehicles left this capital city for Russian territory yesterday — two days after the Soviet Union recognized Lithuania's independence.
Lithuanian President Vytautas Landsbergis has asked repeatedly that all Soviet troops leave Lithuania by the end of the year.
Yesterday's departure had been forecast by Lithuanian government sources and a newspaper Saturday, and photographers and camera crews were on hand.
Sixteen trucks and nine armored personnel carriers were escorted by two Lithuanian police cars from the northern army garrison in Vilnius.
Police at the scene said they were ordered to escort the convoy to the Russian district of Kaliningrad, a Soviet enclave that borders
Lithuania to the west.
A Lithuanian Defense Department representative, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Lithuania was treating the departure as a movement because no formal withdrawal had been negotiated.
Deputy Premier Vygmus Vaicvira in Moscow on Saturday to talk with Soviet officials about the troops, Lithuanian television reported.
The precise number of Soviet troops in Lithuania has never been made public,but analysts said more than 100,000 were stationed in the Baltics, mostly in Lithuania.
On Friday, the newly formed state council of the Soviet Union recognized the 1940 annexation of Lithuania as illegal.
Some Interior Ministry troops have already pulled out from Lithuania and Latvia.
Fiscal belt tightens on state schools for '91-'92
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — School boards have never seen such a budget crunch, while universities have cut spending to compensate for shrinking state contributions to their revenue base in this year of fiscal belt tightening in Kansas.
"It's the toughest time I've been through," said Dale Dennis, deputy state education commissioner for financial services. He's in his 25th year as the state's top expert on elementary and secondary education.
It has been even worse on Kansas' 304 local school districts than it was in the early 1970s, Dennis said. That is when a tax lid law that was the pride of the administration of the late Gov. Robert Docking prevented districts from raising property taxes to expand their budgets.
Horror stories of budget slashing abound, and Dennis has heard them all. He's the state official who school superintendents and budget officers call for counseling and advice on how to trim their budgets.
The reason for the budget slashing is reduced state funding for both public school districts and Board of Regents institutions.
The 1991 Legislature, faced with a tight budget because of sluggish tax receipts and overspending in the past, passed a tax increase package that would have generated an additional million for state aid to school districts.
Then, two weeks ago, the State Finance Council approved Finney's call for an across-the-board 1-percent reduction in state spending. That took another $5.2 million bill in general state aid from school districts.
But when Gov. Joan Finney vetoed the tax bill in 1991, it reduced the amount of general state aid to local school districts from $545.9 million in 1990-91 to $813.9 million for the current school year.
The Legislature also appropriated $396.8 million in general fund money for the universities, which was only $4 million more than they received for the 1990-91 school year. Finney's 1-percent cut ate up that increase, leaving the universities with the same amount of state money as the previous year.
that is not all. The Legislature changed the distribution formula for allotting land aid to local districts, and that cost many of them — especially some of the larger districts — big chunks of state aid.
Because of Finney's 1-percent cut, school districts will have to get along with $1.8 million less in general state aid than they got last year.
Wichita's total state aid dropped nearly $10 million, while Olathe and Blue Valley lost about $3 million each, Topeka and Lawrence lost more than $2 million each, and Hays, Garden City and Dodge City all lost about $500,000.
About half the districts lost general state aid.
Working with leather carving tools, R.L. Bud Johnson, Lawrence, creates a design on a checkbook cover. Johnson worked yesterday at the Arts and Crafts Festival at South Park. The festival also featured live entertainment. For story, see Page 8.
Jennifer Hoeffner/KANSAN
Hammer time
KU not only school using the Jayhawk
By William Ramsey
KUisnot the only home of the Jayhawk
It has shown up on a sweatshirt for a small Iowa school system and on the uniforms of a Japanese football team.
Officially, the Jayhawk design is being used by a high school and a community college that have received the required permission from the Kapasua Unive Bookstore.
Victoria Thomas, University general counsel, said the University looked at each licensing situation individually. In the past, a few permissions have been given permission to use the Jaya-hawk design.
The drawing is a registered service mark. This means the bookstore can decide how to handle and who can use it. It might have been named 'bomspa'.
The university receives royalties in some cases where the logo is used on retail products. Thomas said. Excess money from royalties are added to scholarship funds.
The design of the Jayhawk is no longer exclusive to KU
Mike Reid, manager of the bookstore and director of the licensing program, said that organizations such as the Boy Scouts sometimes were given permission to use the Jayhawk but that he knew of only two schools that had been given permission to use the design: Jamestown Community College in New York and a high school in Pennsylvania.
Reid said permission was given to the schools before he became licensing director in 1987.
Thomas said that at one time a Japanese football team had used the mascot before KU found out about it and asked the team to stop using it.
"We want the depiction of the Jayhawk to be done appropriately because obviously it's going to have a big effect."
Pari Smart, Ormah, Neb, junior, found out firsthand that KU is not the only place you can attend.
Smart said that she was at the Nebraska State Fair in Lincoln, Neb., during Labor Day weekend when she saw a sweatshirt for sale that had the Jayhawk in yellow and green and another
school's name on it.
Representatives from the Gehlen school could
"I was appalled," she said. "I was making quite a bier fuss."
a girl's
For $5 Smart bought the sweatshirt, which is from the Ghien private school system in Le Mars, Iowa.
"I it's such a unique mascol," Smart said. "I think it is a shame that other schools can take it and change it to fit their needs."
from the Gelenium school could not be reached for comment, and Reid said he was not sure if the permission to use the mascot
The mascot's uniqueness is a selling point when people come to KU. Smart said.
"I thought it was kind of embarrassing to see the Jayhawk green and yellow like that," she said.
The bookstore bought the design, which is known as the "Smiling Jayhawk," in 1946 from
1834. The original Jawshak was designed in 1910 by another student, Henry Maloy.
Sandy, who sold the design to the bookstore for a few hundred dollars, said he opposed the idea of giving other schools permission to use it.
"I can't believe that anybody at KU would even think about giving away rights to a design like this."
Thomas said that the Jayhawk was originally copyrighted but that when the copyright expired, the bookstore registered the design as a service mark.
She said that there were substantial penalties for those who infringed on rights to a design protected by a service mark.
She said that when permission was asked, the licensing director considered what the group wanted to use the Jayhawk for and what possibility existed that people would confuse the other symbol with KU's mascot.
the intent of the licensing program is to ensure that the Jayhawk is properly represented, Thomas said.
Fliers apologize for inconvenience of budget cuts
ASK, Student Senate claim reductions in financing have hurt education at KU
By Blaine Kimrey
Kansan staff writer
KU students this year are suffering from the results of 1991 state budget cuts, according to a flier circulated during enrollment.
The flier, prepared by Associated Students of Kansas and KU Student Senate, was presented as an apology to the student body for the inconvenience
Although the flier was intended to increase student and parent involvement in lobbying the Legislature, only a handful of students have inquired about lobbying since the flier was circulated, said David Hull, KU ASK codirector for campus issues.
"Many part-time positions have been eliminated, and open positions are not being filled," the flier stated.
"It's not so much that students are apathetic, 'Hull said.' "They just don't know how much of a change they can make."
The Regents schools have made budget cuts because the 1991 Legislature cut 1 percent, approximately $1 million, from the state's general fund.
ASK, established in 1973, is a lobbying group made up of students from the six Board of Regents universities. It represents 80,000 students to the Legislature.
The cut was a result of the Legislature's failure to pass a tax plan in 1991, said Tim Nimz, executive director of ASK.
"Failure to approve that tax plan basically meant all the Regents universities were going to get a 1-percent increase in their operating budgets." Nimzsa said.
Troy Radakovich, head of the Stu-
den Senate Executive Committee,
said that with more student support
this year, Senate and ASK might have
a better chance to influence the Legis-
lature.
"If we could have had 28,000 students up in arms, we could have had more of an impact on the 1991 legislative decision." Radakovich said.
Del Brinkman, vice chancellor for student affairs, said the University had tried to absorb the cuts in areas other than academic.
"AlwaysatKU, wehavefried toprotect the academic mission," Brinkmansaid.
Keith Nitcher, University director for business affairs, said that student services took a lot of the cut.
KU froze all hiring early this summer because the Legislature originally had intended to cut the general fund by 2 percent.
the freeze was lifted, Brinkman said.
When the Legislature changed the cut to 1 percent later in the summer,
"our ability to fill positions has been affected by the timing of all this." he added.
"Although all academic positions have been authorized to be filled, I'm sure not all have been filled," he said.
By the time the freeze was lifted, many hiring prospects for KU had taken positions elsewhere, Brinkman said.
Therefore the cut has hampered the filling of existing positions and prevented the creation of new ones, Brinkman said.
"It's not always the administrators who are the bad guys," said Heiskmidt, a Kansas State University student. "I want the students to put
Todd Heitschmidt, chairperson of the AK board of directors, said he wanted the filer circulated during the trial because it was who was responsible for the cuts.
"Faculty salaries have been affected," Brinkman said. "We haven't been able to buy equipment. The quality of what we do is going to be affected."
pressure on the Legislature and the governor to restore educational funding."
Nirma said the Regents universities were hurt not only by the 1-percent cut in the general fund but also by the Legend's failure to pay the third year of the Margin of Excellence.
The Margin was the Regents three-year plan to bring the total financing of its six institutions to 96 percent of their peer schools and bring faculty salaries to 100 percent of their peers. The Legislature first provided the first two years but not the third.
"Our main concern is that if this attitude is allowed to continue, we are going to irreparably damage what the teacher's Excellence accomplished," Nimz said.
"We'll back where we started," he said. "You essentially be looking at $33 million investment down the drain."
Those interested in Associated Students of Kansas and its objectives can call David Hull or Joe Cinalli at 864-3710.