THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.99, NO.152 (USPS 650-640)
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
WEDNESDAY JULY 19,1989
Coalition to appeal decision
Certain Impact to go before board
by Sharon Chapman Kansan staff writer
Members of the Certain Impact coalition are challenging the decision of the Elections Review Board after last April's Student Senate election.
The board fined the winning coalition, Common Cause, $150 for overduring their campaign.
Scott Hedrick, Certain Impact presidential candidate, said that finding the coalition was not the correct procedure.
The rule Hedrick is concerned with is the excess expenditure rule in the Student Senate handbook.
"The rules of Student Senate are very clear,"Hedrick said.
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It states, "Any candidate that exceeds expenditure limits as given in this Article shall lose his or her seat in the Student Senate or his or her position as Student Body president or vice president."
"Why have a rule like that, that's so specific in its punishment if we're not going to enforce it?" Hedrick said. "So their interpretation of the rules."
The appeal will be heard Friday by the University Judiciary Board, a panel of five members who are in charge of the pool of faculty, staff and students.
Sandra Wick, University Senate Executive Committee administrative assistant, the hearing would not be open to the public.
B. Jake White, student body president, and Jeff Morris, vice president, both said the excess was a result of incorrect information supplied to the coalitions by Jane Hutchinson, then Senate President Senate Executive Committee.
"Everyone received the same information," Morris said. "We're admitting that we spent that much money were just going on their information."
Hedrick said it was the responsibility of each candidate to read and understand Senate rules.
"We all have to sign a paper saying we've read the rules before we can run." he said, "ignorance of the law is no excuse."
white said Certain Impact had the right to appeal but he hoped that the hearing would settle this issue.
"I hope that the facts will show through that we did not knowingly violate any regulations," he said.
void all regulations.
Hedrick said he was not trying to oust Common Cause, he just wanted the rules to be applied correctly.
Senate will suffer, Morris said, if Common Cause was removed from office.
"It would be really bad, because we are already so far into Senate business," he said.
The American Roofing Co. waits for pieces of insulation to be lifted to the roof of McCollum Hall. The company has been re-roofing since May
Roof work
Computer sales to be studied
by Barbara Kollmeyer
Kansan staff writer
The State Joint Committee on Economic Development yesterday decided to recommend that a study be conducted on computer sales by state university bookstores.
The committee will recommend the study to the Legislative Post Audit Committee. The Post Audit Committee will then review the request and decide whether it will be approved for study.
The purpose of the study would be to gather more information on a controversy between local computer manufacturers and state university computer sales.
State Rep. Jessie Branson, D-Lawrence, said that the Legislature
Grievances by local businesses include computer deals offered to students, faculty and staff, which hurt many retail computer sales. IBM. Create. Count all offer to students through the University of Kansas.
began receiving complaints from local computer businesses in November and December.
Richard King, manager of Computerland, said he sent a letter to State Sen Wint Winter, R-Lawrence, last year which expressed his concerns about the mailing lists Apple was using to send advertisements. The advertisements were sent to students, faculty and staff at K11
King said that it had recently been brought to his attention that IBM wanted to establish a computer center on campus. He said that would be unfair competition for his business, which also sells IBM computers.
"In the process of reviewing computer sales, which is in the hands of the committee, it is in their best interest to work with small businesses," King said.
Results of the study, made by the post audit division, will be returned to the Legislative Post Audit committee. The results will be submitted to the committee. Reports would then be
made to the Legislature and the Governor.
Branson said approval of the study was expected because the request was approved unanimously by the economic development committee.
economic development," "This is a complex issue," Branson said.
The committee is also requesting an amendment to a bill draft which would prohibit state agencies from handling manufactured goods offered by private enterprises, Branson said.
The original draft does not include Board of Regents schools, community colleges, or area vocational schools as state agencies requested amendment to the original plan would include these as state agencies.
agency. Branson said that the original draft of the bill would establish a Private Enterprise Review Board, which would receive written complaints from the private sector against state agencies.
The Eagle landed 60 years ago
by Dick Lipsey
Kansan staff writer
The Cheap Rocket Society tests its latest rocket engine, the Hybrid.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was a time of beginning that carried the seeds of its own end. It was the summer of 1969.
American soldiers were at war in Vietnam. Our country was divided by protests against the war and by the aftermath of the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr.
But around the world people looked into the heavens and strained to see two men, representing all of humanity, as they walked upon the surface.
"It was one time when the whole world was united," said David R. Downing, chairman of the department of aerospace engineering."For a while it was as though there were no boundaries on earth.
"I was proud that Neil Armstrong talked of mankind and the human race."
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind," Armstrong said as he stepped onto the moon's surface.
It was twenty years ago tomorrow that Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin landed their lunar module, Eagle, on the moon.
The success of the mission known as Apollo 11 was the culmination of a goal set by President John F. Kennedy to address to Congress on May 25, 1961.
the U.S. space program then was best known for its embarrassing failures. The first attempt to launch a satellite, Vanguard, had failed when the launch rocket blew up as a world-wide audience watched.
"I believe that the nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of finding a solution," he said. "Himself has安全到 Kentucky."
The Soviet Union had sent a cosmoson into orbit around the earth, but the best U.S. effort was a 300-mile suborbital mission to get the satellites to contribute their successes in space as an example of the superiority of their system.
Jim Stillwell, a Lawrence sophomore who is president of the KU Cheap Rocket Society, said he remembered the moon landing.
"I was a kid then, but I was very excited about it," Stilwell said. "It was significant to me because it got me interested in an airspace
But eight years later, Americans were on the moon.
"It was another example that this country can do virtually anything it wants to from a technological point of view." Downing said.
Apollo 11 was followed by five successful moon landings during the next three years. Another lunar mus-
The Apollo moon program, how ever, was a victim of its own success. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration designed the spacecraft to be launched directly from the earth's surface, rather than in orbit. When the Apollo program ended, there was nothing left.
sion, Apollo 13, survived a major explosion in space and returned the astronauts safely to earth.
"Unfortunately, the Apollo program was a dead-end from a technical point of view." Downing said. "There was no place to go, logically
Stilwell said he thought it was significant that more than 16 years have passed since the last mission to the moon.
"Most scientists did not want to go to the moon first. They wanted to put a station up and then go from there to the moon."
"I think its significance is that we don't have a moon program now." Stilwell said. "We should have that sort of program, as well as a significant commercial private space program."
Sullwell and other KU students are working to achieve that goal through their activities in the Cheap Rocket Society.
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"The society operates on the principle that space should be more accessible to private industry than it
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Snack machines might be pulled from KU library
Official says removal would reduce damage caused by food and drink
The end of the summer session may bring an end to vending machines in Watson library.
by Donna Eades Kansan staff writer
If a recommendation submitted last week to Jim Ranz, dean of the library, is approved, all vending machines would be removed from the building before fall enrollment begins August 21.
Mary Hawkins, assistant dean of the library, submitted the proposal to library department heads on June 15. Rasha was unavailable for comment.
"I recognize that the lack of vending machines will inconvenience many library users and library staff, and I regret this inconvenience," Hawkins stated in the proposal. "I also recognize that removal of the vending machines will not eliminate Watson's food and drink problem.
"However, it should reduce the size of the problem, which we cannot otherwise hope to control."
The proposal states that a two week cleanup campaign in 1984, including efforts to educate the public on the damage caused by lessness with food and drinks, was successful in reducing the problem.
A proposal to remove all public vending machines was not implemented at that time because of divided staff opinion.
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The problem has continued unabated since then, according to the proposal.
Consumption of food in the stacks has gotten worse over the past few years, Bayliss Harsh, reserve supervisor, said.
"I see people all over the library with pop cans, and there's a fair amount of candy wrappers and cans left in the stacks," she said. "It appears to me that people are confident and consumption to design areas."
Other university libraries around the state have differing policies concerning the consumption of food or drink, or drinking games in the library itself.
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all vending machines five years ago after finding that books were being damaged with soft drinks and food, said Jean McDonald, personnel management specialist for the library. She said that insects and rodents attracted to the waste were also becoming a problem.
Patrons may eat and drink in the lobby, but they may not pass through the gates into the library with food, she said.
Wichita State University removed all vending machines when the library was remodeled three years ago, so many Dowens, administrator VIRGINY
Emperor State University has a lounge with vending machines on the third floor where people may eat and drink. Pedersen, a referrer librarian,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, peer school to the University of Kansas, has vending machines for employees inside a locked lounge area. There have never been vending machines in public areas, Eric Palo, head of circulation, said.
George Rueckert, Manhattan graduate student, said he would not mind if the vending machines were broken if they were causing a problem.
"If they could figure out a way not to take them then that would be better," he said.
Phil Warner, Lawrence graduate student, said he thought that removing the vending machines might not solve the problem.
"People are probably going to take food into the stacks anyway," he said.