THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
VOL.99, NO.147 (USPS 650-640)
PUBLISHED SINCE 1889 BY THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
SUMMER WEEKLY EDITION
WEDNESDAY JUNE 14, 1989
Journalism school regulates KJHK Station manager to be unpaid
Kansan staff writer
by Charles Higginson Kansan staff writer
KJH-KFM will soon see changes, but not everyone involved with the station will welcome them.
In a crowded meeting last night, the KJHK board of directors received a statement of purpose and a set of operational and organizational requirements from the faculty of the school of journalism. The new policies emphasize KJHK's role as a laboratory radio station and stress professionalism in the station's programming.
KJHK is licensed to the University, and the journalism school administers the station. The faculty's decision is made by the terms of the station's constitution.
The statement of purpose and requirements clarify the station's mission and specify changes in its structure, operations and policies for performance, program development and student participation.
They specify a 14-point music performance policy, which includes the requirement that announcers gain approval of written playlists from management before broadcast. Staff members not enrolled in journalism courses will be required to sign a 12-point participation contract affirming support of the station's laboratory function.
In addition, the station's student manager position will become unpaid, with a limitation of one term. The student manager position, on an individual's appointment,
The faculty also recommended withdrawal of the station's pending application to the Federal Communications Commission for increased power. It will not be resubmitted until the station is organized and operated in line with FCC requirements, and then only if the increased power would enhance its academic function.
The new policies are an attempt to address concerns about the station's ability to maintain its FCC licensing and to serve as a laboratory where students can learn professional skills and be read to the board by Mike Kautsch, dean of the school of journalism and chairman of the board.
"What you have here is an expression of the faculty's will," Kautsch said during the meeting. "The constitution and this board is a faculty creation."
assistant professor of radio-tele-
vision-film, said. "The faculty took it
up on itself to voice its opinion.
The station is not a demoralized
process."
John Katich, board member and
Last April, after several months of controversy about the station's operation and function, the Student Senate recommended changes in the structure of the KJHK board. Paul Leader, former co-chairman of the finance committee, which oversees the station, Senate's recommended changes were an attempt to increase student participation in the station.
The board took no formal action last night beyond reading the faculty statements and appointing Max Utser, board member and chairman of radio-television-film, to communicate the new faculty requirements to
Janet Cabelli, Lawrence senior and board member, questioned several points of the recommendations during the meeting.
"I'm just really upset that the board didn't have a vote on what was happening," she said after the meeting. "Why am I on the board?" Why is there a board of directors if we don't have a say?"
Mike Mader, Great Bend graduate student, was one of about 20 people who attended the meeting.
"I'm outraged," Mader said. "I think the journalism school has acted unfairly. We always thought the station's spirit could be maintained and still meet the academic mission of the department.
"And apparently it can't."
Mike Uln, KJHK student manager, said, "The station will operate as it can, with or without student senate funding. The faculty has spo
"I think the station had a chance not to have the faculty speak last semester, but the attacks on KJHK continued. And now the people who wanted to free KJHK have backed us into a corner."
William Sanders, Student Executive Committee chairman, also attended the board meeting.
"We will discuss what happened at the meeting at the next StudEx meeting on Thursday," Sanders said. "We were given a guess as to what might happen."
Steve Traynor/KANSAN
Ulin said, "I hope that JKJH can continue to serve the students. I know that we working at the station want to."
Craig L'Ecuver and Scott Roberts work on the construction of audio speakers. The two work for Martin-Logan Ltd., based in Lawrence.
Wall of sound
KU Iranians watch events at home
by Charles Higginson
Kansan staff writer
The death of Ayatollah Rubailullah Khomeini, Iran's political and spiritual leader, evoked strong responses from Iranians studying at KU, but they do not expect its immediate consequences to affect them directly.
"The effect will come if there are a lot of changes in Iran," said Khosro
Khomeini died June 3 of a heart attack at the age of 89.
Darroudi said many Iranian students would be watching events in Iran to decide whether to return.
"It depends mostly on what is going on in Iran," he said.
In a written response to questions, Mahdi Shafa, Teheran graduate student, said, "Those who care for an institution should go back to serve their country."
Shafa's statement said Khomeini's death affected the life of every Muslim.
"Those who are looking for a Westernized Iran may not like it."
"Iam Khomeini was a Muslim leader who happened to be Iranian." Shafa wrote.
Khomeini's funeral last week brought intense outpourings of grief from many Iranians.
"We witnessed a unique funeral in the history of mankind," Shafa's statement read. "Ten millions of people have been killed, Khoumni because they loved Islam."
Darroudi said he respected Khomeini but did not consider himself politically active.
"I would have a feeling for Khomein because he was a leader and a great man." Darroubi said.
Clark Coan, director of the office of foreign student services, said 34 Iranian students were enrolled in Tahnans and 28 Iranians were enrolled during the past
spring semester.
"Most Iranians are interested in the United States because of past relationships between the two countries," said Ali. "Also, they want to learn English."
Shafa's statement said Islam encourages its followers to search for knowledge without placing limitations on time or place.
President Sayeed Ali Khamenei, 49, was named June 4 as an apparently temporary replacement for Khomeini. Khomeini's son, Ahmed, and Iran's parliamentary speaker, Ali Raisanjali, are also among those who may emerge into permanent positions of power in Iran. None of the seeds the yamelah's combined spiritual and political authority.
"Khomeini is irreplaceable," said Deborah Gernini, assistant professor of political science. "There is no one like him. He filled a multiplicity of
roles."
The selection of Khamenei was probably an interim measure that would result in little change for iranians at KU, Gerner said.
Despite the difficulty of deepening events in Iran, iranians at KU do not expect the current power struggle to be fundamental changes in the government.
Darroudi said, "The Islamic Republic will remain, no doubt about that. From what I know about what's going on, Rafsanjani is the most powerful man in Iran. I think Khoma son will be the spiritual leader."
Khomeini overthrew the government of Shah Reza Pahlavi in 1979, returning triumphantly to Iran after many years of exile. He quickly uncovered the growing Islamic republic that rejected Western political and social institutions.
Bud, the aluminum can From original ore to your trash bin and back again
by Christina Mann
Kansan staff writer
He has lived more lives than Shirley MacLaine and survived more scrapes and close calls than James Bond. He has been crushed, smashed, kicked around and has spent a few nights in the gutter.
He is Bud, the aluminum can.
He's n't helped up with Bud during his recent stay at a local rehabilitation center for aluminum cans: a reeving plant.
"I really didn't think I was going to make it this time," he wheezed through the opening at the top of his crumpled body. "I was in the clutches of some careless party animal who threw me into the trash dumpster. Lucky for me some cute kid came and by cashed in so he could go buy himself a candy bar."
Hebert's business is a curb side service which, in 13 months of operation, has gathered 50,000 pounds of recyclable materials from Lawrence residents and bars.
Bud and other aluminum cans are the most valuable recyclable, said John Hebert, a partner in Lawrence Recycling Service at 716 E. Ninth St. In terms of turnover, the company is the newsaper and glass, he said.
"I never cease to be amazed at how much beer people drink." Kirk Devine said with a laugh. Devine is co-owner of River City Recycling, which is housed in the same building as Hebert's basil-room. "We work together and support each other," Devine said.
Lawrence Recycling Service gathers recyclables at no charge
but does not pay its customers. Those who don't mind a little extra legwork can pocket some change to recyclables to River City Recycling.
"Everything is throw-away anymore and that's where we get a lot of our stuff — people picking up after other people. It's everybody old lady that had to use a walker to comin' in." Murdock said.
"It's kind of split," Murdoc said of the two types. "A lot come in and say I don't care how much money I get, I just want to clean up and recycle things." Then there's who will want every penny they can get.
Jerry Murdock, co-owner of Sunshine Recycling of Lawrence at 906 N. Second St., said two types of murders have a psychology-minded and economy-minded.
What, then, is the fate of But the aluminum can after arriving at one of Lawrence's several recycling centers? Well, here is what Robin Narameo, a co-owner of River City Recycling, said would happen to the can if he ended up at her place:
First, Naramore runs the cans over a screen-topped table. The screen allows trash and remaining crumbs to fall. The net catches non-aluminum cans.
Murdock estimated his company collected eight to nine tons of aluminum each week. At the current price of $8 cents per pound, Sunshine Recycling pays about three times week for aluminum cans alone.
After she bags the cans, they are sold to another company where they are flattened and sorted.
They are run through another sorter "just to double check," Naramore said.
The companies melt the bricks and roll them out into big sheets. New cans are "punched out just as they come in" making cookies. "Narramore said."
The cans are then run through a densifier, which presses them into 30-pound bricks. The bricks are sold through a broker to aluminum companies such as Reynolds Metals and Aluminum Company of America.
According to the information,
"recycling aluminum produces 95
percent less air pollution and 97
percent less oil pollution than
prior virgin ores."
According to literature from River City Recycling, the recycling of one can saves 95 percent of the energy required to produce the can from virgin ores. That saves through gasoline to fill the can half full.
Finally, the companies sell the recycled aluminum to beverage companies such as Coca-Cola.
"I don't have a favorite because I don't advocate drinking or not drinking these products. My mom said in what I am, not what I contain.
When asked, "Which was your favorite incarnation — the time you spent as a Peep, Coke, Sprite, oriser can?" Bud bid this to say.
"I can be here for you again and again. I can make you money; I can save you money, I can help save your environment, too. I don't want to landfill great prematurely, but my longevity depends on you."
Beijing blacklisting students
Participants in demonstrations say they were photographed
The Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Student leaders say that Chinese consulates in San Francisco and New York City have been taking pictures and compiling lists of participants in demonstrations against the Beijing government.
At a protest at the consulate in San Francisco immediately after the massacre in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, consulate staff were at the windows and on the roof of the building with still and video cameras, student protesters said Monday.
"Everyone saw them. We just shouted 'Stop it' " said Yu Maochen, a graduate student at the University
"We were very angry. It's my suspicion they did it every time. It's for some blacklist, that's for sure." Yu said.
In New York, Ding Chu, general secretary of the Chinese Alliance for Democracy, said consular staff also worked with some diplomats down during recent demonstrations.
of California at Berkeley
Some students in New York also said staff from the consulate came to their campuses recently and questioned staff members in the demonstrations, said Ding.
Student leaders say any Chinese nationals who speak out against the Beijing government face certain persecution in their homeland.
Despite the risks of antigovernment demonstrations, Chinese students in the United States are not interested in seeking political asylum, students at Stanford University said.
"Most Chinese students would agree that political asimilation is the last thing we would want. It's akin to treason," said Douglas Pau, a graduate member of The Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Stanford.
Chinese witnesses and Western intelligence say the toll from the June 3-4 assault in and around Thaung Kyi's compound on Sunday, 3,000 dead, most of them civilians.
Grant to save energy at KU
bv Garv Patton
Kansan staff writer
The University of Kansas has received a $105,396 federal grant to make improvements designed to save energy in three campus buildings.
The grant, combined with matching funds from the state legislature, will pay for projects at Watkins Memorial Health Center. Haworth Hall and Blake House. Myron Platt planned for engineering of facilities planning for engineering.
The money is available for use now, and the projects must be completed by Sept. 30, 1990, Reed said.
"We want to reduce our energy usage," Reed said. "We have seen a reduction in steam usage as a clear conservation program is working."
watkins' 16-year-old, air-controlled energy management system will be replaced by a $61,222 computerized system.
Similar improvements at Haworth will cost $109,413.
"The new system will avoid seat of the-pants engineering and will allow the building to run at optimum speed." The director of facilities operations.
A $40,158 project will make Blake's heating and cooling system more efficient.
KU was one of 36 state colleges, school districts and hospitals to
"Not a lot of things these days save taxpayers money." Haun said. "But these projects do. The new technology has made a lot of savings available."
Jon McKenzie of the Kansas Corporation Commission said the completed projects were expected to save KU more than $60,000 in utility expenses each year. He is the grant manager who will monitor KU projects.
receive the Department of Energy grant. McKenzie said the amounts ranged from $1,940 for the Christian Challenge School of Wichita to $344,838 for the Hutchinson Hospital Corporation.
McKenzie said every institution that applied for the grant this year received one.
"That is not the case in other years," McKenzie said. "Some years are much more competitive."
Lawrence Memorial Hospital, the only other grant recipient in Douglas County, received $293.657.
To qualify for the grants, an institution must be a public or non-profit school or hospital, and its buildings have been built before April 1977.
Since the program began in 1979, KU has received a grant every year, including one for about $100,000 in 1988.