VOL.101.NO.11
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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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 Mutalibu 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 hard-line Communist Party members led to the disintegration of the party. He quit as leader of the Azerbaian Communist Party after the coup.
A Soviet television report last night quoted employees of the election commission in Baku as saying Mualibouf'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 baki, 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 are a hallmark of Soviet politics before President Mikhail Gorbachev took power in 1985 but have been rare in recent years under his democratic reforms.
Scarce 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.
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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 demand complete independence, Turan reported.
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 Nagoron-Karabakh, an enclave composed of a mainly Armenian population but is controlled by Azerbaijan.
In Stephanakert, 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.
The Associated Press
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 Vygmas Vaievla was in Moscow on Saturday to talk with Soviet officials about the troops, Lithuanian television reported.
On Friday, the newly formed state council of the Soviet Union recognized the 1940 annexation of Lithuania as illegal.
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.
Some Interior Ministry troops have already pulled out from Lithuania and Latvia.
Fiscal belt tightens o state scho for '91-'92
The Associated Press
"It's the toughest year I through," said Dale Dennin, state education commission financial services. He's in 1 year as the state's top esd institute and elementary and secdation.
Horror stories of budget s abound, and Dennis has hear all. He's the state official who superintendents and budget call for counseling and advice to trim their budgets.
The reason for the budget slau reduced state funding for bodi school districts and Board of I institutions.
1 one 1991 Legislature, faced tight budget because of slugs receipts and overspending in t passed a tax increase packa would have generated an add $5 million for state aid to set
TOPEKA — School board never seen a budget while universities have cut s and compensate for shrinking stributions to their revenue bus year of fiscal belt tighter
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3041 local school districts than it
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when a tax lid law that was the
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from raising property taxes to
their budgets.
But when Gov. Joan Finney the tax bill in May, it reduce amount of general state aid school districts from $545.9 m 1990-91 to $519.3 million for the school year.
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3396.8 million in general fund
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million more than they recel
the 1990-91 school year. Finne
cent cut at age that increase,
the universities with the same
of state money as the previous
Then, two weeks ago, the Finance Council approved F call for an across-the-board reduction in state spending. Then another $2.5 million bite in state aid from school districts.
Because of Finney's 1-piece school districts will have to g, with $3.8 million less in gene aid than they got last year.
That is not all. The Legi changed the distribution form allotting state aid to local d and that cost many of them e-ly some of the larger district chunks of state aid.
Wichita's total state aid oi-
early $11 million, while Ola
Blue Valley lost about $3 milli
Topeka and Lawrence lost me
$2 million each, Hays, Gar-
and Dodge City all lost about $
About half the districts lost state aid.
Football players get help with academics
--the most important thing is that we wanted our players to establish a relationship outside the athletic department with someone in the academic community," said Tim Allen, assistant director of student support services of the athletic department.
By William Ramsey
Kansan staff writer
Off the field, Kansas football players get a little extra coaching.
The guidance is not athletic; it is academic.
Players work in a program where they are assigned a mentor who helps plan their schedules and answer general questions.
"They do more of the nuts and bolts in terms of studying and getting the special people who can help them and tutor them in the areas
Allen said the program worked well because the participating faculty members were interested in the players.
"It isn't just a one-shot deal," he said. "It's an association that will be present throughout the person's stay at the university."
John Michel, professor of speech, language and hearing and an adviser in the program, said he kept up with the football players he was joining the program four five years ago.
Michel said that players had had dinner at his house and that he went to practice occasionally.
"The thing I've been impressed by in the program is that they seem to have an interest in the young men beyond the field," Michel said. He said, he said, a put lot of hard work into academics.
He credits the coaches and faculty with creating an environment that encourages the students outside of athletics.
where they have special needs, " Michel said.
where Senior fullback Roger Robben said that the advising portion of the program was helpful Robben was one of 29 players out of 111 on the squad who made a 3.0 grade point average or better last spring.
"It's really a good setup because you have somebody who has really more of an understanding of how the University works," Robben said.
Allen said faculty members will often help the students anticipate a problem they might have.
In addition to the advising, football staff members look at each incoming freshmen's academic background to plan a study program, he said.
Freshmen scholarship players have two hours of nightly study hall Monday through Thursday and additional study time on the weekend.
All scholarship players must maintain the grades that are set for all students by university guidelines.
Robben said that the schedule for football players was tough.
Alen said that players who skipped class were required to attend extra study and tutoring.
If you're going to be a part of this program,
you're going to go to class and work toward a
"There has to be a balance maintained between the field and work in the classroom, he said.
Players on last spring's squad had an average 2,66 GPA, Allen said.
He said that Kansas football coach Glen Mason demanded that players followed a disciplined study program.
The Associated Press Top 25
The Top 25 teams in the Associated Press 1991 college football poll, with firstplace votes in parentheses, records, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and preseason ranking
TEAM RECORD TOTAL POINTS PRESEASON
1. Florida State (54) 1-0-0 1,469 1
2. Michigan (1) 0-0-0 1,363 1
3. Miami (1) 1-0-0 1,318 2
4. Washington (2) 0-0-0 1,257 4
5. Penn St. 1-0-0 1,225 7
6. Florida 0-0-0 1,148 5
7. Notre Dame 0-0-0 1,113 6
8. Clemson 0-0-0 1,026 9
9. Oklahoma 0-0-0 963 10
10. Houston (1) 1-0-0 933 12
11. Tennessee 0-0-0 883 11
12. Colorado 0-0-0 830 13
13. Texas 0-0-0 792 14
14. Nebraska 0-0-0 638 15
15. Iowa 0-0-0 541 18
16. Southern Cal 0-1-0 532 16
17. Georgia Tech 0-1-0 514 8
18. Auburn 1-0-0 432 17
19. Michigan St. 0-0-0 411 20
20. Alabama 0-0-0 339 22
21. Texas A&M 0-0-0 313 21
22. Ohio St. 0-0-0 234 23
23. UCLA 0-0-0 157 24
24. Syracuse 0-0-0 141 25
25. Brigham Young 0-1-0 122 19
TOTAL POINTS PRESEASON
Other teams receiving votes: Baylor 93, Louisville 87, North Carolina 67, Pittsburgh 63, Illinois 28, Virginia Tech 21, Oregon 20, North Carolina St. 19, California 17, LSU 12, Mississippi 11, Air Force 10, Georgia 9, Virginia 9, Colorado St. 4, San Diego St. 3, South Carolina 3, Hawaii 2, Southern Mississippi 2, KANSA S 1
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